SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1932.
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- NIGHTGOWNS NOW. COMING IN.
Seea In Satin Both Heavy And Light.
Beach pyjamas may be modes of yesterday, but it seems as though the taste for pyjamaa to slumber in is on the ware too. In any event, nightgowns have assumed great importance. In the well-known lingerie houses, they are seen in satins, both heavy and light, in pale colours, or a dull ground and gay flower designs, with trimmings about the neck and shoulders. Perhaps a three-inch fluted frill is stitched to a round neck, an inch below the hem. Or a nightgown tucked atį the waist is shapely and with brief epaulettes. Capes, quite deep) affairs touching the elbows, are ac-} companied by high waists helted by satin ribbons in two colours.
est sailor knot has taken its place,
no ornament is thought necessary
smaller than they used to be.
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Fashion's programme evening frocks delightful in detail, and with many differences to dis- tinguish them from yesterday's.
Smart and particularly of this season is an uncrushablo volvet, frock in water grean whose strap- ped back is attached to A high bodice front. Short sleeve styles are original, and ao are curiously cut capes which form minute sleeves.
Other lovely gowns have em-1 broideries below the hips mounting, high at the back, and when narrow and it had helped the rather older, flounces are arranged in the same insufficiently equipped woman to way one imagines a bustle though take up a new career.
the effect is very slight.
The speaker told of a clergy. man's daughter, experienced only; in parish work, who on her father's death had to earn her living and who after being trained as a gov.
by most people, though we Edwar-
Marjorie Lady Nunburnholme erness secured an excellent place in dians insist upon exercising our presided at a meeting of that excel a noble family abroad. "You can prerogative, albeit our pins are lent institution, the Loan Fund, not think," she said, "what a dif- that has helped over 500 women to ference this help means to the re- The fashion in wedding rings, train for some profession or skill-bellious, mutinous little girl`with- too, has changed entirely. Five ed employment. Lady Nunburn. out any prospects. I remember dered essential for both parties to Fund started twenty-one years ago and thirty years ago it was consi-holme explained that the Loane such girl who protested that life was not fair. The loan fund
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wear a massive gold ring as an out with a capital of £500; now has helped her, and now she has a ward and visible sign of domestic £8,000 at its disposal, and that the secretarial post in a big embassy blise or otherwise. Then men whole sum is always on loan.
in Eastern Europe, where she is largely gave up wearing them, and
learning several foreign langu the size of women's rings was re-
ages."" duced. The conventional gold band has been replaced by a narrow hoop of platinum, or, in some cases, a circlet of precious stones.
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It is rather and to think that most of the big pieces comprising the Bavarian Crown Jewels, which: are to be sold next week in London,! It is only during the last year or will in all probability be broken up, two that artificial jewellery has at- as no woman nowadays, no matter tained the perfection which it now how elaborate the function, cares has. Many women who are known about wearing massive ornaments. to have valuable
When as a young man, writes an pearls never dream of taking Edwardian in the Daily Telegraph, them abroad, but have them copied I first went
opera, in by some well-known firm of arti the last days of Queen Victoria, fcial pearl-makers, and thereby one of the amusements between the save a considerable amount of in- acts was not only to study the peo-surance.
the to
necklaces of
ple in the boxes, but, above all, to Not very long ago a friend of inspect with one's glasses the mine found herself on the fringe of jewels of the ladies, many of whom a Communist meeting in Hyde Park. wore huge stomachers in diamonds Exceedingly pretty and well-dress- and coronets that were almosted, she was wearing a row of false; crowns. The most noticeable of the pearls. Suddenly a man rudely latter belonged to the Princess shook his fist in her face and asked Pless, the late Lady Londonderry, her what she meant by such a dis- Lustrous Oll Permanent Hair Waves and Millicent Duchess of Suther-play of wealth. To his utter amaze- which are Large, Soft and Natural, tund. Lady Ripon, who always oc- ment and consternation she slipped Artistic Finger and Marcel Waves, Oil Treatment, Shampootag, Henna Pack cupled the first-tier stage box, also them off her neck and calmly said:
"Here, take them." (any colour), Hair Cutting and Mani wore magnificent jewels.
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Gone are the days of this dazzling display--and gone, possibly, are the jewels of many. Fashions in jewellery have completely changed, Many I see are artificial, such is the craze nowadays for wearing arti- ficial ornaments.
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It is interesting to notice, how the| design of jewellery, like everything else, follows the trend of fashion of the day. For instance, when it was the custom to wear high collare by day, women wore dog-collars of precious stones by night; both dis- appeared simultaneously. Thare was also a time when the most beautiful jewelled combs were
worn, but as shingling came into vogue combs became unnecessary and Impracticable.
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In the days of high collars; and in order to provont the rotundity of his tie looking foolish, a man was) obliged to wear a pin-and the lar-j ger the tie the larger the pin]} Since this highly decorative struc- ture has disappeared and the mad-
together the loans made, repaid, and lent again to other girls in training amount to £30,000.
Lord Winterton, giving his bless- ing to the enterprise, said that at present the economic position of the professional classes, and parti- cularly of the women, was acute. He noted that the fund in many cases came to the help of parents who could not afford to give their daughters a professional training.
Mrs. G. E. Bell, wife of the Bishop of Chichester, said that in her early days it was enough if girls were educated for life. To- day they must be trained for a live- Hhood, and the ordinary profes- sional man found it very difficult whon every daughter must have an expensive training. The fund had helped many girls to complete a course already begun; it had come to the aid of girls beroft of their parents before' training had begun,
"I know of a gentlewomen's club whose qualification is that your in- come must not exceed £50 a year. Imagine the monotony of a life so restricted. It is from that sort of thing that we want to save these girls by helping them to become thoroughly efficiant. We want help now, in the form of small subscrip-| tions donations or by people holding small meetings for friends who do not know about the Loan Fund so that the news can spread."
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Lady Bryce, president of the Cen- tral Employment Bureau and Stu- dents' Careers Association, to which the Loan Fund belongs, said
it was very intéresting to see how the suggestions put before these young women threw an entirely new light on these problems and often made all the difference to their lives.
·" RAIN · PROOF.”
Old light-weight silk waterproofs when quite past wearing, are some- times still good in parts. I a sound piece about a foot square can be cut out, it may be used to cover a shopping-basket in', "wat weather. It should be stitched, with coloured string or rama, half- way round the basket on the inside, about an inch below the edge. It
is then always at hand when re- quired, and at other times it just hangs down neatly inside the bas- ket.
TEAPOT LIDS.
The black, carved knobs on the lids of silver teapots sometimes crack from top to bottom, and, un- less repaired at once, they may split right in half and drop off the little. silver bolt that passes through the centre. As soon as a crack is noticed, the knob should be firmly bound with Ane: black thread. There is usually a circu- lar groove in the knob, and if the thread in wound tightly round in the groove it is almost invisible.
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