WOMAN'S PAGE.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1932, Page 3

WOMAN'S PAGE.

I Mu& [ CARMEL LEROY M2 Ui

FOOTWEAR FASHIONS. ALLIGATOR LEATHER POPULAR. Higher cut shoes aro to be the fashion for morning wear in the New Year. These will be carried out ■in suede, kid and calf, the first-mentioned often being trimmed by one oi the other two leathers. Alligator is one of the newest things in fancy leathers nnu is very popular in brown, black, navy and dark bottle green, writes a leading Parisian fashion correspondent. An innovation in footwear, especially for mornings, is the use of leather thongs instead of ordinary stitching. Thonging very often appears down the back of the shoe and down a seam at the back of the heel. The heel seam is also a new idea and gives an extra touch of smartness to plain, mitriinmed shoes. Bronze, silver and gold shoes are making a bid for favour in the evenings. These, especially the bronze variety, should he very popular this season, as we are all counting the pence just now and they are very hard wearing.

Coloured satin shoes are very attractive, but they are apt to get dirty and wear out very much sooner than a kid shoe. Heels are still very high, especially for smart afternoon wear, though for walking sheos they have taken a more serviceable turn. FROCKS FOR GIRLS. YOUTHFUL PARTY FASHIONS. Emerald green and geranium red. says an English exchange, are two ot the most popular colours for young girls’ party frocks this season. Contrary to popular belief, a girl of 17-or 18 years of age cannot wear white easily and, this year, fashion lias decided that she shall not. All manner of greens are to be worn; when georgette is the fabric emerald green is the colour, but for taffeta frock's apple greeu is more often the 1 shade. I saw a particularly attractive youthful evening gown the other day. It was carried out in lettuce green organdie. The bodice was perfectly plain and had a- simple round neck, but five deep tiers and a centre panel composed the skirt. For tiny tots’ parties row? upon rows of frills are worn. Tulle wi'l be very fashionable for children of from five to ten years old, and for those who are just a little older such delightful fabrics as silk organdie,, parchment lace crope-de-chine and net aro being used

BRIGHTER FROCKS. RED, GREEN AND BROWN IN VOGUE. Colour lias returned this season, according to the parade of frocks held in Wellington last week. No more didl and drab materials. Tweeds have all got a dash of ren or green, while woollen suits are vivid and warm. Little sporting suits were first in evidence —scarlet, . yellow, green —all with comfortable shoes and dashing hats with the “over the eye” tilt. For skating, they showed a red flecked tweed skirt—a scarlet belted jumper, an f ] a woollen red, black and white turban. Noticeable for the promenade was a skirt of Black Watch tartan, worn on der a suede short coat of canary yellow A provocative glengarry finished this smart outfit. Green in a new shade called “Killsrnoy,” was extremely popular, this green like all the other new colours, is striking, and is almost emerald. They showed this colour in a little wool frock which was touched with black and worn by a nut brown haired girl. She wore with it a black and green pancake hat. Oumnetal stockings and black stockings were worn with all the black and “off black” frocks and suits. With tin’s vivid green frock the guninetal stockings were a feature. Coats were both belted and unbelted. High fur-trimmed collars and exaggerated sleeves were prominent, and lengths vaiied. A waterproof Burgundy red velvet coat. which fastened in tile front with a shiny zip fastener was much admired ; it seemed so practical and becoming for a stormy day. Brown was a great favourite, deep rich brown with flashes of orange, or gold and pink.

Two very original suits were worn in brown broadtail cloth, fur-trimmed and elegant to the eye. An afternoon frock of scarlet genre "tie was worn, with matching hat. anu coquettish shoes by a black-haired mannequin. who displayed it well.

One black satin dinner frock with long sleeves was shown by a slender Monde. This frock had a distinct air about it, and was finished with touches of white. In the evening frock display there was not one white or ivory or 'parchment frock—black, green, blue, Pink, and Chinese red predominated. Little “snuggl.v” short fur and velvet "oats, with and without basnues, were, worn over th<- evening frocks, and proved most fetching. The hustle effect was there, hut only iusfc —hows, frills, loops, and basques gave the necessary suggestion. A bridal tableau brought this interesting parade to a close. The bride was a graceful figure in a soft frock of "'ltito faille, the bodice of which was ■nentsfe,] uilb brilliants. A pointed front ha so ue was lied in a long loop •ii the back, and her sleeves were long and slitn.

