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What Well Dressed Women Will Wear |'^v By ANNE RITTENHOUSE—Copyright, 1923, All Rights Reserved' f Shawls and Fingerless Gloves, Victorian Sacques and :,, Directoire Canes Are Thrown Into Summer Fashions If France is in turmoil design ing new clothes, trying to arrange her annual labor strike in the dressmaking places, getting ready for the American, invasion of dress buyers, America is being quite reckless with accessories. The shops, the high-priced houses, --the manufacturers are doing de lightful things in that sector of . dress which interests the woman who knows the value of assem bling trifles. It is far more alluring to shop for accessories in hot weather than to analyze and criticize new frocks and wraps. The average woman rarely ceases to be inter ested in getting a new trifle to go with an old frock. It refreshes : her outlook on life. «. No? all purses, are sufficiently - elastic to let women buy big pieces " of. clothing whenever anything new sails over the horizon. Not every woman has enough oppor tunity to get good service out of The desirable material for these HOT T DAYS. " Starting last Monday morn V> we placed on sale 2500 yards Z of Handsome PRINTED and PLAIN PONGEE, ALL SILK GUARANTEED. They make lovely cool Dresses, Sport Suits; also excellent lining for Suits and Coats. Regular value $1.75 to *.$2.50 per yard. • , - \ Our Price, Special For This Week I $1.00 PER YARD ~ ■ Figured Georgette Crepe* l apd Crepe de Chines and ~ Handsome Foulards Very finest highest quality material for the making of Costumes suitable for all social functions. 40 inches wide, and positively all pure silk. Regular prices $3.00, $4.00 and $5.00 per yard. |Our One Week Special Starting ' Tdday $2.00 PER YARD Beautiful Silk Sweaters A Line Like These Is Seldom Equaled Very Dressy Garment in All Color* Summer Cotton Good* Make Cool House Dresse* at Price* Half Their Usual Selling | SPUNTEX HOSIERY Manufactured Specially for Us Fresh from the loom, Super-fine Silk Chiffon Hose. Regular value $2.00, $2.50 per pair. Every one minutely ex amined and each pair wrapped. They come in white, black, medium, grey, gun metal and fawn colors. They are finely made with reinforced heels and fit 'snugly at the ankles and guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction in every way. CHIFFONS, $1.25 per pair 3 Pair in a Box, $3.50 •£ PLAIN, $1.00 per pair Hose of the Better Kind . — SILKS, SATINS, LACES, WOOLENS and FINE FUR GARMENTS r.-: The store of the highest qual ity goods at the lowest possible prices. You can always get here just what you Want when yon can’t get it elsewhere. j Bogatin Bros. Our Price I* One-Half Their Real Value Our Famous We Specialize ' In ' * a closet full of coats, skirts and blouses; why, then, buy them? Economize as we may, the Ameri can buys more clothes than the women' of any other nation. That’s why the French like us. Think of buying seventy-six gowns for the summer season, which the cables reported as the order of an American woman to a European dressmaker? Think of the order of a dancer from New York for ninety thousand dollars’ worth of'clothes -for her Paris season? We know little of the parsimony in buying clothes which is a habit among Europeans in high places. Our dressmakers show us quickly how our prodigality has become a national habit when they are not pleased with an order for a single gown or suit. One of them said: “I am not in the least interested in any. woman who wishes to limit her purchase to one gown, no matter what, the price. We onljr care for clients who order from' six to a dozen with hats and accessories to match.” This is no fairy tale. It is a confession in more than one New York establishment. The woman who can afford only a single high-priced frock and hat four times a year has visions of Bathing' cap with painted design in front - hat a neck scarf to match. Needless to say it is more honored on the beach than in the water. It is adopted for rainy days in the country. , and Eugenie wore them. So did Victoria, but her wearing of them did not add bo their prestige as her personal style was deplorable. As wedding presents she made them famous over England, add ing thereby to her reputation for parsimony. When the gorgeous Spanish shawl came into fashion two years ago