Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-18
Informal Spring
Season Opens
WithDriviing
Club Dance


, informal reception and danes
which follows the election Of Of
ncers of the Piedmont Driving club in
May marks the beginning of the In
formal spring and summer season fer
Atlanta's fashionable world This
weeks opening was the most bril-
liant in the history Of these events.
Several hundred guests thronged the
picturesque country club, which has
recently been enlarged and improved in
VARIOUS details. The dinner parties as
ing room. and tbs ladies In their new
est and prettiest spring attire, with
rose-wreathed hats and bright hled
gowns, mads a bright picture. The
club was in gala attire, Japanese Ian
terms festooning the exterior of the
building, and spring flowers sdcrnins
the interior. The tables for dinner
were decorated in pink carnations and
spiraea, with color details of pink and
white The ball room was adorned with
festoons of sndlax and groups Of palms
and bay trees.
The Driving club opening Is the oc-
cssion for the first display Of the new
spring frocks Of Atlanta women. Some
of the smart fashions of the season
were exemplified in the costumes worn
during the afternoon and evening of
this years opening. The younger girls
wore the sheerest of summer frocks.
with big picture hats laden with now-
ers. which are the keynote to the sum
mer millinery Miss Helen Payne's
charming little French bonnet of white
lace was demurely adorned with clus-
ters of tiny roses Her gown was of q.
dun blue over pink. Miss Frances
Nunnaliy wore one of the large nat leg
horn hats of the season, wreathed with
rich hued pansies. her gown OF white.
Miss Anne Orrne wore one Of the quaint
bonnets now so popular, fashioned OF
pink chiffon and small pink roses. Her
gown was of white lingerie, With the
smart French coat of pink chiffon.
Misses Elizabeth and Sarah Rawson,
both petite and blond, wore exception
ally pretty costumes. Miss Rawsons
was a pink lingerie creation. and she
wore big picture hat of pink Miss
Sarah Rawson wore pale blue batiste.
embroidered in pink rosebuds, over
which was short coat of pale blue
taffeta. Her blue hat was trimmed in
pink rosebuds.
Pink seems to be the color OF the
season, for many Of the toilettes ex-
plotted this color. Miss Frances Con
nally wore a pretty pink hat with her
white gown. Miss Edna McCandless
wore white hat trimmed in pink roses.
with a very smart toilette Of marqu-
settle and heavy cream lace. Mrs.
Alex Smith. Jr., lovely young matron.
wore toilette OF pale pink chiffon and
satin with a white hat trimmed in
pink roses. Miss Esther Smiths tot
lette carried out the white and pink,
as did that Of her guest Miss Merrill,
of Thomasville.
Miss Mary Helen Moodys strikingly
handsome toilette was of white and
black Miss Moody is a brunette with
exquisite coloring, and made a picture
in white charmeuse, with a smart lit
tie coat OF blue taffeta and big black
hat. Miss Harriet Calhoun wore a tan
embroidered batste frock Of Paris
fashioning, with French hat OF taf-
feta in the same shade
Mrs. Albert Thornton's handsome toll
lette was in black and white. She
wore black tulle over white charmeuse,
and a white hat faced with black vel
vet and trimmed in white aigrettes.
Mrs. John W Grant was handsome in
white lingerie with black picture hat
browning her golden hair Mrs Willis
Westmoreland was gowned in white
wolfe. embroidered in black. and worn
with a white hat trimmed in pink and
blue. Mrs Emily Carter Divine was a
lovely guest, as was also Mrs. Uric At
hnson, Mrs. James T. Williams, Mrs
Dunbar Roy Mrs. Andrew Calhoun.
Mrs Frank Adair Jr, and Miss Leone
Ladson, the last named receiving a
cordial welcome at the first large at
fair she has attended since the auto
mobile accident OH the evening Of the
wedding of her sister to Mr.. Charles
A. Dana, of New York.
The occasion was graced by hum
dreds of beautifully gowned women.
representing the married contingent
. and the younger set.
The first dance Of the Brookhaven
Country club was an event of this week.
taking place on Thursday evening The
club rooms were artistic with their dec
orations of wild flowers and vines and
the occasion was notable success.
The chaperons included Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Galloway, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
Speer, Mr.. and Mrs Jack Cohen Mr..
and Mrs. T. B. Fielder. Mr. and Mrs.
w. r. Gentry.
The dinner dance at East Lake to-
night contributes another large social
affair at the country clubs of Atlanta.
around which the social life OF the sum
naer win center ----.---