The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-08-05
LADY MARY'S GOSSIP
Talks of Travel and Fashions and
Other Things.


Paris. Not so in these days. We "1it"
which is to say, we fly. No one who
is anybody bothers with the trains
and Channel boats in these days. We
simply go out to Hounslow and
climb in.
This climbing in and out of aero
planes, by the way, has raised an en-
tirely new problem with regard to
ankles. I imagine that the only
thing that we can do is just get used
to it. I don't believe we're going to
change the model Of our garments
because we have to be helped up step
ladders rather frequently by men. If
the ladders happen to be high, why
we shall have just to forget it. No
body cares much now, fancy, men
or women either. .
But l started out to say that I had
just returned from Paris. 1 was
gone in all exactly thirteen hours
and I had nine of the thirteen in
Paris. And the French have made up
their minds with regard to this affair
of skirts. They have decided after
solemn conclave-the Frenchmen
and FTenchwomen take these mat
tiers very seriously and discuss them
very gravely. .....
They are going to wear 'em long
er, and the reason they are going to
wear 'em longer is peculiarly French.
They have decided-have the French
experts in charm-that, while raised
skirts may be attractive, the skirt
which, of itself is short, attracts no
eyes worth while. The cheap, they
say, may gaze with eager, greedy
eyes; the connoisseur observes only
when the revelation is apparently
an accidental thing Is made for him
alone. Neat little bit Of philosophy
in that! wrote the other day about
the fact that British women are 60
ing in for kgickerbockers, and even
actually for trousers. Well, the
French won't-it would not be chic;
it would be far too frank to suit
them; there would be no mischief in
it.
"And American women,'- said the
attendant at Redfern's whom ques-
TONED, "are precisely like Frenchwo-
men. They will appreciate the dam
ger Of too mich blatant frankness
on their gowns"
There's point of view. .>
Incidentally, by the way, the small
est British horses are showing much
in the way Of steel trimmings. The
most popular are shaped like spear
heads in the form Of beads and are
sewed upon the fabrics in designs. It
has beome q fad-not particularly
fascinating. .....
But don't like to talk of fashion.
Any woman with real imagination
even If her nose is snubbed can make
q cheap and Informed dress seem
more beautiful than cloth Of gold
upon a dull, dead beauty. It's q pity
that more women do not under
stand this. There is but one more
thing which must mention. The
Partisan effort to unseat the growing
prejudice against colors and for
black and white has completely fail
ed. And how had Mademoiselis got
around it?
Well, one Of her ways is startling,
and it has been tried out in London
by none other than the Lady Diana
Manners. This is the wearing of
black and white to be sure, but it is
in very striking ways as, for instance
one shoe and stocking of black and
one of white. This most freakish Of
all modes is catching on with a real
vengeance.
The members of the American polo
team made real success in British
social gatherings. They are magnif-
cent dancers, every one of them, and
have been pronounced the best of
fellows, .epecialy by such British
femininity as has been lucky enough
to meet them. Mrs. Asquith ("Mar-
got"), who is an indefatigable
dancer, but of particularly young,
says that she enjoyed their Ameri-