Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-27
WHAT TO WEAR OUTING.
If You Want a Good Time Easy
Clothes Are Best.

Written fer The Evening Star.
Every girl who has received an invitation
for an Independence day jaunt is endeavor-
ing to decide what to wear. 1t is wise
young woman who tries to scan her ward
robe with the eye of her host or hostess.
If invited for the weekend at some hos
pitable country or suburban home. try to
recall the favorite methods adopted by the
hostess for entertaining. If she has ample
grounds or belongs to a country club and
goes in for athletics, lay out your gowns
accordingly. Take your best-ftting walk
ing skirt, your smarteSt tailored Shirt
waists and your most mannish cravats and
stocks.
And you value that woman's friend
Ship don't wear your best bib and tucker
on the train A pretty girl recently went
to a house party forty miles from town at
tired in a dainty dotted muslin and flower
crowned ShepherdeSs hat. She does not
understand why her hostess almost gasped
on receiving her. Always travel in gowns
that at least suggest the tailors hand.
If your hostess goes in for porch parties,
dim corners with music and perhaps
dance pack up your filmiest, most coquet-
fish frocks. She will expect you to be a
real summer girl. and the men in the party
will probably line up in white f1annels.
But If you are not joining house party,
and are bound for one long delicious day
out of town with the dearest chap on the
face of the globe. dress to please him; and
that means, be sensible. Just remember
that he wants to give you good time. and
incidentally have good time himself.
Neither of you will have good time If you
wear tight shoes, or q long skirt that
everybody in the crowd before you, behind
you and around you manages to step on.
Don't imagine that because this is indie
pendence day you to celebrate in your
most bewitching gown. 1.-The onliest chap"
has probably seen you under the most ad-
vantageouS circumstances in a dainty
party dress all tufts and flowers and fur
bellows. Now show him that you add to a
pretty face and fancy for dainty things,
good common sense and tact
Wear comfortable walking shoes or ties.
A man likes the cinging sort of grim
theory. In practice he wants her to step
out briskly, and a limp is not a beautifier
Your skirt should clear the ground by sew
eral inches. Let it be either lightweight
cloth or pique, or linen. or duck. but be
sure that it fits you WELL has neat flare
and gives You generally trim appearance.
Don't burden yourself with many petit
coats. The beach, the mountain path and
the boat are not the places to display
lingerie. 4,
Wear a SHIRT waist that is not fussy, but
neat and well Numbered Lace. chiffon and
other transparent fabrics look dainty as
you leave the house in the cool morning
When sea air and hot sun have done their
Work, Such ralment OutfadeS faded flower
trampled under foot.
Dress your neck comfortably. and wear a
hat that will not be on your conscience all
day. Better bargain counter sailor that
defleS wind and rain and dust than your
choicest conceit in tulle. flowers and feath-
ers, which must be preserved as carefully
as your morals and your manners
The girl who is dressed for the crush, and
good-natured raillery of a holiday crowd
is the girl who will help a man meet the
bufetings of the world when the courtship
days are done. The girl who starts on her
holiday trip in white kid slippers a dimity-
frock. blue ribbons and a picture hat will
tangle her household accounts when the
honeymoon is past.
Men are beginning to realize these little
thlngs, and many girl is judged by the
1rock she wears on just such days as this
There is time and a place for all sorts
OF gowns, but holiday jaunt is no time
for Miss Flora McF'limsey to air her fine
raiment. She is the girl that the average
man prefers to-leave at home