Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-27

- NE should be spared the burden
OF clothes in August weather. If
nature were really kind one
could be clothed like the lily
in a self-grown union suit that
was very becoming and remain in 1t until
the first frost No wonder the savages
never change the style of their apparel!
Hot weather makes all exertion bur
den to the soul and the idea Of dressing
i'm order to please. or to be conventional,
when the thermometer is ninety or over,
is not Endorsed with delight by even the
most fashionable and vainglorious
woman.
Did you ever go to fashionable hotel
at some popular resort and see the
agony through which women went Wnen
trying to make an elaborate toilet In
two by six room with the sun streaming
in the west window? This Is no far-fetch-
ed picture of enforced labor or mill work
1t Is well known picture to every
woman Of what takes place every day
Eluring midsummer among those who
have the money to do better. and should
have the sense to know better.
And. yet, the very idea of n vacation
that calls only for white duck or khaki
tennis shoes and sweaters. Is not one
that appeals to the great majority OF
women. One has to be born with an
especial slant Of the mind to really like
such holidays, and this has been partic-
ularly found out by those experimenters
in altruism who have obtained with great
effort a secluded vacation for those who
work In the heat OF the market places
One day in the country. in the noun
tains or at the sea shore is quite enough
for them If the place is minus CROWDS,
minus moving pictures and ice cream
parlors.
This is not only true of the young.
but of the old and the middle aged Ii
makes the social worker come to the
conclusion that there is more enjoyment
on the iron fire-escape on summer
night than In the quiet farm. the noun
tain path or the shore bungalow to those
whose minds are born with love for
the crowd
But this Is not a discussion of clothes,
is it? One is aware that there are many
fashions new and interesting, that are
being projected into the world of style.
but one is also aware that the majority
of women have the more serious phase
of the Guestion-clothes for a vacation
10 take up in the next week. And the
word, vacation, is now used. in its Amer
lean sense, as meaning a change of scene.
\
VIC arc all workers over here. paid and
unpaid, men and women, for our inner
energies compel outer activities. We do
not know how TO remain still, and If
We are not making money we are going
in for charity. politics. settlement work,
suffrag writing, painting. scuipturing.
We are never at rest for We don't know
h.w t. be. and that makes for our abun-
dlHt happiness and prosperity far more
tFaa he analysis would make us believe.
"a We are ready for vacation not
cnlv In midsummer, but in midwnter,
ar6 for Holidays must have clothes.
While this can be handled by the rich
IL ~ easy manner II must be carefully
tgursht out by her who does not cable
I" Paris for new things or even wire to
No~ York for the clothes that Newport
j. Wearing.
There Is no tendency toward all white
!. hite wash skirt and thin blouse. Even
the universal one-piece frock in its man
comfortable or as cool as the thin linen
and batiste combination. but 1t is a new
idea, or rather very old one revised,
and women like 1t.
1t is often more becoming to a woman