The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-03-27
MRS. WILSON'S
GOWNS STUNNING
CREATIONS FROM PARIS EXCITE
WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
Blue the Favorite Color
CAPITAL Also Greatly Interested III
Spring Hats, Which Are Eli
tirely Novel.

With the President and Mrs. Will
son again on the high seas en- route
for Paris, congress adjourned and
MANY leading men and women OF
the capital taking advantage OF the
. Lenten season as a time for rest II
not of prayer and fasting the un-
initiated might expect a great re-
action in the capitals social life ac-
tivities.
But only the initiated would hold
that mistaken idea. For the casual
visitor, the new official, or the old
est inhabitant Washington has a
spring time charm that nothing can
destroy with magnolias and forsy-
. thia .abloom in the parks and new
millinery adding to the interest OF
the daily church service as we'll as
to club meetings, afternoon visiting,
bridge and similar events.
Dinner parties are almost as nu-
merous and quite as important as in
midwinter with visitors from every
where contributing to the interest
of society in general and the diplo-
matte circle in particular. Mrs. Will
son during her short stay of one
week in the White House appeared
on several occasions in new and
very becoming suit of the latest
shade of blue which heretofore has
only been seen in evening gowns
and is very rare at that.
Mrs. Wilson's is undoubtedly the
first cloth suit of this rich dark
shade to reach Washington-and' is
of a fine homespun combined with
Oriental silk of the same color. The
silk slip of true Chinese design ex-
tends we'll below the hips where it
is joined permanently to the plain
narrow cloth skirt.
: The coat which makes this one
piece gown a suit is very smart in
deed, with long narrow panel effect
in the back, cut away front, show
ing the top of the gown in blouse
: fashion with revere collars and
cuffs embroidered in two tones Of
blue silk. The top of the gown
which has the three-quarter kimono
sleeves, is also embroidered in blue
with line Of added pink and gray.
Mrs. Wilson wore this very smart
costume to church on Sunday topped
by a becoming toque of the same
colored ostrich plumage.
At the White House Dinner.
At the now historic dinner of
February 26th, when she sat be-
tween Senator Lodge and Represen-
tative Henry A. Cooper, Mrs. Will
son wore gown of black and sill
yer brocade with drapery and flow-
ing sleeves of tulle.
One afternoon when she enter
taintd score or more at afternoon
tea lin the red room. most Of the
company being ladies from the dip
1omatic circle, Mrs. Wilson wore
what many of her friends consider
her most becoming afternoon gown,
a baize colored crepe trimmed in sill
yer, in a closely draped model with
square cut neck and straight, slight
ly flowing sleeves.
Mrs. George Barnett, wife Of the
;Commandant of Marines, who took
advantage of her hurried trip to
France. where she nursed her hus-
band through an attack of infiuen
"a, to- order few gowns in Paris is
wearing one of the richest of new
metal brocades in purple and gold
with extremely smart drapery and
the return waistline.
The Seasons Hats.
According to a famous authority
on Fashion, with a capital "F," ''the
hat is the thing" and any woman
who attempts to wear a last years
hat will be so conspicuously out OF
the picture that she might just as
well return to the sailor or the
mushroom of decade ago. In fact,
a polk bonnet of our grandmother's
day could be manipulated into a
piece of fashionable headgear with
more ease, than the last purchased
or the least worn hat of last sum-
mer.
Mrs. Robert L. Owen, who accom-
panied her husband on his recent
official visit to Paris, is wearing one
of the newest of the four distinctive
1919 models. This is a turban of
dark straw of new bronze and
green at the base of the crown,
leaving single line of straw to
show the body of the hat.