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CONFIDE
DINNER PARTY
UNDECIDED attended dinner party recently of twenty quests. She arrived at the semi- formal party which was held in a private home," in a dressy afternoon frock, the other
guests were in dinier attire, and due to this condition she feels that she owes her hostess, an apology. What can she do or say!
FIRST OF ALL YOUR HOSTESS
established 1793
IN
FAITH PRIOR
detective may discover her name, then you may write a formal note asking for the privilege of an introduction. Don't make the chit too formal one line of wit may mean acceptance, If you suc-- ceed in finding out the lady's name. sending a chit, and you receive no answer, I should advise you to find ahother fish in the sea, there are plenty of them you know!
DEAR FAITH PRIOR; I am very distressed. Being twenty-seven years of age, and having supported
should have signifled the costume an invalid mother during the past of the eventtig, whether by five years, I now desire to be telephone Or written
tion
informed
you
to ag..
invita-married.
My future husband definitely objects to my parent the type of party and the attire. living with us and I do not wish However, though she neglected to to offend by agreeing. I feel It is do this you should have queried my duty to take my mother into her in this respect, asking if she my home, yet I must give up my desired "dressing" Naturally, you business career and do not feel did the right thing in remaining that
my. husband should be
at the party, you could do nothing responsible for my famly. What else. Then again always bear in mind the old saying, "It is better can I do? DISTURBED. to be undressed than overdressed.”
DEAR DISTURBED: There are It you feel that your hostess is-an- very few men, particularly young noyed about the incident, tele husbands who desire an inlaw in phone or write her a short note of their household. It is indeed com- thanks pardoning your attire.
It mor and is not from a financial
can be done gracefully and in-standpoint. Why don't you keep formally.
WANTS INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION desires to meet a young lady. He does not know her name or any details of her personal existence, he has merely seen the young lady several times On the street at a certain hour' each day and feels sure there is a mutual attraction. How can an Introduction be arranged
!working half-a-day or secure
part time position and with that money pay for a sunny bright room in a private sanitorium for.
There are such in- your mother. stitutions where an invalid may go and live, the food and `condi- tions are usually quite good and the inmate may have outings at various times besides having good "physical care of their illness.
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I think this is the better idea, I should not advise you insisting op your mother living in your new home, nor would I suggest you give, FIRST OF ALL try and and up the idea of marriage. All of us someone you know who might be must live our own lives, sometimes the break of family ties is painful. acquainted with the lady or “a friend of hers. This would be the but don't forget you owe some best way. If you attempt to speak thing to the roan, whose name you to the young woman without an take for your own. Introduction it might prove ́very ↑ embarrassing for you. However, “If ' you are desperate you can have the particular young woman" followed" to her place of business where the
(Each week in this column FAITH PRIOR answers ques- tions of a personal nature submitted by readers of the Daily Press.)
WHEN IT
RAINS
December is a dry month in most parts of the world; however, shortly the rains will come and fashion dic- tates even to the elements.
"The web fabric umbrella disguised as a semi-trans- parent bubble is light to carry, and a thankful in- vention for crossing streets in wind and rain, or hurry- ing along crowded thor- oughfares.
Don't forget glamorous galoshes to keep the feet Idry, shoes in shape and Jankles warm, at the same Įtime, free from mud spots.
Plaid umbrellas and raincoats are definitely gay on dreary, rainy day. Some manufacturers have gloves to match with the inside of the palm corduory lined
The double-duty reversible raincoat of debonair "Harris tweed type with raglan sleeves is a welcome accessory to the wardrobe. Excellent for rain and other days of sunshine and motor car driving.
White la playing a big part in rain gear
Europe, particularly in France and England raincoats of waite raberdine, rubber and cello- phane. The former two most popular are easily cleaned by washing with soap and water, besides being very smart over dark dresses. All raincoats this year are of the raglan sleeve and loose fitting design many having the half-open back in the skirt.
And to be ultra smart there are white cases to slip over your handbag or books which you may carry in the rain.
WOMEN'S INTERESTS
A TOWN DRESS
Ann Rutherford's town dress is of crinkly grey crepe, accented with brown and flesh pink. The one-piece dress, designed by Dolly Tree for the actress, has wide bands of pink and brown velvet tying at the waist with a pink jabot of mouseiline de sole at the neckline. Her felt tri- cora ties under her curls with match- ing velvet bands which and in bows of pink and brown as crown trim. Suede gloves ta pink with brown open heal and toe pumps complete the ensemble,
DRESSING FOR NEW
YEAR'S EVE
When you say "Happy New Year," and all the bells, sirens, horns,. and whistles in the city break loose between 11:55 p.m., December 31, 1939, and 12.05 a.m., January 1, 1940, your costume must be ultra fashionable and perfect. It is a New Year and you should be your best.
