Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-03-05
SKINNY BATHING SUIT
MAKES NEW YORK SHlVER
Suggests Dollars Worth Of Sea
Weed Forming Curtain Sus-
pended From the Waist.

f: New York. March 5.--The shinmy
bathing suit and other nervous natatorlal
accessories bloomed in the snowbound
windows of Fifth avenue this chilly day.
Pretty Miss New York, all chic and
sweet in her furs and hlmy silk stock
ings, was noticed to tremblc when She
stopped to appriase these importatlons
from Paris and WAIKIKI, but whether she
was shimmying or Just genuinely shiver-
ing, who WAS to sayf
At any rate, the shimmy bathing suit
is "A simple little thing, guaranteed to
ripple and undulate with the slightest
encouragement from the girl within it.
The first impression is OF dollar's
worth of seaweed from the land of Yaka
Hula Hicl<y Dula, produced by cur
tain of long rustling strands suspended
from the waist,ine. Beneath this effect
there shimmers n satin or velvet costume
--bloomers and waist, both cut on lines
of strict economy.
But lest summer mermaids be annoy
cd by too persistent admiration of their
costumes on the beach this summer,
fashion sends her a gorgeous novelty in
the new bathing cape of soft rubber
with variety of clasps about the throat.
One of the most expensive of these WAS
in blue and gold.
And also there is the 1920 beach
cushion, today s samples being light blue
and ornameuted with portraits of that
marine pekinese, the goldfish. Authori-
ties on what TO wear say ii will be next
to imperative that the bathing girl have
the cape and cushion il she is to wear
shimmy bathing costume.
And SHIN my cape as well, the same
being made Of tne rubber, fringed with
strands OF the same stuff. One attractive
model wore 8 cap OF rubber decorated
with ox-eyed daisies. But another much
admired appeared under cap of. green
rubber under blue fringe with border
OF sangulnary peoples.
The suits themselves are to be black.
as q rule, but if this seems sombre just
consider the color relief provided by the
triple C.'s of the seaside--csp, cape an
cushion.
If this shimmy motif displeases the
bathing girl of 1920 she need not remain
ashore, for there are other pretty cos
tunes, generally in, velvet. One style is
a hand-painted effect.
Today's display contained blue vel
vet affair, decorated on the bosom and
at the bottom of very brief skirt with
a school Of goldfish chasing one another's
tails around and around. The "Medusa"
is painted with coil of squirmng cells
and another affair Is renewed by sprays
of bright sea flowers. These are mod
crate costumes, but the most brazen van p
among Father Neptune mermaid daugh- !
ters might blush for her land-lubber
sisters.
Fifth avenue is showing several suits |
at 500 and UP of gorgeous batik on vel /
vet, guaranteed to survive and blossom |
despite wind, rain and tide.
There are oilcloth, costumes, too, and |
very pretty. Indeed, oilcloth figures in
most of the suits for belts and piping
But the costumers give warning that 1
she who wears an oilcloth suit need not |
expect 70 get wet even in the surf on
rainy day, for the material keeps out the
water.
To complete the beach equipment,
there are oilcloth beach bags, shoes, sun
bonnets, parasols and even playing cards.