Beach Wear For The Up-to-the Minute Girl

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18581, 15 December 1934, Page 10

Beach Wear For The Up-to-the Minute Girl

JUDGING by the experience in J Sydney, the would-be beach girl must have a new and up-to-the-minute bathing suit, a pair of the new cork or string soled beach shoes, one of those adorable new beach outfits for sun-baking, not to mention a cartwheel hat, the brim of which is detachable and wired after the manner of a sunshade, and can be collapsed in the same manner to make for easy carrying. Bathing suits are different this year only in that they are more daring than ever and extremely attractive. Moreover, health experts tell us that there is nothing healthier than to expose the body to the direct rays of the sun, and, with their halter and brassier tops, backless to the waist and usually lashed to the lower half by means of cords or nautical fastenings, leaving two or three inches exposed to the sun round the waist, they certainly do their best in this direction.

More than ever are nautical colors and nautical motifs being used in beach garb. Not only are bathing suits and beach wraps trimmed with anchors, marlin-spikes, cords and such nautical what-nots, but actually some of the Sydney bathers use black adhesive tape motifs, such as anchors, black cats, and goggle-eyed fish,- plastered firmly to the skin anu showing above their backless suits.

Hats for the beach and seaside wear have never been more attractive than they are this year.. All are very colorful and striped like the rainbow.

Beach sandals of every variety are worn in Sydney, with crepe rubber soles, string, cork, and bather. Mostly they are of striped canvas or gaily printed linen. Shorts and Slacks. •

Since Mother Grundy has finally decided that shorts are the accepted thing for feminine beach wear, fashion has taken them more seriously, with the result that in place of the boyish, rather badly eut, and ill-fitting garments only really fit for the very young and very slim to wear, we find better cut and snugly fitting shorts, which arc adaptable to almost any figure. Shorts this year are shorter and wider. Sometimes they are fitted with pleats, always they are gored at the waist, and finished with rows of buttons on one or both sides.

Slacks, too, aro subtly different. Shorter and wider, they, too, seem to have lost the tendency to stretch tightly across the back of the figure, and, 1 with appropriate jackets, can now be worn by the more comely figures, instead of only by the very slimmest and most youthful. Plain grey flannel slacks worn with neat white shirts or a short-sleeved’, fine stockinette jersev, are the ideal wear for holiday house-parties. For those who do not favor the trousered modes there are little towelling skirts, buttoned up the front with bone buttons and easily converted into a capo, worn low on the shoulders. Skirt and blouse ensembles are invariably accompanied by matching shorts*

Another type of beach wrap is the circular cape, dropped over the head and falling slightly lower at the back than in the front.* Some of these circular wraps aro made on a yoke and button all down the front.

And, lest your beach outfit be incomplete, you must have with it a canvas bag, after the manner of a sailor’s alongshore kitbag, in thinstriped canvas, into which the wet bathing costume and beach cosmetics may be dropped.