KEEPING HANDS COOL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 508, 10 November 1928, Page 20

KEEPING HANDS COOL

HINT FOR BUSINESS GIRLS Summer is the season when the business girl has most need to care for her hands and nails, for the hot weather plays havoc with a busy girl’s hands. Over the typewriter, that familiar clamminess is almost inevitable, and to minimise the evil, warm water with a little borax or alum added will prove a welcome washing mixture. As a lotion four teaspoonfuls of eau de Cologne, two ounces of iodine, and a wineglass of strained lemon juice, if rubbed into the hands after washing, will prove effective.

As for the important points in the modes themselves, the word has already been flung to the four winds that skirts are a little fuller, and, for formal wear, a little longer. And the waistline —another very important question! This is, as it has been for the past few seasons, a movable feast. Some dresses show the old, normal waistline; in others the waistline is creeping up, giving a different proportion to the silhouette. The silhouette is gradually changing, so that the skirt has greater importance than the bodice.

These changes will have effect on sports wear, for we have reached such a satisfactory type in the pull-over, with pleated skirt, and cardigan, or short jacket, that it has become as standardised as men’s clothes, and must vary chiefly in colours and fabrics, wsich, I think, will tend to follow masculine modes.

Every shop window shows a dif- - ferent picture of the season’s trimmings and designs for the smart frock er. Never, it seems, has Fashion been more lavish and varied with her creations for the feminine form divine than now. It is hard to believe that so many models can be governed by any one set of rules dictated by designers. And