The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-12
Sensible Simplicity Marks September Styles The Short Skirt
Still Reigns- Colored and Flannel Shirts Sweaters Quite
aFad, and Chapeaux Of the Simplest Kind

With the opening of the game season,
which in most states arrives the first day
Of September, there is an immense amount
Of activity In country camps and cottages
that are at all adjacent to those wilds
where game of any kind may be reason
ably expected.
The English fashion of going out with
the guns" as they phrase 1t over there, Is
one that does not cross the Channel to
France, and the Frenchwoman believes that
she is straining the conventions-and incl
dentally her own claims to ''wOmanli-
ness'-to the uttermost when she accom-
piishes the luncheon party that meets at
some appointed place, as soon after noon
has passed as may be convenient. That
she should herself shoulder a gun and at
tempt a shot would prove a horrifying
suggestion. The very nearest that she will
come to 1t is TO don a short walk
Ing costume, in some one or another of
the pretty brown heather mixtures, and
accompany II with hat In which a wing
of grouse, pheasant or ptarmigan relieves
the velvet trimming. Then she really and
truly believes that she is an enthusiastic
"sulvante de sport" or a follower of
sport, to give 1t literal translation. With
horror she regards her English sister and
American cousin who boast of their skill
with rifle and shotgun, who can whip a
they are simply so many hoydens, tom
boys, and she draws her pretty chiffons
and laces around her and fervently thanks
Providence, or her guardian angel Tor
whatever 1t is that she privately substi-
tutes for those time honored institutlons)
that she is not as they
But she misses a lot of fun, does this
fastidious Frenchwoman II she but knew
1t On this side of the water, where our
girls are brought up to the same free
dom and rivalry In all outdoor sports as
are their brothers. the arrival of Septem-
Der is hailed with joy. In camp and cot
tage, by mountain and moorland, outdoors
is the thing. La vie en- plein air, which
the French talk so beautifully about but
which they leave to other nations to prac-
tice, Is the thing and the simple life Is
carried out most assuredly In clothes, II
not In all other considerations of the
daily existence.
The lack of laundry facilities win usu-
ally forbid the indulgence In number
of lingerie waists during the camping
season, unless the wearer wishes to play
at being blanchisseuse herself. The ex-
IRENE GOODNESS of the weather, however,
on the mountains Is likely to discourage
the wearing of such thin and filmy fancies;
and n good heavy cotton cheyiot or mad
dras, or even q washable hnnnel-one of
the unshrinkable kind-will prove far
the better and more suitable choice.
The best makers who turn out those
tailor made things-or rather 1t would be
nearer the truth to say shirtmaker-made--
nre calling all OF them shirts nowadays,
just as though they belonged to the ward
robe masculine, rather than 10 the
feminine affair. broad shoulder line,
a stay yoke In the back and plain
severity of cut distinguishes them from
the frilly and fluffy things that have been
accepted under the title of shirtwaists.
Hence, perhaps, the reason for the change
of name on the part of the mannish
makers.
The girl who HES herself to the noun