See America or see your doctor. Take your choice. If it's the former, you will be among those wise souls who have learned the easy secret of year-round fitness by taking their annual earned vacation during the mushy months of winter. Add up the score yourself. In the summer with five-day weeks and sunbasking week ends you are building yourself up against winter. Daylight-saving time lets you live longer days out of doors and even without a summer vacation you're more alert in November than in March after winter's ravages. Doesn't it make sense to punctuate your bleak winter existence with a stimulating vacation that will keep you over till spring rolls around? Get South in the sun or North in altitudes whee crisp dry sunlit winter air brushes away the cobwebs of routine and duty.

Casting aside the medical disguise and coming out flatfootedly as advisers on what you'll need to make your winter holiday complete from a wardrobe and impedimenta standpoint, we first refer you to the following pages where basic resort ( both North and South) outfits are pictorialized. You don't quite yet sail for the brevity of the Bermuda suit of jacket and shorts? O.K., we won't argue You'll need, however, a lightweight suit and you ca;t do wrong on a natural shade such as Colonial Tan. You like the striped beach shirt but prefer more neutral slacks? It's your privilege to choose, but please choose a lightweight, washable fabric for your own comfort and satisfaction. You may not have the hip measurements of the tapered white-trunked bather depicted, so choose a tailored pair of swim shorts, but don't be drab about them this year or you'll be known as the "deacon-beacon" of the beach club. Javanese, Hawaiian, Indian patterns rule the shoreline today and you'll be far from a pioneer in colorful beachwear. Don't forget a terry jacket or a beach poncho of heavy toweling for comfort after a dip. Be sure you have sturdy sunglasses and a Book of the Month for lulls between eyefuls of Petty parades. Have a new camera at hand so you may crow over panchromatic prints around the office when you return. a camera will not suffer beach abuse if you're prepared with a waterproof, slide-fastened beach bag for cigarettes, glasses, book, binoculars and plastic, waterproof playing cards. Why not enjoy yourself? On that score we'd also recommend a portable radio in case you want to catch weather reports on how the gang you left behind you are faring or if you want to keep posted for some reason or other on what your broker may be brooding over while you bask. It's always easy to get the time via radio but modern manufacture has also solved the wristwatch problem for those who lead lives near water by perfecting crystal contact and case fitting to a point where absent-minded professors may plunge without upsetting the precision works. Even at play a watch can be very handy at times.

Night time in the South! Take a lightweight white jacket, tropical dress trousers, a soft collar-attached shirt, black bow and a white puggree-banded coconut straw. Tropical nights are part of the relaxation and a blonde or brunette on left arm will blend if you're at formal ease under moonlight. While on the subject of evening wear the very ;latest development is abbreviated pajamas, the trousers cut like shorts and the jacket only elbow length.

Headin' North? Then the secret of your comfort lies in the foundations upon which you build your apparel. Experience has proved that silk and wool as an insulation in the form of underwear is unbeatable and best preventive against bitter blasts. Cotton and wool, of course, turns the trick for a limited budget. Remember the secret of foot warmth - silk under, wool over. Most Northern Resort wear calls for trousers that allow no breeze. Knickers with long hose or ski trousers that tuck into boots are the only requisites. Glance over the accessories noted above for a Southern sojourn. Many of them apply to the snow climes too. Radio, sunglasses, book, camera, etc., are all-time passer de rigueur. Add to them a pipe, man's best companion when the mercury tends to hide, and flask from whose leather-covered interior comes a new lease on life when breath becomes frost. Instead of the beach bag, a snow trail follower finds a haversack haven in a waterproof knapsack that slings over the shoulder much in the same manner as a current London man about town totes a gas mask. Into this hip-hamper a sandwich, band-aid and brandy are tucked away and many a downhill pause may be brightened by its refreshing contents.

Don't overload when headed Arcticward. today's magic of manufacture produces featherweight fabrics of tightly woven cotton that, when wind, wet and weatherproofed and snugly slide-fastened, form protection as jackets that defy ninety-mile gales with a modicum of bulk. Take a gander at your leather before you head North - or South. Shoes, luggage and gloves will see either salt air or snow abuse. Treat these leather with a sulphonated emulsion of animal oils, or if that nomenclature staggers you, ask your local dealer for a prepared leather conditioner that automatically penetrates leather, leaving its natural wearing properties vigorous and able not only to thro off abuse but take a polish as well. Skiboots, skating shoes beach sandals - all footwear will serve you longer with a bit of this easy care.

