The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-09-23

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HE season here has opened
.ffA. very brilliantly. Already ali
VA the most important villas at
NX&E Trouville and Deauville are
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 Trouville as
q fashionable seaside resort. They
have said, and with reason, that 1t is
not a 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
~ 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 Trou7ille white
costumes almost always reign su-
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 a
great many colored tussah and shan
tung suits are to be seen on the sea
front. but taking the matter as q
whole it may be said that pure white
costumes have it 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 it is becoming more and
more the fashion to take exceedingly
early walks in the Bots de Boulogne
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 it 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 or 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 shantung.
/ think the most successful suits Of
the present season are those made Of
pure white shantung. the material Of
q fine quality and sufficiently heavy to
hang well in a plain coat and skirt.
There Is something very cool and sum-
merlike about shantung. It is more
suitable for tailored costumes than
tussah. and In pure white It Is en-
inently attractive.
saw this morning, on the planches,
an ideal little suit Of this order. It
was worn by the Comtesse Pieri, who
is very fair and most graceful Of fg-
ure. The skirt was, of course, short
all the skirts Of the present day are
short except those expressly intended
for evening wearand there was q
plain hem. about 10 inches deep, into
which the supple material was slight
~ gathered. The smart little coat,
which was Of medium length, was
semitight. and It 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