Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-01

cannot oe PASSED on to maid or sold to
a secondhand dealer must be packed up
ana ulspa lieu; along with a gracious
little note. to the INDECENT kinswofnan or
schoolmate negotiating in the backwoods
To eat breakfast at sunrise is an abso-
iutely new rad with ladies of leisure, al
though 1t was doubtless a bitter neces-
sity to the rorebears of many of them,
and there would not now be the least
bit of pleasure in the practice were the
collation. partaken of at home instead of
in the WOODS nearest to the suburban es-
tate A smart topcoat covers the one
piece frock during the drive in brake or
motor to the al fresco feast. but imme-
diately upon arriving the Wrap is dis
carded and a stunningly simple fr0ck is
revealed. 1t is decidedly different in
some respects from the tailored frock of
last spring The absolutely plain, two
and "a -half-yard-wide trotter skirt of silk
cashmere or fine vale serge in tame
sage green or slate blue has no visible
opening and its normally placed belt is
attached to a blouse of taffeta striped
in two tones and trimmed with q shoulder
collar of the same material as the skirt
The sewed-in conventionally shaped
sleeves are absolutely plain. fit closely
about the wrists and cover almost half
of the hands; they are an excellent tvpe
of the sleeve TO be generally worn in
the very near future.
Often it is the girde which furnishes
smartness to the midautumn tailored
frock of cashmere or serge Obviously
the band defining the normally placed
waist line and concealing the left side
placket cannot match either blouse or
skirt as 1T would then be merged with
one or the other of them nor could it
be of velvet, because to wear that ma
terial in the morning is bad FORM but
Hercules or any other fancy silk braid
perfectly solves the question of the girde
for the before-luncheon or travelling
one-piece tailormade, and a strip of it
four inches wide by three yards long is
sufficient to swathe the waist and make
two even ends falling straight to the left
knee.
X
The use of silken and worsted fabrics
in tailormades for midautumn is rapidly
gaining ground, for the fashionable
woman is tired of being quoted as
of ''mannish'' appearance. She may sub
scribe to the cause of the suffragettes,
ride astride or smoke half dozen 'Egyp-
tians' daily, but she does not mean to
sacrifice her dainty raiment and she
orders her "second-best' tailormade suit
to be developed about equally of char
meuse messaline or meteor. These cos
tunes are charming because they are so
silken underskirts nearly always are Dor
dered with ruff1e putting and rustic
ever so softly with the wearer's move
ments; the tunics are gracefully draped
enough to prove that the craze to attain
the stovepipe silhouette has not robbed
the fair sex of it's characteristic curves.
HE means to put crinoline upon us,
that determined Mon. P-P-:' cried
leading American actress who landed last
week from an ocean liner. In his ateler
1 saw the satin skirts of tailormades lined
with crinoline, and one of his manlkirs
said that within six months every woman
would be wearing them upon the streets
Of Paris and New York, at the races and
at country clubs. And now we shall
all of us have to learn the art of sitting
down, for it's one thing to sink on to
seat as we now do and quite another
thing to arrange ourselves upon a chair
or a sofa" But there is something to be
said in defense of the couturiers. Were
no novel fashions brought forward wom-
en- would see no reason for buying new
costumes until those they possess begin
to get shabby. Moreover. the fabric
manufacturers should be considered. In
crinoline days twenty or more yards OF
material were put into a skirt and now
ten yards are sufficient for an entire
costume. Some business house beneVes
that there is just much Righteousness
in the warfare that is threatened against
the continuance of the narrow skirt as
there was for the war against Spain after
the blowing up of the Maine, and that
there must soon be a radical change goes
without saying.
Fringe bordering the skirt of a tailored
costume is not novelty, since the 1ash-
ion came in fully six months ago, but II
| is so fascinating finish for the hem that
it well deserves to flourish for many
moons to come Naturally such trim
ming is not for the street costume which
literally sweeps the pavements. II Is an
| a attribute Of the satin tailormade that is
| reserved for autumn church weddings
| in town OF country and to which every
| feminine guest goes in some sort OF a prl-
| vate vehicle.
Tom Thumb fringe is the ideal edging