WOMAN’S WORLD.

Wairarapa Age, 21 December 1932, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONAL ITEMS. Miss Kathleen Bagge, Lansdowne, is spending the school vacation in. Blenheim. Miss Allen, Herbert Street, is on holiday in Dunedin. Miss Mulvey, Dixon Street, leaves next week on a visit to Te Aroha. Miss Edith Thomas, Lansdown?, leaves to-morrow for the iSduth Island. Mr. and Mrs Whyborn and family, Lansdowne, arc spending the holidays in Eastbourne.

Miss Nell Kay, Gisborne, is visiting her sister Mrs W. H. Itobieson, Lansdowne.

Miss Parsonson, Braeburn, is on holi day in the South’ Island.

Miss Nancy Carrick left yesterday on /a visit to her sister, Airs Swinburn I Kelly, Rotoma, Hastings.

Miss Mclntosh, Victoria Street, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs M. McIntosh. Hastings.

Mrs Alan Holmwood, Miss Madge Holmwood and Mrs Richard Pilmer leave this week on a visit to Wellington.

Women have no longer any cause to complain that every occasion calls for a different outfit. Designers have thought out what really amounts to interchangeable clothes for morning and afternoon, afternoon and evening, says a writer in the "Daily Mail." These arc thoroughly practical, as a rule, for "trick frocks" have vanished. But for the morning a suit with an extra skirt of contrasting material, or a carefully planned outfit in a two-colour scheme which consists c>f such items as frock, jacket, skirt and long coat is likely to appeal to the busy woman. She can ring the changes as often as she likes, wearing, for instance, the frock or the skirt with the jacket or ■ the coat. A fur scarf, or one of the new ermine plush, and a fur "piece" set completes a smart and practical outfit.

With regard to the new materials, an English correspondent observes, the change in them is so great that the demand for them has brought prosperity to the textile trade within ten days ot the opening of the autumn dress season. This is a striking argument to the short-sighted people who only regard women's fashions as frivolous and to be ignored during hard times. On the contrary, a new vogue will galvanise a dead town into activity and provide work for thousands. The new craze for crushed silk and rolled and crinkled velvets has swep'i the country, and the retail buying of these two materials constitutes the largest textile boom since pre-war days. This "surface interest" is the outstanding feature of autumn fabrics, and the effects achieved are woollens, velvets and crepes resembling crinkled Christmas paper, ribs and rolls, hammered and notched, twisted blisters and blotches, and crushed tissue paper. Velvet is perhaps the queen of dress materials, although heavy crepes are almost as popular. J nother novelty velvet is "cut" velvet that looks like suede or crepe until you touch it and which hangs and drapes beautifully. The bent clothes I have seen this reason, a London authority states, are Ihe simplest, they rely on colour, cut, original materials, and exquisite workmanship. If the colour is becoming, you have half-way solved your dress problems. If you are stout, keep to dark shades, soft smooth materials, simplo lines and moderate length for the day, and quite long in the evening. If your neck is long, then the new high neckline will prove a boon to- you; also, have your coat collars high and soft. Again, with a long, thin, face, do not be pursuaded to wear a little cap or a hat that turns off the face. Choose rather a shallow-crowned hat, with a soft, droopy brim, pull a little fluff of hair out to show each side of the face, and tweak the brim into a little point over one eye. Strangely enough, the wide shoulder effect is helpful to both slim and the stout, for width at the shoulder creates an illusion of slimmer waistline than really exists. But, whereas the slim woman can wear fur trimmed or ruched capes, and much fulness at the tops of her sleeves, her heavy sister should stick to soft epaulets or loosely-cut magyar sleeve tops, and never wear a line of fur across her chest.

Most British dress designers it is reported, have gone on the assumption this season that too many buttons spoil the effect. The result is that on some coats the fastening is tucked away beneath the arm, leaving the front with the new plain line which is a reaction against the military effects of last season. On one of the new hiplength jackets, which fits so closely to the ribs that it suggests a very high waist-line, the buttons are placed in a square well down in front. The effect is to make the shoulders seem broader

than . they are. Bows are a trifle aggressive. A fur scarf will be tied stiffly beneath the ear or arranged below the chin like an artist's tie, and coat collars have scarf ends. Ono loose sports coat is tied at the neckline instead of being buttoned. Scarf ends which are part of the yoke are seen on some of the new blouses, and are usualIv tied a little on one side.