Evening star., 1923-07-22

ITEM one WdllutTS Inc Tic
n ! wind around the pleasure
" " places of this country, in
city and woodland, one sees
a Kaleidoscope mass of aliuring
clothes. Women like to dress In not
weather rather than in cold. The
discomfort does not count. We run
true to the habits of centuries.
In winter one does with slight
grouping of clothes. There's some
thing for warmth, something for or
nament. something for service. Even
the rich do not sQuander time on the
accumulation of raiment. You notice
I say time" not money. That's the
true way to put the condition these
DAYS We are all too busy to put
ourselves in the hands of the dress
makers for hours a day, to haunt the
shops and try on ready y-to-Wear
clothes, to match fabrics, employ
seamstresses and emerge from the
sewing rooms only for meals. Once
upon time women said: "Oh. II
only had the money TO get new
frock" Now they deplore the fact
that they have no time to attend to
their clothes.
You know that is true. You have
said it. SO have your neighbors,
over and over. But they say It in
winter more often than In summer.
There's something about hot weather
that makes women want clothes,
plenty of them. with variety, beauty,
ornamentation. We are easily irri-
tated in warm spells by having to put
on the frock of yesterday. The hat OF
tomorrow must be d change from the
hat of today. We like cucumber
green one day. watermelon pink the
next, celery white the third
Late summer Is a time for trying
out autumn fashions. That's why
the clothes Of the hour at the pleasure
places where smart women fore
gather are provocative of more than
idle gossip. Many of them have leaped
across the ocean with their owners
who wore these gowns at the Paris
races or at July gayeties about the
British court. Some have been sent
across by American buyers who have
been running hither and yon in
France to catch the drift toward
something new, something with which
America Is not familiar.
Il VI hHO"tOdeS aiS SohihS
i home with tales Of curious heads
and hats in France and statistics of
what is popular and what Is taboo.
We listen eagerly. We know its i'm
portahce. None of us Is so violently
nationalist that we do not recognize
that what France wears We will soon
wear. None Of us is so modest that
we do not like to say Of a new style
that we were aware of It's shadow
, over the horizon.
Here's a bit of important gossip,
for instance, that caused US to look
with some concern upon our skirts.
The gossip went something like this,
as women's gossip is likely to do
when there's much to tell and eager
eyes are leading one to hurry:
Every year there's a Ford frock in
France. That's what the Americans
call the gown we see everywhere. at
the races, at Deauville. In the leafy
Ritz garden for tea, at the Hermitage
for dinner, at the Pre-Catalan for
3 o'clock dancing. One season it was
the Jenny gown with the side frill and
that gown is still selling in America.
= This season 1t is Paquin's gown with
the tiers across the skirt front
Paquin has come to life again, you
know. Years Of deadness. Now very
smart. Madeleine is there and the
smart French and Americans are
trooping back to the house on the
Rue de Ia Paix which was in so deep
q. coma recently that it failed to show
collections to our buyers.
you see that TERED frock every
where. It Is in crepe, in satin. This