The San Francisco call., 1905-03-05
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IN HE outing girl is in clover. In
clover because the spring is here
with Its warm, sunny weather,
and because for the hrst time in
her life she has had outing togs
that are really, truly outing ones.
So, you see, she has reason for re-
Joicing. It has always been more or
less OF a trial getting off to the coun-
try, going on a tramping excursion or
even taking a fier for day or so
where frills and furbelows are not need
ed and where stout, servicea BILE clothes
are a JOY. Somehow or other while the
closet is filed to running over with
laces and ruf1es and dainty high
heeled suede boots sit about in an
imposing array, there is always a wild
scramble for more clothes and every
thing and anything is pressed into SER
vice and dubbed my outing suit
White duck and crash are made into
trotters and thin embroidered waists
are worn with them, but alas and
alack, how forlorn and bedabbled they
look after q climb and how absolutely
foolish after picnic in the woods
Strictly speaking, an outing suit is
an outing suit and absolutely nothing
else To be q good one IL must be
made for rough and ready wear, OF a
color that is nondescript and Of
fabric that is strong yet pliable. And
tailored, by the way, strictly so.
This answers the description Of q
suit that has been turned out, SO do
you wonder that 1 say the outing girl
is in clover.
Three shades this suit comes in.
Green bronze. brown and tan and in
variety OF materials from wash
goods TO English corduroy. The Jacket
fE of@ he
style that has been used as a fishing
jacket for years, and its only devia-
ton is an array Of inside pockets that
are mighty convenient and comfortable,
as every man, woman and child knows
full well.
No more are ordinary boomers worn
They are entirely behind the times for
the English knickerbocIer has stepped
IN and shown how nifty and smart
such an underdress can really be.
Tight 1t is about the hips and rather
smaller and better fitting throughout.
The cut is such that but little fuIlness
remains to be gathered in to the knee,
which, by the way, is not finished
with the ordinary elastic band that can
be so uncomfortable and cut so deep
II II tries. Instead the trousers. IL
q such they may be called, reach be-
low the knee and are finished in a deep
htted band that is fastened snugly to
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tons that defy the tubs to do their
worst
The skirt, and this IS the crowning
glory of the entire suit, is made in two
parts. Cut so that there is but little
fullness and in fact but little fitting
10 be done at the waist line, II laps
over from side to side almost the width
OF the first breadth. Then the outer
piece runs diagonally down the skirt
and just meets the under piece, which
goes IN the opposite direction. Up and
. down the skirt at the pretty angle are
buttons that hold it firmly together
when one is walking or running, though
TO glance at them casually one would
never dream that they were other than
q trimming.
The back of the skirt is fuller, though
il is made much on the same plan.
But here is the beauty Of it, When
there is any riding TO be done the suit
is converted into a habit by unfasten-
ing the buttons and slipping 1t well
under the knee, where it is held in
place by a wee clasp. There you are
with as smart a cross-country suit as
you could possibly wish for.
For the same jacket and knicker-
bOckers another skirt has been devised
that is the cleverest ever for the fish
ing lassie. But one change is made in
the Jacket and that is the matter Of
a pocket on both sleeves for the fly
book When the basket is hung from
the hips there seems TO be no con-
venient place on a woman for pockets
and she is constantly coming to grief
IN consequence. But with the pockets
in the sleeves she is independent and
comfortable and can handle her rod as
freely as a man.
Wading In the stream has always
been more OF less Of problem with
her. Not that she wasn't enough OF
a sport to get wet and not care farth-
ing about II either, but 1t made 1t un-
comfortable going home with wet