Show I bRESS RESS L By Anne Annc Rittenhouse Sport Coats of Chinese Silk Trimmed With Bands of Spanish Colors Is One of the Spring Sensations ns NEW YORK March It 23 It is not easy when discussing fashions to get getaway getaway getaway away from the s subject of sport clothes We are out out the Eng English in this regard We Ve are treating it In something of the way the French treat the whole idea we take sport clothes seriously that is as if the idea of going out in the open were a a. brand new revelation of this century The Frenchwomen have never been addicted to sports until recently and they attribute it to the English Influence influence influence ence but the very foundation of American life lite is open air air- life Next to the well defined English hunting set the American women have been more In the open and have taken more exercise then than th n the women of any other nation But all this was taken for granted until the last few years when country life lite became so fashion fashion- able When the fashionable world andall andall and andall all of its followers turned to the country country coun coun- try for week ends when a thousand or more preachments on health sent the workers into the country for every spare afternoon when every little town had its country club and more than all when modern modem transportation became magical in the manner in which it annihilated distance and discomfort discomfort discomfort dis dis- comfort as did the Persian carpet of the Arabian Nights then clothes began to be Invented for all these out out- Ings tags Gives Dressmakers New Chance Naturally every dressmaker on both sides of the Atlantic ocean Jumped at the chance to supply sport clothes Suddenly everyone began to have country and town suits suit t country and town hats sweaters mufflers topcoats topcoats top top- coats and sturdy shoes for country wear All those who sold feminine apparel saw a chance to double their income by this diversion They gladly took the chance of adding to their output an entirely new scheme of fashions Theory and practice are now welded Women were told that they should have special clothes for the open and now they have them them and and a very good practice it Is too There has not been sufficient training training train train- ing however to keep w women men from wearing these very comfortable sport clothes lothes in the city streets True there Is ls no reason why a I heavy homespun suit with tan shoes shouldn't serve servo for a bad morning in town but many women have adopted this costume for every hour of the day and refuse to change it ft Spain Contributes Color Scheme From Madrid and the Balkans we weare weare weare are getting many new color schemes which are tried out on port sport coats and hats The broad yellow and red strip ing tag of Spain is most effective for the open air It appeared first at Palm Beach and now on Long Island in a variety of cleverly executed gar gar gar- ments One of the best of these Is sketched today It is made of Chinese tussah which like Shantung and Rajah is isone isone one of or the weaves of silk pongee The lne Spanish stripes are put on above the tho hem at the cuffs and around the neck The coat Is a substitute for tor a sweater as many of these coats are It has a plain panel front with the back lack laid In pleats at the waist line held In by a broad belt that dips downward down ward toward the hips The hat that goes with this coat Is made of the same Chinese silk has a broad brim and a collapsible crown crown- the latter Is in the broad red and yellow stripes These collapsible crowns are not strictly new but they promise to be excessively popular from now on |