Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
BY MARY MARSHALL.

F." VERY type of woman has her day
- in fashions sooner or later. II
the prevailing styles Of one par
- ticular period do not seem to
become you, all you need do is
TO bide your time, confident that within
Q year or so you will have an advan-
tage over the very women for whom the
prevailing fashions seem TO have been
designed. There are fashions for the
eedate and the frivolous, the energetic
and the indolent, the practical and the
impractical, the sophisticated and the
ingenious, and sooner or later each type
Of woman has her day.,
Within recent years it would seem
that dressmakers have had an exag-
eerated idea of the Importance of the
bushes woman, the woman OF affairs,
the woman away from home The
background against which fashionable
clothes were conceived was the hotel
the restaurant, the club the Office. the
seashore, but only rarely the home.
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ITO be sure, there we're still thousands
= Of women of the ome-loving sort,
women who paid as great heed TO the
clothes they wore within their own
houses and gardens as they did to
clothes for restaurant, for club or re-
sort. But fashionably speaking they
did not seem particularly important
The inevitable reaction came. Femi-
ninity became the watchword of fashion
and clothes Of the stay-at-home sort
naturally came up for consideration,
since true femininity is, 1t would seem,
O product of home, rather than of ON
ees, hotels, country clubs and resorts.
Now. judging from the lavish offering
that the dressmakers have made of the
more intimate sort of clothes 1t would
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to be quite as important q matter as
dressing to go out.
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I ACE. transparent velvet brocaded
chiffon velvet, chiffon, crepe. black
satin are as lavishly used for clothes to
be worn at home as for those chosen for
dinner and dancing away from home.
And now as always clothes designed for
wear at home are far more colorful
than those that are to be worn in pub
lie
Color combinations that one would
hardly dare to choose for general wear
may safely be worn when one knows the
color tones of the background against
which they may be worn, and pictur-
esque dresses that would verge on the
spectacular may of course, be worn In
the seclusion of ones own home.
Green velvet is combined with coral
crepe Tor charming dinner pa1ama
costume Buttercup yellow and lemon
yellow, turquoise blue and peach, purple
and orchid. light blue and claret red
are charmingly combined in the new
dinner negliges and pajanas and are
worn by women who would hardly at
tempt such combinations for formal
dinner wear. Long, flowing sleeves
sweeping trains and wide hip sashes
Of the more extreme sort are entirely
appropriate for the more elaborate sort
Of dinner neglige.
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BAHAMAS. 1t would seem, first came
into fashion on the wave Of more
masculine fashions, but in their wider
versions they have remained in fashion
because they are eminently feminine.
At-home dresses, like dresses to be
worn away from home. are usually
classified according to the hour at
which they will be worn. The elaborate
type of negligee would be as out OF
place for morning wear at home as
would q dinner dress be inappropriate
. for daytime wear In club or offlce. Fol-
the busy morning hours ct home the
vel dressed woman chooses . washable