page_title: Vera Borea
section_title: 1934
hierarchical_section_title: Vera Borea / Vera Borea Designs and Aesthetics / 1934
caption_attribution_description: English: SKI SUITS by VERA BOREA - 1934
context_page_description: Vera Borea is a French fashion house founded in 1931 in Paris, France by Countess Borea de Buzzaccarini Regoli.
  Vera Borea was one of the very first houses to offer luxury sportswear for women. The house produced high-end garments for ski, tennis, golf, beach, boating, motoring, biking and hunting, along day and evening dresses, accessories, shoes and jewellery.
  Known for expertly tailored sports and travel suits and dresses, Vera Borea came to fame with its innovative designs that promoted a new lifestyle, and acceptance of fashion sportswear as appropriate wear for other social occasions.
context_section_description: A novelty introduced in January 1934 was the skirted bathing suit. A skirt was worn over maillot or flaring one-piece shorts. The separate
  skirt began to outmode the fuller covering previously given by a beach apron. Borea's runner consisted of two flared panels which opened up on both sides. She used a large printed cotton handkerchief, which was popular in St. Tropez. Her creativity showed in the stylishness which she exhibited, working the scarves into new forms to cover backless frocks. Often the skirt was one color, the maillot another, and the wraplet a third. Some favored combinations were dark blue, venetian pink, and pale yellow, or Chinese blue, old rose, and beige.
caption: Ski suit in Schenectady Gazette, 1 January 1934
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