TRAVELLING “LIGHT"

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19314, 15 October 1932, Page 11

TRAVELLING “LIGHT"

Never have girls gone on holiday with so little luggage as this year (states the “Daily Mail”). That is the report of hotel and boarding-house proprietors—and the complaint of railway and steamer porters. The following list was given as representing her entire luggage by a girl who recently crossed the Channel for a week on the Normandy coast. What she was not wearing was all in one attache case:—

Pair of silk pyjamas, which would fold Into the space of a novel. Bathing costume, which she could carry in her pocket. Chiffon evening dress. Pair of silk pyjamas. Powder puff and powder, rouge and lip-stick, and a hair-net. One hat, for wearing on the journey only. One day dress which she was wearing for the journey. One pair of stockings, for the journey only.

One pair of light shoes. “The days are gone,” said a porter at Victoria, “when a girl used to have a trunk. When I asked one girl with a small bag the other day if she had no more luggage, she said she was going to join the bathing parade, not a dress parade.” Doctors approve of the new fashion. One of them said, “Travelling light means travelling light-heartedly, and that is the best kind of travel.”

HARD TIMES PARTIES. The Bright Young People of Liverpoolpool are finding a new zest in the craziest of party fashions (states an overseas journal). They call them “Hard Times Parties,” which they attend dressed in ragged clothes, and at which they have to discuss only depressing subjects. Also they must not laugh or smile. The originator of this new method of interesting the blase is the son of a well-known professional man in Liverpool. The young fellow’s parents gave him the run of the house while they were away on holiday, and he was not slow in making use of the opportunity. It occurred to him that his own circle seemed to have little or no knowledge of the hard times through which the country is passing. Issuing over 20 invitations to young men and girls by telephone, he warned them all that they would be unwelcome unless they turned up in the oldest and most tattered disreputable garments they could find. At first the girls demurred, but they fell for the new idea, although the “no-laugh, no-smile” rule, one of the girl guests said, was the hardest and most entertaining part of the whole business. But most of them kept it up. She said, however, that she thought the “Hard Times Party” a particularly selfish, thoughtless kind of joke. “Some of the guests spent an incredible amount of money and time in giving themselves the appearance of poverty,” the girl said. “Yet they all brought their own bottles, as is the custom, and went away afterwards in their own cars.” WHAT A CELEBRITY THINKS. Anita Loos, of the fame of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” says that “Women are prettier and more feminine looking when they are round.” Anita Loos, herself is hardly more than a shadow, weighing less than 901 b. She’s a tiny person, and pretty; and her predominant characteristic is her keen sense of humour, which she illustrated so well to her books.