SUMMER DRESSES FOR THE LADIES

Northern Advocate, 5 December 1935, Page 6

SUMMER DRESSES FOR THE LADIES

BUT NOT FOR MEN WARM DAYS AT LAST HARBOUR AND BEACHES POPULAR If you want to know whether summer has arrived just look at any girl as she passes you in town.

A week ago down Cameron Street was a moving picture of coats and costumes made of good, serviceable heavy cloth to keep out the bitter blasts of wind, which seemed to be raking Whangarei from some unknown quarter, and which even the weather authorities did not seem to know much about.

The week-end brought a change and a brilliant blue sky and blazing sunshine wrought a transformation overnight. Coats and felt hats and winter “woollies” have disappeared like magic and the ladies of the town are going about their business in the lightest of summer frocks, with colours all in keeping with summer, which seems to have definitely arrived, everyone hopes, for good.

The beaches last Sunday were well patronised and the harbour has now a definite place in the week-end amusements of the yachting fraternity. Swimming, delayed so long, is growing in popularity. Tennis is in full swing and even summer golf, minus plus fours and tweeds, but played in summer attire. But a walk down Cameron Street will not see any change in the clothes worn by the men. Heavy suits and heat-generating hats are still the rage —poor fellows. It takes more than a little summer heat to make the “Lords of Creation” cast stiff collars and : formal dress. The whole thing would be un-natural!