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SMART GIRLS IN
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ALL-WEATHER CLOTHES
DRESS designers in London and
Paris are busy with the pre- paration of their spring fashion
Collections, and they promise some big surprises.
Us
Anticipation is in the ale. We're guessing and surmising, and planning ar to which things from our inst spring wardrobe may do spring also.
for this
The ever practical and smart seven-eights lengti Recapger in Cumberland tweed.
And what will be the new touches necessary to bring them up to date, Look Ahead
CECRET of successful clothes- buying Just now Is to choose models which will look good right. through the between season as well na fresh and up-to-date for spring.
from Maybe it's a blessing
the fashion point of view that we can
The wrist-length jacket shown here is " blue tweed with flecks of mauve and vivid colour horns, It is a popular style. The three-pocket arrangement and single kich pleat are details that have scored well in enauals.
PEPSODENT
TOOTH PASTE AND POWDER
CONTAIN LRIUM
FOR GREATER CLEANSING POWER”
METROPOLE
ROOM BATH mm $6 -
CENTRAL O CLEAN
[COMFORTABLE!
The fur bolero of this model coat is detachable. be warn over any frock or neat skirt and pretty blouse.
of those chilly evenings which follow days of aidsummer warmth even to Alay.
Adaptable Trio
THAT'S why I've had sketched for you three fashionable garments which can be adapted to all wenthers, for if you are not fortunate enough to secure them they may at least give you some really useful ideas. Double-Duty Coat
CLEVEREST of the three to my
mind is the very smart model black cont with the detachable bolero of concy seal-really a cont and a fur Jacket in one,
Buttons On
THE
MIE coat is straight, slim-fitting and beautifully tailored.. The sketch shows you how the bolero is Luttoned on to the double-breasted Pont.
Boleros, let me tell you, look like uning more fashionable this spring than ever they were, especially the for outes, and this one looks equally 2nd over any suit or frock.
As the friend who came out shop- ing with me remarked, the cont was worth buying for the fur bolero alone, of only nine pounds, reduced from twelve and a half guineas.
One-Of-A-Kind
THEN in black is a model with a wide waterfall collar of seal coney and a full panel of the same fur down the centre front of the vkirt.
There were many other new details to this smart cont which had a really aputent look.
Tailored Swagger
MAY
TAYBE you would like to get a slickly-tailored swagger coat In
lovely,
It cart with a
safely calculate upon spring weather in our islands acling up to precedent, with sunny, mild days Interspersed between periods of snow.
Pleated frock in soft angora woollen,
tweed, suitable for town, country or travel.
They look nice in different shades of fecked Cumberland tweed In the most glorious colourings, eut like the one in the sketch. Pleated Frock
E delightfully graceful frock in solt angora woollen fabric, is the kind of frock you can wear not only now but right through the spring and summer.
It's so up-to-date, becoming and smart, style in which any slim, petite girl will look her best.
น
Look at the cleverly-pleated skirt and the unique upward draping to one side of the bodice.
The New Hair Styles
Bo
OTI Edwardian and Victorian them. This will give your head a We've still goi to face the cast coiffures are smart, sophisticated, trimmer look when the curls have winds of March as well na the nudden and fashionable. They demund chic set. down-pours of April, to say nothing clothes, perfect make-up, und
Acquire That "Smooth" Look
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Study your back hair now. If it fairly youthful face as their ac- is waved softly and curled up at the companiments. Both mean carefully ends, leave it. Sweep it backwards set curls piled on top of the head, but from the cars and slip the comby in. while the Edwardian style leaves the The whole effect should be of curls back of the neck and the cars bare, on top and a sweep downwards with the kindlier Victorian calffure allows curls at the nape of the neck, That us ringlets where we need them a true Victorian and as modern as
to-morrow! Arrange
If you prefer to go Edwardian, Just Victorian coiffure all you need is a reverse the process. Lift the back
To
your hair In the
Ja
Put a net over the whole hend until
THE E other day I met young bottle of setting lotion; a packet of hair up, arrange the end curls against American girl, and could not but cosmetic cotton-wool (the long those on your crown and put the notice how she stood out among a strands of it packed in rolls) a packet combs in to hold it, one at either side party of British women. She was of invisible hale-pins; a fine comb, of the back. Brush the hair from
ut particularly beautiful, nor did she a pair of curved
the nape of the necks upwards and patience. wear more expensive clothes than great deal or valide-combs, and a the others. But there was "some- Part your hair down the centre and ive it a slight touch with brilianting thug about her which certainly then sweep the front hair forward to hold the ends in place. compelled attention.
over your face. Part it from ore visibly Fixed Her hair was perfectly set, her side of the head to the other and ther mails were perfectly manicured, but damp the front half with setting the difference went further than that, lotion. Divide that in two sections, the setting lotion has dried There was a smoothness about ber
front and back part, and begin pull out the rolis
gin- thoroughly," Then, very carefully, which all the othera Theked.
of cotton-wool, The Ping with
back, comb the forward and then with
brush and roll up the curls on your other guests all had something
pieces spoll their appearance. Even if they roll it backwards into two round
ocation wool soaked it setting tion. Bager again and anchor with the ha had good complexions, their shoes would be wrong or their frocks hang curls, one at either side of the centre crooked.
parting Pin the curls to the hand Yet this snioothness is something with invisible hair-pins. costly achieved, without which no Curls woman can possibly make the best!
of herself.
is placed where they really can-
be seen.
