SOME NEW NOTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 138, 8 December 1938, Page 19

SOME NEW NOTIONS

GIVE YOUR CLOTHES THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

This is a very gay and happy time of the year. The joy of giving is mixed with the pleasure ot receiving when Christmas gifts change hands. Lovely days and the prospect of yet more to come; new and invigorating atmospheres that are the delight of holidaymakers; care-free happiness and stimulating surroundings—what a typical Christmas combination!

Ever! clothes must have a- festive air, though they be of the most practical and utterly wearable order. Let them be gay and jovial in spirit as yourself. Clothes that are used to the usual workaday routine of all the year through must be elevated to fresh and brighter personalities for the pursuit of wholesome summer pleasures. Summer frocks that are usually completed with hats and gloves in the town have to undergo your turn-about ideas and conform to casual handkerchief headgear, no stockings and certainly no gloves, for the country wear!

Handkerchiefs flutter atop many a charming coiffure. In highways and byways, at the beach, or in the city they go to our heads with their fairylike colours and delicious patternings. They're also very useful knotted into knitting bags or twined and twisted round the waist of a sombre frock. For a gem of a tiny pixie cap the idea of a bright scarf draped and tied turban fashion over a cone shape is appealing. Last year's big beach hat that looks so uninteresting and out of date now may be splendidly revived with a handkerchief knotted gipsy fashion instead of the usual straw crown.

If the shape is all right but the hat just needs brightening in some less drastic way, try it with streamers of gaudy chintz, tying under the chin. Blouses of tropic printed silks and cottons are importantly new when worn in conjuction with plain monotone shorts or slacks. You'll be needing to use a little discretion in choosing shorts, for, to be really in the vogue, they are longer, fuller, and generally more graceful and becoming than last season's brief pantie styles that suited so few with any measure of success. The new versions make a great feature of appearing as much like short skirts as possible. Play suits also have this more appealing tendency, but whereas the shorts are slick and straight and pleated, the skirts of the most dashing play and beach costumes have the dirndl fulness of a ballet dancer's intriguing silhouette. Always there is the eternal feminine expressed in even the most sporting outfits. The girl who lies on the beach, goes swimming or fishing with the best of them, is as carefree as a sea-urchin in her neat swim suit, sweater, and slacks. Yet workmanlike and all as she is, she cannot resist thrusting a flower into her curls just for fun. TAKING UP THE SLACK. And you too, whether you are taking up the slack in all seriousness with a mannish suit of pin-stripe slacks and matching jacket, will be unable to resist adding a femininely fantastic scarf tucked in at the throat or over your head. It's just that amusing propensity for enjoying ourselves that drives us to varnishing our nails, using lipstick and the rest with strictly tailored suits