The Washington times., 1928-09-01
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF SOCIETY FOLK
Girls Sponsor Fad
For Going Without Stockings BY Day
In the Evening? Well,
1T Isn't Done" Yet;
q Plea for an Ameri-
can Lido

can LIDO
If proof were needed that
'Wlashingtonians are taking
enthusiastically to the fad
for going stockingless IN
summer, it might be found
any warm afternoon at the
Chevy Chase Club.
Many Of the girls who
foregather there for tennis
or golf or just to loaf away
the hours, either wear no
stockings at all or else brief
socks rolled down about
their sandal tops. And most
Of them have a delicious tan
which prevents this excep-
tionally comfortable mode
from being in the least con-
spicuous.
A Distinction
So far, however, our Wash
ington girls seem to be BIT
chary about discarding stock
inrs for evening wear. This
distinction with q difference
Rcve rise recently to . most
amusing incident.
Al charming young matron,
who lives out Chevy Chase way,
appeared one evening all ready
to accompany her husband to
tire club for the inid-week
dancebut sans stockings. Her
lord and master objected on
The grounds that sit really
isn't being done-yet. So the
charming lady went upstairs to
repair the omission. Then she
began to. think it over and
became more and more annoyed
at what might be considered
interference with personal lib
ertv. Such epithets as 'pruden
and 'sold fossil" Conspicuous"
md .sbad form" were exchanged.
No Pioneering
T,he man IN the case defended
hfmself BY suggesting that Il 10
OF the 100 or so women. who might
IS al the club that evening. spon-
gored the new style. he'd with
draw his objections. Manlike. he
didn't care for pioneering--at least
on his wife's part. But the couple
COMPROMISED by staying at home.
Although still new enough to
washington to be arresttng, the
TAD for bare legs has been long
ago accepted in California. And
At such resorts as NiceS Juan-les-
pins Antilles. the Lido and Deau-
VILE on the other side Of the Al.
lantic II Is the girl who wears
af0ckinrs who IS conspicuous--aG
least in the daytime.
An American Lido
II the powers that be in the
new Annapolis Roads Club-to
siirress a bit-succeed In their
endeavor to build UP a PLACE
something like the beach At
the Lido. they will have done
something notable for Washington.
Perhaps we would dispense with
some of the notorious personages
and startling sights for which the
vacation place is famOus--al.
though they do add to its amusing
aspects. But the scene itself Is
fascinating the long beach alive
with bathers, the bright-coiored
sails of little boats cutting their
way through the blue Adriatic,
and the row OF "campanas," each
with it's gay striped awning,
its chintz.coyered furniture, itE
pillow.piled hammock or couch
and its tea table, loaded with
magazines or cleared for an
impromptu meal.
The life, too, has a genuine
appeal. For Venetians and Wis.
itors take their campanas by
the season and spend long days
on the sands. reading, playing
bridge. sleeping, bathing when
the spirit moves them, summing
themselves-or just loafing, and
their colorful beach costumes
bathing suits or pajamas in I'm
finite varieties of tint and ma
terial-are comfortable and prac.
tical, as well as picturesque.
1t win be remembered, per-
haps, that there : il famous
restaurant on the beach where
one may lunch without bother
ing to dress-where, indeed, no.
body is allowed who Is not In
bathing or beach costume.
f. n
Miss Carmen BalliyIan, daugh-
ter of the Bolivian minister to
Belgium. was married to. Col.
Fansto d. Gonzales, military at.
tache to the Bolivian Legation,
August Z, 1928, In Brussels. Miss
Ballivian, will be remembered by
many friends in Washington,
where her father represented Ills
country as Bolivian Minister for
three years.