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A Song Of The Needle
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170MEN have an
universal desire for self-expression. They want to express their desire to be at- tractive, and they find the way. in the needle and in the use of Whether beautiful fabrics. "Women dress themselves for men or other women is à favourite discussion: but · neither of these reasons. is really important. Women dress themselves for the satisfaction they find in expressing beauty. Some women can paint pictures. some can write poetry of prose. some have a talent for music. But only a few are creative in these felds. The needle provides a com- mon language which is given to -all x use and enjoy.
There is infinite pride and satis- faction in the first dress you ever made. Your creative instinct gives you an innate love of materials and you will learn what infinite care goes into the weaving of fabrics. You will feel a profound respect for everyone who has a part in making a fine fabric: and when you see a shabby, limp, and lifeless material you will know that its shabbiness goes back to the bre from which it was woven.
Sewing has the most 12mi versal appeal for women, and during the last few years of de-..
it pression they have turned to again. Girls who never thought of making their own clothes now turn to sewing almost instinctively, and once the fascination of its creative qualities captures them they with all the plunge into it enthusiasm of youth.. Women who have not sewed for years are taking
up again.
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An organisation known as Fashion Group has been formed in America. A relatively new pro fession had achieved importance in the world of women's work It included those who, through educa- ction, training, and experience, held positions of influence in fashion work in the field of industrial de- signing. merchandising, advertis- ing, editing, and teaching. A small these felds group of people" in recognised that fashion workers had a great opportunity to set standards for design and workman- ship that would benefit all, especial- ly women.
Nearly 100 women in America and Europe are now members.
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BEAUTY DIARY
INDIVIDUALITY is every bit
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as important as beauty; in- deed, in Paris it is rated much higher. The Parisienne is not so much noted for her beauty as for her art in accentuating her particular type and mak- ing the most of her charm.
There is no need, French beauty experts say, for any woman to be indefinite. If you are inclined to be fair, make up your mind to be- come a radiant blonde by the use of brightening washes for the hair and skilful make-up. These, and the adoption of one of the new chic hairdressing styles, will often turn the indefinite type into a striking and attractive one.
For the near-brunette, too, who lacks distinction, there are a mum- ber of tricks which will easily transform her into a dashing Car-
mex.
Many women feel that they can never stand out in any gathering because Nature has not endowed. them with specially brilliant colour- Fortin- ing or regular features. ately, however, the costmetician has stepped in to supply the bril liance which Nature has denied them.
There is a style of hairdressing at present much in vogue in Paris, and the near-brunette should try this mode first of all in her search for distinction,
Banish the ordinary side parting which ninety-nine per cent, of wo- men cling to so slavishly. When the hair has been freshly washed and barnished with a few drops of briliantine, brush it back smoothly wver the top and crown of the head. and let the ends finish in sleek cris, on the back of the neck, bringing a few of these curls for
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ward from behind the ears. A clip or bandean can at first be worn round the back of the head to train the hair to this unaccustomed set- ting.
Add to this Stat coiffure a magnolia-pale, mast make-up, and one of the new Oriental shades of Tipstick To achieve this pallor the "powder base must be a lotion, not
a cream
Now for your tango lipstick and a hint of blisstine en brows and lashes, and the mirror will reveal a new and arresting charm of ap-. pearance
The transformation of the near- blonde can be just as startling. It is often because her skin, hair, and lashes are all too much of the one tone that many a prett falls into the ranks of the indefinite and ordinary.
Much can be done to lighten the tone of her hair by frequent wash- ings with sulphur soap and lemon and camomile rinses, and she may tham wear with greater sCCESS other women one of the new short- waved fringes. This style of hair dressing is very feminine and vivacious, and has been adopted re- cently by quite a number of Holly- wood blondes.
A white powder base is not for the woman who wishes to become the pink and white type. If you cannot purchase a rosy foundation cream, make one for yourself in the following way:-Squeeze tabe of white vanishing cream into an empty cold cream pot and blend. in slowly a few drops of Equid rouge This cream should be used with peach-bloom powder and a Sone. lipstick of a blush.
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Now just a touch of brown as- cara, and the woman of indefinite colouring will blossom into unex- pected attractiveness.
Both blonde and brunette can do much to accentuate their types by the choice of a perfume. A blonde should avoid all heavy scents, while the dark girl is better expressed by narcissus, tuberose, or jasmine.
- SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1935
Dotting The Eyes
IKE millionaires' children, go about shadowed these days. It is getting so that you would as soon be without your eye- shadow as without your lipstick. One vanity-case has a little pan of eyeshadow in it. so..that you can re-shadow as you go.” Don't forget the trick of blend- ing two shades together. And, the metallic eye-shadows give you a light that shines by night. You don't have to be too sparing with these. No one will think you have gold or silver eyelids by Nature any-
and a
shining coat smoothly applied all over the lids is very effective. But if you still prefer just a moist, dewy look without any colour. enlourless shadow and eyelash grower will do that for you.
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Very often, a - faint-hearted query arises, “But should I really wear blue and green during the · day?”- Certainly! Don't for a minute think that your eyelashes should merely be them- selves. Both green and blae are and might ravishing by day Several mascaras are made în two shades of bine.
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Eye Kits! Suppose you get a dnder in your
route. eye, en You whisk your eyebath out of your eye kit and bathe the cinder right out. And at the end of any of the soothing journey, think beneficence of those little herbal pads that fit gently over eyes, Eye kits are kept very com- Some have le pact in size, droppers, but, if you find yourself without dropper or eye-cup, you csu resort to spoons. And when you use eye-cups, by the way, use two this avoids any possible in- fection. And don't think that you have to fill the cups full-half fall is enough.
