LADIES’ LIFE.

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 48, 27 October 1925, Page 3

LADIES’ LIFE.

VARIOUS ITEMS. CHILDREN’S HOME. The Trustees of the Hawke’s Bay Children’s Home have just received a cheque for £lOOO, in payment of a legacy in the estate of the late W. M. Newman. The late Mr Newman _ bequeathed £lOOO to the Home, subject to a life tenancy in favour of the late Mrs Newman, and this lady, having recently' passed away, the executors have forwarded a cheque for £lOOO. The trustees have also received a cheque for £250, being part-payment of a legacy from the estate of Hans Peter Petersen. The late Mr Petersen bequeathed £5OO to the Children’s Home, subject to a life tenancy in favour of the late Mrs Petersen, and Mrs Petersen having recently died, the executors have forwarded the sum of £250, the balance to be forwarded at an early date. These amounts will be invested in order to provide future income for the maintenance of the Children’s Homes at Napier and Eskdale. WOMEN’S FASHIONS. The Rev. Richard Free, vicar of St. Clement’s, Fulham, wrote to the editor of the “Daily Chronicle” as follows: — “Isn’t it time that our respected sisters, cousins and aunts called a halt? Day by day and in every way they grow nakedcr and One c need no longer scour the European gaK leries in search of the Eternal Faminine in undress uniform; examples which rapidly become the rule are to be seen in every ’bus, at every concert and garden party, in our very streets ?•>■! homes. “Inasmuch as the weather is a vanced as an unanswerable argument: for this reckless shedding of clothes, one really trembles to think what may hap-, pen if the summer continues • another month or* two! “Will the police have to-be; called in, as they were on account of the Parisian ladies after the French Revolution? Or shall we have to turn to the lurid East for feminine precept and practice? ‘ ‘ Parenthetically, I may remark; that last year not once in my wanderings through the streets of Cairo and other Eastern cities did I see a ‘Mohammedan woman who was not properly clad, but I saw many Jewish and Christian women whose covering did not err on the side of cxeessiveness. “Meanwhile, there is a growing conspiracy of silence on the part of the press, platform, and pulpit, respecting a condition of.-things which constitutes the most striking proof in our time of moral decay.” < — NEW MODELS. Many of the new dress models present many new ideas, many radical changes and variants of styles already accepted. To begin with a single detail, the mode in sleeves has swung from the sherdsleeve -or none to the long, close model, that snugly fits the wrist. The general public will welcome this innovation f'W \ the non-existent sleeve has not invarif"*--ably made for beauty, and many women appreciate the more becoming fitted, model, the “.peasant” or the “bishop” sleeve. With this have appeared;'the normal shoulder sleeve and armhole, and latterly new collars and treatment of the neckline. These may or may not lead to interesting modes, for they belong to daytime dress, and there is in this loss opportunity for vision of beauty and grace and the picturesque. Unless a fine touch, something out of the ordinary, is given to the costume for street or for afternoon, it must slip into the commonplace, and a master hand is required to give it distinction. With a long stride, some of the designers have brought forward engaging styles, which arc artistic, smart,- conventional. The plain, straight back, the shoulder, the neck and arm covered to follow natural lines, establish a mode that has especial appeal.