MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1934, Page 9

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

ITEMS OF INTEREST

NEW “HALO” HATS.

UMBRELLAS AND GOLOSHES. . There has been a phenomenal sale of umbrellas and goloshes this year, says an Australian correspondent. One Melbourne shop is selling 1000 , pairs of goloshes a day. Another firm had to draw from its window display to meet the demand for umbrellas. , “1 consider that the new halo hate have been partly responsible for the phenomenal sale of umbrellas,” stated the manager of a department. Ot course, numbers of umbrellas arc sold every winter, but this year there | has been an exceptionally large demand for these accessories. Women are so keen about their new halo hats that they will not risk getting them wet.” The short chubby style of umbrella is still in favour. It is a most convenient shape, and much less dangerous in a crowd than the old-fashioned pointed variety. With goloshes the best seller is the vamp-shaped one that slips on and off so easily; but water-proof ankle-high boots are in steady demand. These are finished with a zip fastening, which makes, them simple to slip on and off.

UNIQUE TUCK SHOP. SCHOOL CHILDREN’S KIOSK. Medical and educational authorities have frequently drawn attention to the tendency of school children to spend their pennies on inferior confections that undermine their health, rather than to buy nourishing food, remarks Mrs R. R. S. Mackiunon, founder of the Junior Red Cross in Australia. A Mothers’ Chib in a New South Males country town has taken steps that will overcome this, and also provide meals for school children who, through economic circumstances, are receiving inadequate nourishment at home.

In the playground of the Intermediate High School at Inverell, there is a kiosk of charming design whose open windows are an invitation to all the children of the school who wish to participate in the good things served there each day by the volunteers of the Mothers’ Club. The idea of the club is to provide lunches for the schoolchildren which shall be absolutely well-balanced so that any child who partakes of the meal will receive all the vitamins necessary for twenty-four hours. It is also designed to provide suitable food for children who have not adequate nourishment at home owing to difficult circumstances, and matters are so arranged that no one knows who has paid for their lunch and who has not.

Every morning the teachers ask the children who wish for lunch at the kiosk. In addition to those who give their names, she herself adds the names of those whom she thinks would benefit by the lunch, and red tickets are given to each child. The numbers from each class are sent out to the kiosk and provision is made accordingly.

The scheme is very well organised and has interested the big hotels of the town, w r ith the result that every day large cans of soup are sent up from one or other of these establishments.

A cup of soup or a cup of cocoa may be obtained for the sum of Id, while a packet of sandwiches of four rounds of bread, made of wholemeal, with egg, lettuce, cheese, banana, jam and date fillings, are given to each child for the sum of 3d. This is the winter menu. In summer, fruit cup or milk shake replace the soup and cocoa. Every day 15 loaves of wholemeal bread are used, four pounds of butter, four gallons of milk, three gallons of soup, orangfes, lemons, eggs, bananas, and four head of lettuce. The sandwiches are wrapped in greaseproof paper of which 51b is used a week. Cheese is another popular item, and. 71b is used a fortnight. Donations of cocoa, jam, and eggs are sometimes given, but all the other goods are purchased. The whole matter has the complete approval of the Minister ami Director of Education. A. feature of the kiosk is that it has wooden flaps or shutters on four of its octagonal sides which let down when the children come to be served, and when put into place do away with any fear of breakages or injury with football or other games of the children.

The enterprise might well be imitated in New Zealand, where children, left to their own devices, are likewise apt to spend their pennies on very unwholesome and unsuitable lunches.

GIRL'S ROAD TO FORTUNE. Twenty years ago an cighteen-year-old girl went to London with a camera and £6O. with a firm determination to.achieve success. Fifteen years later her income was about £lO,OOO a year, and to-day she considers she has just really made' a start. Dorothy Wilding, Court photographer, who has made her name known all over the world, recently told the representative of a London daily newspaper the story of her life. Her' first money, she said, was earned by weeding friends’ gardens. Against her parents’ wishes she saved to provide an opportunity to start in some occupation. The picture post card craze was widespread and the pictures of actresses she knew were so bad that 'she set herself to learn photography, knowing she could do better. Friends and relatives were requisitioned as models, and as she improved in technique she charged for their portraits. When she decided to go to London to start her own photography studio she was met by ridicule and opposition. To-day, in her (London studio she employs 50 girls, and is convinced by her own experience that there is no success in business achieved by a man that cannot be equalled by a woman with

NEXT SEASON’S HATS.

