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to soar most women first be-
gin to take thought or their
hot-weather raiment, what they
shall put on to strike a compromise
between the convention that refuses
to let us go about like South Sea Is-
landers and their own instinct to
wear as little as possible while tropic
weather prevails.
For most mere summer clothes
are not really suitable for the very
warmest days in summer. When
the French dressmaker designs for
the French woman she seldom
makes clothes that are suitable for
the really hot days that will come
in July and August in most parts of
our country. so renowned for weath-
er extremes. So it often happens
that many of the most charming
Pram-h model: made for midsummer
WHEN the thermometer begins
blouar
trimmed unlh valencimnes; flesh
aeorgetts enrelopc chemise and
slip edged with. net: mauve voile
set trimmed with lace.
wearing are out of the question for
women in America. ‘
We ought to be thankful that we
have at least got away from mass
01 prejudices that made it seem
n5 quite well bred to be comfort-
a 15' clad on the warmest days.
Until quite recently hos. of Amer-
ican women have wilted In warm
weather under the notion that it
was rather commonplace to appear
in city streets not wearing some
sort of wrap. That may have been
an apprOpriate enough convention
in England or on the continent. but
even there women now feel quite
suitably and appropriately dressed
carrying or wearing only a scar! as
a v-tige of the wrap that was one.
considered indispensible_
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thing ahead U: 3...; l: is well worth
Your Vi'hlle tr) ll‘,‘fi‘”i~‘l 3;: A {rock 01’
two 0: light, r-oc-l fat-rig. a broad
brimmed hat and such lzngerie and
accessories as will complete your
modicum of apparel.
From the point of good taste and
silliness most women apparently
err in choosing the frock for the
warm day in the ciU'. This at
least is a matter that has called
{or most lrequent inquiries. '1
iind a suit unbearable to wear what
shopping or attending to other
bum” in u” ”w °“ m “"ng [or m wetter which can be m [or dinner 1
mer days. Yet I tee! cheap in a
thin summer frock. What would
you suggest?" asks one.
“'80 many girls and women so
chemise of chip“
dressed women wear in town on
very hot days?"
Hot Days is the City.
For the benefit of such inquire"
here are two well dressed women
come up from their summer places
{or a busy day in town. shonplnt
and seeing to a. dozen and one little
business matters, with lueheon at
their city club or “write hotel
restauan One of these women
wears a straight. scant. bolted frock
of beige and brown checked chiflon.
trimmed around the abbreviated
sleeves and at the collar and vestee
with little frills or narrow valen-
clennes lace. Seemingly very fra-
gile. chiffon and georgotte. in such
rather subdued tones. are really
excellently adapted to city wear in
summer. With this corn and brown
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is quite in the picture the hat brim '01! mass. With New little
m‘, b. .! nmw u you choc... .1. on bu”- all chemise blouse
The second smartly dressed
woman up from her country place
{or the day chooses a frock of navy
blue chiffon. and you may be sur-
prised to know that she wears it
over a salmon slip. This frock. like
the brown and 'ecru one. owes much
of its appropriateness to its aim-
plicity of line. Lacking any collar
ornament whatever it is worn with
a narrow scart. A directolre poke
of close narrow shape was worn
with it. The hat is or navy blue
with a bow at the front 0! black
cire ribbon.
For the woman who solv. her
problem of street dress in warm
westher by means of a suit there is
the chemise blouse. The separate
blouse and skirt. no matter how
frequently seen on the college cam-
pus, or about smart country clubs.
really isn't appropriate for town
wear. It you wear a suit then be
persuaded that you must wear the
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At right, white tab silk frock with
lattice work collar and pockets is
{gala bloc. Large nu struts
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about the city in warm mMnudootocflnt-sndlmm
dressed in frocks more suitable for
garden parties 6: country clubs!"
complains another. "Here's ame-
nogrspher going to work on warm
summer days in a budsd flesh-
colored gem-gotta. Another wears
a light blue cotton voila. Hue is a
young married woman m in
thecitylnrl “ammo
yellow silk with a m or
yellow silk. Somehow thoy
look right. Yet I don’t like no
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triving leave most of them on.
