Evening star., 1900-08-18
Has the Girl in Khaki a Formidable
Rival?
AUTUMN MOUNTAIN-C CLIMBING WEAR
Wonderful Chances Now to Buy
Silks Cheap.
SOME LOVELY SUNSHADES



The haunts Of fashion are very gay with
wash dresses exclusively, or dresses that
would wash were they not so incrusted with
really precious embroideries and costly laces
or expensive ribbons. On the whole. the
golfing girl only is sincere in her protesta-
tions of simple utility as to dress. She goes
on the fair green in white. chiefly, and, IL
she affects touch of color, it is just a
touch. end to pink or green she gives her
preference. There is sketch of a typical
bare-headed washable putting championess
given this week that brings out strongly
the points her admirable type so loves to
emphasize. She is all in white. save for
tiny green lines stripping her French linen
shirt waist. Her skirt is of white jeans
one Of the new wash skirtings of this sea-
son. and her necktie is in the coachman's s
plastron shape Of white linen birds-eye. In
her cuffs are little green enamel links. and
there is no doubt that she is a refreshing
vision to the heated eye as she floats like
cloud over the green links that serve to set
her off
The Khaki Girl.
The woman in white has rival and only
one She is the girl who affects mohair and
golfs in very interesting khaki brown, blue
and green mohair SUITS all strapped and
stitched, and she argues that she is as pleas
less expensive. Her lightweight cool gowns
shed the dust and CRIME while the pique
Sylph Is the bondwoman of her laundress
1t is well-known fact that the amount of
money and cajolery necessary during a
single summer to persuade ones washwo-
man to keep ones white wardrobe up to the
mark would suffice to purchase house I'D
lot. When at one summer resort last month
the nine madonnas Of the tub struck work.
not for higher wages, but for a needed rest
10 per cent of the young ladies of the hotel
were obliged to remain in their rooms until
the laundresses' rest was over and wringers
and irons were hard at it again.
This is not the way with the mohair- clad
maiden. for ber shirt waist and her Tam
O'Shanter are made of the same goods as
her skirt, and. though her apparel is guar
anteed to wash like teacup, it only goes to
the tub once in the season.
For the Girl Who Climbs.
Up in the mountain Businesses, when mo-
hair and pique are laid by for the easy
joys of climbing toilet some interesting
vagaries of fashion are made manifest For
instance, 1t Is a novel bit of coquetry to
wear mountain dresses of gray blue twilled
French flannel, the skirt cut and finished
like a golf petticoat and heavily corded
with SIX close-set cordingS at the top of
the deep hem This skirt comes barely to
the knees. while the boomers beneath fit
over them with straps and buckles, clasping
the leg just below the knee. These bloom
ers are not very full. nor does their fullness
fall SO far over the strap as to obscure the
fact that Ii is in reality a wash silk garter
which holds the bottom of the bloomer and
top of the hose firmly together, and at the
outside of the leg small, quaint buckle of
brillants wrinkles
Sometimes the buckles are square, some
times oblong and very often heart shaped.
and to set off their brightness the garter is
of black or dark blue. OF course the metal
setting of the brilliants has to be occa-
sionally rubbed up with powder to pre-
the hillside.
COquetries for Bathers.
ozens of pretty girls who dearly love
the water, but none the less mean to pre-
serve the whiteness of their arms. wear
s!sort-seeved bathing dresses with long
white or black Isle GLOVES. and a girl in
white with black hose and gloves and a
black head handkerchief is a striking and
not in the least an unattract(ve object.
They do, by the way, make very pretty
headdresses for bathers, and why they
never thought to do so before is mystery
no woman can solve. Hitherto sea nymphs
bought oiled silk mob caps. over which they
tied such handkerchiefs as their taste sug-
gested. This season in the shops they sell
the most chic and becoming waterproof
capotes that give one the suspicion that
they come from Trouville or Dinard by way
of Paris. The waterproof frame of the
cap fits the head closely, and then on this
Is disposed peach-red wash silk in loops
and folds, concluding in a bow and ends
in front, or lovely Persian patterned hand
kerchief is twisted with infinite taste about
an oiled-silk crown, its ends brought to
the crown of the head and gathered into a