WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3007, 19 February 1917, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

' '"'.-.'-"(Continued, from-'page 2.) Dress Balls in War Time. We have from two corres.pondentstliis week letters,, concerning the • spending ■ of .money on dress ■: and the dictates of fashion, says a writer in "The Queen.'' One of them speaks of tho ban on evening dress in Paris, and remarks that Paris is'now "the most Tquietlj* dressed city that one could imagine." It is true that evening gowns have been forbidden at the opera, and that the Parisian woman is dressing quietly. But whether she is spending much less money on those quiet dresses than is being spent, by. Englishwomen ..we take leave to doubt. .-Both our correspondents seem to us to go rather far in their attack upon tho fashionß. On the whole,, we are of : _ the opinion that tho taste of English women now. is both good and moderate in expression. • Tho gowns of tho.moment aro simple, tho furs are not at' all necessarily very expensive ones or used in an expensive way; " Wo :would remind these critics tliattbo great Parisian-house's, after a short period in which" they 'severely restricted their activities, were • obliged for the sake of their work-women and other employees to take a less extremo line, of actiohjlhhd to revive their businesses. If the English'.houses have avoided throwing their hands out of work wholesale, they have much to bo said for them. Tho real truth is that in this matter, as in so /'many others,it is really the public itself which has the controlling.wcr.d. Women have the matter in their own hands. Some will, no doiibt, be extravagant and thoughtless. . But the great majority of them are neither one.nor the'ofEer. Since the war broke but there have been van-

ous false starts in the direction of exaggeration and the extremes of fashion. . But they have always been checked, and have not affected the greater number of pur women. To judge by the few exceptions is never fair, and we cannot think that our correspondents, if they will, consider the behaviour of English women as a whole,.will really maintain that they are spending recklessly, or are careless of the grave circumstances of the national life just now. -' ' Mrs. and Miss Anson have returned from a trip to Mount Cook. Mr. and Mrs. Barton, of Feilding, aro staying in town. / Miss Joan Cleghorn. who has been.on a lengthy visit to England and the Continent, has returned to Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. AValter Panton, of Timaru, have returned from' the north, where-, Mrs. Panton has spent three - months' in AVanganui and district.. ANSWEBS TO COEEESPONDENTS. (By Arrangement'with Mrs. Rolleston, Hair Physician and Face Specialist. Qualified London and Paris.) "A.F."—Having lost your • hair so many years ago there is no hope, I think, of restoring it. I You would find a wig much. more comfortable and more easily adjusted' than a transformation, we specialist in this work and can- supply same on the shortest, notice. ■ There is no advance in prices on hairwork or no shortage as fortunately we have in stock a very large a supply of all shades. "S.S.L."—"Creme of Lillies," 2s. 6d. and is. 6d., is an excellent lotion for beautifying; the skin and ' removing freckles and tan, it is also recommended for blackheads and open pores. Further replies posted. Switches, Partings, and Transformations made to order on shortest notice. Mrs. Eolleston, 256 Lambton Quay.— Advt. '