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This season's cor. alon of the tent ebat has seamed #ukt, and giant #titching. Original Lucille Manguin copy will" be ceiling price....
by
Dior's new Pen. quin capo-jacket sult with match- ma skirt, features his outsize hip. pockets. Copy in soit wool will be celling price.
Piguet taba klried originat was in black alik foragu. with matching stola of same material. Coples al both Cetting. and Utility prices...
ORIGINALS WERE BOUGHT IN PARIS 5 WEEKS AGO
Anne Edwards
TODAY,
LONDON,
Conduct: "Has failed to make his mark 33 Д responsible
Games: "Loses badly." What worried him most about the whole thing was not loss shattering of the illusion of his of face with his son. It was the prowess.
we show you senior." sketches of Paris spring modela that London has bought the clothes that will be in the shops thin coupon-free spring. Four top British manufacturing houses arc busy copying these frocks in thousands.
now
Very soon
the clothes here, in modified styles and materials, will be in chooper shop windows all over Britain at anything from celling price to top utility price.
Between
them
these 12 models cover all the most wearable of the new style points I saw in Paris Just
month. Below each drawing the words in black type plek out
the main new points.
SIX OF THE BEST SIX finishing touches
mark a good cook:--
that
1 Squeeze of Jemon int tomato soup.
2. Teaspoonful. of cold water
in the omelette.
3. Smear of garlic round
the salad bowl.
THEY TELL ME
HEAR.... Eva Peron has bought the most sensational frock.
Paris-white lulle covered with gradunted feather tips, price £200 (and 11 others have bought 11, 100).
Mra Henry Cotton values her hus band's
Folf
championship- medal-it measures two inches across-beyond rubles (and chic). She wears it as a brooch surrounded with rubles and dia-
monds A West London
spot as "Banned by the Purity hall is, advertising ono League."
York shops are selling brassieres at £75 each...
The Scots are fed up with the tartan fashion-only the now fashionable Macbeths, Gordons, Andersons, Camerons, Stewarts, and MacLeods con get their
kilts... oldest ballet dancer, lins made
Danilova,
4. Teaspoonful of sugar with quilts out of the 6,000 ribbon
the carrots.
5. Lemon rind in the rice
pudding.
d. Almond
fruit pie crust.
essence
in tho
NOVELTY PARADE
TN the shops for Easter for money-no-objeel shoppers:
1 lb. chocolate baby rabbits, 4s. Od. Imitation birds' nests, 35 Od life-size chocolate scallop shells, 3s. 6d. chocolate plover eggs filed with marzipan, Os. 4d per lb.; 12-inch-high choco- late Easter eggs, 245. 6d.
Rubber egg with Jack-in-the-
box chicken, 4s. Ed.; cardboard eggs for filling, 3s. 8d.; heart- shoped boxes for filing, 2s, 3d.; wooden goose girl with five gecse for cake, Bs. Gd.; shepherd carrying lamb for cake, 3s. 6d. penny-on-his-head dicky-bird money box-he tips it in, 3s. 4d.; chick-patterned plate, egg- cup, mug and tumbler, 10s. 6d. END OF A MYTH
PARENT I know found that his eve of term talk was being received with
more
given her on bouquets.
THIS BEATS THE BAND
AFE society warning: One
"You
Model by Jacques
Path in shop- herd's plaid ' has .. double slanting peplum,totito pique collar · and cugs, Copy at ceiling price. ...
Dior dying panci
skirt in
wellow pool, features his
fulting shoulder. pockets cut in ond with bodice, Copy at ceiling price.
Balenciaga panel 'dresa has an
Dvcrskirt
COUCT ing the tube style underskirt and froni drape. Ortuinal in ne woof. Copy at ceiling price.
Piguet's, swagger
with
away
CUL fronts has velvet collar and cuffs. "Copy ̈ ̈ ̈ ̄in wcook velvet and cor duroy at celling price.
