CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25377, 27 December 1947, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Miss Bettye Moore, of Epsom. Auckland, has received an appointment with the Embassy of Pakistan Washington, D.C. Miss Moore for the last five years has been employed by the United States forces in New Caledonia. Guam, and China. She left Guam recently to spend a holiday in the United States, during which she received her present appointment.

A 15-year-old Hamilton girl, Miss Colleen Campbell, has been given a test by the maitre de ballet of the Borovansky Ballet, Mr Leon Kellaway. and a strong recommendation has been forwarded to the principal of the Borovansky School of Ballet, of Melbourne, supporting Miss Campbell’s application for further experience as a dancer.

Mrs Winifred Prince Wyatt has retired from the service of the Waikato Hospital Board after 28 years’ service as head admission clerk in the offices at the hospital. There was a large attendance of representatives of the board and the medical and nursing staffs at a farewell function held recently in her honour. For the first time in New Zealand a candle-light Nativity tableau with carol singing was held in the open air at Myers Park, Auckland, on Christmas Eve. Children in their homes were invited to take part by listening in. The dramatised Christmas story was presented by the Young Women’s Christian Association under the patronage of the Mayor and Mayoress, Mr and Mrs J. A. C. Allum. and was open to the public. The lighting of candles, held in the hands of the spectators gathered on the grass slopes, was an attractive feature of the performance.

A warning to women jay walkers is given by an eye-witness of an incident reported to have happened in a northern centre during a recent rush hour. All was well, when a smartly-dressed young woman left the kerb on one side of the street to dodge between waiting cars in the traffic line, but when she reached the other side her attention was drgwn to her calves, formerly sleekly nyloned, and now showing a new “midriff” effect with nylons abive, nylons below, and nothing in between, where the full blast of exhaust fumes had struck. Dr. Edgar H. Booth, chairman of the International Wool Secretariat, has emerged as a champion of the long skirt. In Boston. U.S.A., recently, he said that the short skirts revealed too many unattractive feminine points. He said he was for the “new look” in women’s fashions 100 per cent. Boyish fashions, no waistlines, big shoulders, and no hips were all very well for schoolgirls but not for women. Women past 20 had till recently to start the long, weary road of forgetting they were women. They padded their shoulders, strapped in their hips, and let their waistlines grow big with bulges. Skirts stopping at the knees were “downright ugly” on most women, he said. In Paris, it is the season for winter fashions, states a message received by the New Zealand Wool Board. It is easy to see that wool is being used for every possible occasion, and combined with every type of trimming. It seems there is little Parisian designers cannot evolve from wool just now, no use to which it is not put. from the making of gloves and hats to the trimming of a velvet frock. Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain achieve glamour for evening gowns by featuring fine black wool sheaths as “foundation dresses” and then swathing them with lengths of tulle or chiffon, or alternatively apron effects or overskirts of brocade or faille. Other evening gowns of black crepe or broadcloth are trimmed, or rather encrusted, with gold lame. Sequin and jewelled embroideries highlight wool dinner dresses. For daytime. Bruyere shows a brown wool jersey frock with a yoke and cuffs of guipure lace, while from Marcel Rochas comes a mole-grey wool jersey dress with a plastron of white pique.

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