The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-07

of fashion. Miss Beatrice Glover is
wearing a pale yellow silk dancing
| frock which also does duty for
smart theater party, in which the
sleeves end two inches below the ell
bow with no other decoration than
heavy self-covered cord. The decoi-
latage is circular and not very low
with its edge a garland of roses shad-
ing from the delicate tea rose tint TO
a deep crimson.
In the matter of hats there is great
| latitude as to shape and size, nut
uniform demand for smaller crown
than formerly. All wen poised mats
are suposed to reveal well coihed
head and the woman who pulls her
hat down to her ears is hopelessly
out of the picture.
Mrs. Lawrence Townsend. wife of
the former Minister to Belgium, and
Mrs Woodbury. Blair in box at a
recent recital each wore hat
trimmed only in a pair of quilts. Mrs.
Townsend's was 4 small nat turban
without a brim. with one quill resting
within two inches of her left shoulder
and its exact mate standing some
eighteen inches in tho air in the OPP
poste direction. Both started from
the turban crown well toward tho
, back. Mrs. Blair's hat was blocked
sailor of black satin. with wide
band AT the base of the crown from
which the quilts started upward di-
rectly opposite each other to incline
inward high over the crown.
Mrs. William Crozier. wife Of the chief
of ordnance, is wearing n between-sea-
son hat of gold tissue in turban form
with narrow facing of velvet and an
ostrich fantasy between gold and brown.
Mrs. John Washington Davidge and Mrs.
Thomas Blagden. jr., brides of the past
season. out in straw hats OF the
latest mode. Young Mrs. Davidge's is a
! long sailor. a new variation of an old
shape and is OF puttv-colored Milan with
a gayly embroidered ribbon band and a
cluster of small garden flowers on the
brim. Mrs. Thomas Blagden. jr.. who
was Miss Ethel Noyes. has just arrived
from New York wearing a rather high
crowned turhah OF peaEut-CoiOred straw
with its trimming single curved quill
in the same neutral tone.
Mrs. Augustus Peabody Gardner. Wife
Of Representative Gardner. OF Massa-
Chusetts. and daughter of Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge. while known TO he
Young woman OF always correct and
well-defined tastes. seems to have had
some doubt as to flowers or quilts In Sc
lecting her spring millinery. As a result
she is wearing a round hat OF dark blue
straw with wide. slightly dropping brim
that has side of the crown covered
in foliage. and the other side encircled
in long curved quill, all of one shade
of dull blue.
A between season tailored suit Of
superlativc Smartness is a plaid velour
De laine worn by Miss Maury, daughter
Of Judge William 4. Maurv and one of
the genuine native born observation-disclosures
one meets in mornings promenade.
Miss Maury is famous for her dressing
and likewise for her wonderful variety Of
gowns in which she invariably keeps
some tone Of brown as the keynote. The
plaid tailored suit only shows it is plaid
at close range. as the broken lines form
ing two-inch square are tobacco brown
in several shades with lines Of dull blue
Of orange hardly larger than a thread of
100 thread, and a more generous line OF
dull crimson. Tho harmony of color Is
perfect. and tn" effect much more be
coming than any solid tone could be, how
ever rich. The model is equally good.
a close slightly draped skirt with the
fulln"ss of tho drapery fastened at the
side just above the knee, topped by q
short cutaway jacket fastened Just above
the waist lin" by single large button
and corded loop. A modish close fitting
velvet turban. its brim edged in fur. is
worn with this. while the boots are OF
dark brown cloth foNed in patent leather.
Mrs. Jessie Lincoln Beckwith, a grand
daughter OF President Lincoln, who is
passing the winter with her parents Hon.
and Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln, at their
street home. is wearing a visiting toilet
of the new Deauvile suitinG. the sue
cessor of serge, and most suitable for
early spring in Washington. Mrs. Beck
with, who is petite and blond, has this
suit Of pronounced dark blue with a
three-tier skirt and a jacket made with
a yoke and allowed to hang loose and
straight 10 several inches below the
waist line Her hat is of velvet with
slightly rolling hrim and low crown.
master Bonnaffon. L. s ". who has re-
Gently returned to Washington. where
her husband is now stationed, is quite
as stylish as in her girlhood days when
as Miss Gertrude Clsggett she was one
OF the acknowledged bellies of the smart
resident set Mrs. Donnaffon is adherinG
to the silhouette that keeps close to the
ankles, hut has a long box-plea ted tunc
eoged IN fringe OF two inches which
matches the cloth So perfectly one is
inclined Ia believe it is made of the ma
t"rial in III" fashion that silk fiounces
were frinSed fifty years ago. The top OF