WOMEN'S FORUM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 58, 9 March 1932, Page 10

WOMEN'S FORUM.

UNIVERSITY WOMEN.

Dr. Agnes Bennett, who is at, present paying a visit to Auckland, mentioned to the university women of Wellington that JTew Zealand money had endowed a room at Crosby Hall. The New Zealanders found the money for the room, and the women of Czechoslovakia found .the furniture. Thus do two ends of the earth meet. It is a beautiful room and overlooks the historic Thames. It boasts a wonderful carved ceiling, which is specially lighted to show off its fine pi - oportions, and in this room every university woman of New Zealand should feel a proprietary interest.

SILK STOCKINGS THEN. From the feminine point of view one of the most interesting items at the loan exhibition depicting the reign of Charles 11., which Princess Alice Countess of Athlone opened at 22, Grosvenor Place, London, and the house adjoining, lent by the Duke of Westminster, was a pair of beige silk stockings—most modern women would scoff at the texture —with inset red gussets flanked by embroidered red clocks! There is a piece of unfinished petit point the colours in which are still as bright as if the original worker had started her stitchery last week. SATIN FASHIONABLE. If you are young, and want to wear puffed sleeves, why not make them generous ones, and have them puffed out as though they had half a yard of starched fabric in them at least? Or, if you have a good figure, and like satin dresses, why not have them slim and fitting you as though you had been poured into them ? If you are tall, what is there to stop you having a low decolletage at the back and putting the material into a train, not just a suggestion of a train, but a real one, flowing, elegant? No need to worry about its getting in the way—if it. hasn't got a small loop on the end of it, you can put one on. Then you can hook your little finger into the loop and dance away quite safely.

MIRRORS. Mirrors are again coming into favour as furnishings, and in one house in St. John's Wood, London, formerly the suburb where artists resided and where names of world fame were on the doors, the home of Mrs. Dudley Ward has the dining room carried out in the fashionable shade of green, and the whole of one wall is covered with a large mirror. This craze for mirrors in every room of the house is being carried to a fantastic extent, states a writer in "The Queen," and the other clay I dined at Hereford House on a table made of mirror glass. The cutglass candlesticks reflected charmingly in it, but it was a little disconcerting to see one's face rushing up at one each time one bent over one's plate.