Ladies' Column

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17929, 3 July 1930, Page 2

Ladies' Column

—•— I ARRANGING A .uOOM. THOSE- FINISHING TOUCHES. Have you .ever wondered what i' the difference between a room in a hotel a"d one in your home, or a room cured for by indifferent maids and ens looked after by its owner ? Isn't it that the woman who puts those finishing touches in a room is really painting a picture, while the hotel keeper or the careless servant is only iust "doing the room out." The* home is the woman's kingdom; she can be either its queen or its slave, iust as she likes. For instance, when you have cleaned a room, look round it. That chair is wrong! It is stuck stiffly against the wall, like chairs in a dentist's waiting room. Bring it into relation with a table o*r the fire, and your picture will begin to shape. That rug clashes with the other colours in the rooms. Try it some where else in the house! TRIUMPH OF LACE. FOR GUWNS. When in doubt as to what to choose for a new evening gown, you cannot go wrong if you decide upon lace of any kind. As to colour, there i 8 no definite rule, as there was about three years ago, when to have anything but a peculiarly hot shade of crimson was to commit sartorial suicide! • • • • It seems that women are- not keen on looking exactly alike just now; or perhaps the chance his nothing to do with the individual, but everything to do with La Mode, whose attitude is rather: "Bless you, my children, do as you like so long as you conform to the laws of good taste!" • • • • Since we have gone mad about pink in all shades, I need scarcely say that pale blush pink, soft as the edge of a sun-set cloud, is a great fjwourite. When this tint is used in lace and net, the former so fine that the pattern seems traced on it, you have a frook of fairy-like charm, .and you may wear "with it shoes of satin to tone, or else of plain silver kid. • •' • •, 'You notice I say "satin shoes"— not marocain or crepe de chine! This is a little unusual in these days of orepe and marocain shoes, gleaming footwear provides a definite contrast to the lace, and so is more effective. • • • • Do not choose a coat or a cape for wear with this ethereal dress, but a generous wrap made of folds and folds of the rose net. • * • A Navy blue and night blue are other favourite colours for lace gowns. A very striking frock was made of deep purple blue silk lace. It fitted the figure to the knees, and then developed into points over a deep hem of purple net lined with green net. 'I no purple oer g-reen gave a delicious tone like the bloom of a ripa grape, and of course the hem touched the ground. The simple round lace cape, long enough to reach the waist, was lined with the purple and green net, and /the slippers, or, rather, sandals—were made of satin to.tone with the lace, and had small rhinestone buckles on the straps. BLACK, WHITE OR NATURAL? BLACK "USEFUL." We also have the choice of lace iii black, white, and the soft, becoming natural shade. Black is put 'down as "useful," and so it is. A well made black lace gown will pay for itself over and over again, and a woman who is in doubt about what to wear on certain occasions, can usually rest assured that "the black lace" is correct. The old, skimpy skirts never did justice to the beauty of it, but the long princess line is very graceful, with wide panels and perhaps circular godets' the skirt just clearing the insteps in the front, and falling in a small train at the back.