Show WOMEN OF FASHION I A Short Skirt Coming in Favor Again JL VERY BOBBY COSTUMEd COSTUME-d Tennli Suit lias Been Invented to serve for Beauty Quite as Much as for Utility IFor THE SUNDAY HEn Copyrighted f HE tennIS BUit has 4 always been an ° w ugly feature in a girls wardrobe and an unbecoming s unbecom-ing thing when o worn The scanty skirt baggy waist heelless shoes and bobby cap are ffltted to make any but a reigning t belle look dowdy and outlandish To make the tennis suit becoming has been more of a question with the dressmakers dressmak-ers than any that has agitated them this Reason Walking dresses boating dresses and yachting rigs have a way of looking pretty and of being useful at the same time They could adapt themselves to the fashions fash-Ions because nothing specially trying was required of the girl who was to wear them Jf she had free use of her arms that was about all that was necessary But the tennis suit requires so much It must be perfectly free in the arms shoulders shoul-ders and waist It must be broad across the back and loose across the front easy around the neck and so short sleeved that the cuffs could in no way interfere k with the action of the hands I Thon the skirt must ba large around so I that the girl could take a sudden run after I f a flying ball jump high in the air to hit it r land upon her feet and start off again to meet the returning ball without running the risk of tripping This calls for a short skirt as well as a loose one I And how to meet all these requirements and make the tennis dress pretty has kept many u dressmaker awake at night I The mystery was solved to some extent a by using for the skirt material that required p re-quired no trimming being brocaded striped F or in some way selladorned so that its plainness would not be specially noticeable t With this sort of goods a dress can even in this season of long skirts be somewhat Ehort and yet not attract attention l One particularly IKETTr TENNIS SUIT IS EMBROIDERED r almost from skirt to the hem with an apt ap-t plique design on white cloth decorated with silk and line gold cord The material of the dress itself is white cloth the silk extends from the hem upward up-ward in points of which twelve are required to go entirely around the skirt The points come to an end almost at the waist line t The cord prettily outlines them and also t fancifully decorate the lower edge of the i skirt The bodico is easy fitting and has long f side forms of silk which extend up into r points upon the front of the bodice The i sleeves are treated in the same way and a l rather low standing collar is decorated with r gold cord t Another tennis dress is of dark blue f serge and is if not less becoming certainly certain-ly of more service during the season The p basque of the open coat and the hem of the plain skirt are battlemented and edged with the narrowest of gold braid The f waistcoat is quite snugfitting and is of blue and white cloth Over this the coat falls hangs loosely giving full freedom to the wearers arms shoulders and wrists f There is a secret to the tightfitting t waistcoat which may be told just hero because t be-cause it is not too late in the season for some t fair tennis player to decide that her costume cos-tume is soiled or is worn out and that she If needs a new one And then perhaps she may wish to follow fol-low the example or the fair Newport girl who appears each day in what seems to be a marvel of a tightfitting vest And who runs and romps and walks in a way that is the wonder and the envy of all the other girls of her set r THE SECRET OF THE TIGHT VEST IS THIS It is a sham The front is complete Itt It-t buttons all the way down ending in a point below the waist and is fitted out at the neck with a pretty white shirt standing collar and gay tie I ll j MORE FOr sHOW Now every woman who has worn one of these vests knows that it is so snug that when buttoned up in it she could not think of swinging her arms over her head or bending double without running the ristt of bursting it 1 Yet this Newport girl does all of these things And she manages it thus Connecting Con-necting the front of the vest with the back are eight or ten broad strips of elastic Each one is at least half an inch wide and Is sewed so securely that when she stands upright it does not give at all But let her stoop over bend backward or throw her arms In the air and the elastic lets out just enough to admit of the exercise and immediately imme-diately resumes its position as soon as tho wearer comes again to a standstill The back of the vest is of rather thin cambric so that it adjusts itself to the movement of the front vest Underneath this novel tennis rig the Newport girl wears a new fangled corset which is the funniest looking dud imaginable imagin-able It is designed especially for tennis