NOTES FOR WOMEN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23332, 26 October 1937, Page 17

NOTES FOR WOMEN

By PIIILLIDA

NEW EVENING LINES There are more fun and capers going on in Bruton street and Grosvenor street this week than any other two streets in London (writes a fashion expert in an English paper). A stranger would imagine that two or three dozen weddings were in progress so many awnings are stretched across the pavements, so many rich-looking cars are queuing up and so many elegantly dressed women are being ushered in and out by commissionaires. Those receptions are of course dress shows.* High lights of Victor Stiebel's new collection are fine drapery imitations of practically all the flowers known to Kew Gardens, evening hats worthy of Dietrich, and the longest of evening gloves. Marsh-mallow white crepe, soft dull surfaced velvets in deep pink, pillarbox i-ed, port, claret, crimson and plum shades, are used for the evening gowns. The fine horizontal or vertical drapery clings to the body from the very low decolletage at the bust to the low hip-line. The skirt is straight, with a semi-train at the back, and the shoulder straps arc about an inch wide. Great bunches of mixed flowers are placed in the centre front, and the hat may be in velvet or lace, with brim rushing heavenwards. A full evening dress in heavy white crepe with new drapery has an enormous bunch of firework pink sequin flowers at the front of the bodice, and is worn with large black evening hat and long black evening gloves.

A black lace hat is worn with a velvet dress of a deep pink shade. A wine-coloured velvet with a crinoline skirt has a deep flounce of turquoiseblue net. Black satin is used for a clinging evening gown which has a bunch of pink flowers at the front of the bodice, and a sheer black chiffon circular cape bordered with satin. A picture frock has the wide skirt formed of grey, pink, and black sections of the net. The bodice is in black velvet. Good enough to cause a wistful expression on the face of every woman in the showroom was Robert Piquet s collection. This wistful look on a woman's face means that she is going to spend more than she meant or that she is going to resist temptation altogether, They broke down completely when they saw an evening gown called “Versailles” in green velvet. The deep V-shaped decolletage back and front is in bands of leopard skin. Another evening g<?wn of the Venetian type has a wide crinoline skirt of jade green crepe topped by black velvet bodice, with no shoulder straps whatsoever, and is worn with a little flat tricorn hat and veil. As for suits, the most tempting is in black wool and velvet. The tightest fitting little jacket in black woollen material of classic cut is left open or fastened, if you wish, with three black velvet buttons. The plain skirt is black velvet, so is the tall postillion hat, and the tailored shirt is in oyster sa tin. Another suit has a dull raspberry pink woollen skirt, royal blue crepe de chine tailored shirt, and a jacket of black and white tweed mixture lined with black crepe de chine. A black suit has encrustations of brown around the front of the armhole, and the brown shirt has the encrustations of black. “ Here is my heart is the name of a bright blue woollen suit, the heart encrusted on the front of the jacket. With it is worn a brilliant pink cravat and gloves, which have gauntlets of silver fox. The pointed hat is in silver fox. The jackets .of these suits are tightly fitting and hipbone length. . , . Of the afternoon coats the hardest to resist include one with a black cloth front and black sealskin back, and sealskin is used also for the back of the sleeves; and a deep brown cloth bordered with nutria and V-shaped yoke of the nutria front and back. Dark blue woollen material is used for a coat which is fcollarless, belted and has a wide border down the front of ginger coloured woollen material, soft as suede. The dress underneath is the same ginger wool. There is a royal blue coat with a deep hem of red fox and a red fox muff which unzipped makes a collar. All these coats are slim, fitting, belted, and most of them collarless. One very full chestnut brown duveteen coat is smocked all across the back, lined with pervenche blue and worn over a pervenche blue dress. Many of the afternoon dresses in thick soft crepe or fine silk jersey materials have drapery at the front of the bodice from neck to just below the bust-line. The collar line is very high, built up in front and drops to a small V at the back. The skirts are semi-flared, belts about an inch wide. THAT DREADED SCHOOL REPORT Don't take your little one’s bad school report too seriously. A child is rarely genuinely lazy, and perhaps his dullness can be overcome with sympathetic encouragement from you. “I should be ashamed of myself,” the irate parent rebukes, on reading Peter’s report. “ You are nearly bottom of the form in most of the subjects.” And Peter is ashamed, no matter how indifferent he may appear. He has already felt sore when the term lists hung on the school notice board. While at school he is an insignificant unit, at home he has been a personality. Hence the chill feeling at heart when his lack of scholarship is revealed , . “ Peter doesn’t seem interested in his school work.” the father remarks to his wife. ~ .. . The parent does not realise that Peter will not be attracted by his studies until he finds himself meeting with some measure of success. Adults work with the future in mind, but not so the child, with whom present achievement is essential for maintained effort. . What in after-life is known as laziness is rarely found in a child. A healthy boy fails to make good in his school' work because his present lack of ability prevents him from obtaining sufficient grasp to be interested. A child does not get a sum wrong, as a rule, through indifference, but because his mathematical efficiency is unsound. Children, like their elders, prefer success to failure. But whereas, in the case of an adult, failure is the signal for renewed effort, its effect on most children is just the reverse. Success alone encourages them. With thoughts of the future, the parent worries: “If Peter does not change I don’t know what we shall do with him.” It is a mistake to plan a child s career too long before he reaches school-leaving age. A parent may have looked forward to the time when his lad will do well in the world, and even gone so far as to earmark some definite work for him. But many a man is a misfit because his well-mean-ing parents started him on a career which, to them, appeared attractive, but which he later discovered was far from congenial to his abilities. The parent who waits until the child is approaching leaving age before seriously considering his future will avoid much disappointment. A little praise now and again will foster the needed self-confidence much more than any amount of disparagement. A display of anger over a school report will make the child regard future learning as an enemy. While it is fatal to be indifferent, if apparently little concern is shown Peter will not go back to school with the feeling that he is a duffer.—An English magazine.