SHOES DO COUNT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18973, 26 March 1924, Page 9

SHOES DO COUNT

SO GO SMARTLY SHOD. It is strange how some women will spend pounds and pounds on a frock, a suit, and even a hat, but they will skimp on their shoes. Either they buy cheap ones or make shabby ones “do.” They seem to think that in some mysterious way shoes will be overlooked. But they won’t be overlooked; they never are. The girl or woman who wishes to look smart and well-turned-out must be just as eareful about her shoes as about her hat. She can make or mar a get-up, and the sooner you realise that the sooner you will begin to look really well-dressed. AVOID PROMISCUOUS BUYING. Don’t buy your shoes promiscuously, just anything that happens to take your fancy, without the'slightest regard to the clothes you will wear with them. Decide what you are going to wear thi s season and buy shoes that will, add the finishing touch to your kit. Tweeds always ask for brogues, not the heavy clumping kind, but the light-weight, smart species that ase to be seen in all the good shops now. Navy- blue coats and skirts ask for lace-up, patent shoes. Frocks whisper "Court” shape, and all sorts of fancy shoes in patent, glace or satin. Satin, velvet, and “fancy” shoes are simply not worn with tweeds, any more than brogues are worn with frocks. HEAVIER STOCKINGS. Shoes must tone in with the picture. And so must stockings. Very transparent stockings, fortunately, are “out” this spring. Only heavy makes are in, heavy silks, mixtures, and wool. So we’ll be saved the horror of gazing upon purple, red, and mahogany - coloured legs, through stretchy, streaky, silk hose. Stockings should either match your shoes, black with black, brown win brown, grey with grey, or the darker shades of mole are permini lie wth loth black and br.-vn shoes. HAND-BAG TO MATCH. , The latest "stunt” is to carry a hand-bag made of the same kind .of leather as your shoes —patent, box calf, lizard skin, crocodile, and so on. And if you can possibly get just a hint of the same kind of leather on your costume coat, then you are “It.” A navy blue costume with patent leather shoes, patent leather strappings on the coat, and patent leather hand-bag would look very smart. And. remember, these little touches, which make such a vast difference in one’s appearance, cost very little actual money. It’s thought and care they cost, and after all, it’s worth taking a little trouble to look really nice, isn’t it? HOLDING YOUR OWN. The knowledge that you are well-turned-out, that every item of your costume is perfect in its way, gives you a world of confidence in yourself. . . . you feel you can hold your own with anybody. ’ But when you are conscious of being shabby and “sloppy” you want to hide, to slink down the streets hugging the ’ wall. Wrong clothes can have a positively demoralising effect upon one!

Six tiers in this instance—narrow of course—vary the straight line of the skirt. The somewhat severe bodice Is softened by a deep and graceful bertha of embroidery or printed voile. A becoming style for the youthful.

PARIS ON HAIRDRESSING. The mode of dressing the hair must naturally depend to a great extent for its changing styles on the fashions followed by the hats of the moment. From Paris come the new inspirations in hats, and that same city likewise decides on the ways of hairdressing that best suit them. Paris explains that the new highcrowned hats, recalling 1830 days, demand that the hair be almost strained up, and then gathered into bunches of curls or a chignon rather to the bacjc ot the top of the head. Tliis mode reveals the ears, so the heart of the woman with pretty little ears will greatly rejoice, and she will put on her long with pride. The woman whose hair insists on growing very far back from her forehead will be glad to know that she may still wear fringe, and Paris will agree that she is quite correct. But preferably it should not be the demure straight fringe, but one that is rather gay—thin, and having just a slight suspicion of a kink or curl in it. Godet effects are decidedly popular and insets of lace or tiny frills row upon row bring a velvet frock easily up to date.

In an eminently practical coat de. picted above, double slit pockets are a novel note. Large armholes continue in fashion while the narrow belt with cross-over fastening Is still correct.