Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-06
Social Life IN Fashionable Summer Col
onies Elaborate Lingerie ToileAes
for Afternoon Teas and Gar
den Parties Magpie
ToileAes.
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The social season in the summer colonies
S now at Its height. Bar Harbor, Nara
gansett. Southampton and world-renowned
Newport are gay with beautifully gowned
women. Each day is one round Of pleasure.
Breakfast is served in mladi's boudoir, or
The partakes of this early meal in the
morning room frocked In the daintiest OF
morning gowns, and In all probability she
wears one of those new fascinating morn
Ing caps. Then follow In rapid success
sion day after day, luncheons. teas. bridge
parties, motoring. bathing and grand for
. NAL dinners and dances. The days are
all too short for miladi Of fashion, consid-
ertng the number of invitations she must
accept and the people she must entertain.
OF course, If she is summering at one of
the fashionable hotels, she has no house.
hold duties like the hostess of q great
country house, and can. therefore. devote
more time to her toilette and her pleas.
nres.
Life at these fashionable summer resorts
Is very interesting, indeed, to the locker
on. The display of wenlth is dazzling,
but the most interesting part Of it all, at
least from a woman's standpoint, are the
clothes which these people wear, and how
and when they wear them.
Though the motor car has displaced tho
victoria and Its princely high steppers to
marked degree, women still take the
customary afternoon drive along shaded
avenues and bouleyards gowned in the
most exquisite frocks Sometimes, espe-
cially when calls are being made, the
dressy frock Is covered with smart semi
dressy auto coat of silk or some other
light weight fabric suitable for the pur-
pose, effectively trimmed with landings or
braidings IN self or harmonizing color.
This miladi of fashion lays aside when
she steps from her car to enter some pa
latial home, fautlessly gowned and bon
netted in the smartest of beplumed head
gear matching or harmonizing with her
costume.
Dressy hats, by the way, are an inter
esting feature of midsummer costuming.
The eghorn has found unusual favor this
summer In the natural tone, and dyed
shades as we'll. though these latter are
not by any means In the majority. Their
mode of trimming is varied ribbons,
flowers, pumes and laces, the latter posed
in entirely new and novel ways. One hat
of this type has the high round crown
0tted with princess lace covering, and
the brim Is covered with the princess
lace. deeply scaloped and shaped to the
leghorn brin1. The white lace makes an
attractive combination with the yellow
leghorn, white roses, green leaves and
white plumes used as trimmings. The
dressy hat is the large hat, and its brim
is either straight or rolled at one side,
this treatment being very becoming to
many faces.
In costumes many creations of flmy
chiffons, nets and softest of silks In the
most beautiful colorings are seen at after
noon teas and garden parties, in company
with the daintiest Of lingerie frocks, the
long trained skirts sweeping gracefully
over velvety lawns and elaborate sun
shades fitting carelessly over dropping
shoulders The dropping shoulder line,
by the way, still carries all before it, in