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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
HOLIDAY AND TRAVEL CLOTHES IN WOOL
New Ways to
ply Victor
Keep Your Head
By PRUNELLA WOOD
IT IS often. a fairly agile feat to keep up with Sally Victor's nimble mil linery wits...but today. here and now, she outleaps herself. The demure little Bat-hat bonnet, left, was suggested by Anric Boleyn; the big hat below has a "bubble crown." Now, I ask you...what happened to the heads of Henry the Eighth's wives? What do you know about bubble- heads?
But all attempts at wit aside, that black straw bon- net is lovely with its blue satin streamers, and so is the bubble-crown.
ONDON is crowded with overseas visitors, The British Industries Fair is proving a huge диссеяв. "Fashion Fort- night" is shortly to take place, to bookt our export trade. Dozens of firms will be "at home" to overseas buyers during the Fortnight. And with London invaded by colourful Malayan women, exotic Chinese girls, dark-eyed Indians in shim mering saris, and sun-tanned Americans, is it any wonder we aro all developing a violent wander-lust?
So it was with more than usual Interest that I went along to see the International Wool Secretariat's show of holiday and travel.clothes this week. It was one of the most colourful shows I have seen for a long white.
Gone were the, ob, dreary tweeds, flat shoes, and shapeless hata. Most of London's leading wholesalers and model houses showed holiday clothes at this parade.
We were all British enough to admire wholeheartedly two really beautiful rala costs. The first Was in soft cherry red
A Rima Model, The Jacket can be removed to show a decollete rocktail dress.
showerproof gabardine, falling, in generous folds from the shoulders. It was worn over a turquoise-blue "Hebecort!" suit. (like wide whipcord). The skirt
widely was box-pleated
all round. The second was a natural rodie extremely tailored, Both wide belt and pleated skirt gabardine
It was worn over a gally checked tweed skirt and red
with
twinset. Experiments-in-unusual-colour. combinations were made. Most popular is lemon and grey in all variations, but noticed tiny gold catin,
Itz
particoidered hat with :
dress; a
cocktail dress is revealed,
effect is of a coat-frock with WRE in a formal high-necked deeply pointed collar. Ined with dress with low cut back. Only white pique. When the top in wool, with Its excellent could this be cove, however, a decollete draping quality.
successfully achieved. Yellow and black "duster check" mado an evening dress for a young girl. The young look was fur ther accentualed by the tiny bolero with is stiff while pointed collar and binck velvet bow-
and white
For the teenager, who wants to spend her holiday sailing, there were apple-green Bedford cord "jenna" worn with a cherry striped fisherman's jeracy, Fer her, too, was a particularly good playsuit in royal blue jersey. A full hip- length jacket came off to show tiny shorts and brief top with white rope fastening. The shorts came off and
the swim suit war complete. The brief trunks were cut high of the sides to 'give that longer-leg look.
A pale pink washable pyjama set, well tailored, was topped by n navy wool housecoat with o' pink monogram on the packet. A white non-shrink Wool negligee was also washable-a boon-for-the-traveller,
But as always, the main in- terest switched to the cocktail. and evening dresses. A black wool crepe dress with sarl neck- line had an attached stole which could be draped any way
you please. (Jewellery note-another variation of the pearl necklace- tasseis of tiny pearls hung from a longer rope), Α black cap hip length at the back and to elbow length in front. was. A and rising feature of another black dress. it was lined with pale pink Dorville showed one of the after- noon dresses rapidly becoming popular over here-it is in
05
Krey and white check jersey with the new decollete neck line
for day wear.
Printed wool tuffeta is new~~~it
looks exactly like one silk with a Paisley design, and is one ut the fabrics our "back-room boys" | of the textile industry have been
working on for a long time.
Wool
An evening dress in oyster WOO crepe. was elaborately draped across the hips, and the .material allowed to fall in four
flying panels to the hem.
For shipboard travel again we saw a dress that could be made to look like several. It wns highly original. The skirt was full
und swirling in lightweight black and
grey check tweed, and the top was a black jersey jacket which fled in the front and had a low neckline. When the jacket was taken off a strap- less black top was beneath. The model then put the jacket on BACKWARDS' and
there she
Prices Must
Come Down
By EILEEN ASCROFT
black THE price of women's clother pink satin cravat with will have to come down. these days can
Led above for their clothes.
a grey suit; and a close-fitting Few women little hat, almost like a jockey's afford to pay celling price and
in vivid cap:
yellow, contrasted Fuyers report that good mill- with a three-plece ensemble in black and white wool suiting. ty models sell out the inv This last outfit comprised a long they come into the stores, while often the very same hour-that flowing top coat, and black jac- keted sult, The peplum of the remain unsold.
expensive celling price clothes Jacket was detachable, making It appear to be two entirely different cults.
like a choirboy.
Prettiest was ด navy woo! erepo dinner dreen with broderia anginice on the stiffened cuffed
the skirt cellar, and round about eight inches from the hem. Aliny Dulcli cap of stiffened broderie anglaise completed the 1ic picture.
