HOLIDAY TRAVEL.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 325, 5 January 1937, Page 2

HOLIDAY TRAVEL.

Lightweight Luggage Is Essential Few accessories have been revolutionised so completely as women's luggage. The desire, common to all, to travel light shows iitteeflf in the array of now bags and cases. The art of choosing the right luggage for the right holiday is a complex matter, states an exchange. Everything to hold our clothes has changed so much in shape, size and colour. The number of small, intriguing bags we have to choose from sometimes leads holiday-makers into grave errors. Better rather to take a lightweight'; small trunk, fitted with wardrobe compartments, for a journey on which a number of clothes are needed. On the other hand, comfortable though the trunk wardrobe is, it is not so convenient for the traveller who wishes to go by railway from place to place. Ideal for her is a new form of travelling bag that resembles a monster handbag with inner and outer pockets and wide, strong handles. These bags are becoming first favourites for all holidaymakers. They are light, capacious, and can be handled easily. You can have thelm in. leathdr; in canvas, with a leather finish. Another informal bag has just appeared; long and large, of canvas with a smart coloured top, it looks like a sack. It should commend itself to absent-minded packers who find, when they have locked up their cases, that important things still hang in their wardrobes. In it. too, books, pillows and woollies could be stowed with ease. Bulky, square dressing-cases, with massive expensive fitlt'ings, so- proudly received on our twenty-first birthday or wedding days are now left at home. The latest dressing-cases- are small, flat close with zip-fasteners, contain bright-backed, but not valuable brushes, have recesses for beauty l requisites and cigarettes, and are relatively less expensive. With the change of sba'pe and size in baggage, packing requires more thought land. care. We need to visualise the finished effect, before the task is begun; we cannot just lay the articles at the bottom of the case and proceed.