Current Gossip

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 106, 29 January 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

Current Gossip

Smart I’arislenne.s are wearing parlour pink in little jackets over black gowns, and some deeper reds and sapphire blues, with an occasional vivid emerald, are employed for longer evening wraps.

What is the Klexema Treatment? Not just a salve to soothe, nor an ointment to heal. It is a complete course of treatment by which we claim to cure vour particular skin trouble. Klexema Rooms, Ist Floor, Harcourt’s Buildings, corner Panama Street and Lambton Quay. * « *

An American fashion journal states that, although there has been no checkup ou how the course of masculine footsteps has been changed since the-“follow-me-lad” hats arrived, there is no doubt that the fashion of hats with streamers flying at the back is very popular.

Fur news! Our expert, with his up-to-the-minute ideas, will make your existing coat look like one of the coming winter’s models —and at a fraction of the cost. If it’s repair work or remodelling that, is required, bring your fur coat to Fur Tailors, 03 Manners Street.

Silver foxes, hats tied under the £liin, and suits mark the Parisian season at the moment. Bicornes and Honiburgs are other shapes almost equally popular, and visors and berets refuse to die a fashionable death, and have reappeared. The visor type is weighted by flowers, and looks very spring-like if the flowers happen to be primroses.

Are uneven floor-boards ruining your lino or carpets? Ring Dominion Floor Surfacing Co., 45-062.

Twin bracelets of embossed silver and a bag of black antelope with a frame of the same metal are two smart accessories for a black ensemble from Simmoniie Gerli, in Paris.

Have your new season’s frocks cut out, stitched or completely made by Hollywood, 46 Mercer Street. Tel. 44-311.

The new corselette effect is seen in a dinner gown cut with a bodice in the shape of a jacket with a straight band buttoned from the top of the waist to the hips, where the wide skirt bursts into sun ray pleating.

New season's frocks? The most exclusive styles, correct in every detail, are faithfully copied by Maud Berry. New address: Fletcher's Bldgs.. 4 Willis Street.

The sailor bert is not new in Paris, but contrives to look it with great success. One was worn with a neat jacket suit, with six sickle pockets, and the tyre edge of the beret made of white, to match the outlining of Ibe jacket These bats look like a halo from the front, and show the roll of hair or ringlets which the wearer effects.

•Tender, succulent, fresh poultry and fresh eggs, graded according to size, are always obtainable from Salisbury’s Shop, 80 Dixon Street. Tel. 51-040.

Rounded, stitched revers are fashionable for autumn suits. They are most becoming on the buttoned jacket of a brown woollen tailor-made with the skirt set in groups of pleats.

Learn the basic principles of cut, design and style as taught by the Hollywood School of Dressmak ing, 46 Mercer Street, Tel. 44-311. * « »

The silhouette in hats which go forward in the air, and look something like a highland bonnet, and something like the prow of a ship, is occupying Parisian milliners. An ajiiusing type is the bowl brim, some of which are so deep that the crown cannot be seen.

This is the month for sales, but no sale is creating so much enthusiasm as Wilson's, 52 Willis Street, where exceptionally "special snips” in very smart American frocks from 30/6 aud superbly tailcred English tweed coats from 29/6 are offered. You’ll be disappointed if you don’t get yours, so shop early.

Luminous reds in tweeds are being converted into suits by Schiaparelli, but red is mostly confined to deep crimson for roses on lints ur chiffon scarfs, combined with a lighter shade of rose pink. Yellows are another accessory colour, varying from chamois to tan. seen in gloves and other leather accessories.

An enchanting Sevres leaset. consisting of tray, teapot, cream, sugar and two cups and saucers, has gorgeous blue ground chequered with gold, each square holding :i tiny while enamelled fleur-de-lys. A most exquisitely painted scene from French rural life adorns each piece. Robin and Co., IT Grey Street.

A doeskin sash makes a pretty finish to ;i bolero suit, in fine navy linen, worn with a red and white figured blouse.

Why bother? Let the Ideal Bagwash take care of .vour laundry worries. They collect, wash. Iron and deliver it in perfect condition. Tel. 63-000.

Three silver foxes, two with their heads set on the bodice and edging the coat to tlie hemline, anil the third swathed high round the throat, trim a coal of misty blue woollen cloth.

Let Oxford Tailors make your tailored cost limes. Cliic ami correct. “Evening Post" P.lilgs., 51 h Hour.

For cocktails, wear a frock of pink ami gold lame, willi enormous sleeves of black crepe caught to a tight band at the wrist.