Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1931, Page 45

f THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 4, 1931—PART THREE. Southland Tries Out New Modes in Clothes for Coming Season Display Is Strong Re- “minder That Winter Is Merely Incidental. ‘Present Buying Simplifies Every- body’s Task When Time Comes for Choosing Spring Garments—A void- ing Any Preliminary Mistakes. BY MARY MARSHALL. F there were no Palm Beach and no Riviera and fashionable Women never m%ot going South to get_away slush, snow, cold winds and_penetratin top durln, January and February, the display o Summety clothés at this time of the year would still serve a worthwhile urpose. > When you go sloshing along in over- sleet or snow, rain or e- ess there is nothing more encouraging than to look unexpectedly into & shop window to see a_colorful display of bathing suits, beach hats and pajamas, or a group of crisp fresh cotton or linen sports dresses or soft friil evening dresses of the sort that you will be weating four or five or six months hence. Wi THI'\' serve &s an early harbinger of sgrlng and Summer, reminding us more forcibly than any thing else could that Winter i merely incidental and that blue skies and bright sunshine are ly_of course this buainess of cheering the stay-at-home is not the rimary object in view when stores gupen give space in their show win- dows to beach pajamas &nd warm weather ¢lothés.. An ever inereasing number of people in Northern cities contrive to d_the coldest weeks in the South, while hundreds who cahnot long remain away from obligations at home take flying trips to the Southern resorts by rail, by motor, by boat or by plane. And to these fortunate folk, the new resofts clothes shown in the shop windows are as vitally important as galoshes and searfs and fur coats are to the mofe numerous stay-at- ‘homes. All this business of resort clothes dis- playing and buying at this time of the year really si les everybody's task when it comes to ehoose Spring clothes later on. Shuffiing and dealing has been gone thfough with, discards have been made and we shall be ready to go on with the game. LE S IN selecting your Palm Beach ward- Tobe you may Elllbly choose & woTt of hat that will discarded later on, you may choase colors and shades that will not survive=but two of three months hence these discards will beyond recall. ¥et the best Dressing Table, This|,x dressmaker, it have & he apared. even may : (umim. 1081 4 Season, Must Be| Transformed Into Laboratory, . Equip. ped With Working Materials—Child- ‘hood Complexion|¢ Methods. I hn: mumm“ gn“m. going to in of clustered curls and trailing rains she has to mark her calendar® with beauty resolves for every single date. She is transf Ner dressing table into a laboratory equipped with working materials. She realizes that it |y is more important to turn out a lovely, | finished product than to Have a sfiver and crystal setting in which to.do it. First of all, she knows that her face must be as clean as it was in the days when it was scrubbed soundly with warm water and-soap every morning be- fore she skipped off ‘to school. Her chiidhood complexion glowed undey this treatment, and she is using exactly the | same method today. Every | and every night she washes her face with pure castile soap, her to apply the soapy suds. has dis- carded wash cloths entirely; as they| bold too many germs. Wide brims droop at the sides in this yoar's hats for - Southern swear and throw a shadow of the sort of hats we shdll wear next Spring. of ice, The wise di N use soft tissues. The debutante knows that beauty ex- perts are advocating milk bufi\,nma!‘he: of the utmost femininity. When the debutante uses milk she heats it first, then pats it into the sl with absorbent cotton. After an hour | she removes it with cold water. 1f she hasn’t 60 minutes to sparé before she is due at a tea-dance of I , she takes the count on as many as shé has. If the debutante is going out, she is ready for her make-up After this treat- ment. If she is gol 10 bed, she uses skin food next, appl; it gently with an upward, outward movement. cream is left on while she bathes, &8 the steam will send a larger supply of it into the pores than an all-night mAss of plain cream. en she removes every vestige of the cream. She has decided to let her skin breathe this year. Night treatments are banished from her calendar. debutante knows that faces grow tired, Just like bodies, and me;l shouldn’t have o spend the whole night trying to get | stimulated through a layer of cream or | lotion. | She has another reason, too. If there | should be a fire or an exciting burglary, | she would hate to appear before the public with & radiant, greasy nose. | And the debutante will tell you that she is getting results—or ine at- | tention, which is the same thing. Peo- | ple.are asking her why she keeps her | skin so young and flawless when she neyer misses a single ride on the social | merry-go-round She doesn't tell them that cleanli- ness is next to comeliness. That would | have about as much interest for the stagline as a glass of warm Water be- fore breakfast. 