The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24
Some Things The Prince Will
 Not See
WTHEN the Prince of Wales w reaches New York next month to
 attend the international polo

WTHEN the Prince of Wales w reaches New York next month to
 attend the international polo matches at Meadow Brook, l.. l., hell zee the very cream of American society, Cor no one who has any chance at all Of meeting the heir to the British throne Is going to let slip a possible opportun- ity to greet him.
 It is quite safe to say that there are scores of women who today are devot- ing much thought, in connection with the visit of Edward Guelph, to that per plexing and ever-present feminine Ques- tion: What to wearg
 Society will be present with its best at the international polo matches, and it will be society dressed in its best and when the best of American society dresses at its best there arc few coun- tries that can put forth more becoming ly gowned women. The Prlnce of Wales, of course, is quite accustomed to seeing women resplendent in the finest of the modiste's and the milliner's art, but he is likely to see next month such gorge 0us costumings as he has never seen be fore.
 And yet, if pictures are taken of the elite and its radiant raiment, and the X these pictures as memento of his visit, one can picture what might happen, say, twenty or more years from now.
 One can picture him then, browsing over the momento of his happier (per- haps) and certainly more foot-loose days, and coming upon the pictures of American societys best at Westbury in 1924. One can picture the smile that will come to his lips. One can almost hear him murmer to himself: What freaks! Is it possible that saw all these caricatures in the life and es- caped, laughing myself to death?"
 He will mean no disparagement to the delightful women who will smile at him at Westbury with the most proper sort of smiles. His will be only a natural re- action-the same reaction that you would have-and will have-twenty years from now when you see pictures of the women of today garbed in the fashions of the moment. Times will have swept along, bringing its changes-and there is nothing so tickle as the mode of women's dress.
 The proof? Turn back the family album to the pictures taken in 1914. They will cause you to smile as you glimpse the fashions we thought so de- hghtful in that pre-war year. And if you really want to laugh turn back in the album to the pictures of 1904. Can you imagine women wearing such clothes? !? Why, they look like freaks-judged by the-styles today.
 Thus it is curious to pick out the pie lures of some of America's prominent women as they appeared at former in- ternational polo matches at Meador Brook. These do not go back as far as 1904, but they go back far enough to bring a smile of reminiscence at the fashions of that day.
 Mrs. Larry Stoddard is the wife of one of the high handicap men of Amer ican polo. Mrs. Skiddy von Stade is the wife of a man whose name has been prominently connected with polo for number of years, and Miss Marion Hol- hns is not only great devote of polo, but has played on several womens fours. The prince probably will meet all three-but he won't see them in such costumes