The Archive · 1924

Some Crops

Friend: What have you taken out of your garden this summer, Jones?

Jones (sadly): Three boys, a stray cow and miscellaneous chickens. home, and frequently with yoke high across the shoulders, a new note of the scaser Sports clothes take a more im portant plice than ever and are becoming more and more practical. Stripes, plaids, checks, and rough-surfaced fabrics, sometimes pattered, are favourites for clothes of thi As far as the rest of the daytime mode is concerned, plain fabrics take the lead over patterned ones, ax Vogue predicted not so long ago.

'A favourite slozan of the new season seems to be, "Every frock has its coat," for the ensemble is more popular than ever. From sports costumes to evening gowns, the ery is still, "What the mode has joined together, let no woman put asunder." The, natural corol lary, for those whose budget is not unrestricted, must be a stricter imitation than ever to one colour ini dress, or at least to two colours that go willingly together; for only the favoured few can afford a special coat for every gown. The number of one's wraps would multiply like the sands of the sea, and ordinary city quarters would suen be enable 10 contain: the "Vogue.

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