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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 18

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MAKE-UP TO MATCH GLOVES Dressmakers are not afraid of mixing colours—cyclamen goes with dark green, black witli peony and purple, and melon, apricot, arid orange shades are coming along, states an English writer. Beauty parlours are planning colourmixes, too. A lipstick with an orange itint and rouge to riiatch will not be considered right with these melon or nasturtium shades.Instead, there must be a colour contrast —say, a red lipstick tinged with blue. ■ A polychrome dress scheme of, for instance, a black' skirt and orange jacket with a lime-green trimming, lieeds to be rounded off with peony make-up. : Here is another idea—match your make-up to , your • coloured gloves or to a jewel.in the trimming on one of those short, boxy tweed coats made to j wear with'evening frocks. ! If you choose a black dress and wear, it with ..peony velvet gloves and an emerald/bracelet, don't be shy about using the-new tfeony.lipstick, and stick a green ostrich feather in your hair if you feel'like it. ■ After all; is there any reason why a woman should riot change her face just as she changes her style in clothes or hairdressing? I can't think of one, . Queen Wilhelmina is an extremely early riser, comments an overseas writer. Until a few years ago she:was often to be seen in her garden hard at work before breakfast. Her breakfast fe frugal, often consisting of a roll and a glass of .milk. When she first visited Scotland she became interested in the porridge, and this has since figured regularly on the Royal breakfast menu.She enjoys afternoon tea, but she ;has not passed on this taste to the Crown Princess. Furniture in her private apartments -.for the most part is heavy, but com- -: lortable, and most of it is upholstered In blue, matching the carpets arid hangings. This is her favourite colour/