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SILK STOCKING BAN SHOCKS GIRL SHOPPERS
But Shops Say
"Dyers'
Dozen is
Enough"
Silk stockings
they were all that mattered to
woman one day recently.
The new shape of hats, the new price of swim-suits what did such trifles matter when all those rare and subtle shades of silk stockings were doomed?
The Dyers' Federation is possibly a body of hard-bitten men, but even so, they would have turned a new shade to hear what the women had to say about their new idea. -
Nothing less than a restriction of stocking shades to 12- "And what chance," asked the women, "will we have of being first in the field with a fresh colour when we have only a mere dyers' dozen to choose from?"
our tem-
Their only chance henceforth, at Ings-not only to see that they're seems, in to pay high prices for some good, but that the shade sults our thing "different" outside that restrict clothes, our complexion, ed area, since the trade has accepted, perament. the plan.
It may help mun to sympathise with them in this hour of crisis by noting a few of the 100-odd shades
ta now available to add charms:
their
Sahara, a warm brown. Josephine Baker, the same shade; us the famous artist's skin;
Dusky Rainbow, flesh-coloured at the front and graduating to darker shades towards the back;
Dusky Rose, for evening wear; London Tan, to
to match the new vogue in shoe shades;
Arablan, A very pale bronze, rather reminiscent of Valentino;
Sunglow, a yellowish Lint. By the furtive feminine glances at every pair of feminine feet in the streets yesterday, you could tell witat a problem it was to behold something' really novel in shades and to realise that soon it may be out of reach.
"IT'S ABSURD"
"The dyers have tempted us with shades we never dreamed of. And now they're going to snatch them our hands and give us 12 out of standard shades."
"TOO MANY SHADES" But the trade-the men who look at a silk stocking us their bread and butter, not as a piece of prettiness- are not so excited.
Said Mr. Thomas Anthony (mer- chandise manager and a director of Harrods): "Although we dye our own shades and would not be affected by this decision, I applaud it as a step in the right direction. We have a ronge of about 20 really good colours.
"They are simpler than they Women were a few seasons ago.
The
are growing-less fastidious. tan family is still popular---Texas Tan and Sun Tan, for example and these could easily be eluded in the suggested number of shades, "The general trade will find that under this new idea it will carry less I followed one of these women off stock but have a more certain irade. woe into a stocking department and "Women who want an individual watched her turn almost the entire thode have only to pay extra for it. stock upside down before she found But I am inclined to think that by there was no such shade as that picking the cream of the present var- which she wanted. And sheives positively shimmered shades.
those lety of tuns and fleshes the trade will with be able to satisfy the most capricious
tuzte."
"It's absurd," she said. "We might as well gei into uniform and have done with it. "Twelve standard shadest Does 11 sound anything like a fashion note? I wish these men who make these decisions would stop to think what a pair of stockings means to a woman, -even ask their wives before they do it!
Said Mr. Ernest Walker (chairman and joint managing director of Wol- sey, Ltd., the Leicester manufactur- era): "There are too many shades of stocking on the market to-day. The difference between half of them is so slight it would need an expert to detect it.
Renewed warfare between Bolivia and Paraguay was avert-
ed by a peace treaty ending their dispute over the region known as the Chaco. Above, signing of the pact, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by the Paraguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Cecilio Bacz. At right is General Jose F. Estigarriblo, Para- guayan commander in the three-years war.
ESCAPED
SEPTEMBER 20, 1938.
Ties For R.A.F. To put you in good shape
Squadrons
Former members of No. 36 (Torpedo Bomber) Squadron, Roudt Air Force, Far East, soon will be able to flash an old squadron tic,
A distinctive tie has been de sluned for the squadron. It bears the squadron crest, a golden eagle carrying a golden torpedo, on a dark maroon back- groz
Of the other Singapore squad- rons, No. 230 and No. 205 already. have their own neckties, white No. 100 Squadron is having one designed.
SCHACHT DIVORCE
Derlin.
Divorce proceedings have been in- stituted between Dr. Hjalmar Hornce Schacht, President of the Reichsbank of Germany, and his wife Luise,
Dr. Schneht, who is 'nged 01, bas been married 35 years and has a son and a daughter. His wife is a daughter of a prominent police com- missioner
The case will be heard under the new Nazi divorce Inws passed on August 1, which exclude the public and Press from the court.
SHIP'S LAST VOYAGE
A band from the British cruiser Exeter played the Royal Mail tiner Arlanza, 14,000 tons, out of port at Montevideo, Uruguay, when she left on her last voyage after 20 years' Trading with the River Plate.
PRISONER
DUPED DRIVER
Got Lift In Car Going North
A MIDDLE-AGED London business man, who dare not allow his name to be published, told the Sunday Dis- patch in Manchester recently how he had unwittingly helped on his journey north 26-years-old gaol-breaking James Curzon.
