Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-04
SHORT SKIRTS WILL
PREVAIL WITH EVENING
/ DRESS AT ATLANTIC
Aviom of "Hats Go Up as Skirts
Go Down" Will Not Apply
! Within Doors, Is Decree
Is of Fashion
GREEN CATERS ARRIVE

ATLANTIC CITY. March i.--Milady
-, wear her skirts as short as she sees
e. With evening dress, for fashion APP
20, antlv has decreed that the Boardwalk's
non, snrtorial axiom, Hats go up as
si,irts go down." shall not apply within
sanre consequently many of the young
Wv ,,otrons and debutantes also are wear
tro dImy skirts very nearly to their knees
-.itbo,t exciting comment after dinner
.bon the lights flash and orchestras play
dreamy music in the beachfront palaces
where society folks are sojourning
For the daily parades, costumers agree
AL. fron, to inches off the boards is
tbe proper caper since the New York
halliday crowd sprung a mild panic by
Going to extremes In whirl of gayety
bfter dark many of the handsomest Co.'S
tunes in the hotel circles are a good 10
inches off the carpet, and the train has
almost wholly disappeared. Approved
breyity, oddly enough, has not evolved
n,onogramed hosiery or other Palm Beach
innovations here, for Atlantic City is con-
servative.
But there never was a time when more
inheritance was attached to ornate foot
wear. Just now the tendency is for the
daintiest satin slippers in pastel shades
white patent leather also has its ad-
lprpntS ana II DlB view lVIh IlldlluH Ill
black satin and net. who danced in one
Of the big houses, had butterflies embroid-
cred in gold beads upon the toes of her
flashing pumps.
Green CATERS have come to town, and
now spats in Alice blue, old rose checks
and probably even more gay hues may be
expected 1t has been discovered, some
what to the surprise of the early spring
colony, that the Princess Engaltscheff,
who is at the Traymore, dresses rather
Mainly, although she wears the richest
furs on the Boardwalk.
The oldest thing in hats, next to the
little concal affair, which has been a sub.
iect of comment for a week. is of black
patent leather and green ribbon with a
green wing and gold buckle. That hats
are rising is not a figure of speech. Some
of the latest to arrive have crowns n good
ten inches tall, with folds of ribbon to
emphasize the contrast with low.crowned
sailors. Just n suggestion of a brim is
said to be "the thing" for the fashionable
turban.
The New Nixon probably will reopen
late in the month.
Capricous models, who were as exact
ing in their demands as prima donnas, are
primarily responsible, hotel man said to-
day, for the abandonment of the Easter
Fashion Show. They wanted chaperones
and the very best quarters in the most
fashionable hotels while they remained
here. Very best quarters are at
premium around Easter time, and hotel
men were at loss to find a squadron of
chaperones on short notice. So they called
the show off. A disappointed committee
brought back from New York the star
Ting information that Broadway Is expert
encing something like a famine in models
since booming times in the show world
have raised the salary scale for show
girls.
Sir John Eaton, of Toronto, who was
knighted by the British Government for
distinguished services" might pass for a
successful Philadelphia business man on
Broad street. That is not surprising be-
cause he is a stalwart exponent of virile
Americanism even while he lives and runs
many wonderful stores beyond the Do
mnion border. Tall and of athletic figure,
he is one of the most notable personages
on the Boardwalk. Sir John has some
thing like 1000 of his employees in the
ranks of the Canadian contngents fight
ing abroad and is paying full salaries of
all of the married men who enlisted to
their families.
Mrs. John Gates and John Gates, Jr.,
of Cincinnati, are at the Brighton. Mrs.
Elizabeth Connell. Miss Jean Campbell
and Charles Connell, of Scranton, are at
the Strand.
Philadelphians here for the weekend in
clude Mrs. Chancellor English and Miss
Caroline f. English, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Scott
Fowler. Mrs. Walter Blabon and Richard
Blabon, Mr. and Mrs. w. j. McCahan, Jr.,
Mrs. NJ. G.. Smonin, David Burpee, Mrs.
A. H. Walker, Mrs, William j. Cooper,
Miss X, C. Walsh, Mrs. r. l.. Dutton, Mrs.
F. D. Stead, Mrs. o. ID. Wilkinson and
Miss Wilkinson, r. II. Wood, Mrs. James
Kater, Miss Marie Kater, r. L. Van
Dusen, Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln K. Pass
more, who are at the Traymore; Mr.. and
Mrs E. P. Beach and Mr. and Mrs,
Thomas H. Ball.
Other Pennsylvania representatives in
clude Mr., and Mrs. s. Semple, Titusville
Mrs c. II. Dougal and Mrs. w. NJ Nc
Cormick, Milton; Mr.. and Mrs w. p.
smith, Hollidaysburg; Mrs. S. o. Hartje
and Miss S. E. Hartje, Pittsburgh; Mrs.
w. S. Morrison, Beaver, and Mrs. ]. C.
lutte, Arcola, who are at the Chalfonte.
Andrew Kerr j. A. Anderson and j. S.
McHugh are among the Philadelphians at
the St. Charles.