The Ladies

NZ Truth, Issue 1202, 13 December 1928, Page 21

The Ladies

WHILST serious-minded males are brqoding over the holocaust which the .elections have made, of old familiar Parliamentary, faces, I women m town are thinking, with great sighs 'of relief, "Thank Heaven! Some new hats m. the gallery at last." ■ . ; '' ■ \ Sure , enough, some attractive &. and unidentified matrons turned H^ up to add a new leaf to the ffl&k "Who's Who'! of the, Ladies' GalBgafo lery on the occasiont^hen Sir Charles Statham was re-elected WW to his Speaker's chair. . " . Mr One of the prettiest strangers f in the gallery was a blonde young 1 thing, whose soft brown hair peeped A out under a white felt toque striped a with petersham ribbon, and whose I jumper suit of cream jersey was I brightened up with scarlet-slashed 8 sleeves, and waistband and scarlet I handbag to match. , I With this holly-berry get-up .were* f worn little shoes of dyed black and $ scarlet snakeskin. | Statham; the Speak--1 er's uncommonly pretty brunette . | daughter (who, by the way, is f very like her father, when he J takes his wig off) wore a smart little navy straw hat ' and a crepe-de-chine jumper frock of fawn and navy. ' . Lady Statham wore a coat of electric blue trimmed with grey fur and a floppy hat of: fawn straw, 4 and Mrs. Guthrie 1 s pleasant face smiled ' under a lemon-^colored straw hat trimmed with peacock- tinted embroideries.