Diamente Gloves.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

Diamente Gloves.

spppglefl ip djjinieiite soupd singularly WPtable. fpr, a wpmh-P piotorist,' but thpy have a definitely practical use, and dozens pre being sold by a LfOndon store,” says a writer in the Elpily Mail. '“.Recently I saw a woman driver wearing evening dress and a pgjr qf rpap if id gloves withdiamante stifched up tfie back, put out her hand to stop the car behind her. Immediately the headlights pf the second par cgyght apd ijjumjiiated her hand, makjpg the signal an unusually noticeable one. These glpveg ipay bp obtained in vpriqps pastel slices to match ppp’p evening gown.” i .• Fashion and Superstition. .

Many girls in Melbourne are wearing their stockings inside out, states au 'Australian espliang?. This fashion follows the appearance on a racecourse recently of a young woman racegoer with her stockings reversed. It is said that the fashion was’“discovered” by a girl who dressed so hurriedly that she put her stockings on inside tout. She was probably too superstitious to change them- The stockings'; when so worn, apypar to have a -softer sheen and a smarter appearance, and the back spam, of course, is more prominent. Women Police Again.

“Immigration, womens clubs, and the Nationaf Council of Women are other matters in which she takes an active interest,” writes an interviewer in London, referring to Lady Sidey> “She said she wanted to see our women police, for she was specially interested in their work. When Alinister of Justice, Sir Thqmas Sidey, drafted a Women Police Bill for New-- Zealand, but they have not yet been appointed.” “What Next?”

“The sight of a street vendor push: ing a barrow of tortoises in (Bond Street the other afternoon, reminded, me that these- queer little creatures are no longer confined to the vegetable garden and the nursery, but have actually fqund their way into the drawing-rooms of Mayfair and Belgravia,” remarks a Rondon writer. “Many women, who belpng to the cnic monde are keeping tortoisep about the house as pets. They even takp them out to dinner. I saw one the other night at a fashionable Jermyn Street restaurant, with a monogram of diamonds set in its shell. Its owner, a loveIv” society girl, had it attached by a thin platinum chain to her wrist.” The “Rameses” Hat.

Rngjish fashion designers, who havp Iptefy hpep delving into history books for bizarre ideas, have now resurrected, evidently from the ntumn;y room at the 'British Museum, another, which is nothing short of an atrocity, writes a Londoner, ft is guaranteed to rpake the most beautiful Woman ip England look hideous. The latest freak is the Rameses hat. That is not its official title. It has no official title yet. It may never have ap official title, because only the most seiisafion-seeknig of women w<to!4 ditto to wear it. But the Rameses hat is toe oplv phrase that is not abll ß i v ? which will describe it. The Rame§es hat is like a rabbit that has swallowed one of those boxes in which they put silk hats. It has no brim. It is covered with artificial hair of the saipe colour as the hair of its wearer. It is worn drawn down to the cars, so that jt merges into the real tresses of its owner. An old-fash-ioned “bun” protrudes conspicuously from thp hack of it. It is worn (horrors!) ..with evening dress. Two women looking as if they were aristocrats of t]ie court of an Egyptian king of toe Second Dynasty, recently emerged from a taxicab in Piccadilly Circus, lhey wore the Rameses hat.. They were a. sensation. Girls craned their necks over the top pf omnibuses to see them. Taxi-cab drivers exchanged rude remarks. “Look at Queen Tut,” said one, ierkifig his thumb over his shouMer. The mere niale-in-the-street wondered what women would do next.