The San Francisco call. [volume], August 07, 1910, Page 17, Image 17

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The San Francisco
Sunday
Call
Woman's
Section
THE SMARTEST FASHIONS
OF WELL-DRESSED
FOLK
JPv -' vc iusf come-back from the loveliest picnic, and while it's fresh lin
my mind I wanv to sit down and teU my. fashionable sister all about it. '
1 ou know^Elsie Willoughby hasbeen back some time now, and yet we hadn't
done the simplest thing for her. PinaUy/ in desperation, we decided. to. shed
husbands, and kiddies and go off for a day alone in our dear.old woods. There
were just four of us: Elsie and her sister; Jean, and' our;beloved Mrs. Rich
ardson, the gentleman farmeress," as Httle Eleanor calls- her, and yours truly,
ahank goodness! I didn't have to act as chaperon this time/ I hate "that custom
that makes^a youn gj married woman chaperon amubh olderjunmarried onel'
;:. We had a splendid time, with innocent things likeVgrapejuice to drink and
diwand .fruit and dented eggs and abouttwenty kinds'of saiidwicliesto eat.
T^fh7^^ c ii OWn a bit, sunned ourselves in the clearing
b £t f £ P. mes '^^ -old times and new, and finally: rode: home, about 5
ZXaVMMM }8l ?£ h^ bajlds .-- with an extrai man^for v Jean-^lrove up in
grand style for us in the old omnibus. - r: i .. \u0084
I wish we had had a camera* along:; we were all-including me, of course^-so
charmingly "dressed. Mrs. Richardson was in soft lavender voile double dotted in
black, with^a chemisette and long ciiffs of tucked lawn, 1 a' row, of -tiny, black velvet
bows down the front and a; touch- of embroidery at the collar^ and oh the:sleeves.;
Her hat with a and a^black[vely«et'bowattiJie right-side.;
Elsie wore \u25a0blue'linen;;low ;^necked ; ;and shorts sleeved j^with- shoulder "strapa '
and yoke and cuff ec^ing -^
blpuse was a black \ taffeta • band, : which was "mar veldusly : effectivelwith vthe "!
peaH:buttons::/Her'wide hat was of jrough str^
: ; .\u25a0\u25a0^Y^f t ® r ench -percale imaide Jean'si : 'a - fßimple^|'frock^miii'?iS^OT^|
sailor: collar, turnbackVcuffs ai^ friUof red
;The I yoke : was finished^by - two -/red buttons andUie :low :\u25a0 neck was •- cut^square. I
There ; were broad pleats over \u25a0 the -shoulders ] and- four bands \ of ' fed -on the \ skirts
. -Aid lt I wore green linen^with a touch of j embroidery^ in darker green' in '
the scallopslin double; rbws^down the^ leff^ideof^the blouse,.oii the"cuffs^and at
the ,V-shaped"neck^;,Arow:of C buttoned fastens^tho scallops inTslashea
blouse effect and .reappears on .the: skirt^The sleeve nimesTare \ quite -far apart/
and the belled \u25a0 sleeves ; are loose^ahd r comfortable. : V -^ '>.-: '\u25a0.'\u25a0' - ,; • - -\u25a0\u25a0 ',:\u25a0;.
« \u25a0•: .' : \u25a0£**?;}. talked ; longenbugh ? I findlthat I; am^tired, whetherVouare or not
bo good night,; my dear. ' _.' . . .— r MADGE:;--