FEATHERS FLEW

NZ Truth, Issue 1199, 22 November 1928, Page 18

FEATHERS FLEW

"W7l' bonnets and feathers ' and a' and " a 1 " Christchurch city trailed along to the Caledonian Ball, at which one encountered the novelty of thousands of fancy head-dresses. So perhaps your best and 1 sedategt .of friends turned | up. with the I , eagle-feathers of I ; Great Chief SitI », ting -Bull nodding I coyly over h er I eyebrow, or some- = body whose sev--1 ere Eton crop had = been the wonder | and distress of I her pals appeared' | 'm a soft, silvery | '!' powdered wig. for I ; which any gallant I bf ,■ th c ' French I? courts r wo u 1 d i ' cheerfully hay cI taken the, count. § If s amazing, = really and .truly, what a, difference It he poor old 1 crowning glory i can mate. Swing--1 ing Chinese pig--1 tails, a brown i chi'ysanth emuin 1 tucked over each I ear, eyebro\vs = painted to an = elvish slant and 1 cheeks pink with I the "carmine de = Eelicite" can make the most insignir ficant little person somebody to make city fathers — even Christchurch city fathers — look over their shoulders. The evening was a couleur de rose one.