Fashions and Furbelows

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17564, 15 June 1925, Page 9

Fashions and Furbelows

NOTES BY SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS.

THE SUPERIOR PERSON.

(Bv FAITH FOSTER.;> Every age has its affectatious. The Victorians suffered from the •‘supersensitives 55 who swooned in their midst on the slightest provocation ; the Kivu r mans had their wasp-waisled girls who crooked little fingers over teacup handles and minced their words and pursed their lips; we, for our sins, have with us the superior young poison, who is almost too ineffably conscious of her own mental elevation to have any use for anyone who i.s not a member of her own particular set. Superiority has, of course, always been the baiio of a certain stratum of society of every age, but in this age in particular docs it appear to bo a perfect cult. Tho girls who affect itcun bear remarkably little cross-exam-ination. If. when tiiev tell you that tli*■ y “ find William Blake quite too wonderful,’ 5 cr that “there is nothing on earth to come up to Proust's prose," you ask for 'specific instances, you '.sill soon discover just how deep the matter goes: It is the easiest thing imaginable to tear off the mask, but it will be donned again the moment your back is turned. You can generally know the superior person by her garb. Hair severely parted down tho middle, and gathered in a tight knot at the nap© of the neck, a black felt hat from Montmartre, a black cloth cape, and a pair of broad brogue shoes with worsted stockings— all these are infallible signs and portents. But be not dismayed by them. They mean remarkably little. For the superior person is not » iv 1 person at all. She is just a

t fiction materialised by the brain of | the modern girl. And she will ©veui tually turn into unite an ordinary iui dividual.

THE ARTIST AND THE WEDDING.

I Not long -go we heard of a wedding i cortege whose dresses, lieau-dresses, j bouquets and golden Bibles had been ! devised by one of our most eminent ! artists. Now we hear that an artist I of an entirely different school is to j design the toilettes for another society 1 bride and her attendants. AY here is it going to end? Artists | who design stag© dresses are already i beginning to notice the tendency of ! modern brides to enlist their aid in j securing “ something different 55 in the way or bridal toilettes. \Ve are, in fact, rapidly making the up-to-date | j wedding almost as theatrical as any stage production. Soon tho wedding invitations will bear in u. corner the words “ Dresses by So a.nd-So,’ 5 and v.o shall find ourselves discussing—not the beauty of the bride nor tho charm of her bridesmaids—but the ability of the artist concerned to adapt liis method, to marriage ceremonials. There will, of course, be manv girls who will bo unable to enlist the aid of an eminent artist and who will h av ? to rely on their dressmakers to copy the style of one of the leading lights in art. A scrutiny cf the pictures m our own gailerios, or a visit to i Luxemburg to sec what the modern i frenchman is doing in regard to dress might lio useful hove! But the vhit© wedding gown of old was a symbol of purity and innocence .and unaffected ness. Shall wo rot after a surfeit of artificiality and stagi-m-ss. tako it to our hearts again, and wear it simply-.-as befits a bride ?

ii ; • NATURE’S “ LIPSTICK.”

, 1 am assured by a pretty Kiri who Jins given the experiment a fair trial | that there i s no need for the lipstick on the feminine dressing table or in _ the feminine vanity-bag. The lips are kept naturally i:i beautiful condition ; with—cold water’ You simply dip a j piece gi cloth, or your finger, into cold ; water and thoroughly wash vour Jips. CAREFUL DRYING. i lhen, in the hollow of your hand, L hold cr fid water to your lips over and - over again. Dry very carefully, and you will find you can banish the lipstick entirely. If the cold water treat--5 ment is applied once every day there • will be no perspiration, no irritation and no chapping. And the lips will bo a beautiful natural red instead of a painfully obvious carmine or vermilion.

5 ' BRACELET “ EN FLEUR.

j It is a, charming but somewhat ? “ spensy ” notion of La Mode’s to tuck . one single exquisite flower—-preferably - a perfect rose, into one's bracelet for J evening wear. Or, pour change*", into * one’s pearl necklace. A camellia or 1 gardenia looks very well in the same setting; especially in a jade bracelet or t one of the newest diamond and onyx i circlets.