Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-01

a 1 ether French creSSmakerS
A launched their red, white
and blue color scheme they
couldn't of course have
meant to pay any tribute TO Old Glory.
They might have had the French nag
In mind But when We adopt the new
tricolor scheme we naturally think OF
our own national emblem. and the adj
vantage of the color scheme doubtless
Is that Il has patriotic associations for
so many other people-British. French,
Danish among them.
Incidentally the colors used in the
fashionable tricolor scheme are not
precisely the colors used in Old Glory.
Ii is English red. MILDLY blue and
white-just plain white, presumably.
I have been assured that the French
sdrapeau bleu'' is quite different thing
from the blue used in either the Amer
lean or the British flag and that flag
red is not the same for France, Eng
land or America.
But these are distinctions that few
have color acuteness enough TO OBJ
serve.
The blue used in this red. white and
blue combination is the color they call
MILDLY blue, or bright navy. this sea-
son-which is really more OF a navy
anyway than the very dark blue, that
we had come TO consider by that name.
This brighter shade of navy blue
owes its revival to the recent speeding
up OF interest in yachting fashions
Every navy In the world even those OF
the Orient. is equipped with uniforms
of dark blue. a color which seems
naturally to be appropriate TO existence
on the briny deep. Conventional
yachting clothes have always been of
navy or MILDLY blue. and a generation
ago Alexandra as Princess of Wales
gave impetus to the fashion for navy
blue and white yachting costumes
which she wore to such decided adj
vantage.
Within more recent years women
have departed from this convention
70 q great extent-ci1oosing other colors
and tints In their yachting clothes
Nov the revival has come and the
woman whose yacht consists Of moth
ing more than a gasoline launch or a
bit of rowboat fixed up with little
"put-put" engine finds excuse to wear
her MILDLY blue and white costume duly
adorned with anchor devices and other
nautical embienS
One Of the Snlartest of yachting cos
tunes have seen consisted of a short
dcuble-breaSted Jacket of MILDLY blue
shantung silk, decorated on the right
sleeve with red star and anchor device.
A one-piece white silk frock with pleated
skirt had similar device on the bodice
Another interesting yachting costume
was Of white ratan silk with sbox-
pleated skirt stitched down well below
the hips and conventional slip-on
sailor blouse Of the same white silk.
The sailor collar Of silk was finished
with a scarf of red silk dotted in white
tied al the front. and the hat was Of
stitched white linen with q scarf Of the
same silk.
MILDLY fashions. which have never
really been out of favor for children.
have naturally come in for their share
Of this revived interest and among the
sEnartest youngsters everywhere are
many little boys and girls dressed In
conventional sailor suits-~white with
mildly blue and red emblems or MILDLY
blue with white or white and red.
Navy blue is by sii means the smart
est Of coiors for children at present and
in the weil-to-do families where the
custom Of dressing the entire brood in
the same general style is followed out.
coats and hats for playtirne and for