The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-16
More Attention
Given To Sport
Clothes
By JULIA HOYT

So v
gone 50 enthusiastically into sports.
the question of clothes for sports has
been growing in importance. Until
recent years England was the criterion;
no other country could begin to dress
for athletics as. the English men and
women. They are still more or less
the criterion. at least for certain types
Of sport clothes, although both France
and America have created certain types
Of clothes which did not exsist before.
For tweed riding clothes, however,
England is particularly famous. Most
Of the tweeds we have over here are
imported from England and Scotland,
and the cut and style of the suits made
from them are originated in England.
We all know also that no people are
Is famous for making boots as the
English. During the great war it
was quite easy to tell the officers who
had been in England from those who
had stayed in America, by their boots.
Clothes For Riding
France and America have evolved
q lighter type of sport clothes which
In very smart and attractive, such as
the pleated silk Or crepe skirts, plain
over-blouses and the knitted sweater
suits that are so much in vogue. The
French women however are still far
behind the English and American in
their dressing for riding, although they
have learned . good deal in the last
few years. can remember riding in
the Bots some years ago and being enor-
nlously amused by the different costumes
and hair dressings ] saw on the French
women also riding there. Large and
fluffy pompadors with tricornered and
other types of hats perched on top, and
all kinds Of waists and habits. But
they are better now.
There is one thing of course, always
b be remembered in dressing for sport,
and that is the appropriateness of the
costume to the sport in question
Riding clothes should never permit of
much variation or of any fantasy. Nat
urally, when riding in the country one
can be little more informal, as for
instance, wearing a soft hat rather than
derby, and il one likes it, reason
ably low collar. But the truly, smartly
dressed rider win generally stick to the
rather severe costume.
4h0IC ~ uOtuluB 81 SMART as the ulkH
solar ond necktie, or, if one wishes,
the stock. The latter must be very well
cut and neatly put on.
Only certain colors really are per-
Missile for riding habits; plain gray,
tan, dark blue or mixed gray and brown,
or gray and blue. The top hat is often
worn in horse shows and sometimes
hunting, though it is not as frequently
seen as it used to be.
The BejeweIIed Woman Golfer
II there is any one thing that is out
OF taste, it is to wear jewelry with
your sports clothes. This would seem
one of the most obvious rules Of good
taste-but you never can tell. recall
an experience had at a country club
near New York not long ago. As we
approached the green, a fine figure
of woman, faultlessly attired in the
latest sports clothes, was just about
to tee off,. We drew nearer to her, to
our horror and amazeneut we discover
ed that she was wearing about her
neck no less than three strings of
pearls From her cars Ella borate ear
rings tangled as she swung. Her arms
were hampered by five or six bracelets,
and on her fingers were a number of
jeweled rings Beautiful as the jewels
were, they seemed to have become ugly
In their settings. SO absuredly inappro-
pirate were they to the occasion.
Golf all day long if you want, but
don't wear elaborate jewelry. OF
course, pin at ones. collar or belt will
get BY, but more than this good taste
In sports clothes scarcely permits.