Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
By MARY MARSHAL.

TIME future tense always occupies
quite as important place in
the scheme of fashions as the
L present tense, and SomtimeS
I'VE shall appeals to us far
more than I'VE are" Seasonal changes
of weather have q stimulating effect
on fashions, and it is hard to imagine
Paris as q source of fashion inspiration
II Paris enjoyed as equable climate as
| that Of San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Nice or Monte Carlo.
With the coming of each new sea-
son, the need for new clothes presents
itself whether or not the clothes on
| hand show signs of wear, and with
| the new things the dressmakers and
designers introduce more or less subtle
| changes of cut and color that before
| another six months have rolled around
| will make last seasons things seem out
Of date. Warmish, sunshiny days in
late Winter set ones THOUGHTS turning
toward the selection of new clothes,
just as the first cool days Of last Sum-
mer offer o tremendous stimulation to
the business Of selling new clothes for
| Autumn.
THE modern nomad who anticipates
Spring by going South and hastens
| the coming of Autumn by going to the
| mountains In August has an even
| stronger excuse for buying new clothes
and with many women more than
half the pleasure of going South or
North, East or West lies in the OPP
portunity 1t provides for changing the
wardrobe.
After all. the number Of women who
can afford to pass their days at q
| resort in late Winter is comparatively
small. Why, then, all this fine talk
about clothes for Palm Beach, for the
Riviera, for Southern California, the
| Antilles and North Africa? Who is in
terested in what not very significant
minority OF women choose to wear at
| play while the rest of us are too con-
scientiouS to leave our children and our
1 husbands. too public-spirited to leave
clubs and hometown philanthropy and
either too ambitious or to poor to leave
business or profession?
| The answer Is rather simple. In the
| hrst place women are no longer in
| terested in their Winter clothes-unless
| they still harbor an idea Of getting O
Winter coat or ensemble at great bar
| gain now that will somehow do for next
Winter. But women-even those who
| stay at home-are interested in clothes
of the more Spring-like sort. In the
late Winter woman's fancy-id1y or
| quite sertously-turns to thoughts of
| Spring clothes. On dull, dark day in
Winter lowered silks and soft pastels
appeal 70 uS1 more than Somber woolenS.
So to the stay-at>home the displays Of
new things designed for visitors to
Palm Beach or the Riviera serve as in
spiration and encouragement.
| " n
| CTTLL more important, the new light
clothes are really suitable even for
| the stay-at-home. The new silk dresses
| are as appropriate to wear under a
Winter coat now as they will be later
| with light wrap or no coat at all.
There are nglnt-toned sports costumes
that are quite appropriate to wear for
an informal luncheon or afternoon
bridge. And when you realize that there
viii be no radical difference In the styles
Of these resort clothes from those Of
cred for the Spring everywhere and that
many OF them are not at all high
priced. you will probably want to make
some selections OF hats, wraps, suits and
dresses OF the Winter resort sort, even
though you have no intention of going
away.
(Ccpyright, Iss0)