DRESSING – TABLE CHANGES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21216, 10 December 1938, Page 11

DRESSING - TABLE CHANGES

ELABORATE DISPLAY NO LONGE! FASHIONABLE A more practical but none the less attractive era has set in for the dress-ing-table. No longer it is fashionable to have an immense array of perfumes, creams, lotions and powders, manicure implements and so on ranger* in order by a maid on a long dressing table. The tendency is rather to have “audisplai” only the immediate essentials of the toilet, face-powder in a wellfitting bowl, with the puff in a separate tray, rouge and lipstick and a scentspray. Brushes and combs are in many cases kept in a drawer immediately below, which has a glass top. They are then visible, but protected from dust. Similar glass-topped drawers or either side of the knee-hole are intended for cream, lotions and cosmetics. Manicure accessories are usually kept in a roll-up case, and of ter in the bathroom. Where the dressing table is banishec to the bathroom it may become ar annexe to the washing-basin. The long oval and rectangular mirror is popular with short women, whc like to sit very low on a stool that may also be a hat-box. For the tallei woman there is the triple mirror oi the square mirror for those who stanc up to make-up their faces and tc arrange their coiffure. Alternative daylight and nightlight globes can be fixed to dressing table lights foi making-up correctly. A peach pin! mirror is always flattering to the complexion.