Fashions and Furbelows

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17780, 25 February 1926, Page 10

Fashions and Furbelows

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SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS.

FOR THOSE WHO ARE COMING HOME

lIOW TO DRESS FOR THE WINTER SPORTS IN SWITZERLAND. just a foreword to those who are coming home during the next two or three months and intend including the Swiss Sports in their holiday. Join a party! One person alone stands little chance of getting the best from such a holiday; even two are lonesome at times, join the jolliest party you can find, throw dull care away, and enjoy yourself. t Leave woollen clothes at home, except, of course, underclothes. A woman should have either leather or waterproofed cloth breeches and coat with hat en suite. Skirts are a nuisance if you intend to do much .ski ing. As for colours, the brighter the better. Reds, purples. yellows, bright orange—-the gayer they are the more attractive will they look against the A man, of course, will choose more sober colours, but he will also insist upon leather or waterproofed material from which the snow can be easily brushed. Nothing is more tincomfortable than to go into a warm restaurant for tea and feel the snow rapidly melting and forming a pool of water about you. Take plenty of good warm stockings, but don’t buy ski boots until you arrive -in Switzerland.’ There you can buy also the thick woollen oversocks

which turn down over the boot-tops. With breeches you will need puttees: if you prefer long} trousers, see that they fit closely round the ankles. As for evening clothes, men are easily catered for. as the dinner jacket is the genera! wear in preference to full evening dress, unless it is one of the ultratashionable places. From the woman's point of view, however, apart from plenty of pretty evening gowns, you will need one or two fancy costumes, because fancy dress dances are almost nightly occurrences at one hotel or other. You also need one or two simple afterhoon frocks, in addition to warm skating costumes.

JUST “ MOTHER.”

Iler hands are rough and workworn, her ey r es a little dim; she cannot dress in pretty frocks, and she's no longer slim. . . You couldn’t call her pretty; and ’twould be hard to find a hint of what the world calls “charm”—but there! it is so blind! The children see much clearer! . . . And what’s a shabby dress, when Mother’s loving kindness, their little lives can bless! They only know she’s cuddly, and tender, sweet, and wise. . . . O proud and happy Mothers, who’re seen through children’s eyes!

A WARDROBE PERFUME

A very pleasant perfume that is also a preventive against moths can be made of the following ingredients: / Take one ounce each of cloves, carf rawav seeds, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon and Tonquin beans; then add as much Florentine orris root as will equal the other ingredients put together. Grind the whole well to powder: and then put it in little bags among your clothes in your wardrobe and your lingerie in your dressing-chest.

A HOUSEHOLD TREASURE.

Pure vaseline is not only an essential item of the household medicinechest equipment, but, being an excellent anti-corrosive, it is a most efficient protection against rust when smeared over bicycles, knives, tools and steel goods of any kind: while sportsmen know 7 how useful it is for the similar protection of the metal part of guns.

Vaseline is also a first-rate preservative for leather bindings of all kinds. It should be well rubbed in with the hands and allowed to dry thoroughly. The pure petroleum jelly itself, without any addition, is a safe and efficacious ally for the house-mother who may be called on summarily to deal with bad burns, chilblains, chapped hands, skin badly roughened by exposure, sprains, inflamed eyelids or painful sunburn.