A FEMININE FIELD DAY.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 155, 21 October 1926, Page 2

A FEMININE FIELD DAY.

WITH A LIMITED ALLOWANCE# (By Carol Emerson.) If the allowance is limited, and tho need for re-furnishing the wardrobe is urgent, try the psychological effect of restricting expenditure to the minimum in respect of outside raiment, and’ “blowing” the balance on lingerie!. .It is, wonderful how the re-furnished 'of yesterday takes on a fresh allure when slipped over' a bitand-new foundation. Dainty lingerie soon induces a mood of philosophical content that contemplates last year’s hats and The “undies’’ displayed these days in. the'big shops make one realise what our must have missed! One w-.onders how they could have endured the calicoes and flannels whose one merit was their quality of endurance. That things should ‘last’ is the last thing,wo ask of them nowadays! And the first is that they possess charm. Cfiiarm doesn’t “go” with those dreadful life-service materials and workmanship that make a new lingerie notion a crime. And it is these notions that constitute the allure of the modem fantasies, and give an added lease of life to -somewhat tired top-garments. ‘ ‘ Give me a packet of bath salts and the last word in lingerie sets, land I’ll make do wfith last year’s dresses and costumes*” is the Watchword of twentieth-century Eve. She has learned that the glow of physical joie de vivre. is .worth all the couturiere* - * art; and the daintiness and constant variety of the unseen garments is more essential to her sartorial happiness than the dernier cri in hats. Proof is in all the big shops, with their virtual uniformity of millinery and modes, and their infinite variety of exquisite lingerie. One can have a feminine- field day with a limited allowance, now that undcrncaths matter so much more than tops!