Evening star., 1932-08-07
PARIS. july 80.

PARIS, July oV'
THE race track at Auteuil is a
vivid center of fashion interest,
and season after season thou
sands of people from all coun-
tries flock here, knowing moth
ing of horse racing, but considering
themselves well rewarded by the pano-
rama of smartness which stretches end
leSsly before their eyes.
CheerfulneSs and an appropriate SIM
plicity are the features that strike you
first. The mode is essentially gay
one. 1t evokes a gayety that 1mpresseS
YOU as being admirably appropriate to
the setting and at the same time SIM
pie, because this gayety IS achieved
through the adroit use OF color ana
little details that play big role, A
scarf, a tie, a hat may be the whole
life and soul of the costume, otherwise
quiet and unasuming- .
Extremely important Is the short
coat, which is seen in abundance IN
various types. These short garments
are couuettish and gay and go lar
toward giving the note OF cheertulneSS
and appropriate simplicity that 1 have
mentioned. They solve much OF the
vital problem which women lace over
and over again each year when u Is
time to choose holiday clothes.
The essentials for a successful vaca-
ton are good weather, good company
and pretty clothes, but certainly the
most important of the three Is clothes.
You can put up with the bad or lnol1-
ferert weather and dull company, but
the wrong clothes or an lnSufnclenC
amount of the right ones Will ruin the
event absolutely.
If YOU 90 on an ocean cruise, DO not
spoil your holidays by taking more
afternoon dresses than evening ones, as
scores of women do each year. II you
take only two or three evening. gowns
you will soon tire of them ana Know
that the fellow passengers VINO pay most
attention to these and have learned
them quickly by heart are wondering
each evening if you are gong 10 wear
number two or number three.
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Tt is unfortunate that some women
concentrate on afternoon CLONES
for such a voyage, as they are un-
necessary on a cruise. afternoons on
hoard shin are spent sleeping, playing
deck games or swimming. And Tor all
these until dinner time, you can very
apnropriately wear the dress you put
on for breakfast. The smartest woman
gives all her attention to dressing up
for evening and should therefore try
to have as many evening gowns as pos
sible in order to stand favorable
comparison with the others, who may
have six or seven or even a dozen.
Another frequent mistake IS to take
silk dresses on Summer sea voyages.
The warm sea air takes all the fresh
ness from a silk dress in few hours
and the only way of freshening. 1t up
again is to patronize the ships cleaner
which turns out to be a pretty lux
urious practice, especially nowadays,
when everybody is trying to keep vaca-
ton expenses down.
Recently received from reader the
following letter. =,
Dear Mr.. Dorian: I have decided
to spend my August vacation on a
three-week cruise from New York to
Florida coast resorts and Cuba. Like
the other passengers, will spend all OF
nv time on board except the few hours
visiting spent in the ports OF call. All
of our meals are served on board ship
and we only go ashore for these oc-
casional short glimpses OF the cities
passed en- route.
Il am anxious to keep my expenses
down as much as possible, but never
having gone on such cruise I do not
know exactly what kind OF wardrobe l
need, and am writing to ask you to
give me for this purpose the precise
kind of list girls boasdtng schools fur-