The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-03
Extravagant Summer Wraps.
New York Sun.

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The summer fashion show in New York
Is not ordinarily worthy Of feminine enthu-
siasm. By the time July comes the leaders
of fashion are usually sporting their sum-
mer chiffons at Newport or Lenox or
wherever the social elect find harbor, and
the city offers little inspiration.
But this season we have changed all that.
There was the usual summer exodus, but
the cool weather has lured the deserters
back to urban joys.
So during these cool weeks many figures
usually lost TO the city in the hot months
are occasionally 10 be seen at the restau-
rants and elsewhere, and every evening gay
parties come whirling up to town in their
automobiles from nearby resorts.
Probably the automobile has much to do
with the new fad for dining in town. 1t
does away with the annoyances of railway
travel and makes the trip a lark from start
10 finish. The suburbanite who owns an
auto robs the comic paper jokes of their
point and rises above reproach and derision.
Meanwhile the stay-at-homeS rejoice might
lily in the unwonted gayety and restaurant
dining takes on new attraction.
VI course, even at the SWEETEST places
motleys the wear. 1t is always so in sum-
mer. One finds the shirtwaist girl side
by side with the most elaborate vision in
taurant toilets are particularly picturesque
this season.
The fashions lend themselves readily to
artistic effects and the summer girl or
summer woman of 1902 is a joy to the be-
holder. More feecy, diaphanous gowns are
In evidence than ever before and from the
simplest muslin or lawn to the most elab-
crate mouSseline de sole or lace, all have
delightful lines and a style that was lack
Ing in most of the thin frocks of yesteryear.
Then there are the hats-ideal hats for
sheer and floating gowns, Louis XIV shapes,
almost hidden under mauve and white peri
Wrinkle flowers, capelines rose garlanded,
hats of lace, of mousseline, of flexible loose
woven straw, flower and fruit toques. pic
ture hats of black or white with plumes
dropping low over the hair.
And the cloaks and capes and scarfs-
New York has never seen their like. Paris
ian women have always made a specially
OF such garments and thereby added greatly
TO the scenic effect of the dinner hour at
the famous summer restaurants of Paris;
but even in Paris, the fashionable wraps are
lovelier this summer than ever before.
Last year, for the first time, New York
women showed signs of Weakening to the
value of the picturesque evening wrap,
but even then the average woman looked
askance at the exaggerated types of the
articles that came over from the source OF
fashion. At the beginning of this season
there was still some hesitation and the
light colored, lowing, shapeless cloaks
and eccentric pelerines did not sell rapidly,
save to the ultra-fashionable.
But, at last, by way of the automobile
cloak, which has steadily gained ground,
women have come around to the Partisan
summer wrap and have. apparently, gone
in for the fad with a firm determinatior
TO make up for lost time.
Go early to some fashionable restaurant
find a table that offers a good vantage
point and watch the women come rustline
in. The show will be worth the price of the
dinner.
A touring machine with a multi-mil.
lionaire for chauffeur dashes up to the
door and let's out two couples. One of the
women wears a long, loose cloak of white
~taffeta, strapped and stitched, and with {
heavy stole collar of Irish lace. On hel
head is a capeline of white straw with lace
dropping from the brim and a trailing
garland of tea roses.
The other woman has a cloak of pales
biscuit and a flower hat all of yellow honey.
suckle and its soft green foliage. Wher
the cloaks are thrown off, behold a gown Of
white Irish lace over pane green mousselin'
and another of creamy yellow mousselint
and lace.
y popular actress summering near towr
wears a loose cloak of accordion pleateC
black mouSseline made over white, a gowI
of black Chantilly over white chiffon and
low, broad picture hat of black mousselin'
with one dropping white plume for its onl,
trimming.
There is a pretty girl in a white linon
trimmed In heavy guipure and wearing
smart three-quarter box coat of linon
strapped, lace trimmed and lined will
full from the yoke. Her hat is a simpl
one of white wood straw, with a wreath o
white roses that have pink at their hearts.
There are other toilettes as attractive
and many women in less elaborate attire
but almost without exception more effec
lively gowned than would have been tn
case last season; and the dinner crows
this summer undoubtedly has an unusua
flavor of Paris.