Evening star., 1925-01-04
By MARY MARSHALL.
T ORTHERN, winters seem to
have no terrors for the girl
in her teens and early TWEEN
ties, but as she speeds on

n Y ORTHERNr winters seem to
IN have no terrors for the girl
in her teens and early TWEEN
J. ties, but as she speeds on
toward thirty and worries
along to forty she usually feels the
| incessant urge TO migrate toward
warmer 1climes. She feels that were
she spared the rlgors of frozen and
| dark winters. she would remain
youthful, possibly add years to her
life. If wishes were fishes, there
!. would be countless communities in
tho North during midwnter where
older women would be as scarce as
young men at a church fair. They
the older. women-would all have
taken reservations for the Southland
or would already be basking in the
snnshlne somewhere in Florida or
Southern California. &"f
Meantime for thousands OF women
who simply can't arrange this hIber-
raj Southern migrat ton, there Is real
comfort and stimulation to be de-
rived from the outlay of apparel for
the Southern resorts that appears IN
stores and shops in midwinter. These
delicately tinted spring hats ana d.crlsp
muslin frocks' seen in the shops on u
gray day in January or February are
like stra wberries and da1odlls,
doubly charming. because so far out
of season. To many women these
Southern resort things, of course.
serve most of all as harbingers of
spring. From them we gain con-
crete idea OF spring clothes to come,
and fashion tendencies are very often
foreshadowed in these collections,
Furs for Southern resort wear are
interesting because they are so un-
like the furs that are made for winter
wear in the North. And while the
woman going South plans for all
manner of light frocks and wraps.
she wisely includes if she can afford
it some sort OF fur scarf and fur
wrap Of some sort. Ermine or French
Coney is made into charming shoul-
der capes for daytime wear-quite
unlike any of the fur wraps we have
been wearing.
White coats seem likely to be the
sulartest selection this season. There
are new white cloth coats that can
be worn either for evening or for
daytime, by the woman who wants
to limit her wardrobe These are
sometimes lined with white, but more
often with brilliant silk that con-
trasts strikingly with the simplicity
of the coat, which is trimmed usually
only with q collar of white fur.
Sometimes white or ombre ostrich
forms the collar.
:; * < ::
4 y important chapter in the story
of the blouse Is always written
in the clothes made and worn for
Palm Beach and other Southern re-
sorts, because no winter resort ward
robe is possibly complete without
several new blouses. It's safe
sumption now to say that white
blouses will be in greatest demand,
and that though tunics and over
blouses will be smart, the tunies
Will be considerably shorter. The
days of the very long tunic, many
persons say, are numbered. Ensem-
BILE costumes more frequently consist
of coat and frock than of coat, tunic
and costume slip.
Where there are separate blouses
nowadays there usually are separate
skirts-or separate skirts mounted
on slip tops-for the two-piece suit
which used to call for the separate
blouse is worn by comparatively few
women. Moreover the sweater calls
for the separate skirt.
The perfectly straight, scant sport
skirt is far less often found than the
skirt that shows some sort of full
ness about the hem. There are, TO
be sure, perfectly straight, scant,
short skirts of finely pleated crepe de