The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27
Women In Capi- tai Well Dressed
 Every Day
By MARGARET WADE.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-The new year resolution attributed to woman we'll known in the literary profession ito dress well every day in the year. and widely advertised by writer on fashions has found many followers in Washington even though in this unique city a womans social position is often quite independent of her clothes. That is. so long as her style of dress is suit ed to the occasion, with due regard to time and place. The sleeveless gown for luncheon or the high-necked gown for dinner find no support or excuse in Washington society. although one oc- casionally is surprised. to find both sartorial. atrocities in high places. Transgression on taste and custom in dress is not entirely feminine failing, as the Honorable Albert B. Fall, now much in the public eye, when Secretary of the Interior was accustomed to at- tend afternoon receptions in full eve ming dress, while the last White House reception saw men who should have known better, in business suits and women in one-piece serge frocks, not withstanding all were invited by name, with not-transferable cards of admis- sion to present at the door.
 An evening reception at the White House always calls for low-necked dress by the women and the regulation black evening coat and trousers for q man. The latter may suit his conven. fence in regard to- his waist coat SC long as it is black or white and plain The tie for full dress evening wear must always be white lawn. Correct dress for man is just as much to be desired at White House reception as for woman, and the new member of Congress who despises what he calls a swallow-tail. coat and a white tie, or the middle-aged mother of family who has never worn low-necked frOck in her life and does not care to acquire the habit, may with all self-respect de- cline any invitation calling for style of dress to which he or she does not desire to subscribe.
 The performance for one night only of the Washington Opera company on Monday was a full dress occasion that filled the boxes with men and women prominent in every circle of the fash ionable world.
 Mrs. Herbert Hoover, whose husband is one of the guarantOrs of this real American opera, was distinguished figure in white brocaded velvet with her silver hair dressed high, but without any jewels. Mrs. Gillette. wife of the speaker of the House, in the same box, wore dinner gown of gold brocade with touch of pink running through the fabric. Mrs. James Couzens. who entertained a party of Michigan friends in her box, wore black velvet with a string of beautiful pearls, and her young daughter, debutante of the early winter in Detroit, a gown of wLite vel vet in the new silhouette, which devel- ops from the close top to a skirt that is in wide nipples at the hem.
 Mrs. James R. Mann. widow of the former republican leader from Illinois, who is responding to the solicitation of her many friends and gradually emerg- ing from the seclusion she has observed since Mir. Mann's death, attended the opera with Mrs. Timothy T. Ansberry, each wearing a very smart evening gown. Mrs. Mann was in black chiffon, which gained it's distinction from the graceful sfrplice lines in which it was draped, and Mrs. Ansberry in white brocade, also in an up-to-the- minute model.
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