The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-16
1t the same time. is exceedingly jaunty

lat the same time is exceedingly jaunty
and becoming
Ready made suits are sold in all the
shops varying in price from $3.50 to $40.
These last most expensive ones are of
jersey cloth which is popular. While
ready-made suits are in some instances
quite nice to look at, it pays to have
ones bathing suit carefully made by a
dresSmaker who knows how to fit
waist and drape a skirt, and the ex-
|pense of a better material always pays
although bathing suit is rarely good
for anything the second season.
A variety of materials are used in
these dreses-effective ones can be
made of the striped ticking or canvas
cloth. This sheds the water capitally
and does not cling to the figure; be-
sides which, it comes in so many diff
erent designs that. there is greater
choice than in flannel or serge but it
has a disadvantage of being very cold
the moment one leaves the water
This defect is remedied in some in
stances by having the waists lined
with very thin flannel. Serge is
excellent; ALPACA is good, and if one
goes in for looks only, black surrah
silk is very fetching. 1 have seen very
pretty black silk bathing suits but
me quite good form. The prettiest
suits and the best are made of flannel
or serge, not necessarily expensive
quality and the style which is always
the best is the full short skirt, and
the waist made in tailor fashion with
deep collar and fancy vest piece to
cover the throat and neck, giving the
effect of a high collar. Some women
like to have their dresses cut open lit
tie at the throat but it not a sensible
fashion and the sun burning leaves
an ugly mark on the neck which
sometimes does not wear away until
late in the winter. The sleeves are re-
ally only puffs, coming just below the
shoulder
Last year Mrs. Esler created quite
a sensation at Southampton by wear
ing with her bathing suit, which was
of black serge, cut after the fashion
described, long black silk gloves which
reached to the shoulder. 1 never heard
of her example being followed by any
one else, and as Mrs. Esler does not
swim she could not have known from
personal experience that she might just
as we'll have had the sleeves of her
suit made down to the wrists. AS for
gloves they are only nuisance and
sun-burned hands are not half as ugly
as a sun-burned neck.
CorsetS, those much nlaligned and
talked against garments, are now the
sine qua non to every properly fitting
bathing suit. They are quite different
from the ordinary stays; are never
made to compress the figure more than
is absolutely natural but merely to give
a comely shape. The best of these are
made Of open work material with a.
sufficient number of bones to keep the
figure trim and neat. They do not in
terfere in the least with swimming,
and are a merciful improvement on the
StaV1eSS figure Stee1s Of cOllrSA are
out Of the question, as they would only
rust, and some women think that the
health waists are perhaps the best
things to wear They may be for slen-
der women, but for women who are ait
all stout the bathing corset is the only
thing possible.
Bathing shoes are very little worn,
excepting on beaches where there are a
great many pebbles, or where the bot
tom has shells or rocks. In most cases,
long black stockings are the best thing
to wear on the feet. Some bathing
stockings have soles inside them, and
if the soles be only light enough, they
are capital, because they keep the foot
from spreading out and looking SO ugly,
as is apt to be the case if only stock
ings are worn. The stockings must
be gartered we'll above the knee, and
it is a good plan to have the bathing
trousers or knickerbockerS made with
elastic around them to also help to keep
the stockings from sagging down and
looking untidy around the calves of the
legs. Some very fin de sciecle women,
have heard, are endeavoring to make
it the fashion to wear tights and trunks
under the skirt and blouse but no
women whose good taste l consider
worth anything intends following this
somewhat vulgar fancy.
The proper headgear is always a
grave question ~
The athletic girl simply ties her head
up in some pretty bright silk hand
kerchief knotted over. an old silk cap
and defies alike the sun and the wafer;
but women who go in for looking
pretty and chick under all circum-
stances, wear cunning little hats of
straw OF course big breaker is liable
to take these off, and leave the woman
looking sadly draggled, but then wo-
men who battle in these hats rarely go
out far enough to risk the chance of
getting their heads wet. There are nu-
merous smart ways of tying on the silk
handkerchief over the oilSkin cap but
the best way is to tie it as tightly as
possible around the head, putting the
ends together in front; if quite a large
silk handkerchief be used the ends are
long enough to make a very pretty
bow.
Occasionally at the seashore, one sees
a woman wearing long cloak about
her as she goes down from her bath
house to the waters edge. Her maid
follows her to take charge of it as her
mistress enters the water, and when
she comes out from the waves, throws
it carefully around her. These cloaks
are made Of waterproof silk, very
much on the old-fashioned circular |
plan, and have a hood aS did tho o1d
gray mackintoshes. This fashion, like |
the gloves and the fancy hats, has
never been generally adopted women |
who are really fond of bathing, pre-
ferring to have as little fuss and bother |
about it as possible, and relying en- |
tirely on the fact that they never look
better than when wearing a we'll cut, |
well fitted and modern bathing suit, |
perfect in detail.
ANHELM.
HOW To USE RIBBON.