The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-04

nARIS, July Bipartisan women do
not take to the new Ladysmith
n hat A few English women who
are here appear in them, but for the
French type of face they are utterly
impossible A fresh faced young girl
or a handsome woman of the most I'M
deniabIe chic may dare one without dis
advantage to her appearance, but then
these types could wear anything. The
utility of the hat is not to be gainsaid;
no hat put upon the market in recent
years is SO serviceable for outdoor
wear, for it may be turned down in the
front to shade the face and in the back
to shade the neck, if so desired The
hats are made of coarse straw, which
allows the air to circulate freely over
the head. They are SO inexpensive,
with their simple trimming, consisting
of a scarf OF silk or muslin, that the
Ladysmith hats. if they were more or
namenta1. might hope to supplant the
sailor hats. which have seen such long
and hard service that most women are
a little tired of them.
The draped neckbandS worn so much
this season are often hghtened by
foundation of wire, which makes them
cooler to the wearer than they appear
to the uninitiated locker on. The lined
neckbands trimmed with lace or net
and having a sailor tie in front are
very much worn, but on warm days
they are far from comfortable. The ac-
cepted cut for high stocks is with
points under the ears. They may be
worn with a bow in front, in the back
or at the sides.
Never have summer gowns of washa-
BILE materials been daintier and prettier
than this season. Gowns of dimity
made with lace trimmed frills are crea-
lions considered worthy the closest at
tention of the kings of the dressmaking
craft. Little sprays of flowers are
sprinkled over the surfaces of corded or
dotted dimities, some of the cords being
of the delicate shades of the flowers and
charrnfngly decorative. Many new WOW
en- white materials are being prepared,
and there is a quite apparent effort on
the part of manufacturers to hit upon
something which will succeed to the
popularity OF duck. Butchers linen in
various coIors and degrees of fineness
is being made into gowns, while piques,
sateens, Bengal silks and surah pop1ins
afford admirable effects
1t is so difficult to obtain anything
really new and picturesque for the lit
tie folks that I cannot refrain from
mentioning a little white pique pelisse
now being sent home from one of the
shops on the Rue de la Paix for one of
the little continental royalties. The
garment is made with box pIaits on a
loose sack shaped foundation of the
pique, which is divided by bands of
muslin embroidered insertion. With
TINS is to be worn a very large collar
of pique and insertion. Older children
wear very pretty frocks of book mus
lin, with a deep frill of valenciennes
lace at the hem, insertions above and a
yoke Of muslin and insertion to match.
A white muslin overall for a little
girl, with front and back Jokes decorat-
ed with rows of narrow frilled ribbon.
makes a useful garment to wear over
a tinted muslin slip or a wooden or silk
frock on cold days when muslin robes
are out of the question About the
round yokes frill of soft lace should
pc seWed, and the. sleeves gathered in
by cuffs trimmed with ribbon and lace
The bottom of the overall may be fin