Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-08-25

ried With an Afternoon Frock of
Softly Draped Chiffon. The Sleeyes
and Sash Are of the Printed Chiffon.
day and evening she continually shows
bizarre, If not great deal of flashing
color. and her desire to have clothes
of artistic merit. The result Is that
since she has adopted this newer ideal
there appears every day some beau
tiful costume that In summer seasons
gone by we would hardly have had
the privilege of seeing. 1t Is astonish-
ing how really picturesque the sum-
mer girls are, added to the fact that
they are as pretty as ever. Sometimes
they used to be pretty without an
assumption of being artistic.
One of the interesting points of the
seasons seaside dressing, and one that
strikes you before you have time to
draw your breath, is the general har-
mony achieved by each collection of
materials and cG.ors that makes a
costume. The hat, in almost every
instance, is just a working out of the
scheme of the dress. Shoes and stock
ings are happily combined with other
parts of the attire, and little things,
such as bag, gloves, scarf. girdle, ETC..
seem to have been chosen with a care
that makes them distinctive in them
selves and notable as parts of per-
| feet whole.
Shore Dresses Are Different.
The shore dresses differ pointedly
from those chosen for wear at other
| summer resorts, in that women are
realizing the necessity of keeping their
seaside clothes in the class of the "un-
mussable.' Seldom does one see a
bedraggled-looking woman. Somehow
miraculously, their clothes seem to live
through all onsets of humidity and salt
spray, with their original character
kept intact and their designs held in
violable.
Bathing suits are really inspiring
This season they so fearlessly demon.
strate what they are and their major
purposes in life that they become
more beautiful only because of theil
sincerity. The one-piece suits are Sc
lected unfailingly by the girls who
wish to swim and enjoy the surf. They
are suited to the purpose better thar
any others and are especially charm
Ing as adornments for the human form
All of the girls who have them will
tell you that they have never been 81
comfortable when bathing.
Besides these so-called utility suits
there are to be seen upon the beache.
all sorts of the fancier varieties
There are lovely taffeta ones covered
with frills and rulings of their owl
material. And they do not stop a
the conventional and accepted black
but dash, about through all the rang,
J Of colorings. A woman is permitte,
, to wear any color that happens t,
please her fancy and suit her com
plexion.
The Bingham bathing dresses ar
making quite hit. They came fort
hesitatingly at first, but now they ar
dotted all over the sands, so that w
have become used to the sight of tn
cueckeTtu fuIlcty VI DdtHcf III dImOS
any bright color. These suits are Pre-
nounced most satisfactory, not cnl
because they stand the water and tn
sun SO bravely but because they ar
so quantity becoming with their ole
time designs and the simplicity Q
their making.
} Cretonne and wood-blocked linen
are seen among the newer bathin
frocks, and from The number Of thel
being worn one must infer that the,
too, are filling the bill with due accorl
J They do great deal toward enliver
ing the beach scene, for they are pi
turesque In the extreme. And the
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