Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10
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Finishes" applied to wooden goods 10
make them unshrinkabie in the laundry
mems hands are very much in use here
now. the atrocious badness OF nearly all
British Iaundries making some sort Of pro-
lection absolutely necessary. In some cases
the finish" man comes into the open and
advertise to the public to look out for his
mark, so as to insure a trustworthy prod
uct Certain houses go so far as TO autnor-
ixe retailers to replace any garment or their
finishing IL IL shrinks. / believe could oi-
rect them to some laundries which they
would be wise TO exclude from this guar
antee, for there are degrees In turpitude or
these institutions. just as there are diner-
ent orders of devils. They are all bad, so
far as l know: but admit that some are
worse than others. Those that are not SO
hard on the clothes their competitors
get even with their client by losing ms
things more persistenuy. II real live
American would come across here and get
busy with a laundry run on scientific and
commercial lines he would get rich-ln
time. He would also ruin several big but
scabrous institutions which badly need
running.
Garden parties are quite a feature of the
summer season in England. Those fortu-
nate persons who happy tor rich)
enough to possess town houses with gar
dens are on velvet; they can give garden
parties during the latter end of the Lon
don season, and these assemblies are very
smart indeed. t1 course the very SNdA-
gerest thing of ALL and one demanding not
only large grounds but also large resources.
Is the night garden party, or fete de NUT,
which has no parity with the French insu-
tuition of the same name 1t means gar
den with fairy lights and a pastoral play
on lawn, with the trees as background,
and scenery and everything else that Is ro-
mantle and beautiful; also, the audience
can fiirt in romantic environment. All
town garden parties are full dress anairs
The gray frock coat is In great force when
they are in the day time, and although TINS
kind of coat Is as good as obsolete just
now, l do not see how the garden party
season is going to get on without IL. MY
in tuition, If l were going to order now
suit that would be in order IL l happened
to be asked to a garden party In town,
would be to choose fairly light gray cloth,
with a slightly rough surface tthe color just
a shade on the warm, or fawn, side OF tota!
neutrality for the coat, and have 1t bound
with mohair to match. l should nave coat
waistcoat and trousers alike, the coat with
a dull facing, cut fairly high in the neck.
These, ! say, are my lntuluonsi l woulu
not be Understood predicting that this
will be a suit OF the summer mode. All
can say with certainty is that such an out
fit would be perfectly wearable and In good
taste. For evening garden parties, evening
dress is worn, and las even in summer our
nights are chilly, not hot like those OF New
York which never seem to get cool once
summer sets iu) II is advisable to wear
rather heavy Undertaking. An opera hat
is worn. never a silk hat. which Is per
fecty correct at theater and sometimes
rather more swedish than the contriv-
ance associated with the useful name of the
late Monsieur Gibus.
Bright Color Effects.
Country garden parties are a good deal
less formal. though, OF course. an evening
fete, or pastoral play, would call for an
evening suit there also. since 1t is not TO
be imagined that the guests. after dining,
would change back into day clothes. Ten
mis- afternoons are best attended in clothes
suitable for the game. even If one does
not intend to play. Although IT is uncom-
mon, entire suit of white cashmere.
serge or angola looks extremely well on
a very hot day, and there Is tendency
for such suits to grow in fashion. They
should have a waistcoat; we do not in TINS
country yet enter the presence OF the
fair sex without waistcoat except In one
circumstance-namely, a boating party.
A feature of the coming summer trade,
not without connection with the white suit
idea, If you come TO think of II magma
lively, is new kind of sock. 1t sounds
pretty atrocious, but does not look quite so
bad as Il sounds. These socks are of silk,
rather coarse In weave, or rather In KNIT
and they are rainbow patterned. That is
to say, they in number OF colors,
blending imperceptihly into one another,
so that though the sock may be blue at one
end and orange at the other. you cannot
anywhere see where one color leaves OF
and the next begins. They do not run the
whole gamut of the color scale-red. orange.
yellow, green, blue indigo and violet-but
take up some section of it They are, /
fancy, quite new. Anyway, l never remem-
Der to have seen anything like them before.
similar audacity characterizes some era
watts of bright Spitahelds silk, in bold col
ors basketmat Patterns, with the designs
so contrived that the clocks produced
square checker-board effect. Indeed bright
color effects are omnipresent.