Dior frock has floating side pauole Oper under straight dross, features shoulder height pockets, Original in wool. Copy az ceiling prica. . . :
$114
New day lengs evening dra“ from Denes hos two-tiered and a stol. Original a Ripper sati. Cop in simile material at
Fath original has a straight skirt tightly draped up to the hip, whito pique dollar, three-quarter alceves. Copy in tie silk will sell at 19 guineas. ››
Original from Dior shows straight skirt: and new Julting pockels cut th one with the dress, Copied
in wool at celling price.
Original from Banclaps was in ne "tr0,15 TI too, hai basqueda eksi and gathered. akit. Coy with Te full rt at ecting piccs...
TAKE A SUIT AND
BUILD IT UF
LONDO.
By JOAN ERSKINE.
great deal of interest shown in show mall it by overseas buyers
"hacking Jacket" slits a the sides, or sometimes back,
Other have Norfolk belts, of ono Alt in the centre
His collection was one smooth clean lines. This was apparent even in silk dresses with matching Jackets, which had an immaculate appearance.
TAKE a suit and bild it up," says a lening British fashion magaziį and what better adice could you have? Althogh Detail on some of his skits, 100, the accent, in the Loon is worth noting. To achieve fashion houses, is on perfect fit in a straight skirt,
от
Choosing Complexion Powders
And Creams
By Helen Follett
ONE interesting achieve.
ment of the cosmotic chemists, one for which women are grateful; is the delicato consistency of com plexion powders. Some high-grade products are liko the powder on a butterfly's wings, soft and perfect be yond words. The gamut of shades run from soft creams' to green, from ivory to. mauve, with many fine nuances of the ever popular rachello and flesh tints.
While it is difficult to classify types of skins, there are simple rules that. fit the cases fairly well. For instance, the true blonda is advised to use o creamy powder with geranium lipstick. It rouge she must use, it must naturally har- monise with the colour used on the mouth. For eye shading sho
can tise blue of the faintest tohc. Many specialists say that when shadows are used, the synthetic blush should be omitted. Too much colour and the face becomes litho graphic.
THE BRUNETTE
THE
brown-
û
brown-haired, eyed brunette will And deep rachelle with the slightest suggestion of flesh flattering. The Latin type brunette must have an ochre powder. She is the one type that can, use a vivid lipstick to advantage.
Mauve powder has wonderful possibilities for the -white haired woman; it gives the older skin on appearance of delicato transparency. Soma blondes use this shade, touch- ing the eyelids' with the rouge pad, tinting the lips with an orange red pencil...
Green powder tones dow the florid complexion. It is not as terrible as it sounds.
West End retaurant makes dresses this spring, he he uses tiny unpressed men's Jackesulit would only look the type. It should be remem-
o double band charge. see, sir, we have two bands,**
IT MAKES ME
MAD VISITORS who madden me
are the people who:~~~
Say "Oh, all right,” when I tell them there's no need to help washing up....Help cook the dinner and tell you how it should be done....Ask, "Is this the dishcloth or the floor ra?" ..Tell to get one of the
....
only
you
the old kind.
with
new tin openers when you can
manage Tidy up after you in your own
.Get on house.
your kaitting and de in
a different tension..
....Borrow brelin to go home....Say, "Let me do the drinks for you," and them BII doubles...
make
your Umm-
wet fur coats on your bed... Play your records with- rather
S to sit on the floor..
than usual assurance. It turned out that his wife had come nerons some old school reports of his. Junior trad read ihem. nem.
read like this:
lory: "Alarmingly stupid." Mathsi "Now he has realised his Inability to grasp the ele- ments of the subject, he should do better."
Geography: "Little success,"
no matter
set-in belts. Some have but toned rents, and slit cuffs.
