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THE NEWEST SENSATION

in watering-place costumes (and I give you the first transatlantic
wave) is the Elizabethan costume in Cretonne. Some call it
the Dolly Varden. It consists of light or dark material covered
with immense bouquets, variegated figures, and flowers. The

material looks like Major De Boot's wall-paper. It is looped up
over a dark skirt with black velvet bows and garlands of variegated
wild-wood flowers (artificial). The hat is a Charles II.
chapeau, made of fine leghorn, the brim lined with black velvet,
and cocked up on one side. It has a nobby and jaunty air,
carrying you back to the time of Elizabeth and the seventeen
days' tournaments at Kenilworth.