Show SIMPLE SUITS SUITS' FOR fRENCH MERMAIDS MERMAIDS' i I ARIS May IS Whatever the Paris dressmakers put on the backs of evening gowns Sta for t the he coming sg summer ro they have taken away away w f from the backs of the bathing suits The 1920 sea season on for Deau- Deau I e and other beach resorts promises some of ot the most daring models for near mermaids that the sands have ha ever seen One big house Is iI showing a a. line of ot piece one-piece bathing suits that surpassed imagination The old V shaped back backis is III there but the V is inverted That ThatIs I Is there Is a a. narrow opening at the back backof of ot the neck crossed by a cord corel The opening widens ns down the back the aperture aperture aperture aper aper- ture i reaching caching Its greatest width at the waist To Keep the wild wild waves waves from washing the whole thing away there ther are a a couple couDle of cross straps And as a I compromise to to the dress r reformers formers the I fronts of these bathing suits draw closely around the neck The rhe result will be that the old time old b beach ach fan an looking from a distance will Imagine that a a. mermaid is emerging from the water whereas she Is just entering Another season novelty is the pain painted fed braid It will be quite the thing to wear ivear i this braid as trimming for dr dresses The I very ery chic person say the dressmakers I 1 will wear braid with the same kind ot of flowers flowers- around he her dress her parasol sol and her even upon garters I jA a few of the big dressmakers continue t f. f t to show fo trousers r for women though o they are apt to be seen se-en only in mannequins at atI atthe atthe I the discreetly cr races e 1 v veiled All Jh this by y summers summer's black i t net te designs and then are I clasped to the ankle by a string of ot stones I |