FASHIONS FOR BATHERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18275, 16 December 1922, Page 4 (Supplement)

FASHIONS FOR BATHERS.

Vivid colours are a distinctive note in the season's bathing fashions, and when the seaside fashion is at its height the sea and shore will present a brilliant spectacle.

Jersey cloth is the material of the season for the bathing dress, with ratine as as good second. One striking costume of emerald jersey coth had the edges bound with white and a novel girdle in green and white. Hat and bathing cloak were in the same colours, the cloak being of ratine. Another bathing-dress was also In jersey cloth, raspberry in hue, and effectively bound with black. The skirt in this case was slit at the sides to give freedom of movement, and the cap of waterproof foulard was in raspberry and black. Dark blue and black relieved with white round the neck are almost invariably becoming, but vivid colours make a change and stockinette suits are now to be had in all the fashionable gay shades, such as jade-green, cobalt-blue, and yolk-af-egg vellow. Some of the newest models ■With skirts have the bodice part made: with a cross-over effect in front, outlined by contrasting bands of colour. For instance, one in navy stockinette had bands of the same in yellow, while on a black gown wide satin braid was very effective. A novelty this year is to have bathing cloaks made of mackintosh, in while or gay colours, a blue one being trimmed with bands of white and white tassels; while a specially elaborate one in white was painted with mauve flowers. The caps, of course, match the cloaks. Much more comfortable to wear are cloaks of cotton sponge cloth, and these aro found in the most brilliant as well as the most becoming shades. An orangecoloured cloak with bright blue collar and shoulder yoke, piped with the same blue, is very striking; while another in a, beautiful shade of cerise pink would make a charming picture on the beach. In very good style is a cloak with a deep shoulder cape made of white sponge cloth striped with black and piped with old brick-red casement cloth, which also forms a tie at the neck.