EVE’S Vanity Case TO CORRESPONDENTS

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3678, 23 March 1932, Page 2

EVE’S Vanity Case

TO CORRESPONDENTS

The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication m the \Yomen’g Realm items of social or personal news. Such items should be duly authenticated and engagements must bear the signatures of the parties. SOCIAL NOTES Miss E. Wor;told is spending a. holiday in Nelson. Mr and Mrs IX Waugh, of Ivimbolton, Iteuve to-duy for a trill to England. • • * * * Mr, Mrs land Miss Beth Itutlierford are spending a. holiday at Tanginioanii. Mrs Moore, Wellington, is visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs J. Gordon Eliott, Manfully Avenue. M,- s L J- Wild leaves to-day for Christchurch and Kranz dosief Olacicr. • « * * * The engagement is announced of Mr. lan Robertson Gordon, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gordon, of Taurapa. Hastings, and Miss Lynette Elizabeth Brockleliurst, daughter of the Dean of Waiaini and Mis. Brocklehurst. FASHION CENTRE LONDON'S BIG BID FIRST BRITISH MODEL HOUSE HOLDS A MAN'NHOHX l’A BAUD NEW DESIGNS AND MATERIALS Fur the Soar. (From a Woman Correspondent.) Them is a big drive to make London the fashion centre of the Empire. London is going to rival Paris. It is making a co-operative effort to enable fashion houses, whether in Britain or overseas, to lmy their designs entirely from British model houses, instead of being forced to go to foreign capitals, where the exchange is against them.

First British Model House Hence tin* first display of a 11-Bri-tish, exclusive models, held at the Mayfair Hotel. The big room set aside was packed out and the crowd of buyers from all over the country overflowed into the next door lounge to watch the mannequins parading in every sort of frock, from wedding dresses to beach pyjamas. A Broader Deal Several of the host known West end shops are joining in the new movement. Hitherto they have always kept their designs to themselves, but nijjw Jane Muims, Reville’s, Isobel’s, of Bond street, Hartnell's and other leading dress designers are organising shows for the retail trade. Ma*e Designers Some of the London designers have already achieved a world wide reputation. One is a young man, Mr Norman Hartnell, who only left Cambridge University four years ago. Ilis bold, original designs are the talk of London. Another famous English designer, Captain Molyneux, is head of one j of the best known Paris linns. Now he is coming back and opening a London house. London Fashions Group British dress manufacturers and wholesalers have banded themselves together into a eo-operative organisation called the London Fashions Group. Fifty linns, whose turnover runs into millions of pounds a year, have joined. They have all agreed to hold up their spring shows until a given date (at the end of February) when (hey will simultaneously throw open their doors to buyers from all over the world. A\ liile each firm will choose its own designs and manufacture its own dresses, all will, co-operate in attracting buyers from shops, big :*n 1 little, who might otherwise have gone abroad. Met with Success The first British Model House—which will function on exactly the

same lines as the famous Paris houses—has met with instantaneous success. Certainly enterprise and imagination lay behind many of the models paraded at the Mayfair hotel. The designer, a woman who owns an ultra-smart dress shop in Davies street, has invented several new ideas which are likeiy to be e< pied by the Paris dressmakers and, in fact, by designers all over the world Frock in two Colours One is a new and amusing coat-and skirt, in bridge colours, to bo worn over a bathing suit. Another is a set which solves once and for all the perennial problem of the English week-end. The whole outfit is executed in two colours. First of all there is a long djat. If this is in green, it h%s a lining of -white silk with green spots. This gce s equally well with a. plain green silk dress having a white and green spotted oollar, or with a warm white woolly cardigan suit having a: white and green spotted gilk blouse. - - Then the Hats There are two bats, one in white felt fur the cardigan suit, and one, in white straw for the green dressThe finishing touch is a. green bag, which goes equally well with either. I have never- seen a more dainty and heat ensemble. And it is a complete week end suit, because it provides both for a hot, sunny day om the river or the courts, or for a chilly day when a thin frock looks I ou t* of place. Like a Snowdrop The piece do resistance cl' tile show was a wedding dress which was like a snowdrop. It was of white satin, straight to thq, knees, and flaring out into a long train. Below the knees it was embroidered with mud ana lilies whose green stalks ran straight up the skirt in lines parallel to the green piping on the empire bodice. A Silver Wig Another novelty was a. silver wig. it wa.s made of metal “hairs” arranged in a perfectly criiffured wave and worn with a. negligee. This new idea fur dinners or cocktail partie s aroused a great deal of interest. Evening Frccks

Some of tile evening frocks had a simplicity and a. beauty of line which nothing could beat. ’The materials (all British made) were lovely. There were seme little cardigan suits in a light, loose tweed made specially in Scotland which w ere chicness itsel f. Frocks for day ’wear were definitely shorter. Morning Clothes Tile fashionable material for morning clothes was a sort of rough-oast wool marocain which is going to be the rage. Delicate Tints The colours t- no, were net the usual, straight-forward range. There were some extraordinary delicate tints Olio which struck m e particularly vva s a liew shade «l very dark Peacock, a ‘sort of shimmering deep-sea green used for a two piece suit worn with a rose and peacock check blouse. USES KOI! KITCHEN SOAP To prevent jour boiler from rusting, as soon as the water is emptied out on washing day, and while it is si ill hot, rub on a- generous costing of s oap. This will prevent rust, and the- soap will start a. good lather next washing clay. Tf you find a small mouse-liols© in the skirting board or cupboard, cliche it up with soup. Mice hate it so that they will riot conic through, or make another liolo near the first one. Tf there is a slight smell of gas from a fitting or a pipe plaster on wet s ao l* immediately. This will step the escape till the gUslitter can repair the leak. If a ladder suddenly appears in your silk stocking rub gome. moist soap on it at once, hut mend it before tile stocking is washed. TO SAYE TIME How often have you crossed from the stove to ge.t the salt, and then hack again for the pepper? If you’d like to save your stops - and time—you shouhl get a large salt shaker, fill it with half salt arid half pepper well mixed together, and Ueep it within an arm’s reach of the stove

1 on cun then season your dishes ui half the time. Jlefore using; petrol or benzine to remove spots from coloured silks, sprinkle a little salt on the soiled spot. Then the colour w ill not run and the petrol or benzine will not leave a mark. SPINACH SAUCE This sauce is recommended as a change from the ordinary white sauce, which accompanies boiled fowl. Pick leaves of spinach off

stems and stew with just enough water to prevent burning. 'When cooked pass through a wire sieve. Melt 2oz of butter in a pan, add spinach and stir well. Then ad I enough milk to make it the consistency of thick cream. Season with salt and pepper and, if liked, a few drops of lemon juice. TIRED ANKLES AND FEET liaising the foot of the bed at night by inserting two small blocks

under the casters will, perhaps, do mor e than anything else to relive the tired aching feeling by assisCfrig tho natural return of blood to the heart. COPPER STICK Alako a few cuts with. a saw around the end of the copper stick and it will grip the clothes better when you are lifting them from the copper.