The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-30

ennes insertion are one ofthe special fea-
lures of thin gowns, and are extremely
chic worn with a cloth of gold bolerO
covered with lace.
Serpentine insertions cut out of all
over lace and finished on the edge with
either black or white silk cord are used
to trim crepe de chine and yelling
gowns.
fittings of white point d'esprit accor-
dion plated
Crepe de chine is popular material
for wedding gowns.
The variety in sleeves is progressing
in all the ways possible to the over and
the undersleeve, and in some of the
thin white gowns the uppersleeve, which
hts. quite closely above the elbows is cut
long and full enough to drape up in
dropping puff at the elbow is caught
up on the inside of the arm with a bow
and falls over close fitting undersleeve
of lace.
Mohair is the favorite material for
bathing suits in black, blue and gray
trimmed with a band of white mohair
striped with braid. The collars are wide,
revers shape in front, pointing down at
either side of the braid trimmed vest
and the bands in the skirt are cut in in
verted scallOps on the upper edge. There
is the same full waist with a belt, and
the pulled sleeves of the last season.
The Thumb Bracelet.
With the opening of the Newport sea-
son new bracelet VIII be introduced
by the women of the smart set. In
the thumb bracelet, and shows an en-
tirely new way to wear a jewel, says
a writer in the New York Journal.
The bracelet consists of a broad band
Of gold worn about the wrist which has
attached to it a fine gold chain loop,
from which a large jewel bangles. In
wearing the bracelet the hoop goes
over the thumb and the Jewel rests on
Al.r
first finger, or, more correctly speaking,
bangles there.
Mrs. Chas. Garfield is the first New
York woman to own one of these very
original thumb bracelets. In her brace
let the jewel which swings from the
gold loop is a turquoise, surrounded with
diamonds The thumb bracelets can be
bought both in London and Paris in a
variety of designs. They range in price
from 500 to 81 900
one very beautiful bracelet made with
the thumb loop is gold band studded
with amethysts. The loop is made of
/ little gold links, alternating with tiny
amethysts, and the jewel which swings
from it is an exquisitely colored am
ethyst, cut pear shape and set with
pearls.
Another bracelet made in this same
odd fashion has a gold snake cOiled
about the wrist, smaller gold snake
twisted to form the loop and an emerald
for the dangling jewel
fashion to have the most priceless gem
of ones collection suspended from a fine
gold chain worn about the neck. This
season the jewel must bangle from the
thumb
The Paris Bathing Girl.
Neptune will stare this season of 1906
when the bathing girl visits hlm-prO-
vided she be built upon the Paris mode
for the bathing girl. Paris has decreed
/ tufts and frills, accordion pleated-
| what? It's worth while guessing. A
/ cross, apparently, between summer
| clouds and ocean foam, which sounds
more pOetical than practical Whether
| Paris ever intended this mousseline ere
] alton to leave dry land is a question
! The wearer may either hang her clOthe:
! on a hickory limb and not go near the
water or she may invest in a new
bathing suit daily. The latter, perhaps
/ is more nearly what Paris intended. Fol
the spirits ofshoppers rise when fashion:
are perishable, and the summer CIR
must cater to those spirits
Flppant as the French bathing sui
/ looks, however, there is an advantage
in it that can not be overlooked. Pro
| fessOr CSOetz, of the Lurline Baths. il
/ responsible for the statement that Elu
| rOpean women are better dressed fol
! bathing than ours because their cos
| tunes are so much lighter that tn
! bather is freer in the water. "Thes
heavy clothes that American womel
| insist on wearing are nothing but a hin
drance," he says. Wear a suit that ha
| little fullness, so that there is the les
| wet cloth to tug. The French Womel
| are the WiseSt in the matter of dress
| unless it be the Germans; they go bare
footed into the surf"
A Word About AmuIets.
Amulets and lucky stones of one sor