The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-20
A Smart Motor and TrdOeline Coat the First
Necessity Dinner and Dancing Gowns Load
ed With Costly Lace Outing Toys Include
Smart Tailored NOrfo1RS and Flannel
Skirts Ne9li9eeS for Gossip Hour.

large enough to accommodate a good
warm coat travels ahead in the bag
gage car-or as Madame is apt to
say, in imitation of her English
cousins-in the luggage van"
Living ia Ones TRUNK an Easy Mat
ter Nowadays.
Visitors to the smart country
houses are expected to bring trunks,
even if the stay is only over the week
end, and my lady is very apt, also, to
bring a maid and a Pommeranian and
will take it for granted that their
comfort will be provided for. The
huge arks, called wardrobe trunks,
are most convenient to get at and
everything is ready-to-hand so that
there is no bug-bear of unpacking
when ones trunk is opened; but they
do not carry great amount of cloth
ing and one wardrobe trunk well
filled, will just about serve Madame
for two days visit.
The trunk, when it is carried up
to Madame's bedroom, is placed on
end; and when it has been unlocked
the cover swings away from the body
of the trunk like a wardrobe door.
Within the cover-or door" portion
are small drawers, one above the
other, which hold lingerie, negligees.
corsets, boots, neckwear and small
belongings of various sorts. In the
larger section of the trunk the va
rious costumes swing on their wooden
hangers; one garment having lain
smoothly over the other when the
long trunk stood on the floor in the
ordinary horizontal manner.
Toilet articles and breakable be-
longings have been carried in the
handsomely fitted dressing-case en-
trusted to the maid, and with these
belongings spread out on the dresser
and the wardrobe trunk opened. Ma
dame may be made ready for dinner
in the shortest possible time.
Dinner Gowns Have a Certain For
maIity.
What is called a dinner gown by the
woman who 'week-ends at a smart
country house, is really a most elab-
crate evening gown having usually
a train. The dinner gown, however,
is not quite so elaborate as the cos
tune intended for formal opera or
ball wear. and while it's corsage may
be cut very low, according to con-
sentative ideas, it is not as pro-
nounced as the cut of an opera or
ball gown, and the upper part of the
arm is covered with a sleeve-or an
apology for a sleeve. Gloves are not
donned with the dinner gown worn
at a country house party.
The handsome dinner costume pic
tured is typical of the sort of gown
being built for country house-party
wear, and is smart as we'll as sim
pie and pleasing in design. The ma
terial is black and white striped
marquisette with a border of dense
blue stripes and this rich blue shade
is intensified by a knot of blue taft
feta in the same color, at the girdle.
The drapery of the tunic at the back
suggests pannier and the skirt has
very moderate train which may be
easily lifted for dancing, later in the
evening. The bordered marQuisette
tunic, weighted with ball trimming,
falls over f1ounce of val lace which
lends softness to the gown and also
supplies the inevitable touch of lace
called for this year The arrangement
of the blue stripes across transverse
stripes on the bodice Is especially eff
fecttve. This dainty blue and black
striped dinner gown, worn without
jewels, is suitable for summer wear