The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1922-03-24

colors be? What materials are most
fashionable and most wearable all in
one combination? At how many
inches from the floor will the skirts
stop their downward trend? Will
sleeves be much the same or changed
in any way? And myriads more Of
questions along this general line.
The only thing to do, for one who
attempts to give adequate answers to
these questions, is to watch each new
creation and its effect upon the pub
lie. So that just now there are Few
fine points which have been registered
with that force which indicates that
they will be prominent. Further than
that we cannot go just now.
There is a general feeling that the
suit has gone out, or that it Is not so
much in fashionable favor as was the
case sometimes in the past. That may
or may not be so, but nevertheless
there are any number of new and
lovely-looking suits upon the market.
Most of them with the exception of
the sport suits) are characterized by
the fact that, instead of being made
with skirt and blouse and coat, they
are made with dress in one piece
and coat to go with it.
Blouse Harmonizes With Skirt.
Sometimes there is a clever amalga-
nation of these two ideas, and the
blouse is made to harmonic so per-
fectly with the skirt that the two to-
gether look, for all the world, like
one-piece frock. This latter COM
bination has one big advantage over
the Old-fashioned idea of shirtwaist
and skirt in that, when the waist
wears out, there can be another one.
And, since this Is the portion of the
dress which always shows the first
signs of wear. there is more in the
idea than might be at first visible
But there are so many pitfalls in
the direction of combining blouse and
skirt that If one attempts that char
acter of dressing one must be more
than usually clever in constructing or
choosing the design and in the man.
ner in which one amalgamates the
two. Not any blouse will do with any
skirt, but the two of them have to
be thought out together and arranged
so that, when worn in unison, they
will look as though they belonged to-
gether.
An interesting blouse shows a Pc
culiar type of waist which does we'll
when combined with a separate skirt
and worn with a coat to match. In
spite Of the fact that the blouse is q
| unit in itself, 1t none the less has the
quality of being able to blend with
skirt of some other material In q
purely artistic manner. This blouse Is
made of yellow crepe chiffon, with
many punches of fullness about 1t
and an underlying layer of a warmer
yellow, to make it take on q richer
tone.
Doubles Life of tho Costume.
1t is designed to be worn with full
brown skirt Of kasha cloth and a cape
made Of that material, and then the
cape should be lined with the same
colors of chiffon, posed one over the
other, in order to carry out success.
fully the color scheme. The en-
broidered bands arranged on the
blouse carry out those standings of
tones, running from brown to yellow.
and, as the stitches are done in silk
threads, there is lustre which Is
charming against the thin chiffon and
which does a great deal toward draw
ing together the color Of the skirt and
the cOlOrS in the blouse
For woman who has to give her