AS OTHERS SEE US

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 167, 13 October 1941, Page 2

AS OTHERS SEE US

DOMINION WOMEN HAVEN'T

GOOD STYLE

COMPARISON WITH ABROAD

(By ''Glass of Fashion")

As a fashion writer, I was interested to hear the remarks of some recent arrivals from London at the Overseas Club the other night.. It ;s not so very long since I myself returned and though I. should have quite agreed then with what was being noted by our visitors, I began to feel slightly resentful. From which you may gather that we "haven't really good style." One woman, simply but authoritatively dressed in black with a "barrister's bib" of starched Avhite lawn, looked SO' coolly correct that I listened with some attention to her politely guard-

Ed criticisms,

"I think," she said, "that you don't work for the tout ensemble as carefully as women do abroad. One sees good clothes but they arc not balanced so well. I am not talking of colour so much as line. Considering the shops here are adequately stocked with good foundations (I found my favourite make when I went out the first day) why is it that everyone doesn't wear them ? We work for line first, because any little frock or suit looks important over the right foundation."

Quite true, of course—and there is something in the air here that makes us grow careless. perhaps because the towns are so near the country. But why make excuses ■ the shops have perfect foundations and trained corsetieres to, fit us, free of charge. We should look after our figures and. there is no doubt that dresses not only look better over a flattering foundation but keep their shape and wear better. While we are on a corsetry quest it is a good idea to get several models at once as the fme, lastretch material that gives them their pliable control, keeps- its spring much longer if it is laundered often, given a rest every other day and kept fresh from perspiration .

There are all sorts of economies

tve can practice in wartime —save on fripperies and small accessQries that soon wilt, but I am more than ever convinced that we should keep a good supply of foundations as they add so much to comfort, elegance, and the life of cur over clothes.