BATHING SUITS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19529, 7 January 1927, Page 5

BATHING SUITS.

If you want to add thoso bizarre touches which convert an ordinary bathing costume into an eminently chic beach toilette, sew a row of those pretty little iridescent shells, once popular for necklaces, round neck, arm-holes and hems, completing the effect by having a smart tammy to match, also adorned with an edging of wee shells. Alternatively, cut some quaint birds, boasts or figures out, of a piece of cretonne of unusual figured design, and buttonhole stitch them on to your dress, one over the heart, or on 'the shoulder, and another on the hip. A simple navy blue costume was quite transformed with the addition of two -or three groups of funny Japanese figures taken from a cretonne of oriental pattern. Any queer shapes or hieroglyphics cut out of coloured linen or other material, find appliqued on breast and hip, or outlined in braid, suggest the influence of the moment. Snippits of leather, dyed gold, silver, and bright colours, arranged in a jazz pattern as borders and panels, arc another idea to be noted, Some stockinette bathing suits. are covered with guy silk embroidery, a fjort of check-board pattern being particularly smart. Tho popular cross-stitclx is, of course, frequently teen. As a rule, this year tho two-piece bathing costumes tend to savors and closefitting simplicity of line. Most women who venture into the sea nowadays ere good swimmers, and prefer to bo quite unhampered by superfluous material. Elaborate and novel borderings and decorative motifs supply tho desired attractiveness. Beach wraps are in tho form of capos, and of a to match the rest of our kit. They are very easy to make, being merely the width of towelling material gathered up to tho neck with the ruche-like, bunchy collars, such as are worn on evening cloaks. The pretty, gaily-tinted beach shoes of indiarubber, while just tho thing for tho sands, are soon cut to pieces on a rockv, pebbly shore, where tho stringsoleci canvas shoes of our childhood are a greater protection.