WOMAN’S WORLD.

Wairarapa Age, 4 July 1936, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. H. R. W. Beetham, Lansdowne, has been visiting Wellington. The Rev. F. E. Fleury and Mrs. Fleury, are leaving * Martin borough next week for Kiwitea, where they will in future reside. Mrs. Holdsworth, who has been visiting Wellington, is now staying with Mrs. Ross, Rimu Street, before returning to Whakataki. Miss Marten, late of Kaiapoi School, has arrived in Masterton to take up the position of infant mistress at the Masterton West School. Miss Beiliss, Pownall Street, is visiting Wellington. Mrs. W. H. Bird, of Mauriceville, is at present visiting Wellington and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. O’Brien, Brooklyn. The petticoat is very much favoured for day and evening wear, a British correspondent states. Elaborately draped skirts are sometimes lifted to show a handsome petticoat of silver or gold lame. Very full net dresses are mounted over the tightest of satin petticoat slips. On the other hand, bouffant skirts of taffetas are shown with a slip that has many ruffles of net or lace. The narrow skirt of the tailormade is worn over a tight taffetas petticoat with perhaps a narrow tightly pleated frill at the hem. One designer ingeniously puts his frills on the inside of the petticoat. He argues quite naturally that when a woman crosses her knees with a short tight skirt it is the inside of the petticoat that shows —and a ruffle of silk is dn attractive notion. VEILS AGAIN. ARTS OF FORTY YEARS AGO. This year, every woman with pretensions to chic will wear a veil, says an overseas writer. Not the little eye veil, or the absurd skyward frill of net that, last year, veiled nothing at all; veils are to dangle at chin level or be tied to stretch across the tip of the nose. I wonder if the girl of to-dajf Will contrive to wear these with fewer disasters than we did in my youth, forty years ago. She will certainly have to be careful with her make-up. Powders are less crude than they were in those days, but they will still, I imagine, be apt to give a dusty appearance to a patch about the size of half-a-crown in the region of the nose. Lipsticks will have to be used carefully. On a windy day a long veil unerringly glues itself to the mouth.

There was a year, I remember, when we wore veils so heavily patterned that it was difficult to see and quite impossible to read through them. We not only wore them in London, but, in white, when we went “Up the river” In our white serge coats and skirts and our boaters balanced on bunches of hair and held on by three long hat pins. Oculists raved, of course, but sunburn was so unfashionable! We are not going to see these monstrosities again. Patterns there are, but all discreetly dropped to the edge of the stiffened, fluted veil that win not, except in a wind, touch the skin at all. But the veil, as a veil, belongs to the gentle art of flirtation. Will it bring back a revival of the fan? WASHING DAINTY FABRICS. The various fabrics used for underwear nowadays need different methods of laundering and ironing if they are to retain their daintiness. Silk and satin may be rubbed gently, but should not be washed in very hot water. They can be eoaked for a short time, and several changes of water should be used for washing. The final rinse should be in cold water, with a little vinegar added for coloured garments. Delicate colours are improved if the merest suspicion of cold water dye of the same colour is' added to the last rinsing water. Crepe-de-chine is improved if a little borax is added to the lather; for jaj« silk and spun silk put a little methylated spirits in the last rinsing water, to stiffen the silk slightly and restore the gloss. To whiten silk put a few drops of turpentine in the last rinsing water.