The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-07-16

tons of plain silver fill the cuff button
holes, and the substitute for a hat is a
small white pique sunbonnet, usually car
ried on one arm, and only utilized when
the sun is hot enough to encourage a
burning. to be followed by shedding Of
precious cuticle.
White shoes and hose are not ordinarily
part of the morning suit this summer
for obvious practical and economic reasons
Brown ties of ample sole area, especially
about the toes. sensible heels. and yellow
or bronze hoes to match. have bsen chosen
for matinee 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 rain
bow glOries Of organdie or silk. but a
fresh and quite immaculate study in white
is made. This time the skirt escapes the
floor, though it is not distinctly short, and
it may have a couple of fiounces at the
foot, with narrow insertions OF embroid-
cry let in near their hens. The shirt
waist half OF the toilet is pique. but en-
broidered in groups of small three leafed
c!overs or clusters of crescents, and either
stock tie OF white lawn is used. or two
and half inch high linen collar, with an
ascot of stiff pique. showing very small
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duty at the waist. and the topping off is
done with a wide brimmed slanting-
crowned hat Of cream vanished straw,
tipped over the eyes and trimmed with
folds OF white taffeta about the crown. a
roSette of 1t on one side and a long, snowy
quill stuck through the rosette.
Very top-lofty girls, who feel the for
mality OF the occasion, wear first a veil
of very fine white silk tulle ever their
faces, and then laid upon this a 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 scallcps edged with the
very narrowest kind of gathered white
satin ribbon. Wash leather, or white
suede Isle gloves are always preferred by
the country colonies to the hot, easily SOIL
ed glace kids. and brown vanished or pat
ent leather ties with smart OPEN worked
Isle hose, prettily dotted, is the correct
footgear.
At these afternoon frivolities parasols of
white dotted swiss, white taffeta, white
embroidered muslin, or captivating straw
sunshades, are carried. The straw para
sol opens out as fiat as those Japanese
protectors made Of paper; they are novel
ties. and 10th expensive and fragile. though
very pretty with their pale yellow canopies
and bamboo sticks. An oddly adopted by
the bearers of commonplace white muslin
parasols 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 motion of the
sunshade a jangling of sweet bells in
minute tune is heard.
When evening shades prevail and the
hour of the casino hop draws nigh, the sea-
side and mountain resorters come down
to dinner and dancing in pique skirts that
| touch the floor behind and that are fanci-
fully adorned by insets of open-work en-
broidery. With such a skirt. an aIl-over
embroidery bodice. high necked and long
sleeved, buttoning up behind, or a very
elaborate white chiffon waists, or one all
tucks and herringboning and crystal but
tons, OF fair taffeta, or decollete cream
lace body, are any one of them perfectly