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PASSING NOTES BY JANE

Beach Fashions Wellington. January 4. to be anything but holiday-minded in the city this week, for everywhere you go the atmosphere is disturbed from Ms usual mundane even flow of routine to a sort of clatter of an unaccustomed staccato tempo. Tearooms are full of strangers, who look about them, discuss the and are obviously there more as an experience than to huny thiough a meal and get back to business. If you meet anyone you know in the streets, you rather wonder what is wrong, ti,ll you remember that you are not the only one who must hold.down a job. The trams are full, but of people who look out of the windows, and ask questions about distances, sections, and stops. They come in from,the country, for the day, or to houses exchanged with city friends and they find to their delight what a wonderful place Wellington is in this lovely summer weather, and bow much variety it offers in the way of entertainment and amusement. . , The Christmas holidays present a fine opportunity for visitors to come and look beyond the city streets to the beaches and the lulls and the lovely bits of bush that lie so close at hand on every side. Such places for picnics—-foi walks—for bathing! And everything within reach by tram or bus, and without any great outlay of cash. / Anri on the beaches I found the theme of to-days letter, foi the welldressed woman on the sands or in the sea, is the one who arouses admiration and inevitably attracts the eye of the onlooker. Royal blue, it seems to me, is not only the most popular colour, but it looks best for bathing suits. Like delphiniums in an herbaceous border, it catches the sunlight and seems to supplv the exact note of contrast to its environment, whatever that may be. Navy is modest; and white gives a good spot of high-light to the landscape but from a personal point of view, it is not often very kind to the wearer. Yellow and turquoise are very becoming to girls who have browned evenly to a deep bronze glow, but rust and red are bad for everyone. You would be surprised to find how good brown is, in its very dark, or chocolate shades. I saw one suit, obviously made at home, because it fitted perfectly and was quite unique in cut. It was of brown stockinette, perhaps a winter, suit had been used?. Anyway, it was the smartest thing, and looked like London and Paris and New York —or rather Palm Beach or Florida From the waist, which fitted snugly, a deep belt w'ent up into a curve front and back, and the bodice part was slightly gathered to this, just as those of the tennis-frocks are, only a bit less so, if you see what I mean. The back was low, but not unduly so. A very fitting skirt came to the edge of the shorts, and a neater or more becoming garment it would have been hard to find. . T ... If a woman with a full figure could get another suit I saw on a thin wearer and which rendered her almost invisible, she could brave a mixed bathing party without the slightest feeling of self-consciousness. It was of blue and white diagonal jersey, the stripes wide, and made to meet at front and back centre in vandyke points. The one I saw was a one-piece model, but it could have had a skirt added. Another idea, for beach loafing, would be to have a pair of flaring shorts of plain.blue jersey to slip on over the vandyked suit and button at the waist. Coolie jackets to match the bathing suits make charming ensembles for the mature women, who also want a little more material in their suits than their daughters. There are some really attractive designs for them this year with pleating in the skirt ■ sections, the bodices following the-panelled lines of the modern evening dresses. ' . • In fact, though youth may scoff, the more elaborate styles for beach wear are slowly gaining in favour, and soon it will not be a case of how little it is possible to. wear, but just how original and flattering a bathing suit you can contrive, that will be under serious consideration by . the experts. We’re a little tired of the obvious. —-With love, . , ' Yours, " . ■ ■ JANE.

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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 86, 5 January 1935, Page 8

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PASSING NOTES BY JANE Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 86, 5 January 1935, Page 8

PASSING NOTES BY JANE Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 86, 5 January 1935, Page 8

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