The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09
WhiteImmemorially Correct for the Yachtswoman Regatta Day Costumes for the Club House Show Gay Color Note Trig Trimness Marks the
 Correct Yac- ting Costume Deck Shoes

boat with a tiny cockpit and one tender trailing astern, or great steam yacht with an extensive crew of sailor men, engineers and stewards and a smart gasoline launch alongside for trips to shore. White linen is the approved fabric for morning frocks and these frocks have a natty boating style of their own. The young woman clad in a white linen skirt and checked, belted coat is suitably and smartly arrayed for mornings aboard her fathers yacht, or for trip ashore to play tennis at the clubhouse. Such costume will be worn on board, on regatta day, by women on small sailing or motor yacht though the deck of the large steam yacht with its rugs, awning and low wicker chairs may show much more elaborate cos tumes-as far as the women folks are concerned. The yachtsman on regatta day invariably wears white flannel trousers. blue serge coat, buckskin deck shoes and a visored cap with the emblem of his yacht club at the front. A pennant showing the same emblem-that of his club-fies at the bow of his craft. At the stern floats the regulation yachting emblem, flag that looks like the stars and stripes until one sees in the square of blue the white anchor instead of field of stars; and high at the masthead whips out a small pennant with some caba- listic sign or letter-the owners pri- vate pennant. When he is not aboard | tl.t o,,f tc 1o, ,tlo dnWr and small, square, dark blue flag, called ! the "absent pennant," is hoisted.
 All this however though fascinat- ingly interesting, is not strictly speak ing. the part of yachting that relates to fashions. To go back to the young woman in the linen skirt and checked coat, one may be sure she is dressed for shore and not deck for she wears shore footwear-buttoned boots with rather high heels. These white but toned boots often accompany white costumes worn on the carpeted or rugged deck of large yacht. and they almost always accompany white frocks worn at the clubhouse; but the small CT yacht demands--and it's owner usu ally insists upon-heelless, rubber soled deck shoes. and nothing car annoy and irritate the owner of 2 smartly vanished boat more than ( woman guest blithely clamborins about with high heeled boots over hi spotless canvas covered decks. ant mahogany companion ways.
 White Corduroy Practical And
 Attractive.
 In the white corduroy coat an' skirt an admirable yachting costume is pictured. Corduroy may be laund cred as readily as linen itself ant creases less in general wear. It ha the substance. too, which is preferable !, for yachting, to a fiimsier cotton O. Iinen-woven material which dampnes } reduces to stringiness. Out on the ba, ] in brisk breeze 1t is almost alway : cool enough to make a wrap comfort able and this white corduroy suit com pines a good looking coat with tn, simply, we'll cut skirt. Note that tn, narrow skirt is slashed up at the hen "a very necessary precaution whel one has to step about in a small boat or from the dock to an unstable decl or cabin top.
 The broad. buttoned tabs on skir |, and coat are very smart, and the blacl velvet cuffs and collar add strikin . contrast. These accessories of velve are attached with snap-buttons an may be removed when weather condl