WOMEN'S NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 212, 7 August 1937, Page 12

WOMEN'S NOTES.

FASHIONS. (By Miss Mary Tallis.) Fashions from Paris.—The sailor beret is not new in Paris, hut contrives to look it with much success. 1 saw one of these hats worn with a neat suit with six sickle pockets and the tyre edge of the beret made of elite to match the outlining of the jacket. These hats look like a halo from the front, and show the roll of hair or ringlets the wearer affects. Silver foxes, hats tied under the chin and suits mark the present Parisian season. Bicornes and Homburgs are other shapes almost equally popular, and visors and berets refuse to die a fashionable death, and have re-appcared. The visor type is weighted with flowers and looks very springlike if decorated with primroses. The silhouette in hats which go forward in the air, and look something like a Highland bonnet, or like the prow of a ship, are engaging Parisian milliners. Ail amusing type is the howl brim, some of which are so deep that the crown cannot he seen. BEAUTY.

Make-up.—lf the make-up is to have a sporting chance of staying on, the skin must be perfectly clean. A wise woman would never be so rash as to wash her face just before going out, so she cleanses her skin with cream or complexion milk and takes off all grease with astringent. This rule applies particularly to blondes, hut also to any girl who values smooth skin. First comes a brisk patting massage with an astringent to cool the skin and close the pores. You should use a rubber patter wrapped in cotton wool. A rubber band twisted round the top of the stem will keep the wool in place. After the astringent comes the powder base, preferably one that is also a protection against the sun. Whatever powder you use, you must apply it as thinly as possible, so that there is no surplus to make a sticky appearance when you get hot. If you do put on too much, blot off the extra with tissue. Now powder. A sun-tan is equally lovely with white tennis things or with tweedy country clothes. There is one danger about the deep sun-tan shades; on some people they turn darker at the top of the nose and the point of the chin, giving a patchy look. If you have this trouble, use a iigliter powder first all over the face and neck, then use the darker powder everywhere except on those two dangerous highlights. It is pot necessary to rouge for strenuous outdoor occasions—it is not necessary, and one must avoid a made-up look with sports clothing. Eye make-up is best forgotten for the same reason, hut lipstick in an orangy or russet tone is got with sun-tan powder. THE HOME. Buying the linen.—lf you are refurnishing your house in regard to linen you will require for your bathroom two mats, six bath towels, six hand towels, six soft hackabuck towels, three guest towels, six lavatory towels, three razor towels. Guest towels you can embroider yourself and lavatory and razor towels can he made from towelling bought l>y the yard and the edges blanket-stitched or bound with bias binding. Now for your bedrooms. Allow for each double bed in constant use: two mattress covers, an under _ blanket, three pairs sheets, three pairs of pillow cases, two bolster cases, one pair thick soft blankets, one eiderdown, one bedspread. For each single bed you will need three pillow cases (not three pairs), and for a spare bed that does not get much use, two pairs of sheets and pillow cases will be enough. I Coloured sheets are so pretty, especially if you have blankets to match. Cotton sheets are much cosier and if you buy good ones they wear well.' Linen is lovely—in summer. It is well to have a couple of linen topsheets for summer use only. It is wise to have extra blankets, too, for very cold nights. Always remember you must have good blankets, even if they do seem expensive. They’ll last for years. Take care not to buy a heavy eiderdown. The lightest and softest you can find will serve you better. _ You could very well add an extra pair of sheets, a couple of table-cloths and another bath-mat. It just depends on how much cash you have left. Don’t be disheartened if your money simply won’t stretch to all the gay chic_ linens you see flaunting themselves in the shops. Buy the best and plainest you can afford and put in the trimmings yourself. Plain white sheets can ho "made very smart with a 3-in. deep hem of contrasting linen stitched on with verve even close buttonholing. Plain white afternoon cloths look expensive with a little broderie anglaise worked in the corners. A coloured linen cloth looks lovely with a splash of vivid embroidery along the border. Plain towels and bath-mats Income grand with giant satin-stitched initials in a contrasting colour. on can add guineas to the looks of your blankets by adding 2-in. satin bindings top and bottom. GENERAL. Accessories We Have Seen.—Belts of every shape and hue, and in many dif-

fereut mediums! One scarf and belt that particularly took our. fancy was made of black velvet with a leaf design embroidered upon it. An amusing corded belt is simply made by twisting strai c's of two shades of wool. Two blouses have been recently shown tligt are delightfully feminine, the one in its vagary and the other in its gossamer fineness. Both arc utterly irresistible and both are easy to make. Thu first was made from a yard and a half of Schiaparelli’s news-print and is designed to wear under your suit. It will keep both you and your friends amused. The frivolous little cocktail blouse (the second) is of black chiffon, banded with velvet ribbon, tied in baby bows down the front, shading from deepest scarlet at the throat to palest pink at the waist. Wear it gaily —and you’ll look your best. Flowers are used in enchanting ways. A largo posy of simple flowers is fastened at the waistline of your evening frock, and one or two loose flowers are stitched down the skirt, as if they were tumbling from the posy. An evening bag, made from a circle of lame, folded in half, with a bunch of flowers at the clasp, goes well with a frock decorated as above.. Last year’s black dinner gown is completely transformed worn under a little chiffon coat with flowers stitched in gay profusion over the sleeves. A simple summer garden frock is converted into something more intriguing with the help of a long chiffon scarf. This is draped over the shoulders and down the back, and has little hearts in contrasting colours appliqued to it. Mittens for weeding;—Weeding mittens as a substitute for gloves can be' made from old sugar sacks. Take a piece of clean sugar sacking or ordinary canvas of similar texture, double it, and lay it flat on the table. Place the left hand on the sacking and draw a pencil or chalk mark following the shape of the hand, 'with the four fingers together and the thumb stretched out to its widest angle. All that ■is now. necessary is to sew or machine along the drawn line and to cut outside the stitching about a quarter of an inch or so around; then sew a piece of ordinary string to the wrist at either side to fasten the mitten to the hand, or a piece of elastic wliipli can be pulled over tile hand. Turn inside out to cover rough edges before sewing on elastic if desired to make the mitten neater. Make another mitten to match. It is not necessary to he particular about the finish of this home-made weeding mitten, yet if a pair is made to give away the rough edges may he bound and the part covering the finger-tips cut double to wear longer.