o match her gingham apron, which
is a solid pink, pale green or lavender.

Dark women look uncommonly well in khaki colour, and so do some blonds.
Here is a shade decorative against vegetation and serviceable above all.

Garden costumes for actual work vary according to individual taste and
the amount and character of the gardening indulged in.

Lady de Bathe (Mrs. Langtry) owns one of the most charming gardens in
England, though not as famous as some. It is attached to Regal Lodge,
her place at Newmarket. The Blue Walk is something to remember, with its
walls of blue lavender flanking the blue paving stones, between the
cracks of which lovely bluebells and larkspur spring up in irrelevant,
poetic license.

Lady de Bathe digs and climbs and clips and gathers, therefore she wears
easily laundered garments; a white linen or cotton skirt and blouse, a
Chinese coat to the knees, of pink cotton crepe and an Isle-of-Jersey
sun-bonnet, a poke with curtain, to protect the neck and strings to tie
it on. So while she claims never to have consciously considered being a
decorative note in her own garden, her trained instinct for costuming
herself appropriately and becomingly brings about the desirable
decorative effect.

PLATE XIV

Madame Adeline Genee, the greatest living exponent of the
art of toe dancing. She wears an early Victorian costume
(1840) made for a ballet she danced in London several
seasons ago. The writer did not see the costume and
neglected, until too late, to ask Madame Genee for a
description of its colouring, but judging by what we know of
1840 colours and textures as described by Miss McClellan
(_Historic Dress in America_) and other historians of the
period as well as from portraits, we feel safe in stating
that it may well have been a bonnet of pink uncut velvet,
trimmed with silk fringe and a band of braided velvet of the
same colour; or perhaps a white shirred satin; or
dove-coloured satin with pale pink and green figured ribbon.
For the dress, it may have been of dove-grey satin, or pink
flowered silk with a black taffeta cape and one of black
lace to change off with.

[Illustration: _Victorian Period about 1840_
_Mme. Adeline Genee in Costume_]

II. WOMAN DECORATIVE ON THE LAWN

When on your lawn with the unbroken sweep of green under foot and the
background of shrubs and trees, be a flower or a bunch of flowers