The t g of smooth voile or
geomtte neat ono's skin is actually
soothing. II. the awareness that it
is colored a bluish mauve. green or
other "cool” color doubtle- does
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something to keep one cool.
There are many women who find
I Breen negligee a source or real
comfort in warm weather. liven
the woman who is not particularly
sensitive to color influences could
hsrdly endure to wear a scarlet
“0'11". on a day of tropic heat.
“Willi: the material from which ita
was made were of the thinest and
lightest. — 7
One charming lace trimmed
pleated negligee of green georgeite
can be “torn quite appropriately
for dinner on a worm summer‘s
day. '
The question or bright colored
clothes for warm weather is one
that is still discussed. Theoretically
they seem appropriate enough, for
With all native races or the tropics
or near tropics high colors are
especially admired and worn. Ben-
Jarnin A. Morton speaks of the cop-
tumes of file native women of
Martinique as "ranging in vibrant
electrical radiant-e from red of the
flamboyant to purple of the bou-
gainvillea; torches of color, in end-
less procession afiare in the sun."
But apparently we are almost as
unwilling as the i-Yench women to
run the gamut of color. in true
tropiral manner.
50 while the French shop win-
dows are ablaze with brilliant-hues)
rrepes and printed mus-line. and
there is much talk of bright colors
for the summer. the reports from
Paris are 51le to the clfecl that the
smartest women in the city wear
black. For the seashore white still
rules supreme and “omen in this
country seem to have become as
much addicted to white {or all sorts
of summer weather,
At the beaches. says one n‘zlstrvcr
in France. “the first hours in
morning are white—all white.“ For
a walk in the morning a. smart
l-Yench woman chooses a little
three-piece white alpaca suit. rum
3 red or navy blue monogram orcr
the heart, with sleeves "wide at the
wrists and adorned with a few very
wild and mad embroiderles of black
and red." \i'ith this are worn white
kid pumps, white silk stockings. :1
white straw helmet trimmed with
n red ribbon. a walking suit-k and
a white scarf embroidered in the
same manner as the sleeves.
For wear on the sands. white is
again the choice—a \‘trfc s:m;xlu
sheath frock of some Sort of silk
crepe. worn with a leather lit-11
showing steel nailheads. \Vizh this
a wide—brimmed, floppy hat or no
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an
hat at all and a parseol. As an
alternative of the silk crepe frock.
one of white cotton fabric in home-
spun finish, showing wool embroid-
ery in old rose and green. is sug-
gesttd. But the embroidery must
not be large or striking—(or the
rule at the smart French beaches
seems to he that one must be in
vxhite all the morning. .
For tennis, too, all white is the
choice of French women who are
looked upon as arbiters in such
maiers. For lunch white lace frocks
are chosen. For sailing a thin
white wool frock is suggested and
for motoring “white frocks under
green coats of kid, a leather helmet
to match the coat. and a long scar!
to fly like a flag."
Whito—-AV ad More White.
For afternoon tea again white—-
silk. lingerie or lace with I violet.
blue. rose. green or yellow ribbon
as the only ”concession to your
craving for color. For evening
white again—«rim ostrich feathers
in soft shades of gold.
Apparently under this new rule
of white for summer wear which
many women in resorts outside
Paris rind pleasure in following, the
only time when one can safely in-
dulge nne's taste for color to the
full is when taking one‘s ocean
bath or lingering on the sands in
hathing costume. The pelgnoir de
ham, or bathing rape. seems to me
vastly more important in the eyes
of the fiench women than the
bathing suit. which is quite simple.
This wrap is node of what we call
terry cloth. the English "sponge
towel" and the French epongs.
Perhaps some Americans know it
lmtter simply as bath toweling.
I—Iut it is hath towelllng of mar-
\‘f‘lously brilliant hues. Almost
rfwor is it u ite. but crimson.
{:nldvn yellow. violet. red. orange.
somehow-s in a solid color but
more often in glorious mixtures of
several or all of these colors.
\Vhilo the black bathing suit is
still usual here ahd in France.
there seems at the moment to be
nothing smarter than pale almond
xrcon fur the bathing suit. The
French woman is inclined to wear
3 :ml nutent leather belt with her
pale green bathing suit. and the
«fruit :94. really pleasanL
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