POCKETS

NZ Truth, Issue 1149, 8 December 1927, Page 5

POCKETS

FACH year, in' fact each season, means heavy thought on the part of the dress designers to devise ways and means for fresh innovations that are as ornamental as they are useful. Practically every garment worn at the present moment by our inconsistent, capricious sex shows a pocket or pockets, and they are invariabty a handy thing to have. Formerly unless you clutched your evening bag while you were stepping a measure there was really no place to keep that wisp of lace that passed for a hankie. So the dress-creators have decreed for the dance frock a pair of tiny pockets covered with bands of diamente from which falls silken fringe. These pockets are seen just below the hip-line, one on either side. No tennis frock should be planned without provision being made for a •ocket. In the hot weather a handkerchief and powder puff at close quarters ire appreciated.

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The newest nighties usually boast an amusing lace-trimmed or hand-worked affair, which passes as a pocket, and there is always a use for it. Scarves, too, show small pouches, out of which peep bright handkerchiefs Cami-knickers are often trimmed with wide lace, which has its prototype m the tiny pocket stitched on the side. Every-day street frocks, tailormades and jumper suits all prove how firm a hold the pocket has obtained.

WHY use cosmetics of doubtful virtue when what the complexion really needs is more water? Not for the everyday purpose of washing — the daily bath is an institution, thanks be — but as a drink. The daily consumption of pure water should be not less than three pints. It should be taken at room temperature or moderately warm.