FRESH FLOWER GLAMOUR FROM YOUR GARDEN
By SUSAN DEACON
LOWERS have such a
seasonal popularity that will flatter brown eyes.
A tiny wallflower posy at this time of the year,
Primroses, tiger lilies, or when they are cheap and coral pink roses are pretty plentiful, they should be for the green-eyed woman, almost
a part of
your and mixed anemones or pink wardrobe another acces- and blue cornflowers for
grey eyes.
Bory.
Make a habit of wearing flowers in the day and even- ing-but keep them frash. Wilting blooms give bedraggled appearance.
If you will not have the oppor tunity of renew- `ing-your-flowers
over a long
period, use
instead
some of thes
vory real-
looking ar tificia flower B which are
in the shops.
Colby
Fresh flower jewellery is attractive and fashionable, and can be worn as earrings, hair combs, or a bracelet.
Edge you? Cravat with
a double row
of flowers
Fasten RoweTE
to the edge of a hair comb.
Wear threa mart golds at the side of the new short hair:
The picture hat above is of little girl blue, ila bubble crown and falter brim covered with white organdy which is crusted with appliques of hand embroidery.
How to make the best of your face
by CHERRY MARSHALL
first
WHEN the teen-ager fick are ideal for
Face packs, used fortnightly, revitalising the complexion and closing the home-made recipe
then is the time to teach her pores. A
the technique of correct mixing two tablespoons of fine make-up.
oatmeal with warm water to a
Young faces must be kept creamy consistency is excellent natural-looking. They need the for a face pack.
very lightest of colourless foundation creams; only
"Cover, the face and neck com-
tracing of cream rouge if they leave on for about 20 minutes, pletely, protecting the eyes, and inro palę. A light dusting of wash off with warm water and
In shade darker than rinse in cold.
powder,
the skin, is rufflelent.
and
Blotchy complexions flabby muscles need reviving with skin tonic and toning with cold water after washing.
All shapes of faces at this ago have the charm of youth. Spots and flaws need medieal treat ment, not cosmetics.
Eyebrows need brushing into shape and glossing with a little vaseline, but cycblack and mascara are taboo.
Warm olive oil brushed on the or lashes darkens
them and en: Highght hair bydrangea are longcourages growth. living.
Uso flowers which w-not will quickly --grape hyacinths, or the separate tiny flowers on a hyacinth, rhododendron,
ta
You can buy the jewellery already made and easily re newable, or 14 very cary to make at home. Wire the flowers and tw'st the wire around the top of a hair comb.
Use old studs
Don't be orthodox in your choice of flowers. Search the garden, and ex- periment with ordinary
For The earrings, use old everyday flowers. They can studs. Remove the pearl or look just as exotic as orchids stone and It is simple lo fasten
the wire securely to the base. and gardenias.
Stitch three tiny posies on a velvet band and the it round your wrist.
to
Simple styles, smart cut, good materials, and a low price that is what the customer wants This is another point cm-
today. If she finds it she'll buy phasised throughout the show: It. If she doesn't, she'll wait with an eye to travellers and until she does. their luggage, most of those An autumn advance collec- travel clothes were designed tion, styled by Jeanne Lanvin, cunningly to contain two or of Paris, and manufactured in three outfits in one. And the England, combines all these featherweight woollen fabrics features. Many of the models have no rival for crease-resisting are below ceiling price utility, You should give as much quality. Before you completely but they are smart and extreme- thought to the colours and discard the idea of wearing wool,
Storred models were a beau- ( size of flowers you wear as ways think for a moment about sitting In a train or on aeroplane in a tiful emerald green cost with linen
sult.
Is it going to deep shawl collar and High back you give to your cosmetics
and clothes, emerge at the end of its journey f pleat, and simple office frocks in royal blue or black,wool with as uncreased and immaculate as
detachable tartan stoles or apron It began?
fronts,
Other good ideas for the office girl
going on to a dinner date were a black wool frock with
ly fashion-conscious.
Exactly the same rules apply, but even more strict- ly, because flowers are worn
Think up new and attractive with flowers, following the present fashion trends.
Mass ny flowers along ond shoulder strap of an evening dress, leaving the other strap barc.
Care with lipstick
Lipstick causes most trouble. Younger teen-agers should not use any in daytime.
later on, rose-tinted and m- tural shades only should be used; no orange, purple, or #lam- ing reds. The guide is to keep Hipstick as unobtrusive as pos sible.
Hair is best kept short, well- brushed, and dressed in simple styles. Wash it fortnightly, or every
week If it gets lank and greasy,
Rinse with a solution of warm water mixed in a quart jug with tablespoonful of lemon juice
A
or vinegar. Soray with a light, non-greasy brilliantine.
After 30 the neck needs more attention. Don't wash und dry it roughly, It tends to stretch
with sprayed
nerd Bostick plaints
Keep mouth
Batmaking
don Loca
Hack made
cream and pawda?