A filmv silk net veil was eaugbt to her bead by one white rose. .She car-

ried; a slier.p of Phoebe roses finished with' a knot of French tubing. Her maids, three in soft spring green ancf there in daffodil yellow, carried sheafs of gladioli, Talisman roses, and Virginia. creeper.

Each frock was# different, but tulle and taffeta were tlie two-materials used and the maids were all fair of face and fair of form. This last tableau 1 against the dull gold curtains of'the stage was a fitting climax to the instructive and entertaining afternoon.

BRITAIN’S LEAD IN FASHIONS. LONDON, January 14. Society women are already .thinking .about Court gowns, and Mrs Baldwin is arranging to hold a reception at U Downing Street soon to demonstrate the suitability of British materials and designs for wear at Buckingham Palace. Mannequins will parade during the afternoon and show many new ideas in Yorkshire satins, Derbyshire artificial silks. Cheshire taffeta, Devonshire chiffons, and so forth. Many Ministers’ wives and the wives of members of Parliament have promised to attend the Courts in British dresses. The Queen, and the Duchess of York have always insisted that their Court gowns should be entirely British, while the Princess Royal remarked not long ago that she had never bought even a handkerchief of foreign manufacture. Perhaps this will mean some orders for painted fabrics.

Trousseau Sixty Year Ago. Lady Southwark has recorded the trousseau of a bride 60 years ago, which included linen -that lasted 66 years; eiderdown petticoat's wadded to the waist; white flannel petticoats scalloped with silk; white cotton stockings , laced and buttoned boots for walking, and bonnets, not hats, for the young bride. To a young girl in the middle of last century, she used to declare, London was not a city of gay spiiits. On the contrary, it was eminently'respectable, and on Sundays it was “deplorably dull.” There were no cinemas, dance clubs, or restaurants, and women ddi not go to sports meetings. Since early girlhood she made sketch portraits of public men, and her album “galleries” contained some hundreds of portraits, some of which she allowed to be reproduced in the newspapers. Men she found easier subjects than women; because, she said, there was more strength in their features and mere light and shade. Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson was a very easy sitter.

Princess Mary is endeavouring to find new situations for those of her domestic'.staff who will no longer he required through the closing of Chesterfield Hbuse. Several of these are likely to pass presently into the service of the Duke and Duchess of York at their new home at Royal Lodge m Windsor Park. Princess Mary’s friends are also coming to her assistance here so that it would seem that presently all these servants will have been found employment. Servants who have been in a Royal household ar° eP’"-’"-

erlv sought after, since tlie soundness of their training is regarded as being beyond question.

** * * Thus a London correspondent in an exchange: 1 lunched to-day with .. typical Mayfair flapper. She entertained in her special apartment set aside by sympathetic parents for their daughter’s visitors. All round tlip room on every available piece of furniture was displayed a marvellous array of Christmas cards. They represented the art and the postage stamps of every imaginable part of the world, and T was assured that the total tally was 247. T gathered it was a “good hag” of trophies from admirers of all ages, and was being kept to excite the jealousies of flapper contemporaries. My slim hostess believed it would put even her best chums in the shade. Among the cards T noticed one from Poland inscribed “Wesolyeh Swiati.” which is merry Christmas in Polish, with the quaint post script: “It is a long time since T have written yon tliat T adore vou. Mv wife sends her love also.”

THIS WEEK’S RECIPES. Rhubarb Wine. Five pounds of rhubarb to each gallon of water, 41b of moist sugar to each gallon of strained liquor, 2 lemons and ilh of rain ins. Cut the rhubarb into small pieces and nut these into r large vessel containing the requisite amount of water. Let this stand for a week, then strain off the liquor into a cask, add the sugar, the thinly-peeled rind of the lemons, and the cleaned raisins. Stir it daily for sonio days, and when it ceases to hiss and woik hung up the cask and leave it in a dark place in a temperature of GOdeg Fahrenheit. This wine may he racked and bottled in three months. To rack wine means to draw off all the dear wine gently from the cask and leave the scum and sediment behind. Wine shoii.d be racked in clear, cold weather. Cork bottles tight I v and let them stand up for a month, then lay them. down.

Plum Sauce. (ilh plums, fllli sugar, •’) pints vinegar. 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper, ditto of salt, Joz allspice, handful preserved ginger (bruised). Boil all together till slones separate. Strain and hott’e. Will keep for years.