Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1913 — NEWEST IN PARASOLS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWEST IN PARASOLS

SUMMER DESIGNS ARE ODO IN SHAPE ANO COLOR. > Dome an* Tub Shayes Are Most Popular Styles This Season—Flowered Silkyand Plain Si He With Border Used. A modeiy l Afternoon affair out-of-doors is as gay as a Dutch flower garden for bfight colored parasols are conspicuous everywhere. Even the *>vivid red and emerald green parasols of a season or two ago are outclassed by the gorgeous models of this year

with the Bulgarian medley of color bright-hued stripes or flowered design as trimming. Striking as these new parasols are in color, however, and odd and unexpected in shape, few of them are really freakish. The new shapes are graceful, if surprising, and the eye has now become accustomed to bright strong colors in costume. If anything, morover, may be gay with perfect propriety, surely it is a parasol. Convenient Aeroplane Shape. The aeroplane shape, long from the front, elliptical when opened, has a certain smartness and is very convenient for use with the long, narrow hats of the season. Very exclusive parasols are of black satin, with linings of bright colored silk, and have very long, carved handles of black wood with wrist-cord matching the color of the lining. The dome and the tub shapes are the most popular styles this season and one sees more of them than of the exaggerated aeroplane and mushroom hat effects. Sometimes there Is a double dome of “canopy top,” as this model Is called in the shops which looks like tyro soap bubbles, one blown within .the other. The first, or outward curve of the cover may be of plain colored silk in deep green, or the fashionable Indian red, while the more steeply curving dome at the center is of Persian silk or flowered pompadour pattern. One of the accompanying sketches shows a parasol of the dome, or bell, shape,, made of black satin, trimmed with bands of bright colored pompadouj silk. The stlbk is a black carved wood. The other parasol in the illustration is of old blue taffeta, with a border of bright-colored pompadour silk. Pretty Parasols of Flowered Silk. Many of the prettiest of the sum-

mer parasols are of flowered silk, or of plain silk with deep borders of flowered silk, set off between bands of black velvet ribbon. Covered silk parasols also have a deep border, bands of heavy macrime lace or at scroll, or cubist patterned silk. Plain colored silk parasols in simple dome and tub shapes are given the essential fanciful touch by a shirred arrangement of silk between the ribs. Shirrings of 'all sorts are much used in trimming effects, as for instance, shirred silk border bands over cords, shirred chiffon or lace covers over corn colored or saffron silk. Handles arenas long as ever, and those swelling to a bulb at the end are the smartest. Some of the carved effects are very handsome, and the choice seemt to be evenly divided between elaborately carved black wood handles and white wood handles in carved Ivory effects.

MARY DEAN.

Top—" Black Satin and Pompadour Silk Below—Lace and Chiffon.