Show parasols at the polo game A AR A GREAT throng of smartly dressed people new yorkers english and people from the outside world gathered to watch the international polo matches mat chea arrayed in clothes that need not fear any comparison in the games the english literally galloped away with the trophy and the americans americana took their defeat with a good nature altogether admirable but it if the occupants of the boxes and grandstands might have been matched against any other such concourse any where as to the excel excellence lencA of their appareling appa it is safe to say the now yorkers would have more than held their own the field was waa a cheerful spectacle with the stands packed with men in light suits and straw hats making a suitable eul tabla background fur the gay tints biota worn by the women in their summer hnery finery the color colors i were soft with many white and a considerable number of black and white costumes in evidence except for turquoise blue and bright green nearly all colors were are so eo toned down in shade or so BO lightened to tint that hardly a trace of the former armei liking for the strong or garish remained there was a liberal display of colored parasols and these provided the decided color note they were wera of cerise or green or gold or in greater great er numbers than any other black blac k and white combinations there were parasols with wide black and white stripe running around or up and down and were those of narrower stripes there were checks aud and bars in black and white and many of these had narrow borders of ribbon in vivid colors shirred sherred to the edge perhaps the hest best liked model Is the stripe pictured in the illustration this style is often shown with a wide black or colored border about the edge and often with a lowered flowered border ot at roses against a colored ground A black and white parasol Is the best substitute for the all black which seems to be not in high favor just now in this particular combination elther either in stripes or checks one may add a border of narrow shirred sherred ribbon in any of the bright colors and change this border to suit next to the black and white and the allwhite all white parasols green has found the greatest number of admirers cerise kiy may be conceded the third place and after oat gold or orange color the wack black parasol except in the small email hand shades or carriage paras parasols is ia rather conspicuously absent from fihs ihs tha fashion parade JULIA BOTTOMLEY BOTTOM LEY |