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WEEK-END
WOMANSENSE
Why Have A "White
✰ÆRI Í
PRE-TRANSFORMA- TION. Bridal out- fit by Arthur Banks in Cloud Blue.matelasse or fine English. brocade. The dress is shown above before
transformation.
The peacock line, with fullness falling from huge side bows, gives emphasis to the sheath-like skirt. A Idemure cap, in the same fabric covers the bride's hair, and the veil is waist- length.
POST-TRANSFOR- MATION. . ... The dress after removal of
а
separate long- sleeved bolero from underneath the bodice, leaves a beau-
tiful halter-necked evening gown ready for the bride's
trousseau (below).
Loca
W
Wedding?
By
Joan
Erskine
• LONDON. ¿HAT about a pale blue blushing bride? : Or perhaps a wedding gown in mushroom pink would strike the right note., Or do you feel that tradition should not be flouted thus outrageously? Does your ideal brido blush prettily, beneath her headdress or orange-blossom, and the long, floating embroidered vell that belonged to grandmother? Does she carry the inevitable bouquet of lilies, and wear a white satin dress?
will
This is the time of year for brides. Hundreds of them are making that graceful pilgrimage up the central aiste, und scarcely any show spark
blossom originally. I suppose it is rather revolutionary to expect them to forth in coloured gowns. Apart from their personal misgivings, they probably have to contend with parental opposition, but I have a suspicion that very shortly someone will follow the lend given by couturier Arthur Hanks, who recently showed one of the lovellest bridal outfits of the season. It was in colt Cloud Blue matelasse or fine English brocade (illustrated on this page).
design of ribbon, nud fabric is rather like grosgrain with a scrolled woven into it. It is heavy, and hangs well.
Illustrated is the dress before and after "transformation."
Muffs Replace Flowers
The
roses
Arthur Banks showed another wedding dress, this time in the more usual ivory shade of brocade, with a low berth collar. The decolleinge was. Alled In with no net. Yet another of his bride wore a tiny while cap of feathers,
muff. + with a short vell, and carried a ruffled
cream
bride.
I recently
saw a range of bridal materials mostly fine brocades, in soft
mauve cerise, Silver mushroom, ice green, pale gold, pastel colours. rose and honey beige are a few of the new shades suggested for the There is a Victorian look about the patterns of scrolled ribbons and lilies, bleds
After and flowers, embroidered on the fabric. all. why not 14
Ivory pastel bride
and
bridesmaids, as a change?
Some of the most economical and
charming wedding dresses we have seen around town lately were made with enormous skirts. and neat broende tops. Short vells are popular among the younger brides, and many now carry muffs, white prayer books, or tiny organdie instead lowers, of
Headdresses arc becoming plainer. Frederick Storke closed his recent collection by showing a bride whose tiny headdress was rather like a flattened berel. He produced a scarlet evening coat, cut like a surplice, In grosgrain to contrant sharply with the welding gown, when it turned into a dinner dress.
Latest Style
Velvet Touch
the
W-5
The latest style for fashion-conscious bridesmaids is the ballet-length dreas in net, organdle or broderie anglaise, with matching embroidered caps, and short white glover. The lately had prettiest gloves of this type seen jersey mesh palins, and figured organza backs. Surprisingly few people realise that organdie is its ian practical cotton, and that organza
or nylon. equivalent in sili, rayon
And after the wedding, what does happy bride choose for an evening dress? She might justiflubly succumb to sheer nylon fabrles "Mille FI with such
and "Mille et Troisieme Deuxieme riguing names as
and thousand Nuits."
two nights tinsel woven with a fino thread in fine stripes. One thousand and three nights is a nylon plaid in unusual shot colour)
the ing. green from one side, rose-pink from
check plcked out other, with
One
describes a nylon
aleaming of tertan
ה!
that
Another interesting nylon fabric Is woven for "Gorgeous Gussie" It is a nylon and rayon mixture, with a self pattern like fine;
Heavier materials with tinsel Jace. right in, have a glistening appearance, which is; very attractive,
woven
Colour Of The Moment.
For
Smart out in black sheer.
4
By Vera Winston
IF IT isn't
a velvet hint
"The Days Seem Like Years...
MRS. POWER
I seemed
a long day to Mrs Tyrone Power → ex-starlet Linda Christian. For two months she bas been touring the Far East. She arrived in London to meet her husband. But tho Queen Elizabeth, bringing
him from New York, did not dock until the following evening.
"I shall be there waiting, The days seem like years," she said.
*
Mrs Power's auburn hair ly arranged in peruke style to Imphasise
perfect profile. She spenka, six languages and han three serious Interestsi studiog more languages, learn- - Ing to paint, and finding materials for her dresses. In Lon- don she means to study Rus- Bing.
