The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-27

The English women insist that their shops have the best sport clothes in Europe this season, and the Eng fish women on the Deauville beaches seem to prove it.
 Paris, September 17.-There is no req son why London should not rule the
 world and equal America in sport clothes.
 However. the French dressmakers have
 claimed leadership in this special apparel
 for women and their cleverness suggest
 ed many of the garments with which
 America has been flooded for 10 years.
 Gabrielle Chanel invented the silk sweat
 CT with it's sash and cap, the knitted
 chemise frock, the tunic robe of silk jer-
 sey and Chanels house at Deauville has
 put the final emphasis on sport clothes
 this season. But, France is not essen-
 tially a nation of sports women. Eng
 land is. America is halfway station
 between the two; it's women wear sport
 clothes without the slightest idea of what sport means, and yet, they in dulge in a tremendous outdoor activity
 unknown to the French. The English
 woman wears her clothes for genuine
 sport. No other nation does. Yet her
 sport clothes are not the kind of ap- parel that would entice the rest of the world into wearing them. Yet she has a
 great instinct for producing sport clothes that strongly appeal to the American
 mind. This season the English shops
 have put much of their strength and in-
 genuity into this type of apparel. al-
 though the gay set of London, in com
 mon with the gay set of Brussels and
 Paris, are dressing with brilliancy, eS- travagance and daring.
 On the beach at Deauville to which some of the smart English women have journeyed and. mind you. there is no
 pre-war speed and comfort connected
 with the journey from England to
 France, for one has to start the week
 before the day of arrival if one would
 get the passports, the permission to
 travel on certain trains and boats. There
 fore. each nation has kept it's people
 within its boundary If an English
 woman says she is going to France she
 is looked upon with envy and admira-
 teenth century with Lawrence Sterne and
 ton as though she were in the nine
 about to make sentimental journey
 One sees smart English women who have had the temerty to dare the pass port offices and the uncomfortable boats
 These are the women who wear the good looking resort clothes. The French wom- en have invented beach garment whcn is half sister of their Paris costume. First, there is a one piece bathing sult such as a man wears in America, then a one-piece knee-length tunic of white
  legs and arms are bare. and the sandals are tied around the ankles with White or colored ribbon. This is the costume for the morning hours when one walks and sits at the green table; when they go into the ocean they merely slip off their street costume. The English wom-
 an, on the contrary. changes rom one brilliant sport costume to anotnSr' anu her sweaters, short skirts and ribped wooden stockings are unusually good to see If you see a good-lcoking sweater and ask its wearer where she got II she answers .London." and the group says "Of course" Here is one exc s~'vely good beach costume of the Kind the American dearly likes A short stralsht scant skirt in dull misty-misty p'ue rough cloth with heavily stitched seams at the side a sweater of coarse gravish blue wool. thickly knitted with a blue border at all edges to match the color of the skirt. This sweater has rather high collar rolling over rted at the iron. of the neck with a twisted siiken coru of blue. Below the cord the sweater is cut into a deep U-shaped decolletaee. This shows the bare neck and the edge of a low white handkerchief linen blouse. The sleeves are long and tight, and the cuffs are of the knitted blue wool rms ] is daring new note in sweaters tnis i teep decolfetage in front, and IL IS a'' tractive The cap with this costume was the kind of skull cap that mas swept over Europe. and found Its origin at st. Morjtz. The women of all ages are wearing them, adapting the fitness and the angles to their type of face. The can that went with this low-necked sweater was of knitted blue wool shade lighter than the skirt. was pulled low over the brow and ears, rolled over on itself into thick band and was toucneu with n h;e pompom of cut silk threads in the middle of the top. The stockings,
 which were of thin wool knitted in
 stripes, were in the same gray shade as the sweater and the shoes were of brown and white leather with rubber soies and
 flat heels