Evening star., 1919-03-03
BY ANNE RITTENHoUSE.

special Correspondence NJ The Star.
| NEW YORK. March lit is not
possible TO find in the southern re-
| sorts any types Of clothes that have
not been seen in the New York shops
during the first week of January. If
one investigates fashion al it's source,
one must he ahead of the calendar,
and this effort is rewarded by the
serene fscing Of knowing what's
what vaaa the time comes for women
to put o. clothes for a changing sea
son.
II seems absurd IN days Of snow TO
look with critical eye and memor-
iEiGC m ind upon froCkS o. fOulard and
( Eeorgette, nlcuses OF batjSte and
spotted muslin. hats Of straw and all
the other kinds of apparel that burst
forth under a hot sun, and it is odd,
hut not absurd. 20 find that all these
clothes are plradine themselves in
the hot sunshine of the south at the
same n1o0art that other clothes. snug
ana warm. are being worn thousand
miles away. Such is the variation of
the American climate in December.
We knew in December that fouIard.
( Crepe de chine and geOTEette were to
( be in fashion, and in the south one
secs them making good the prophesy
of their success. True, one has to go
rather far south to get a good sight
/ of such clothes The shops of Ger
tain resorts, such as Augusta, hold all
| these clothes ready for the change in
the season. but at Palm Beach and
! Miami one sees them actually on the
women In Aiken, where the most
exclusive set in America foregather,
there is no parade of fashion. Won
/ en- so there for the most intense out
door activity or complete rest. There
/ is not even much to see in the way of
smart sport clothes. The regulation
toggery for any form of athletes is
considered all that is necessary in
the way Of apparel during the day.
and in the evening women wear what
they have worn in New York all win
( ter or even as far back as last Octo-
ber
! Florida is the real parade ground of
fashions The climate lends itself in
February to hot weather apparel. but
one sees II in Augusta as il is offered
20 the townSpeople aud the tourist
weeks before the climate permits il
to appear Therefore. it might in
( terest women to know what the
T south actually puts forth.
There are sport clothes offered as
well as pictorial frochs, but the ten
dency of the times is toward the latter
and not the former. The entire south
has a better trade III gowns than it
/ has had for several years. for women
Sf7cII ~ nave fEdf htheu 10 persistent
rumors that sweaters and plaid skirts
or white pique ones. were not appro-
pirate for all the hours of the day.
and then only for those who INDUCED
in sports.
The one-piece frock Travelled all the
way from New York TO Miami and
/ fiaunts itself on beaches, under palms
and behind glass window panes.
There are few suits There are not
many cloth gowns. Serge is limited to
a few frocks. Satin is not rampant as
it has been. Yaffeta Is holding off a
bit, hut foulard and other thin ma
teriaIs, especially crepe de chine. have
unusual success.
All these gowns were made in New
York as experiments before Christ
mas, and they win dominate spring
and summer trade even though the
exclusives do not follow the models
after the first OF June. Women like
fouiard aud therefore they return to
it without criticism.
It has been introduced in brown in