it was relegated to the women who like to be conspicuous. Now it is broadcasted. Its price has gone up to correspond with its prestige. The peasants of Europe would think we ‘ were crazy if they knew the present cost of their commonest piece of wearing apparel. The woman of limited income is making her own shawl. She em broiders cashmere or crepe with the rose of Spain, the dragons of China, the pyramids of Egypt, the peacocks and butterflies of Indo china, with the knotted fringe of OTHER OFFICES mbassador Hotel, New York City; Spring Lake, N. J.; Hot Springs, Ya. Unquestionably Safest and Best A. & E. Lustreoil Permanent Wave • The only method wherein oils are used DURING THE PRO CESS OF WAVING. Adds lustre, beauty, health. Don’t experiment when the best is to be so easily obtained. Prices Moderate ^ “ WHERE RESULTS EXCEL PROMISES" Ambassador Hotel —{Phone Marine 5800 knobs is preferred. It matches the new kind of Paris vanity box which is "shaped in a circle and swings from the finger by a silken cord. \ The parasol blazed a path of brilliancy for the walking cane. China furnishes much that is lovely, especially the varnished paper kind, with a softly colored being barred from the big dress making houses.. What then? When, she will turn to shops which have advanced in their handling of merchandise far beyond the dreams of merchants. And she will augment the single gown or suit with enhancing ac cessories. _ — Trifles That Enhance Frocks What are accessories? ' is a question of the hour, because of the amazing quantity and variety of trifles grouped under this easy term. Once a woman called a waistcoat by its name and a short sack of brilliant fabric as it was christened. A parasol and a pair of gloves had their identity. Not so today. There is a gown and a hat—:and a mass of other things to go with them which range over half the field of clothes. In this mass women take de light. They browse over it as over a bargain counter. They feel they are not investing much money in the purchase of a few things just to make that crepe frock available for the rest of the season, or that serge suit serve for a pleasure trip—yet, they end by spending as much money on the original, gown. Well, that’s good for business. f ~ Here, therefore, are some of the limelight trifles that the summer season begets and fosters: Parasols, handbags, gloves, colored shoes, girdles, hip orna ments, colored glass necklaces, lingerie vests, odd and curious col lars, sleeveless jackets, Victorian sacks or brilliant foulard, em broidered cotton, cretonne, colored velveteen, also shawls. Neither Egypt nor Cochin China inspired shawls. They came up fropi the First and Sec ond “Empires. Both, Josephine silk floSs. The effect is all one hopes. By the way, these home-made shawls have reached the first line of wedding gifts. Sedate as they are reckoned by the old, the young find them -daring and rakish. None try to make them appear demure or serviceable. The shops show square shawls in brilliant colors with striped borders which are worn with the corners hanging to waist. They are a glorification of the ill-used Deauville handkerchief. 1 The ladies of the Directoire car ried canes and wore shawls on the street to hide their amazing dis play of body above the waist, so we pick up both these accessories for this season. We have not adopted the negligible bodice of Josephine with its puffed sleeves, but we bare our arms to the pub lic no matter what the hour or season, so there is reason enough for the ornamental shawl. The revival of the gay and vivid walk ing cane by women is merely a bit of swank, as the English put it. But no one has yet put a bunch of roses in it as Tosca did. Even the parasol and rain um brella is disguised as a Directoire cane. Bright bits of cashmere shawls are made into tight covers. This is their last line of defense for every other fabric is preferred for a shawl than the kind that started the fashion. Such is pub lic ingratitude. Sometimes the snug helmet is ornamented with a bit of cashmere if there is a walking cane or umbrella covered with the fabric, but not often. Whatever ladies and gentlemen of more fantastic and coquettish days chose for walking canes is j the inspiration for this season. I Polished wood with gay enamel design. The fragile paper para sol of Japan, gay as a