Cascade—Day and Evening

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 252, 14 January 1928, Page 17

Cascade —Day and Evening

Relieves HemLine of Frocks Though longer skirts are not finding very much favour, there is an inclination on the part of designers to give just the touch that deceives one as to the true length of the skirt. A straight, all-round-the-same hem has nothing deceptive about it. Either it shows up a long skirt, or else makes a short skirt look even shorter. It takes a windy day to bring home this fact! The cascade is a relief. To the tight, short skirt it gives the charm of subtle deception, breaking the rigid hem-line with its drapery. For a big woman the cascade gives a graceful appearance and added smartness. From Hip to Ankle Many of the latest evening frocks, too, have departed from the perfectly straight-up-and-down mode, and show the cascade falling from the hip to the ankle. When the cascade is made in one piece, together with the material in the frock, it falls more gracefully and naturally than when put on separately. A very pretty effect is attained when two materials or a reversible cloth is used. Light summer frocks, trimmed at the neck and sleeves with a contrasting colour, have the cascade either bound or lined with the different material, not only for the sake of uniformity, but because a two-toned cascade, falling in folds, has something chic about it that a plain one lacks.

FOR THE BUSINESS GIRL THE WAITING GAME Often the business girl who starts off with high ambitions and an infinite capacity for hard work is discouraged because her chance to make good seems so long in coming. Someone else is filling the post that in her heart she feels is her own particular province. There appears to be no possibility of climbing from her own niche to that coveted place for which she is qualified, and that would take her, in time, to the top of the ladder. And gradually she loses heart. Her work is still done with the conscientiousness that has become almost automatic, but it lacks the old verve. Once this weariness of spirit really gets hold of her, it is incredibly difficult to recapture the enthusiasm of the early days. How many girls realise that it Is because of this slackening off of real mental zeal that they sometimes lose their chance when eventually it does come along? How many would sit up ruefully and take notice, so to speak, if they could overhear the conversation that has taken place in the inner fastness of the chief’s private office! Somewhat on these lines: “Yes, I had thought of Miss Blank, but for some time now she hasn’t shown her old keeriness. She is quite a satisfactory worker, so far as she goes; but she hasn’t those outstanding qualities I thought I detected in her the first year she came!” Poor Miss Blank! She has taken it for granted that because there was no spoken appreciation of her grit and

energy and pluck, they were unrecognised. Whereas all the time she has been sustained by those sovereign attributes she had been impressing her personality on the chief’s consciousness, and he had been making mental notes of her special qualifications for a responsible position demanding constant alertness. Only to scrap them, alas, when energy and pluck drooped beneath hope deferred. It is such a fatal error of tactics to let ardour flag! Even in the face of seemingly endless setbacks, never let go of that all-essential asset of enthusiasm! You know, of course, that it would be re-awakened by the stimulus of promotion; but that is not good enough for your chief. He wants proof that that enthusiasm will stand up against all sorts of odds; that it will not wane directly the first novelty of the new job has worn off. Don’t let your eager spirit sink into that slough of hope deferred. Chances, you know, always have a way of com - ing along when they’re least expected. And you can only step in and take them if you keep yourself up to con-cert-pitch all the time. % Long service is not enough to recommend you for the sort of promotion that really counts. You must bring to the dail> round that “little more—but how much it is!”—which marks you out as *n inspired as well as a conscientious worker. In a word, you must play the waiting game like a sport.