SPRING AND SUMMER.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1425, 10 November 1923, Page 6

SPRING AND SUMMER.

AND A FEW VAGRANT THOUGHTS (By A.M.) A poet wrote that a young man’s thoughts lightly turn to love these drowsy spring days. He forgot to mention the state of the young woman’s mind. Let us here suggest that it turns to clothes. For the last day or so many girls have been wondering what ailed them. Everything seemed wrong, from the beginning-to-fray winter frock down to cashmere stockings. After breakfast they set off to business, still feeling out of gear with all the world. In the streets warm sunshine greeted them. They felt its message vaguely, till suddenly the trees told her. There they were all budding green, casting their shadows across the pavement. The shadows were like flimsy lace, Paisley patterns, or transparent hats. At last they knew! They were pining for new spring clothes! Whether the fashion be close fitting or full, plain or frilly, long, short or indifferent, a girl should see that the season’s clothes suggest her personality. Lots of us know the feeling that comes with the frock passed on from richer (but very kind) sister or cousin, which unfortunate circumstances forces us to wear. We don’t feel ourselves in it, somehow. It isn’t us—and there you have the thing in a nutshell!

If a girl feels happy in patterned Shantungs or jazz creations, those are the materials she should always choose. Put her in grey or navy and the eub-conscious part of her is miserable. Again, the naturally “grey” girl feels extremely awkward if she finds herself in a coatee of many colours. She, like her merry sister wrongly clad, loses all her personalitv.

Clothes are more than outward prettiness. They influence that nameless, very important something within us all. Most wise women are aware of the fact. That is why the actress, good housewife, society dame, university graduate, or clever literary lady seldom, if ever, requires a large placard to advertise her status in life.