SUZANNE IN NEW ROLE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18536, 5 April 1930, Page 11 (Supplement)

SUZANNE IN NEW ROLE

After years of supremacy on the tennis court, Suzanne Lenglen now reigns supreme in another and gentler sphere. She has thrown in her lot with a dressmaking firm specialising in sports kit, and I have just seen, a display of tennis suits created under her supervision (says an overseas writer). She always wore white herself when playing, and her models are all white—white pique, white crepe-de-chine, white flannel. Also they are all made in a single piece, so that nothing can throw out their neat, smart lines. It is to be noticed that her tennis frocks are longer than those she used to wear, but they are as dainty as they are practical. She has evolved a canny little contrivance, moreover, which is likely to be adopted with enthusiasm. It is a well-cut, finely-fitted blouse of crepe or flannel, to be worn with a coat and skirt of the new jersey tweed, a soft, light woollen material of mixed colourings. But coat and skirt can be laid aside, and, behold, the wearer is left in an airy dress with divided skirt, for the smart shirt continues downwards under the skirt.

This contrivance, Mile. Lenglen thinks, will be extremely useful for girls who have a tennis court in the home garden or grounds, and will be just the thing for an hour’s strenuous practice in private. In flannel it will be useful in doubtful or cool weather; in crepe it constitutes the lightest of coverings. The new firm is gorgeously housed in a building that was originally the residence of Cardinal Fieschi, uncle of Napoleon, and the lofty reception room, with its handsome mouldings and ceilings, looks out into the remains of a once-spacious garden, lying back from the busy street, the Chaussee d’Antin. Here in this dignified setting the mannequins move about in the latest of tennis frocks, under the shafts of coloured lights from the cornice. ROSE-COLOURED SHIRTS. Men’s shirts likely to be fashionable this spring at Home, will be in shades of rose, blue, brown and fawn with coloured stripes which harmonise, and in some cases with checks outlined in harmonising shades. The cuffs will be, as. a rule, rather longer than last year and cut closer to the wrist.