WOMEN’S NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 153, 31 May 1937, Page 11

WOMEN’S NOTES.

FASHIONS.

(By Aliss Alary Tallis.)

, Fashions of the future. —There are' three distinct types of suits. The classic is with us every autumn and spring, with mold variations. This year the variation is a matter of very snug waistlines and often some subtle and ingenious detail of decoration or of stitching of pockets. Another variation is to have the jacket of the suit in a contrasting colour to the skirt. The bolero suit, often with a skirt opening down the front to show a slip, is sometimes used very effectively over a printed crepe or tie-silk dress with a small design. The “boxy” coat suit is short, very full at the back, sometimes p’ped with a contrasting colour, worn over a slim skirt. . Coats are much less aggressively flared nowadays. Many are princess lines; some straight and open all down the front; a few belted. All of them hove very original buttons and unusual lapels. For warmer days three-quarter with a sash of the 6ame printed silk, are worn over plain dark frocks tied with a sash of that same printed silk. ! Also the same length coat*in a bright,! coloured, uncrushable linen will be very popular over dark frocks. Coun-i try coats .are mostly three-quarter length and loose; sometimes long and

belted, with raglan shoulders. Clieckec tweed for the coat with a gilet tc match it and a plain suit is good. BEAUTY. Kitchen aids to beauty.—lf youi hair is dirty or greasy and you haven't time to wash it. lightly dust on a little powdered starch and then brush it briskly out. It will leave your hail clean and shining. A friction towel can be made by soaking a bath towel in warm water, to which lib. of salt has been added. When the towel is drv, rub it gently to soften it. It will last a week before it needs recharging. Oatmeal has a soothing and stimulating effect on the skin. If yon suffer from acne fill muslin bags with fine oatmeal and use them, dipped in warm water, to clean your face. After a long day. if you eyes are tired or strained, bathing them with cold. unswee i ened tea will brighten and soothe them. Barley water, taken internally, has a beneficial effect on the skin. If you don't want the troub'e of making it, you can buy the barley-water already made from most stores. To prevent your lips from becoming dry or chapped, massage a little cream from the top of the milk into them every morning when you open the milk bottle. For a tired skin this egg-pack is excellent: Beat 2 oz. of fresh yeast to a paste w'tb the stiffly beaten white of an egg. Paint this on the face and neck and leave for a quarter of an hour, or longer. If your hair is erey or wdiite, and you wash it yourself, a little blue bag, added to the rinsing water, will counteract any tendency to yellowness. For lifeless, dull hair, break an egg into your shampoo powder and beat them well together. This makes a splendid hair tonic. Don't throw away the halves of a squeezed

lemon. Keep them to rub over your hands after i washing. This will soften, them and bleach them, too. A hot olive bath, just before your shampoo, feeds the scalp and helps to remove dandruff. Rub the oil well into the head with a pad of cottonwool and' then tie up your head in a hot towel for half-an-hour. THE HOME. Parchment and painted lampshades.— Imitation parchment lampshades are a tremendous boon to modern women and an up-to-date home. For shades of this itiaterial are inexpensive, yet very artistic. They wear well -and are not difficult to keep clean. Best of all, for the clever-fingered person, they are most adaptable and may be decorated in many different ways. It is a matter of choice whether you roiiceiilruUs on decorating bought shades, or make the sfiades themselves as well. Those of plain parchment are sold very inexpensively, in a number of good shapes. To get down to the actual job. All you require beside the shade is a sheet of shiny white paper and some gum

or paste. If you can draw your own silhouette design so much the better, for it will be stamped witli your own personality. But if not, there are several simple ways of. securing ■ a suitable design. 0 Suppose the cretonne used in a room has a clear-cut flower or fruit spray of suitable size. Then you can match up the lampshade delightfully by carefully cutting out a spray from an oddment of the cretonne, and penciling round it on the wrong side of the parchment paper (the right side if too shiny). Again, similarly cut out and use a suitable embroidery transfer. Or buy a book of mixed stencil patterns; lay one you like on the paper and pencil round, this time inside the stencil outlines. Remove the stencil, connect up the outlines broken by its “ties,” and cut out. To adorn the shade, brush gum ot paste thinly and evenly over the back of the cut-out, and press into place on the shade. Three or four cut-outs placed at even distances (marked beforehand) round the shade are required. Black silhouette paper may be used instead of white with good effect. For other simple decorations to parchment paper-shades, experiment with tlie following: (1) ’Bhmlcet-stitch. the edges, over the gold binding if there is one, with .contrasting wool; (2) punch holes along the edges with a leather workpunch and throng through them with rossia braid, velvet ribbon, or thin cord; (3) place a transfer design over the shade, and prick tli rough its out lines with a large needle. The light shines most attractively through the tiny holes.