If smoke gets in your eyes, go some eye-lid quickly and pat on lotion The eye-lid lotion is a boon to any tired eyes; women can hardly wait to get home at night to use it. If you chill it, it is even more refreshing. This chilling goes for eyebaths and eye- washes, too. -Don't confuse eye- lid lotion with eye. astringents. The latter are intended to tighten the fine skin around the eyes that develops wrinkles before you know
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The latest discovery for the eyebrows Bre pulling out of "twissors." Twissors get a good grip on errant eyebrows, which. by the way, you can detect most readly by means of one of those small magnifying mirrors.
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to the women's section of news- papers or magazines devoted to that art must make their liv- ing. And a very hard eamed living too. Just imagine hav- ing to say something new in four to five columns every week about the subject, when it is evident that something new does not happen every week. It is quite natural then that if you are observant enough you will see last year's news re- hashed again this year, only spiced a bit differently to take. away the left-over taste. Eut even after this excuse it isn't. polite to repeat the facts impressed you for the last ten years, which all go to prove that there is a new ar- chitectural style in formation.
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The new style is here and it has been here definitely now for some time. Of course as nothing is sta- tionary the evolution is still going on Bat the main deciding factor in the birth of the new architec tural style, and consequently in de- coration, was the advent of steel and concrete. And they have been here now for quite a while. No similia revolutionary · discovery can be expected for some time, but
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only improvements. So we will not make the mistake, even as a Jubilee year retrospect, to dish up again the moss-covered "cute little "movelties” chatty' New York in- terior decorating ladies talk about, but take it all for granted.
That is how we all know (and cannot help seeing it) that pictures are very sparingly used in modern interiors. In Paris, where some fifteen thousand artists live, and also in other cosmopolitan centres where artists usually congregate, the new style spelled ruin Six or seve years ago the auction. FOODS of the Hotel Dronot in Paris were full of pictures of great or fashionable names-ail could be bought for very little. „Artists may and do die, but not the arts. After a few years of gloomy discussions around the tables of the artist's cafes (it is a picture, not unlike that of the brokers in Ice House Street. After all, nowadays every- thing is economies) things look- ed more cheerful Painters and sculptors found their place in the
new trend.
When metals and glass took the place of wood in a greater and greater degree in fumiture mak- ing, and new inventions in wall treatment, which are more sanitary and practical, made wallpapers and fabrics obsolete, something had zo be done to give a softer and warm- er background to the cold gleam. of the metal Attempts to replace (Continued on Page 7)
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Shopping
So we went shopping again Shopping for you, of course. Boiling or blowing, never-mind the weather; nae must do something One plays bridge--one always plays bridge-and, although we say "playing bridge, it is in reality a ritual. And can you im- agine a ritual without the Etting accessories?
Here is a smart one: a silver bridge box, containing two packets of cards and scoring pads and decorated with picture cards, **
The ritual bas its burns offer- ing too. One smokes endlessly. You can offer a light., with sach neat things as the silver smoker's lamp with the staghorn handle.
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Your Volunteer friends will ap- preciate the military tone of the other handsome lighter in the shape of a silver grenade...
And, last but rat the least, that you shall not forget your bridge dates, complete the set with the silver perpetual calendar illustrat- ed here.
Books for -
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Girl Out of the Sky" by Katrin Holland is on sale Brewer's bookshop and should interest the modern woman. Here is something new out of Germany, a novel unconcerned, with politics or war and devoid of morbidity
Camilla Baner ozze of those feminine riders of the skies whose endurance is equal to their cour age, falls in love with her rescuer, Mr. Kai Mattiessen, an explorer, who resents the entry of women into the great world of action and has a nervous dread of the tyranny A of love. He is so attracted, however, by boyish Camilla that he endeavours to persuade her to abandon her solo flight to India. and is chagrined to, find that he is up against a will as strong and free as his own
The divided lovers go on perilous journeys, and by an ironje stroke Camilla becomes dea ez machine of the frustrated Kai'in the iry waters, thanks to the magnanimity of another gallant lover of hers.
A distinguishing feature of the nažrative, packed with sensation, emotional and physical, is tha: gaiety which finds its source in intrepidity.
Brewer's, have also received a fascinating collection of English Jubilee journals. One and all they are extra fat editions, containing an abundance of illustration and reading matter: novelties, home and cookery pages, special features and stories. You will be proud of your copies; so go early so. 25 to have a wide choice.
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Embroidered Flowers
FINE embroidery is coming
into its own again, but few
of us, alas, have the skill or leisure to do it for ourselves— yet we need not despair!
Little flower panels are to be had delicate and perfect, with a real old-world charm. These silken panels, made in various sizes, are embroidered in silk with flowers. in glowing natural colours, and the large number of designs in- cludes nearly all the most loved. flowers, red carnation, cornflower, chrysanthemum, crocus, daffodil," delphinium, forget-me-not,
nium, honeysuckle, iris, lavender, Ity-of-the-valley, madonna lily, rose, orchid, pansy, poppy, snow- drop, sunflower, sweet pea, violet.. and many others, You'd be en- chanted to have a complete seti
And there are some decorative ways in which these flower pictures can be used; one need not be an expert needle-woman to be able to carry out the ideas either. For your dining-table what could be better than a set of table 'mats made with applique flower pletares with a centre-piece to match? Or they might be applique'd on to an otherwise dull tea-cosy or tray- cloth Then they could be sewn on to a larger piece of silk to make one big flower panel for a fre screen; an embroidered flower pic- tune or a dainty patchwork quilt for a baby could be made this way too. A nursery screen with lots
of colourful flower pictures would
be greatly loved by the children. And in your own bedroom, they would be splendid to decorate a z cheval-set for the dressing-table, or as decoration for the bedspread. For a room inspired by some
special flower, here is an excellent means of giving it a few perfect » finishing touches. And these are
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