WOMAN’S WORLD.

Wairarapa Age, 11 March 1933, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. and Mrs Dilion, Church Street, have returned from a visit to Wanganui.

Miss Gladys Williams, Auckland, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs A. Williams, Pownall Street.

Mrs Arthur Corskie, Pownall Street, has her mother, Mrs Cram, of Wairoa, staying with her.

Miss Mavis Shaw, New Plymouth, is the guest of Mrs Howard Roberts, Lansdowne.

Mrs R. R. Page, Essex Street, has her sister, Mrs Brown, Dunedin, staying with her.

Miss Celia Drummond left this week on a visit to England.

Mrs W. T. Essen and Miss Hammond, Wadestown, Wellington, are the guests of Mrs W. L. Hunter, Coradine Street.

Mr. and Mrs J. T. Evans, of Sydney, who are making an extended tour of the North Island, are at present the guests of Mr. and Mrs E. A. Tong, of Dixon Street, Masterton.

Reference was made yesterday at the Kuripuni Methodist Guild meeting to the impending departure of Mrs W. Parker, wife of the Kuripuni Church minister. For some months past Mrs Parker has been the envelope secretary for the Kuripuni Methodist Church, and also president of the Ladies' Guild for two years. Last winter she took a leading part at the Kuripuni end of the circuit in rendering help to cases of distress. In any effort in connection with the organisation, Mrs Parker has been one of the first to volunteer her services.

The colour outlook for the year is distinctly interesting, an English writer observes. Bird-inspired fashion shades would appear to rule the roost, accordng to the list of leading hues issued by Mr. Edward H. Symonds, president of the British Fashions and Fabrices Bureau—Nightingale, willow warbler brown, canary and hammer yellows, lovebird green, robin red, bluebird blue, dove grey, wagtail grey.

A new idea in leather gloves at Home is the pouched corduroy cuff which is drawn into a narrow leather hem above the wrist. Besides being smart and novel, these are warmer than the open, cuff for winter wear. Silk linings for leather gloves arc also making a strong appeal during the cold weather, silk being particularly warm to the fingers. Among the fur gloves kangaroo has put in an appearance and looks smart and cozy. There is a new line in the fur wrists, which now open down the front i 4 order that the two sides may fold may ly, one over the other. The wear-clean glove is being shown in new designs and shades, with a long gauntlet cuff finished off with a smart stitched godet. For riding or hard country wear, string-knitted gloves with a wool lining are popular. SPRING FASHIONS. All sorts of beautifully light-weight knitted or woven fabrics which show originality in surface and colour have been used for the spring- suits that are being shown in London. One model was made of soft pearl grey tweed, called "scribbleface,” because of its rough surface. This suit was most originally cut to be worn open or closed, like a bodice, with a scarf that went close round the throat and buttoned on to the large fancy white buttons that fastened the cross-over coat and which also fastened the belt and the skirt.

Buttons are enormously important this year, not only as a fastening, but in themselves. Square, round and oblong wooden buttons figure on the newest models, the smartest of these being made of various kinds of wood, the graining of which shows a close resemblance to the material they trim. They are still trying to popularise the three-quarter coat that hangs loosely from the shoulders. This was very attractive in an ensemble of btewn and bejge striped tweed.

The skirt was slim . with invisible pleats at the hem and had a tiny yokebelt formed of the reverse side of the tweed and pockets bound in the same way. The tuck-in blouse was of beige cashmere fabric, the open V in front being tied at the throat with narrow scarf ends of Its own material, finished with buttons that consisted of a metal ball cut in half and filled in with fur. The three-quarter coat of the ensemble had raglan sleeves and patch pockets (also bound with, the reverse side of the tweed), and hung loose from the shoudlers, and the only fastening was a tab across the’ throat buttoned on to each side of the coat with two large square wooden buttons. These buttons were also on the eoat and sleeves. Milanese, which is a kind material for the heavier figure, is shown a good deal in those early collections. And a blaek and white eheck milancse had a scarlet and black scarf, and white and scarlet buttons. This new milaneso is a firm, smooth fabric which has lost the loose stretching qualities of some earlier milaneso materials made of artificial silk.

THE MODERN WOMAN. The modern woman, an exchange observes, is curt, and confident. The modern maid will, perhaps, remain unmarried for various reasons. Firstly, there are so many more women than men; secondly, the difficulties of the economic situation of the present time; thirdly, many men and women do not wish to marry. Marriage often handicaps careers. How did the woman of bygone days pass her time? She embroidered slippers for the curate, she drank many cups of tea, over which

she gossiped at length about all her neighbours and friends, she poked her. dose into everyone’s affairs. She played the piano badly, she played all games equally badly, she excelled in nothing. How different the girl of 1933. The Elizabethan proverb of "Unkissed, unkind,” will in no way be applicable to her. Even if the modern woman never becomes a wife or mother, she will at least have justified her birthright—loved and been loved. As a sister, as an aunt, as a friend, a bachelor girl who has had her own latch-key, earned her own living, preferred to excel at outdoor games in preference to indoor gossip, will have lived and not only existed. The modern woman knows far better how to take card of herself and also have a good time, and so makes the whole world happier in consequence.