FROCKING AT ELLERSLIE

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1933, Page 11

FROCKING AT ELLERSLIE

FRAGILE SUMMER MATERIALS.

THE VOGUES OF COLOUR.

With blue skies and a brilliant sun that shone all day without let or hindrance, there was everything to induce people to attend the races at Ellerslie this week. They were there in very large numbers, and again the dawns and stands presented a most colourful sight —even more so than on Boxing Day. It was a day for light, fragile frocks and their infinite variety was a never-end-ing study of fashion, style and femininity. A great deal of red was worn but this, while very attractive on grey dull days especially in the winter or in autumn, is rather suggestively hot on a summer’s day—at least to an imaginative person. Blue in brilliant shades ran it closely in favour and so too did navy blue either mixed with other colours or by itself. Frocks of beige lace and beige georgette are still regarded with affection by many women and wisely so for they are universally becoming. Another favourite was blackin both lace and georgette—and some very attractive frocks in both of these materials were seen. Organdie in soft shades of pink, blue or yellow looked most attractive on the younger people. It is a long time since hats have been so kind to women, tjie wide brims softening and framing the faces in a most attractive manner.

GRETA GARBO.

HIDING FROM THE PUBLIC. Wearing smoked glasses, frizzy black hah- and shapeless clothes, Greta Garbo, the film star, spent a week in London unrecognised, save.for the manager and manageress of the hotel she stayed at. She. rose at 7 a.m., was out walking in Hyde Park before breakfast, and usually she retired before eight o’clock at night. She brushed shoulders with the crowd in the streets. She saw the “horrors” at Mme: Tussaud’s. She saw the Tower of London and the changing of the guard—in fact, in her own words, she “saw all she wanted to See in London.” There were occasions when she went to the theatre. She also saw Greta Garbo in “As You Desire Me,” her latest picture, and Greta Garbo in “Grand Hotel.” Even the stacks of luggage that came with Greta Garbo and “The Countess” were not unpacked. Greta apparently was too terrified to wear anything that might help Londoners to recognise her. There were times when she was known to have left the hotel, but certainly had not gone out of the front door. There were also times when she had entered the' hotel, found the lift occupied and decided that it was safer to run up five flights of stairs to hdr room. She had insisted on having a small room in the quietest part of the hotel.

Gingham Table Mats.

Even if you are the most amateur needlewoman, you can make delightful covers for your plain cork table mats from that most fashionable of materials —checked gingham (states a writer). You have only to cut out circles, about two inches in diameter greater than the cork mat, from the material. Turn up a hem round the edge, just wide enough for narrow tape to be threaded through with a bodkin. That is all the sewing required. Now put the mat inside the cover and draw up the tape until the cover is stretched tightly over the mat, without any creases on the right side. Tie the ends of the tape into a neat little bow, tuck in the ends, and your - table mats are finished. If your tastes are more austere, however, and you do not care for gingham, make the covers in plain or coloured linen, or even from the sound parts of wornout damask tablecloths. Last, but not least, think how easy it is to launder these covers; the tape can be removed before washing, and then they can be ironed flat like doilys.