AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 185, 8 August 1927, Page 11

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

One of the fu.-hion freaks that has attracted much comment in London is the handbag that bears a lifelike resemblance either to a pot Peke, a Kin? Charles spaniel, or a collie pup. Curiously enough, the enterprising leading spirit of one at least of the firms exhibiting these novelties seems to regard them mainly as aids to publicity. 1 heard him kindly and candidly counselling one y.iung woman not to make a purchase. as it was infinitely improbable that ladies of taste would adopt the mode. The fashion, however, threatens to become a Mayfair craze, and orders have poured into the London house that anticipated only a ••news" paragraph in the PIC.-S.

One of Mayfair's moit sumptuous houses is Sir Philip Sassoon's in Park Lane. A particularly lovely room has , wall decorations of-velvet in an admirable shade of blue. Sir Philip is a won-! derful host and has a flair for collecting personalities as original and as entertaining as the mise-en-scene that makes such an excellent background for their varied gifts. His musicales are famous. and he has helped to bring fame, moreover, to more than one young artist. I know of one charming girl singer, of very individual genre, whose costume is picturesque and s-übtle as her vocal art. who haa somewhat surprisingly achieved popular as well as exclusive success; and who declares that luck came to her— and stayed with her—after she had at one of the Park Lane gatherings e

"Hairbrushes backed with a coloured composition which rpsemblcs coloured ivory are selling well," a London fashion writer was told at a recent exhibition. -This is because they can be made in colours to match any room. They are manufactured in the W'est of England. -\Ve use Siberian boar bristles in all the brushes wp make. We have big sales lor satin wood-backed brushes too."