THE DOOMED PANNIER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1509, 3 August 1912, Page 10

THE DOOMED PANNIER.

An Australian who went to Ascot on Tuesday and Wednesday (writing from London on June U) describes the gowns as forming definite colour schemes on both days. The first day was blue, and the effect looking clown at the big crowd was of blue in various shades, picked out with white and pale shades of pink, green, and yellow. Strangely enough, the following day was yellow, and though not so definitely all-pervading as the blue, the most striking gowns were in lemon yellow and various shades tending to credin and biscuit colour. Yellow is an extremely Irving colour in the daytime, and should only bo won by women with good complexions. Tho desire tu bo extravagant,. however, led many mmen into difficulties, and several elderly women in yellow looked their very worst, or, as acquaintances put it, "one charitably hopes that in their worst." Tho pannier as a paunier is doomed—that is one of Ascot's lessons j it will subside into graceful draperies. ' Women found that a breeze catching them from- a. certain direction, turned their figures suddenly into the' silhouette of the circus clown, a likeness that naturally makes the pannier impossible. Laco wiil be largely worn, and skirts will bo fuller. '

NOT SO FOND OF UNIFORM. It may come as a shock to womenfolk (says a writer in tho "Australasian"), but all"boys do not liko to wear uniforms, as the oflicers in Ihe senior cadets are finding out. Boys often appear on parade in their every-day attire, and the variety of excuses given for the absence of tho uniform is wonderful. One cadet told hui oflicers, "1 got wet going homo from drill the' of her night, and mother put tho clothes in front of the fire to dry. A spark blew out, and burnt a hole in tho trousers. Mother could not find a nccdlo and cotton, and she would have asked tho woman next door, but she was away looking ai't?r her sick mother. My brother had a sore- foot, and he could not go a message, and when 1 got home from work 1 went down tho street lu buy, a needle, but the. shop was shut. And, Justus I was woiidcri'ig what J should do " "Fall in, inv lad," the officer said. "I. don't think you'll make much of a snldior, bul some day you may be Prime Minister."

The annual dance of tho Oriental Footboll Club takes place in tho Sydney Street' Schoolroom on Wednesday, August H. lhe clmperones are: Mesdames Gardiner, Nimnio, Collcrton, and Sievers.

Tho friends of Mr. Wallis V. Brown?, R.N.R., late chief engineer of R.M.S. Athcnic, and now in the. White Star Mediterranean service, will be pleased to hear of his marriage on Juno 2G of tins year to Miss Katherinc Osborne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Abbott o>boruc. Hie wedding took place at Brooklyn, Mass, U.S.A., Uio'homo of the bride's parents.

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