Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1915 — STYLES IN PARASOLS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STYLES IN PARASOLS

ARE OF ALL 80RT8 OF PRETTY MATERIALS AND SHAPES. Japanese Designs Are as Well Liked as Any Offered —Many Made te Match the Flounced Gown of 1860 Type. Never, not even in their early oriental days of stately pageantry, have parasols been so alluring. An oriental race, the Japanese, has given ua one of the most charming shapes for sunshades, and this year It Is reproduced for us In the prettiest materials. In a striped year, many striped parasols, of course, are seen, often In black and white, which the French call peklne. While everything under the sun Is made of cretonne. It Is natural that this material should not be selected for sunshades. Some of the prettiest are In the Japanese, so-called Chinchin shape, of printed linen or pongee. with long camphor-wood handles. One of yellow tussore had a small eastern design of ovals of tan and clear green. Each rib was tipped with a Chinese jade head, and a Jade ball was poised on the top of the slender handle. Another of the same flat, many-ribbed shape was of pale cream silk and all around the center point was a cluster of yellow cherries on green silk stems of various lengths, while another bunch decorated the handle. Beside the oriental shape the deep tulip-shaped bell is shown as a contrast in dark, rich colors or in the season’s latest fancy—white net. A dome-shaped specimen w r as made of finely shirred white net, and all around the edge ran a patriotic combination of a blue moire ribbon with a line of red beads on each side of it. With your flounced 1860 gowns you may carry an 1860 parasol, small in size, of conventional shape, w-ith green silk fringe dripping from its edge. Or you may choose a pink taffeta affair with its points connected by a garland of pink rosebuds, or another of white shirred silk with loops of black jet beads If you like ruffles.

you will find sunshades made up of roM’s and rows of them, sometimes of taffeta, sometimes of satin ribbon or of frills of lace on a net or silk foundation. Occasionally the shape Is varied by turning back the points all around like a rolled over lip and tipping each one w T ith a bead. (Copyright. 1915. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

One of the Season’s Prettiest.