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Southern Costumes Are Feminine
Beach and Play Clothes Decorative and Practical
This season girls who are plan- swinging pleated skirts and simple -soft ning trips to places where the sun bodices in a wide range of shines and the surf breaks high are colours. lucky-first, because they can go, and second, because they can find such attractive clothes to go with them.
Saucy jumper dresses are with us again, designed to make you look Made with wide-eyed and girlish. circular skirts, they have
you happen to be the type, miss these in rich tones of berry, green and blue, and at
bright
For cool days or quick jaunts
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If you happen to be the Viking flowered shoulder straps and type, you will look enchanting in worn over simple white blouses. a homespun blouse--open at the throat a pair of careless slacks and (if you can arrange it) a spray of salt water on your cheeks. On the money prices.
ther hand, maybe you plan to spend more time ashore, at the club two-piece lacy wool suit comes in for luncheon, with a little golf or beige with flecks of rose and green. tennis sandwiched in before cocktail The fitted jacket fastens with a nov- time and a leisurely dinner as a elty pin of copper and green suede, prelude to a long night of waltzing. and a matching suede belt is worn
of There is a definite trend toward with it. This is a costume you may the feminine in the new resort wear in town long after your vaca- clothes which, fortunately, is not ex- tion is over." pressed in pasted dyed foxes, picture hats or ankle-length printed chif- fons.
Practical Details
Printed challis is another practi- cal suggestion in bright floral pat- terns on backgrounds of dark blue or black. Most of these are simple, in fact quaint looking, with horizon- tal bars of flowers and dainty black velvet buttons.
THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 4, 1938.
"DREAM GIRI” Trailing chiffon, frothing net or fragile lace is the formula for more important nights this summer. Here you see a chiffon gown, gray over pink, the bodice trimmed with a gar- land of hyacinths and the gray overskirt slit up the front to reveal the pink skirt. beneath.
Manhattan-and lined pastel blue sponge-cloth.
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with bathing suit minus decor. Don't be put off-they have them in all sizes and colours, and if you handle the matter discreetly, a one-piece suit will be yours. They have nice You may toss a medicine ball with roomy sweaters, too, and loose fit- the ting slacks for fishing and sailing, a powerful swing and swim crawl with a strong, graceful stroke, and most of them have those sloppy but you might as well face it now rubber-soled shoes built for comfort you'll just have to be feminine this and not meant to flatter your dainty season on the beach. Bathing feet. suits, play suits and lounging clothes
Simplicity And Originality. for the most part are made primar- ily for the girls who "decorate" the
Recently at most of the smart beaches, and very colourful effective they are. The long, full-skirted French resorts the feeling for coats in bold coloured stripes or simplicity was expressed in the ad- flowered prints are becoming and option of styles suggested by local modest, too, worn over matching fishermen and sailors. Navy wool- more important nights, think halters and shorts (these not so mo- len sweaters, gold crested at the
For active sports, softly tailored washable crepes in white or in the For dinner and informal partics delicate pastel shades are presented there are crisp printed cottons with with novelty belts and "free action" short sleeves and full ankle-length sleeves, or nubby crush-resistant skirts. In this group, give your at- linens with those tricky new tops- tention to the colourful Hindu prints one colour in front and another in in lovely irregular patterns. the back. For dressier occasions. there are French linen prints (crush-resistant they tell us), some of them with wide gored skirts, and contrasting. suede belts. Light
of
Fragile Charm
weight wool jersey dresses strike a cae tropical moon on marble dan
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Javanese
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neckline, and knitted cotton shirts were worn with sail cloth or jersey pants.
For
floors and those swaying palms,
Individuality Achieved distinctly feminine note, too; with and you know the formula calls for
The typical Breton "old sea-wolf" a "dream girl" in trail- ing chiffon, a froth of
sarongs in brilliant fishing smock in linen was popular, net or fragile lace. If flowered cottons make colourful too, as well as the fitted jacket worn you happen to have a bathing suits, “Not two alike" is by the younger fishermen. good coat of tan or a the boast of one shop, and scarlet, fresh crop of freckles, orange, green and a rich shade of be dramatic. instead yellow combine successfully in the in molded chalk-white
giant floral patterns, crepe or a flamboyant print, and you'll hold your own with the de- licate maidens.
suit of printed
SHARK SKIN TAKES TO THE SEA. -pige play or bathing sharkskin, ith flaring ankle-length beach coat in white. An example of the feminine trend in beach clothes this sesSON.
Brilliant colours and large flowers crop up again in lastex satin swim suits look to your waistline before indulging! :
Some interesting new Simple cotton beach dresses, ideas have just been sleeveless and backless, have bright developed in Paris by patches of worsted flowers on shoul- Charles Creed for resort der straps, belts and pockets. These wear. This young desig- are worn with kerchiefs. knotted ner, famous for his im- under the chin, or with coy little maculate tailoring and shallow straw hats.
rugged Contrasting with these costumes was a beach outfit which won first prize at the Deauville Swim Suit contest-a cape made in the shape of a canvas sail with the actual cords and rigging of a real boat worn over a striped suit beige and brown, and emphasised by a knitted sweater in three graded shades of blue suggesting the waves.
Worth
Noting
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classic simplicity, has Sharkskin is one of the season's created several costumes favourite fabrics in white, vari- for the future Baroness coloured plaids or the whole range de Rothschild, who... will
of
pastel shades. The crisply her tailored slacks made of this fabric leather wash it out well and put it Next time you use your chamois of spend part honeymoon....... in Palm are worn with coloured blazers or
into an empty jam jar Stand the Beach and in Call, brief matching jackets. fornia this winter.
Beach jewelry is ingenious and jar upside down on a shelf. Your One particularly novel more important than ever. Necklaces chamois will never get hard if you
do this." ensemble consists of and bracelets of carved wooden and bright
in yellow linen leather beads or suede flowers shorts
1. Lemon juice is very good for little chain arrangements are worn with with a bolero of printed rayon play suits, beach dresses and pajam- brightening up dull glassware. Use in a small floral désign as. Some say these trinkets can it undiluted on a soft rag and polish reminiscent of the old take to the rollicking surf with you, in the usual way Provence petticoats. A but we say enough is enough.
delightful beach wrap is If you happen to be a girl who It's a good plan to paint your pic- developed of printed really swims and spurns. the ture cords with lacquer that will sharkskin in a design of lifeguard's anxious expre ion, ap-match, or work in with, your wall- skyscrapers,
cocktails proach your favouri shop, and a paper or distemper. This makes the and grapefruit the kind-hearted salesgi and ask (in an cords more or less inconspicuous. It Europaan's impressions undertone) for a one-piece woollen rengthens them, too,
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