Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-05
The Up to Date Summer
Maid and Her Dress.
BLOOMERSAND BUNTING
WEAR SLIPPERS TO BE REALLY
FASHIONABLE.
a Little Sermon on the Proper Clothes
for Small Chill
dren.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.


NEW YORK, July g, 1902.
Who are the people who make the fash
ions? is a question often asked, the unin-
ltiated evidently believing that the fabri-
quers of modes compose a society whose
laws are as exacting as those of. the Modes
and Persians. Never was fallacy greater
than this, for if the manufac turers propose,
it is the individual who disposes and set
ties whether it shall or shall not be worn.
She it is. this gracious arbiter in the art of
dress. who elects for fiat hats. clinging
skirts. or big or little sleeves, and the aura
OF distinction she gives them starts the
ball at once rolling.
In Paris it Is the smart women of So
ciety and the stage who really make the
fashions. choosing from the many models
submitted to them only those which suit
their particular types In this way news
comes 70 US from this city that certain
great lady of pale dark beauty chooses the
Old-time bunting as yachting material
and white and red by way Of color combin-
alton. Two Yachting gowns worn 10y this
lady at Osteud are here illustrated, the red
in each case being the light, flaming scar
let described last week
Made entirely Of bunting in this startling
color bias bands of white taffeta silk ct
feCtively trim the costume at the left. The
skirt is an unlined bell-shape-huIs over
a silk drOpskirt in the same cOlor-with
border and tunic suggest iOn of the bands.
This simulated overskrt is made to fasten
at the left front with two large white pearl
buttons, the band looping around them in
scallOps The bodice, which sports an elab
crate round collar of the bunting and silk,
is covered with up-and-down strips of the
white PastlliOn tails suggest jacket al
the back, and upon the strap fastening
these to the white taffeta belt there are
two smaller pearl buttons. The bell sleeves
likewise show these and
over undersleeves of white null, pulled in
to wristbands of the bunting.
A Love of a Hat
A white chip hat. with a rolling brlm
and trimmings OF red velvet ribbon, Is the
stylish headpiece, for the dressiest milliH-
cry may now tempt the kisses of sea
breezes. The yachting girl who really
loves the comfort OF something staying
where 1t Is put'-for brim hats are the
sport of every blast-still clings to the
snug cap of cloth or serge with visored
front, which a single hatpin attaches al
most as solidly as her own hair. But trim
med hats are racing hard with them for
favor, and instead of the rubber-soled can
vas shoes. once exacted, yachting footgear
is now as smart as smart. Patent and dun
leather shoes, with the colonial tongue
and buckle. are much seen: or else the
shoes are cut very low and tied with broad
black ribbons, and upon the most slippery
decks even high heeled strap slippers are
worn. For slippers are the fashion. you
know, and one sees them everywhere with
morning and afternoon gowns, on the
board walk, in carriages, paTtOut.
As to under tOggery, tell 1t not upon the
housetops, but the yachting girl wears
boomers. They are made of the same SILK
as the drop skirt which lines her outer
tupe-nO skirt Innings are attached now
adays-very baggy over the knees and
fastening below with a rubber band The
fArlz frtg arc IN, ha safla rbo,,
the wind blows the fair being thus equip
ped has no fear Of consequences. There
are no contrasts to arrest the rowing eve
of the observer.
The second gown of the yachting picture
Is Of white bunting with red taffeta SILK
for trimming. The pleats of the upper por-
ton of the skirt are stitched with red silk
a single row OF this outlining the bands of
the founces, aud the pleats and plastron of
the blouse.
Many OF the thin wool gowns, especially