players It is open at the side and is likewise like-wise connected by elastics An elastic corset string secures it in the back and broaa elastic bands are strapped across the front in place of the regular corset cor-set steel There are plenty of flexible bones in the corset and just one or two reeds to keep it in place The tennis girl says that she finds the r whole costume exceedingly comfortable and that she would like to wear it all the V time When people tell her now becoming it is to her and exclaim on how uncomfortable uncomfort-able she must find such a tightfitting gown in the game she smiles in a superior way and goes on her way rejoicing racquet in hand A tennis suit which is MOEE ron anew than for use in the game is of an artistic shade of water green cloth Around the bottom of the skirt is an effective pattern of silk richly threaded with gold The waist consists of a full shirt of heliotrope foulard flecked with preen There is a broad bolt of the water green loth and straps of the same material ex end over the ahoulderc The full foulard r ti sleeves are met at the elbow with deep cuffs of the water green cloth The girls are bound to drive this summer through rain and through shine and in every womans outfit for the season there is a smart cape and a serviceable cloak of Macintosh cloth which is of course entirely en-tirely waterproof and yet does not appear unpleasantly suggestive of stormy weather v 71 i o QQ 4i l s t ri l + I CHi i READY FOR THE WEATHER Rough grey cheviot is the favored material mater-ial for these waterproof capes as it has an English air and is moreover quite harmonious har-monious worn with almost any gown A smart cape which makes its owner ready for any kind of weather is of the grey cheviot with very high standing collar and double breasted front The cape extends just to the bond of the knees permitting the reins to be drawn underneath un-derneath it andso affording a complete protection pro-tection to the drivers waist and hands With these capes should of course go some very heavy skirt goods and if tho summer woman can afford such a luxury the best material of all is a Macintosh skirt But these have to be made to order from the manufacturers and are so expensive that not one woman in ten can afford them Or more properly speaking not one woman in ten feels that she cares to pay out so much money devoting it to a rainy day dress In THE ABSEXCE OF THE MACINTOSH a rubber blanket may be drawn over tho drivers lap and then tucked in under heron her-on each side to keep her from getting wet High overshoes protect her feet Of course the woman who drives in rainy weather cannot carry an umbrella and so she wears upon her head a Derby hat or a shiny sailor that will not leak through on to her hair and which comes out after a plod drying in such a shape that it is not a great deal the worse for its bath Quito becoming Macintosh hats may be obtained for SI or i2 They come in all colors and in many shapes With one of these which is of course entirely unlike an oilskin cap the woman who breasts the weather in a true rainy day dress feels quite independent and nautical in her getup get-up Just a word may be whispered right hereabout here-about the frizzes wbich every woman wants to keep in trim and which becoms utterly demoralized at the first sprinkle unless ones hair is naturally curly The secret of looking fresh and curly and blowy in a pouring rain is found in wear ingdo not shrink away in horrorin actually act-ually wearing a wig And a curly wig at that The wetter this gets the tighter it will curl and then everybody will tell you how becoming your wet weather costume is to you and how pretty your hair looks when it is wet As soon as you get home you UXPIX THE WIG which has been tightly fastened on to your own hair with invisible hairpins and with the curling tongs freshen up your own locks and descend to the dinner table fresh and glowing from the drive in the face of a slanting wind a m Y + tit K l 74 il o THE MOORS A dress suitable for a tramp on the moors may be made of the always serviceable dark blue serge Make the skirt short let ting it come scarcely to the boot tops and put > great big pockets on each side of it soar so-ar down that they do not enlarge the hips and so near the knees that you have to bend to put your hands in them Make the coat ighthttiig with a seam around the waist and great big pockets on each hipand three breast pockets on each side Wear underneath under-neath this a striped vest andyou are pretty for as long a tramp as you may choose to take These vests are not economical because you will need so many of them One wear Ing takes off the freshness and the prettiness pretti-ness and so you will need half a dozen to keep you going It costs good money too when you come to paying laundry bills at summer resorts |