The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-03
Newest Things in Sport Styles For Year
 1923

The American girl is out for sports. She proves that more surely with every day that passes. She finds deal of her pleasure and amusement that way. and by so doing she gets rid of lot of her pep and enthusi- asm which no ordinary affairs of everyday life are guaranteed to re- move for her. If you watch golf course in any part of the country you will find the girls playing splendid games, exhibiting their latent powers quite thrillingly.
 But will the American girl consent to do anything, even her outdoor ganSes, unless she is dressed in all accordance with the occasion? No, in deed, She is always perfectly dressed. and Especially when she goes out to the ctsuntry club to try her prowess that way,
 There js' a type of girl who Is al- rways a sports type. Whether she Is in the city. at a formal gathering or about the sports that she loves best. sshn seems to require the sort of aclothes that are especially attuned for sports wear. Now, this girl has come into her own, for there are sports clothes designed which will suit her at every hour of the day, if she only chooses them wisely and wears them well.
 one pitfalI there ss of which she must beware, and that is the danger of wearing the wrong sort of sports clothes when about her affairs in town or at her business duties. Sports clothes are good on almost any oo- .casion-that is the new elegant types of sporting things-but they must be the right sort if they are to create ahe impression that you would want them to send out for you.
 Look about you at tho Palm Beaoh clothes now on display in the shops Most of them any of them could ter. and almost any of them could be worn in town if they were worn in the right way and were accom- panied by the most appropriate ac- cessories
 For instance, there Is the new short coat for sports. It has taken. in some ways. the place of the sweater And the beauty of it is that it can be worn with the one-piece dress, giving an excellent effect for either country or town. Now. girl who likes to preserve her own dash and go when she is about town could very well we.r one of these short oats ith :. flannel dress or silk dress or l-omespun dress. provided it were kept to enough simplicity of line and left untrimmed. You sec. If tho coat is sporty looking. then the dress must take on that same tone and, if they are to be worn about town. then neither of them can afford to have too much of the flavor and informality of country wear.
 The sports girl this season will want to have pleated skirt or may be two of them. for one can be . dark color and the other quite light tone if 1t is not really pure white. Then she will look longingly. too. to- ward the straight, tailored flannel skirt with It's wide hem and It's folded over side. With these she will wear blouses> of long waisted lines and necks that are straight and un- adorned. And when she has composed the two to her own satisfaction she will find out that she has something that looks for all the world like ne-piece dress biding all of It's abi- lity to change it's aspect on the nor row when another and quite a diffed- ent blouse is added.
 For the one piece dress to go with the short or long sport coat there is the Jersey dress. That is a boon to the modern young woman, for If she does her own cleaning work she will find that Jersey will wash just as easily as though it were cotton ma terial and that it will keep its color most miraculously. This is an at- tribute not to be despised from an economical and practical stand point
 Sports shoes in the city need not be too glaringly sporty. though they can keep all of the comfortable and flat-heeled lines if you wish. It is the same way with hats. Have them of