Glove-Wearing N.Z. Women Need Help With Clothes

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30368, 18 February 1964, Page 2

Glove-Wearing N.Z. Women Need Help With Clothes

“New Zealand women are very friendly and charming but I think they do need help with their clothes,” Miss Cathryn Nelson, a fashion co-ordinator from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in Christchurch yesterday.

When ' asked what she thought of fashions in New Zealand, Miss Nelson said: “Gloves are the main things I have noticed. Women seem to feel they must wear gloves with everything. This is not necessary. “I see women wearing gloves with cottons • and casual outfits, and girls in sweaters and skirts and long gloves. . This is not necessary.

“The only time that gloves are called for is when women are really dressed and when they are wearing hats.” Hair And Make-Up

’ “Women don’t seem to pay much attention to their hair. A hair-do is very important and so is make-up, but I find

the women don’t know how to make-up. “I have read the fashion magazines you get and they have hints on how to makeup and dress and pictures to get ideas from but they don’t seem to be used,” she said. “You don’t have the imports or the materials that we have in America so you can’t compare our fashions. New Zealand is still a young country and can’t compete with our manufacturers who have been in the business for 70 years and more. “My advice to New Zealand women is simplicity in dress and style. Too much make-up isn’t a good thing but not much make-up isn’t very good either.”

Offered Job Miss Nelson is- a fashion co-ordinator for Gimbels, connected with Sac’s in New York, the largest chain of stores in Wisconsin. Her job is to try to get women to wear better fashions. “I have been with Gimbels for nine years. I was walking through the store one day and was asked if I would like to work there.” Miss Nelson is on. a two

month world tour. ‘T am on holiday but everywhere I go, I go into stores and look at the . fashions and check the price range,” she said. “I am very interested in what is selling in the different countries. *‘l Went into the shoe department in one of the largest stores in Auckland. There were some very lovely things and they Were in good taste but I had to tell them the pointed shoe is out overseas and that the oval and square-toed shoes are ’in now.’’ One thing Miss Nelson had noticed about New Zealand shops is that the window displays were excellent but inside the shops were not as attractive as their outside display.