MOTOR WEEK

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17877, 25 November 1929, Page 3

MOTOR WEEK

“ CAR PEOPLE ” IN THOUSANDS. (From Our Correspondent.) Motor week—which means the moneyed week of the year for London shops, restaurants, dance places, and theatres. Like Cambrdge “ May week," it is really a fortnight, for already the “ car people ” have arrived in thousands from English counties, from Scotland, Ireland and abroad. Superlative Wares— The shopkeepers are showing the luxurious, the silkiest of furs; the sal.iniest of eiderdowns; the most sparkling, most diamante of evening slippers; the llimiest, most exaggerated of evening gowns, most serviceable of tweeds, hand-sewn shoes, and comfortable, admirably made gloves.

—Superlative Window-Dressing. The cornucopia of good things is held out so tantalisingly, if not in mythological then in actual truth. The Piccadilly circus area is noted for attractive, special window displays, and for the coming week nearly 20 windows have been provided with a complete background of the most carefully and elaborately multi-festooned panne velvet.

£SOO In Velvet Draperies. One window is draped in pale green, another in dove grey, a third in shell pink, while saxe, mauve, deep rose, sulpher, and other tints have been chosen as a setting for black hats, primrose lingerie, and so on. 1500 yards of velvet, costing close on £SOO have been used, and gilded baskets shaped like a swan have been specially made as decorative and useful accessories in the very arresting scheme.

Tempting Masculine Vanity. Not that women’s shops have the monopoly in conspicuous window dressing. Near by, a man’s shop shows scores of pairs of chamois leather gloves arranged in the form of a monster chamois glove taking up the majority of the space in a huge window.