Hop a plane, refuel the convertible or buy a fare on the rattler - but go - have yourself a holiday this winter. We wish we could!

Ski Siesta

Compass pointers for resortwear ...

resort ... The Bermuda suit, matching jacket and shorts of Colonial Tan lightweight suiting. Jacket ... three-button single breasted, notch lapels, patch pockets. Cuffles wool hose, "gummies" - reverse calf shoes with thick crepe rubber soles. India madras polo shirt, Jippi Jappa natice straw hat with hand-tied band cotton handkerchief.
swimming ... Abbreviated white cable stitch wool knitted swim trunks, red cotton espadrilles, sun glasses that protect against side glare.
resort ... Cabana stripe cotton mesh beach shirt with rust color washable slacks, Norwegian peasant slippers, white washable wrist watch band.

Here's a collection of paint pot fashions guaranteed to enliven any Southern resort setting - all part of the current trend that makes the rainbow the limit in beach apparel. This season, more than any other, the sun will be smiling down on miles of striped, checked, plaid and Paisley shore lines.

1- Clover color half sleeve polo shirt, worn with white beach slacks. 2- Cabana stripe half sleeve pullover shirt, worn with Algerian brown beach slacks. 3- Crew neck mesh half sleeve shirt in large block check, worn with rust color shorts. 4 - Printed wool open front half sleeve pullover shirt, worn with fisherman's blue wash slacks. 5 - Open front three-quarter sleeve boating shirt with vertical stripes, worn with shorts to match stripe. 6 - White cable stitch knitted swim trunks. 7- Yellow lightweight beach shirt with long sleeves and crew neck, grey slacks, sports scarf.

It's fashion-picking time down South in a big way. What with the Riviera blacked out, the former internationally circulating social set has concentrated its forces along our Southern shores. Here's a fashion first that beat the gun, so to speak originating at Monte Carlo and subsequently cropping up all on a moonlit night at Palm Beach. It's a formal. outfit with a flair, consisting of white tropical weight dress trousers with a midnight blue double breasted dinner jacket of the same lightweight fabric. The gilt buttons, nautical but nice, are a pleasant surprise, while the lapels and tie conservatively hew to the standard satin. The soft white silk shirt, black silk socks and patent leather pumps are all easy-going accessories. It's none of our business, but our artist is correct. The ladies will wear stripes this year.

How to keep your hands warm after a cross-country trek on waxed runners : Grasp a tall toddy high in thermal units in your left hand: sit on your right hand. The upper reaches of the body you may adequately insulate with warm wool, suitably distributed as shown in the diagram above. The fuel recommended here is a colorful crew neck in red, white and blue diamond pattern with ribbed shoulders, topped off with a blue silk polka dot muffler. The fll length hose match the sweater, as would be apparent at anywhere from six to sixty paces. The blue knickers are of wind-proof gabardine, and replacing the ski boots for this postlude session is a pair of slide-fastened sheepskin foot muffs, which in a word-coining mood we are tempted to dub foot-ins. The lightweight windproof ski jacket is in the closet until tomorrow. But if you can't wait that long take another look at page 95.

This is ultra-fashionable Boca Raton, a few miles south of Palm Beach. We suppose the Casa Blanca is merely the place where the man with the legs stole his towel. If he snitched the glasses as an afterthought, the laugh is on him. You can see that from a engineering standpoint they're put together very awkwardly. We're not so sure about the probity of the other two men, either. Before you jump to the conclusion that nobody would steal a pair of outfits like these, let us inform you that the fashionable Bermuda suit at the left, for instance, is practically the answer to a sportsman's prayer, Consisting of a single breasted coat with large patch pockets and matching shorts in the new Colonial tan shade, it may be worn with considerable comfort and propriety for golf, sailing, fishing, cycling and general informal lounge occasions. No more could you trust a fashion-conscious kleptomaniac with the India madras shirt in bright colored plaid, the Jippi Jappa hat with handkerchief tied hatband or the brown polished Norwegian slippers. And the same must be said for the shirt and short combination in the new sponge color, supplemented by a checked cotton neckertie and brown canvas rope-soled espadrilles.