Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11
FOR UP-TO-DATE WOMEN
You Can Almost Skate on Thin Ice if Dressed
Well.
Hunting Outfit I'm WOOd-Brown
Tones - Hns Pockets for
Small Game.

Although winter has not so far favored
us with any keen blasts, yet one always
expects at least little skating weather"
for the holidays, and a gown in which to
glide over the smooth ice must he prepar-
ed, with the hope that it may see good
service during Christmas week.
The regulation skating rig has a skirt
very much like the golf skirt. 1t is 81, SO
or 30 inches long, according to the height
of the wearer, the rule being that 1t shall
be about four inches shorter than walking
| length. 1t is fitted snugly about the hips
and flares very much about the bottom,
being, even in these days of narrower
| skirts, at least four and half yards wide,
| and oftener five. 1t is usually of double
faced cloth, either rough or smooth. ac-
cCrding to the fancy of the wearer and is
quilted about the bottom.
The jacket is a modified Norfolk the
pleats stitched down, and there is slight
blouse effect in front. The plain coat
sleeve is so modest in the matter of full
less that care must be taken to procure
or have made a shirt waist with the most
retiring sleeves compatible with the pres
ent era in the contraction OF arm cover
inSs. Or ore may wear a tightly fitted
waistcoat of some contrasting material I'M
der the jacket. But we cannot all afford
to buy or have made gowns especially
designed for this most delightful pastime
the season for which seems to grow more
fleeing from year to year, our winters
change from cold and dry to warm and
foggy. Happy is she who has a golf gown.
The skirt will be exactly right and most
warm and comfortable, while her bright
red coat will be a delightful bit of color
on cold winters day.
The proper hat for a complement to
skating gown is toque of velvet or cloth,
often with an edging of fur. The green
gown described above had toque of green
velvet. hunters green, with white wings
on tine left side.
Deerskins for Bears.
Skaters of experience all have different
| ideas as to gloves. although a lined glove
of deerskin is very warm. Castor gloves
in gray or tan are worn for all occasions
on which heavy glove is needed, and are
extremely smart. small muff, not one of
the scoop variety. which are at present
struggling with the more modest size for
precedence, is a great comfort, and held
in place by a chain, or broad ribbon it
interferes little with a trim appearance.
Shoes are another mooted question. A
skater of experience declared last week
that on no account would she skate in a
laced shoe, she preferred buttons and had
cut her skate straps out so that they fitted
in between the buttons of her shoes. She
was rallied on her preference for buttons
coinciding so suspiciously with the present
caprice which makes it almost impossible
to find a local boot in a good shop. unless
stoutly she had always preferred them
Therefore, laced shoes cannot be recon-
mended for every one. Yet the consensus
of opinion still remains that a pair of shoes
especially purchased for skating, to which
the skates are permanently screwed, are
safest and most speedy.
While the woman who expects to stay al
nome and brave any cold weather which
may be sent us. consoling herself with win
ter's sports, is preparing her skating gown
In the intervals Of her Christmas shopping,
another woman is buying gowns more
adapted to the mild winters of the southern
resorts, and the out Of door sports of a
gentler cline.
Swell Hunting Gown.
One lucky woman who starts next week
with her husband, several horses and some
fine hunting dogs, expects to spend several
months in the woods. Her hunting gown
has just been completed. It is Of wood
brown corduroy, and is in three pieces. A
pair Of riding trousers, buttoned up the
sides, are worn under a short five-gored
skirt of corduroy, which fits tightly over
the hips and then flares slightly giving
freedom of movement. Her hunting coat
Is also Of corduroy, double breasted and
over eighteen inches long. 1t has a full
complement of generous pockets for the
small game she confidently expects to bag
With the gown is an accordian-pleated red
silk shirt waist and a hunting stock of
white. But there are also several flannel
shirt waists to be worn on days when the
red would seem unsportsmanlike on ac-
count of its dressiness.
A pair Of hunting boots, made exactly
like mans only much smaller, Of course,
meet the riding trousers and guard against
brambles. An Alpine hat of brown. with
two red quilts on the left side, and heavy
gloves, complete the tailors work on her
outfit. The guns, bags, ETC., are quite out
side of his province. MABEL BOYD.