SHOP GAZING NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19862, 27 July 1934, Page 12

SHOP GAZING NOTES

Below are some bargains from my shop-gazing notebook. White gloves made ol a speciallyprepared leather with ,a suede finish that will wash and can be boiled and still come up like new. They will stand really hard wear end keep their snowy-white appearance. Many women have discovered that silk stockings look richer if worn inside out.

Buttons are still the most popular trimming for day and evening dresses. The wooden and metal ones ere mostly used for day, and for evening frocks and coats the newest craze is Prystal buttons. They are as clear as glass, lighter in weight and unbreakable. Ball and log shapes are mostly liked. The latest jewellery novelty is the round clip-on brooch. It is hand-set with diamante, and the central jewel can be quickly taken out and another different coloured jewel inserted to match the different dresses worn. There is a pearl centre, but six other jewels are supplied with it. A light-weight handbag made of straw is suitable for carrying with summer frocks. The frame is of nickel with a nickel and erinoid clasp. Lined with moire and fitted with inner pockets and a reversible mirror, you can buy it in beige, covert, grey, red .green or brown. An inexpensive garden tea-set of twenty-one pieces in a pretty primrose yellow with a ridged design in selfcolours. A cedarised storage chest made of stout impregnated paper, cardboard lined, moth-proof, damp-proof and dust-proof. This is for storing blankets, quilts, fur rugs, etc. And a moth-proof bag for hanging winter coats, dresses or fur coats.

Spring has found the gardens of the Windsor Royal Lodge looking particularly colourful, states an exchange, for the Duchess of York has taken great pains in planning and arranging her gardens. Hundreds of bulbs have been sown—daffodils and crocuses and tulips including some of those warm pink ones christened after Princess Elizabeth. A big 'red bed has been planted in front of the dining-room window, for the Duchess says she likes a gay outlook when she comes down to breakfast. Then the Duchess is also making a “perfumed pleasaunce” like the one at Glamis, with thyme and lavender and rosemary, and lots of other oldfashioned sweet smelling things.