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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 106, 28 January 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)

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Black satin shot with silver .metallic thread fashions a .coat dress which is worn over a white jersey slip‘with a high, round neckline. To accompany this costume, which is belted with selffabric and devoid of any trimming, are two diamond. clips worn high on the neckline. A'smart antelope turban completes this suave costume. A very handsome old English chest of drawers of specially lovely burr walnut, with dull brass handles is the news item at Robin and Co., 17 Grey Street, this week. Four long drawers are surmounted by two short ones, which project slightly, the projection being finished with carved terminals. — A very beautiful piece. « ♦ • ' A black and white satin dinner dress shows the stripes worked vertically at the waistline to give the important skintight fitting, and horizontally in the huge skirt to emphasize its swinging fullness. A tiny Puritan collar and plain, short sleeves finish the bodice. If you suffer from any skin or scalp disease, the benefit of years of careful study and experience is available to you in the “Klexema” treatment Hundreds of sufferers throughout New Zealand acclaim this treatment as the one way to health. Visit the Klexema Rooms, Harcourt’s Buildings, Panama Street, or ring 42,882. Mainbocher gives you a new silhouette with a simple moulded top, and a slim skirt with a gathered flounce like a lampshade all the way around. $ ifr ♦ A Paris chiffon gown knotted casually at throat and waist is one half dusty navy-blue, and the other dull reddishmauve.

Visitors! The Dominion Dyers, Ltd., are thoroughly recommended for cleaning and pressing suits, costumes, frocks or coats. They turn out a splendid job, and, if necessary, orders are collected and returned the same day. Ring 63-723, Dominion Dyers,- Ltd., Petone. Hollywood stars this season are wearing their hair piled high on the top of their heads, and perching thereon tiny hate worn well over one eye. That is the newest and smartest fashion among the film celebrities. Brown willow picnic hampers, so light to carry, convenient to pack, baskets of all kinds, for shopping, flowers, laundry and soiled linen in great variety.—Disabled Soldiers' Shop. ♦ $ $ This autumn plaids will be more chic than ever, and especially attractive are plaid shoes in reddish-brown or bluishgrey fabrics, with plaid scarf and plaid cuffed gloves to match. *♦£ t $ Autumn day dresses will be plain, high-necked, circular-skirted, almost Sonja Henie costumes, and it will be smarter to wear one of these Tinder a jacket than last year’s blouse and skirt. ■ « * * Here are just a few sale snips—woolly jumpers from 4/11, silk and fabric- gloves from 2/11, and summer weight English tailored coats from 29/6.—Wilson’s, 52 Willis Street. * * * Take a spray of green metal and twist it up your arm till it clings like a convolvulus, or curl an ivy tendril, of painted red and green metal, around your throat. Enjoy carefree washdays—let the Ideal Bag Wash Laundry do your washing. Ring 63,000; you’ll be delighted. « « * With a flecked grey suit and a matching felt hat, Piguet allied a yellow tiesilk blouse with wine-coloured spots. » « * _ Paris shows black kid evening gloves with metal claws in emerald green, and for the fox that trims your coat, a brilliant-studded silver muzzle. * • • The dirndl influence will be carried on in next season’s coats, which feature soft, 1 rich colours, and have full skirts with unpressed pleats from the waist, wide, padded shoulders, and nipped-in waists. Colour favourites will be garnet red, Air Force blue, and warm brown.