’(By a Paris Fashion Expert). Short brims will satisfy the most exacting amongst us during the autumn season, with the special allure given to them by Suzanne Talbot, who insists upon a black uplift tilt to further charm the eye. Black panne and felt appear in profusion, and both are combined from time to time with black antelope. Visualise the new higher crowns, blocked in belltopper plush —that is to say, panne—vVith brims rising at the back, where a single camellia will appear likewise blocked to shape ill opalescent pink or white satin. This motif might be reversed to the front or entirely abandoned for a stiff bow of velvet or felt. Bows, however, only appear at the back, and jut at an angle just to preserve an outline, full of merit because it is to wear, becoming and elegant. Trimmings for these special shapes may range from a bow to flat narrow ribbon tailored loops, falling in single formation down the centre back from an uplift, dainty curled ostrich feather tips, and perhaps a longish curl of osprey, adding height to the movement on a hat of black panne mixed with felt.

. Shapes are definite, and not hidden by swathes or other trimmings that have a tendency to spoil form. While talking of form, one smart afternoon hat, has a- side-lever brim, cut to shape out pagoda-wise at the sides. These two levers resemble aeroplane wings, but “pagoda” is perhaps more correct.

You will put your considering cap on the new “tricorne” in either panne or felt, with its three flaps forming a wider shape as they lift up and over on to the crown —where each point settles down under small black ostrich feather tips.

There are brims of perfect circumference, too, that merely curl up .round the edge with bowler crowns and a silver leather bind or narrow black leather ribbon formed into a series of short loops distributed at intervals round the base of a croivn. The pill-box style appears in a new turban, naturally brimless and perfectly formed in velvet, felt, or feathers of the birds’ breast variety. It is given a fascinating tilt on the head,

and the single white camellia enters the field again, set in front, or a bow might drop at the back. In the latter group iridescent green Chinese pheasants’ breasts play a role to go with short, flat shoulder capelets. The most colourful turkey breasts ever discovered in a Christmas market are also appearing. These capelets are usually bordered with plain felt or lainage, that might form a bow at the back of the pill-box shape, and, with gloves, make up an ensemble of three items. Gloves also appear in short one-button styles of bottle-green silk velvet and black silk velvet to complete hats. Bows carry a great trimming theme in back dropped looped effects tor another turban shape, launched as “1935.” It is brimless, and smacks rather of a. coal-scuttle in reversed mood, rising sheer in front, with an embossed ridge in the blocking, shaping a perfect round or horseshoe. These motifs merely form an impression, though in one instance the disc is completely smothered with miniature white camellias massed closely together* *■ Wide white ottoman ribbon is featured on black felt, also dark green velvet ribbon on black, with semicircular net veils falling to the shoulders sometimes included. Sports shapes convey brims that roll up at the edge in becoming fashion, and chin straps sometimes appear. Burgundy red felt shows heavy wool furniture cording posed round the extreme edge and base of crown, ' while dark brown felt turns up at ; the back with a single short lacquerred gros-grain looped drop falling on to the hair. ' 1 I Galon de laine in navy blue, too, looks interesting with vivid green wool-knit lines run through the ’ crown and round the brim’s edge. ’’ Bayadere striped galon de laine is ?! another idea for sports wear. L In evening styles, diamante einpha’■sises a line movement round the * ; crown and brim of a small sailor 1 shape, and a beret, with tail at apex , is made entirely from sections of ,l mirror glass. ij Iridescent metal, galon glistening ':in a tone of green forms a Marianne | cap and silver beads a lattice work

hair net similar to those that encased a mid-Victorian grandmother’s bun. Then the modern touch pursues an idea in a silver metal diadem band, holding a silver metal waterlily right at the centre of the forehead. It looks perfect with a black osprey cape.