WOMAN’S WORLD.

Wairarapa Age, 6 July 1932, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. D. M. Graham, Cole Street, is visiting Hawke’s Bay.

Miss Dorothy McLeod, Martin borough, is the guest of Mrs. J. Green Napier.

Mrs. H. A. Cunningham, Lansdowne, bas returned from a holiday in Dunedin..

Mrs. N. M. Irwin, Pownall Street, is visiting relatives in Christchurch.

Mrs. Jarvis, Christchurch, is staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer, Lansdowpe.

Mrs. T. R. Barrer, Benall Street, is spending a few days in Wellington.

Mrs. Leonard Clarke, Napier, is pay ing a round of visits here.

Miss L. Speedy, Dannevirke, who has been staying with Miss Bellis, Pownpll Street, is now the guest of Mrs. Richardson, Eketahuna.

Mrs. H. Inns, Wellington, is staying with her father, Mr. C. E, Daniell, Albert Street.

Mr. and Mrs. David Lett, Renall Street, have left on an extended visit to Auckland.

It is estimated by a Parisian who has a very comprehensive knowledge of the specialities of all the dress houses that various shades of blue to be worn this summer are just about ninety-nine.

Many of the debutantes at the first Court at Home recently, found a new way to while away the hours of waiting. A number of them knitted berets. A pale blue beret in its last stage drew admiring comments from the onlookers.

Sleeves this summer at Home are diverse and capricious. They are sometimes very short puffs. Some are called butterfly sleeves. There are sleeves that puff above the elbow and finish with a cuff just below it. Some sleeves are slashed and others are plain. EiVery possible variety is seen.

Blue being a fashionable colour, jewellery naturally follows suit, and consequently blue-coloured gems are very popular in London. Sapphires are one of the most favoured of the blue gems. A perfect solitaire is fashion’s choice in rings, with perhaps a few diamonds on each side of the principal stone. Aquamarines look especially lovely when mounted as a single stone ring. Lapis lazuli, another blue stone, is used in many different ways; an exquisite toilet set of lapis lazuli is inlaid with gold. Turquoise is popular for tiny necklaces for children.

The newest cotton materials are difficult to recognise as such, an oversea correspondent observes, and a famous designer showed a new frock, in fine cotton pique in a close plain design of red, white, and blue, which looked like silk crepe, made with short caped sleeves and a skirt that fitted almost to the knee, and with pleats from there for fulness. The mid-season collections show few flares and many more pleats, usually low down on the skirt. I have mentioned before the great liking for corded or corduroy materials. In some fabrics the ribbing is very fine, in others quite pronounced. Wool, velvet, silk and cotton are manufactured into these corded materials, so that they appear in every type of dress and coat.

A well-known London woman has designed an amusing evening frock christened “Houp la,” made with British material. It is white, with coral bands round the hem and waist, hence its name. A dinner frock has quaint pockets, which appear to be brimming over, like baskets, with white flowers. The frdek itself is black. Many frocks give the “frou-frou” rustle of skirts ’of long ago, in the “good old days,” when great-grandmama was a girl, and was wont to swoon in a ladylike way, and when great-grandpapa wore whiskers and stove-pipe hats.

Next summer is to give us “younger” hats, an English writer declares. Birthdays simply don’t count nowadays, since fashion makes us gently copy our grandmothers in the subtlest way, the while causing us to chop years off our own. age. Then she suddenly turns impish, and makes us into May Queens, with ribbon garlands on cur hair trailing from the funniest, dearest little headgear imaginable. We never know where we are with fashion. That is why it is such a fascinating game to play, trying to keep up with her vagaries. This season, however, her whims are not exaggerated. She has decided that the medium which there is in all things shall apply in the case of millinery. We had “ cartwheels” and hats like young bathing tents last year. The year before we wore picture hats until we got bored to tears with them, so the new idea provides a refreshingly pleasant change, quite apart from the fact that it is going to suit us. Colour, of course, is one of those things which of late has exceeded all bounds. We have become colour mad. Now we are more likely to have a “run” on certain lolours. At the moment the trend is for yellow and brown, for primrose leaf green, and the brightest of “boy blue” shades. We have got used to these violent, blues very well I think. There is only one thing against them: they are inclined to make those who patronise them look very alike.