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SEASONABLE STYLES.WALKING, VISITING, YACHTING AND j TENNIS COSTUMES.lt;The tatter Mast Be Strong, tight and Picturesque—-Bicycle Costumes—A White Cloth Yachting Suit—Striped Taffeta and j Qraw tinen Gowns—Bonnets and llats. 'j[Special Correspondence.]New York, Hay 11.—Now is the lime to have one’s tennis dresses made ! i it they are not already done, for the signs say that the tennis season is at hand, These signs consist in smoothing and leveling certain pieces of ground j and marking them off in the signs of i the zodiac or some other cabalistic figures. Tennis gowns must be strong, light and pretty, and it is well to have them washable when it is possible.TENNIS GOWNS.Among the stuffs shown in the piece and also made up for the tennis gowns I find light outing flannel in narrow stripes of well chosen and not too conspicuous colors, like gobelin blue and wood, reseda and drab gray and green, and green and brown.A very stylish tennis gown was made of gray and crimson striped onlmg flannel, the bottom piped with white c-rd around the edge. The skirt was not vlt;ry ample, but still sufficiently so. The waist was in blouse form and was of dead line Scotch flannel in light gray, with a fine iuwoven erin.sm inroad that showed once in a wink'. T!’is was made with a point1'rt girdle, whuhwus enibroifh ivd m black silk picked out with gold thread. The yoke portion was richly cm bn mitred ih circular shape, in the same gcii'T.il dlt; sig'i.The collar was of a high eN'hir formI id Yv ns oipbnmh v* lt;1 to match. On I *n4 f\v xiJcUts vk'W' straps to niahh. Tinsi it ms wcvtx vrutll fjifjnts, lno*o around iho lower unn to allow plt; rfVrt frivduitL Tiii' iront of tha Wonso was lt;lit unwnand (ho um lor portionin sailor fashion. With this tlt;'ijjiin lt;■lt;•«-luma wu^ a small, round sailor hat, ni pray and ^tmu straw, with a Mack ribbon around the itowu.
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Massillon Independent

Massillon, Ohio, US

Thu, May 21, 1896

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