July, 1923 
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In and aronnd the 
COUNTRY CLUB 
Nowadays, sports clothes are so comfortable, so easy 
to put on, so easy to walk around in, that even a rnan 
has to acknowledge they’re sensible—though it certainly 
leaves him lonesome for his favorite argument in refer¬ 
ence to the superiority of his sex. 
Pleats weren’t introduced at the country club for 
comfort, of course, but because Paris was pleating its 
very soul. Yet few of the mode’s notions are more con¬ 
ducive to a good game. And few are easier for the ama¬ 
teur to reproduce with full professional sang froid, be¬ 
cause all she has to do is to take a straight piece to a 
little man who owns a pet machine in a garret; and 
when it comes home, it’s done. 
Crepe de Chine is the favorite material for pleating, 
and white is the favorite colour. The dress with the 
monogram (No. G7209) has been made for white crepe, 
with pleated frills of itself, or those which add a touch 
of colour; in which case the hat also shows a touch of 
colour in its jauntily-tied scarf and its binding-edge. 
Frock No. G7201 
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Frock No. G7211 
Frock No. G7207 
The pleated-skirt frock with the narrow bow-tie (No. 
G7211) may be in white, too; but a clever woman of our 
acquaintance made it in henna crepe, a shade that cun¬ 
ningly disposes of the high-lights of one’s cruellest sun¬ 
burn. She also considered the charms of the costume 
worn by the girl with the golf club (Coat No. G7200; 
Skirt No. G7172) if developed in crepe de Chine; but 
decided in favor of a jersey skirt, with a flannel coat— 
being a forehanded lady with an eye to the autumn. 
Passing to the less severe models of one’s wardrobe, 
the eye falls on the printed-and-plain model (No. G7201) 
something in the mode, yet a bit above it. Any wornan 
could willingly pack half a dozen varieties of this same 
chameleon model in the one trunk. Last of all, there 
is_ the very feminine little voile or linen dress (No. 
G72Q7) that everybody loves buying and nobody minds 
making, because its dull rose or cheerful yellow stitches 
go so pleasantly. And if the man who began by think¬ 
ing favorably of one’s choice in clothes chances to be 
one’s bill-paying husband or father, his approval will 
undoubtedly go up ten points at least when he hears 
that, good-looking as the whole collection is, every¬ 
thing may be made by Vogue’s own original i^attern de¬ 
signs, at a fraction of their supposable cost. 
Coats and separate skirts $.65 each; 
frocks $1.00 
Coat No. G7200 Skirt No. G7172. 
VOGUE PATTERN SERVICE 
19 West Forty-fourth Street, New York City 