8he just goes home and | washes her face the right way. | [Practical Towels ; Made Attractive Even practical towels are attractive nowadays, so attractive that it is a real pleasure to buy them. Once upon & time no one thought of making every- | day towels specially attractive. Bath | towels that you used for your tub or shower were nothing more nor less than bath towels. They did not add to the attractive- |ness of the bath room or the linen | sloset, and they did not add particularly 1o the esthetic pleasure of taking & bath. Of course, there were guest towels made With fringe, some of them, and 80 laden with embroidery and fancy stitches that guests sometimes asked for & regular towel for aotual use. Nowadays guest towels are far less fussy than they used to be, ard all towels are much more attractive. You can buy them with borders of any color of the rainbow, and, of course, you usu- ally choose them to match the color scheme of the bath room in whieh they are to be used. It more than one member of the family share the same bath room, you ml&‘ find 1t convenient to have sets of bath towels, hand towels and wash cloths of different colors for different Among R individuals, thus avolding the confusion that arises wi it n some thoughtless member of the family puts his towel on the bar or rack that does not belong to him. Of course, if use. several ‘the same bathi"room this vari-colored effect, but it 18 &. all the some. These Are to Be Smart in Coming Fashions —Gray Must Not Be Overlooked Among New Colors for Spring. hear much of ¢l for daytime as well as evening. yellow tweed has been chosen for travel suits and coats. the light bright colors that spoken of for Southern um pink, weet, Women'’s Ankies Growing Larger About the surest way to have slender, well formed ankles is to arrange, if pos- sible, to inherit ankles that are slender and well formed, for heavy, stodgy an- Kles, like squirrel teeth, receding chins, | agle noses, run in families. However, it is possible by persistent exercise and attention to keep stodgy ankles from becoming stodgier and to Elnvenr. naturally slender, shapely an- es from taking an unnecessary girth, During the regime of high shoes for the street, ankles, as a general rule, were slenderer than now. Obviously, the reason was that the high shoes kept them so. This was not always entirely beneficial from the point of view of mere physical development. The high shoe constricted muscles as well as kept down fat. Ankles were more slen- der, but they were probably also more likely to become strained and sprained. The | Some of the slight additional sise of thé ankle of today is due to the devel- opment of perfectly normal muscles. And often an ankle thus developed is more attractive to behold than the very slender ankle that has not been prop- erly developed. Shoe manufacturers tell us that by actusl measurément the ankles. of women of today are larger than were those of a decade or more ago. It is because of such observations as this that some Prench women who have been afraid that their ankles would be- come too big with wearing low shoes all the time have laced them into high shoes for boudoir wear. This is, indeed, heroic treatment. Why 8poil one’s chances of perfect comfort and attrac- tive Appearanceé in one’s moments of rest and relaxation so that when one is abroad one may appear to some slight advantage? This sort of remedy always reminds us of the device as- cribed to Empress Bugenie for keeping her complexion always lovely. She slept with & raw beefsteak plastered to her face! |Light Gloves Are In the Mode Again Closely fitting dark suede gloves that have been much worn this Winter un- doubtedly make the hands appear small. But abroad there is a tendency among smart women to return to white and other very light shades, both for daytime and evening. In the meantime, the off-black shades of blue, purple, currant, green and gray that appear actually black by artificial light are chosen not only Wwith black, but with the color of which they are an off-black shade. As the vogue for light gloves returns we may expect to see American worien following the example of a few very smart French women of wear gloves that are extremely and various S L Bathrobes. Quilted bathrobes of satin in all the soft_and lovely shades of the fabric rainbow are WArm eold Winter 3 5 S'gs Here are some of the new clothes