The Archive · 1923

Then What to Wear

As to what you are wearing on your travels, the question may be answered correctly in two ways, whether you elect to wear a tailored suit and wrap or a frock and top-coat. A quiet sports costume is quite permissible as well, but whatever you choose, remember that your fellow passengers have to see it for hours at a time. We hear of some wonderful collapsible hats in suede or a straw cloche with two crowns, which folds like the old old opera hat a great convenience for the train.

The style maps for some time have been telling us that Deauvile handkerchiefs might be ex pected, just as they were typhoons of sorts; but while we are still straining our eyes for them, and only finding them on expensive imported gowns, behold the map

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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