The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 20, 1902, Page 9

» » FRENCH HINS SVIT. HFR BATHING SUIT, THOUGH MUCH TRIMMED, IS b FOR THE WATER, AND HER TRAVELING AND MOUN- | ESSES SHOW THAT THEY ARE FOR REAL WEAR. | DYS VANDERBILT AND WILLIAM C. WHITNEY'S | DAUGHTER AS SUNBONNET GIRLSE — MRS. VAN RENSSE- LAFER CRUGER’S BATHING SUIT—MISS LEITER'S SUMMER DANCE GOWNS AND OTHERS. ing a curlously in- Cruger’s Bathing Suit. g s > intended for New- s for a widow in her weeds. It is 2h serge, to look like a deep mourn- color. T round the bottom of the T ymes a wonderful trimming of serge, light weight. A strip of serge ches wide assed around the skirt knotted at frequent intervais Ao ik the pla 1d. Around the w eit of serge, which hangs down at like a Highlander's sash. Vari Rensselaer Cruger is e ewpert this summer. This literary bat defies. the breakers in black silk, with white e sandal will be popular. This P : covering for the feet and is worn over the ck silk stocking. bottom of the sandal is a heavy feit lit ger than the foot, so as o each toe. Then white satin rib- heavy white braid is bandec foot and ankle until the san- st to the foot. There is a knack in dal making which practiced before one can become a goods. be ar stockings only are worn without tle innocent deception is prac- les, the heavy Insole varlety, are 1 inside the stocking to form a sup- port and or the. feet. Into lady puts her dainty foot and 1e effect is very delicate and pretty. She standing in her daintily neat silk stock ings upon the pebbly beach, but she does not suffer from the pebbles, though no ne can understand her intrepidity as she s over the sands stocking-footed. N open worked stockings, black, are be worn in bathing and the slip-stitch d open stripes. All sorts of stockings, n enough to display the flesh color, be worn and the vogue for. them be ‘even greater than it was last Two Sunbonnets. 1s very soft - The sunbonnet girl will be se S at the d suit e She will wear a little bonnet of which the wearer Jlawn, beautifully white or gently pink, beach and : front or brim will be of stiffened water. uslin, corded and stitched to make it suit ma- Keep its shape. Into the back or baggy made up. Crown her bair will be bundled f “Floro- _The sunbonnet is quite an ideal thing ilk, in blue for the bathing girl. True, she cannot go into the water with it on, but she can Beach Wear it over her oflskin cap, anfd when them. She gets ready for her plunge she can ip with knickers a take off the bonnet and lay it on the il iy sands. Once out of the water she can put it on again. It afferds a pretection from the sun and is immensely becoming to a pretty face. knickerbockers considered just the . ot e e 4he two young women to whom it is . ave them show. Ther® given the credit of having started the ke sl he Lrousers, cunhonnets as a su er gir! ame; e gldatie ot/ mmer girl ornament and article of wearing apparel are Doro- thy Whitney and Giadys Vanderbilt. The sunbonnet girl of summer will soon here. but of all the varieties of sun- bonnet girls none is prettier or more at- tractive than the one who wears her stiffly starched bonnet to the seashore and takes it to the beach with her when £ s bathing. for Newport— To make a sunbonnet is not difficult, early this y s1ake anough cotton material, which may regulation shade of navy blue be plain or printed, to g0 over the head. ed W wide band of coffee It must not quite meet under the chin, Cut this piece in oblong shape, with four inches wide if an square corners, and line it and stitch it, sort-of classic de- trimming it as you please with tucks or at the belt, it runs down ruffles. n a panel. Then it The back consists merely of a soft ds upward half- round plece, shirred around the outside or is it corre something t00 ease all. in serge show. of them z t weight serge o to make a sharp she NEWPORT TRAVELING HAT As seeN TROM THE ESYDE— edge, to make a baggy portion. The whole is now treated to a deep ruffle. ornament the set of strings should tie at the back, thus glving the bonnet its proper shape. making of the summer sunbonnet is now one of the most fashionable of plazza di- white flannel, put on perfectly straight around the bottom of the skirt, just above There is nothing remarkable about the band, except that it is stitched on in many rows very close together, to make the skirt set out. Skirts will be worn very short and will be extremely full, looking like the skirt of a ballet dancer just a little, though one forgets the suggestion when one no- tices the plainness of tne material and the demureness of the coloring. 1t is the fashion to stripe the skirts of bathing dresses ‘with bands of swk, dou- bled_and put on from the waist down- One quite pretty suit shows in calor a very deep seal brown. It is striped with bands of pale tan-colored ribbon that extend from the belt right down to the bottom of the skirt, looking like striped These strived skirts are very Bathing dresses will be trimmed with bands of cloth, cut from the piece, and finished without turning in Often a raw edge will show all along the border of the band, but this is no harm. A Cape May Suit. A suit that will be seen at Cape May early in the season is made of deep red flannel and trimmed with a wide band of or stiching. becoming to the figure and make the short girl who essays to go in bathing look a little " taller. The unbecomingness of the oil skin cap may be overcome in other ways than the sun bonnet. The bandanna of white silk }5 a becoming thing to*wear upon - the head. One yard of white wash silk, tled around the head and knotted at one side. will look very well indeed, and will cover up the oilskin cap. This is the style of head covering adopted by fashionable women, and they find that it is even more chic than the French bathing cap, which is a bag with a ruffle around it, like a smoking cap. All for the Water. Brilllantine and poplinette of the wash varjety are all used for the waves, and there are a number of