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Show Parasols at the Polo Game n,M" ""rl w-"-""---w- A GREAT throng of smartly dressed people, New Yorkers, English and people from the "outside" world, gathered gath-ered to watch the international polo matches, arrayed in clothes that need not fear any comparison. In the games the 'English literally galloped away with the trophy, and the Americans Ameri-cans took their defeat with a good nature na-ture altogether admirable. But if the occupants of the boxes and grandstands grand-stands might have been matched against any other such concourse, any where, as to the excellence of their appareling, it Is safe to say the New Yorkers would have more than held their own. The field was a cheerful spectacle, with the stands packed with men In light suits and straw hats, making a suitable background for the gay tints worn by the women In their summer finery. The colors were soft., with many white and a considerable number num-ber of black and white costumes in evidence. Except for turquoise-blue and bright green, nearly all colors were so toned down In shade or so lightened to tint that hardly a trace of the former liking for the strong or garish remained. Thei-e; was a liberal display of colored col-ored parasols, and these provided the decided color noted. They were of cerise, or green or gold or (in greater numbers than any other) black and white combinations. There were parasols para-sols w ith wide black and white stripes, running around or up and down, and thci'e were those of narrower stripes There were checks and bars in black and white, and many of these had narrow borders of ribbon in vivid colors col-ors shirred to the edge. Perhaps the 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 flowered border of 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, either In stripes or checks, one may add a border of narrow shirred ribbon rib-bon in any of the bright colors, and change this border to suit. Next to the black and white and the all-white parasols, green has found the greatest number of admirers. Cerise may be conceded the third place, and after Oat gold or orange color. The black parasol, except In the small hand shades or "carriage" parasols, la rather conspicuously absent from tb fashion parade. JULIA EOTTOMLEV. |