The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1920-07-15
Review Of Various Styles Of
the Season.
BLACK ENJOYS FIRST PLACE
coIor,s Absence Last Summer From
Front Line Ranks Was Only Tenn
porary; Marked Vogue for
Brown.


The bathing costumes appearing on
the beaches this year, writes a sea-
shore fashion correspondent, depict a
fashion review Of all the styles that
we have had in dresses this season.
The evening dress, the afternoon frock,
the sports suit, all find their pro-
totype In the bathing suit of today.
Just like the young girls evening
dresses are the taffeta suits, with
their billowing skirts composed of tier
after tier Of ruffies, picot edged or
bound with silk, and their huge ribbon
Sashes with streaming ends.
1t is the simple, youthful type Of eve
ming dress. elaborate for the beach.
II Is true, but plain In contrast to
the extreme things of last season, In
which no effort was spared to make
them all that was costly and perisha-
BILE. Velvets were dyed, then crushed
and printed into gorgeous designs.
Cashmeres were treated to give them
the appearance Of costly antique stuffs
Handwork Of all sorts was featured In
great quantities.
Last year the seaside resorts were
very gay for the first time in sever
al years, and bathing suits were al
most lurld. Each woman, in her de-
sire to express Joy at the end of the
dreary war years, selected the gay
est things she could finland there
were plenty OF gay bathing suits to be
found. Bright reds, brilliant puppies
and vivid greens bobbed over the sur
face Of the waters and basked In the
sunshine on the sands. Everybody APP
parently seized the opportunity to rev.
Ell In the most brilliant clothes ever
seen on the beaches, and the seashore
was one spot where bright apparel did
not appear out Of place.
Reaction Toward Simpler Things.
This year, however. sees a change
In bathing suits. The pinnacle of ex-
travagance In fashion appears to have
been reached. for the time being, at
least, and there is a tendency 20 turn
toward simpler things. The beach
clothes faithfully mirror the demand
for something simp er in our dress.
Many OF them are exact copies of sim
pie little French frocks.
A turning to the darker colors Is
noted. Black, which was almost
crowded out Of the list Of bathing
things last year, now enjoys frst place.
Its absence from the front line ranks
was only temporary. This mag be due
In a measure to the fact that people
found bright colors unsatisfactory
when dipped In the salt water every
day or exposed to the bright sun. and
are quite ready to come back to the
practical black satin and taifeta suit.
The vogue for brown 10 quite as
marked in bathing suits as In other
clothes. We never have thought OF
brown as an attractive color for
bathing suits; in fact. II was unusu-
al TO see 1t on the beach. Probably
because the color has been so much
In the limelight, designers have worked
out some of their prettlest models In
II. Certainly there Is much to be said
in Its favor In comparison with the
gold cOlored and bright blue satins
covered with batik work Of last year
We may have quite as much latitude
In the lines Of our bathing suits as In
those Of our frocks. We still have the
straight chemise model which is al