The sun., 1917-07-01
BEACH CLOTHES VARIETY OF COLORANDMAIERIk
. h &C k e d and
Dotted Silks
Used as WrapA
With Wool Jersey
and Mohair MosA
Popular for Prac
t ic a | B a t h ing
Suits

is particularly picturesque, w..
supple crepe de chine affair figured N
great splashing design Of brirh
colors.
II begins as an exceptionally Ions
and wide scarf girdle drawn loossS
around the waist and knotted AZ IN.
right side, but here the cleverne~
comes in. for while one end hangs fun
and straight over the short skirt the
other is caught up over the right
shoulder, across the back and forward
over the left shoulder Its width
allows It to drape the shoulders effeo.
lively and fall like a short cane to
elbow depth. and though easily mada
and worn it is extraordinarily pic.
turesque and gay over a simple dart
bathing suit.
Wide straight scarfs Of thin eik
rubber faced with contrasting color
and deeply fringed in cut rubber at
the ends can be attractively worn too,
and some of these rubber scarfs are
trimmed in applied flowers of rubber
1t really seems as though anything
and everything could be rubberizsd
this year. The beach hats and swim.
ming caps of rubberized stuffs sS
endless in variety and trimmed with
all sorts of rubberized trimming,
rubber flowers, rubber quills rubber
buckles, rubber pompons, &c.
There's really no describing These
hats and caps. One must look them
over to get an adequate idea OF them;
but II seems a far cry TO the day
when the rubber mob cap and the
rubber cap covered with a bright ker-
chief were practically fancy's high
est flights in the realm of bathing COS,
tune head wear.
Tight wool jersey caps, trimmed per-
haps in rubber flowers, are consider
ably worn; but that is only the begin
ming OF the story. Close little caps In
rubber or rubberized satin take on
many shapes and drapings and trim
mings.
There may be rosettes over the eGrs,
with all the draping running to these
points. or the cap may wear tor
pedo turban air, with fiat rubber roses
wreathed around it. on it may he q
Russian turban with big rubber or
or II may run up to a peak az top
with a pompon of worsted To finish It
and broad stripes in two colors run
ming from brim to peak.
And when you turn to the array oi
brimmed hats you find even greater
variety. though here too material,
are rubberized. \ Spanish turbar
effect of rubber satin above a tight
fitting cap of thin rubber in another
color Is one piquant extreme, but .
majority of the brimmed beach hat
have dropping brims.
AS for the bathing suits themselves
one almost forgets them. in admiring
the accessories. Yet they are not to
be lightly passed by. though some Of
them are shrinking, self -effacing
things,
The practical one piece swimming
frock OF wool jersey, worn over wool
jersey tights, has gained great favor
with the women who actually swim
and with the supplementary beach
cape to drape it when out oe The
water it is modest enough as well as
sensible.
| The serviceable mohair is sill the
| popular low priced bathing suit ma
terial and has taken on some o' the
mod!sh airs of the silk suits in point
! OF cut and detail Black satin and
taffeta are perhaps more used ,han
any other silken stuffs, and black re-
lieved by brightness in cape and cap, 4
the most generally effective and be-
| coming bathing suit choice.
The new neck lines appear in many
of the latest bathing costumes, the
shallow oval and round lines replacing
to certain extent the ordinary '
neck line and the square.