The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-26
What's in Fashion?
Serviceable Tennis Dresses
By AMOS PARRISH

NEW YORK, May 26.--A good
IN service. That's important in
tennis. Important in tennis clothes,
too.
Run jump stretch :. twist.
It takes good clothes to stand it.
Fashionable tennis clothes can. Cut
right-for freedom. Made right
for strength.
They look good, too. Look good
in action or in rest. With fan pleat-
ing and box pleating In skirts.
Snugly belted or saShed waistlines.
Necklines cut in becoming VS. or
ovals or squares. And touches of
scalloping, pin-tucking or contrast
ing color.
Fashionable tennis dresses are
made of such sturdy materials as
washable fat crepe, shantung. silk
broadcloth, pique and linen.
White, the traditional tennis color,
is still the most in fashion. Fellows
are important, too, and almost as
f1attering to Drowned skins as white
is.
Sleeveless Dresses Popular
Seasoned tennis players insist on
sleeveless dresses. They know
there's nothing so annoying as a
shoulder seam that stops your arm
swing in the middle.
Bruyere has designed a smart
tennis dress with adjustable crisis
cross bands. These bands start at
the front of the bodies, cross over
in the back and return, forming a
belt which fastens in front.
This dress can be as snug fitting
or as loose as you desire simply by
adjusting the belt. 1t reminds us
of little old pinafore aprons with
their crossed over bands. A great
dress for active sports, as the sketch
shows.
Divided Skirts Practical
The newest kind Of tennis dress
and it's a practical idea, today
is the one with "culotte" skirt.
"Culotte" is the French word for
breeches, but the skirt doesn't look
like breeches at all
It's a divided skirt. Not one Of
those cunaberous affairs you see worn
at formal horse shows. But a tricky
arrangement of panels and seams
and fullness and pleats, SO that
when not in action the skirt looks
like any graceful, flared skirt--as
you can see in the sketch.
It actually is divided in the mid
die, though. And strenuous players
like it.
One-Piece Dresses
Most tennis dresses are one-piece.
Then the top doesn't part company
with the skirt when you get reach
ing. But lots of them look like
two-piece dresses.
They have yoke top skirts or
shirtwaist bodices that give the ef-
feet Of the two-piece skirt and
blouse costume.
Crocheted wool Jokes on silk ten
mis- dresses are q new idea this sea-
son. So are pockets in the front
of the skirt or the waist.
Tri-colored striped belts are worn
with many of the white tennis
dresses. One color or two contrast
ing colors in soft girdles are new.
These girdles sometimes are
twisted and Topped at one side.
Sometimes they are made of two or
three two-inch landings, tied to-
gether, knotted at one side, and
have their ends fringed.
They're new and interesting, these
girdles on tennis dresses, and are
always in gay contrasting colors
whether used with white or pastel
colored dresses.
And for players who want the
freedom of a sleeveless dress, but
who burn easily, there's a new idea
of adjusting a sheer linen or silk
scarf under the dress SO the top
of the shoulders is covered.
They're still free to move, but
the tender spot on top is protected.
Copyright. 1881. by Amos PARRISH
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