WOMEN'S INTERESTS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1933, Page 2

WOMEN'S INTERESTS

WHAT WILL 1933 DEMAND.

A successful forecast of next season’s popular shades would prove more profitable than holding the first three tickets in the Irish Sweep, according to the president of the British Fashions and Fabric Bureau.

Colour selection is the bane of tho lives of both manufacturers and distributors, he shid. Woman is prepared, in most cases/ to sacrifice quality for colour. Women detest standardisation and are “simply crazy” for changes as often ,as they .can get them.

The only way to sell an old-fashioned type of material is to give it a naw'fashioned face. The woman of 50 wants to look like a girl, and insists on. the type of dress and dress fabric 1 Which will aid her in effecting that picturesque illusion. There is no appreciable difference between the style points of view of the woman of society and the mill giri. They have all, more or less, the same mental outlook in regard to the clothes they wear and the manner in which they wear them whether they have pounds or only shillings to spend. The greatest contribution to the fashion education of women can be claim* ed by our national newspapers. The women of no other nation in the world are catered for so lavishly and so consistently.

THE MOSLEM BRIDE. The bride waited in her bedroom. Sh<\ might have been a black and white painting on old vellum, for no colour relieved the warm ivory , of her skin or the cream of her. Parisian lace frock. With her raven black hair, grey eyes and dark lushes she -could easily have been mistaken for an Irish colleen instead of ®n inmate of an Egyptian harem about to wed. a man she had never seen.

Apparently the coming ordeal held no terrors for her j she was, perhaps, a little shy, but entirely pleased and self-possessed. Diamonds blazed round her throat arms and a spray of orange-blossom was fastened to one shoulder. On each side of her head fell long strands of “Angel’s Hair.” tho silver tinsel streamers which decorate Christmas trees in England. Moslems are nothing if not hospitable, it is part of their religion and they glory in entertaining j on; such occasions a deaths and marriages, “open, house’ is kept to an extent that we should find appalling. Numberle*. relatives, both rich and poor, are . in vited; as well*as retainers* and'neighbours from; a wide area.

A DRESS ALLOWANCE. A disused warehouse on the south side ,‘of the Thames by Hungevford Bridge has been turned—at the cost of £looo—into a night shelter for homeless men. , Last,.year a woman (wh o remains ! hnonyhious) deeiclod to spend her dress I allowance on helping the destitute. iShe persuaded a group of friends to ■help her. The night shelter, where the men find friendship and food is the outcome of her idea . ; Stables, which once housed dray horses, have been- floored and whitewashed and fitted with comfortable cubicles. . Electric light and hot water have been installed. Hot coffee can be obtained night and morning at the canteen, which provides 600 meals a day. The warden of this remarkable club is a bank clerk, who hurries back after th'e day’s work at the bank, to spend the evening helping, advising and chatting with the men.

BEAUTIFYING EYELASHES. Don’t make the mistake of using black eyebrow pencil or black eyelash cosmetic. Your eye fringes should be only, a shadcf darker than your hair, and yo'ur eyebrows the same colour. [To enhance the charm of soft brown eyes use a brown eve-shadow cream. iYou can make one for yourself. Buy ia, stick of brown grease-paint and a small tin of yellow petroleum jelly. Melt the petroleum jelly in a jar standing in hot water and add sufficient of the grease paint to colour it light brown. To test the colour of the cream, pour a little on to a cold saucer so that jit solidifies. If your eyes are grey 'use a brown. Apply the eye-shadow !to the edge of the eyelids and spread jit upwards over the upper eyelid. (Then take a small pad of cotton-wool, idip it in cleansing cream, and remove {the eye-shadow from the centre of the (upper eyelid.

j METAL AND THE MODE. I CRAZE FOR CHROMIUM, I \ The craze for chromium, or so-called Chromium -plated jewellery, which one thought was beginning to pass, has taken a new lease of life. Some of the newest bracelets, necklaces and belts are made of this metal allied with either wooden or lovely crystal beads. ■ In Paris some of the smartest women are wearing chromium belts with their woollen sportswear. These belts are marvellously sup-le, despite their metallic origin, and are tremendously smart. And if a steel bead bracelet and necklace ara also worn the trio

Jiints from Jiome and Jlbroad.

would make a very gay complement to a suit of tailored severity.

