WOOLLEN BATHING SUITS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1941, Page 2

WOOLLEN BATHING SUITS

NEW AUSTRALIAN PROCESS. ' Wool bathing costumes, plain sisters for so long of the fascinating lastex and satin variety, and low in last year’s sales, have improved their make-up. Today a new Australian process—the only one in the world—has given them glamour, so much so that the Australian Wool Board will < feature them in its mannequin parades. A Melbourne manufacturing firm, after a long series. of experiments, achieved a process that gives the wool a raised self-pattern, like chenille. Improving further on that, the machine now turns out pure wollen material with a raised terry-towelling pattern in a variety of designs. Being all wool, it dries quickly and is warm. Beside last year’s suits, even in their most attractive form, the new bathing suits look immeasurably superior. They hold their own with the newest designs in satin lastex now ready for this summer. They dre mostly in plain colours and white, but have also been successfully patterned in colour.

The latest satin lastex gowns are gaily patterned with brightly coloured coil-spots—blue with big white spots, white with red spots, and many other variations. Large diagonal stripes of pink and white, with horizontal stripes for the top are featured in another outstanding new style. Dull-faced sharkskin is attractive in Burgundy, Chartreuse and white. One Melbourne woman designer is competing with America for jungle designs. Lions and tigers glimpsed in tropical .forest form one strikng-ex-ample of her work.