The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19
Use Bright Colors
But Have Clothes
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Rr LULA HNYT

WHEN dressing for golf or tennis
bright colors are. perfectly per-
( naissable and very attractive at times,
\ but whatever one wears, irrespective of
the color. it should always be simply
and practically cut-practical in that
I II should not interfere in any way
! with ones efficiency in the game. There
i is nothing more ludicrous than at
Y tempting to play golf or tennis with
i ribbons dangling and getting into the
J way of the player. Also, as a rule,
small hat is a good deal smarter for
either of these sports than a large
4 one.
There is no excuse nowadays for a
woman being badly dressed for sport
the correct mode of dressing has become
wei established throughout the con-
tinent, and good looking sport clothes
can be found almost everywhere for a.
reasonable amount. Personally, I al
ways love a sweater, or a waist made
like a sweater, when 1 am playing
tennis. A waist made of some material
not too thin is desirable for the reason
that it is impossible to play tennis
without perspiring, and there is moth
4 ing as ugly as perspiration soaking
through ones waist.
The cut of the costume constitutes
I the main smartness of any sport dress
or suit. know many women who
I have one type of dress, which they
have copied many times for their ten
mis- or golf. They always keep to this
type. 1t is quite easy to get the
necessary variation in the color. 1t is
an interesting comment on the increase
of the number of women going into
sports that great progress has been
made in the appearance of their sports
dress. Some years ago it was diff
cult to find a smart dress for sport !;
4 now it is almost the easiest thing to
buy.
The Bathing Costume
Bathing suits permit of more fantasy
than suits for any other sport. Per-
sonally, prefer simple ones that are
well cut and becoming to the figure,
4 but know that it is perfectly correct
to variate from this and have quite
striking. extraordinary one. If a wom-
an has good figure, however, the most
striking thing she can do is to wear
an absolutely plain suit. 1t will stand
out above all the fancy frills and fur
bellows of the others. In buying a bath
ing suit, one should consider not only
how it will look before entering the
water, but particularly how it will
look upon coming out. There are
many suits, extremely pretty before
they were wet, which looks horrible aft
erwards.
On the continent. of course. most of
the women wear one piece bathing suits
with no skirts and no stockings. In
fact if you go bathing in stockings in
Europe you will almost cause a riot.
You will be much more conspicuous
thereby than you would be il you wore
the things they are accustomed to. On
this side of the water as we know, it is
not considered proper in most places,
and women are forced to wear skirts
and stockings. In some ways it is a
good rule, think, for there are so
many women whose figures will not
permit of the one piece bathing suit.
But it certainly is much pleasanter to
go in bathing without stockings and
also it is much cheaper.
To sum it up in sentence: Sim
plicity and appropriateness constitute
the acme of smartness in sports
clothes. No woman need fear going
wrong in her purchases if she will keep
these two things in mind.