From Milady's Boudoir Fashion and Home Gossip

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 68, 7 April 1937, Page 14

From Milady's Boudoir Fashion and Home Gossip

Our London Correspondent)

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JJOMES cliange their colour I fashions season by season. 1 I hear that a shade tliat is | somewhere near forget-me- | not blue is becoming a . fav1 oured colour. It has been christened Marlborough ,4 blue, after Queen Mary's -\I home, in which blue is |M alwayg a welli{,\ loved colour. «£*»

-;i A glass com4 position in |l| peach-pink and III pale blue that

*1 is unbreakable, taking the |J» place of tiling and marble in r-S bathrooms. Plain looking-glass |-9 in a collection of ; w has possibilities IBg rations. I was JB| room the other- day where the "fii walls are covered with pieces J9 \ of mirror. Each piece is framed §»' with plaster moulding. * « •

"Glass" Satin. A method of producing fine thread from ordinary glass and weaving into a flexible material has been discovered. It looks like satin, can be cut with scissors and is as warm as pure wool, or warmer when used for blankets and as many times lighter in weight. As it is a poor conductor of heat, this glass fabric, it is claimed, will be good for keeping things cool in summer, provided I tbey start cool.

* * *=■ Glazed chintz, printed with fiower gardeu patterns, makes attractive table mats. -Pa(ided, quilted and backed with plain Imen, these mats act as safeguards agamst hotplate marks as well as being the prettiest oi covers for a luncheon table. Simple spring flowers, prim-roses, violets and anemones, printed on offi white or palest yellow ground 5 il- - + ™ Jn.imiD lit-o/t -inst. TIOW.

are uie «iuiim u-caig^o o~~" — - # * * * Ideas in new furniture that I have come across include a handsome dining-table oi maple with a built-in trough in the centre for holding flowers. ■ There are armchair.s and cosy "two-some" sofas with detachable i baek cushions. The cushions are sliapcd ! .in fl ■fiit.p.d over the back of the chair 01

sofa for easv removal when thev require cleaning. For those who find the housmg of their books a knotty point I pass on the following notion. Fit your doors with bookshelves. It is quite fcasible and the concealment of. the door gives a room an 1111usual air of quiet retreal. 1' ' # # * . - * l . A table that foids up and disappears in-

after

service wagon that is made with a

case into which it can be pusnea aiier » meal, thus doing duty as a cupboard m its

leisure hours, are two more space-saviiig ■ inventions. # • • * ■ ■! Finger-Nails. One thousand and five hundred years ago women were shaping and titivatmg their finger-nails with much the same lmplements as we use to-day. Manicure-sets, thought to be quite as old as this and diftenngdittlefrom modern sets, were dug up recently in Hungary, #

Modern ingenuity can, however, often be given credit for good ideas in the way of beauty care and is constantly . producing novelties. One of the latest is^ a "vanity bangle," a cuff bracelet that beneath a jewelled medallion has a little cireular cavity for powder and puflf. # # * * Room Decoration.

Sailing ships, birds, . beasts and • flowers f in lovely colour s and ready gummed so that 1 all they need is to be damped and patted 1 into position with a dry cloth are an invention in paper decoration. On distempered or plain papered walls, you may easily stick 011 your chosen set of motifs and provide a room with brightncss and character. They

ean also be used tor adornmg piam iamp'shades. * # * * When you are sping-eleaning, make a speeial feature of eupboards and drawers. Oupboards that light up iuside as you open Ihem are not oxpeusive to achievo aiul shelvos ean be daintiJy iinished with edgiuKof shiny chiute,