If you wear simple youthful day clothes
end
sophisticated evening ones, wear both the Victorian and Edwardian
lan styles, one by day and the other in the evening.
very soft fine rair, don't experiment One final warning! If you have when it has been newly washed
Now take the hair on the forehend Take grooming first. In these days and down to the cars. If it is very of diet and exercise, everyone should long, cut it shorter and it will be have an excellent figure.
caster to manage. Brush it forward unless you use a fairly heavy setting
A weekly manicure and a dally again, divide into six curls (three lotion, and don't attempt it at all olive oil treatment for your hands are on either side of the parting) and, unless you have curts, natural or essentials.
Brush your hair every beginning at the centre, roll up in permanent, and the type of trim, night.
lation-naked wool and pin firmly, oval face that can still look beautiful
Use a cleansing cream at night, and Fasten the side curls fut to the head, with a severe hair-dressing! afterwards massage in a nourishing above the cars with no waol inside
treat (not forgetting the neck.)
Few British women seem to botheri
about the appearance of this at all.
Now, with skin and figure as good: make them (not just
- you can
"dressed
ap"
Hints For
for special occasions) Marmalade Makers
look to your clothes.
EMEMBER
that all oranges, lemons, grape-fruits, and tan- gerines should not only be washed,
Your frock should at neatly. If it bulges anywhere, put a dart in, and don't trust to a belt to help you out
dificulties, your When your frock is on, you should but should be scrubbed thoroughly yourself feel that it is a part of you with a clean small brush, as the
Unless the result is smooth," neither clearness of the marmalade will be you nor the ensemble will look com- spoilt, If any black specks or dirty fortable. That means, of course, that marks are left on the skins. underskirts
Lelt, b
should A perfectly.
All the necessaries must match Use a very sharp knife and a good bag, earrings, choos--only in solid clean board, when cutting up Why can you possibly achieve your oranges, and the task will be smartness, Hair style must sull your accomplished much more quickly and dress too. A straight bob is all more casily. When cutting wrong for evening wear, though for orange and grape-fruit remove the nn nice costume..
central pith,
Đ. L.
up
Marmalade will "set" better, and To roll pastry out thinly, place a be brighter in appearance, if one sheet of greaseproof paper under teaspoon glycerine be added to every the pastry to prevent the dough 5 lbs pulp in pan, five minutes be sticking, and it will also be easier to fore the boiling is completed. lift oft.
Make sure that all the augur ja When baking cakes, mix the butter thoroughly dissolved before the ead sugar with a rotary egg-beater marmolade comes to the boil, other- dipped in hot water, for not only is wise I may crystallise on the top, this method quicker than a spoon, but after it has been kept for a few it helps to make the cake light.
G. O. T.
California On Wheels
weeks.
It is well to remember that too Htle boiling of marmalade will make the result too thin, while over-bolling will make it too stiff, and boiling too | rapidly toughens and hardens the
peel.
Avold storing marmalade in a Los Angeles damp or hot cupboard. Always County offelale are wondering if keep the lied jars in cool dry anyone in the county ever walks any place, and they will remain In good more. They are facing the task of condition, free from mildew registering 1,318,160 motor vehicles fermentation.
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February 21, 1939.
Have You A Pet Phrase?
The
ARE you one of those women who sprinkle their conversation with few meaningless words? trouble is, of course, that most of us are qulia unaware of over-working phrases and no one dares to tell ust
We have all met the Woman
who begins every remark with " matter of fact." Well, perhaps it is, but there is no need to keep on saying $l, The chances are that the dis- tracted stener la secretly counting the number of times that this phrase zeurs, thereby losing the thread of the conversation.
• Then there is the habit of prefixing nearly every sentence with "curiously enough." The conversation which follows this phrase is, as a rule, extremely commonplace, and never by any chance verges on the
curious. -The - speaker- may remark -com- farently: "Curiously enough, the bus was over-crowded." "Curiously
I was late for the office to
enough, it was
-,.
day." raining
the
site inwardly
Halener is thinking it would have been curious if any of these events had not happened!"
Most of us know the voluble speaker who continually repeats "do you sce?" at the end of every Rentence.
Nearly all of us are guilty of using that over-popular word "definitely." We are at "definicly going home," or have "definitely no inention of arc even defluitely going to buy a new hat." Then there Is the old die-hard
playing bridge," or
absolutely." which some women faithfully. "Absolutely
ts
cling absolutely the last word." right," "absolutely the latest fashion," they declare with pride.
Then we all know the "bright young things" who describe every-
ibing from n
Car
movie to motor as "terribly nice," "too, too divine," and "awfully jolly." We sometimes wonder how their boy friends like to listen to those over- worked phrases. But probably they don't notice, as they use them much themselvest
It is a good idea to review Our vocabularies now and again, and re- solve to discard some of these over- worked phrases of ours,
Margaret Hillman
Here's Mayfair evening gown cut on classic lines in colton. ioo. In beautiful band blocked flower pat- tern.
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for
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is over exposure.
you promise me · · To make a quick
trip to your hosier!"
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