butterfly or a child’s top, can be carried anywhere this summer except in the streets of a great city. Fashion is turning to China for much inspiration as it did in the days of Louis XV, therefore we should be prepared for the new trend in, fashion. Interior deco rators are going there to assemble the same kina of furniture and art objects which our Colonials brought home to put with their fine old English furniture. Our houses are soon to be Georgian, you know, no longer French, not only on the outside, but the in side, even to linen and silver, colored birds and chintz. What a happy change! French gilt fur niture was never intended for the heavy American house nor the type of life we lead, which is modelled on English traditions brought here to mould our first civilization. What of Mufflers? The shawl has not ousted the muffler. Neither has the hot weather. The shops continue to sell a collection of trifles to match, one of which is'this neck scarf. It is gayer than ever. Encourage® by its success, those who make bathing suits have in vented a muffler and cap of orna mental rubber with a painted de sign; something fantastic, you may be sure. Smart women of the kind who adopt the highly varnished paper umbrella from China wear these rubber trifles in the country on rainy days. If you want to be conspicuous in your community and secure from the weather, you might as well adopt this imperv ious costume. It is a vast im provement on the hideous apparel Are You Sick? Are You Sick of Being Sick? Those who want health and more energy, who want to lengthen the span of life, may receive individual attention at The Ambassador Healthatorium. Here under the direction of an expert, you can have Naturo pathy, Scientific Massage, Elec tric Cabinet, Hydrotherapy and other methods of assisting na ture in making you well and strong. ELECTROLYSIS: Objection able hair permanently removed. W, E. CLEVELAND Naturopath and Chiropractor The Ambassador Marine 5800 • Atlantic City, N. J. DR. P. C. M ARTUCCI FOOT SPECIALIST The Ambassador Atlantic City Phone—Marine 5800 924-925 Stock Exchange Building 1411 Walnut Street - _ Philadelphia I in which we met moisture in other | days. | Green is one of the prevailing colors for sport mufflers and cot ton crash is as good a material as knitted silk. Embroidered cash mere is fashioned, also Paisley. One discards woolen for summer, but spends money or time upon crepe, cotton, or odd and curious fabrics. The main desire is to have whatever is conspicuous in coloring and design, complacently ignoring the commonplace. *■ There is a recrudescence of the lace collar, although the Ameri can woman gives the deep bertha a cold shoulder. Small lace col lars, well-shaped, keep many harsh cloth lines from the skin of the neck, so their use should be encouraged. Wash blouses have attached collars, jackets have roll ing ones, evening frocks begin to show the ancient square decolle tage with a “modesty” piece of rare lace across the chest. This fashion is not the influence of Egypt. It comes from a softer idea of dress, a bit of the Vic torian grafted on the Venetian, We may be harking back to the dress of Charles I. The ladies oi that day wore deep lace collars which partly obscured the bodice. [FLOWERS Beautiful Blooming Plants Fresh Cut Flowers Visit Oar Display Chas. L Fischer 1622 PACIFIC AVENUE (opposite th« library) Phone—-Marine 1050 Flowers by telegram to all parte of the U. S. and Canada ... Dress Trimmings, Beads S1>J 111—«*■ i *_ 011(1 UCIUSUtUUlflg Buttons Covered, Button Holes and Pleating SEWING MACHINE SHOP 10 S. Kentucky Ave. Phone 3723-W cut in a round decolletage- and -U having the identical tight neck lace of large pearls or beads that was revived last winter. So insistent is the demand for this particular kind of ornament that the shop counters glow with it. Glass of every hue is used. There are bracelets and long ear rings to match the necklace. Spbn glass is a Paris fancy that went i? well at Palm Beach. But long beads of Pekin blue are the de sire of the fashionables. Curious crystals are sought and found by women. Ancient de-. * signs are copied. No color is too garish. We may have taken the fashion from the ladies of Charles Ii but we come within a gnat’s nose, as they say in the South, of looking like -the Cambodian ballet dancers. . • - - 1 >•:»>