Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-05
happiness. and gayety breaking out on

happiness and gayety breaking out on
the faces Of all who take part;
Ana the eShes of fashions
is proven in another way: by anotner
set. and not on Sundays. The Sunday
| best" belongs to the days when cnurcn
people who had few other means OF
| foregathering. Sunday was q day OF
| feasting as we'll as prayer, and one put
! on ones best raiment to be admired
| taking place in 5th avenue. overturned
all the traditionsswhich have chung to
the Easter Sunday church parades ali
over the world. No one looked at the
at the clothes of the men. Even the
women forgot to observe each other In
their scrutiny. comment ana gay ap-
probation Of the uniforms OF the men;
British general, who was guest In
| the city, said the scene made him home
sick for the road to the front. He In
sisted that 9Th avenue-in Its three
| miles of brilliant crushing together Of
| the military and it's admirers. automo-
biles, motor buses and immense Army
trucks going through with supplies
was duplicate OF the road to the from
in Flanders and France.
Eliminate the women In gay Clothes,
he said, land you have better picture
! Of the lines behind the front than any
movie can give.
- ~o 7'ss'S1
And the women eliminated themselves
in their sheer admiration of the uni
forms. Soldiers of every flag were rep
resented in the parade. Capes. stripes.
medals. odd caps. wonderful colo:s.
light blue dashing against dark blue.
khaki with and without capes. boots of
every kind, canes switching from the
hands of officers. the elbows Of sailors
at right angles pushing their way
through the crowds-all made a con-
glomerate. kaleidoscope picture which
no one who saw 1t will want to forget.
All that women did in this vast war
concerning the cut Of the italian
aviator's coat, the jacket of the British
general. the wonderful costume of the
Serbians, the dash of the French ma
meaning Of all the various hat bands
and shoulder straps on the uniforms Of
all our allies.
This tremendous offensive reached Its
high wave between a3d and 35th streets,
whore . great Episcopal rector was
celebrating his twenty-fifth anniversary
a pastor OF famous church. and whore
great Presbyterian minister was say
ing goodbye to a congregation who
adored him. because his king had called
him home to do his bit in the pulpit
All OF which. you may say. has moth
ing to do with spring fashions. But no
one can fail to feel the Significance Of
the vast Easter parade in the largest
city in America, which. while 1t Is sup
posed to put the stamp on spring fash
ions. turned into parade Of men. whose
clothes were the dominant features Of
the sce1s. Is this an omen Of the future?
In the settlement Of fashions which
Genes this month there is one pre-
dominant feature that interests the ma
5ority as we'll as the minority. It is the
new Arrangement Of the neck line.
This style has been creeping on US
unawares since January, but It seems to
have sprung out OF ambush and at
tackled the people as the warm weather
burst over the land.
Those who were not observing fash
ions closely went about with their shirt
waist collars pulled out over the ,, coat
pulled out over the bare edge Of a one
piece frock.
Then. suddenly. the whole process
to % tae f.. crowd
had abandoned white coat collars. They
also noticed that the neck line Of q
one-piece frock was not outlined by a
that sailor collars had disappeared from
fashionable garments. They realized
that the neck line. instead of being
v-shaped, was square and deeply decol-
lete, or delta-shaped-the decolletage
that we associate with Dresden shep-
herdesses. Dolly Warden styles. Mo-
xartian opera and Janice Meredith. This
kind Of neck line was accepted only for
frocks; it should go without saying that
1t was not contemplated for coats.
~
But whatever the garment, its neck
line was no more hidden and enveloped
by a white collar. It Is quite probable
that this somersault in fashions dis
turbed the minds Of more women than
even the incoming Of the tight skirt. for
1t necessitated thought and an entire