First of all where will youjsclected Then the dash of perfume be celebrating the biggest behind the ear, at the temple, event of the year? A crowded! finger tips and wrists and at the hotel ballroom, a private resi-hem of your skirt. dence gathering, or a club so- clal, etc.?
However, the majority of ladies and gentlemen will be dressing and this means attention to your per- sonal beauty..the gown, shoes, hose, wrap, evening gloves, bag, and ac- cessories: You must be ravishing, daring, mysterious demure, or ultra amart, that of course depends on your personality.
YOUR
Round The Shops
New Year there are bills and the big let down after `gay holidays, but there is a cure for these all- ments and many women remedy the after effects with a new bonnet or some small item which goes on sale and is such a buyi
Maybe you are also frantically shopping for the evening gown to wear or Sunday evening when you greet 1940. In that case, you are in luck, for sales are "now taking place in the local shops and their offerings in many cases are out- standing.
SPECIAL PURCHASE
LANE CRAWFORD have indeed a special purchase in the select dozen of new felt hats just received. There are only twelve in the standard head sizes of various shades. Brown, wine, green, navy and black are the rich colours and the styles
are fashion's latest: high and low crowns, brims which turn up and a few down and the felt is outstanding quality. EVENING'S GOWNS
"Lovely to look at and lovely to see!" That is your theme for Saturday, Sunday and Monday of this week-end. During this out- standing yearly holiday frocks and finery play an important part in the festivites and that means you must look your best. MAYOS, I. the Arcade, are certainly capable of providing the costume and trim- mings.
Party dresses and gorgeous even- ing gowns in satins, taffetas. and metallic are designed in the latest dictates of fashion. Maybe you will not be dressing this New Year and are shopping for dressy after- noon or cocktall frocks? You will find an outstanding selection here, too.
STOCK DISCOUNT. ·
Twenty per cent, discount¡ba ali. stock in RIVELLE sounds enchant- ing and is, indeed, special" news. All the merchandise from ready- to-wear to hats and accessories has been reduced making way for a new shipment of advanced spring merchandise from America.
Here is an opportunity which is outstanding particularly for last- minute shoppers of evening gowns, wraps and cocktail trocks which are saving values. By the way the shipment lately received is includ- ed in the special discount.
"FASHIONALITY?”.
(A quiz to determine your clothes-type and style ideas.)
Analyse your "fashionality" (alliance of personality with fashion) and discover what clothes are most becom ing to your type. In each group, check a, b, or c, then add the number of checks for each letter. The letter with the most counts is your "fashionality” key.
Group I-If you were away and unsuc-
home, cessful in your search. for a job, what would you do when you were down to your last twenty-five dollars?
Black is always excellent for evening. Blondes, titian and brunette women appear to from advantage if the gown is their styling. But gold is the king of evening "colour this winter and of course the brunette thrives in this shade, the titian can "accomplikh wonders with gold if imaginative and the blonde must be careful,
CARMEN RED
Carmen red is another outstand- ing fashion shade and if you wear grey you will be right up in front in the gown parade.
Buy your train ticket and start back for home and mother immediately
b. Keep searching until all your
money is gone
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b. Laugh good-naturedly
and
dismiss it, saying it was just un accident
e. Be annoyed, but successfully
bide your feelings Group
Do you belleve a woman can have more than one real love?
A. No
b. Yes, it circumstances occa-
stoned more than one
c. Yes, a woman can have many
more than one
a. No
b. Yes, if someone else, were with ..you' c. Yes
c. Buy a stunning hat for $10, spend $5 on two good meals
Group If you heard, a noise at and look for one more day | night, would you investigate? Don't forget to sparkle discreetly, j
Group 2-If you wore an in- don't dazzle
to escort but, formal dress your
dance that enough brilliance in the correct turned out to be formal, what place, lends a definite atmosphere, would you do?
Your styling can vary from the
a. Immediately leave rarrow silhouette, if you have the figure, to full-skirted type gown. Then again you may have a discret c. Stay and say nothing. display of bare shoulders and arms. Group 3-Would you travel two but fashion says covered shoulders hundred miles for the best college and arms is far more interesting dance of the year? this year. However don't combine the covered arms and shoulders with the full skirt.
WEAR JEWELS
or
Wear ornaments, srioods Jewels in your hair in profusion, or nothing at all but an exotic and
| diferent-styling of your coiffure, a type you would not wear in the day with your business suit, Get
brash, comb and pins out and go to work trying out new hair, styles.
The wrap may be fur, wool, velvet, brocade or a matching ma- terial of your frock. Colourful wraps are more fashionable and here again bear in mind your own and personality.
maip
b. Your husband or your best
beau
c. Walter Winchell
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1939,
ATTRACTIVE NEW
FELTS
ONLY 1 DOZ.
JUST ARRIVED
NAVY, BLACK, GREEN
AND
CLARET.
