TO TAN OR NOT TO TAN

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 100, 25 October 1930, Page 19

TO TAN OR NOT TO TAN

"Just at.the iuomcnt.it looks as if the great controversy in, the fashionable world whether to tan or not to tan will bo settled by, tho Clerk of the "Weather," remarks an..English woman. "Actually. I am told by a beauty specialist to whom several of our youngest and most uliie -peeresses owe 'their complexions that tan is too popular a fashion this summer to appeal any more to the really smart woman. Many women, too, have been discouraged by the aftermath of sun-tan, which has been aided by oils ana lotions. ,Cocoanut oil, which gives a smooth even tan at the time, fades; into a sickly green which no one finds becoming!" Fashionable Paris' favours an unusual colour combination for the eveningred with pink, states an exchange. When the gown is in pink the theatre wrap, shoes, and jewels are red. When, on the contrary, the wrap, necklace, and bracelets are pink, the dress is red. Babies are quite the most fashionable gems at tho moment, but women with smaller purses console,themselves with garnets, red coral, or red-dyed quartz as a decoration for pink gowns. "With red dresses the jewels are pink sapphires, spinels, or, .-less expensively, topaz, rose, quartz, and,palc pink cqr.il.