WOMEN'S INTERESTS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1933, Page 3

WOMEN'S INTERESTS

DOWiN-TRODDEN PARENTS!

YOUTH, WITHOUT BACKBONE

In this generation the temperament of the young has the run 0 f the house, and in some houses it, is a perpetual 24 hour demonstration!

As a matter, of fact the young of today miss a lot of fun, and a lot of healthy parental opposition that woul 0 have stiffened their backbone, says a discerning critic. The conception of downtrodden Victorian youth is. largely responsible for the growing refusal of modern youth to accept adult responsibility.

The modern attitude is, “Here is youth! Squash’ yourself into the background, mother,. Get behind the hatrack father, and give us the earth!” Given the earth, average youth has not the remotest idea what to do with it or where to start o" it. Better foi it, really, to have to. fight reasonably hard for a small cornu’ on which to demonstrate and work; that develops character.

For some years now the 1 world has been full of talk about repressed youth No one seems to realise that the result of all this, is a race of curiously hurt and wronged parents!- Many of them have- brought it <>n -themselves—-but tnej were no. more .conscious of 'doing so than file maligned Victorians. The latter enforced good manners and discipline. It may have been lip service, but it .was pretty and soothing to listen to. • It was at least some reward for having all the bother and trouble and expense.-of children.

The parents of to-dav ask little—and get it. So careful are they not to brush the slightest down from exuberant youth, not to breathe onthe bloom of so-called freedom, that they seem, in some homes hardly- to- exist as concrete personalities.

Once children /were shadows in a concrete world,’ and now wve are afflicted .with ghost parents, phantom ministers to' youth who hold themselves neatly, tidily-in subjection. Yesterday the children-were the servants of the parents, To-day the parents are the servants.*

the economic conference SOME FEMININE PERSONALITIES The 7o privileged women who sat in •the small public section at the back of the Economic Conference ball, aiid who had accompanied representatives from 63 nations, could all lay, claim to beauty or personality,- says an English exchange!.. Americans 3?were severe and smart. Their hair might have been steel. Their apneal was intellectual; In strange contrast a-woman from Mexico s at next to them, dreaming. The creamy ( >val of her face gleamed from between a clinging black, dress and a wide Spanish hat, into which real red carnations had been , thfiis ( t under the brim. ; v

Madame .Kadeno,. wife ..of one of the Japanese financial advisers,- s wpre the latest Paris all-beige oreation.l She is too small, she explained, to buy, her ready-made European clothes in England. Sho used a lorgnette.: • . . Women with the Greek delegates were like ripe peaches, with!, an incomparable bloom.

The Teutons were frank, athletic and: fair; the Swede's, on the other hand, could he sallow and dark. The Poles had dazzling teeth and were, glitteringly vivacious-

Madane Litvinoff/ wearing a yellow tammy over,, her kiss-curls and pomp a-' dour liair, ; was almost the most attractive figure there. Her unaffected charm 1 and capability were irresistible. Ecuador provided an aquiline and delicate, brunette, sporting a flaming tangoe cap and scarf, rather -like the; parrots of , the country. Tuo Indian women wore moon-beam .saris* and. Lady;Diana Cooper, from .the' , Foreign Office, .lifted, her pale face; frojn' a ; sumptuous. biscuit fox. ■ An. ’.orchidrobed'- women in a picture hat sat among the Irish'. delegates, having taken; the place of one of the sons, of . Erin. She was the only woman in. the body of the hall: . all- the others, sat and watched with unwavering eyes from the 1 back. Political women have that watchful stamp; they are lynx-eyed cqnfid-' clantes. What secrets the delegates must tell them!

