Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 33 | Girlie at Seaside Affected by War

GIRLIE AT SEASIDE AFFECTED BY WAR i She Now Wears a Simple Garb on the Beach Minus Frills and Finery. By EAEL C. BEEVES, Universal Service Staff Correspondent. LONDON, Sept. 21. War has laid Its hand upon the seaside and the girlie. Girlie display is a different thins than It was of yore. Frills and finery, tor which many munition mu-nition girls are said to have paid more than did title customers at seaside dressmakers' dress-makers' shops, have been cast aside. The English girl has long been star-tlinglv star-tlinglv frank in her bathing costumes. So, for that matter, is Wilson beach. Chicago Chi-cago or the bathing resorts of many American cities. But there were certain frills of finerv, bits of decoration, which she demanded for her summer outings. They are making their own bathing and beach costumes now, wail the dressmakers. dress-makers. They also make them simpler of less costlv materials, and they prefer something of on athletic type, Just as thev prefer sports on the beach to charming' charm-ing' the eve in beautiful repose. s for' the beach parade: ummon-sense ummon-sense shoes, flimsy and flappensh dresves. a raincoat and a wide, protecting protect-ing hat mav adorn the same young miss. To be sure, there are fewer men about to b charmed, but the "irade. whlcn has its wuvs of knowing and even anticipating an-ticipating change;; in feminine taste, say that it is a new sense of thrift.