The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-24
Fashion Notes At Capital
 Is w orn
By MARGARET WADE


 HOSE spring gowns and hats which | took short turn at the fashionable weddings just before Lent have suf- fered temporary eclipse in the un- expected return to winter temperature with March snow storm one of the happenings of this very unusual sea- son. s5 ;.
 Furs and fur trimmed tailleurs, vel vet and felt hats are the rule during the morning hours which is great satisfaction to women not in a hurry to discard becoming and comfortable win ter costumes.
 On the other hand, the unusual num- Der of days at home with dinner parties of midwinter importance afford an op- portunity for introducing the new and becoming indoor fashions that will set pace for spring and summer.
 The Princess Bibisco, wife of the minister from Roumania, but always remembered as the daughter of former Prime minister of England, the Honor able Henry Asquith and his gifted wife was a model of good dressing as well as charming hostess at her afternoon at home last week when she wore a straight line gown of black satin with bands of gold embroidery hung in ir- regular lengths from the top of the batteau neck producing a gorgeous and very becominging effect.
 The princess wore with this long scarf of bronze tulle which fell almost to be ground in front, while one of the embroidered bands traiied on the floor at the back.
 Mime. Nano, the wife of the Secre- tary of the Legation, who received assisted in the entertainment of the many visitors, wore one of the smart est of straight line gowns in cloth neutral ground covered in narrow silk woven stripes of many colors with the hem covered in ten-inch band of moleskin.
 Mime. Nano also wore a small felt hat of light shade, trimmed in odd colored cocade harmonizing with the color in her gown.
 The long straight unbelted over blouse in white or in Oriental color ing is proving itself acceptable to the young and the mature provided the latter keeps her figure. The Baroness de Cartier whose figure is slender and girlish as when she came to Wash ington 30 years ago as Mrs. Elihu Frost wore last week at fashionable tea very chi: white blouse with skirt and coat of black cloth and a small close hat of velour.
 Miss Elizabeth Hanna, a debutante of a year or two, wears the same style blouse with a skirt of dark blue velvet.
 Mrs. Nicholas Longworth wears much the same model in Chinese coloring in which the rich porceline tones are patterned on back ground of bronze.
 Mrs. Coolidge, following the custom she established when her husband was vice president, never forces the. season and in welcoming her guests at large musicale on Monday afternoon or inl small groups invited to tea in the Green room almost every day in the week, is wearing one of the several crepe afternoon frocks which she ord cred early in the season with very slight variation from week to week.
 One of these gowns is a deep henna tone, another dark bue and another a soft gray. All are in one place draped slightly at the side with square or V shaped neckline and medium length sleeves.
 Mrs. Hughes, at one of the recent White House musicales, wore a be- tween season gown of almond green crepe embroidered in self-colored beads ard floss in semi-jaeket effect top which opened over high necked vestee of white net and lace. This was topped by black velvet hat.
 Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, on the same occasion, wore black velvet gown on regal lines with its, entire front em- broidered in fine jet and compromised with the season by, topping the gown with a small and smart hat of horse- hair braid with it's high crown wrap ped in baige colored tulle held by a well poised fan of the same color gourra feathers at the back.
 The last word in smart dressing ap- pears to be the color of the hosiery with whole range of new shades dis placing the grays and baige tones. There are still a few well dressed women wearing black silk stockings under dark frocks but they are almost as old fashioned as the woman of a past generation who wore white hosiery.
 .Mistinguett" is the name of a very choice shade, which Mrs. Louis Titus is wearing with an afternoon frock of black crepe de chine gros, grain rib bon and point desprit. The formation of the gown is the crepe de chine with the ribbon laid in saw teeth all about the several flat panel draperies fall ing from the waist line. Two of these panels shorter than those front and back are finished in nine-inch bands of the point d' esprit There is also a soft girdle and sash of the latter. The neck of the gown is round and spe- cial feature is the sleeve, a short sleeve but in ths shape of a puff set in the arm hole.
 The above mentioned hose are nearer a deep rose pink than any of the old time shades, yet to say the well dressed Mrs. Titus is wearing pink hosiery