From Milady’s Boudoir Brightening Home And Clothes

Southland Times, Issue 23336, 21 October 1937, Page 14

From Milady’s Boudoir Brightening Home And Clothes

rtOOD shoes deserve good treatment and they do not always get it while they are resting. If you lack space to store your footwear, make them a wardrobe. A simple affair of a wooden box with a covering of furnishing fabric is within anyone’s scope. # # * * * A long box, to stand on end, is best. The fabric is stuck on with glue round the edges. Wooden rods of the kind used for short curtains can be used for the rails on which to hang the shoes. The front of the "wardrobe” can be a straight piece of material that lets down and is closed at the top with a zippfastener. * • • * Knitting Bag. Knitting bags of various sorts are everywhere in evidence just now for where a woman spends her leisure hours th her knitting accompanies her. One of the most novel bags belongs to the easy-to-make type. Fashioned from two slightly curved pieces, like an outsize banana, it zipp-fastened down its centre from tip to tip. The two ends were brought together and attached with a clip, thus forming a handle so that the bag could be carried on the arm. # # # # Glass always looks well on a summer table and even hot food nowadays is set before one in glass. Have you, by the way, noticed the heat-proof glasses tl at have their own walnut wood holders with cork bases so that they can be put straight on the table with no fear of heat-marks spoiling the polished surface? • # # * Salad Bowls. i,= you would serve your summer salads in the most up-to-date and inviting way, acquire one of those new capacious ■wooden bowls, the inside plain and polished and the underneath coloured. You have serving spoons to match. Or, if so preferred, your servers can be polished oli.e wood which has a fine grain. Wooden spoon and fork joined and used tong fashion are useful for serving salad. * # # * Mackintosh "apes are so handy for putting on quickly over coat or frock but, with any wind blowing, they often have the disadvantage of allowing the lower part of you to become very wet indeed. Wrap-over skirts in a waterproof material to match the cape with which they go, offer perfect protection. The two garments together are really better than a complete all-in-one “mac,” since the cape shelters your handbag and anything else you may be carrying. # * # * Colour in Tennis Kit. One touch of colour makes your tennis kit the thing, according to the fashion for matching socks and eyeshades. Pale blue socks and a pale blue shade of flannel tightly stretched over a shaped frame make an effective contrast with a white outfit. Straw eyeshades in the same pastel colour as the socks worn e preferred by some players as they are very light to wear. # * • » Novel Scarves. Strips of felt cut very fine and narrow, are being used for novel scarves to wear v.-di holiday suits. The strips are twisted and plaited rope fashion and the ends are left loose to form fringes or tassels. Two or more colours can be introduced into the “rope. M

Shell Jewellery. Real sea-shells make appropriate jewellery for a seaside or cruising holiday. Earrings are made from small shells with a tiny cluster of coral beads in the centre. Necklets show the shells, with the pearly side uppermost, alternating with coral beads and there are clasps to complete the set. * * • ♦ Felt for Accessories. Felt, by the way, is very popular just now for all sorts of dress accessories, and if you are clever with your fingers you can make for yourself one of the newest belt and handbag sets. The belt, of green felt, has a large daisy-like flower of felt, with white petals and yellow centre, hiding the hooked fastening in front. Similar felt is used for an oblong bag, the chief feature of which is a flower like that decorating the belt, and two long green felt “stems” that make double handles for the bag. #*# ' • Flower Stem Handles. This idea of using flower stems for a handle is also to be seen in a new pottery jug for cool drinks. The jug is a tall one in creamy pottery and the stem, curving from a blue flower makes a colourful handle. Platinum, a new shade for pottery, also appears in jugs of this kind and the bright tones of the flower and stem go particularly well with it. # » • • Wall Vases. Since plain walls and few pictures became the fashion, various ideas for relieving the severe look of the walls have been evolved. Wall vases for flowers and masks with comic appeal or of classic beauty have grown in favour and now we have china birds which can be arranged to look as though chey were in flight across their pale-tinted background. # w » a Extra Cushions. Several small cushions of varying shapes are so much more comfortable than one or two big ones. It is a wonder that no one started the multi-cushion vogue before. In different colours, too, they -an be arranged in such charming groups. One room scored a great success by having furniture covers of dark blue linen and cushions piled four or five together on the divan in pale blue and yellow. # a a a Something new to wear later on when late summer produces cool days, is a knitted waistcoat with short sleeves, embroidered with a white or contrasting coloured wool in a running stitch. Flower and leaf designs give the right peasant suggestion. Should such things suit you, have a skull cap knitted to match. Gay Lapels. The lapel of your tailored suit must have something to decorate it this season. From Paris come butterflies evolved from crisp white lace that are the daintiest things imaginable posed on your jacket. Lace or net flowers are also seen. More substantial buttonholes are cut from pastel-coloured patent leather. # * * • Net is very popular with Frenchwomen at present. Even their shoes display it. It may sound absurdly fragile for footwear, but when the net is wool 'and it is mounted on calf or patent leather, it does not look out of place ii. the daytime and is quite durable.