The new large chromium-plated clips are now first favourites with chic Pa-risiennes. But chromium and • metal are npt confined to day and sports wear. Even for evening frocks chromium and diamante belts and clasps arf't being shown by some famous designers. And a diamante and inetal clip to accent the V back decolletage is another of the new season’s ornaments.

TABLE MANNERS. It is impossible to form a correct 'estimate of ia man’s character until you have seen how Tie behaves at the. table the way he eats and his manners to those seafled , next to ■ him. The man who ignores one of his neighbours and devotes himse|f entirely to the other is selfish and; ill-mann^'ad. The courteous man is ias polite to a. charwoman as he js to a countess.-

• Th e bad-tempered man snaps at. his food and -savagely grinds it between Tifs teeth. If he sets on'e teeth on edge jjjy .grating his "knife on the platfe, ‘ beware of rousing his" wrath. Avoid him as a husband, and think twice before confiding ‘in him as a friend. A man who is' greedy and selfish almost invariably puts his face close to His plate land looks as if he feared someone was goirig to rob him of 'his food. He barricades himself behind the salt 'cellar, mustard-pot/ and th e menu, and 'eats too quickly and too fast. He will be covetous in money, affairs and 'often ‘develops miserly tendencies as he grows older.

: A GIFT OF THE GODS. . A flawless complexion is really a gift, of the gods. The skin is .thick, sp yj to be impervious' to the wind and the weather, and yet it looks unbelievably ♦fragile. ‘ If you Begin life with one S? those really thin skins of the -strawberry and cream, variety, by the time you reach thirty it’ will probably no longer be lovely, but will be drawn, dry k and perhaps slightly marr e d by (little broken veins.

In this case your digestion may be completely normal, and', it, probably matters little iwhat you eato for no diet will improve 'the**) /faults. You will have 1o rely entirely upon earful massage,, treatment for .the broken veins (or you can use a special cream which hides them completely), .and a protective treatment when you go out in cold wind®. ° WHAT ROYALTY READS. Our middle-generation Royalties are not bookworms! Probably the Duke of York roads the most. But it is. from a sense of duty, rather than pleasure, his objects' being to study sociology and to be a Big tq discuss books with the Queen, who keeps well abreast of, m6de r n literature. The Prince of Wales and Prince George read—but not voraciously. The Prince of Wales '‘tears the Heart out of a book,” which probably means that he akims and skips. Prince George reads mostly modern fiction and amusing dip* into the past..

FLOWER. CHINA. Flower-decorated china is as popular as ever, and the modern designs and colourings make a- fashionable tea table collection' of delicate flower pictures. The best examples of this typically English china have recently been on exhibition. The exhibits include new designs which have been purchased by the Queen, the\ Princess Royal and the Duchess of York. There is a delightful “Two for Luck” nursery set which is a replica of one ordered by the Duchess of York for her own nursery. The design was inspired by 'an incident during Princess Elizabeth’s christening, when someone noticed two magpies flying overhead and remarked; “Two for luck.”

Examples of the new handles —solid handles formed by two flower petals —are to be> seen on some of the cups. Another set shows a flower- group or a garden scene decorating the whole of the inside of the cup, while the outside and the saucer is in >a plain colour delicately tinted to tone with the “interior’ decoration,

In normal times there gve as many as 78,000 men and women employed in the British china industry. Now, through foi-eign competition, this number is much reduced, and unemployment and hardship have invaded the potteries.

, FEATHER NECKLACES. Necklaces of fluttering feathers look enchanting worn with the new dull crinkled crepe evening frocks. The feathers'look smartest when in a lighter—or darker—tone than the dress.