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"And Whether Its Pur. pose Be To Bathe, To Promenade or To Bask in the Sun, Its Effect is Assured-Its Charm is Varied.
The w bathing fashions are on- deniably smart. If they were not, it would be sure reflection on the art of the designers who are responsible for them. site eclour, fabrics and hoes - thrie neem ready made for the beauty of beach apparel, And this happy situation has resulted in the introduction of a hint of beauty into oven the athletic swimming suit that has ertain limitations that may not be overcome.
The geberal differentness that chancterizes alt fashion in translated
satisfactorily very
in the varied fabric and the brilliant colours that are de psible by the out-of-door keting of koud, sea and sky. And the little details of fine and trimming, that we have come tenssoginte with the dress mode, ad a place in the abbreviated appard of the beaches. And not to be outdone, the maker of accessories has devised clever and appropriate costume details to comple- ment.
And shadowing the entire mode, we have the ensemble, never more charm- ing than here, where the gayer of colour, the bolitest of patigris and the most Biting of fabrics make the cleverest sort of, combinations possible. Whether it be the extremely feminine bathing costume that dips, but docu not swim; the bruch pyjama, that parades under a brilliant parasol, or the practical swimming suit, it is part Caf a costume ensemble.
Printed Fabrica Rule The Mode. There are many outfits in solid colour to serve as a background for the fabric
mode.
But it is to printa that the highest honours go,, and these latter vary from the more familiar geometri cal and flower designs to the leopard and tiger patterns and the stripes and plaids that are so popular. When you consider that the plain colours are vivid-the high reds, greens and blues especially, then you realize the futility of the adjective "colourful."
Success is assured by the variety of the materials used quite as much as by the colour range and ite intensity. Many silks-taffeta, faille, pongee, satin, the crepes-especially Romain and de china, cottons-notably gingham and English broadcloth, and jersey in its newest form of Balbriggan aro the favourites, and there are some clever garments of crotonne, chintz and brocade.
For purposes of identification it is necessary to divide the mode of heach apparel into three parts-sults for the athlate, who swims, the costume that
akes a tentative dip, but remains far longer on the sands, and what is known as the promenade ensemble. Then, of
that seem to weld the parts of each and every outfit together, tremendously important in. their own right.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1925.
The ENSEMBLE GOES DOWN
CARC OR
models, rich in the povulty of their bordered with a monogram in a co- trasting colour or in a shade that design. Little details of trimming matches the woven border. If one supply originality and the resultant belongs to a brach club the guit may
effects are distinctive. Some are plan- ned for wear with worsted tights while wear its insignia.
others have bloomers to match the
Typical so is of the athletic type are pictured, both of Jeracy and both of dress. The former are most practical solid colour. One weals a belt, the the hour of relaxation beneath a beach, when a dlp precedes the sun bath or other an insignis, and are the truly smart type for their purpose. Only the parasol.
to be made of the same fabric as the. dress. It is net, but the coloure match, American beauty rose in the colour and faille, silk the fabric of the rigld ensemble suit that consists of a dress and a voluminous wrap of the cape type, There is just a touch of a contrasting shade in the pipings that outline the kiri and the tripin cape collar, and this shade li repeated in the lining of the costame that need not fear either the water or the critical eyes of thors who watch it when on promenade.
slender or medium sized woman should The model of taffeta, with its shir-wrap: It is a fair example of the attempt this type of sust, and even then ring and cording and suspicion of a should be sure of herself before adopt-bouffant effect has matching bloomers. ing a patto.n. When alzo forbids there it recognize the dependable charm of are, slips of silk or sat n that may he black, leaving colour to cap and worn over bathing trunks,
sandals. This frock will go into the affetta is one of the boat materials for water and emerge triumphant, for
the purpose after jersey. Many of the Vnry newest models feature a smart.
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With these knit suits one wears a
course, there are the clever accessories elegant. There is Fuch a thing as Marine complete one's,
The Least Decorative Are Most Useful. Because it is its nature to be so, the kalted-swimming suit for the morning dip and swim is rather a plain effair. "It may be a one-piece: affair with attached trunks or two-plece style with shirt and franks, the former oftastimes white Some little" variations are
shown the arrangement, of the neck line for instance-but for the mog part they rely on their colour and was
they may
'capo of rubberized silk or satin, or a wrap of some fabric that is not over.
