Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1920-07-23
Review Of Various Styles Of
the Season.
BLACK ENJOYS FIRST PLACE
color'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, Whites n 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 blllowlng skirts composed Of tier
after tier OF rufles, picot edged or
bound with silk. and their huge ribbon
sashes with streaming ends.
II II the simple. youthful type OF eve
ming dress. elaborate for the beach.
Il Is true. but plain In contrast TO
the extreme things OF last season, In
which no effort was spared TO make
them MI that was costly and perlsha-
BILE. velvets were dyed. then crushed
and printed into gorgeous designs.
Cashmercs we're treated TO give them
the appearance OF costly antique stuffs.
Handwors Of all sorts was featured In
grent quantities.
Last year the sensible resorts were
very gay for the first time In ever
al years, and bathing suits were al
most lurid. Each woman. IN her to
sire TO express JOY at the end OF the
dreary war years, selected the gay
est things she could fnd-and 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 tho sands. Everybody APP
parently seized the opportunity to rev.
I'll 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 C. ex-
t~rnvagance In fashion appears TO have
been reached. for the time being. at
least, and there Ia a tendency 20 turn
toward simpler things. The beach
clothes faithfully mirror the demand
for something slmp or In our dress.
Many OF them are exact copies Of sim
| pie little French frocks.
A turning 10 the darker colors Is
noted. Black, which was almost
| crowded out OF the list OF bathing
things last year. now enjoys first place.
Its absence from the front line ranks
was only temporary. This may be due
IN a measure to the fact that people
found bright cOlors unsatisfactory
when dipped IN the salt water every
day or exposed 10 the bright sum-. and
are quite rendy 20 come back 10 the
practical black satin and tafeta suit.
The vogue for brown Is quite as
marked in bathing suits as in other
clothes. We never have thought 81
brown as an attractive color for
bathing suits; In fact, II was unusu-
al 10 see Il on the beach. Probably
because the color has been 80 much
In the iimiellght, designers have worked
out some Of their prettlest models IN
Il. Certainly there IL much 10 be said
In its favor In comparison with the
gold col0red and bright blue satlns
covered with hatik' work OF last year.
We may have quite as much latitude
In the lines OF our bathing suits ns In
those OF our frocks. We still have the
straight chemlse model, which liz al