SUITS FOR SPORT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 136, 30 August 1927, Page 5

SUITS FOR SPORT

By POPPY BACON. Sports clothes are a general term < nowadays, but there are two kinds— | the formal sports suit which has taken j the place of an elaborate afternoon frock, and a more simplified version ' which is a uniform for all sort 3 of games. It is remarkable how designers have made two worlds of garments that could be so closely akin. Probably the most important change : is the definite return of short sleeves. Why they have ever been considered “bad form,” especially in the world of sport, I cannot think, but the dictates of fashion have been strong enough to make us support muffled up arms for the last season or two. Now, to the joy of all, somebody has fought the fight for us, and the bare arm is approved. Knitting Again I-land-knitted wear is enjoying a revival, including as many vareties as one can imagine. Even stockinette, that old friend of the family, is given an added air of importance with inlet borders of hand-knitting. Looselyspun silk and wool is also popular for sports designs. The new woollen jersey cloth has every decorative quality to recommend it, but it is too hot for practical purposes. For silk frocks, striped shirting is the popular material. It adapts itself so well to self trimming. Yokes,

with stripes running in two directions or diagonally, embody one idea, and applications another. Waistcoats, cardigans and sac coa.l - ees give a smart finishing touch. Of course, a satisfactory sports suit has to be built up as carefully as any other toilette, and the little ageessories are considered smartest made in suede, kid c.* skin. The only original alternative that I have seen is felt. Such accessories are always gay and have that jaunty, sporting touch for which we all strive. The Matching Vogue Belts, handbags and hats are dangerous delights in which to indulge haphazardly. Flat-trimmed hats are the most favoured, trimmed with, striped petersham bands, which are also used on a larger scale for waistbelts. Sports clothes require something severe in handbags. Again, complete sets are more satisfactory than anything else. There are snake belts and bags, calfskin ones and others of coloured patents. Jewellery which was once such bad form anywhere but in a drawing-room is now quite essential out-of-doors. Linked and hammered trinkets are the most up-to-date designs. Six or seven bracelets twisted round one wrist are not too many. With so many pitfalls, who but an expert can be clever enough to carry everything to the point of elimination and then wear jewellery in profusion and keep her self-respect!