"SHORTS" ON BEACH

Evening Star, Issue 20428, 8 March 1930, Page 25

"SHORTS" ON BEACH

LATEST FLAPPER FAD SYDNEY February 28. Sydney beach girls have evolved a new lasbion ior sunny days, and have taken to wearing “shorts.” Beach pyjamas and gauuy kimonos have gone into the cast-off bag, and the new lasbion has taken tneir place at all tbe big bcacnes near Sydney. Nearly every female surfer walks to the beach in a pair of white shorts fsome knee length, others abbreviated in amazing fashion ) and a white silk or coloured sports jumper. Tbe change-over came suddenly, and for a time the stores were hard put to it to cope with .the heavy demand for “ shorts.” The fair buyers oven xn vaded the men’s departments, and shop assistants were forced to unwrap their winter stocks of football apparel to meet the sudden rush. The new craze started at Palm Beach soon after the start of the new year, when many of Sydney’s society beauties adopted the “ shorts ” style. For a few weeks the fashion remained peculiar to Palm Beach and its neighbouring surfing resorts, but the fad soon spread to Manly, Bondi, and Coogee, until now to bo without “shorts” is to be oldfashioned.

The popular ensemble for the beach habitue is “shorts” worked or embroidered above the left knee with an initial or flower design, a silk jumper of any striking colour for plain white), finished off with a flowing kerchief sports tie, and topped with a Mexican sombrero or a cute little American “ Gob ” cap. Though a good deal ol the colour with which the beaches became splashed when the beach pyjama craze was at its height lias departed with the advent of the new fashion, Sydney girls look quite smart and sporty in their new attire. It is difficult on occasion to differentiate between “ flappers ” and “ sheiks ” in the sun-baking areas. Sydney shopkeepers are wondering what will be the next dictate of surfing and beach fashion.