HOW TO LOOK ONE’S BEST WHEN DANCING

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 133, 26 August 1927, Page 5

HOW TO LOOK ONE’S BEST WHEN DANCING

Every woman likes to look her best in the ballroom. The bright lights, the opportunity for the display of pretty frocks, and the soul-stirring effects of syncopated music make every woman desire to be a “phantom of delight” when she goes dancing. Although the old system of issuing invitations weeks before a dance, thus giving a woman heaps of time to select her frock, prepare her toilette, 2-nd curl her tresses, has passed, even in these times a woman likes several hours to prepare herself to ‘be a moment’s ornament.” There are so many points to consider before going to a dance, and apart from the artificial aids to beauty which most women employ, more or less, there are several practices that it is wise to pay attention to when getting ready. Before starting on your evening’s gaiety you will find it is a good plan to rest a while. Lie flat on the bed, let every muscle relax, make no effort to think, and tie a cold water bandage across your eyes. This latter will stimulate the muscles around the eyes, make them bright, and sparkling, and more resistant to the hot atmosphere of the ballroom which, however well ventilated, is usually smoke-laden and. after a while, trying to the eyes. If possible, it is refreshing to take a warm bath before dressing, afterwards sponging down with tepid water. By the way. some borax dropped into the bath will have a stimulating effect, while the addition of a small quantity of ordinary common starch will impart a soft and velvety surface to the skin. Before putting on your stockings the feet should be dusted with boracic powder. This eliminates fatigue and makes the feet, which do a great deal of work during the evening, feel cool. The application of methylated spirit will

have the same eeffct. If powder is I to be applied to the hands and arms ■ it is an excellent thing to rub these ' first with glycerine and rose-water in order to make the powder adhere. The unpleasantness of offering & hot. damp hand to a partner—an unavoidable situation after dancing vigorously for some time and so getting thoroughly warmed up——can be prevented if the palms of the hands are rubbed with pure eau-de-Cologne and dusted with talcum powder before leaving the house to go to a dance. Red and raw-looking arms and elbows. which look so particularly hideous in a ballroom, can be whitened by rubbing them with a cut lemon, bathing them in warm water, and afterwards massaging them gently with cold cream. i Rough arms should be rubbed with a loofah while bathing, and the freJ Quent use of cold cream as a massage cream at night will preserve whiteness. A last-moment hint to the girl whose ankles are inclined to thickness is. of course, impossible. But for the dancing girl who has thick ankles there is a little proceeding she :an perform herself a fortnight before any particular dance and every time she goes dancing afterwards. It is this. Rub the ankles every night with spirit of camphor, rubbing upward from the ankle.