The dyers' remuneration for all these varieties is very small; there is "I am almost certain that a man my name to be revealed in any cir-
car Women gave a lift to in ny
nt Stat- cumstances. "What's the first thing you notice a great deal of waste stock.
It is her can be satisfied that between us, the ford, and dropped an about a smart woman
hour later No, hands? No. Her hat?
You dyers, and the trade's British Colour just outside Stoke, Is the wanted may praise them, but, subconscious Council will choose twelve really man Curzon," he said. Ly, it's the feet that catch your eye. good shades. After all there are few "He was a very tough, delermined- "And that means we have to be more than twelve really popular tooking customer, and I do not want terribly particular about our stock-colours."
An Ounce of Prevention is Worth
a Pound of Cure“
"I was a fool. The sign read DANGER, but I took a chance.“
First patient:
Second patient:
"I haven't taken ‘ASPIRIN' in time..
Filly Years
1883 (Mačun 1938.
REMEDIES
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ASPIRIN
Bayer
means. Best
"If he is caught as a result of the information I have given the police he may, when he comes out of prison again, take revenge upon me or upon my wife.
Robert Montgomery
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SMASH
While driving himself in a power- ful Bentley cor, Robert Montgomery was recently injured in collision with another ear.
the
When rounding a bend on famous Sunsel Boulevard, near Hollywood, another driver swerved and hit Montgomery's car.
i was driving from London to Manchester. Just outside Stafford a The debonair film stär's hands man stepped on to the roadway and signalled me to stop.
"Except for his hair, which was brushed closely down, he was exactly like the photographi and description of Curzon in the papers. "Unfortunately, at the time 1 hadn't even heard of the men's es- cape.
On
STORY OF NEW JOB
were severely cut and his upper lip injured.
Doctors say his injuries are not dangerous, although there is risk of a scar rernuining.
TRAGEDY OF SON
Over Gfl. tall, muscular, and good looking. Robert Montgomery wus born in New York 34 years ago.
On the screen he is the immacu-
"He asked me for a lift to Stoke, lately tailored, good-looking philant- the way he spun me a story derer; in private life he kes old about having been given a job in clothes, outdoor sports, and home Stoke to manage a garage at £6 fe.
109, week.
"When we got near Stoke be asked me to put him dowa be- fore we entered the town—a curious thing if he was going to work there,
"I have given my full story to the police. I am convinced that the man was Curzon,"
Curzon is one
He is happily married to Elizabeth Bryan Allan.
In 1933 his eldest son became very , and the doctor warned Mont- gomery, "If I don't operate he will never be mentally fit; if I do operate he may die.".
Robert "Operate"--and
and his wife Naid,
the
child
KING'S THEATRE
OPENING TO-MORROW
WATCH A HALF-PINT OF SWINGY
DYNAMITE
CRASH THE
MOVIES!
died.
A singing,** stopping' panis ta pigtaile
of the two Since then another son and a dough-
prisoners who made a dramatic ter have been born to them.
escape from Lewes prison, Sussex, and are still at large.
Police rushed to South Benfleet (when men reported to resemble the two fugitives were seen. After in long search they found two tramps.
who were not "wanted."
Russian Pilot
Claims Seaplane
Princess Was "Traitor"
Signor. Roberto Farinacci, Secre-
Altitude Record try-General of the Italian Fascist
Party
has just made a barely-velled
A Russian aviator, Captain F. attack on Italy's royal family. Zherebchenko, has flown to a height, The intext object of his anti- jot 12,200 metres (41,000 feet) in a seaplane (writes William Courtenay, Evening Standard Aviation Corres pondent),
Jewish campaign is Toscanini, the famous Italian conductor, whom he denounces a on anti-Fascist and a friend of Jews.
Toscanini has been conducting a
Captain Zherebekenko ascended series of concerts in Lucerne, Swit- from a lake near Moscow at 5.12 p.m.zerland and Signor Farinace! suggests and returned 1 hour 32 minutes that the Italian authorities should Inter. The Barographs have yet to be confirmed by the Federation Italians who attended them.
punlah, on their return home, mil Aeronautique Internationale for the record to be officially recognised.
And the Fascist leader gives a list of cars with Rome, Milan, Bologna
The international altitude record number plates which were seen out- for seaplanes is held at present by aide the concert hall,, Lieutenant Apolló Soucek,, of the U.S.A. Navy,
On June 4, 1828, he ascended at Washington in a Wright Apache biplane, powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp radial air-cooled mator of 425 hp to a height of 11,783 metres (38,850ft.).
Thỏ lahdpläho attitude-record is held by Flight-lieutenant Adams of the-RAF, who reached |--16,400 metres (almost 54,000fi,).
"These traitors can be easily Iden- tined," he writes. "What are their
local Fascist Parties going to do about
One "traitor" much more easy to idenüty attended the concerts: her pleture among the audience appeared in the world's Press, including the Dally Herald.
Signor Tarinöpel cân hardly have been ignorant of her presence there. She was Crown Princess – María Jose of Italy.
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