The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-14
LONDON WEARING PANTALETTES AGAIN Riot of Gay Colors In Park Outshines The Fashion
 Shows
By MARGARET WALTER

NFNiHe'NAAt NNSi'NNAeN'}f ish clothes American visitors here ad- mre so much in the chic fashion shows and those they see on women walking in the park or shopping in Bond street are not quite the same The difference is that the ones worn by the manne- quns are more severe and restrained than those that come out on bona fide fashionable ladies every morning in time for lunch at the Ritz or at Carriages.
 What we used to call evening shades are now the top of the morning-petu- mia, pink asphodel blue, opal and shell and salmon. bright rose. royal blue and every imaginable shade of mauve and yellow and red Gone are the tailor mades which were worn right up to din- her time a month ago. Now the very severest thing is royal blue dress of chiffon serge made with q loose Russian blouse with a yard wide sash of flame- colored oriental crepe bound round and round and tied in q huge soft bow knot on the left hip.
 And a dear old gentleman sitting in the Green Park watching the lovely ladies as they strolled up and down an hour ago dropped his monocle suddenly and turning to his bulldog, stiffly up- right by his side, grunted Bless my soul, Bob, if there aren't pantalettes!' Sure enough they were and they are the most important item of the attire of the minute. These particular ones were of something or other probably pale gray satin, edged with a skimp flounce of silver lace which, showed for an inch or two below the black vanished silk one piece dress which opened over a sil- yer lace chemsette and had deep wrist frills of the same.
 About one dress in ten has long sleeves. the rest are elbow or even shorter, and lots and lots of girls dispense with gloves entirely or carry them with the creases still in them day after day.
 There are wde-brimmed hats and close-fitting toques everywhere. but nearly every w~'uan wears veil now adays, and yet painting has not as yee come in as it usually does when veils are fashionable.
 The beauty specialists say that white faces are the thing. Pale cheeks and red, red lips The eyeofrv plucElng craze has not go great a following here as in New York At the first night of grand opera few beauties appeared with single hair eyebrows, and very ex- otic they looked, but 1t is not a fashion which becomes the English type Eng llSH women ltlh AONhfl large faces ana they cannot well reduce the size of any feature, for it makes them look bald.
 
 White satin for the evening is almoss rage now. All the color and nearly all the gutter is disappearing from eve hing clothes. White satin run eth pale silver or dull gold threads with seed pearls used sparingly dull white beads of all sizes sewn on in clusters CT out lining a shadowv flower pattern or the same material decorated only with seal lops and puffs and fnished with hu9o tulle sash seems 10 be the favorfte fur dress of most of the season's brides.
 Only in cloats sor'a echo of last year'y splenfor remains Those 70 as eoreeor- as ever but rNa6~ af r,sfeef layers ce different colored tplle and finished with lancer col9rs of shaded ostrich ar light as clouds are the cioaks worn a. evening parties and the opera.
 Nile green is the shade of the year It has taken the world of fashion b,- storm and Is seen in eve-,- inaginable combination Brides have their dresses embroidered with green and at ~eeen. dance the first half dozen debutante~ who came into the ballroom wore nile green satin or tule frocks. The whole tulle dress is almost as popular as f. was in the eos and almost as voluminoue too, only now if is short and as the days pass it seems mere and more de stined to end in regular ballet skirt ~'th its harlequin points and bflowy hips.