The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-07

- OLIDAY week means out of door
~ fun to a number of lucky folk
W who can run up north for some
tobogganing; or south for some
golf. or down to Hot Springs for
tramping and possibly skating; or out
on Long Island for iceboating. The
geek Is crowded with wholesome fun
which puts the physique in trim for
the late hours and long dinners which
will occur during the gay season later
on. On the Continent st. Moritz is
the place during the Christmas holi-
days and thither repair hundreds of
well-to-do folk, taking with them the
smartest outing raiment and plenty of
fur wearables for the enjoyment of
coasting, skating, skeeing and other
sports of rigorous winter.
The women invited to a Christmas
week out In the country, and ad-
vised to bring along some warm out
ing togs," Is somewhat chagrined to
learn, after a mornings shopping, that
winter sport clothes cost a deal more
than do summer ones. This is of course
partly due to the fact that wool wear
ables are worth more than fiimsier cot
ton ones; but there is also the greater
reason that winter sport clothes are
built only for people who can afford
to pay good prices. Every little shop
girl, or milliner's apprentice, in sum-
mer time, has her one or two weeks
holiday, and for this important oc-
casion she must be--to her own mind
suitably equipped with outing togs
the most attractive her purse can
compass. Very likely the purse will
not stretch over a wider latitude than
one which includes a cotton duck
skirt, part-cotton sweater, ninety-eign
cent MILDLY blouse and sneakers Of
white canvas which must be chalked
every night before retiring. But all
the same, 1t is outing garb, and the
shops are ready with it when required
in the tens of thousand models The
two weeks vacationer, however, has
nothing to do with winter out-of-door
sports--beyond skating on the park
lake IL the weather holds cold enough,
or taking an occasional tramp beyond
the city environs of Sunday after
noon. Winter sports are for the elect
who have leisure and plenty bf money,
and for them and them alone are
turned out garments suitable for
roughing it-garments needless to
say, of rich. soft feather-light wool
stuffs, of finest leather and cleverest
workmanship.
The Favor for Knickers Grows
Apace.
It is surprising how many outing
costumes now have a bifurcated cut
Trousers are worn quite frankly by
many women most conservative in
their town raiment. These trousers
so called-take the form of knickers,
Of boomers, of riding breeches and
of divided skirts, which may be but
toned across and turned into ordinary
walking skirts when decorum de-
mands. Such skirt Is pictured in
the riding costume. Astride, this skirt
becomes a pair of cross-saddle riding
breeches but by means of the buttons
and buttonholes down each side, the
front and back breadths may be Tapped
across each other and buttoned in a
different way, turning the garment
Into a perfectly conventional walking
skirt. Otherwise the riding habit is
an ordinary, well cut affair of heavy
dark gray covert, with an interlined
coat worn over a chamois waistcoat.
Ascot neckstock and dogskin gloves
are white; fiat riding derby and soft
salfslkin riding boots are black.