The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-30
COLORLESSA and COOL
Pure White is the
Summer Girls Fa.
vorite Raiment.
CHARMING COMBINATIONS.
Gowns That Are Becoming
and Inexpen-
siye.
CHARMING COMBINATIONS.

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effects in white; white, whittier, whitest,
that is the system and theory of the
summer girl who every season gener-
ates some sartorial expression of her
individuality. Never before, however,
has she so thoroughly succeeded in Sc
curing the ideal summer raiment, so
fair, so becoming and inexpensive as
this, and of the thousand and one wo-
men in White to be seen any day in the
country at least 9a4 per cent of them
are dressed in pique.
Simple white pique in a variety of
weaves has given staggering blow to
the popularity of the colored gingham
sprigged organizes, striped lawns and
sweetest foulards, and the pink, green,
blue or yellow shirt waist, once so dear
to the heart of every damsel, is cast
aside and forgotten. If you fetch up
one of these warm days with a trunkfui
of f1owery tinted gowns at a preten-
tious or unpretentious resort this con-
dition will in single day be made per-
fectly clear, and your pretty gayly col
ored costume will promptly become al
most loathsome in your sight writes
Mary Dean in the Chicago Record.
Even the housemaids in the hotel will
and go about their duties in white,
while the feminine dodgers do make as
many as three white toilets a day. IL
you try to discover the raison d'etre
they will all tell you that given good
laundress there is nothing so cheap
and easy as dressing in the blanched
goods Any woman with figure, pro-
vided It is not hopelessly abnormal
when she makes up her mind to array
herself in white, has only to go to the
nearest Try goods shop and in an hour
and at the rate of about Sc a costume
lay in a supply of frocks that will an
swer every purpose for every simple OF
elaborate social function of her season
If you wish really to know how the
scheme works when in active operation,
let us take one day in the summer
career of a woman in white, and see
how size dresses it. In the morning,
when there is golf, or wheeling, or sail
ing, or tennis, or simply Longing TO
be attended to, she comes forth fresh
as a daisy in a severely plain white
kirtle of picue to her ankles. 1t is
finished by a deep hem at the bottom,
and if she is a really smart girl, who
keeps pace with all the evolutions in
white, she has no pockets let into the
front of her skirt high up near her
belt but on the front widths, just
about at the level where pockets are
put on an apron, two square, spacious
pockets are made by sewing big pieces
of pique to the surface of the skirt.
They may or may not have flaps to
button down over their tops, but at
any rate there they are, and the owner
of them finds honest comfort ana con-
venience in their possession. She puts
golf balls and her score book, her keys,
and ANYTHING else she wishes into those
big receptacles, and feels solid satisfac-
ton in a way she never was able to
realize from a concealed bag in the
upper part of her 0ettieoat.
With this easy-going garment White
shirt that has no yoke in the back,
but three wide box plaits and little
yoke effect on the shoulders, is the
next essential thing. In other particu-
lars it is just like any ordinary shirt
waist. though no collar or leather belt
is worn with it.
We have the proper freedom for any
sport that may turn up, a linen collar
and rigid belt are not suitable, so round
her neck the morning girl winds white
silk handkerchief. She puts it on so
that two corners of it overlap and hang
under her chin, like a small bib, and in
the folds of this bib an ornamental lit
tie brooch is fastened AT the back
of the neck the handkerchief is tied
and again pinned to the neckband Of
middle this girl draws a mans large
silk mouchoir, tying it in a firm knot
in front, but a trif1e to the left or right
side Silver links or bent buttons of
plain silver fill the cuff buttonholes,
and the substitute for a hat is small
white piQus sunbonnet usually carried
on one arm, and only utilized when the
sun is hot enough to encourage a burn
ing, to be followed by shedding of pre-
cious cuticle
White shoes and hose are not ordina-
riiy part of the morning suit this
summer, for obvious practical and eco
nomic reasons. Brown ties Of ample
sole area, especially about the toes,
sensible heels and yellow or bronze hose
TO match, have been chosen for matt
nee wear, and gloves, if carried at all
are usually worn in their broWn-handed
owners pocket
When the afternoon arrives and the
driving and tournament watching, teas
etc, begin, no transfer is effected to
rainbow glories of organdie or silk. but
a fresh and quite Immaculate study in
white is made. This time the skirt es-
capes the floor, though it is not distinct
" short, and it may have a couple of
fiounces at the foot, with narrow in
sertions Of embroidery let in near their
hens. The shirt waist half of the toilet
is pique. but embroidered in groups Of
small three-leafed clovers or clusters
of crescents. and either stock tie of
white lawn is used or a two and a half
inch high linen collar with an ascot
Of stiff piuue, showing a very small
pearl pinhead. A white taffeta ribbon
does duty at the waist, and the topping
or is done with -brimmed slant
ing-crowned hat of cream Vanished
straw tipped over the eyes and trim
med with folds Of white taffeta about
the crown, a rosette of II on one side
and long, snowy quill stuck through
the rosette.
HVery top-lofty girls, who feel the for
mality OF the occasion. wear first veil
Of very fine white silk tulle over their
faces, and then laid upon this veil Of
white coarse Russian net, with large
silk caterpillar dots on it, while the
more easy going of the white company
adopt thin Wells Of white chiffon cut at
the bottom in scallops, and the scallops
edged with the very narrowest kind az
gathered white satin ribbon. Wash lea
fher or white suede Isle gloves are al
ways preferred by the country colonies
to the hot, easily soiled glace kids, and
brown vanished or patent-leather ties,
with smart open-w worked Isle hose,
prettily dotted is the correct footgear.
At these afternoon frivolities parasols
Of white-dotted swiss, white taffeta,
white embroidered muslin or captivat-
ing straw sunshades are carried. The
straw parasols open out as fiat as those
Japanese protectors made of paper;
they are novelties and both expensive
and fragile, though very pretty with
their paie-yellow canopies and bamboo
sticks An oddly adopted by the bear
ers Of commonplace white muslin para
soils is that of tying three small silver
plated bells outside the muslin canopy
and as close as possible to the point to
which the ribs converge. At every mo-
tion OF the sunshade jangling OF
sweet bells in minute tune is heard.
When evening shades prevail and the
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