20, she'll probably find her skin
When a girl nears the age of needs a little pampering. Now the skin. If the
Fusten Uny real rosebuds at Intervals over the bodice of an evening
dress, or pin a spray
her face near the face and touching of line to the Bap of your
evening bag.
For those who prefer the short detachable hip drapery in silk "lopper," there was one in grey check tweed worn over a plain and a little tartan wool frock the hair, and the wrong groy suit. It had a deep cowl with high white pique et colour will emphasise any
takes daytime, which out for evening, leaving a deep. complexion faults.. boat-shaped neckline.
which fell back into a wide collar. The model carried in
Large The
"hold-all" handbag In malching tweed, with several useful pockets -in it.
The line was slimno obvious bulkiness at all, even in a yellow grey striped crepe tweed
round the skirt.
and
dress
the
. Cocktail dresses in faftetas and falle had peint skirts and uneven hemlines.
Eyes look bluer
If you have a very fair,
neck looki Is the time to experiment with thin, pat in a little olive oil at roure, powder, and foundation right,
if fat, saturate collon-woo! creams.
with astringent lotion and pat Gives face warmth a smartly. Do not manage the neck. Remember always to A tinted foundation will give make-up the neck with founda colour, and, being heavier, will you are doing your face
more warmth and ton cream and powder when help her to keep shine-proof all · If your hair is black and day.
With increasing years, make- shining, wear three nat mari-
up should begin to leole unobtru Sha
should still avold golds over one ear, and faston sophisticated make-up, but can foundation creams rouge prac
sive again Light, zubíly tinted a small posy of, marigolds no gay on llasticks to tone with tically indiscernible, and
the 'colour of her clothes.
flimsiest of powder, aro comen Mascara on the fair tips of the tial. Heavy powdering necen- lashes: will make them look tuates wrinkles. longer and thicker. Powder a
your waist:
shade darker blended on the If hair is grey
fee which was piented right of wearing lilles of the valley in slightly pink complexion. Val'dark red roses on a shortening effort
new
HERE AND THERE. 1's fresh, Frencit custom
Moy has inspired fragrant now
acces- keep away from scarlets and For the woman travelling perfumes and beauty luxuriously on a ilner, wo were
cyclamens, White, palo Everglaze chintz shown scarlet barathea slacks and a white wool twin set, which washes freely without blue, or yellow, would be
to losing lustre or stiffness. For the lady who likes to
more flattering... It's 'different.. a man's lounge voluminous, purple
sports facket in white nylon pyjamas were caught in at the milanese
If your skin is. sallow, and women'sa nylon. ankle, and worn with, silppers slacks with a permanent crease never wear orange or yellow, which turned up at the toms-and-set into the material
flowers wear instead clear sported a tinkling bell. They It's news from New York, entled the outfit Turkish comes the Siledle for blues, pink, or dark red.
girdle with attached petticoats Flowers should bring out Personally I was more delight it gives a block hipline and does the colour or your eyes. Blue ed with Rima's navy, droms and away with separate slip, Jacket in wool georgette to wear It's crasy new style for eyes look oven bluer if you on a trip to Paris, perhaps. It the golf course consists of plus wear forget-me-hots, grape | had elegance and simplicity, and fours topped by matching twend
is sketched for you here. The skiri unbuttoned in the front hyacinths, or violets.
nose and chin can have a
the
For day wear, edge the enda of a short wide scarf, with a double row of small flowers.
You could uso. Illy of the on a plain black scarf,
Mascara' should be left off, but pastel coloured scarf.
eyebrows need to be well- Enlarges the eyes For 群 6 cocktall" party, you
defined and the,oyes brightened The
tinted pin-point of lipstick with just a suggestion of eye- could copy the same idea on a o long-ended sashe
on the inner corner of the eyes shadow, Choose lipsticks with It is a good idea to match erlarges
soft pink tones; purples and your" perfume with whichever A round face needs roure high bright colours are hardcolog nowers, you are wearing.
on the cheekbones, a thin one If the hair is grey, use a blue Remember
wear lower on the Dover
checks, keeping: rinse after shampooing, a colour- flowers on flowered r
that small dowers give the Home-made pack protection is needed.
material colour away from the Bossless brillantine to highlight, à. Paper jeten wat Strong inlight is liable, to turn Impression of dainiiness.
gray hair strenky rollow, and that tiger Illies, gladioli, and lilac are elegant, Bowers
From 25 to 30 the skin is the sophisticated
Keep styles short and natural. That the older first thing to show sigrm of wear looking, no tight" rolls" "at the womans should wear a decorated and should be kept in good con back, no corrugated waves. Con dower comb and the younger dition. Dryness use they reet tapering will prevent the woman flowers in her hair murface line about the eyes ends piitung and turning frizzy, and mouth, and needs a rich London Express Service) nourishing cream.
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