From Milady's Boudoir

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 52, 17 March 1937, Page 11

From Milady's Boudoir

New Use for Oellophane. Cellophane paper from cigarette packets is being collected by gi^ls who have acqnired the « art of weaving strips of the paper together to make pretty belts. The paper is folded into strips about haif-an-inoh wide and interwoven together basket' fashion, mother-of-pearl effect. Cellophane strips and petersham ribbon of the same width used together to make a ehess board design makes original belts. Foohettes •and bangles can be made to match, backed with strong silk to give them more substance^ Gay Umbrellas. ' . $ Umbrellas with covers of transparent ofled silk in bright colours have appeared. A girl who has one declares that her spirits rise as the rain falls pattering on her gay umbrella. Charms on Bracelets. Chain bracelets hung with tiny charms have been popular this.season, and now there is a new version of the lucky bangle in the form of little ,wo'oden polished squares, linked together - and each one carved with a different good luck emblem. Another wooden mascot bracelet consists of half-a-dozen tiny Scotties, the mosfc popular dog in the feminine world at the moment, carved in white, red or brown wood and joined with gilt links. For Yonr Hat. If you tire of wearing. your charm bracelet on your wrist, wear it as a hat trimming. Uoop it on the front of a tall crown with the aid of a bar pin if your hat is of the plain felt variety. Pastel Tones. A colour fashion in furnishing for 1937 appears to be pastel tones. Off white carpets, orily a few years ago regarded as the height of extravagance are finding a ready sale. Duck-egg blue and pastel pink with a faint greyish tinge known .as "dusty pink" are colours for rugs that are coming into fashion. Starry Tableware. Star-spangled tableware is new and in keeping with the star motif that is appearing in all branc'hes of home decoration. Wedgwood hlue china with white stars of varying sizes scattered over it is attractive. Breakfast and luncheon sets of pale honey-coloured pottery bordered with widely spaced gold stars looks iine as well. • Fireplace Omasnent. • Speeially designed to be in keeping with a fireplace of modern design is a companion set disguised as a handsome yacht with black wooden hull and tall chromium-plated sails that completely hide the tongs, shovel, poker and brush that hang behind them. It is "streamlined" without being stiff and is a decided asset in a room designed on severe and simples lines. American Luxury. On its way from Ameriea, as surely as hornrimmed spectacles found their way here, isthe idea of the all-glass bathroom. American women, lovers of luxury, are already revelling in the fairylands that have been made of their bathrooms, glass brieks, white or coloured, eovering walls, floor aud ceiling. The idea has its practieal side, for Americans, though luxurious, are good housewives, and the entire apartment can quickly and easily be cleaned. The typical American bathroom is eentrally heated, steam absorbin^_and fitted with eleverly coneealed lighting. Water can be drawn off hot, warm, cold, or ieed. The last is for drin'king purposes, bccause thc heating dries the air, and an ice-cold. drink is considered necessary bg thc •' luxurioub ablut ions,