LADIES' SALON
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
SPECIAL DISCOUNT
20% OFF ALL ŠTOCK
NEW MERCHANDISE
ARRIVING SHORTLY
RIVELLE
Gloucester Arcade
VELVETEEN FOR. COLLEGE WEAR.
Velveteen in a black and red, check one-piece dress is ideal for town or college and is worn here by Laraine Day. The bodice izrulates a vest and has criss-cross buttoning the dirt is circular and very full. Miss Day wears a black felt coachman's hat with embroidered band in red, yellow and black.
Tel. 33186.
TYPE YOUR HANDS
Hands are 25 definitely typed as faces, so they tell us, all those experts of beauty who study and bisect beauty details, therefore, they need the same specialized care. It is just as much of a mistake, they say, to be seen without the correct manicure as to venture forth without lipstick or the wrong 'make-up.
Your hands probably fall into one of five categories. The trick is to analyse correctly, and to shy away from the tendency, when in doubt, of picking the hand you would like to have, not the one you actually possess.
It is impossible to look at your hand and blithely decide which it is. You must know that the "creative" hand has short fingers, strong and usually thick at the base. You must be able to tell the difference between the "executive“ hand with its straight fingers and squarish nails, and the "artistic"" hand with its graceful, tapering Angers.
"PATRICIAN” 'HAND
You can't miss the slim, fine that characterizes the
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Group 10--If you were at a dining look. If you are tall, do not mould b. Make your apologies and re-ner party, whom would you prefer try to submerge your personality "patrician" hand, and the "exotic"
as your dinner partner?
because you believe it to be incon-type is easily identified by ex- 'a, Robert, Taylor -
grious with your height. Your travagantly slender bands, thin at clothes should still be. soft and the wrists and by its long, narrow feminine but not too frilly. Keep nails. : to unobtrusive shades and a Having once decided upon your natural, ingenue make-up,
hand type, you can experiment with your nail polish. Leave the tips clean of polish with nail whit- You are the all-around girl, and ins under the nail, or extend the a swell sport. But more than that, polish to the end. You can make you can acclimate yourself to any various effects with the moons of situation. Men like you because of the nails, covered or uncovered. your artless ways arid complete frankness. You are the perfect!
If your angers are square at the
B. Yes
b. Yes, if your date were the
"one and only"
c. No "
Group 4-Can you manage to forget your social breaks easily?
a. No
c. Yes
A. No b. Yes
c. Yes, if no men were present Group 6-Would you wear slacks
THE ANSWERS
And, here are your answer, believe it or not!
the
she
Although every Woman viates somewhat: Tram form in her own way, b. Yes, if other people or things feminine types. Key-letter A. for is ndamentally one of these
keep you occupied
instance, is the sweetly feminine type; B is the all-around good. Group 5-12 a girl you dislike sport: Cis glamourously sophis wore a becoming hat. would you scated. Way not dress to your tell her so?
costumes to personality, key your your character!
KEY-LETTER A "
You are the kind of person who on Flith Avenue if you happened pines for hooped skirts and days to feel like it? ·
of romance, You are feminine and Do not forget your gloves and
sweet. If you are small; you are your handbag and a vel, scarf,
b. Yes, if your friends approved the clinging-vins type for whom snood or hood to keep your locks
c. Yes.
many men fall, and whom many in place, too these accessories are Group At a cocktail party, women dislike. You attract big. marvels for the evening mood and the butler accidentally spilled a protective men who flatter you very useful physicology.
drink on your expensive dress. with all kinds of attentions, Your Be warned again about the would you..
clothes should be soft and funy, coloured lights in public placesa. Become very much, upset, but rather than, severely tailored, because they can kill your make-up complain only to the man! Your cosmetics should be deli-
next to you.
cately applied for a natural, glow-
if your colours are not carefully
a. No
KEY-LETTER B *.
daytime and date-time companion tips don't for goodness sake try You look well in sports clothes and the over shape, let your nail follow equally well in evening clothes. the natural line of your finger and Dresses most becoming are those make the effect with your polish of unusual colors and lines. Warm blend with your lipstick, make-up heightens your efferves- cent quality.
Try all ways until you discover which suits you best. You will And you have added personality down KEY-LETTER C
to your fingertips. And don't Your personality denotes the es forget the hand cream. massaged zence of the smart cosmopolitan. into the finger knuckles and the You are Inclined. though, to be tips particularly in this climate blase, and you should be more where your skin is apt to dry after careful to show a greater interest the humid summer. and enthusiasm for what goes on about you," Men like you because
of your poise and self-assurance.
You are the ideal dinner-date be-colours, Make up to accentuate your cause you look so striking in black, good features. It doesn't matter sophisticated. evening dresses whether you are tall or short, but Wear extreme clothes, but.subdued, you should be slimn