The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-27
Neav Bathing Suits Practical and Simple In
Style Beach Capes of Rubber and Brushed
Wool - Stockings Invariably Rolled
Do1Un From the Knee Now
Tassels On Bathing Suits.

ZEBouT the first Of July IS the
Asafe and sure time to begin surf
bathing. By that time the water
y lis warm enough to be comfort
able, except on the Maine and Massa-
cnusetts coast-where it Is never
warm enough TO suit some bathers,
not even in mid-August. But enthusi-
astic swimmers cannot wait for any
special date. The call of the waves
is too tempting and by mid-June the
beaches are well filed and the pretty
new bathing costumes begin to exploit
themselves.
This year bathing costumes are pret-
tier than eyer-and each season styles
grow more practical. Some people
frown and protest they grow more i'm
modest with each succeeding season;
these are the folk who held up their
hands in horror when tunic and trunk
swimming suits began 10 be worn By
women, four or five summers ago. But
now everybody admits that this kind
OF bathing suit is the most practical,
sensible kind; infinitely more sensible
SO fashioned that II has 10 be worn
over a corset-and this type Of bath
ing costume followed on the heels Of
those awful flannel affairs with braid
trimmed skirts that were always sag
ging when wet, and pulling the waist
out OF shape.
Jersey Suits For Practical Use
Now one may have an all-wool
Jersey bathing suit in a style so modest
that the primmest taste could not be
offended. Such a suit is all in one
piece, with short skirt attached at
the belt line and the main garment a
sheath-ftting affair with shor- trunks
that are hidden by the skirt. These
good suits come in various color com
hlnatlons and they will stand hard
service. They may be wrung out and
tossed over the branch Of tree for
drying, without the bother OF careful
rinslng, necessary in the case OF d
dainty silk bathing frock. And they
never have 10 be pressed out with an
iron. They are Ideal bathing costumes
:or all ages Of femininity between ten
and seventy.
After this pattern, but q little more
pieuant in style is the orange wool
bathing suit pictured on the maid In
swing. A trieksy little suit is this.
with black belt and trimming band.
and the waist held up by black shoul-
der straps, Over her rubber diving
cap the bather has tied an orange and
black silk serehief. making a dashlpg
butterfly bow at the left side. Her
stockings are Of black silk with orange
stripes across an open thread pattern.
The suit has q short skirt attached at
the belt line and the costume Is all IN
one piece, easy 10 put on and take of.
Another wool Jersey suit pictured has
an unoelted tunic a trihe shorter than
the bathing trunks. These trunks a-e
part Of a one-plece garment that cl'nvs
10 the figure under the looser tunic.
This separate garment should always
be worn under Q cllngng bathing tunlc
OF this sort; the effect Is more grace
ful and trim, as well as much more
modest. But any sort OF corset 4,
eliminated now from the bathing cos
tune. No woman who weighs less
than hundred and eighty wears q
bathing corset now. The rigid. for.
NAL, corseted silhouette OF the stou,
nfure Is considered grotesoue with
bathing attire which must suggest
supple natural lines. But II the figure
Is full, some support Is worn under
the bathing suit; q fitted waist OF
coutil. or a close-clnging garment o.
knitted wool or cotton.
Tassels Part OF Swimming Costume
Tasssls are seen on the new bathing
sults and bathing eaps-not rubber
tsssels, but tassels made Of wool. And
the idea is quite practical, for the WOO
tassei shakes out dry and funny after
It's immersion in water. A charmins
touch Of gaiety ls added to a simple
swimming suit in the way OF tassels "a,
either hip, as YOU will note In one OF
today's illustrations. This is one OF
The new flannel bathing suits. Many