Sport Clothes
Dungaroes may do fine for a game of baseball on the quad or campus, but Bermuda shorts are the best bet for a picnic or early season beach party.
The knee length tailored shorts seem to be increasingly worn by College women. However, there are still many who favor brief shorts as being cooler and more attractive.
The long versus short controversy extends to blouses and shirts, too. Long waisted middy tops combine perfectly with brief shorts, but so do bare midriff halters. It's just a matter of preference and suitability for the individual figure.
The tendency to cover up has not spread to bathing suit styles. Streamlined, one piece lastex suits provide the active swimmer with beauty and durability. Both Bikini and more highly styled models have also continued their appeal to feminine swimmers.
Organdie has been proved practical as well as attractive for beachwear. Manufacturer's claim that this material is guaranteed "to come out of the water as bouffant as it went in."
Beachcoats are the season's news in bathing apparel. Terry-cloth robes lined in material to match the suit or pullover jerseys will accompany many summer's ensembles.
Pastel colored imitation pearls to complement delicate cottons add the feature attraction to displays of summer jewelry. Chokers, bracelets, and earrings in lavender, turquoise, aquamarine and other shades are particularly effective against a tan.
Scatter pins will enjoy renewed popularity this year to dress up cottons and linens. They can be purchased in sets, but it's usually more fun to buy them separately and arrange original combinations.
Perenially fashionable coral beads and shell jewelry always seem to combine perfectly with summer fashions.
Lots of color and little shoe characterize feminine footwear designs for spring and summer. Both dressy heels and casual sports flats are styled to match the delectable colors of cotton and linen dresses and to take advantage of the added coolness provided by baring as much of a girl's foot as possible.
Multicolored cotton and bromade prints formerly used only for dresses, blouses, and skirts, mark a major innovation emphasizing the trend towards matching the shoe to the outfit. However, dyed linens and straw pumps and playshoes still maintain their well deserved popularity for warm weather wearing.
Mesh appears for almost all degrees of formality in footwear. Classic opera pumps sport sides and fronts of lattice work. Many of the more extreme models consist completely of straps of varying sizes attached to thin soles.
Low and medium heels, particularly the Louis height, are proving increasingly popular, but the delicacy of high heels still seems to be most appropriate for formal and cocktail wear.