WOMEN’S WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 140, 13 May 1930, Page 11

WOMEN’S WORLD.

Mr and Mrs Norman Sinclair and family are spending tiro school holidays at Paraparaumu beach. The marriage of Miss Kathleen gristed, only daughter of Mr A. H. gristed. Avonside, Christchurch, and Paymaster-Lieutenant Wilfrid Graham Hewson, R.N., will take place in London on May 22 from the home of Miss Bmted’s uncle and aunt, Mr and Mrs H. Heath, “Stretton,” Shelbon Avenue, Hampstead Lane, London, HIGHER WAISTS. SPORTS CLOTHES INFLUENCED. High waists are now an accepted fashion in New South Wales, and appear on all the new season’s evening gowns, afternoon frocks, and tailored ensembles. Sports clothes are following 6u:t, and already show the influence of this new mode. One-piece frocks for tennis have their belts two or three inches higher. Two-piece jersey suits for goif are composed of tuck-in blouses of jersey and tweed skirts to match, belted at the high waist line. Sports coats are given a tailored effect by being cut so that thev emphas’se the higher waisWine, whether they be belted or beltless. Sports flannel is again promised a vogue for the little separate jacket for sports wear, and is aieo used for the very latest ensemble, a matchjng jacket and blouse, with a contrasting skirt. The little sports jacket of flannel is seen in the favourite shades for this type of garment, navy, light blues, and yellows. When worn as part of the ensemble the jacket and blouse are usually of one of the deepest tours in the wide range of browns approved by fashion this season. The blouse is. of course, a tuck-in, and is of crepe-de-chiue or satin. Both jacket and bloir© of nigger brown would be worn with a skirt of a leaf brown flannel, for example. Another colour contrast which suggests itself is a jacket and blouse of navy, with a powder blue and azure blue skirt. These “contrast” suits, as tlnjy are railed, are exceedingly smart for sport and morning wear, and, in fact, any informal occasion. FROCKS FOR THE COURTS. Already debutantes are making preparations for their presentation at court, writes the London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald. After all, time passes very quickly once the season begins, and it is as well to decide upon such an important matter as a court dress as early as possible, while there is time to give it duo attention. So the designers are now holding special parades of court frocks, and, in the Lord Chamberlain’s office, you may see designs of court gowns for women of four different ages. These dresses have been approved by the Queen, and serve as a model for all women wdio are expecting to be presented this season. All four dresses feature the natural waistline, while the skirts, which are closely moulded over the hips, flare towards the hem, and only just clear the ground. A white gown is suggested For the debutuante, and this dress is so long that it almost hides the wearer’s feet. The skirt is even, all the way round, but the dress designed for the young married woman has an uneven hem, since it is just a little shorter in front than at the sides and back. The colour chosen for this frock is pink. For older women there are two frocks of stronger colour, trimmed with gold and silver lace and diamante embroideries. With all four frocks bouquets are carried. Evening frocks have become so formal this season that the head of one of London’s most famous fashion housed, which makes court gowns for members of the Royal family, says that “there is no alteration necessary to fit in with the regulations when making a court gown this season.” The new long, graceful frocks ’lend themselves as well to ceremonial wear as to dining or women are determined this year to order all-British court gowns. The designs in the Lord Chamberlain’s offic© wore submitted by a. British firm, and a number of orders for court gowns have already been placed with British fashion houses. Two quite lovely court frocks were recently shown at an Eng-] lish dress parade. One had a train ot billowy white silk tulle sewn with thou-

(By “GERMAINE.”)

sands of pearls, and the other frock, of a soft pink shade, had the design of its cobwebby lace outlined with pink pearls and its entire hem was finished with a band of pearl embroidery. Although bouquets will be very popular again at the forthcoming courts—they have been rather out of favour for the last few seasons—some women will still prefer to carry fans. The very newest fans are delightfully pretty, for they are made from several layers of chiffon cut into the shapes of flowers and leaves, and some of them, to add to their beauty, are studded with jewels. DAME FASHION. IN CAPRICIOUS MOOD. Fashionable Parisiennes are at present wearing frocks on which are painted political cartoons, and stockings decorated with black and white sketches. On the shoes are delicatecoloured miniatures and vivid cubist designs common to the artist quarter of Montparnasse; also humorous sketches of cabaret life. An exquisite drawing of the Sac r e Coeur, the famous Montmartre church, was seen on the silk stocking of a pretty woman in a fashionable saion.

LADIES’ GOLF. PALMERSTON NORTH CLUB. The following are drawn to play in the competition on Wednesday : —Mrs H. Trevor plays Mrs Jacques, Mrs T. Simpson plays Mrs T. Hart, Mrs G. L. Homan plays Mrs Pain, Mrs B. McMurray plays Mrs C. E. Brown, Mrs Day plays Mrs J. Young, Mrs Mason plays Mrs Snell, Mrs Lovelock plays Mrs D. Morrison, Mrs. D. M. Maclnnes plays Mrs Langford, Miss Rees plays Airs P. A. Seavell, Miss Jepsen plays Miss French, Miss Ilona Day plays partner, Miss Bowden plays Miss B. Lumsden, Miss V. M. Pitt Elays Miss E. Lumsden, Miss D. anders piays Miss Grant, Miss H. H. Wapp plays Miss A. P. Williamson, Miss li. Barling plays Miss J. Mawhiney, Miss A. Brown plays partner. Play commences from 1 p.m. Anyone unable to play is requested to ring Mrs C. E. Brown (’phone 7345) before 11 a.m.