THE DEAUVILLE PADDLE BATHE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1927, Page 4

THE DEAUVILLE PADDLE BATHE

BEAUTIES Rr.FI.TSiC TO SWIM. (by A WOMAN OX LOOKER. DKACYfIiI.K, Aug. IS. “He brief! ” That is Fashion’s decree for bathing costumes. Likewise “ lie cut exceedingly low.” But with the scantiest of materials the ingenuity oi woman evolves an amazing variety ol oflects, so that ill spite of the triumph of the .swimming suit over the more ornate and modest bathing dress, the “ Plage I* leurie ’ is a riot of colour and gaiety. Not one cf the myriad io.,tumes could he condemned as “ ordinarv.” It is amazing .to see what a woman can do with mundane shorts and foothail jersey. ’! here are Eehra stripes; stripes of pink and green and chocolate inspired by the most sinister marzipan cake; broad coroanut ice stripes ol tlr.i k and light pink. Scarlet or green shorts have white jerseys piped with their brilliant colour. Even a sober black-and-white ensemble proved, on closer inspection, to he made of thick crepe-de-Chino with its owner’s initials embroidered in black on its white

Sometimes the football idea gives way to the navy—always popular with women. Two long-limbed, chocolateskinned beauties had extremely abbreviated stockinette swimming suits and round sailors’ caps with fluttering ribbons. But they were playing with a big orange football.

TOO MOLLY-t ODDLISII. Everyone either plays football or lies full length on the sand in half-time attitudes. It is the fashion to look athletic even in repose. A woman sauntering past the Cafe do Soleil in blue satin knee-breeches and a Little Lord Fnuntlerov jacket complete with frilly jabot was rather too moliy-eoddlish for the present bathing-suit mode. Rut it is a curious and remarkable fact that all this display of bronzed muscle on the part of iemininc Deauville does not lead to undue display of prowess in the water. Slowly they saunter down the sar

these lithe, goiden-1 imbed women. Carelessly they fling their beach-robes to a smiling fellow in a scarlet sliii who arranges them with an artists’s pride on a rail by the water's edgevermilion. blue, crimson, mauve, yellow. Then with a few energetic skips they leap the frothing breakers, on tway. one would think to swim tli Channel. Those who frankly cannot swim carry brightly coloured moto tubes to prove the honesty ol their intentions.

But man must learn that appearances are deceptive. Xot even the Sensation of the Morning does more than “ take a clip ” in the strictest sense of the word. She is the woman who leapt to fame b\ appearing in a fish-scale swimming suit of iridescent sequins. Ibis morning she created another furore by arriving at the Plage in an exiguous scarlet costume with a fishing-net draped over one shoulder like a Roman toga. Corks hung from the net and more corks made bracelets for her wrists. She was attended by an enormous Alsatian. The Plage rushed as one man tu watch her enter the water. The cork-trimmed net billowed on the green shallows; hut the scarlet fish made no attempt to vanish into the deep. Why doesjdic Deauville beauty refuse to swim? Can it he that swimming would be the ruin of that boyish, athletic figure?