FASHION ACCESSORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 117, 20 May 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

FASHION ACCESSORY.

Heal vests, like those that peep coyly out between tlie coat lapels of business men, are being brought out by Paris to wear over one-piece dresses and blouses-and-ekirt combinations. These vests are naturally feminised to a certain extent. They have backs of the same material as the front, and not the lining back of a man's vest, because they will be correct to wear in our best circles minus a concealing jacket. They are doublebreasted and they are usuallv of some bright contrasting colour. A bright green vest is worn with a suit of soft grey—a brick red vest is worn with a brown dress. Get a new vest for your old sports suit, and have it made of satin crepe de chine or peau d'ange iu a flattering colour.

Cauliflowers will be whiter and have a better flavour if they are first washed in cold water into which a pinch of bicarbonate of soda is put, instead <• f salt, and one-third milk to two-thirds water used for boiling.

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moss. The tender colouring of the mauve orchid has long been a favourite, hut the white orchid, with its scarlet markings, has come to rival it, while, to the extreme modernists, there is nothing more fascinating than the yellow orchid with its brown epotj (the very formula of the smart leopard skin, reversed); and the pale green orchids, with veinings of reduced purple mottling their surface.

Three Dresses! in One. The interchangeable costume is with us for a long stay. Wo are only just discovering how well it suits our needs. The woman with a small dress allowance is always being confronted with different alternatives; shall she put her money into three dresses and sacrifice quality for the sake of variety, or shall she spend her all on one frock, and give up variety in the interest of economy? The interchangeable dress enables her to escape from the horns of this dilemma, for 'by its means she can buy the really good frock in which her heart rejoices and have variety as well.

This way out of the problem is even more welcome for evening than for day, since evening is the time for gaiety and relaxation, and a continual freshness is what one really longs for.

I-lere is an interesting suggestion for an interchangeable dress for evening. You take a black crepe evening dress of good material and excellent cut, and you wear it unadorned for one costume. For a second appearance you can add a long white crepe scarf, tied diagonally, passing through a slit 011 the corsage, and falling in graceful folds to the hem of the skirt. You can then achieve a different, romantic looking costume, by means of a trimming of pink roses, which are arranged across the corsage diagonally from shoulder to hip. *

The three dresses ill one being so convenient and so fashionable, you have to bear in mind the colour schemes. Black or white are the best colours for dresses that form the foundation of these interchangeable ingenuities. For the summer days, which will shortly be upon us, a white crepe day dress is a perfect choice. A short white matching jacket with a green scarf and belt, and a white turban hat, will make a morning costume of it. For afternoon wear, you might dress it up with a sapphire blue crepe coat in three-quarter length, a blue and white scarf and a wide-brimmed white hat with sapphire blue ribbon trimming. A little cape, cap and scarf in striped velvet, in brown and beige, would turn your white crepe dress into a spectator sports costume; by turning the scarf into a belt and leaving off the cape, you can have still another variation. This is very much the moment to turn your wits to work and your one dress into three or four costumes.

wearing a masterpiece, t>y no matter whom, is enough to make the artist who designed it die of despair. The matter of fact, sport-loving girl of to-day may smile as she will at the old-fashioned school mistress who used to teach her pupils how to get in and out of a carriage to bow to an acquaintance, to walk in and out of a room, to sit down on a cliair with grace, and so on. There is>_ however, something to be said for it.

Exercise. Exercise in any form, whether it be gymnastics, dancing, playing golf, or walking, is the great cure for any undue deposition of fat. Constant movement, as a matter of fact. There is no better way of keeping in trim than to dance. I would rather dance than eat, or make love, or work, or do anything else in the world. Speaking personally, "tripping the light fantastic" does ine more good physically than any tonic ever invented by a hard-up doctor. Dancing exercises every muscle in the body and teaches control of the body as nothing else can. Those who have danced long and often can make their body do anything they want it to. They control it. It does not control them, as is the case with most women. I dou't advise you, readers, though, to spend all your time dancing. Out-of-door exercise should play an important part in your daily life. Play tennis, too, and golf, whenever you get a chance. There is nothing so delightful as a brisk country walk, and if you have your car I am sure you think that speed laws are the greatest provocation invented by man. I simply adore to put my foot on the accelerator and see if the man who sold me the car, and told me I could get 120 a l'heure out of it, is a truthful man.

Concerning Embonpoint. When every other person is reducing for some reason or other, it is well to know that dates make a splendid luncheon, or, even more, they are nourishing but not fattening, palatable and satisfying as well. Some women who want to reduce, though, don't go in for quite such spartan methods. A lamb chop and a little fruit in the middle of the day, with a glass of wine and a cigarette in the evening, certainly helps to keep flesh down. And then there are rubber slim-quicks that rub away your fat as you use them, so to write. A yeast cake is said to be a bea.utifier, while marron-glaces and other bonbons of that ilk lead to Embonpoint Land. Starve, those of you who wish for willowy beauty —cat yeast-cakes, swallow families of vitamines —don't be weary in well-doing. You don't want your* figure to spread, do you? You don't want the time to come when you won't even be able to see your poor little toes when you look from above? No. you want to look like a nice thin pencil—no shape anywhere, as flat as a pancake, but with beautiful limbs, pretty feet and exquisite arms and neck. Is this a difficult problem? Certainly not — starve, starve, starve.