SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1931.
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ARTISTS LIKES.
Dress of To-day At Burlington House,
London, May 12. Women visitors to the Royal Academy will be interested to see that the R.A.s have given the dress: designers a "pat, on the back", this year, for their approval of the "feminine" Victorian tendencies in present-day frocks has been regis- tered on many of the canvases on view at the Royal Academy.
As you enter the portals of Bur- lington House a fashionable "old world" fichu of real lace on a green dress greete the eye, în Molton Fisher's portrait of Miss Billy Thomson, and a minute later, you catch sight of Walter W. Russell's picture entitled "The Muslin Dress,” which shows a girl with an 1840 berthe and an old-world ivory- fan in her hand.
The Little Cont.
THE SEASON'S ASSURED STYLE
Every detail of these smart frocks proclaim their newness of the season's assured style successes. Notice the individuality of choice in the necklines and the sleeves.
The "little coat" which is such an indispensable part of the present- | day evening-dress has also received artistic encouragement, for it is featured in many Royal Academy pictures, including Margaret Fisher-
The idea was novel, but many of Prout's "Girl in Green,” Mary Adshead's study of "The Slaters" those present voted the music even and Isabel M. Ragg's portrait study more destructive of sustained con- of a girl in a pink dress and a veraation than the Scottish custom gun-metal coloured brocade coat. of having a piper marching round The "cloud" of tulle is a fashion the dining room at the end of din- which painters seem to like, and ner!
PICTURE FACES.
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YOUR LINOLEUM.
VARIED TRIMMING.
For This Summer's
-Hats
Sunshine coincided with the ap- pearance of the first Summer hats
of the season at Home. It is com- forting to know that hate with brims are serious rivals to the off-the-forchend models which, quite apart from the rather merciless, character, are, in fine weather, a direct encouragement to fwrinkles about the eyes. Even the ports hate for the Summer have small brime, turned down to act as a shade for the wearer's eyes.
Very course as well-as very fine straw is aged for smart millinery.
Brims need
no longer match crowns. Picture models designed for Ascot have a pedal or bantal or |eripoline brim which spreads itself beneath a crown made from, trans- parent crinoline straw, or lace cro chet or peteraham ribbon. A black paribunial model has a crown of plaited petersham ribbon and a dia- mond op te enliven its rather gober appearance, a transparent, beige crochet lace erown la allied with a black pedni brim, a hat of Dejre podal straw has a crown made from alik jersey.
China Flowers.
Trimming varies; outaizebowa are equally as chic as a single strand of narrow ribbon, a couple of cab- bage roses on a suitable background la smart; but so also is one inade from ivory tinted, needle-rün straw, | the trimming of which is a narrow garland of ribbon, and gmáli• china flowers to tone.
Minule feather, qüille, tightly curled, are used on another. model This has a bonnet shaped brim, is made from pinkish belge straw and has green and yellow, black and orange curled quille grouped In front..
Soft pique in yellow and other light colours is used for sports hats. with a stitched crown and brim. One advantage of such hate is that they pack easily and do not crush.
Flat brimmed sailor hats recalling. the fashions of the nineties are trimmed with a.band of black patent leather.
and creams or cleansing lotions and astringent waters all chosen judici-
Inlaid linoleum, like moet things, oubly. They do much to give you repays careful treatment by longer. Prettiness "more" prettiness-the smooth, soft, fair ekin that will wear. Right away after investing leum against wear and tear, do not which has for so long been quite be so necessary for the new, make-in it you, will do well to polish it make the mistake of washing it too out-of-date, is coming into fashion
generously with beeswax and tur- frequently, and when you require to Brighter Cosmetics. the sheen of satin 'appeals to them, Another revival, in which florists
pentine. This because the linoleum wash it, on no account use soda in Cosmetics must be chosen to ac- is porous and unless the polish is the water. Also care should be for this material (out of favour for will be particularly interested, is again with the new Spring and
clothes. Wide brimmed centuate the fairness of your com- evening dresses for, so long, and the use of elaborate floral decora- Summer now back to favour) appears in tions at dances.
hats, with curving brims and cling- plexion. On the other hand, it is put on to fill up the pores and form taken to prevent water soaking in quite impossible to try to create that surface, it will be very difficult to through the joins, otherwise the At all the dances given within the ing, frilly dresses, call for quite a James Quinn's painting. of the
canvas back will rot in course of fairness entirely with powder and Duchess of York, which depicts her last few weeks it was noticeable
Having thus fortified your no-time. in a lovely pink satin dress. that the hostess had "spread her new mode of make-up. We hear a rouge. Thoy must be chosen care- fully to tone with your skin-you may require a ""banana" tone, or something that is neither mauve,, nor cream nor pink, but something of all three!
