FASHION.
Paris is still liberal in its idea regard- ing the one and two piece frock. Both styles are in evidence among the smart est models for the coming season, but both styles show very fascinating varia. tions. In one-piece frocks panels are still very fashionable. One dress designer has brought out a peculiar shape for a panel in the back of the dress. While it is very narrow at the neck where it begins, it is unusually broad at the lower end of the skirt. Grosgrain ribbon bands at the waistline and around the wrist are another new fashion note. Several ribbons-one, above the other-are ag
popular as the several bands around the kat or tam. Among the new jumper dresses the tunic-jumper is an entirely new feature. The diges of the tunic are circular and frequently adorned with the circular tucks. The blouse hangs loose from the shoulders at the back and ties in front with a small bow. These tucks are also to be found on the tiered skirt where they adorn the edges of each tier. Coats.
Wraps for the coming season are built on slender lines. Collars, cuffs and the bottom-part of the coat show a rich trim- ming with fur. A hidden fullness is often given by means of inverted pleats, For afternoon wear velvet, velveteen broad- cloth and moiree are in considerable
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either. Flat steel grey is too harsh; a warm rose grey should be chosen instead, The V-Neck the Ideal Neck Shaps.
The
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BEAUTY PARLOUR.
Sun-Burns.
The V-neck has not without reason beon Nothing is uglior than the mark show. called the ideal neck-shape." It is noting that the neckline of your evening- only the ideal shape for one age; it is the shape for any age. It is the shape that has survived all the changes in fashion during the past years and it is still popular, It frames and soften the outlines of the neck and look extremely lovely when made of delicate flesh gear getto or chiffons. A high neck hides many faults of the physique, but at the same time it is often apt to spoil the lines of the shoulders..
A New Material For Hats.
While there is little or no change in the shape of the hats there is a new material which is receiving attention from the hat designers the so-called soleil. It is a shiny, bright-finished velour and is seen at all the leading hat-shops at home and in Paris. The "Sign of the Lantern'
now in the new quarters on Chater Road-tas several very charming hats of
A dress full of charm and of frills for the-age frum 6-10.
this material. Crowns are very high and often draped. But the trimming is very simple, and ribbon is used most frequent 1. However, although acleil is leading now as the material for hats, felt is still popular and velvet promises to be used more generally during the coming season than last year. Many of the new season hats ure without any brim at the back but only those who have the hair cut very closely should wear these. In colours, wind shades, coppery hues, wood tones and greens lead with, of course, black. Evening-Dresse5,
frock is different from that of your bath- ing-suit. In many cases, however, it cau- not be avoided and, of course, there are many women who do not "care. They insist upon a sun-bath and a swim regard less of any consequences. Now we hear that at the French 'bathing resorts..the women are beginning to **sun-bura. themselves purposely, and have gone to the length of cutting small designs in their bathing suits-in order that these designs may show in the skin when even- ing dress is worn. It is something. like a return of the tattoo. I should imagine the results must be hideous but as long as there is a fashionable world there wil be no lack of ideas and there is a con- stant search for originality. Short Hair and Long Hait.
́It is almost absurd to touch upon this question once more but at the theatre the other evening I made certain observations and wish to give the results of these. There is no doubt that the average man takes better care of his hair than the bobbed or shingled woman does. More. over, he must look from time to time into a mirror to see how the back of his head appears. Long hair more, or less hid faults at the back of the head which are
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A smart little hat of a light saleil with a narrow brim turned down in front and up at the back. The drapery of the crown slopes towards the back where it is finished by a flat bow. The bow is of soleil while the band is of grosgrain.
now
very obvious after bobbing or shingung. Why should women have to produce a comb at a theatre or in a hotel in an endeavour to put these faults right. It reminds of a picture I saw not long For those who wish to work out their ago in Punch where a girl produced comb, owh ideas in evening frocks and desire powder and rouge. When a man noticed to purchase material only, a visit to the her doing it he produced all the articles Pioneer Silk Store is recommended.necessary for a shave. There is not much There is plenty of variety there and also to be said against bobbed or shingled hair some lovely lace and charming silk and but if it is bobbed or shingled it should georgette. The trimming of a dress is be done so that it looks well: Only re- extremely important and, if carefully cently beauty specialists prophesied that chosen, often gives just that touch of a woman's neck would be affected by smartness and chic that is desired." having the hair cut and that the cutting would produce some kind of a rash. At Hosiery..
