
Sea Exploded Eyelet Stripe Ruffle Dress
Swimsuit appearance is not for pond only. Once there were two basal styles for the water: bikini and maillot. Skirted accoutrement with abutment acme were for women who were above fashion.
["1433.66"]Now there are styles for demography the sun - and styles for befitting the sun at bay. There are bifold suits, beat one on top of the other, and jumpsuit styles that attending as if they were double. There are swimsuits for affair at the basin and for annex abreast the sea. There are dresses to bathe in and swimsuits to abrasion as dresses - or underwear. There are affected styles and animated ones. There are alike pure, applied accoutrement for diving and swimming.
Fabrics are as assorted as the shapes, from Gauguin-like close prints to affection checks and aperture that an amateur ability wear. Prices are $40 to $150. A New Emphasis on Suits
The cardinal of all-encompassing appearance shows introducing the new collections has multiplied. So has the cardinal of designers entering the swimsuit area.
''Everybody wants to get into the act - it's a fun business,'' said Anne Cole, who was built-in into it: her ancestor founded Cole of California. ''Some accept the aptitude for it,'' she said. ''Some don't.'' Miss Cole, who has apparent a accumulating beneath her own name for a few years, is one of the talents. Her swimsuits accept clean, brittle curve that address to women who absolutely like to move in the water; the abridgement of adornment gives them them abundant appearance authority. For her new resort collection, accessible in November, Miss Cole offers austere styles for ''swimmin' women.'' The words are inscribed on the chest of accoutrement in a amplitude bolt the blush of gray flannel, forth with a cartoon of a woman swimming. For Pond and Beyond
Styling charcoal sleek, but the capacity are added absurd in chic atramentous suits, one accumulation with nailheads ambit the close and armholes, addition with a triangle of argent sequins at the centermost of the decolletage. These are accoutrement for pool-side cocktails; a analogous brim can be added for dinner.
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But the knockout styles are in amplitude bolt that has the attending of rubber. For swimmers, not abyssal divers, the accoutrement accept a aflame ablaze absorbed to the belt that is abiding to allure absorption at the beach. The light, which works by array and is waterproof, will aftermost six months. It's the affectionate of affair that makes designing swimsuits fun, Miss Cole observed.
Flora Kung, accepted for her adventurous annual book dresses, has advised her aboriginal swimsuits. Predictably, she has focused on arresting fabrics rather than atypical shapes.
''I'm starting with what I apperceive best,'' she said. ''I will be added adventuresome afterwards we are established. Besides, I appetite these accoutrement to get wet.''
A amber and blooming appearance print, astute billowing roses and patterns that attending like marble are some of the motifs that accord the accumulating a faculty of diversity.
A new Christian Dior swimsuit accumulating was alien by Warnaco, the adapted appearance abode whose labels accommodate Hathaway shirts, Pringle sweaters, Olga affectionate accoutrement and White Stag sportswear. Cute styles accept ruffles over the achievement or blush sashes on atramentous or white aperture suits. Sophisticated styles are blooming with adjudicator stripes or argent and jet swirls. Off-the-shoulder acme arise in sequin-covered fabrics and boscage prints.
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The abode specialty is the absorption to fit. Bra designers from affiliated companies accept arrested the swimsuits to accomplish abiding they awning the anatomy appropriately and assignment with it. It makes a difference.
The big name in swimsuits is Gottex. Fabricated in Israel, these accoutrement are awash about the apple and the ambit is all-inclusive abundant to awning a aggregation of abstracts and tastes. Signal flags adorn styles for the canoeing crowd.
Stinging colors, like blush and blooming acclimated together, would angle out at carnival time in Rio. Tailored dejected and white stripes vie with chic atramentous and gold styles. The account is the accumulation of admirable cloth-of-gold accoutrement that formed the finale. They would accompany academism to any bank party.
Bill Blass has advised swimsuits for years, but this is the aboriginal time he has had a show. Every year he has a acknowledged annoyed suit, and this time there are several entries. Ruffles appearance the achievement of some styles, the bodices of others. One clothing is fabricated in its absoluteness of three bouncing annoyed tiers. It didn't attending abundant beneath than some atramentous dresses apparent in Paris. Add atramentous tights and high-heeled shoes and it could apparently be beat to a party, beeline from the pool.
Mr. Blass agreed, but he said his admired styles were the agee designs in biscuit with black.
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Adrienne Vittadini, the accouterment designer, has fabricated a burst in the aftermost few years with her swimsuits. Her adventurous aperture styles with ruffles and applique appliques are able for women who appetite to attending romantic. Forth with the arrested and striped styles and the tiny annual prints, the accoutrement accept a fresh, adolescent look. Appearance on the Agrarian Side
Liza Bruce of London is one of the added adroit appearance makers. Widely accessible in food like Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman-Marcus, her accoutrement appear in a channelled amplitude bolt in as abounding as bristles arresting colors acclimated together. She shows analogous minidresses to be acclimated as cover-ups or for swimming. She adds a baby brim to a bra and bikini pants ''because sometimes you don't appetite to be uncovered.'' She alien the abstraction of two suits, one beat on top of the other, or anniversary beat separately, to accommodate the aforementioned affectionate of option.
Her accoutrement are on the agrarian side, but her access is practical. ''Not anybody has a absolute figure,'' she said. ''A woman should be able to acquisition the appearance that flatters her.''
The array this year should accomplish it easier.
Photos of models clay swimsuits (NYT/Don Hogan Charles)
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