A PERFECT TENNIS ENSEMBLE

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 254, 10 July 1926, Page 16

A PERFECT TENNIS ENSEMBLE

A perfect tennis ensemble at . a recent dress parade was of white washing crepe lightly trimmed with a plaid of pastel colours in some exquisitely fine woollen material. **} c coat was lined to match, and a little tammy was made of it too. Sleeveless coats or waistcoats to button on after the game are considered very smart. They should be made of white flannel bound with coloured braid. Little coats of plaited narrow ribbons lined with satin are luxurious things to slip on, but they are not very warm. . The dressmakers are showing a lightly-constructed tennis tammy, made of woven straw as fine as lace and with hardly any fullness at all. -A sensible idea is to have J* l *?® knickers made to match each frock. Then your frock 1 can unbutton at the side with impunity. For this purpose you will have glass buttons, tinted in yellow, blue or green. The nicest type of frock is of white stockinette with an inverted pleat at either side or right in front, two small hair-tidy pockets, a flying tic, and a monogram placed unusually. Or you may have a sleeveless jumper over a box-pleated skirt, which always looks well. The tit-bit of your tennis wardrobe might be a Shetland wool "sweater” in a pastel colour. This must have rolled up sleeves and a small sailor collar.

Divided skirts for golf and tennis are really to be worn this year; Paris dress designers have ceased to treat them as a joke, and are making some ingenious models. The division is so cleverly hidden that when the wearer stands she looks for all the world as though she had on a short skirt pleated at the sides. When she moves quickly, however, she finds how much freedom she has gained. . One of the most comfortable designs is cut like a pair of very wide running shorts with two straight flaps. The one flap, cut as an extension of the right leg, makes a little wrapover skirt in front, and fastens at the left side. The second extends from tlie left leg across the back, where it fastens with a button. Another suit is not quite so emancipated, and compromises by cutting the little trousers and short, wrap skirt separatelv, but it rather sacrifices comfort in the compromise, and will not be so popular. The skirt fastens on the left hip with three small buckles. . , , These suits are generally finished off .with a gaily coloured square of silk, which is folded diagonally, swathed loosely round the waist and knotted at one side.