SHOES MAKE SUCH A DIFFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)

SHOES MAKE SUCH A DIFFERENCE.

be asked to pay for one meal what she - has expected to pay for a whole day's • living. If she goes to the wrong shops [ she will probably be offered the wrong i sort of things to buy. One girl I . know went into a restaurant which . looked modest enough, and after eat- '. ing quite a frugal meal of fish, vege- , tables and fruit, was presented with a ! bill for 150 francs. Two elderly Eng- : lish ladies once offered a taxi driver one halfpenny as a tip, not knowing the value of the coin. What he said ' to them was mercifully incomprehensible, being in a foreign language. Collections of the Haute Couture. The Paris dressmaking houses are now ■ showing their collections of fashions for autumn. The collections on the whole . are exceedingly interesting. We see widened skirts in both day and evening ! models, a richest satin-faille, brocades and silk muslins for evening, in billowing lines emanating from gores widening as they fall. For the afternoon, the circular cut is being repeated, making a wider skirt than any seen to date. All day and sports skirts are narrower. "Many of these are made with attractive capes or box pleats, and a few threequarter and shorter coats are cut on the bias from plaid materials. Sleeves are of exceptional interest, many of them made of two materials joined on a zig-zag line and ornamented like belts and collars with heavily embossed work in silver lame. Many of the sports clothes are made with capes and the ways of pockets and buttons are interesting. A number of new tailor mades show the tendency to full the front of the skirts. Details. Details of the new fashions include very broad belts, often in contrasting shades and of varied material, many pockets, sometimes made of dress mate- < rials in tiny bands interlaced, white pearl buttons on block cloth and short coats belted tightly to the waist. Shoulders are prominent again, quilted, padding adding to shoulder height. Shirred bishop sleeves are seen and there are tricky lines where the sleeve is applied into the yoke or bodice. There are many ensembles whose d resses button down the back. Much shirring shapes sleeves, yokes and shirt frocks, and it is done in finest imaginable hand-stitch-ing. Skirts on street ensembles have their front gores shirred in a close sec-

About bangs. Have the bang shorter at temples and tapering down deeper towards the front. And don't strive for a straight bang. A tapered fine ragged line is what you want. If the face is long and thin and you want it to look fuller, bangs cut back in one and a half inches from the hair line help a iot. But on this type of face, instead of straight hair, the bang is curled or fluffed out. Fashion Hints. There are some fascinating little hats which have crowns covered with small flowers which are very cute. Hats take many shapes, but every hat should be adapted to the wearer. Why is it that people with no colour sense at all will mix the most ajwful shades together when they get the opportunity? Black and white ought to be made a uniform for a great many women who know about as much as a cat does what colours blend with pink, or blue, or anything else. Colour blending is an art that only a few people have really mastered. . A few lucky ones are born with a rare colour sense, that years of study will not give to anyone else. Unless you have a colour sense, or have the time to cultivate one, really make a study of it, you will find, reader, that you can dress much more successfully and artistically in one-colour schemes. Even then you must be sure to wear the colour that suits you. Collars and cuffs are being designed more fancifully than ever. The straight, upstanding Chinese collar, lined with metal kid, is popular, and finds various amusing interpretations in "little dresses." Onp must make a science of dress if one is to dress well on a limited income. Savft whenever possible.

Onp must make a science of dress if one is to dress well on a limited income. Save whenever possible.

its mind for its owner, and it's now up to stay, or off to stay, with a result as nearing perfection as possible. There's a rift in the lute, however. Hair ornaments are arming against us. Grand ones. The kind you want to buckle on and retry your hand at conquering with. Bandeaux and clips, snappy little combs are coming in, and our dress-up clothes seem to be crying out for just another feminine whimsy or two. Let Your Hair Boast a Sheen. Girls to-day must have a sheen to their hair, if they have got to oil it to get it. If they don't have that soft, glossy wave look to their hair, they're not listed among the best coiffed. If hair needs oiling, how better to use an idle evening than anointing the scalp with hot oil and seeing the magic effect it has. Use olive oil heated and a brush (a very small nail brush with a handle) and scour the oil into the scalp all over the head. Leave on an hour at least, all night, if convenient, and then shampoo the hair. And here's a clever twist of the hairbrush that is introduced as a new wrinkle in beauty parlours for promoting a natural wave in the hair. When you brush (every night) take a fold of hair in hand, work the brush around the scalp base of this hair section in small circular motions, then give the brush and the hair a number of swift upstiokes. You may even get a wave in your hair. You will get a hair treatment that is excellent. If your hair is very dry, oil the hair brush lightly before you start the circular and straight up-brushing strokes. If you get the hair too oily for public appearance, and a shampoo is not immediately convenient, take a small Turkish "towel and wipe the surplus oil off. But let your hair boast a sheen.

on your back. Pillows are, of course, abolished by those who value lovely contours of chin and neck. Fresh Air Fiends and Hothouse Roses. There is 9 a continual warfare in some offices between the so-called fresh air fiends and the hothouse roses. Even in warm weather, some delicate plant will complain bitterly that she feels a draught, and insist on closing the windows. Whereupon the persons who like to breathe first-hand air give battle and tongue. Deep gloom ensues for the freshair side. For the roses "will be master right or wrong," and what's to be done about it? Where Miss Stuffy reigns supreme, the oxygentians can grumble, or go elsewhere to breathe. Manage it after this fashion. When you cannot bear the office another minute, go calmly and quietly to the corridor or the wash-room, 0 seeker of ozone, and there raise the window just as high as you like. Stand straight, hips back, and chest up and breathe. Start from the very bottom of your stomach and draw in the air very slowly. Think how you are getting your good air in spite of the roses! You have a, triumphant feeling which is excellent for your present purpose. Slowly fill the lung cavity, until it is nearly bursting. Don't neglect that space up around your collarbone,-fill that, too. Now you are full of oxygen. But don't let go all of a sudden, expel the breath just as slowly as you inhaled. Take your time, for if you do all this too fast you'll get dizzy. Ten long breaths are enough, unless you haven't much work to do in the office, in which case take a few extra inhalations for good measure. And the jolly old lungs rejoice with you. What are a few hothouse blooms to you, when there is a convenient hall-window, or a wash room ?