The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-09-02

Notes For Those who Enjoy the Luxury
of Salt Water Bathing.

Notes For Those who Enjoy the Luxury
of Salt Water Bathing.
If you contemplate an outing at the
seashore and intend to throw yourself
| into the embrace of old Father Neptune
you will be wise to prepare yourself
with bathing bag to carry with you
daily from bathhouse to cottage or hotel
Make bag about ID inches long and 1
inches wide of black or colored MORE US
preferred. Line it with oil silk or rub
Der, such as rubber sheets are made of
and which can be bought by the yard at
any rubber goods shop. Sew little pock
cts along the sides of the bag inside and
into these put comb, brush, hairpin and
dresspin boxes, curling tongs, powder
puff and hand glass. Into the open space
of the bag drop a sponge, face towel,
bathing carriers and cap, an alcohol heat
er and any other of the little bathing ac-
cessories that you cannot leave in the
bathhouse to be dried with your suit.
You will find bathing bag such an in
estimable comfort that having once used
one you can never go for your morning
dip without it.
Speaking of sea bathing brings us to
the annually recurring question of what
to have for bathing suits. What not to
have is flannel 1t is heavy in the water,
clings to the body and shrinks badly,
besides often crocking the skin. The
best materials are serge, brilliantine and
silk, the latter either faille franchise or
grosgrain. Brilliantine and serge are
about equally desirable, as both stand
out well from the body, and neither be-
comes waterclogged. The best way to
make the suit is to combine the waist
and pants and button the skirt around
the belt. If the waist is detached from
the pants, there is apt to be rim of
flesh visible at the belt while swim
ming
A pretty design for bathing dress is
a very full yoked waist-which prevents
the figure from becoming conspicuous
after the material gets wet-with wide
sailor collar finished at the throat with
a splashing bow. Full boomers should
reach to just below the knee, and fall
ing over these, just covering them, a
plain skirt with wide hem. This skirt
to be pretty must be rather scant in
front, but very full from the hips across
the back. The sleeves should reach only
to the elbow or even little above it,
and by using tight lining can be made
into large puffs ending in little ruffle
made by catching the putfs into narrow
bands an inch or so from the edge Of the
sleeve. A little canvas interlining will
give the puff some body and keep it
from Tapping" even after it is wet A
black canvas or silk woven belt with
clasp should fasten around the waist to
conceal the button securing the skirt,
and the button closing the yoke should
be concealed by fly.
The girl who regards her appearance
while in the surf will, if she be num-
bered among the uncurled darlings Of
her sex, supply herself with false bang.
This she will securely pin to the knot Of
her hair she has brought forward under
her bathing cap, and over the cap she
will tie large piece Of silk the color Of
her suit into pretty bow directly above
the center of her forehead, allowing a
coquettish bit of the bang to be visible.
GARDNER MOVES.