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 is completed with a shirt blouse, a soft felt hat and high lace calf skin shoes.

Perhaps, when you first read the heading Sport’s Clothes, you thought of the type of costume that has become generally popular and is called sport’s clothes. I have in mind the silk skirts, dainty handmade blouses and rather elaborate sweaters which are called sport’s clothes but have no place in real sports. They are the clothes which are worn in the mountains, country, seashore resorts and suburban towns for before noon and even in the afternoon for out of doors. The skirts are of fibre silk in white or a pastel shade and the blouses of batiste, lawn, voile or organdie trimmed with drawn work, handrun tucks and delicate Valenciennes filet or lace.

Clothes for Afternoon: If afternoon means calling and tea, then you need the type of a frock which is often termed "dressy." Usually an afternoon frock is of silk, but its material depends somewhat on the season.

You may indulge your inclinations in mid-summer to the extent of an organdie, batiste or mull dress for calling or afternoon. Mid-winter varies the rule also, and one might include velvet, duvetyn or broadcloth along