The spectacle of a fashionable seaside place at the cocktail how when scores of women in bathing ress congregate at the ever this summer, The dresses "signed" by some eeles rated couturier—they are so short that one wonders where he can find room to put his signature—the pyjamas representing the ceretral efforts of other great artists {in the dressmaking Tine, the straw hats so much like those that are put on horses' heads to protect them from the sun, the Japanese Farasols and kimonos all. help. to make up a picture full of variety. It would be quite charming if this style of undress were affected only by young and pretty women bug unfortunately they are in the minority, The most complete ree velations of the human form divine ore made by women who, will cere tainly never see fifty again, The timber of deformed toes shown on, silver sandals, legs with varicesd veins and other anatomical defects which used to be concealed instead displayed is greater than ever, Apparently, the craze for suns bathing is responsible for these hibitions. "Young women' -consider it incumbent upon them to have their arms, lege, faces, necks and backs turned to a rich' brown, and their older sisters who have not yeh given up the struggle.with Father Time are obliged to.follow suit,
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