Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-14

/" HERE are women who look
every bit of so when you see
them shopping in the morning
4 of a cold, gray Winters day
Seated at luncheon at the club
or q favorite restaurant, wearing
new hat. enjoying ii fayorite salad or
other light repaS,, such d woman may
look not Il shade over 40. You'll have
TO knock off another 5 years in her
favor when YOU see her drinking tea
in me softly light a living room or
drawing room of mutual friend at
o'clock. An early afternoon visit TO
the beauty parlor may have done that.
That makes 40. If this woman whom
you have been observing looks a day
over "a or 50 when you see her dining
or dancing or at the theater in the
evening-then she hasn't learned how
10 wear evening dress or she IS just
one of those very exceptional women
who are not improved by the soft
lines, the clear colorS, the light drap-
cry of conventional evening attire.
With very, very few exceptions
women are improved or might be i'm.
proved by we'll selected, well donned
evening clothes. And of course that
is why women take the trouble to
dress in the evening. Otherwise there
would be no excuse for going to all
that trouble. For the hours when one
OF amusement, of relaxation, the hours
of gallantry, of romance. What would
be downright bad form and even in
decent at 10 O'Clock or 4 o'clock in the
day is eminently proper and appro-
pirate at 8 or 10 O'Clock at night.
So in selecting your evening clothes
your first question really ought to be
what is most becoming. When
master dresSmaker in Paris sets out to
make an evening frock for one OF
his customers whom he is most
anxious TO please he forSets the pre-
NailinS mode. he forgets present fads,
tries even to forget fashion en-
tirely. His ambition is to get some
thing that is becoming and appropri-
ate TO that woman. If she IS
thoroughly up-to-date woman. then
what he makes will be up to date.
IF she is a trifie old fashioned-then
there will be an entirely appropriate
Guaintness about the frock. II she
IS original, daring, unconventional
then the frock will be original, daring,
unconventional Interestingly enough,
many of the most alluring fads OF
fashions have been originated In just
this way.
Some women feel that 1t is more
important to have a good dresSmaker
for their evening clothes than for any
thing else For street and daytime
wear generally one wants chic, smart
neSS-Something conventional and not
100 conspicuous. No sane woman,
unless she is an actress bent on giving
her press agents food for publicity,
wants to attract attention in the day
time. So she chooses the smart color
tina. every one is wearing; she selects
he hat that for the nonce is chosen
by nine-tenthS of the smart women
she meets. But in the evening it is
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ardiZation.
OF course, there are women who
even in the evening like to conform
to standards.
AS far as colors go you have wide
choosing. The whole rainbow is
yours: only remember that Smartly
ressed women are for the most part
selecting tones that are poWdery or
dusty-soft pastel tones that are
trifie toned down without being in
the least bit pale or weak.
The pure white frock. usually gilt
tering with pearls or diamante, has
been chosen by many women for late
Winter wearing. All-whlte glittering
evening frocks like all-black evening
frocks seem TO transform some wom-
en-, giving them radiance and distinc-
ton that they would lack entirely in
colors. But there is no rule about
such matters. Some fashion observers
venture to prescribe becoming colors
for every type of woman, from the
sallow-skinned, dull-eyed brunette TO
the pink-eyed albino. Certain shades
Of blue are becomin' to the brown
eyed blonde; other shades are becom-
ing to the girl with red hair. 1t is
sll down neatly in black and white.
All you have to do is to pick out your
type and there your colors are-colors
for morning ColorS for afternoon and
another list for evening. But in real
fly il doesn't work out quite SO simply.
There really is no way of telling when
you are one OF those women who will
he radiantly lovely in sparkling white
unless you try on a frock of that de-
scription.
Everywhere during late Winter soft
shades of blue seem to come into favor
for evening wear. This tendency was
observed In Southern resorts here and