The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-13
Whaf Women Wear In Smart Society--Wash-
 ingten Notes
By MARGARET WADE


 Being well dressed in washingt ton means being dressed to the occasion. be the latter grave or gay, by day or by night, at home or abroad.
 It does not mean being attired in Paris frocks of the latest mode, or appearing in different gown each day in the week. or at each separate formal reception, ball or dinner party.
 Mrs. Coolidge, for example, is credited with having just five eve ming gowns to see her through the season, while the occasions demand ing this style of dress fall little short of 20, without counting such extras as the charity ball. which she attended last week with the Pres ident. and an occasional appearance at the opera. or the play following a dinner party.
 As proudly proclaimed by this well poised first lady. her gowns are not only made in America. but made in Washington. by the same modistes who furnished her wardrobe when her husband was Vice President.
 At the charity ball, where the President and wife occupied a box dancing. Mrs. Coolidge wore the same becoming gown of gold brocade that had its intimation at the first state dinner. This is made with narrow train and slightly draped front. and Is beltless and sleeveless with the new neck line. which de- scribes a deep V in the back.
 With the reopening of Congress many fashionable women of the ce- ficial set find their greatest diver sion in listening to the debates Of either House or Senate, with or with out the incidental luncheon at the canitol.
 Two ultra smart costumes at the capitol last week were those of Mrs. Gillette and Mrs. Nicholas Long worth, whose respective husbands are the speaker of the House and the floor leader. MT. Longworth having succeeded to this honor in the pres ent Congress.
 Both ladies have adopted the coat dress. Mrs. Gillette's gown is of but with we'll marked waist line finished at the left side by several long. narrow loops and ends of tho material faced in a tomato colored silk. This same note of color shows in the facing of the skirt from waist TO hem. small round hat of black felt trimmed in sable and sable neckpiece are details of this toilet.
 Mrs. Longworth'S gown is one of the new heavy silk fabrics the cold weather successor of crepe de chine. 1t is a tone between henna and to-
 
 line. but with the edge of the front decorated in a succession of dark silk motifs of military suggestion all the way from shoulder to ankle This costume closes well to the left side.
 The hat topping this is the round modified sailor shape. Mrs. Long worth never abandons and of the same material as the gown. On leaving the capitol Mrs. Longworth wore a sable coat showing the latest silhouette.
 Two new ami smart figures to meet in the reserved gallery of the house are Mrs. Parker Corning and Mrs Robert L. Bacon. both from New York. Mir. Corning, a son of the late Erastus Corning of Albany, represents that district in the new Congress, and MT. Bacon. & son of the former ambassador to France. and Mrs. Robert Bacon. late of Boston. but now residing in New York.
 Mrs. Corning. who was an occasion al visitor to Wilmington in the past, has already a large circle Of friends in the residential set, and to meet her associates of the official world is at home on Tuesdays at the residence on Sixteenth street which Representative Corning was leased for the season,
 Representative and Mrs. Bacon have leased the house, 1891 F street, lately occupied by Senator and Mrs. Medill Mccormick and famous in past sea sons as the home or the cnlel justice of the supreme court and Mrs. Fuller, whose six daughters contributed great social interest to the capital where they were in turn belles and brides.
 Mrs. Bacon. whu was Miss Virginia Murray, like Mrs. Corning. is eN- tremely smart in one of the long fur coats and small velvet hats which the long delayed cold wave makes first chance for day time occasion.
 Miss Ailsa Mellon, daughter of the Secretary of the Treasury. is also wearing sable coat of unusual beau ty, presumably ''built' in Paris. In this garment which goes to the hem of the frock beneath the deep colored well marked shins run in straight lines across the shoulder and down the back with the fronts showing slight curve that develops into q deep all around border. Miss Mellon tops this with d very chic little velvet hat.
 Miss Ruth Wallace, the younger Of the two clever daughters of the Secre tary of Agriculture, and Mrs. Wal lace, who is one of the seasons buds, like her sister. is very partial to brown tones with T gown of bronze