Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-24
WHAT ANNE RITTENHOUSE SAYS
The French Woman's Sports
Clothes.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS, July 2s.-This town, as. well a:
all the fashionable resorts along the Brit
tany and Normandie coast, has given it
allegiance to orange.
One sees it everywhere, and agains
the gray skies. the white cliffs or thu
green sea it goes we'll
This week the smart world is very
much at leisure, filling in the time be.
tween the final swing in Paris and The
races at Beauville and later at Baden
for your fashion-French world follows
the horses as certain American institu-
tons are said to follow the flag. And the
little horses follow the big ones. SO
that one may lose as much money as one
chooses on both.
In between the fashionable racing sea
sons society here. meaning fashionable
members of every nation who follow
French customs, lives charmed life at
seaside or in the villas near Paris.
Here they go in for sport. tennis. golf,
swimming, sailing. motoring. And the
condition that astonishes me most was
the attitude of the French women toward
physical exercise.
We Angio-SaXons have a feeling that
only our women are strenuously athletic,
and that the French woman is dainty
no greater exertion than strong hirta-
ton.
Those who have this feeling should see
her at this moment with short white
skirt. orange-colored sweater. hair tucked
under a stiff linen hat. doing all the vio-
lent sports of the day as her brother
does them.
All of which has to do with fashions.
and especially with the preferences shown
for vivid orange. For here is where one
sees it here where smart society is
playing: and it has often been proved
that on these Fairgrounds of Europe
most of the prevailing American fash
ions have been born.
II bright orange only appeared in rough
wooden sweaters, one might not find
enough food for q story. but it has ap-
peared in the new felt hats. those broad
brimmed capotiers that women are wear
ing from Folkstone to Biarritz We call
them sailors at home.
Also the hosiery people are offering
orange-eolored stockings . in several
shades. At the Galleries Lafayette, where
are east the shadows of coming fashions,
there are so many orange stockings
heaped on a table that one has a fleeing
impression of huckster's fruit stand.
Cravats for white blouses are in the
suede, of floss grain silk, of MARITIME cot
tons showing small oranges on a black
or bright blue background. There are
orange colored buttons on white blouses,
HdIStCOdts dIu tcpCodts.
Orange Top Coats.
Probably the most conspicuous gar
ment that has come out in this gor-
geous and conspicuous shade is the top
coat made of rough, hairy wool. 1t is
an adorable splash of just the right
color against country landscape.
Many of these loose outergarments
are trimmed with white: it is at the
neck and waists. at the pockets and in
the buttons. Can't you see just how
effective one of these would be during
October and November with white
skirt for out-of-town life?
II your especial kind of life does not
ALLOW Of wa M Goa ts zbeeweeh:: SEA sons,
or white wash skirts and blouses late
in the autumn. then the wooden top coat
of orange does not At into your scheme
of things, but the fact that this color
has been so widely adopted that it has