MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1927, Page 10

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES.

•—AHhaurgh the fashion experts of Paris and London say that the mannTsh phase has completely passed, it must, necessarily remain where sports outfits are concerned; for what looks worse than a girl who dresses unsuitably for golf, or other outdoor sports ? Ear-rings, worn with a sports hat, or fancy beads with a severely plain suit, completely spoil a turnout.

Valentine Dobree, whose portrait by Mark Gerlier hangs in the Tate. Gallery, is not, as the name might suggest, a. man. She is the only daughter of Sir Alexander Brooke-Pechcll, Bari, and is the wire of Mr Bonamy Dobice. She had no formal education, yet. she is a. painter of some skill, and has exhibited with those advanced artists who compose the London Group. Also a writer, Mrs Dobree has just had her first novel published. it has a curious title, “Your Cuckoo Sings by Kind,” which is explained by the fact that the central character in the book is a child, and the whole story is charmingly written from the child’s point of view.

In 2(i minutes Dr. Raymond Passot, of Paris, claims by means of plastic surgery, to make a woman look 20 years younger. Dr. Passott, who was during the war in charge of a hospital for soldiers wounded in the face, is now devoting his skill to the rejuvenation of women. Recently he described his methods in a lecture at the Institut Francais, South Kensington. “I have performed more than 2,000 operations on women who wished to look younger,” Dr. Passot told a Press representative recently. “It is a mistake to suppose that it is only the coquette who wishes to have her face ‘lifted.’ In Stockholm, for instance, where no woman ever powders her nose. I found that women who were earning their living were eager to have the operation. They realised that in modern life the woman wage-earner must look young.”

The legality of a ,marriage under Scottish law was discussed at Marylebone Police Court, when a young Englishwoman sought the advice of f he Magistrate (Mr Hay Halkett). .She -;aid that the marriage to a Scotsman was by declaration, while she was at Gorcbridg.e. Midlothian, in December, 192 J. 'fhe man was a soldier at the time, and she declared before witnesses that she would take him foi hei husband, and he declared that he would take her for his wife. They afterwards went to England, and had three children. Two are still living, but. the man repudiated the marriage mid loft her destitute. The Magistrate stated that as her husband was resident, in Scotland she. could only ob-

tain an order in Scotland. On ment.icning she could not pay the. iaia there, (he Magistrate directed that she should be temporarily assisted Iron) Hie pom' box until she could get in touch with the Scottish Otlice.

'J’ho three stockings vogue among w’omen is now appearing in a new lireetion. It lias extended to gloves. London West End stores have many requests for three gloves —two for the right hand and one for the left. The ’dea that stockings bought in three will last longer and that the odd stocking will be useful in replacing a ladlered c-ne, is a, very sensible one, said representative of a West End fmn ■o a ‘‘Westminster Gazette” reporter, ‘but the idea of buying gloves in ■hrees is even better. The righ hand glove usually wears out much sooner ’han its fellow, so that gloves bought in threes —two rights and a left — would give almost double the wear from a single pair. The plan at pie■•ent is that the gloves should not be actually boxed in threes, but that each customer shall be asked when puichasing of which glove she wishes to have a duplicate.

“Paris has succumbed utterly and entirely to a craze for blown-glass flowers and glass ornaments. Whereever one goes one sees them and makes mental notes to take some back home,” writes a correspondent. The ornaments are often as small' as two or three inches high and represent two or three figures in a dancing pose or a single figure expressing despair, delight, resignation, or some other emotion.’ The little models are replete with vigour, life, and character, and so popular have they proved that one dressmaker told me he keeps a tiny “factory’’ of three people fully employed making these alone. Anothei tvpe of glass ornament shows animals full of humour. The blown-glass flowers vary from the little daisy type to a bough of lilac—wholly in glass—and a rose’ spray. A low bowl of the small daisies for the dining table might take 100 or more to make a good show. Teazles are particularly successful made in the glass, and so is bearded wheat, which looks as lovely as cascading water or long icicles lit by the sun. Before a noted dressmaker put this glassware on the market she thought out. the designs and planned matters as carefully as she does her lovely and highly successful frocks.