Topics for Women

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1938, Page 19

Topics for Women

If you are just going away for the weekend you will, not be wanting to take more than one suitcase with you. Perhaps you niay succumb to one medium-sized suitcase and a small handbag, but certain it is that the less luggage the better. But when it comes to the actual clothes the. problem is not so easily decided. For who knows what one, will be doing in the short space of two or three days? There may be an opportunity for riding and suitable equipment must be included. Or golf may be on the programme, even tennis, and possibly now

1 but certainly quite soon, swimming will be indicated if there is a warm and lovely day. Actually, at the present though, if you were going away this weekend you would not need to prepare for so many contingencies. Riding, some end-of-season skiing, golf, and getting your hand in at tennis again, would be the most occupying pastimes, not to mention a dance on the Saturday night. Apart from the important question of clothes, unless you want to be a potential "public enemy", and your special crime that of weekend borrowing, you'll take along a fairly extensive beauty kit. This is where.the smaller handbag comes in to fulfil a very practical use. Acting as your beauty box, even if it is not one of those luxurious affairs especially fitted for the purpose, it must be sized conveniently enough for you to carry along beside you in the train-or car so that you can "repair the, ravages" when necessary without having to cram your purse full of supplementary beauty aids as well. Included in this outfit there will not only be your usual cleansing and foundation creams, powder, rouge, lipstick, and manicuring impedimenta, but also a.supply of hair curlers, so that if rain does fall, you will not be caught out and have to make an evening appearance with sad, straggly locks. TO ARRIVE IN. For travelling a suit is always the wisest choice and if it has a matching top-coat of some description then the outfit is perfection. Choose a costume that is really sporty and well tailored, taking precaution^ that the skirt is not so tight as to have a dowdy, "well-sat-in" appearance after, a long journey. A casual loose coat is the admirable alliance. These* in chalk striped woollen material with a matching pique vest "that could be exchanged for a Shetland sweater and worn with the skirt alone for golf, would be ideal.

SOME NEW NOTIONS

WEEKEND WARDROBE

Then a plain little short-sleeved frock that is dressy enough for Sunday afternoon and supper would go equally well under the coat for a drive or church in the evening.