The Washington herald., 1914-06-14
Photo By Harri%Ewing.

ed summer legation on Long Island. look
| ed particularly smart as well as COM
Portable on Wednesday in one of the
loose woven white and black cotton
fabrics that has come to take the place
of the close woven pique and linen. This
was a striped material made with q long.
| straight tunic and a simulated Jacket
blouse. The latter was finished by .
broad collar of white embroidery match
| ing the narrow white waistcoat. There
was no trimming whatever on the skirt
/ or long tunic except few large buttons
! on the latter.
The very modish girdle eight inches
and crimson In broken bars finished In q
fiat tailored bow In front This color
scheme was carried out in the parasol
OF white and black stripes bordered IN
six inches of green satin
Nine. Calvo's hat was a small shape
in black hemp with Paradise plumage
front and back.
Mime. Pezet. wife of the Minister from
Peru. and Mrs. William Hall. who were
together on Connecticut avenue one
morning in the last week both looked
extremely cool and comfortable in spite
Of the heat Nine, Pezet wore an all
white gown Of a semi-tailored model with
white shoes, and a hat and parasol In
purple.
| Mrs. Hall. who learned to adjust her
self to summer weather IN her girlhood
days, when as Miss Therese Blackburn.
she was one Of the famous bellies of
Kentucky. wore a one-piece gown Of
howered voile. a white ground strewn
with the tiniest of blue blossoms slightly
topped with green foliage. This is made
with the loose, long shoulders, half coat
sleeves to the wrist. and only the slight
est Of drapery about the hips. The skirt
opened in front for three or four inches
showing that unusual attribute, the old
fashioned, polite muslin petticoat trim
med with an embroidered scalloped rufie
A girdle Of blue and white ribbon in
Persian design and a vestee of unfgured
net with rolling collar to match COM
pleted this really smart gown which was
topped by a fiat hat Of rice straw trim
med simply in a broad fold of Persian
silk of the same blue and white tone.
| Mrs. oliver Wendell Holmes, tr,
wife of the Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court, probably never felt
such heat in her life as overlook her
tour on F street. Mrs. Holmes. IA
nous for her practical common sense.
discarded the jacket Of her white and
yellow eponge for a white muslin.
close fitting shirt waist trimmed with
embroidered rufies down the front.
With this she wore a small black hat.
Nine. Ekengren. wife of the Minister
from Sweden, who left town yesterday
for her summer home on Mount Desert
did her final shopping in a modish
gown Of all pink chambrey. This was
very simply made with plain skirt and
long Russian blouse relieved only by a
white collar and cuffs. Mime. Eken-
grin topped this with a rather broad
brimmed white Panama hat trimmed
in a band Of Roman ribbon.
Mrs. Paul Pearsall. always abreast
Of the times in any latitude, and well
in advance of Washington standard, Is
one Of the first resident matrons to
fully accept the separate waist Mrs.
Pearsall is wearing with her white
tailored skirts delicately tinted blouses
of the new Georgette crepe. Seen on
H street on Monday her blouse was a
shell pink with a sailor collar en-
broidered in white. With this she
wore one of the several white sailor
hats for which she Is noted. This par
ticular hat having been donned at IL
a. m. was trimmed in a gros grain rib
bon bow and white mercury winga
Mrs Breckenridge Bayne, who closed
her house for the summer on Thursday,
wore an extremely smart blue charmeuse
one afternoon at Chevy Chase. This was
the latest cry in q draped skirt which is
quite distinct from the pannier of the
past season. yet keeps q becoming broad
line about the hips then falls full and
straight at the back. The front opened
over a vestee of plain white organdie
with which Mrs. Bayne wore her usual
string Of pearls. She also wore a won
derfully smart black hat Of the high
iuster kind. beloved Of the Parisians, with
Its trimming. two black wings. just as
highly polished As the hat itself. and a
cluster Of small pure white roses.
This hat was undoubtedly az late q
! model a. Washington could have until
such time q areoplane service connects