SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18534, 19 October 1923, Page 12

SOCIAL NEWS.

vrNV:-/r ' ... ,v /" %; v " . ; Mrs. J. F. McKcnna is on. a visit to Wellington. ■ '< . ; ''Mir* -Viborta Ridley is in town from '..•,tergLv\:la for a .few days. ; __ Mr. and Mrs. Norman Burton arc leav"iing early next year on a visit to England. :■: Mrs. T •W. Stringer left, lasit evening ior.Dunedin, where sho will be \\ o guest yf Mrs. Isaacs. ..■■■■•. • - : : Mr and Mrs. J. R. Rendell ; and tho Misses Rondel'- have taken up their resi- . dence at Cargen. •, " Mr. and Mrs. C. M, Meredith are on a visit Co Christchureh. -Sir. Jiud .Mrs. Reeve aro also visiting that city. _ The engagement is announced of Miss Ona DutHeld Rusden. only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Rusden, Wvnyard Road. Mount Eden, to Mr. Rowland - Jackson, only, son of ' Mr. and Mrs: S. Jackson, Grafton Road, Auckland. Tho frocks worn at the big Spring Racing Carnival on which tho .curtain was drawn- a few days ago at Randwick must in sum total,' have cost a veritable fortune, says our Sydney correspondent. Straig..*. linos, with the simple draperies suggestive of ancient E-ypt. wore most favoured, but this was about as near as tho Sydney -Kronen sot to the predicted Tutankhamen styles. Thero wore Egyptian broideries, i but so modified ..&s • never to be iMzavra, j There war© '• i:Vcl'cawons of early an«> mid-Victorian .influences in designing but it appeal a? if tho women who have mortified themselves to attain uio slender silhouette were reluctant to hide .heir slimness under bouffant skirts, although ono little lady in blue taffeta looked as it she had raided an old chest and come abroad in oreat - great-gran d m s era- < oline. Green had '» promised as the premier colour, but brown easily ec.ipsed it in tho gay scene.