Of Interest to Women

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 146, 25 August 1941, Page 6

Of Interest to Women

YOUR BEST POINTS

ALWAYS EMPHASISE THEM

DO NOT BE COLOURLESS

Everywhere we go we meet them ■ —blondes, red-heads, brunettes and mousy coloured women; ga3 T and understanding, jolly, reserved, attractive or so-and-so. About many of them there is something we Avill remember—a positive, sparkling personality or something beautiful or unusual. It may be their features, their colouring, their vividness. A greater number, however, will not be remembered because they are colourless both in appearance and

personalities

Unfortunately, the majority of women fall into this "in-between" group. If you are an "in-between" you should do something about it.

First of ally about your personality. If you are clever you can make your drab "in-between" colouring an asset —but your problem is difficult if your personality is colourless., Find something to stand for. Give your life purpose and meaning and you can develop your interests and learn to understand and enjoy the things about you.

Keep Skin Flawless. Then about your looks. It is the quality that you must stress. Have your skin flawless, your hair gleaming, silky and alive, your make-up skilfully applied and your grooming otherwise perfect. Learn to play ap to every good point j t ou possess.

Perhaps there arc reddish or golden highlights in your hair that will make it lovely and unusual when you wear the proper colours and the proper kind of make-up. If you belong to this group, you can make your features more definite and attractive by giving special attention to jour eyes. Tf they are greenish or amber in colour you can make them lovely with green

eye-shadow

Pluck away all the stray hairs in your eyebrows, following their natural outline, but giving them a definite shape. You can wear your eyebrows just a little narrower than other types. Now use a brown eyebrow pencil to make the line more even and positive, then darken your eyelashes with mascara. Attractive- 1 ly darkened lashes will make' your eyes appear larger and; more alluring. Eye Colour Guide. You will probably find that the orange-red rouges and lipsticks are the most attractive for your skin. Your accented lashes and brows'will permit you to be a little freer in the use of colour than otherwise. Use a warm, cream-colour powder to give an appearance of health to your skin. I'n selecting costumes, choose colours that do not make your # complexion appear sallow. The colour of your eyes is a good guide. If your eyes are, greenish blue or

hazel, AA r ear soft dark blue-greens, golden yelloAVS, dark blue or black with lots of white, turquoise, corals and some colours of red. Avoid all shades of 'brown or tan, as thestj colours Avill make you appear drab.

"BLITZ" MILLINERY

BEWITCHING NEW MODELS

DESIGNS FOR AMERICA

This week I want to talk about hats; frivolous hats that are the British woman's spring tonic after "blitzes," and also about hats that we hope will prove a tonic for American women. Particularly the latter. For London's leading model liat designers have, for the first time, banded themselves together Into a group called Associated London Hat Designers, with the purpose of inducing American women to buy British millinery, writes Joya Begg in the London Daily Mail.

The bewitching models they have designed for cxpoit to America will certainly achieve that purpose, I feel sure, after seeing some ol them.

Sonic of them are as sophisticated and feminine as any Paris produced, with blade Nottingham lace for veiling, mink and white ermine for edging brims, ostrich feather plumes on rich coloured velvet caps inspired by Holbein portraits of Henry VIIT. and his wives.

The designers have not found inspiration only in history, but in >>rosont-da3 r London.

One is named after tl§e famous London "pub," the Elephant and Castle. It is in brick red with the authentic Elephant sign painted in bright colours as a badge on the I'ron t. There arc a number of such badges in the millinery collection, in particular one picturing American Ambassador, Lord Halifax's college coat of arms. I prophesy it will be quickly token up by American college girls.

America's darling, Scottish Tartan, is much featured, by Beresford, frequently combined with black oil cloth—a strange material for a hat, one would say, but this collection is full of surprises.

Some of the mpst striking hats arc-made of such unusual materials as glazed chintz, knitted angora on a stiff foundation, long black plush (for a tiny topper named Winston Ghurchill), and real red coral.

Even the plain felts are given an unusual look sometimes by having the brims made of inch-widc strips plaited together when several coloured felts arc vised the effect is of a small check.

How enviously, British women in uniform would regard these liats !

WAR-TIME ECONOMIES

The pretty girl down to meet her husband on leave said, "How do you like iiy hat? I got three of them, different colours, for seven and six." He did not look particularly enchanted with the "hat," a wispy scarf, screwed about her wind-blown hair. In fact, he looked quite embarrassed. And the rest qf her clothes had the same tossed v bn appearance. It is, generally speaking, poor economy, to buy cheaply. One can pay too much in the end for an article that soon looses its: dash and by the time another cheap article has been purchased to take its placc it is obvious that something of better quality would have been a sounder investment in the first place.

This applies more to foundations than to most items of our apparel. Cheap ones mean money thrown away. We should buy the best and therefore get the maximum figure | flattery, comfort and Avear. Also, zf we buy at least two foundations at a time and Avear them alternately they will last just about as long as Avould three foundations, Avorn out one by one. That is'bccausc any elastic material—lastrctch and such fine stretchable fabrics, recover their spring and return to their ncAV efficiency if they are g.'rven a rest. Many roll their foundations up tightly at night to remove creasesthis is Avrong. Foundations, should be hung in an airy place, freely talced to absorb perspiration, and given tAvcnty-four hours to recovcr their shape and be absolutely fresh. They should also be Avashed frequently with good suds, cool Avater. and dried aAvay; from heat. Our men, smart in their trim uniforms, and Avith new eyes for feminine appeal, appreciate good lines, poise; and daintiness in their loved ones. To AV#ar the fitted clothes of fashion gracefully, modern foundations are essential. And they do something to Avomen rather like the something a uniform does to men— give more pride in posture, and more dignity, all beautifully in keeping Avitli the war-time scene. So hoAvever flippant you become about hats—for your own SAVftct sakes take your foundation selection and care, intelligently. It pays!