Show Dash and Beauty j I 1 in Miladys Milady's Garb I This Is the time of at year when more than at any other one longs to loaf lont and end Invite ones one's soul to be far tar away from the complications of at life and from tram such vexing matters as that of ot dress writes a fashion correspondent In the New York Times Happily Happny this Is a 11 day when everything everything every thing goes when one Is Js expected to express ones one's self and when Individuality Indi indi- Is approved even when It might properly be translated as peculiarity pe Such diversity of ot styles such each latitude such each extremes In dress have bave never been known In the past and never before In the history of at modern fashions has the unconventional unconventional unconventional been so conventional Originality Is at nt a n premium The demand for tor the unusual has become so keen that artists having a n high quality fly ity of talent a are e devoting themselves without apology to th the designing of ot women's clothes There have result- result f N L p I 4 F 4 f jI j- j u I i it c Clel Ciel Blue Chiffon Dance Frock HeavIly Heavily ily lly Beaded In Crystal ail sd many beautiful and artistic modes that help greatly to dignify the sub sub- Many examples ar are pre presented In n the latest styles to Illustrate the fancy for lor color which has bas made mode this sea sea- son eon one of at real beauty Every type of ot gown and garment from the most casual to the most formal Is shown In symphonies of at color In grace of line and with a fine sense of ot ity sity Radical changes are adapted adopted with skill and the picture value Is emphasized In many artistic ways The sportswoman has created a style of dress and the designers who have hav taken It Jt for tor their motif have ha created more chic and really smart frocks and coats and hats bats with every detail end and nd accessory than have hav ever been shown before The athletic girl who takes the place of ot the stiffly tailored young Joun lady of f former seasons Js is a creature of ot life and dash and grace of ot vitality and poise These qualities are reflected reflected reflected re re- re- re in the togs In which she makes her ber proud young oung appearance to do her herbit herbit herbit bit In helping win laurels for her country and herself henelt May Display Individuality Extravagance and eccentricities art ar Individual but such broad fields have been searched for novelty and such 1 extremes have been harmonized that thai nothing startles today and anything so It Is not commonplace Is liked What Is popularly known as sports dress has come ome to be In a way a costume cos cos' costume tume tame for tor general utility Fashionable Fashionable Fashionable Fashion Fashion- able women of today toddY have tempered with common sense the whole subject of dress the tendency being to simplify sim sim- simplify to make as comfortable as possible possible possible pos pos- sible the ceremony of dressing In grandmothers grandmother's day the belles of at Saratoga Sara Sura- toga Newport Lon Long Branch Narragansett Narra Narra- gonsett and White Sulphur spent th the theIon theion Ion Ion warm summer days duys and evenings dressing changing many times types thres displaying displaying displaying dis dis- playing as large and as varied a u wardrobe wardrobe wardrobe ward ward- robe as money and time permitted and m making the whole water-place water season a time of laborious effort Inthe Inthe in inthe the cruse couse of vanity It is all quite different now Smart simplicity Is the keynote of the day day day- some of It elaborate simplicity to be sure Mos Moat of the uncomfortable features tea fea tures of women's dress have huc gradually been laid aside stays aside stays and und hones bones and crinoline and the other things that made fashionable dress a barbaric business Now health ease pase utility clearly expressed In terms terns of becomingness becomIngness becom becom- and nd d style are the standard und and an any departure from these thes and Inclination to fussiness Is the reverse of ot smartness The Ideal deal dress for the less pre pre- pretentious pretentious pretentious places Is an un all duty frock or practically such such something something for tor mornIng morn- morn Ing for Ing-for for whatever activities there m may r be In ports or outing and for I J ij J carrying on past luncheon with no need to change until tea time perhaps perhaps per per- haps hups not until dinner Early In the spring at Paris French Frenchwomen Frenchwomen women dressed thus and ond one saw many smartly dressed sed shopping at lunches even at nt tea In the swagger restaurants wearing the Ule Informal frock but always alwa's they were stylishly aud and booted and always with a n boil boa of ot fur or other becoming stuff about the neck This summer sports dress with pretty snappy skirts of ot plaited d stuff soft flattering flutterIng blouses sweaters Jackets jackets jackets Jack jack- ets boyish hats huts and wonderful answers Just such needs and Is th the most youthful engaging girl boy kind bind of dress ever designed Ont One se sees s no ao end of wom women women n known as leaders In the beau monde rho ho elect to dress In this Independent and altogether Joyous manner Designs Are Subtly Simple At the other end of ot the days day's program program pro pro- gram the modish dress Is artistic elaborate fantastic costly and sometimes sometimes some some- times dazzling The most Intriguing designs are subtly simple In composition tion beautiful In color and made mode of materials of every quality and arl variety ty possible to an artistic Imagination The season was begun with man many mo models els Illustrating different types of evening gowns heavily headed beaded or of handsome material richly trimmed for dinner and the most formal evening evening evening eve eve- ning entertainments fairylike tulles floating chiffons and softly clinging crepes fine traceries In crystal metal pearl needlework work laces painting hand-painting ostrich with jewel Jeweled d ornaments and ribbons All these types go Into the making of the latest gowns for fashionable occasions They are as different and numerous as types of women and aud they tiley all are aregood aregood aregood good style Slimness Is Js still the Ideal There Ther are no fashionable dowagers any anymore anymore more for the terms are paradoxical Just a flapper dress made somewhat somewhat ornate and stately Is the costume In which the woman of mature years Is la laseen seen today It Is not however matue matune mature ma- ma tune ture of line The sees to that and her genius meets the re re- The beaded gown go carries on Invariably Invariably In In- variably the pattern Is d done ne on chiffon chiffon chifton fon ton cloth or voile olle producing a clinging clinging cling cling- ing InS caressing effect Idealizing the figure and giving an appearance of ot radiance with the luster of the beads bends with which the pattern is 1 outlined A beaded gown own Is always alwa's r and fits tits many an on emergency EVer Every woman appreciates the convenience con con- of having at least one beaded beaded beaded bead bead- ed gown Some to whom the straight lines Ines and weighted softness are especially especially espe becoming have several such garments among their summer togs Delicate Dance Frocks The latest Idea In dance frocks Is fh something as as delicate as a moths moth's wings as fragile as the petals of a poppy that lasts scarcely while you OU gather It The latest things from Paris are the lightest und and loveliest Imaginable built hunt of tulle of ot seline de sole revived In gossamer weave of georgette cobweb laces and organdie A frou-frou frou dancing frock has th usual unbound unlIned slip of satin saUD F r rv I 1 9 r a I Costume Slip Slap of of Two Tone Italian Silk Body of Platinum or taffeta and the Illusion Is put on In many flounces on on overlapping pet petticoats t with the airy crispness of ballet bal bal- let Itt skirts The dress in It itself Is kept simple In French models only th the bil billowing billowing bil- bil lowing stuff stutT Itself with always a Q garniture of ot nosegay of ot flowers This ThU It is the type of frock that comes hack buck and Is repeated In but slightly vary vary- varyIng varying In ing versions sometimes after Intervening Inter years Because of or the unelaborated treatment treat treat- ment of tulle the color of f th the dress Is Important White Is 1 having a o vogue The fro frocks ks of frosty white tulle trimmed d wi with th trailing sprays of ot flowers the kind we know as French wreaths are the loveliest things seen at the dances at fashionable resorts Yellow Is 18 quite the rage too too too-a a deal cleat shade of ot canary Is enchanting i I J. 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