Current Gossip

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)

Current Gossip

Colours for autumn are combined with great daring. Vivid checks are used for coats over plain dresses; or plain coats contrast with boldly patterned frocks. Quaker beige, Cinderella grey, and African earth (a ginger shade) are among the new colours for contrast with other tints. # * »

A charming afternoon gown for a large figure is a black Stefney model. Over a white georgette vest the long cross-over front fastens with a beautiful silver buckle. Big vandykes of fine tucking round the .frock from the bust line almost to the knees give a lovely line and are most decorative. The graceful sleeves are also tucked. F. N. Spackman, Woodward Street. « * *

Indications from overseas show that the brushed-up Edwardian line is on the wane; hair is coming down in the world. We shall still see curls on top, but at the back the hair will cluster in the nape of the neck. Women find it difficult to keep wispy ends tidy so this revival will be greeted with ♦

Reindeer skin, shaded brown and beige, is new, and it is very attractive forming the collar of a rust tweed coat made with a swing back. A very smart black coat of a rough-surfaced wool has short tucks at the waistline resulting in the new pouched back. The standing collar and the rounded pocket laps are black Persian lamb. Wilson’s, 52 Willis Street.

An interesting experiment, just tried out at Berlin Technical University, has provided all members of the general public with an opportunity to sample university life. For one week, any “student” who liked could attend free evening lectures, on subjects ranging from psychology to cabbages. By this means it wars hoped to show the mau-iu-tlie-street that university life is not a thing apart, but a vital factor in the life of the iteople.

A beautiful Sheffield plate salver is the news item from Robin and Co., 17 Grey Street, this week. It has a grape design round the edge and is in perfect order. A small repousse bowl, sugar basin size, is solid silver; also a condiment set in a classical design, after a Greek urn, with a Greek key border broken with a small mask on either side.

All kinds of out-of-date trinkets that have not seen the light of day for half a century or more may how be brought forth from their hiding places and worn again. Those large old circular brooches, set with dozens of small different coloured stones, look charming on black frocks. '

Visitors to town! If your suits or coats (men’s or women’s), light frocks or blouses need cleaning and pressing ring telephone 63-723. The Dominion Dyers Ltd., Petone, are thoroughly reliable and turn out a first-class job. They collect and will deUver promptly.

It is estimated that Australian opal fields have produced weil over £2,000,000 worth of gems to date. These are marketed mostly in London, New York, the Continent and the East. It Was not till 1908, on the occasion of the FrancoBritish Exhibition in Paris, that the opal’s magnificence was made generally known overseas.

Anyone needing shopping baskets should call at the Disabled Soldiers’ Shop. They have them there, in all sizes and shapes, beautifully' made with strong handles. Wicker fireside stools are new.

Mrs. Anne Davis, petite and plucky, runs the flying club her husband managed till be was killed in an air crash. Davis built up the Cinque Ports Club, and gave it a reputation as one of the best training schools for pilots in England. It is still training amateur pilots, and turning out more than ever before. “My work for the club is a memorial to my husband,” Mrs. Davis said in an interview. She does not fly herself.

If you’ve never had a complete rest on washday, let the Ideal Bag Wash Laundry do your next wash. You’ll be delighted. Ring 63-000. • ♦ ♦

A “one-woman” art show was staged in London last month by 27-year-ol'd Suzanne Eisendieck, who was once penniless and starving in a Paris garret, and has now achieved international fame as au artist. Her husband is Dietz Edzard, also an artist. M. Edzard discovered Mlle. Eisendieck in poverty some years ago, he sponsored her work—and they married.