The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
Outdoor Girl Has Smart Wardrobe
 For Spring

The old time question, What are they wearing this spring and summer?' the answer is sports clothes" Some have said that they are like perennials in a garden. They are not, for a place or season, for all life in the social world and its provinces has moved in to the open, and the proper trappings for outdoor play have become a matter for serious consideration of the de- signers.
 The old time dressmakers had no problem like this in their day, for they were faced only with the problem of gowns for dancing and dining, for morn- ing and afternoons on the verandas, and for riding and driving.
 Very different styles have developed since sports of all kinds have become / fashionable.
 In the time of our grandmother, no especial costume was needed to play a game of croquet. and. her riding skirt was a travesty on a house dress. and torture to her mount. The decided change in customs and social standards and customs has created a demand for the proper clothing, and with them at tractive and becoming styles.
 Common sense, the fitness of things and a feeling for order have brought from the best houses in London, Paris and New York becoming, sensible sports wardrobe for the girl or woman of fashion.
 The women who first outraged the conventions by riding astride, estab- lished a mode, and the fapper who left her motor for a cross-country hike es- oAr, A1 the field of social activities. Suitable and charming things began to be ex- pressed by artists who felt the inspira- tion to create something different, and the experiment of gowning the sports woman has been the unique feature of Ithe last few seasons.
 The sports clothes for the women, as we'll as those of girls, have a youthful quality, too. They express sex less than any style of dress because of their boyish style lines, yet they are cleverly drawn; they are becoming to the delicacy and feminity of those who wear them.
 Taking over the vigorous English type along with it's fabrics, the Parisian designers have established the most fit ting, most becoming, most chic sports suits for every out-of-doors activity. It has been a matter of revolution and evolution, from the most frivolous frou- frou type to the breezy, athletic, up-to date young person who demands the sort of togs that will best serve her and most charmingly clothe her at tennis and golf, cross-country riding and driv- ing. The results are deli htful.
 By far the most attractive models in sports clothes of every kind are done by the American dressmakers. They have taken the best from every other source and produced a composite something that that is most practicable and be- coming to the American woman.
 The sports department of the stores have grown far beyond any other. Out fits of flannel, homespun and tweeds were the first offered. These were in skirts and sweaters, or skirts with shirts and jackets of different kinds. The under things wefe such that the outer clothes had to be adjusted to them. Then came the elastic belts, brassiers and other simpler softer ways of wearing the things, and the straight silhouette as well, have completely changed the style of the sports suit and have given a uniformity from col lar to hem.
 The loveliest materials. artistic in color, fine and soft in quality, and sensible in pattern are used in the frocks, coats and skirts and jackets de- signed for the different sports that nowadays keep the greater number of women and girls occupied and out of doors.
 The present day social life is lived practically in the open, in every season, for from the North to the South, then East and West to the winter resorts, then to the springs. and once more to the summer haunts. For all these diff