FIVE-MINUTE FANCY DRESS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 226, 21 June 1935, Page 5

FIVE-MINUTE FANCY DRESS

A fancy-dress party is much more amusing when it is hurriedly arranged, using things in the house, than is the formal sort when elaborate costumes, wigs, and powder make everyone even Jess at ease than usual. With so many women possessing beach or other trousers there is an excellent foundation for many varieties of costume, all jolly and comfortable. The first suggestion is a clown doll, using fancy beach pyjamas, a coneshaped' hat, a cotton ruffle, and coloured bedroom slippers. Cardboard cymbals are fixed on .to white cotton gloves, and the face is powdered white. The second, “Shock-headed Peter” needs a good head of red or fair 1 hair which can be brushed to stand up

vigorously, a gay cardigan and con- c trasting trousers—red body and green 'I legs are correct, —bedroom slippers, aud s a pair of large-size gloves with the ends f of the fingers padded and long paper s nails put on the ends. The Spanish j outfit should be easy as a black felt c liat is easily borrowed, or a suitable hat c may even be made by painting a straw boater black. A white tennis shirt and i black or dark wool trousers, with an s inlet gusset of red sateen at' each side, t red sateen sash, red head-kerchief, and I curtain-ring earrings. Side whiskers t drawn on, pompoms and gold braid or- I naments at the front of the trousers i are optional. c .. Dick Whittington’s principal needs c are a workman’s red cotton handker- J

cliief and a stout stick for the bundle. The rest is a brown felt pulled into shape, a beige sports shirt, brown artificial silk stockinette trunks, and long stockings. As this is rather a “principal boy” i>antomime costume high heels can be worn: also with the Spanish costume. There are, of course, many other ideas. With black hair and spectacles suitably enlarged with black and white paper an excellent gollywog effect cau be produced, whilst navy-blue trousers to which patches have been added, a blue shirt closed to the throat, with two rows of buttons sewn on, a peaked cap of dark blue, and a large “trick” or chocolate cigar will give an excellent Dutch boy outfit with little trouble.