London, Mar. 10.
When a famous London Club celebrates its jubilee, "we may, with reason, expect to hear some interesting and intimate gossip prominent social, political and pro-Hessional personalities of bygone lage. And the recounting of ance-
London.
Six of them, headed by Clara, Lady Vincent, demanded that something should be done to mitiensure knowledge that they' mast tet ogre, convention. So, with' face-a storm from indign parents, ind, with no little determination, they formed the Alexandra Club, st, OF tate the coe for the flapjacks (not! pancakes. this but the large, round, flat. powder box, made to' carry in a handbag) hhas'taken so fast a hold on London that "the millinery world" has borrowed the name for a certain new shape of spring hat, This hat has a crown of fine straw as flat as a pancake, and is perched, on a Peter ribbon bandeau. Tt looks like a marine's cap and is worn slightly tilted over the eye. A short veil covers the hair on' the left ye unive anchor, Hdotes about members over the table come a mere name to the younger' the machine-made thing. In. fact, fat such jubilee dinners will often Repulsing the Prince of Wales sab act jan patent, leather The lapjack hat is proving as much a generation (I heard a girl of 17 ask seems hardly too much to say that throw a new and fascinating light: Fecently in all innocence "What did triumph' of "machinery, on the manners and customs of this OF course, strict rules were en-Lord Allenby do?) I suppose the proclaimed, "may be' the city of ours fifty odd years ago. forced, 0 that convention should name. hit as the powder-box of the same To quote another instance of this Lusitania means something to all. beginning of its. Gethronement..'T 1ot be too much outraged. For fashion thieving, we can take the don't mean that we shall go back to Chatting with a friend in the Whether it does or does not, the instance, no man was to be allowed candies and colza lamps instead of Alexandra Club, yesterday, we fell case of the striped blouse and dress recollections of Viscountess Rhondda over the front doorsteps and even electric "light, But the "veering 't9 discussing the engrossing subject ode, We see stripes, everywhere in her newly" published book "This tradesmen were kept out. Not until in these days—on dresses and round to individualist "effort. and of the histories of the London clubs War my World" of going down with the Club came to the notice of the blouses. and fur coats, Not content personal endeavour, in revolt against known to us. "It was quite a natural the Lusitania are" of absorbing Prince of Wales (afterwards Ki technocracy, is a marked feature thing to do, because the Alexandra, to leave the field open to a rival interest, She has a dreadful it wi exponent of fashions, the hairdrespicture of "a stream of steer, thinking ahd "conversation Cla is of the moment preparing to to visit its premises and having been $3°3 The Prince, deci have stolen or' borrowed. the passengers" fighting for the boats. the: belief "that "only couragement of "the hold See eelbratfon and fas, itself, as interesting a. history fumed away by the portress, went idea of the stripe and applied it to "They were whi their own art. If) women. wear ing the Word in its widest sense) any institution of "ite kind. 'The back to tell hi fed is friends that the new sis there any cure for unemployment, 'Alexandra Club, founded. in' 1883, lub was respectable enough to bear. striped dress material, why not was the first of all women's clubs striped hair? they say. strongest got there. frat, the weak the name of the Princess of Wal wore nated. aside... Noone "ese Victorian Again? the country, and it was a daring And was christened. In its T have just heard of the young. except that "Wwhive-faced "stream courageous act to open fitty yea daughter of a London hostess whose Seemed to lose control...
But in many ways we are of life, one concession feminine retreat in the heart of the has beer iade—inen are now allow: hair was light brown until she made looming old fashioned, At a big 'West End in those days. an appointment with her. coiffeur Then suddenly Lady Rhondda in London, the young' as visitors, but only to tea, and it became bleached with three realised that the sea—she had deen urged to be Victorian. They Young, titled women, then, liv stripes! The first streak of blonde thought they were 60 ft. above i immediately revolted and declared in the country, had long chafed at Schools of Baby Lore hair T saw on a brunette, over a was coming over the deck. She they would never be. "Yet in fact} the restriction' of convention which saw it, green, up to her knees—they are becoming so. Cigarettes forbade them visiting London with-Besides women's clubs, which "do not remember its coming up re not so common as they were. out the companionship of a maid oF abound in London, there five, 4 ago, seemed to me very attra Tt'was a fairly broad stre Uke' the Grecian band or ribbon, that must. all have: hi One hears young girls exclaim with chaperone and the safe accom: is another institution for the benefit trusted frien of women, Worn about an inch from the brow, disgust "Women look so awful when small begi But the Intest notion of what is they smoke." The "bright. young called Zebra stripes is to have not things" so notorious for rowdyism done' to put up at a hotel, Luckily tion of the Babies' tone but three narrow, bleached ire the men and women of the early for all of us, there' were a few babi strands upon the head. "The result ities. The really young are women not content to stay in the metropolis. an¢ ori the 8 differs country until they were invited to from the origin of the first woman's is, T think, not so pleasing to the growing staid and are" recovering. club in that they are run through eye, ideas of behaviour." Chaperones, the ce-operation of men and women, reintroduced for a. joke, begin delightful idea, one. wonders ders agai Sport and the Briton have a real meaning, and domest is beautiful" fabric has 20 though for the sole help of women, Sencha ay Ronit. and ave, until reek her way to the surface and got hold attainments, from being revived as|long been shunned, and tartan ported more by the work class That everything to do with sport, of a little piece of board. ras clothes included, has a special signi. upper eventually picked up unconscious. reality.