If a woman is sedate in dress, Ariking rayon print sult
or reserved, then nently combined
her powder, spots and
rougn and fpetick must follow stripet the yoke and the skirt of the
Stripes
were used for her natural reserve, be used The rest was
sparingly and applied deftly. spotted. In all enses, plain, simple, useful suitius pleats right round the toy and
what Inseris
hardly
and But thu notibable well on by no means been crowed
trouser pocket in the
on a tall slim figure.
bered Victor Stiebel swept all out. It would hardly be other skirts have buttoned dop
his privilege true to say it is back in fronts, pleats stitched all the his "Pigtail skirt." Said Stabel,
suit movement to the back-in abused. fashion because it his way down, high waistbads "Shirts are like heads-insofar
with narrow belts, and as the stuff, like hair, la brush never gone out.
buttoned pockets. But to
obvious at fit neaty caught up and
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ed smoothly round to the back,ITH hundreds of creamy dropped like a pigtail."
Perhaps it is directly de to the climate that the aft is such a valuable standy in any British wardrobe. In
details are not
glance.
In some cases special pla ing was done "on the straigh which woman;
material, ar
jackets ar hangs well. His
saves
FLARED BASQUES
then
that make-up is
that should not be
CONFUSION
cosmetics. on the beauty counters there is confusion a to making a choice. The quality. of the creams do not vary in as much as the sulta" with short Jackets, 23
their appll- manner of
winter sightly longer than usual, and specialises in, dainty "town their effectiveness halt.
mostly showing flared basques. cation. Also, it
it is not fair to Tweeds he uses extensively, oc- condenin a excarn unless it is sionally varying the formule fully tested with your own co- using the reverse of the operation. To spread it over
full coat, or one of the ne tops it with a hardweari
fine texture America gaberdine raincoats in range of lovely colour These began to trickle int our shops last year, but yet are very expensive.
In spring, she gives new life with a gay scarf, out changing the needles.... Pick the decorations' off the piece of jewellery, or a new cake with a tinkling: "I simplyhat. Yes, the virtues of can't resist this."
DIS
HIS 'CUT'
■ISHONOURABLE mention to: The West End hair- dresser who is now chorging Bvc guineas to sell you backe the hair he charged six' guineas to cut off.
UNITED STEAM LAUNDRY Profitable Nutria
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Thrive in Bayous
the suit are many, and sit ting here in London, onaj could get positively lyrical about the subject.
EYE ON OVERSEAS "
BUT how do our friends
and relatives overseas feel about it? Are those of you in warmer climates than our own a little tired of constantly hearing about the "classic English tailor- made" the "tailleur suit at its best" the "elegance
NEW ORLEANS The nutcis, will hurt the muskrats. There of an Engliah tweed"?" If a fur-bearing animal im i plenty of swampland in so, I am pleased to be able
from Louisiana for both to thrive. ugo
to tell you that this year
ported
18 years
Argentina, is multipying so fast Daspit in 1030 persund all tastes have been catered in Louisiana's swamps that it Edward A. Melihonny to turn may soon be more valuable to Icose a few pairs of nutria from for with an especially trappers than the millions of Argentins on Mellhenny's keen eye on oversens mar- musicrats they catch every sen- Avery Island wild He pre kets.
Бол
serve. They reproduced 60
ounce); linen, collon, rayon, woollen (eight to ten
tie-silk, shantung, chiffon tweed, rayon gaber- that Jooks like tweed, dine, barathea hopsack, pique. and troplent weight mohair.
'"GLENLEVAT-D'UE by
terial for the skirt.
Kuits from
the flesh will soften the sur-
Digby Morton Lace, but to keep the com- In the main,
in, very simple plexion. young and of good were elaborated CL stitching,
colouring you must use a little by which gave the friction.
