Colour on the Tennis Courts Several new fashions in lawn! tennis dress are seen this year at] Wimbledon. While the white dre remains a law which may not broken, it is much varied by the use of the coloured waistcoat which matches the bandeau, and which is: sometimes worn throughout the Senorita de Alvarez, for instance, affects deep crimson in her waist coat, and this fits closely round the, hips' and so forms almost a bodice. of the red. The main difference is, however, in the cut of the dresses, which have hitherto been as loose: as possible. They are almost close-fitting, or if this feature does not! apply to the hips, it is used for the bodice of the dress. Senorita de Alvarez wears a dress which fits to well down the hips. Only the upper part and the lower part of the skirt have any pretensions to looseness, The absence of the sleeve and 1 shortness of the] skirt makes this kind dress: possible, but it needs remarkably, akuled cutting, and for most figures} though corsets would not very long be absent from dress in which less activity is required.
Miss Eileen Bennett, compromises ith a semi-fitting bodice, the neck being cut in a deep V and a pleated skirt with a slightly higher w This makes a very pretty and rather! quaint line for a tall and graceful figure. The straightness of the waist would not, however, suit} everybody. Both players represent: their nationality in the cut of their clothes, the Senorita's following the lines, even if these are ly curtailed and Mis being English at their best. Bho former are a whitish cream in colouring, while those of, Miss Bennett are a dazzling white, combined with a burnt orange silk ain't ie? member of the party calls for rescue. The others may try to extricate hi but anyone caught by the "he" doing 30 is also made to join the victims. Eventually the room is full of people in all kinds of contortions shouting for rescue.
"Truths," which is very like the wwhward questions" played by. "young ladies" in the Victorian schoolroom, is another of the games which cause high jinks in Mayfair drawing rooms to-day. If any member of the party refuses to answer any question put to him he has to give a forfeit and redeem it afterwards at great price—"Daily News and Westminster Gazette."
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