The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
Limitations o1f This Wardrobe What Is Correct In Materials and Colors Bath
 ing Suits Like Morning Frocks The
Fascinating Sunbonnet.

If there Is any particular phase of cos tuning In which the summer girl takes delight 1t is her outdoor wardrobe. She has long since learned the art of combin- ing beauty with utility, and her sporting togs, be they destined for mountains or seashore, present an element of smartness equal to that of the dressiest costume In her wardrobe.
 True. there is less scope for originality in outdoor clothes, for by some immu- table law of fashion we seem to be bound to the Peter Thompson suit for yachting and simple shirtwaist styles for tennis fishing and golfing. It is surprising, when one stops to consider, how little variation there is in garments of this class from year to year. The rule for yachting garb is perhaps most rigid. One may, of course, wear what one chooses, but to be correctly frocked for the occasion one must wear n sailor suit of white or nau- tical blue flannel or serge, linen or pique. Blue suits are frequently trimmed with white, and white suits with blue trim mings in the shape of bandings and pip ings on collar and cuffs and fourth hand tie are especially attractive.
 As white and blue are the accepted col
 
 and soft woody browns and messy greens for hunting and fishing seem to identify themselves with these sports.
 With this limited range of colors and the restrictions placed upon styles, clever indeed, is the girl who succeeds In get ting together an outdoor wardrobe which departs none from the accepted types yet contains enough originality to mark 1t as individual of its wearer.
 Variations of modes long identified with the various sports have appeared in mum. bers this season, and been eagerly seized by those who have long since tired of regulation golf togs and tennis frocks.
 The shirtwaist tennis dress has found a rival In the jumper frock and even the golf links Is no stranger to this young but popular mode.
 The goling costume by the way, is ever so much more attractive than 1t was when this sport found it's way across tho seas to our shores not so many years since American girls are too clever In matters sartorial to wear anything unbc- coming. even though 1t might be consid cred the most practical and quite the proper thing by our English and Scotch cousins
 Very novel and exceedingly smart golf ing costumes are made this year of gaily colored Scotch plaids and suitings, these in both cotton and worsted. Manufactu- rers have brought out clan paids In miniature this season, the designs being merely checks in size. but so inviting are they that the high class shops are selling quantities of them not only for golhng costumes, but also for smart little frocks and two piece suits for morning wear. Many of the popular clan plaids are In such demand by those who have sud denly discovered their Scotch ancestry that the shops are quite unable to supply the demand.
 There are less restrictions however, upon tennis garb than perhaps any other garments of the outing wardrobe. One may wear a shirtwaist suit of white or eolored linen or chambray, jumper dress of the same materials a worsted walking skirt and outing blouse or a simple baby p.'ncess frock of linen, and be equally fSshionable In any one. though of course,