St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-20
POINTS ON BATHING.
THE GOWN OF THE SEASON rs ONE
ADAPTED TO Old OCEAN.
A FEW PERTINENT HINTS.

In the Dark Blue Waves Nature
Stands Alone and Artiffciality
Has No Earthly, or, Rather,
Watery Chance-Let the Bal
gneuse Be Trif1e Eccentric in
Decoration.
NEW YORK, Aug. IS. There is only
one gown that pays for the trouble Of
designing and thinking out just DOW.
and that is the bathing gown. Now
every woman who has ever had q sea
bath, knows full well that it is not par
ticularly easy to look nice in bathing
gown. That is q kind Of truiSm. l am
not speaking of the promenade bathing
gOWn-the sort that graceS the covers of
French novels-I am speaking of the
kind that really will stand practical
contact with the sea.
With the genuine baigneuSe corsets.
and bangs have to be dispensed with,
and woman stands alone without her
glory and without her conventional
shape. 1t is trying test, and some
women prefer not to risk it. For the
charms that are cleyerly assumed and
are really not indigenous to the woman,
the sea bath is kind of relentless
Judgment day when all is made clear.
The woman with the complexion that
takes "off and on" as the little girls say
of their dolls clothes, shuns the briny.
while her less vivid but more durable
sister enjoys it and reveIs in it.
You see sometimes the woman who is
so plain that she is not tempted 10 try
and improve nature has the advantage.
The woman who wears a particular
kind of very small wasted French
corset, who uses Bloom de NinOn,''
and "AUreOline," ETC., etc, makes a very
good show in bali room and with q
" 0rth toilette may aspire, at least, to
the reputation Of being the best-groOmed
woman iii the room, which just now is
considered as desirable a reputation as
being the best-l0oking; but then the
bail room IS very different to the sea.
Gasllght as not so severe as sunlight.
The first thing which [ would advise
in a bathing gown is fiatness. What is
the good OF frills? Their appearance is
destroyed directly. They have had their
first dip. Their glory is gone, and they
are never the same again. Why trouble
about such tranSitOry glory? Those de-
signs in the New York Herald a few
weeks ago were very pretty. but the
reason that the preference was given tC
that which was really less of design
than the others was that it was plain
and practical.
Moreover. it was designed for water
and not for land. | certainly advise
silk. Some people object to it because
it clings. That is just why l like it.
CliDging materials are the most becOm
Ing in the water unless the wearer i:
very, very obese, or very, very angular
in either of which cases she would better
go to some secluded spot and get what
she wants of ozone without exhibiting
either her excessive points or excessive
curves.
A good deal of decoration may be ex
pended on the collar, which is always
very pretty cut in the sailor shape ant
embroidered either with anchors, fish
mermaids, or any ''watery' design. Th'
sleeves should be diminutive if the arm
are pretty. The top of wOman's arm
is generally charming; therefore, VIII,
hide II? But the bow that SO man,
women like on the shoulder comes GU
of the water looking like bit of drag
Rled seaweed. Let the gown fit fairl,
well; 1t is uncomfortable to carry abou
three yards of superfuous stuff in tn
water. Lastly, l advise tights" hoy