Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-20
ON TAILORED LINES
Smart Travelling Raiment
Plain and Well Fitted.
THE ARRAY OF FABRICS
ALMOST BEWILDERING FOR
HARD WEAR DEMANDS.
Old-Fashioned Gloria is Again on
the Market and Fills Many
Uses.

Written for The Star by Katherine Anderson.
For some ineXplicable reason the feminine
world goes a travelling in summer. The
spring, fall or even winter offers more at
fractions in travelling comfort, pure and
simple. but the prevalence of a summer
cation and a general sense of right to re-
| taxation in hot weather is responsible for
| the tremendous vogue for summer travel
| ing among the masses.
| The young wife closes her fiat in town and
goes upstate to visit her mother with
| the advent of hot weather. The mother of
| four or five active children closes her town
| house, and goes half way across the con-
| tinent to visit the old farm, directly school
! vacations begin The young woman who
| has worked in office store for nine
months begins to plan for trip of some
| sort when the leaves burst in the city park.
| And be it known that this very day should
| mark the laying of her plans for the trav
| cling gown, most important feature of her
summer wardrobe.
1t is all very well to say that the gown
does not make the woman. but in travelling
it commands the respect of porterS and
other interiors. and ii ofttimes regulates
the welcome accorded young girl on her
first visit to a punctiious and conservative
hostess for in no way does woman show
her breeding as in the selection of her trav-
cling gown, and in no place is the sin of
overdresSng more conspicuous than on a
railway train or a boat.
The economical woman chooses her tray
cling gown and all its accessories with
view to their utility in other directions. The
business girl counts upon Its doing serv-
ice when she returns to the Office after her
vacation. The wife and mother expects to
utilize the dress later for shopping and per-
haps even church wear in the early fall.
The general effect of a travelling gown
should be that of smartness and trimness
1t should afford no lodging place for dust
or train CRIME. 1t should be neither so
dark as to show dust nor so light as to
catch the least fleck of SCOT And the
inexperienced shopper will do well to APP
proach the salesman at a good shop with
the simple statement that she wants to see
some of the best fabrics for travelling gowns.
In response to this request she Will find
field practically without limit
Mohair is Favorite.
For general use the favorite fabrics seem
to be mohair and its near relative, sicilienne
cloth, both of which shed dust as a duck
sheds water. The mohar of the hour is
light, silky and lustrous, and the English
nohairs come in the smartest of patterns
checks. embroidered dots and water stripes.
The best plaids do not show two definite
ColOrs such as black and white or green
and white, but through decided design of
white with a darker color such black run
u, 3
yellow, fine indeed that must ex-
anime the cloth very closely to determine
the actual coloring. These make excellent
fabrics for travelling gowns.
A new offering in a sik-and-wool mix
ture. despite its up-to-date name. is nothing
more or less than the oldfashioned gloria,
which. by the way, is economical in
vestment. 1t shows striking plaids softened
by hair lines and is very wide, cutting to
excellent advantage when the circular skirt
is desired Very few plain or one-tone
cloths are offered for travelling raiment.
Mixed goods are infinitely more popular,
and nearly everything is waterproofed,
from serges to mohair and silk.
The smartest serges show the same plaids
described in the English mohairs. and the
English tweeds and suitings include loose
weave homespuns in Scotch mixtures.
which. though they look very substantial,
in reality are light in weight and just the
thing for the loose coat suits that so many
slender girls prefer to the tight-ftting bo-
lero.
Panama cloth, a variant of mohair, is ex-
tremely popular for travelling gowns, and is
one of the most durable materials If the
suit must do service well into the fall.