Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-30
The Frocks and Frills That
Are Necessary.
SUMMER DINNER TOGS
TRY TO FIND OUT IN ADVANCE
HOW YOUR HOSTS DRESS.
For "Roughing It" Has Various
Meanings in Different Minds
Travel Hints.

Written for The Evening Star by katherine Ander-
son.
The weekend house party is one of the
few fads of the rich which can be copied
with success by those of us whose incomes
are considerably less than ten thousand
year.
The weekend custom had it's origin in
England, where the royal family Is often
entertained from Friday till Monday or
Tuesday by favored titled personages Pre-
sumably his majesty is occupied with at
fairs of state during the interim.
The millionaires living near New York
were the first to adopt the custom this
side of the water. Even those men whose
fortunes are of international fame are
slaves to Wall street. and join their fami-
lies at the fashionable resorts only on the
week end. To this fact is due the gathering
of congenial parties from Friday until Mon
day, and the centering of social functions
on those nights.
Then men and women who had no summer
homes discovered that a weekend visit to
some resort or the home of suburban
friends, sent them back to the city re-
freshed and ready for another week of
work. Now the humblest of clerks and
workers in the commercial centers leave
the city when the shops close at ~ on SAT-
urday and do not return until Monday
morning.
The up-to-date girl who figures on a num-
Der of weekend invita- tons prepares for
the summer campaign accordingly If she
is 10 De the guest at a home where the So
clal life is exceedingly gay, and where the
run OF dinners, dances and garden parties
never ends, she will count among her rnoct
necessary possessions a dress hammer of
wicker, lined with canvas, in which gowns
are imported from the other side. These
are admirably suited for carrying summer
irocks, and will call down upon the guests
home she visits. >Ae
Next TO this the steamer trunk NAV be
USED ana II the home life is informal or if
the girl goes to some quiet resort for a
restful time, she uses a Japanese dress suit
case, or telescope of strong but light wick
er' winch is Infinitely to be preferred to the
heavier suit case.
The Travelling Toys.
Wherever she may be going the travelling
suit is first to be considered This should
escape the ground all the way round and
display smartly shod foot Hosiery and
loW-cut shoes matching and tailored shirt
waist should be worn with this suit. The
fne lawn blouse, with its 1890 bertha of
nehstitchlng and lace, is for the hotel
piazza, not for the train.
IL she is to visit a family whose members
go In heavily for athletics the skirt of her
travelling dress should be one which she can
wear with shirt waist and stitched linen
her friends go in for automobiling then
she should by all means take her Silk or
craVenette dust coat with an all-enyeloping
veil The travelling dress will answer for
the morning walk on the beach, and
shirt waist suit of linen or silk is always
a dependable article for the weekend trip.
Pure white dresses are hardly advisable for
such a visit, unless trunk is taken and it
is often hard to get ones baggage on ar
rival at the summer resort in the height of
the season.
Match Your Hosts.
The young woman who receives for the
first time an invitation for a weekend
visit should ascertain how her hosts live
in summer. There is nothing more embar-
RAISING than to accept an invitation from
a hostess who persists that I'VE live most
informally, in camp STYLE" and then for
the guest to find evening dress at dinner
where she expects to meet with cheviot
and shirt waists among the women and
hannels and duck among the men.
In fact, 1t is always safe to take into the
Japanese hamper pretty summer frock
with a detachable yoke. A dimity or an
organdy made with Dutch neck and a
tucker of finest hand work will meet this
want, as frock which shows a moderately
low neck is in better taste for summer than
the decollete frock which is de riguer in
winter. The young girl should confine her
weekend wardrobe almost exclusively to
wash materials, barring her travelling dress
and white mohair. The matron or dowa-
ger may have silk frock for driving and
dinner, but even with advancing years wash
materials are in better taste.
If the men of the party are on hand only
at night, women guests will find a pretty
neglige comforting, but 1t must be SO beruf-
fed and lace-trimmed that 1t is little re-
moved save in the lines on which 1t is
built from an elaborate afternoon gown.
These are worn only In the bed room or in
the hostess morning room.
Tan Oxfords.
In the matter of shoes a medium-weight
tan Oxford will serve both for travelling