Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
BY MARY MARSHALL.

TT is a long Jump from snakes to
butterhes-but fashion seems to
have taken the jump. True,
snakeskin is still much used as
trimming. IL is used for hand
bags. for hathands and is even set
with precious metals and gems in
some Of the new jewelry-~and You
sill see welldressed women with gold
snakes with emerald eyes tWlned
round their arms or even round Their
necks. But the butterfly arm orna-
.ment is really much newer and TO the
minds Of many women much more
attractive
Pale green tulle studded with rhine
stones was used to make a charming
butterfly worn on the wrist Of
charming woman-and held IN pace
bv means of an almost invisible band
of nesh-colored tulle.
Fewer stockings of the pinkish cast
of beige and flesh color are seen
where wel-dressed women foregather
this Summer. \ nude shade that
might he compared to old ivory Isl
chosen for daytime wear by many
women, while the very sheer dark
gray stocking is gaining favor every
day. Pinky flesh tones are still seen
for evening wear and occasionally one
sees stockings Of mauve or orchid for
evening. Occasionally there are light
cnlored stockinGs-blue. pink, green,
yellow-to match the frocll, but this
fashion has not gained many adj
hevents.
Skirts really are getting longer
am quite convinced of that. l could
mention half a dozen extremely smart
Young women who have quite mani
festedly grown weFry of the eXag-
geratedlv short Skin. OF course these
skirts are not reaGy long-and un-
doubtedly when these influential
women get the fashion for a slightly
longer skirt they are doing a great
deal to keep the really long skirt from
returning. Few women want to see
the best thing they can do to bring
a sudden reHulsion against the short
skirt in any form is to continue wear
ing skirts of excessive brevity.
Shoe fads vary somewhat from this
resort to that. The young girl of
Is or 90. let us say, is always more
interested to wear what the other
girls of her particular group find
smart and acceptable at the moment |
than to take up with this fad or that |
simply because it has been sponsored |
in Paris. More and more it seems to
me that the only serious rival the |
fa shion leaders of Paris have tn con-
slider is the young American girl. our
rather headstrong, Cheeky" young |
girls of Is or 20.
So you will find at one smart resort |
that the young girls may be wearing |
white shoes, because for the nonce |
some clique of extremely smart young |
girls has chosen white footgear At |
another resort you are impressed with
the preponderance of colored shoes
green's and reds and blues. But what
ever the color of the shoes the heels |
are almost invariahly high. and the
only time that the dress-minded young
woman is content to appear with low
heels is when she is actually in bath
ing attire, playing golf or tennis or
engaged in some other athletic diver
sion. Once off the bathing beach, the
links or the tennis court she slips
back into her high heels with light
ninglike rapidity.
To wear leather buttonhole flower
to match your bright-colored shoes is
extremely smart "a glossy leaved 1
green gardenia with green kid pumps,
let us say.