The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-18
FOR THE WOMEN.
Many Fancy Styles in ParasOls
This Season.
Striped Coaching ParasOls Are
the Most Popular.
SEEN IN THE STORES.
Pretty Things That May BE
Found in Topeka.
Things of Interest to House
keepers and Others.
SEEN IN THE STORES.

coaching Darasols are used more ex-
tensively. The parasol is almost as i'm
portant an item in the makeup of the
summer. girl as the fan, and carefully
chosen and skillfully used becomes
even a more dangerous weapon.
The dainty white parasols with their
fluffy chiffon ruff1es are always attract
i've, but SO many women n axe the mis-
take of carrying them with shirt waists
or street gowns that their proper erect
is lost and on that account alone the
white chiffon parasol is avoided by
many.
The striped coaching parasols are by
far the most popular this season Ihey
come in tiny stripes. but those with
stripes at least an inch and half wide
are much more effective. The handles
Of these coaching parasols are all 81
plain wood
Pongee silk parasols will be used to
a slight extent this year, also those
of wash silk, but they are not nearly
SO pretty as the taffetaS All of the
latest models in parasols and umbrellas
are shown in the Topeka stores one
of the most expensive is of nirOir silk
with inch wide fan tucks around the
edge and the handle of carved ivory
Seen and Heard in Topeka Stores.
There are almost as many shades of
white as there are of any other color.
but it takes a very discriminating per
son to select the latest and most fash
tonable shade, which is known as
champagne or wine white.
Tiny Dresden roses will be much used
in millinery this season
Panne mousseline in colOrs SprinSled
with black satin polkadots is among
the prettiest materials for more elab-
crate blOuseS.
one of the most fashionable combi-
nation of colors of the season is black,
white and blue.
Enamelled flower hat pins are coming
IN for a fresh share of attention now
Ia n al q
partment-
The latest fancy is the glove hand
kerchief. This is a tiny square of linen
edged with lace and insertion and just
large enough to slip into the glove
Needless to say such a handkerchief
would not be equal to very hard serv-
ice.
Everything is tucked this season.
from cloth and silk to linen. lawn,
muslin. chambry. Bingham. chiffon and
silk. The waists that are tucked all
over are especially pretty and stylish.
The plain waists buttOned down the
back with small pearl buttons are
among the nobbfest shirt waist models
shown These are becoming to slender
figures. but the woman inclined to
stoutness should beware
1t is said that Iouisine silk is be-
coming a favorite material for wedding
gowns. Peau de sole with lace over
dress is also becoming popular
Gray suede gloves are in greater IA
vor than any other kind at the present,
and they are as suitable with all gowns
as any one color can be.
A New York paper tells about a wO-
man who has seventy new shirt waists.
She has such a large income that she
has difficulty in spending all of it, and
thinks that this IS a convenient way
One of the fancies of the day is that
Of fastening the belt on one side in
stead OF directly in front.
White gowns, which are always pop
ular, viii be worn more than ever this
summer.
Oriental Patterns Popular.
One of the surprises of spring is the
revival in elegant popularity of the
Rumchunda and other silks of Oriental
pattern These silks were ruined for
refined taste last season by the vigOr
with which they were made up in cheap
designs. Women who lead ordered ex-
pensive bOdices of Rumchunda and
found them distasteful as summer ap-
preached, because they We're worn SO
commonly During the winter these ORR
entail silks We're laid aside. That they
have blossOmed out again with the
spring is explained by a woman of
fashion this wise:
You see. they were so odd at first
with their gay cOlors that modiSh women
took them up at once. 1t was these gay
hues which attracted every 'Arriet, too,
and soon the woman of the world found
her waist duplicated by the one her
cook wore when that important, but not
supposedly goOd-styled person took her
New York Press.
Second thought on the matter show
ed to women of fashion that now the
public Is accustomed to the sight of ORR
entail silks they are no longer conspic-
ucuS. If they may have lost distinction.
And third thought is that really dis
ringuished and unique effects come from
using these silks with individual taste.
Thus. figured bright silk bodice or tie
gains by contrast with some neutral
color, as tan. Nothing 50 pretty as
81 ell has =
t0ning up linen skirt worn with white
shirt waist. Wear q princess belt. or
narrow one, for that matter, of Rum
chunda silk. and a tie from the same
pattern, and a colOrless toilet is toned
perfectly. With this dress one should be
cafetui 10 keep her hat all black or all
white or black and white. The effect
Souiu De spoiled by what the artists call
further spreading of color
The woman who knows will depend
upon her individual taste to select color
combinations in Oriental silks or hand
kerchlefs which shall suit her pecl1lial-Iv
Most Of Us have concluded that the
waists need touch of soft white near
the face
handSerchiefs Of Persian colorins shows
the handkerchief borders used for finish
ings OF the revers. the corsa ge- knot ends
ana FOR shoulder stripes. A chenisefta
and some undersleeves of fine white
lawn with inserting give the touch of
white which seems to be required.
Origin Of the Picture Hat.
The great wheel-shape hat with plumes
which, during the travels of the ceIe
DRAFTED picture which has Just been re-
covered, has been generally known sz
q "GainsborOugh" or Duchess If
1eVonsh're,' was never associated in
the last century either with the artist
or the Duchess, says the London
Graphic. 1t was invented bv Mile r.
TN, the celebrated mantuarnalxer 10 |
Marie Antoinette The queen did not
snlhk Il became her but it took the |
Fancy OF the pretty and unfortunate |
1 fincess de Lamballe. who made the hat |
popular and it was known in London /