WOMEN'S FORUM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 257, 31 October 1933, Page 10

WOMEN'S FORUM.

AMERICAN FASHIONS. Pretty American visitors are wearing quite a new type of trousers for the beach at Deauv'ille. They are of white muslin with frills upon frills of lace that look like cowboy sheepskins. The enormous white or coloured straw hats that go with them are trimmed with fresh fruit, cherries, greengages and even small apples. ONE-PRICED SHOPS. The Parisian is a conservative buyer and it took a long time for the "nothing over 10-franc" vogue to catch on, but this summer the one-price idea has even conquered the fashionable shopping centres. The Champs Elysees, that would at one time have scorned, to advertise the price of its. dresses at all, now displays in its windows large oval notices bearing some such figure as 250, indicating that 250 francs is their highest price. One large, modern building in this fashionable thoroughfare advertises all its goods at under 10 francs (about 2/6). PARISIAN MARKETS. The second-hand habit has increased with hard times in Paris, and the markets are crowded these days with all classes of buyers, states an English writer. The "Flea Market" (generally known simply as "The Market"), to the north of the city, as famous as London's "Caledonian MaVket," provides anything from old furniture to jewellery and ancient gramophones, but the other and more specialised centres for the disposal of miscellaneous second-hand wares are enjoying good patronage nowadays as well. A second-hand clothes market called "Kremlin" is somewhat reminiscent in its dismal sordidness of Moscow. The second-hand car mart, to the south of Paris, has also become popular. USE OF ROUGE. The reign of rouge is now definitely over, according to a famous beauty specialist. Women have discovered that their lipsticks can be used on their cheeks, if the colour is worked in with a finger from the bottom of the cheekbone upwards. This is economical, and ■also ensures that lips and cheeks match each other. Massage is now being given for ugly bony elbows, and they are being "fattened" with cream so that they can dimple, while women are still endeavouring, of course, to slim the rest of their figures. One slimming specialist, by the way, is prescribing orange juice as a night-cap instead of first thing in the morning. Hair styles are varied, though flat curls predominate, and it is quite in order to wear a lacquered wig to match your evening frock. It is also fashionable to paint your oyelids. Nina May McKinney, the coloured revue star, who has become so popular in London, began it by painting her eyelids, finger and toe-nails red. Delysia covers her eyelids thickly with blue paint, and many of the bright young things now have their eyelids painted to match their lacquered fingernails.

A PEACE TREATY. It is rather refreshing to find people celebrating a peace treaty, and this is what they are doing in the little town of Kungaclv, Sweden, not far from Gothenburg, in the province of Bohuislaen. The treaty that forms the nucleus of the festivities was concluded in 1100 A.D. The town, then called Kongahella, was on the frontier between Sweden and Norway, and was chosen by the three Scandinavian kings, Erik EjegoYl of Denmark, Magnus Barefoot of Norway, and Inge Stcnkilsson of Sweden, as the place to sign the peace treaty which ended the devastating war between the countries. It is the first peace on record 'between these Northern States, which were so continually at war with one another. Visitors* pro and anti-Nazi alike, are full of admiration for tho well-appointed training grounds Germany is providing for her young athletes. "German superiority on track and field, it is said, is due to wonderful physical development. Sievert, for example, weighs 17 stone, but has a graceful Oft high jump. The Charlottenburg Club here provides, for a very modest fee, a month's expert coaching with all field events paraphernalia and artificial sunlight and massage. Stuttgart has just inaugurated a similar institution, open to male and\ female youth alike.