Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-29
NEW WASHABLE GLOVES
Isle AND LINEN MESH HAVE
CONTRASTING Innings.
Mitts Refuse to Be Downed and APP
pear in Many Tints-Lace Me-
dallions Used.
Written for The Star.

Written for The Star.
Washable gloves have become absolutely
Indispensable to the summer girl. Not
only do they save her hands from the raw
ages of the burning sun without inducing
perspiration. but they are always immac-
ulately fresh and clean Each night the
pair she has worn during the day gets it's
tub bath in warm soap suds and is dry and
ready for use the following day.
Fabric gloves. whether IN Isle or linen
mesh, are so skillfully woven now that they
have lost all of the sCratchy feeling which
has long been their Objectionable feature.
The girl who Is peculiarly sensitive to this
irritation will find Isle gloves lined with the
most supple of China silk. Fashionable
shades, such as Old rose and old blue are
lined with check silk silk embroidered
with polka dots or tiny flowers. Linen
mesh gloves, so popular during the warm
months last year, will be more than ever in
evidence this coming summer, and the
stitchings on the back will show most
elaborate handWork in self-tone or con-
trasting shade.
But it is the silk glove which has cap
tured the affections of summer girls, purse
proud or economically inclined. Not one Of
the infinite variety of warm weather
shades but can be perfectly matched in any
length of silk weave. In imitation of kid
gloves, the wrists are often lined with silk
OF contrasting shade, while the daintiest of
pearl buttons effect the fastening. White
gloves are lined with pale blue or lemon,
pink gloves have blue lining, and gray silk
is faced with lavender. White silk will be
stitched with black, and vice versa, while
gloves with colored lining will be stitched
in silk to match the Innings. For street
wear almond shades take the lead in pop
ularity.
Hand embroidery has invaded the realm
of silk gloves, as it has that of every other
feminine accessory of dress. Most eX-
quisite flower designs cover the backs of
the hands on short gloves or run the length
of the arm on elbow and shoulder gloves
Scallops of buttonholng or flowers finish
the edges, while one fantastic pair shows
a gauntlet finish of leather in soft pastel
shade.
In combination with embroidery, flmy
lace medallions are inset into long silk
gloves. Ruffies of ValenCiennes also adOrn
the wrists. stunning pair of black silk
elbow-lenGth gloves, long enough to give
mousquetaire effect on the arm, has
double ruffle of marrow, black silk Valen-
ciennes, alternating with an tnch-wide lace
insertion from elbow to wrist.
Filmy silk mitts refuse to be sighted.
Each year they bob up serenely, and their
persistency has finally won out. The sum-
mer girl of 1905 VIII undoubtedly have
goodIy supply 10 match her evening frocks.
Double ruffes of ValenCiennes finish the
edge of mitts, with sometimes the addition
of lace insertions.
Not TO be outdone by these successful
rivals the washable channels glove is ire
sistibie in its new-fOund suppleness and
creamy white tints. 4 fashionable society
girl who goes in extensively for athletics
will wear no other kind of glove on her
sporting trips, as the washable channels is
such a splendid protection from briars. etc.
and has none of the clumsiness of a leather
glove.