for the South which show the new trends for daytime in coats, skirts, sleeves and necklines. Interesting two-tone combinations are wine fed and pale blue, rust brown and green, light bright blue with fust, light pink with bright blue, pink ;r.i;h grayish green, emerald green and Figured materials will undoubtedly | play an important role in the resort and |early Spring fashions, but at present emphasis seems to be rightly placed on solid colors which hold one's interest contrasts and of greater freedom in combining colors ahd materials. Studied of course, these combinations are, But obtained with the one-color effects of mqw”ymwo atrongly oon ol(nmvh:m' or rose with & 28 § g 15 ‘E af i Eg§§ g i S § g : i i g 8 i Fia L 1 7 L g E s £ E “F E i ving introduced the fashion for plaid skirts with matching plaid scarf to be lections you cannot forget them. They areé very m‘llmwfle and usually de- cidedly smart. shall hear much of Basque and Algerian stripes—showing fearless use ot red and yellow. with Figured and plain chiffon combined @ left, and at right one of the new met frocks. Blue Greens. At present the smartest gréens are those that ifcline to blue rather than yellow, chartreuse having retired for the time in favor of turquoise and blue jade. Aqua green, which is a light bluish tone, did not outwear its welcome through much applause last Summer, but appears in company for the coming Palm Beach season. Pinks are used much in combination are | with light blue and dark or bright blue, and the smartest t shades of this color aré those that lean toward yellow rather than toward mauve. ‘White takes first place in most of the Palm Beach collections. Next, accord- ing to most observers, comes yellow, which is frequently combined with white. There are soft, dusty pastel yellows no less than the rich, buttery tones, with deeper shades that span the gulf to the bright orange tones. These, with a little more red in their make-up, become tangerine and bitter e color range between clear, it to red 18 very well taken % season. not been entirely forgot- ten in the resort wardrobe. For travel it !flfl!fl in combination » J: used apmflcly ;nm evening as well s day- occasions and has been used strik- combination with yellow. e for thus bobbing up is that they know ‘dveu enough they are too pretty to stay lown. ‘We wore gardenias on our hats last Spring, you remember. But the sort of hat we then wore them on has gone the way of the days of last May. The new way of placing gardenias on hats is quite different—because the new hats are different. A single gardenia is glued well, it would be just about be- ind the ear, on one of the new felts that are cut and draped like bonnets. Left, erepe de chine beach pajumas k‘m‘:i trimming bnnd.l;p“olnnr plain erepe de chine combined in two colors; right, conon beach pajamas with New Details Abound. Lots of the new daytime dresses have embroidered batiste modesty pieces. Some have deep batiste cuffs, extend- ing from the end of the elbow sléeve Y e of de chine me 0f e new cre] dresses are embroidered vfi mnflm lors and lamb have round, rather small muffs to match and often small hats of w;l&me of the new g ay 85 o over m and are Jmlhd down, where they are held by means of metal weights. Boudoir of silk crepe are trimmed with the bands of the crepe braided about the vamp. Bceoteh plaids are used in some of the new blouses. Not only that, but these blouses are of taffeta. Both are old fashions revived. 305k Lo e otk OVer Jong stockinge: of socks, 0 ng | 3 sau-on. cuffed gloves and beret. ‘e made in all combinations of beige and gray, with bright colors. Palm Beach Sponsors Models Which Are So Becoming That Winter Headgear Will Be Banished|; Quickly—Shape’s the Thing. Tm{ and keep the Spring hats from going to your head! Palm Beach sponsors such chapeaux that it will take a strong- minded girl to wear her Winter head- At left, plain sleeved daytime f or Entirely Missing on Some Garments. Revers Which Ap- pear at Front With No Collar at Back. Al.bd‘nlpolnt&olmw for short the fashions and for the . You will find them on the new suits. Many of the new one-plsce or two-plece dresses have short jackets and they make - F e g g most popular new shadss, that are apt to set the styles for least tead, Which none but the prettiest should attempt to wear, for it is a young hat of m;';:ufimd ?:‘m of parakeet green one le visca, with a cluster of green satin rib- bon and & few little flowers ot back. It is the hat superb to top & dainty little Spring frock. e New Handkerchiefs. sedis { i i § i £ I | A nsifis i B &5 g3 i i Ei 3 of E : bt i il i and figured. crepe. do chine_ claverly combined in Aol b Yo g i Collars Very Narrow |5emac et in, the day o for dining and inf¢ Trg £ el E § Sef & ’% E i