Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-16
Ruffed TUNES Make the Bathing Suit Coquettish
Affair Roses and Violets Of Colored Rubber for
the Corsage= Boomers Make No Attempt to
Hide Under Skirts This Season Jockey
CAPS Of Rubberized Silk.

10 HE modern duuful daughter
who needed a mothers admoni-
r. ton to hang her clothes on
- hickory limb" when she set.
forth a-swimming would have a busy
time Of II, these days; for the modern
bathing suit Is a vastly different af
fair from the ancient and honorable
costume which included, at most,
flannel skirt buttoned TO a waist and
bloomer combination, n pair of stock
ings and head kerchief. Miss 1914
when she sets forth for the beach
carries In luxuriously appointed silk
rubber lined dressing case, most
elaborate toilette which includes, at
least count, one ruffied taffeta silk
frock one pair Of silk boomers, one
glove silk coEbination garment to 20
next the skin, one homeless bathing
corset. pair of thread silk stockings
q pair Of ribbon laced beach shoes q
Roman striped silk sash, corsage
bouquet Of colored rubber, a fanciful
Silk and rubber bathing cap with a
rubber swimming cap beneath to pro-
iect the hair, and perhaps also a para
1ol and ret!cule to match the CAP.
CARRIED In this elaborate costume she
VIII emerge fetching figure. from
her bath-house. Perhaps she will VEN
!ure into the salty sea and perhaps
me Will not-but at any rate she will
90 an ornament to the beach.
There are bathing costumes and
'athlng costumes; some for the girl
Who adores swimming and Is indiffer-
ent about frills and sashes and silk
hosiery when a good swim ia con-
cerned; some for the girl who shiyers
when a wavelet wa shes over her onkle
md shudders at the thought of an OH
rreperous hillow. Between these two
extremes OF femininity comes the ordi-
nary jolly summer girl who delights
n dip in the sea yet likes TO look
rs pretty as may be on the sand For
her Is the practical but not too prac-
!ical bathing suit, made of modish
fabric and smartly cut but not loaded
down with furbelows and frills that
are dead weight TO be dragged about
IN deep water.
Ruffies the New Feature in Bathing
Dresses.
Not IN years have bathing suits been
so pretty--if prettiness were only the
chief end and aim of q bathing suit.
Most enchanting OF all the new mod
els nre those with scalloped rufties.
There is som ething about piped seal
Tops that seems especially suited to the
bathing suit and in the new. short
akirted suits with two or three rpe,
fes farins out above the kpes. .,z.yr,yn
women look charmingr nike little
girls. Most attractive is a ruffied suit
pictured. The skirt has three ruf.
fies the lowermost rufle being hidden
at the back by the other tuo MI,
slope downward, following the line ~
the tunic. The waist Of this bath,no
costume is excellent In that II IS full
yet the fullness is cleverly confined at
the front under a deep, pointed woke
section. From this yoke rises a tafreta
neck-frill. wired at the back to make
II stand up. Another interesting fea-
ture of this dress-which is Of wine
colored pussy willow taffeta--is the
buttoned, shaped belt which sugg ests
a waistcoat with long points. This
bathing girl wears one Of the new rub
Der jockey caps which Mt snugly over
the hair and have a visor which pro-
tects the eyes from tho sun.
Equally pretty is another pussy will
low taffeta model, displayed this week
In Fifth Avenue window. This suit
Is very little glrlish" with its skirt in
three tiers, each tier being scalloped
and piped with white. The suit is dark
blue In color. The sleeves are also
scalloped and piped and a babyish
round neck - finished with white pip