4 fashion, " promise to. become 'a{ talfeta—what could be more lovely than an evening dress, with drama: than by the professional an ses, ficance to the' English man. and and taken to Queenstown where her tle pul sleeves and a short train was, demonstrated by the ithecteh tne eva [Spring in The Air in, say, black, yellow and red tartan As the matron of one said to me of Wales during his tour of the other da "For twenty years irish Industries Fair this Spring is in the air—birds axe rosta giter a fait The very Whinpering of the material is enough to. enchant the poorer classes ha had infant! The Prince purchased the of those terrible moments in the reloting. from heir winter sojourn welfare centres, while professional entire contents of a stall, which dis-and crocuses, are showing' brave And building their nests, sno Jany woman. By the way, trama are back, and double trains will be seen ses have had no Way of learning Played sports shirts and'collars, Ho thing about their children except a Sec did this within the first few minutes Tittle heads, the sun is (occasionally) Jon some of the Court dresses, the from constant consultation with shining, and everywhere there seems shorter train being cut in one with of his visit to the white City, where their doctor to be hurry and bustle. Not the; the skirt—an idea borrowed from "And she went on: he stayed two hours in all. hen I tried to persuade West least in the fashion world." Mannebridal fashions. the' sense of something End mothers to allow their children The world's sports wear fashions of one—T don't mean in quin parades are taking @ very Dig to sun-bathe onthe Jawn, naked are dictated by London designers who roteeting one from! except for a hat, they: have produced novelty tweeds. and would not! death, rather of death itself being a place inthe social round, and every Salvation Army Bonnets lay one hears of further startling Evening dresses seem on_ the} hear of it.
They thought the babies interwoven silk and wool yarns Denighant pow At moments I wondered whether] the whole thing. ight fle for one {© give "Snyy conse] "meee th Rappieat inspratons would de oft Jr was pot ati fashions, so it is quite Impos- whole to be the happiest imsprntions Would dic of it Tt Was mot. until this year, which will be very prom: ment everywhere during the com:
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I think I shall just give youlbring myself to enthuse over the Mothers were imported from Poplar ing months. Trnumerablo scarves ing.
1 looked tp at news from all quarters, rather than hats. Hats of the elongated Cossack With their. infants and started a fare being made to wear with spring was "high in, the sky, Jconcentrate on one particular thing variety, fez caps, porkpie hats, that demonstration on the lawn that the suits, so that the appearance of the and wished that might lose. eon: T'don't know how long! spring makes that impossible, "ale Sunt over th bridge hat T did. lose ity but that]
Organdie Season little woollen caps—the very latest *"ow it.' at the nose; [in tmepbers found "courage to intter may be altered according to the mood of the wearer by n cha [with spikes of wool "projecting: of scart, A" dog-lead "swivel is That, however, no doubt, hap-lust thing 1 remember' in the To begin with—fabries. This fastened io one original belt of new eight inches from "the top; little ned several years ago, when sun-looks like being an organdie season, eccign;. another has a double bat sailors, with large, high crowns and thing ws rather' a new and most us the real terror of, 4 little time ago T told you of a ook, while a third a girdle of sith such crises is the fear that one {the minimum of brim all seem to be revolutionary.
When I vi ited [charming organdie dress in "Mother cord': s secured by two intertoeking eantithe Chelsea Babies' Club recently, 1 might forget oneself and become o'Pearl," it seems to have started ful woman look plai fates" of chromium plate. Hand a plain found like one of that white-faced stream. collage behind a pair of the eraze,_ evening 5,000 Institutes Frocks of other "mat
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