The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24
Household Hints
Splash! Here Come DOuble-Duty SwimSuitS
 
 covERTBLEs WILL HELP SUPPLY STREET AND DANCING COSTUMES
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG NEA Service Stan writer

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 New York - Outstanding new trend in the l942 swimming outfits are two-piece and three-piece con- veEtibles at least one part of which can Iningle with part of street or~even a dancing ensemble for wartime savoir faire.
 Bathing robes, for instance, are going into total eclipse. Instead, the mode calls for e white or yellow tailored shortie jacket, or little crepe or even just a bolero one that not only completes dry-clad cos- tune or two, but does 1t with de- cided color flair.
 BLACK AND WHITE
 ARE NEW RAGE
 Black and white have succeeded yellow as the seasons most favored beach color theme. An outstanding example is sophisticated black bra -and-shorts swinsuit of rayon faille with a special quick-drying finish, worn under a simple white swagger coatee.
 The short-sleeved, mid-thigh length wrap, rayon too, would not only go with Madame's black dinner dress, or with her white shirts and black or other solid color skirts - 1t would make, with those complete, high-style cos tunes.
 Another advantage of this less casual beach costume: in 1t, the wearer feels rightly dressed for summing on her own roof or in her own back yard something which, stores report, many smart women mention when they shop this year.
 The demand for flexibility brings to the beach some surpris- ing and very-dlfferent materials such as rayon Suitings, silk pon- gee, and chintz. A red sharkskin dressmaker suit, with buttons down front, has & matching be- lero. That's the beach costume, complete. The bolero, softly tailored, would be a real com pliment to shirt-and-dirndl, or a lime shirtmaker dress which Madame has for morning in town. DOUBLE-DUTY
 BOLERO ARRIVES
 An interesting step further in the trend Is fine all-over printed cotton suit with reversible bolero and separate skirt of the same material The print bolero and skirt, with white, and again with solid color skirt, form a street 1 suit, and if its owner happens to possess a dark cotton suit, she can substitute for that jacket, this beach bolero - making still an- other interesting and individual ensemble.
 Silhouette news of the season is: the briefer, the better. The reason is women have an unsuitable war time appetite for the harder-to- get sultan. More health-consci- OuS, they want to get sun on just as much of their surface as pos- sible, while summing. Most popular style among slim-enough smart ones is the matched very-least- possible bra and very short | trunks. Which introduces the sa- rong suit with just a wisp of a wrapped skirt. This is done strik- | ingly in cotton prints with designs suggesting tropical islands.
 For figures which are most flat tered when minimized, there are smart new princess-lin dressmaker suits with ingenious fresh details. One handsome example is white Sharkskin-flip, flaring skirt, mould cd hips, waist and bosom, camisole straps. Where straps are joined to the bodice, in front. padded glazed chintz roses are appliqued in relief.
 Brigance uses another sun-coun- try color, purple, for 8 linen suit with not-so-tiny bra and flared skirt both banded with white eyelet pique. Clarepotter's trapped bosom bra suit has two-ruffleS .skirt-red check ed gingham.