light weight woolens, besides serge, that are recom- mended. Black is the poorest of all, un- less one selects black flannel, which is al- ways good, and holds its color well, Very clogely allied to the bathing dress proper is the gown which one wears vpon the beach when one goes down to see the bathers. This must, to withstand the spatterings, be of Inearly the same mate- rial as the bathing dress, though it need not be made like it. Curiously enough, the dress that is made for the beach is usually very long and very modish in cut, and not at all like the rainy day skirt, nor even the pedestrian. It iIs sweep flare around ry up to the the foot, and worn with 2 th it, to be slipped abbreviated It will resemble in ge: v but will differ in peculiarities. One of the new bolero features of the ank! length, and trimmed with stitched cloth, the suit itself bei With the gray a a touch of scarlet, whic the bsilliant v the_tail is its color, that last year it was black and tucked anhd worn open in front and very short, like a cut-off Eton. ar it is' to be in white and in brown ‘and_green, any color ex- and it will be the fad to have , but several, to wear with the dif- ferent shirt waist Little Summer Coats. cept black, that you can have one of piain. white taf- tucked or s ol > i an expensive y slk bolero is duty. tan colored liber A’ general street occasions will find you can hard The high-priced shops are carrying the and making the other colors red. Miss Daisy Lelter has coats, of a bright color. is a thing not to considerations. do without it. black bolero: ell fitted a The seashore but with sil Fruits and vegeta- )t grapes are very pretty, ows a top_ entire . The geranium pretty one and adapts its nicely to covering the top of the hat. calculated to with This is a flower hat, of velvet‘and stand any weather. » summer shirt- with any shade and will go r excellent ady-to-Wear Hats. turquois or silk s subdued I not always so flowery, though in cert grades of challies it from the empire wreath which has goods. that come for shirt waists. Théy called fan name many of the most elegant oSt seasox backgrou wea and effects are more than charming, and of these wear better than much better that one for. the taffeta, which slits so eas! in the weave, of Very fancy mesh, and often of three or four shades of straw, all combined in commend themselves to the woman who wishes to keep up appearances from the beginning of summer to the end thereof. The hopele: afflicts one’s pretty. shape bedraggled re wardrobe, after has spent a few days at the shore, will not be so apparent if the summer ward- robe be well chosen. In the ready-to-wear straws there are many that have a flat top of straw leaves. leaf trimmed. pon, or a few straw ornament: ferred, a large bow of wired ribbon can be worn, or a few hardy veivet roses or the non-spottable kind. It is reaily po seashore seles s while to give the matter study be- fore buying. Traveling dresses are to be almost or- nate for the orthodox ideas of good form. The severity of the tailored gown Is lack- ing, but in its place has come a gown so ble to make a very nice bride traveled in green s Beautiful black silk, with bro caded figures, looking very much like ri brocaded silk, but being in reality a cloth, with a silky texture, is made up into a traveling gown of approved type. New Traveling Dresses. Then, too, the style of skirt is open to 2 from il and loose and with v collar. Another style of ng the pedestrian order, with se waist bands of g castor gra d black there must is provided t pompon which trims lored h for The mounta ing, and, if it be q san be used as a general utility the woman who does not w urdened wi too many suits s too snug kinds one nickel gri here Is a fold « e of the bl to hold it £ s a very T mended as one and can he comes from a fold brown T [here is a color s g gowr and o it. time to the ‘L\ in any Summer Colors. gown a a flare flo auoise biue eloth, headed of ge nium, while 1 flounce géranium flow biu . bel worn a ch ) i turquo - sisted of a wide The Roosevelts mer at the on Long 1 be followe W r Ba ample - w 1k, wh £ to k¥ ntry living will be er gowns will be 1t . small_danc a dozen vith taff nd ail on 't e are la flounced. trimmed, New Ideas. would be w is the flowe e Russian fa as a_coat But w ties at the low s satin ribbon bow he we may be f which s a blouse neck with a d with a stiff the best way & hook fferent finish e can be with a big newest challies are fit to'rank with the louisine prints and are extremely rative in all ways. They tone than the- louisine more s hard to tell ck ffs, even to the und its way into Shirt Waist Silks. It\ is very teresting to note the silks and by that sipple s_goods are found. The uncertain figure with a gros grain is the favorite. The wide > ottoman silk also makes up well the corded silks. Moire and miroir 1l t freta oses one's Ii Yet whole taffeta dresses are being made up for Spring wear. A leather col- ored taffeta, in a dark shade, was made up in very fashionable design, with a basque with a little frill around the , and with a skirt with three ruf- round the foot, one above the other gach a little narrower than the one below t. The skirt was very long and the wear- er somehow had a quaint style, as though the gown were borrowed from an oid trunk dusty ored away to grow rusty and the days when seal brown and ilks of all hues were worn. ive green and the bronze silks re “in,” and a whole gown of silk s as fashionable as it was when every brown or an olive 1k. ulards leave nothing at all té he The f desire There is no last word Jor them. Always one word more can be sald and in that word another chapter can be add- . They come In all the new patterns nd certainly in all the new colors, and the foulard summer gown will hold a high place in the wardrobe. One can pay as high\ as $150 this minute for a lace trimmed foulard at any of the fashion- able establishments. Of course you will say something de- vends on the lace. And so it does.