The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-09
FOR THE OUTDOOR GIRL.
BY SOPHIA eEANERET.

0r SOFHfA GEANERET.
London, Sept. S.-The cult of dress for
sporting women is better understood in
England than in any other country, or
at least by English tailors and sports
women.
We English are essentially a sporting
race. and although we see occasionally
some terrible outrages in the way OF
pseudo-sporting clothes in the prov
inces, when the smart world goes to
Scotland for shooting, golhng, fishing.
or motoring there is no doubt that
there are some charming and business
like sportswomen to be seen. Their
charm is further enhanced in a practi-
cal and patriotic direction by the fact
that they almost necessarily lend en-
enlargement to the industries of the
British Isles. At this time OF year the
craze is for Irish frieZe, English home
spun and Welsh fiannels. The latter
differ somewhat from our older types
of flannel that Is to say they are OF
harsher make, in quite new and orig
inal patterns and colors, so that they
really look like the ordinary tweed and
possess the same merits, being admira-
BILE for walking after the guns, as they
weight than many tweeds.
Nowadays we do not exaggerate our
sporting dress, which is perhaps the
reason of it's being more successful
than of yore. The so-called country
tailor-made has to do duty on many
occasions. not thought Of thirty years
ago, namely. for walking, golhng,
racing. fishing and motoring; in fact
at this time if we are going up north
tweed and serge are absolutely essen
tial garments to take with us. The
pretty chiffons and muslins and other
thin fabrics never look smart, under
such conditions, and light cloths must
be the substitute for the few dressy
occasions on which we require some
thing more dainty than tweeds.
This is essentially the shooting
month, and the sketches before you are
for this and other sporting pastimes.
One idea is a somewhat new type Of
Norfolk jacket i'm a rough brOwny
tweed. the skirt of which is gored and
unlined. The coat is cut with outside
| patch pockets and a waiStcoat Of brown
linen with soft kid buttons. worn with
linen and kid cap en- suite; also with
a brown kid belt at the waist. This is
worn over thin manly canvas shirt:
and a canvas or soft flannel shirt Is the
most comfortable thing in which to
take exercise.
good driving or motoring wrap Is
a design in a heavy white blanket
CLOTH trimmed with a narrow blue and
white border. The wrap is voluminous
enough to be worn over any other coat.
and the sleeves can be buttOned-or un-
buttoned at will. This is finished by a
/ leather collar and cuffs.
Another idea Is a house or race gown
of white tweed. with navy blue line
running through it. This for warm
days. shows an undersleeve of washing
white cambria and frilled white cam
| brio shirt held in the center by a strap
and a navy silk button, these buttons
! also reappear on the sleeve. The skirt
/ is of smart racing length trimmed with
three shaped fiat flounces.
Another race fTock is a three-tier
skirt i'm gray and white check, and one
of the new short boleros worn with a
gray suede band and a waistcoat and
revers of soft gray suede. with cuffs
! and inner cuffs of the same. finished
with tiny silver buttons. This is sur
mounted by a charming hat of soft
gray felt. with a band Of black velvet.
a gray kid buckle. and some gray and
white wings.
Blouses are also practical for coun-
try purposes. One idea is OF white fan
mel, finished with a collar jabot. and
wide kid band On the Ieft-hand side
is blouse suitable for motoring, etc.
i'm a dull shade Of brown soft kid, so
soft that it might almost be glove kid.
bound with a border of fooled kid
painted I'm black and gold.
Remember that, if you contemplate
real exercise, skirts must be very short.
and the real Highland kilt with a kilt
coat is about as practical a dress as
one can have for mOuntain-climbing or
rough shooting. A direction in which
think we have much improved is in
headgear. only do not imagine that it
will be popular to go out with the guns
with light, floating wells. soaring both
| birds and fishes.