Evening star., 1928-03-18

Sunburncd Skin
In High Favor

At Palm Beach it is not enough to
have your arms and shoulders nicely
tanned nowadays.
Smart women are fsvoring evening
frocks cut fairly high in the front
but decidedly low at the back--and
to be really smart your back must
be as we'll and evenly tanned as your
hands and arms To achieve this
desirable effect certain women off
fashion are taking daily sunbaths in
some secluded upper veranda. Or per-
haps they really take the sunbaths for
the sake of good health and consider
the evenly tanned back and shoulders
as benefit thrown in.
At a smart private dance at Palm
Beach the other day the most admired
women present were two wearing the
new low-at-tf1e-b frocks with
lovely tanned backS-the rich tones Of
which could not have been achieved
by mere cosmetics.
Gentlemen may prefer blonds. bur
fashion is all In favor Of olive or darker
than olive skins. and the girl whose
! skin Is so fair that it Just won't tan.
but prefers to peel or freckle instead, is
going TO the beauty experts to try and
| find out II there isn't way 10 MAKE
skin such as hers take on the warm,
ricn tones characteristic OF the SUM-
Beach and other winter resorts Is
wearing stockings Of sunburned ton9.
and q good rich sunburned tone at
that-or else they aren't wearing anyi
| at ALL
| Of course you have TO wear stockings
| on some of the beaches, but If you nap
! pen 10 belong TO club with private
| beach-and you happen to have per-
fectly good coat of tan on your legs
! why. you simply don't wear 'em at all
! that IS. during the hours you are idling
| on the beach or taking refreshments
I and chatting before and afterward-
And there are some women who leave
them off on other occasions-but then
I it Is hard to tell the difference. .
But why not? And why shouldn't
I the next fad or fashion be stocklngless
/ legs? They didn't wear them in an
/ cient Greece and Rome. nor in Egypt.
/ either. And in Europe once upon
| time it would have been considered
| quite as outrageous 10 appear with bare
/ arms as without stockings.
A Russian girl-member Of very
| old and aristocratic family-tells US
! that in Russia before she came to this
country she went without stockings as
/ matter Of course But II wasn't q,
matter of fad or fashion with her. Il
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should buy stockings or shoes-she
couldn't afford both-and Of the two
! she decided that shoes were the more
important.
With the sleeveless frocks 50 popular
for sports and general morning wear
at the Southern resorts, shore gloves
are chosen or no gloves at all
Nothing more popular here than
crepe de chine. 1t is the favorits ma
terial still for nightgowns and for the
more substantial sort of underthings
1t is used for the pleated skirts worn
| with the new sweaters and knit jump
ers. 1t appears in interesting reDdi-,
tions in the senli-sports frocks showing
fagoting, drawnwork and other intri-
cate hand work.
Brass buttons-don't forget the brass
buttons. They are seen on some Of the
newest frockS for spring. And some
times in row OF decorative buttons you
will see just one that isn't like the rest
/ one Jade button with row of gold
ones--as IL one Of the original ones ha'i
been lost and substitute that didn
match had been put on instead.