Sof a double rever: by
defolded collars which fell
in
star
The woman who has a singlo product, uses it faithfully every
ft drape, and by small night of her life, will get moro.
fellay rovers over
which
satisfying results than the ex- Bid soft "pussy bows
is travagant Mosca's speciality
money flinger who design stiff tic-silks. She casually and works on
has hal
half a dozen, uses them tho
showe
collars,
charming afternoon
Guils, intercaling Kerchtet stop-and-go system. She is the who fumbles into bed chief pach fell in handker one
ker without even washing her face, at the back. Many had wall,
க habit that is ruinous of the fairest complexion. Cleanliness is the
first need, always. A
is. In
plslied Bokes, one. In whilo
The silks were,
main,
striped topo
pearance.
Greatest
a rectallic
finely is
Rood soapy scrubbing
op itself an invigorating treatment.
Using a cream is just putting frosting on the beauty
slim neat rise of all was
the cotton rep. in deep blue undid the cor the
model cake. brilliant floral Brassiere was baro midrifvealed-and a blase-but try bare and courage would ink slied the jacket required to
inchtime! KIRT IN EST HARDY
·YTARY Amies
main
tho sklit, and comination
full by
some
SKINS VARY
CXINS vary, of course. One may respond more quickly to a heavy emollient. Another may be benefited by
a quickly abcorbent, light cosmetic. That is something, naturally, that centred calls for a little experimenting..
Once one has found a cream that soothes the skin, keeps texture fine, one should ombin-stick to it, use no other.
skirt.
eat
of
na wed
In
0
und the cleverly
inglares and pleats.
ve heavy pleating is
of
Lubricants are a necessity to
wch gives the app all kins except those that are
ofcloser examination
Xast season, dearly 6,000,000 rapidly that Mellhenny furned
Here are just a few of the muskrato were trapped in some out into the swans. materials used - lightweight Louisiana and their pelts sold They now appear to be sprond- for more than $8,500,000. Moro Ing through all the swamplands than 20,000 nutrin pelts were of the state.
throo Bold last season, nearly
Male nutria times as many as were sold the
called "copy" tenson before. A nutria polt is by trappers, weigh up to 25 worth twice De much as a pounds, Females weigh us much
Pater Russell, who is, first muskrat pelt
an 17 pounds. They look like Armand P. Despit, director groundhogs. Their heavy outside and foremost, a tailor, strikes a the Fur and Xefuge Division of hale has to be plucked after they special note of interest with hides his baráthea hopsack-a new. the Department of Wildlife and are trapped and their Fisheries, believes the total cured.the outside hairs are hims: At his press show he
material specially wover
Woven for value of natria pelts taken in Louisiana will exceed the value plucked, a doop, rich, chocolate- wore light grey sulf in thi of muskrat pelts in another blue fur is left Furriers claim
fabrio lato a scarf effect 4 which which he le taking to
the front of the hip-teng decade.
The polts are so uniform that with him, this year,: 1ị He does not believe that the they are among the easiest in, is a fine smooth fabric, crenso-
Jacket gives an extreme increasing nutrin population the world to match.
now effect. realsting, and he has had a
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was extremely narrow pung show pustules. A good plan is excessively olly or inclined to groups. His town suits to use a cold cream for remov- fat a frames collar, and he ing make up, washing the face fred var
every pretty buttons.
freely with plenty of warm colour is "Ma fanean odd and delight op suds, rinsing with warm harzipan shade. Most of water, drying with a soft towel. lightly tapping in a heavier came from Yorkshi cream to remain on overnight, ncils Morton model In Scotch If, aft his tropical saltings.
after reading this, you are .plaid in tones. of blue, green inclined
Don't fancy that letting the and eltron, made into plays up your own personally, growth
.་ suit, make sure it cosmetic stay on will cause a softly tailored Spring sut Whether you are tall and silm, Nothing to that idow at all. of superfluous hair. Clever handling of the or short and plump, choose one Electrolysis operators, taking.
feature-be It a
flatters your best harvaya, stata that the worst
Irim long legs, a neat neck, or allmfiction of women who never walit, stages of facial fuzzers, are tho. hips,
fed commaeties, in any form.
to