ORATIA YOUNG PEOPLE DISCUSS WOMEN OF OLD TESTAMENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 167, 5 October 1927, Page 4

ORATIA YOUNG PEOPLE DISCUSS WOMEN OF OLD TESTAMENT

The members of the Oratia Young into any interesting subject at their People’s Society are not afraid to delve regular evenings. At the last one held, attended by a big throng of young people the subject around which discussion took place was “The Women of the Old Testament.” This was very ably handled by Miss IT. Perkins, who was responsible for the Bible reading, and the Misses Davidson and Stone, who read papers on the most important women featured in the Old Testament. The interesting discussion that followed led up to consideration of the 12 tribes of Israel.

WAIST MOVES HIGHER

PARIS DECRESS LONGER SKIRTS ONCE MORE JEWELLED TRIMMINGS The only people who “dress” for the evening here just now are those who go to the “openings” of tlte dressmakers to look at new fashions. You see folk looking “grand” in tlieir best frocks, like gay little islands set in seas of sober morning clothes. But now that dressmakers give parties when they show their new collections there is nothing else to do but to live up to the champagne and ices. The clothes! Out of a head full of chiffons a few things emerge which may be taken as new. Definitely, the waist has been moved to a higher level. As

surely, the skirt has been lowered a centimetre or two for the dav, and for the evening it dips a full foot behind, rises in front, or has long, pointed draperies all round suspended from the hips to give it the appearance of length. For all that, the skirts do not look long; they only look less short. There is some fullness in all. Black in Favour Colours! First in favour is black, alone, and with gold trimmings or bright paste ornaments. Then every shade of beige. A new purple which Patou uses, and also a bright red which he affects, are popular. His thYee new colours make you think of the ringdove and purple nightshade separately and together. Then there is green—pale shades for the evening, and myrtle for the day. Navy blues anc! green blues and one or two pale blues are worn by incurable blue-lovers. Cold greys, cool greens, beige grey, all the browns, mixed with blue, scarlet, yellow, any bright colour, are used in sport clothes, which become more sprightly every season. The modern girl nowadays looks charming and well dressed in any circumstances. From her macintosh inclusive to her ball dress, if she follows obediently where fashion leads, she is dainty and well-turned-out. Line, that most important detail, is slim and supple, but never angular. Corners are rounded, and trimmings are put on in curves. It is as if fashion had suddenly discovered that ravaged faces and attenuated figures were not lovely, and had set about trying to make thin people look as if they took at least one good meal a day. With long fur collars, rounded corners to long coats trimmed with bands of fur, with narrow satin braiding curving round the hips and above the waist, a pleasing plump effect is being given. There are no stark-looking fashions this season. Everything is pretty and slightly inclined to curves, but not to thick or heavy lines. A lot of trimming is done with jewellery—paste buckles and clasps, diamante embroidery, plain steel buckles and clasps, jewelled buttons, a new kind of neck chain which is an imitation of an old Breton silver chain, broad bracelets, or several narrow ones, worn only on one arm over the tight cuff of the sleei’e. Gleaming strings of finely-cut coloured beads are also worn on dresses which have no other trimming. The secret of wearing these dress jewels successfully is not to wear them indiscriminately.