Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1917 — Costume for Water Sports [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Costume for Water Sports

It does not take long study of the new apparel made for water sports to learn that as careful thought has been giyen it as to any other kind of clothes for women. The bathing suit has advanced to the dignity of a costume for all sorts of water sports and is made in as great variety as any other sort of suit. It makes opportunity for much exercise of the designer’s fancy and for individual taste, and has graduated from merely a convenient dress for the water “to an interesting outfit for boating, bathing and the beach. - I Fashion has reatT us away &m the conventional blue or black and into the realm of gay colors, but-not J tn the entire neglect of these reliable old favorites. Black and navy, combined with white in suits of black and white or navy and white are among the smartest of this season’s offerings, and there are many all-black models. A practical and pretty one is shown in the picture, made with a full paiV of bloomers set on to a short-sleeved bodice. It has a skeleton over-bodice slashed into bands over the shoulders. What passes for a skirt is joined to this overbodice; three flat tabs wider at the bottom than at the top, doing duty for the requirement of the correct beach suit The cap is of black and white checkerboard rubber and black and. white cloth shoes with white silk stockings make a complete success of the costume. ’ Khaki-kool silk in oyster white with a brilliant figure in colors, is made up With black satin in the second suit. It has a guimpe of the black satin with slashed sleeves lined with .the khaki-

kool. They allow entire freedom and some protection to the arms. One of the broad revels at the front of the bodice is slashed and the other slips through it so that both fasten over buttons covered with the black satin. A cap to match which may be worn over another of rubber, w’hlte stockings and black satin sandals, are the happy ending to this bit of cleverness in suits for water sports.