Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-28

| designers visiting US and carrying away
| impressions of what our women say they
! like, and what our commercialists say
will sell in droves. the result is quiet
| tones.
| If they really saw Americans wearing
| the colors they. the Paris designers, had
| made fashionable, then one can readily
| understand their quick change of base.
for nothing could have been more aWfui
! in clothes than the recent American
| Interpretation of orientalism in dress.
| Most of the wholesale gowns were dyed
! according to western ideas. and the ma
| jority, who bought copies of Poiret and
| Paquin for thirty dollars did not realize
what a far cry their gowns were from
| the originals and did not have any judg-
| ment as to where to wear such clothes
They were put out under the fashion
| mark of Paris. That was enough. And
the woman of forty in town of intimate
! friends wore the costume which had
been invented for a celebrated beauty OF
| twenty to wear at the club in Monte
| Carlo.
All the foolish talk as to good women
| not wearing the fashions of bad women
| has no bearing on the situation. No
women in the world are better dressed
| than those of the higher half world in
civilized earth. whether one may cavil
| at it or not. You cannot put the bar
sinister on fashions in that way.
These women of the half world are to-
| day wearing blue and black. which
brings us back to the starting point like
| horse going around a race track. And
! like these women. we will wear the
! combination all summer. But what shall
we do on the hot days. the kind of days
| that spot the American summer like
i freckles on a fair face.
Basque Design Gown Is the Choice
of the Hour.
| Probably the newest choice of light col
| ored gowns Is one in white taffeta. The
model is exploited in the now acceptable
| basque design that was the last inven.
ton to be given to the world by tht
amazing Nine. lie Franc. 1t took Us
| fully three months to incorporate it into
| our fashions, which is a good indication
| on our part
There is danger in running headlone
| into anything that looms up over the
horizon for we are then saddled with
| impossible clothes that are often refused
| admittance into the world of well dressed
| women Only the rich and the poor car
afford such wasteful choosing; the one
because they can discard the gown by
giving it to a poor relative. which is
| somewhat of the nature of that charity
described as giving useless soup to the
| thankless poor.
This basque is not nearly as Victorian
as it started out to be. Richard Nal
| colin Johnson, the Georgia fictionist
once said in a whimsical way that hi
excuse for changing the character of hi
heroine in the middle of the book wa
that she appealed to his chivalry as {
man not to make her as bad as HI
started out to do. and possibly Premet!
basque asked for mercy on the SAM
| account.
Whatever the. reason. that garment i.
quite wearable now and is far from de
mure In white taffeta with white satir
buttons in straight row down the from
and knife pleated skirt that clears thu
white buckskin pumps with pointed
! tongues and colonial silver buckles. ant
a sash placed just where child woule
place it, the costume is decidedly likable.
| II you do not care for all taffeta, ane
you are yearning for white frock that
need not go to the tub or the ironing
board every week, why not mingle satir