The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-22
Clothes Never So Lovely Or
 Smart

l never have smart women looked smart CT, never have slim lines been simmer naver have gay colors been gayer. The clipping follows:
 Never have clothes been so simply lovely Never have smart women look ed smarter! Nobody can mention the mode-especially the present mode without using the word silhouette so important is it that the outline of every feminine figure should be above re. proach; therefore. let us declare at once that never have silhouettes been superiority of fabric. certain beauty of embroidery. or certain cunning in cut or design might have made the difference between women of the world and their humber sisters a marked one. Today, the general effect of most women is only to be distinguished from the particular effect of few by less perfection of detail. Granted the essention silhouette there are the extras of buckle, button pin, bracelet the sleek head with the lovely little hat fairly moulded upon it. the cobweb stockings, the neat shoe or slipper. Dresses are plain, the skirts are short, the little straight coats, now so popular, appear almost to lack suffi- cient material. If some charming lady of fashion had the experience of Rip Van Wrinkle and suddenly awoke after a hundred years to find herself among a group of the smart women of today, she could hardly fail to wonder why their costumes were so meaGre. The few brief yards in a dancing frock would look poverty-stricken to her. The lux urious rags of this season, she would not understand.
 One emphatic note of the daytime 1 costume of all sorts and conditions of women is the scarf. Dresses sometimes have scarfs attached. In the three piece costume, the scarf is often a part of the coat or the overblouse. To the little collorless, straight dresses, lovely gay scarfs are added. The tailOr-made costume is proving successful in every walk of life; but the smart woman, as we said before is turned out with a correctness of detail and minute care that it is impossible to exaggerate Daytime modes seem to divide them. selves rather easily into four groups One is the suit; with this is worn a tiny hat, q double hatpin. trim shoes, exquisite suede gloves and a beautiful bag, which usually matches something in the general scheme. This suit is of midnight blue woolen twill. and she wears with it a jade colored crepe de chine blouse. The lining of the coat is of the same jade-green crepe. A real jewelled double hatpin is the one note of ornament in the otherwise SC. verely simple ensemble.
 The three-piece costume may De 6 skirt. overblouse, and long three-quar ter length coat, or one-piece dress with a coat, or occasionally a cape Mrs. Henry Russell wears this type o costume. Hers is a little soft dress box pleated, with a crepe de chine coat that ties around a low waist line anC has a cape back. The most popular coat, however, Is straight. slim, with out belt, and with long sleeves. This garment. which is seen in all light and dark shades, is folded tightly about the figure.
 The One-piece frock, of wool, satin crepe or alpaca, is of excessive sim. effect, often of the beltless type. On warm days it can be worn without a coat and with a silver fox or a scarf trimmed with fur.
 The dress has an absolutely plain waist with long sleeves, slightly wider at the cuff where they are buttoned It has the usual square Chanel neck and it is very long in the waist line and short in the skirt, which is made of a parallel piece of stuff with a slight fitness on the left side. The sole trimming is a tiny bow of the fab ric, which tightens the frOck at the waist line.
 The fourth costume, which is just beginning to be worn, is a little more formal than those mentioned before and is either of pale crepe de chine, of geOrgette, or more often, of printed crepe, very daring in design or bright in coloring; or-once in a hundred times-it is of fragile lowered chif- ion. lovely for hot weather.
 One notices that, after three years of active endeavor, the dressmakers have succeeded in forcing the unwilling woman the excessively short sleeve. Among the many seen on the new frocks are extremely plain dress of black crepe printed in a design in sub tie colours with a mere excuse of a sleeve. With this was worn a big black erin hat with a large ribbon cockade on the crown at the right.
 As whole, however, women are noticed more and more for the semi sports clothes or simplified day clothes, which are good. for both town and country wear.
 In the evening dresses are less em- bro1dered, and although the smart wo- man returning from Europe always has one or two semi-embroidered frocks in her trunk. For both town and country wear, flexible materials seem to be preferred by most chic wo- men, and lace, chiffon, or crepe de chine are oftenest seen for the spring time dinner and dance. Wisps that ap- pear unimportant in the hand are put together with infinite skill and then worn with a fine nonchalance that has the effect of making the woman and not her clothes of real significance.
 An especially lovely black lace che nile dress was worn by Miss Ellin Mackay. The lace, in an all-over de- sign, drops over a black crepe de chine lining, the skirt falling in a point al- most to the floor on the right side. A rectangular piece attached to the left shoulder forms a wing-like draper over the left arm and is held by cuff of the lace to the left wrist On the right hip Is an ornament consisting of a great, double, snow-white camellia. Another chenille model much worn by women in New York is made of mere shreds of chiffon cleverly arranged over a tight slip of crede de chine, and the material, rather in the form of a water fall, drops to the floor on the left side.
 Tulle wound like cloud about the figure with a more formal dinner-gown is coming back into vogue, and the new huge feather boas are proving vastly popular. They are a gforified tyne of their slim and delicate Victorian an cestors.
 Shoes for the evening seem almost equally divided into two tYnes the ah-