consistency, even in a bathing ensemble. Two auch wraps are picture-the one of a plain, the other of a moiro rates proofed alik, the former ly mmef with a bilk of contrasting colour and texture; the latter stencilled. Cass and choot tiye, yet wholly practiesk to complete the costumes are decora
But the ensemble depends, in no small degree, on the accessories that complete altogether fetching, and their vivid it. They are onis varied, but
TO THE SEA
colouring is frequently the note of relief from sombreness, especially when the wearer is stout, Head gear includes sun hats, caps and the picturesque bandans, and a minor ensemble is often found in a gay bandana with a scarf to match, for the scarf is a part of the bathing mode. -
There are sandals of all sorts, rang- ing from the practical affair of rubber to the more dainty type that does not
KRIPTS GOL AT PHEIPP BESFM SEACH ARPAPEL
Baxs are
Then
expect to go into the water. practical, first of all, though many of them take amusing shapes the Dinah bug, for instance, that is rubber lined : in spite of her colourful skirts. there are patent leather bags with separate compartments, one for wet and the other for dry clothes, and the patented zipper instening.
Beaches dazzlingly
d fair Lo present a picturesque panorame, this season.
COLOUR PROPHECIES
So much of the charm of the mode is due to eniuur that one's interest in piqued by any forecast of what a seuson will bring. Some of the most popular of the many shader will pass--as henna did-with the coming tul AULA fashions; but muny will be retained and there will be new tints to replace those that have disappeared. Dye-pots are babbling, and all the world of women is interested in their content.
We had a sensa af colours that were strong. bizarre, even erade, at times. There has bee a tendency to the soning down the retining of these rung shades, and the softening process will continue. if advance information is enrrect. The picture in general will have less of the Cubist trend, and more of the mellow richness of the old Masters,
The so-called "high" shades will be replaced by the roure subtle tunes, and this is a welcome trend, for it serves to die away with many of the atrocities that have been perpetrated in the name of colour blending-if blending it couli be called and cutour contrast, Grays that are only a step removed from black and the silvery tones of gray will be found on the colour card emphasizin
■ certain neutrality,
It looks as though there would be a den of blue, in the old, well-loved shades, and while these shades may be called by wholly unfamiliar names, it will be conclusively proven that there is nothing in a name. so far as colours are concerned. Hirondelle "which means, in Engbah, "chimney swallow blue," is in vogue at the present time and is expected to become
vogue.
We always expect the nutunin tats of folinge and of the plumage of birds; and we shall not be disappointed. They, too, will have new names, but like the acuree of their names, they will be familiar. And dyers have gone to I paintings, so tapestries, to the wonder- ful rugs of the Orient for both shades and numes. There will be green-in the tone known as
myrtle, and the pastels will continue popular for even- ing wear. "Creat anticipations."
The newest millinery fancy is the hat of rough straw with a taffeta erown and flower trimminga. Sometimes the flowers make a wreath and at times only a single blossom is used, but the result is always smart.
THE HOUSEWIFE LOOKS TO HER
LINEN
Once again we are approaching the between-season time of the year, when fashions are in the making and we are enjoying & temporary hull in the winds that motivate them. The house has put
on ita summer attire and the heavy rugH and winter curtains, well cleaned, are safely placed in storage, It is a time of intro-spection for the good house wife who loves a well-filled linen closet and appreciates the constant. attention it demands.
One
done pieces a decided impetus. muy always have a bit of pick-up work at hand that will help fill the shelves of the linen closet Towels, luncheons and bridge sets make, use of solid and eross stitch embroideries and show a edgos-crocheted, preferably, although decided preference for hand finished
while one end may be hem-stitched and plan embroidery.
the other has a border of
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If you are something of a connoisseur Shop are beginning to feature their "White" sales, although it is only always crazed certain pieces for "com
in laces and embroideries, and have through association with other days that the term "white" may be applied. Pany use, you will buy them at sale The average white sale of to-day, whe-keeper of the store linen shelves gees ther it be of lingerie or household linens, over her stock, and takes out the soiled is quite likely to prove a riot of colour,
time.
Fay it is at this time that the
and as colour becomes more important pieces that have become crumpled from in fashion, it has its effect on the
lying on the shelvca furnishments of the house and the bita of adornment that it wears.
The wise homekeeper will take advantage of a cost morning and take secount of her stock of nens, going through them all and separating the wheat of the good from the chaff of the worn. If she is truly economieni she will find uses for pieces that have wornI thin she may even make two pieces into one, for everyday usage-but she will find her list of needed pieces an item to evasider.
being shown, That the store inventory coincides with your own is to your advantage..
At almost any advertised inen sale
of the reputable shops you will find tables loaded with odds and ends of towels, table linens and the unnamable pieces that have their individual paes in the home. They look unattractive, e perhaps, but the very first laundering concealed by the soil of handling. If will remedy that, and the value is there. you are sure of your knowledge of laces and linen, you will find real treasures in the crumpled masses offered for sale, Only the unwing women scorns sales and the opportunities they offer. The wian woman buyn all her nens, and, if she is very wise, all her underthings and many of her outer things-especi- ally summer frocita at sales. The slightly soiled little dress of voile, wear- ing a French "hand-made" tag will be quite new to begin the next summer season. And soiled pieces-of linen or lingerie-will come up smiling from the tub for all-the-year-round service,/
"ABSENCE OF OCCUPATION IS NOT REST.