Flowers at such functions are
Miss Gretton chose an all white self" on the flowers. · · dress for her portrait, and is posed with a jolly pekingese beside her, not, by the way, used only to decor- while a modern jewel-fashion has ate rooms. A large number of been recorded by the artist, as he women are cultivating the habit of has painted with great detail the wearing real flowers, with evening
dress. diamond elip brooch she wears.
The most popular sprays aro And those made from orehida, fashionable' florists have nothing but approval for the idea.
Fashionable Jewellery. "Junk" necklaces; as it is, the fashion to term the really charming SULMUERock jewellery which we all wear,
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appear at Burlington House in more than one picture, for Francis Dodd has painted a green string of de- corative beads round the neck of the girl in his Traveller's 'Joy."
TINCTURE OF LEMON-PEEL.
Here is a very easy and economi- cal way of obtaining and preserving
The beret has achieved a promin- the flavour of lemon peel Half fill ent placo in Academic 'circles, as n wide-mouthed pint bottle. with
Miss Diana Fishwick sat to Leonard brandy or proof spirit. Whenever lot about deportment, which is, of
Rouge and lipstick should be chosen together when the powder is selected and with due regard to the fact that the geranium-and orange tones will be smarter than the dark ones.
Hair, too, will be made to simul- ate natural, soft little curls and loosa wayes. "Natural pettiness" will be our aim during the coming Spring and Summer, and it will take all the cunning of the coiffeur, and the art of the masseuse, and the aid of numerous cosmetice to prevent its degenerating into untidy in-
J. Fuller for her picture wearing you use a lemon, pare the rind off course, éxtremely important, but we sipidness. one. It is put on rather forward, very thinly and put this into the mustn't forget that faces and hair while Miss Jemmia Fagan, by Irene brandy. In a fortnight the peel have to be made to fit the picture Wyatt, is shown in a beret at the will strongly impregnate the spirit alss. perilous "well on the back" of the with the flavour.
hend angle which is now fancied by
so many.
Miss Anna K. Zinkeisen has painted Mrs. Ralph St. Hill In a most fashionable golden satin dress with, the new "halter" draperies round the decolletage and amart elaborata sleeves, and the Cadogan Cowper portrait of Mrs. John Bar- ran and her sister Miss Margaret Hore-Ruthven might be taken as an
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REVIVING OLD FASHIONS.
It will be interesting to see whe ther, together with the revival of Edwardian and Victorian modes, the big dinner party will become fashionable again this year.
One hostess ushered in the season
at Home by giving a dinner party) for 56 people which, however, was less formal, than it sounds, because guests were seated at seven small tables,
A? this party a concertina soloist
the guests between
Then, there are the new pastel shades to be considered. These re- quire the fairest of skins to set them off properly.
The same may be said of the very dark colours, such as navy blue and black. With the rather deliberate coloure which we have worn so readily beretofore, allow com- plexions, were not as dull and un- Interesting as they would appear when seen In conjunction with the new Spring shades especially, I think, the wide range of blues, and also white. 2
Are You Clean?” The first thing, of course, le to see that your face is absolutely clean -not an easy matter when you re- member" thể" foge, amoke, and "gen- eral Winter grime that does its best to accumulate in your skin.
Necks, especially, often need a course of thorough cleansing treat- ments in order to make them several tones lighter. For collars are red- ponsible for a good deal of this grime. Then, too, necks never seem to get their fair share of creaming and face packs, ADORA "One or two evenings a week, for the next month or set aside for
rigorous cleaning treatments, with soape which are intended for the
keep.
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