The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-25
/ ashton Notes OF
Capital And
Elsewhere
BY MARGARET WADE

season in matters social and sartorial,
as well as in graver things.
Society in Washington is not limited
to the usual polite occupations of fash
ionable women of other communities,
az every woman who has passed even a
single season in official life has discov-
cred for herself.
As the wife of a great Secretary of
State said when asked why certain cas-
lily recognized undesirables were in
cluded in an important function: "Oh,
there was a reason. There is always
reason"
According to the tea table gossip of
the hour, the reason Mrs. Coolidge dis
regards the unwritten but heretofore
recognized rule of accepting invitations
only within the cabinet circle, is not
rs some adverse critics appear to think,
from an inordinate desire to mingle in
large companies, but from feeling of
loyalty to the women of the senatorial
circle with whom she was intimately
associated when her husband was Vice
President. This is particularly true in
regard to 'SThe Ladies of the Senate
Luncheon club, which Mrs. Coolidge
attends in person each week and to
which she gives her unqualified in
dorsement by asking senators wives
newly arrived in Washington to join
the association, and in the case of the
unsocial Mrs. Magnus johnson OF Min
nesota, of going in person for the lady
and taking her to the luncheon1n the
White House motor. Even after this
attention from the First Lady of the
Land, Mrs. johnson says she does not
like Washington, or approve of the
~goings on" she saw there. The goings
m do not, of course, include the lunch
Snn of the Senate club.
At these weekly parties Mrs. Coolidge
hsually wears the simplest Of tailored
Sr semi-tailored costumes and takes her
place at table as the honored guest OF
the entire company, regardless OF poll
tics or personal friendships.
For the garden parties, teas and. oc-
casional large luncheons at the White
House, the first lady dresses more elab-
orately with the pretty soft brown tones
featured in her newest costumes. With
4 brown lace dress covered from neck
to the edge of the scalloped hem in
small motifs of self-eolored silk en-
broidery, Mrs. Coolidge wears one of
the large rosnd hats of transparent
braid which are coming into favor more
and more as the season advances and
the once popular cltche recedes. This
hat matches the gown IN color but is
banded in brown-gold, aid a delicate
line of dull green which with quaint
Jade earrings and necklace MAKE a very
chic costume.
Other leaders in the world of fashion
sponsoring the broad Abrimmed hat al
the White House garden party, as well
as for other smart afternoon occasions,
were the Baroness de Cartier, who wore
a black horsehair braid hat to top
very smart frock of black chiffon en-
broidered all over in white silk, and
Miss Ailsa Mellon who wore hat OF
much the same. shape with gown OF
white lace mounted on darkest brown
chiffon. Both these gowns are In round
tube silhouette. The baroness COM
v,letes hefs outdoor toilet with a long
scarf of black chiffon wrapped about
Tire shoulders with one end falling to
the ground. This scarf is perfectly
plain and fully SO inches deep.
~ -zesss a4f
Mrs. Chandler Anderson and Mrs.
william Crozier were other smartly
dressed women in real garden party hats
a. well as gowns at the White House.
Mrs. Anderson wore q pale blue crepe
"A conventional straight lines which
GAINED its great distinction by superb
over sflrapery of point lace that de-
acribed deep cape collar in the back
with long stole ends coming almost to
the hem IN the front. The front OF the
ekirt between these broad lace ends
showed delicate lines of drawn work.
Mrs. Anderson's hat was not SO large
As the above described black ones, but
was of the same horse hair braid with
4 aiight roll on the brim and two fiat
ulumes of uncurled ostrich in pale blue
and green falling off one side.
Mrs. Crozier's gown was a much
Uraped model of gray chiffon with a
nat to match, with cluster of orchids
against the crown towards the back.
A smart flower trimmed hat, new in
every line, was worn by Mrs. Henry
8. Corbin. This was very fine straw
with slightly rolled brim and high
pointed crown. The flowers, small
roses and tiny wood blossoms, all snaa1
ing through ecru and bronze tints. rms
topped a smart demi toilet OF DARK
blue in one of the new fine wool faD-
RIGS.
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, presi-
dent general of the Daughters OF the
American Revolution, who has taken
an apartment at a local hotel to re-
r..yoair, until June, wore one of the modish
ai-tailored costumes at the White
- I This was the fashionable ecru
n,a ~ Clustered crepe, made with long
q ,,on, inc opening over a vestee OF
49,. and white null. A long
pto1 , e kold beads interspersed with
y SNAoSo =" definite contrast in color
lauo eo ,e. carried out in the upstand-
- iva ma e on Mrs. Cooks medium
~ 80, hat, the latter matching the
, ,.~r~ e =, tolor.
NJ n, ook's shoes, hosiery and gloves
N - led out the color of the gown
= +ba attest model.
" loves and shoes and hosiery are
1, " Eject to dictation from Dame
-; bn, one of whose latest behests is
gloves and hosiery must match in
This accounts for the return of
swEite hosiery, which is not, how
I, as smart as gray or tan.
t,he frflled skirt promised from Paris
Jew weeks ago appeared in Wash
hon a few days since as the chosen
ernoon gown of Miss Margaret
WINS, late of New York, but now with
r mother, Mrs. Tracy Downs, part
me resident of the capital and model
smart dressing. Her frock is of
ale tinted silk, hardly more than a
ream white in straight, round model
With knife pleated frills three inches
ieep encircling the figure from hem to
nip. These frills go around the skirt
+ ia regular line except that they show
slight rise directly in front. Miss
Downs wears with this small, close
L...lsn.. of thn mn tnrial of her pnun-