Fashions and Furbelows

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17881, 24 June 1926, Page 12

Fashions and Furbelows

NOTES V SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS.

NEW STYLES IN HAIRDRESSING. The popularity of the shingle is undeniable, but if there are occasions when its wearers desire to camouflage it, these are generally when the sleek head appears somewhat “hard” and “ out of the picture ” with an evening toilette. In the accompanying illustration there are three suggestions for disguising the shingle, all of which are

very attractive if worn by the right type of beauty. The top one is the ever popular and becoming plait. From the picture it would appear to extend only from ear to ear. and that is all the style would necessitate; but the termination of the hair at the neck must be hidden, so the plait in this case is a complete circle, and a very effective way of temporarily abolishing the shingle. The second suggestion is somewhat more elaborate and fanciful, being a chignon of hair bound in a filet of gold mesh and green stones, ending in two pendant ear-rings of gold and green stones. It must be attached very firmly to the sides of the head, and is particularly becoming in the case of a woman with an Oriental type of face. , The third one is frankly a. little band for camouflaging the shingle. It consists of two plaques over the ears and a straight piece round the back of the head. ft is in this case composed of a medley of different coloured stones and gold, but obviously lends itself to a variety of materials less costly but equally effective.

HAVE YOU A LUCKY COLOUR? Have you a lucky colour? Not one that 3 r ou have perhaps been wearim when something very nice happened, but one which you have constantly “ tried out,” as it: were, and proved over and over again that good fortune seems to attend you when you wear it? I have collected statistics on the subject and find that mauve seems to be the lucky colour of more women than an}* other. Anyhow, unless j*ou are one of those strong-minded women who would scorn to cherish even the tiniest superstition—and incidentally J would remind you that some of the most “ brainy ” people are superstitious!—it is amusing to track down your special colour and don it when you want circumstances to be particularly favourable. There is a very prevalent idea that green is unlucky to some families; while others can wear it with impunity. For my part. I was told that green was not lucky* for me, and consequently I kept off it until, by chance, a dressmaker who was relining a cloak for me substituted green for the original colour. It certainly wasn’t lucky for me. Sometimes women find that thev have lucky and unlucky frocks. I have one frock which seems to cast some sort of a spell, inasmuch as whenever I wear it. things do not go just quite right; they fall short somewhere. As I am fond of the frock. I have given it several trials, but each time it seems to let me. down, so that I have decided to pass it on to someone else—without relating its pedigree—and waten results! ANNE FAY RE.

| TO WASH WHITE WOOLLIES. Wash in a warm lather made with soap flakes and boiling water to which is afterwards added enough cold water until the temperature is nicely warm. Squeeze the garments in the suds untiL. clean. Kinse in several tepid waters. Squeeze between the hands, and roll in a rough towel. Lay the woollies flat on a sheet to dry. When halt dry, pull into exact shape, pin into place, arid when nearly dry iron over a cloth. TO JOIN KNITTING WOOLS. The best way to join wool is to take each end to be joined and ravel them out with a needle for about three inches. Then wet each end, lav them beside each other, put in the palms of the hands, ancl rub well together till dry. This should make a good and invisible join.