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While it is quite true that summer days are vacation days, and vacation presupposes blissful hours of idleness, there is much of truth in Cowper's thought an utter absence of occupation Only when one's budget is practically is not rest. Hours on the porch and unlimited can the elaborate piecos be under the trees inoy pleasantly com- used every day. Nearly every one has.
found some particular "brand" that bine recreation with a light form of gives good wear, and watches the salsa "business-the coming months of winter in the shops that carry them for re- duced prices.
to reap the grain of labour. Trade-marked goods is one hundred per cent. perfect no matter where or at what price one Ands it, Sbeete and cases of all sizes, as well as, towels and table lluens, are featured.
Fashion delights in the touch of handwork, the bit of embroidery, or applique that raises the incignificant to And along with the offerings of
the distinctive, and is lovely quite Arished pieces go remarkable valuas in beyond its actual value. One's efforts plece goods, especially towelling and may well be directed toward the house sheeting. And at this particular time wardrobe, for it is quite true that the of the year it is quite possible to achieve one's needed supply at a com work dress of the average bousewife paratively low cost, if one does not comes in for too little attention count the labour of making them up. And goinoklent with the sales of finished frequent changes are imperative, the
•¦ And during the heated term, when
Interesting offerings in the art depart places and goods by the yard, there are. menta linens and towels has given, the hand The introduction of colour into table
"LE DERNIER CRI DE PARIS."
number of cutits may be increased, frocks of volle or lines that are to be quite inexpensively, with, the simple
"had, semi-made, needing, only a few hour work to complete them. They quite
carry more individuality thaŭ many 'a' costume with a coater cape of a con-
more mostly bit of apparel, and fiare The very latest thing in Paris is of not an idea that can be put forth for the added charm of their hand applied trasting fabric or colour, and very senesnan is made of terry cloth, deep interest to us the states for it immediate acceptance,, for we are too crotonne. rubberized silks, plain or wil mene thun kely, be incorporated fond of placing our waistline where it decoration Roman striped, anhels, balbriggan, into our coming mode: What the sum best becomes a Bat the tendency is The pictured outfit-of suspender and rubber. Some of the very smartest mer show ngecature will, to say the there and it will not be denied. chafs, of a rubberized material, have; least, have an, indɑence on our fall and
* || skirt “and peasant-type blouse-iz zu The Beach Ensemble is Vivid And striped terry cloth linings and facing winter moden, and the colours, lines leave, if new offerings are to bework While the design is effective, We cannot get away from the long expression of fashion allied to hand Some N Gay, -
Scmd of the most stunning of the beach dolalls and trimminge that characterise believed. There are many variations the stitches that perfect it are simple Fashion he put the succus of the ensembles are developed in satin, detalls the models will be a part of our fall of the bishop leayn, all of them attrse of execution, and the pattern gro beach ensemble into the hands of that of embroideries and appliques their les silks the same and the Crepe The Print la The Solid Colpur, seduced to toed in on the free e Arquite soppete for parent
decoration in the se
Skirts will continue short, though times carry the only bit of trimming mag possess several of thate outils, and tire. Sleeves are very fancy, and often rapidly in even anakilful hands. One her, confidence has not been mileslased t front designers-baye host mated to)- Quite ya of attracting attention on. The fregnir.comlined that are always the Calored leave shows ornamariation ichtly incensued. Jesigiby-gridesced in appearance be tire sigavo inode and eve take the chaing fabrics into their hny brach, tad model of printed taffeta, the fret, iga of a dropped bem And Colours "sel
the tropre
for any decorative afect that hands and work, with them, and renuity-f-Xta "fozal --dualgn. 18. spécialjy, cuéctivo, num:61: Undyingw tailleurs, are for perhaps “softäni tetbe wor
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Many of them are plain, but home are apparest in even the comparatively and it the right note of contrney, 15 ehow the knit in borders, while yet. A, inexpensive softs that Mr Average afforded by the litoral d third i group are eithe woven or Women wears. The dress, the taps benceth the Littleeswerk on pre
will, the of bido Troit band. The piping
and or coat and the rap hem-lo mach, age and the
Vivid colour combiria tinip, o
For cipru care of avid eglour to match rints and featured in those codes of trimming The cope
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dunce an the danger than the spring neck hereng
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and so on, and
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