DISGUSSING THIN FACES Keep rouge well away from the centre cheek. Blend is outward to the- cheekbones, making, the colour deepest toward the outer edge. - . 1

Avoid startling effects. Use, a, warm tone of. powdei; and a becoming rouge. A touch'of rouge on the chim will make a long face appear shorter.' Another on the lobes of the ears will make.it seem broader. -

Be clever- with ear-rings. Try what gipsy hoops of pearl studs will do toward giying the face breadth.. . Don’t wearxdresses 0 r jumpers with Y-shaped openings. The new tiod-up-to-tjic-throat ,fashion is kind;to. the thin neck. Make, the most of it.

Hints from ■. till ' v'jt Home and Hbroad.

LATEST MODES IN MILLINERY MORE LONDON FASHION NOTES Dress designers have been creating a new silhouette for Ascot, with frocks that look wide from the waist upward and narrow from the waist to the ankles. “Lovely English roses” will he an apt deerip-tion of women in. these fashions, for this silhouette is like : a'it opening Lower 011 a’ long; slim stalk. A. long, slim- dress iii egg-shell green crepe hade the shoulders massed with five wide full frills of delicate past.lpink, stiffened organdie, with a wide organdie hat to .match ; and, worn by a tall slim mannequin, it gave the impression of a Jtme ro.se swaying in the breeze. ,

Young girls will wear fuller skirts many of them with ruches’ 1 or frills at the hem, but the shoulders will predominate in some way, billowing into large puff sleeves or fluttering with many frills. Older women will probably cliQc.se gowns of printed chiffon oi’crepe with .three-quarter sac coats in the same crepe, or. a plain colour that is represented in the print. Black on a white ground or-some shade cf blue on white are some of the smartest of the .two-colour printed silks.

Silk lnee, like the lace dress the Queen wore at the Chelsea Flower Show, in deep mauvish blue, is also used for many, attractive models, hut these also are stiffened about the shoulders to give a wide effect. With house parties and summer dances arranged for Lho near future. smart- designers are all showing “two-minded” Ascot frocks in the special mid-season collections. These frilly shoulder effects are often detachable, .and when removed make a frock which is suitable for dancing or formal dim'iers.

Other mpdels’ have little mess jackets with big, slpeves and wide shoulders worn over a dress that-has quite an evening neckline. \ ' .

This idea is one you could adapt for smart home dresses, which would do duty on other occasions ; as in the case of a beautiful gown of heavy dull-sur-faced sapphire , blue crepe, long, slim and cut perfectly simply, with a moderate V neckline hack and front. Worn with a mess jacket that just- touched the waist-line and had long sleeves puffed at the shoulders made of the same colour crepe, with huge wh spots, it was .a charming house gown.

lit the same .way a little coat of some dashing colour in lacquered satin will revive an old evening frock that is long and simple about, the skirt, but of which one has grown tired. -In this case have the-sleeve made of two or three frills nearly to the” .elbow, and the. bodice to finish just above the waist vith one button or a clasp.; Each season for:'the ’ last two years hats have been growing bolder,' and their present plan is to mako the back of the head as attractive as the front. Smart women in London and Paris have been quick to take up this “show, your-curls” fashion with, -the result that curls are being bought,, borrowed or grown for summer lints which insist on a curly, “background;” . Looking at the mid-season hat shows was rather like watching a non-stop variety, entertainment, and certainly they were full of news. Crowns, were up. in the- air one minute nad flat as a pancake the next. Brims were wide and shady, and then, tiny and trim, sp that it became necessary to divide hats into ' two sections, tall-crowned narrow-brimmed town hats, with widebrimmed and shallow crowned shapes for country, garden party and holiday hats.

One designer showed an old material revived—hatter’s plush—which seemed unusual when everyone else was using straws. Several models' : had bows of horse-hair lace, and the gloves worn with these hats had gauntlet cuffs to match.

Two new holiday hats . were shown—the '• “Circassian”—round shalllow and trimmed with a tassel,. and an impudent . ‘‘Eolly,” which is. another version, of ;the/ stocking cap’. the top tied in a small bunch on the crown.

The white hat is easily ,t.he most popular dint of the ■moment: It is all'over town and will -probably be the favourite -..holidaymode.