The Washington herald., 1922-09-29
Clothes of Most Beautiful Women

I LOS ANGELES. Cal. Sept. \,
beautiful woman in the world with
out visualiZing an over-stocked
wardrobe in which the COM
bined arts of the houses Of Poiret. of
| Callot, of Premet, and other great
| foreign laboratories where colors are
combined to lend radiance to the
! femme de luxe. are represented.
One thinks. perhaps. her converse
| tion with her maid may run some
what like this:
The maid: "Mademoisellle perhaps
today will wear the beige crepe frock
with the fiaring jacket? Or the SHIN
mering satin with the girdle of green
velour and emerald beads?'
To which Miss Katherine MacDon-
aid would in all probability respond
did she have a French maid to an
swer: NO. no. Nanette. The sports
suit with the sailor hat. / cannot
abandon my old love. / have grown
so used to it,"
Likes Sport Clothes Rest.
| For this woman. Acknowledged by
critic and expert and layman to be
/
essentially American in her dress as
she is in her viewpoint. In the face
of a fabulous income for each pic
ture she makes. she sticks to her dis
| tinctly American sports clothes for
day wear.
My wardrobe is divided into two
parts she told me. Sports clothes
and evening dress. have no in-be-
tweens. Naturally on account OF my
work I have little use for afternoon
dresses or fancy tailleurs. jump
from sports clothes into evening dress
with perhaps a negllgee as a resting
point. I simply don't like any other
kind of dress, and l don't wear them.
| If I have an afternoon off 1 play
bridge in my sports clothes. which
you can do in perfectly good form
out here. II I lived elsewhere / sup
pose I would have to change the
scheme Of my wardrobe. But / hope
will never have to live elsewhere
just on that account"
Negligees Like Dreams,
AS we chatted she was resting in
the loveliest jade greee negligee you
ever saw. 1t was of chiffon brocaded
in velour, Grecian lined, with a train
panel suspended from the shoulders
in the back. caught in front at the
belt with a girdle of old gold cord
The. wide flowing sleeves were edged
with deep chincf.illa cuffs, which fur
finished the s,'aight panel at the
back =
If there is anything more becom-
ing to lovely woman than a fat
tering negligee it is yet to be dis
covered. One wishes these Intimate
affairs were allowed at Informal
dinners to which outside guests
were invited. Just for the sheer
sense of beauty they give. Modesty
! certainly is not the reason for os-
TRACKING them from society In gen
eral, since they are rarely, II ever,
as decoliete as a simple evening
gown.
Miss Macdonald has another
dream of a negligee. She sticks 10
the lines Of classic beauty which be-
| come her well. This has n base Of
soft sapphire blue with wide sleeves
ending in a six-inch band OF old
ivory chiffon hanging straight from
the shoulders to which a few inches
of the ground, the girdle Of black
and ivory chiffon caught at the side
with a huge black velvet flower.
| And still another is a three layer
concoction-a tangerine base. a
| flesh toned layer, then one of smoky
blue. The sleeves are cut wide and
1ong-hanging nearly to the knees.
| Each layer Is arranged so that at
sleeve and skirt hem all three colors
distinctly assert themselves. The