The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-11-11

NM&Eg TrouVilie anu Deauyine 90
III occupied, and well-known
faces are to be seen at every hour
of the day on the sea front annd IN
the casinos.
People have very often wondered at
the continued success Of Trouvine as
fashionable seaside resort. They
have said, and with reason, that 1t Is
not specially pretty place; that
there is little or no shade to be found
there in the hot August weather, and
that though the famous "plances"
make most desirable walk on fine
summer morning, this fact does not
account for the favor that Is extended
by our most exclusive Parisiennes to
the exotic little north coast watering
place, writes Nine. de Villiers In the
Boston Globe.
The fact is that Trouville Is, and
has long been, the fashion. And when
that Is said-all Is said. Other places
may be much more attractive from
many points Of view, but the Paris
iennes, and the fashionable society
women of England and America, elect
to spend the first three weeks Of each
August at Trouville- Deauville. and
nothing can make them do otherwise.
| have remarked more than once In
these pages, that at Trouville white
costumes almost always reign gu
preme. There is something about the
air Of this particular watering place
which demands white or very pale
tinted costumes. for morning wear at
any rate. OF course it is true that q
great many colored tussah and shan
tung suits are to be seen on the sea
front, but taking the matter as a
whole 1t nay be said that pure white
costumes have 1t all their own way.
Morning Walk In Order.
This season fashion, and the beauty
doctors, have decided that very
early walk on the sea front must be
taken by our society women. Indeed,
even In Paris 1t is becoming more and
more the fashion to take exceedingly
1 COIL W0Ahb III LAO bOA6 uO DOuiO6AOs
The beauty doctor of today turns his
attention specially to health, and he
insists that there is nothing better for
the health, and especially for the COM
plexion, than quick walk in the keen,
fresh air of early morning. Some OF
the ultra-fashionable Parisiennes are
just now making point Of being out
on the sea front as early as 6 In the
morning, and 1t Is quite amusing to
see how determined they are to take
the required number of turns on the
plank walk which reaches from the
long piers to the big hotel at the far
end of the place.
Up and down, six, eight OF ten
times! Then glass of hot milk at an
open-air restaurant, then again a
couple Of turns and home to the petit
dejeuner and the rest cure. And then
again at IL o'clock the sea front Is
crowded with exquisitely dressed wo-
men, the sands are crowded with
bathers and with critics who take de-
light In looking on, and the brilliant
little rue de Paris Is crowded with
shoppers.
Suits OF White Shantune.
think the most successful suits Of
the present season are those made Of
pure white shantung, the material Of
fine quality and sufficiently heavy to
hang we'll in plain coat and skirt.
There is something very cool and sum-
merlike about shantung. 1t is more
suitable for tailored costumes than
tussah, and In pure white 1t ia en-
inently attractive.
] saw this morning, on the planches,
an ideal little suit Of this order. 1t
was worn by the Comtesse Pieri, who
Is very fair and most graceful of fig
ure. The skirt was, of course, short
all the skirts of the present day are
short except those expressly intended
for evening wear-and there was a
plain hem. about 10 inches deep, into
which the supple material was slight
ly gathered. The smart little coat,
which was of medium length, was
semi-tight, and 1t had an immense
sailor collar which was thickly COW
cred with white soutache braiding.
There were deep gantlet cuffs turned
back on the three-quarter length
sleeves, and these cuffs were also
covered with braiding. In front the
coat was held together by loops Of
white silk soutache and fiat buttons of
mother-of-pearl set in rims of silver.
With this dainty little costume shirt
waist of the finest batiste was worn.
1t was entirely hand made and the
tucks down the fronts were rather
wide and were hemstitched. Attached
to the front OF the waist, at the left
side, and falling over the coat, was
an immense pleated frill of batiste
inset with valenciennes. At the top,
at the shoulder, this frill must have
been 10 inches wide, and then it tap
cred away to nothing at the waist. 1t
was very full and very finely plated
and the valenciennes insertions were
of the finest quality and of the old
yellow shade.
Fashions Latest Fad.
These side frills are the latest fad
In the world OF fashion. They are not
really new, as we had something very
like them with US last season, but
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