The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-07
|NRS.COOL|DGE'S
COLORS WILL
SET STYLE
Carb for Men and Women for
This Fall to Have All Hues
of the Rainbow.
BY ELEANOR EARLY.
International News Service.

1t is going to be Rainbow" Ad-
ministration. If Americas fashion.
able women want to be absolutely
up-to-the-minute, they must wear
red, blue, brown, purple, yellow,
green, orange or any other shade of
the Rainbow" They must wear
pastel shades or screaming hues,
must affect black or white or any
old color.
For summers latest shade, &C.
cording to fashion dictators, will
be governed by the color Mrs.
Coolidge, First Lady of the Land"
chooses as her favorite. This
means 1t will be a rainbow season,
with colors running riot and the
First Lady wearing them all as
favorites.
Mrs. Coolidge, her secretary told
international News Service today,
has no favorite shade. She loves
colors and wears them all. Bru.
nettes with lovely coloring and big
brown eyes can wear almost any
thing and that is the kind OF a
brunette Mrs. Coolidge really is.
All Shades Popular.
Mrs. Coolidge is happiest in the
brightest of colors, and as soon as
the period of mourning is ended,
she will blossom forth in all the
hues she loves. There was Alice
Blue" when Alice Roosevelt was
the white House belle;" there was
Helen Pink when Helen Taft
reigned in Capital society; Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson popularized the
famous 'Henna hue" and the little
woman, who is wearing widows
weeds today, wore Harding Blue"
until her husband died.
The popular shade of each admin.
istration is decided by, the new
First Lady," so until March, 1926,
every shade will be popular
Writing of clothes, the new First
Lady is not what might be called
a fancy dresser. There are a hun
dred thousand little stenographers
from coast to coast who spend more
on clothes than Mrs. Coolidge ever
did, and they don't wear their
things half as long, either. For in
stance, when Mrs. Coolidge came to
Washington in 1921 she brought a
sport suit of crushed strawberry.
and she's wearing it to this very
day.
Last season she had only four
evening gowns-most small town
matrons have as many. And two of
them were new. and two of them
were made over! Yet Mrs. Coolidge
is always well gowned, and in re-
markedly good taste.
Husband Chooses Clothes.
AS she explains herself, she has
always had to make little money
go a long way. Now that her hus-
band has a salary of $4,000 a year,
plus $25, 900 for expenses, perhaps
she will be a trifle less conservative.
Despite her almost unlimited
clothes allowance, she has already
declared that she intends still to
patronize the little dressmaker at
Northampton, Mass, who fitted her
out for the Harding inaugural
small town seamstress.
Perhaps the most interesting
thing about Mrs. Coolidge's clothes
is the fact that her husband chooses
them-all but her hats.
His taste," she says, ''is so
much better than mine. He goes
window -shopping for me. and when
he comes home, he'll remark, 7
saw a little frock down town to-
day, Grace, that would suit you
exactly. Won't you drop in and
try it on tomorrow So I go down
next day, and buy it. It's~so simple
and so satisfactory. And you know
/ think it's half the secret Of happy
married Undressing to suit ones
husband.