Champion Styles for the Courts

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23839, 14 December 1940, Page 6 (Supplement)

Champion Styles for the Courts

'THERE Certainly aro some really champion styles this year, especially among tlie fashions designed for wear on summer tenuis courts. For instance, there is the new long-sleeved shorts suit of whitest sharkskin that is cool as talcum against your skin. There is another idea in long-sleeved shorts suits, too, in check gingham with colourful and crisp qualifications for many an informal game of tennis. Restrained as a chaperone is the tennis_ dress of snowy silk jersey skill idly tailored with the season's correct knee-length i skirt to make the utmost of your tennis form. (Get it?) For the glamour girl who wants to be a shining success on the courts there is the all satin suit in frosting white which is completed with a separate button-on skirt after the game is over. Newer than the blazer-striped flannel jackets are those of terry towelling, white or pastel, candle-wick embroidered cottons and candy-striped piques.

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Also new for after-tennis wear are quilted waist-length jackets of glazed chintz printed in sizzlingly bright colours and' with a suitably sporty motif. Tennis shades and caps are nothing if not picturesque. To make you look like a. vision from the "World of Tomorrow," there are eyeshades of transparent plastic attached to bandeaux of white pique. These are called "sunbreros." Simple little skull caps with green-lined peaks at the front are other topical novelties for tennis times. Easily made, yet very chic, are those caps made of white crocheted string to fit the head very snugly and to hold a wide white visor over the eyes. Long Inverness-type capes are a new innovation for tenuis stars to don for the homeward journey after the game. Made in snowy white flannel with a fleecy texture, they are dramatic to a degree, yet more accommodatingly cool or cosv according to whether thrown back off the shoulders or wrapped snugly around, than any coat could be. Linefi with dotted contrasting fabric, such a cape does double duty with your every-day dresses as well as with jaunty tennis togs. - And while on the subject of these impeccable fashions do not forget the charm of the pinafore theme when it is applied to tenuis dresses of a very youthful and dainty calibre. Imagine one, a perfectly plain little model in white pique lnit for the saucy apron frills across the bodice and over the shoulders!