And she can cook
She has a trunk full of brocades and heavy eilka in exotic colours. One materiai of vivid red slik-er favourite colour has already been made into a cocktall suit. It has a bard back beneath a detach- orable jacket. She has just bought
l'a velvet touches her 20-plece autumn and winter the prettiest sum-
possess ot Most young brides like to least one ball-dress in the "grand manner. them, the classic Duchesse Dogana satins could even a sult on some of not be bettered. Favourite colour at the moment
runner-up. mer costumes, heralding a big wardrobe in Rome, Is caramel, with bottle green as a
royal blue,velvet season' ahead. Velvet adds Also on her tour she bought A black ribbed catin, lined with might have been lift
lifted from grandmother's day, lustre to this pretty black sheer rare jade which has been made and the blue lining gives a sightly shot, dense crepe dress with own little into necklace, car clips and
rover-up cape. The riress is bracelet of her own design. easy to wear, has a halter top. a peg-top skiri and belted. The cape is edged at the Mrs Power is homely. "I was neck and front with velvet, and taught to cook, sew and run a two sets of simulated flap poc- house. I am shocked to find kets pinced high are accentuated that girls now are not interested by the black velvet edge. The In these things. How are they dress fins black velvet buttons. threaded closely
going to make a home?"
effect to the material,
For those who like the rustle of taffele, I would recommend those woven with chenille Sometimes the chenille is woven through in wide stripes, and then cut at intervals and tied, so that the fabric appears to be covered with
had Other taffetas tiny velvet bows.
narrow together, strips of chenille and the most popular colours are still dark and with glowing. Olive and steel shades, woven chaep yellow chenille. have an unusual effect.
And if expense is no object, then most beautiful fabrics to choose are the pure Bluc 1ks with a crushed silver-paper look. and green, bottle and black, grey and black, gold and white, are some of the colour com- binations, all woven
effect,
to have
the
shimmering
Cotton Goes Everywhere
By Barbara Bundschu
is velvet Although she
loves fashions,
Here'n a good way to apply powder: Using a cotton ball, pat on liberal amount Give lia ebance to "set," then whisk off the excess
A MENACE
ΤΟ
THE COMPLEXION
By HELEN FOLLETT
ONE menace to the com-cerned. To use another girl's plexion
the poisonous powder lipstick is a disgusting practice. ped. For a girl to wash her face If the lipstick owNET hieu carefully, then pass over the sore throat or a mouth infec-i skin surface a lomb's wool pad ton the germs, germesses and that is of dubious appearance little germlets will be passed just doesn't make sense. It is along to the borrower.
time, and Good habits concerning thras being done nil the those who do it are probably items
in appear- lamenting about
Are reflected a flock of blackheads that has taken lod is necessary to be scrupulously.
well groomed it ance. To look same gings
com- cican. Hor aty shampooed plexion.
frequently, brushed every night,!
of
NEW YORK. They'll be wearing cottons with a dash mink this summer, Hope Skillman said.
If it seems too warm for furry things, frosty diamond necklace can give the touch of chic to the dunkable duds, Miss Skill- man advises.
on the sncred
It is impossible to be too fas shows the result of care. The
une's good-looks shafts will have lustre and the.
The round-faced young woman who designs and manufactures rome of America's smartest tlalous about cotton yardage picked a handful of clothes items. High school and college growth will to demonstrate the thesis that cotton can go girls, many of them, are remiss healthy. anywhere from the ol' swimmin' hole right on about certain duties. Clean wash cloths should be used, and lo Puris.
Take, for instance, a brown and white fresh checked cotton dress with a crisp shirt collar and flaring skirt and no back at all from neck to walstilne.. Cool and comfortable for catch ing the breeze on the back porch laundry is done.
Cotton Balls
look alive. and
Trickiest Make-Up
lowels. Cosmetic inre The complexion that gets its should be kept tightly cloard to creaming at bedtime will carry
surface will bei at dust will not get into the freshness, the
Brushes and combs soft and smooth, defeats may be; contents. when the should be scrubbed frequently, avoided.
Most especially choukt powder In putting on eye shadows.
bit too much the glamorising Dress it up with the matching bolero pads be clean.
effect is lost. Of all make-up tricks, theso are the tricklest short, crisply cuffed sleeves and a flaring back- add a a few strands of mink, Dlor's doorman.
If you find a holher to wash and, unless one has a keen eye might
even
kiss your hand for that,
these pads, get a glass jar, fill and a steady, restraining hand, Down along the Riviera some of those it with sterile cotton balls. Use one should not moddle with modest American cottons, might even steal them when applying powder, them.
Put a Uny bit of the creamy when tapping on a skin lotion. glance or two from the local maidens scantles There's a
white cotton beach-cape, for instance, They're convenient for washing kind close to the lashes in the; with red braid around the shoulders
your ayes morning and right, centre of the upper eyelid. matching flame-coloured one-plete sult will much safer than swishing the Smooth gently toward the ends two shoulder straps on one shoulder.
wash cloth over your coul win of the eyse, then gradually up; ward, but not too high. Elop) There are cations for dancing evenings dows. too-both sheer and solid. A semi-transparent Young ladies should remem- just under the bone that deaner plaid gingham comes with ori off-shoulder ber tho quotation "Neither a tha eye socket. Don't let the neckline banded in black velvet-nylon to com-borrower nor a lender. bo't as application, extend beyond the
far plete its washability--Unlled PressS.
250 con for terminal of the egobrow,
And a
cosmetics