first this seemed to me. simply like " pro- There is little to be said with regard paganda" against short hair, but I have to the fashion in hosiery. I do not know noticed many women who show this rash. if the "painted stockings really have They ought to use some Germolens and existed or if they have only belonged to rub it into the spots that show. "fashion-fairy-stories" Recently Paris laabion papers published numerous inter- Skin and Complexion. views with theatre-directors who com This leads me to some thing I intended plained of the too expensive silk stock to write about some while ago. There is favour again while kasha wool reps, cash-inga. Then suddenly either a chemist or no doubt that out here the skin is very meere and satin are still to be seen. Many a fashion-designer came to their aid by greatly affected by the food one eats. of the coata have small tucks sometimes inventing a paint with which the desired do not know why it should be so parti on the leaves only and sometimes all colour of the stocking could be painted cularly, but it is. It may be because we over the boat, Beaver, grey fox and on to the leg as the make-up is on the have usually a longer proportion of ment blue fox are among the furs chiefly used face. The paint is said to be of a silk to vegetables than is the case at home. for trimming. Inverted pleats in some finish, and could hardly be distinguished Watch your diet carefully for a short time coats provide the hecessary freedom for from the silk stocking. It is pleasant to and take less meat and see if it improves Although ..movement. Eats worn with these coats notice that the flesh-coloured stockings the condition of the skin.
should be in the same colour or of are disappearing-it was a colour which beauty parlours are a very valuable asset was most unsuitable in most women. I think that in many cases we can correct harmonizing colour.
some beauty faults ourselves.
The coat" shows the fur as trimming and the tucks so jasimable now on sleeves and "on the coal.
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We used formerly to hear of the "style of the year.??. But now the fashion papers deal in separate sections with dresses for business women, for business girls, for the women who are engaged in sports, and so on ad infinitum,
But the result is not, as might have been expected, a great variety of fashions but rather a greater sameness in dress. Only recently I read an article written by Paris fashion designer who had de signed dresses for hundreds of women. His only wish was and still is at least so be says in his article to be able to toll women that there should be a dis- tinction in dresses that is given by age. He argues that a splendid looking fifty is better than a caricature of twenty. A "grent mistake and perhaps the funda
mental mistake Is made in choosing colours. Bed, green, light-blues are the colours of youth but the greys, fuchsins, blacks and dark-blues are the colours of a more serious age. Although it must be remembered that all gray colours are not the right thing for older people
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Pommes A La Parisienne.
Bake a large round spange cake with a hole in the middle, or scoop out a plain one after baking. Peel and quarter six large apples. Measure the juice from a tin of pineapple into a pan and add an equa! quantity each of sugar and of water. Stow the apples in it. When the quarters are soft, drain them out daintily and spoon the bot syrup over the sponge cake, until it is well soaked. Chop about a cup. ful of the pineapples, stir it up with an equal amount of apple and mix with ball a cupful of whipped cream. Fill the hole. in the centre of this cake with this pre- paration and then decorate the finished dish with what is left of the fruits and a half-cupful more of whipped cream. Tomato-Churry.
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Cut five tomatoes in thin slices add two tablespoonfuls of butter, one tablespoon- fal each of minced onion and celery and cook ten minutes. Remove to a covered dish. Blend together one table. spoonful of flour, half a teaspoonful of curry powder, three-quarters teaspoonful of salt and one quarter teaspoodful of paprika. Add three-quartors cupful.nl thin cream. and pour into the blazer. Cook until it thickens, stirring constantly., Pour over the tomatoes and serve on buttered tosat.
BEAUTY ADORNED BY THE BERET.
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GIRLS ADOPT THE MASCULINE CAP YOGUE.
Schoolboys and lawn tennis players are the contributing factors towards a new fashion in what sartorial people like to call headwear, says a honie paper. The beret, or Borotra cap, ja seen everywhere, on the river, the road, and tennis court, and it is worn by both men and women.
But to wear a plain or unadorned beret has become old-fashioned. To be right in vogue one has to wear a cap of many colours, and many schemes have been evolved. The plume of up-to-datedness is given to the man or woman who wears a teather in his cap
Since Wimbledon ended, and Borotra brought the tight-fitting cap into the popu- lar mind once more, people have begun to buy them," said a member of a wall known firm of hosiers.
"Of course, the beret has been popular among a particular class of motorists for some time, but it has never Been so popular as now. One has only to go ont into the country to see dozens of them
But I think tourists to the Continent. were responsible chiefly for the introduc- tion of the cap to this country. It is well known that many schoolboys in French lycere have worn somewhat similar crea- tions on their heads, and no doubt English girls in France have been rather intrigued Ey them. There is no doubt that they look very attractivo on a shingled head.
The pillion girl is a firm devotes, and the generally manages to persuade her escort to west one as well. The latest idea is for a family to get a sort of family Arms on their head, and wear all the same colours. Some have the berets of particular colours; others prefer to have fantastically-coloured tassels 00 the
crown.
The man seem to be much keener on loud colours than women. Yellows, oranges and reds are the favourite shades, but very often they are mixed together like a coloured alley marble."
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Don't mistake the cultivation of lovelines for make-up. They are miles apart! It is wisdom, of course, to make subtle use of fine voilet accessories to anhance and count the features and the natural colouring But it is tragic to try. tobida blemishes with cosmetics, for each year you will grow more dependent on these artiñcial means of canceling the ravages of your pawisdom.”
Learn to care for your skin wientifically, to keep it young and naturally.
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