Arizona republican., 1920-07-25
HY FREDERIC J. HAskIN

WASHINGTON, D. C., July Fol lowing conference with bathing suit buyer and connoisseur, added to considerable personal observation and intensive research, we are in position to give our readers the latest official dope on the seaside situation. The big buyer sat back in his sane tum and nursed an insignificant mus tache and a foreign accent
 The mems bathing suits this year? Oh, they will be about the same as
 usual-plain and convict stripe ef-
 miss the utterly boring subject of what
 a man wears when swimming.
 Well how about the women ?' "Ahi" the authority beamed. His mustache assumed an agle indicating joy and pep. He informed us that he
 had just bought a velvet bathing suit which was a triumph and which in ad-
 dition to it's other charms might be worn in the water. The cost of this ftrifle named Carry Me Home Carry for short-was $59.59, and there was a l huff to go with if to protect the bath
 CTS hands from the heat
 1 Carry was produced for the edifica-
 tion of the reporter. and the buyer, who was now fully warmed up to his discourse, confided the momentous se- cret that scarfs of rubber to match bathing caps will be worn this year.
 He further prophesied that bathing suits will be worn in the mountains as a novelty next season.
 Seen at Beach
 But there is not much kick in talking
 about bathing suits in a store, or even
 in looking at them on blonde wax mod els. A nearby beach yielded more au- thentic information as to what is ac- l tually being done in the various beach 1 circles.
 1 A copper colored life guard treated l to grape juice loosened up more thar | one would think possible He almost l wept over the new order that forbids i gards at that particular beach to fIiri l with the girls. He said that it made it harder to protect human life, be- | cause the girls all said he was an old crawfish, and that if he couldn't be po- lite, they wouldn't let him rescue them any more.
 l The guard admitted that conditions are worse at several New York beaches 1 where women policemen have beer l given pistols and authority to use them /, if necessary. to- keep girls in one piece
 suits and stockingless knees out oi sight.
 | One-piece affairs were barred at his l beach, the guard said, but there was no law against fancy costumes, and he | pointed out a young woman clad in 8 1 purple suit that was almost an eve | ming gown In fact, 1t was more thar an evening gown, for it had all the l low neck characteristics of woman's full dress uniform, and the shortness l of skirt made 1t a bathing suit besides The wearer tripped lightly down to the sand, settled a red rubber andkerchiei around as much of her shoulders as possible (the buyer said they would be
 wearing 'em) and proceeded to look I unconscious for the benefit of more fully attired batherS.
 i Obviously her beruffled and flute6 costume was not created for sea duty l The life guard said it reminded him of a girl who took a strictly beach
 bathing suit into the water by mistake The suit had depended mainly on glue and dry weather to keep it intact, and he had to rescue the young swimEder | with a raincoat.
 | The dry land bathing suit is the most striking type this year, but it is ! not the most unusual. Girls as q rule put on a bathing suit in order to gc l into the water, and suits are getting more practical to meet the needs oi the athletic young woman. The one piece suit, unhapered by skirts and su perflous material, is rapidly gaining