NOTES FOR WOMEN

Wairarapa Age, 23 May 1928, Page 2

NOTES FOR WOMEN

PERSONAL ITEMS. Fl - f Mrs Tomlinson, Wellington, is visitl ing her sister, Mrs E. L. Holmwood, ■ Dixon .Street. | Sister Eawlins, of Auckland, who has I boon appointed to the staff of the Mas'terton Hospital, took up her duti .s last ! week. Mrs W. B. Cheunells, Short Street, and Miss Chcnnells, Hastings, leave this week on a visit to Sydney. They willb be away for two or three months. Miss Eay, Essex Street, who has been staying with her sister, Mrs Stamp-Taylor, Wellington, has returned home. At a meeting of the Martinborough Ladies’ Best Boom Committee final arrangements were made in connection with a concert to be given by a Masterton party on June 21. It was decided to hold a Mask and Fancy Dress Ball in July and another concert in August. A cigarette burn on the dining room tablecloth is both annoying and unsightly. To mend it, fray the edges round tho hole at neatly as possible and, having robbed a piece of material from the hem of the cloth, place this underneath-and fix in position with a strip of adhesive plaster. With a mod-erately-warm iron, press through a sheet of brown paper, and then stand a heavy weight over the mend and leave for at least two hours so that the plaster can stick firmly and the material edges weld themselves together neatly..

For tho theatre it is quite permissible to west a little coatee of velvet, brocade or sequins. This is quite a good idee for getting extra wear out of black frocks, which so soon lose their freshness around the neck after a few outings, writes an overseas correspondent. For an over-all wrap, however, the “Magpie” effect is listed in the “incredibly smart.” It is of rich black velvet, collared and cuffed, with ermine (or other white fur). It has a larged rolled collar of the soft fur standing up round the neck and shoulders, and then sweeps shawlwise into a narrower line at the left hip where it is held by a huge jewelled fastening. As it continues down the opening it widens in line from the waist to.the right side of the hem of the coat where it finishes in a full fold. The very cuffs of fur follow the lino of the arm to the elbow. It is a very useful coat which can be expressed in many different. and not so expensive materials.

The vogue of the muffled neek is asserting itself as part of the price to be paid for the return to fashion ol the smart tailor-made look. Efforts to popularise high collars for indoor wear, made from time to time during recent. seasons, have met with little support. Women (says a London writer), prefer the low neck-line, which has given them health and firm round threats in place of ugly necks, on which tight collars ..registered their mark. Outdoor, however, small fur necklets have been worn by the hundred thousand in summer as well as winter, and tho dressmakers are consequently thinking out fabric alternatives to the fur choker. One such idea advanced this spring is the long narrow silk scarf wrapped closely round the throat and tied in a large bow slightly to the side, much after the. manner of the scarves worn by oldfashioned little French boys. These are worn with spring tailor-mades, and are of the same shade as the hat. Necklaces in beaten gold, in flora! and leaf patterns, with bracelets to match, were worn by mannequins at a recent dress shew by Beville. These ornaments have an effect of ancient Greek and Boman jewellery, writes a Londoner. French jet cut in leaf design made attractive earrings for the fair woman. Necklaces in graduated moonstones and diamonds struck a new note. Opaque crystal was shown to bo fashionable. It was seen in the colours now most favoured—pink, topaz, pale sapphire, aquamarine, etc.—and was chiefly used for pendants. Long chains of rose cut diamonds and diamond crosses of antique Flemish dewell in keeping with some of the picture frocks. Motifs and pendants of onyx, inset with precious stones, were also admired.