BEAUTY AND FASHION HINTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 176, 27 July 1937, Page 2

BEAUTY AND FASHION HINTS

Petticoats are a newcomer in the fashion world. Even if the good old days of a dozen pure white cambric haven’t quite returned, petticoats are a necessity in the new clothes and no longer raise a reference to one's grandmother. Have flimsy chiffon affairs and rustling flounced taffetas clinging tightly with a kickout at the hem. ,

"Give your face a rest now and then,” is a beauty hint offered this week by petite Betty Furness, a film star. This is expert advice, too, for the face cannot be given a better beauty treatment than by giving it a rest from make-up once in a while. So stay at home one of these weekends and do not put the powder stuff near it, but give it generous scrubbings of soap and water two or three times a day and when Monday morning arrives you will be surprised to see how well your make-up looks when you are ready to leave for the office.

Don’t totter around in a tailor suit and high, peg heeled pump. Common sense cries for heels with some substantiality.

The new dresses with their tiny waists, ingenue, heart-shaped decolletages, or boned bodices, and Victorian bare shoulders, are perfection on the young and slender. “If your skin is inclined to be dry, a paste rouge is the best thing for your face,” advises Irene Dunne, film star. "This rouge,” she goes on to say, "should be applied gently and with restraint, and if you spend a considerable time on the first application in the morning very little retouching is necessary during the day. Thus your make-up remains fresh till evening.”

"The Paris prediction that skirts will continue to climb until they have reached the knees and that necklines will drop to fashion dramatically low decolletages, doesn’t appear to win the approval of the Hollywood stars,” is the opinion expressed by charming Patricia Ellis, who appears opposite James Dunn in Columbia's “Venus Makes Trouble.” Miss Ellis explained that she felt that no set rule for the length of skirts could ever be made after women realised the unI becoming aspects of the short dress fashions of a decade ago. In selecting skirt length, women should always take into consideration the shapeliness of their legs. Height-is another important factor in governing the skirt length for any particular figure. In further explanation of her opinion, Miss Ellis feels that low although becoming, allow the sun and wind to burn deep shadows on the neck and thus spoil the even colouring of the skin, so Hollywood necklines are sure to rema’in crowded about the throat. Milady’s frock may fashionably have the popular V-neck-line, but it will be filled with ascots kerchiefs, or frills.