WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 206, 9 December 1910, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

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(Conducted by "Eileen")

LONDON FASHIONS.

Tea Coats.—A new idea is the afternoon tea coat —an affair of chiffon, or of gorgeous silk in Oriental colorings. There are blue coats with gold worked over the shoulders and down the front, grey with orange or with mauve, etc. Contrasted touphes are introduced also in the form of small tabs in front or in large rosettes that resemble the flowers made of silk that trim most of the new evening frocks. Pastel shades, too, are favorites, and other colors much used are jade green, pervenche blue, bronze, geranium, olive, purple in many shacegreen in wonderful nuances, Japanese red,; petunia, and such effects as gold worked , into grey and shades of cream brocaded ; on ivory velyet. Tassels are one cf th* J features of the coats and cloaks, as well j as of dresses. There are sometimes gir- ■ dies worked in fine silk and finished with tassel 9 in Eatern hues. Peculiarly English.—"Nice" is a word which came from the French "nice," meaning lazy, dull, simple, from the Latin "iteciua"—ignorant. All of which is far away from the enormous amount of nicenesses covered by this elastic word in England. From a colonial point of view the way in which nice is employed is purely English. We do not carelessly call everyone we like in New Zealand "so nice" as they do in this country, a wellfrocked woman "nicely dressed," or in setting a charming musician on a pedestal acclaim her a "nice" singer. It is a weak word used so, surely, but applied to dress the English people manage to make even so stupid an appellation expressive. "She always dresses very nicely," is a great compliment, and means

that the fortunate being so described is upholstered in all that denotes good taste.

Costumes. Coat lengths continue short, though it is hinted in some quarters that the winter models will again bring the three-quarter lengths into vogue, a sensible idea for winter weather. A number of the shortest models show the semi-fitting jacket so cut as to preserve almost a straight line from the sihouldeT to the edge of the coat. Some of the newest fit so closely round the hips as to gave the impresstion that a one-piece dress is being worn. In contrast to this style is the model showing the shortened waist-line. This effect, for the benefit of the home dressmaker, is produced quite frequently by placing buttons at the back a couple of inches above the normal waist line. Trifles.—Bead chains are worn extensively now. There are the soft shaded beads, known as "Job's tears," which are really huge seeds dried and polished, and which are slung together and worn over a velvet gown or costume, and there are the chains of semi-precious stones, such as lapis lazuli or jade, which are linked together with tiny beads of gold filigree. These latter have a very handsome effect on a gown of lapis lazuli or dark green velvet. In view of the immense size of the muffs this season, the ■muff chain is hardly likely to be popular, and the bead chain will not be put to any special use. Beads are being very yw.kliely worn, also, as trimming, and bead buttons and clasps of porcelain and of crystal, beads in cross-stitch patterns, and bead hems on tunics ane to be part of the winter fashions.

A fashion that it is to be hoped will not become universally popular is that of wearing artificial floral buttonholes on tailor-mades.

Girdles or silk cord are pretty additions to some of the new house gowns. An excellent recipe for washing a net blouse —a bugbear, generally, to the girl who "does up" her own dainties, is to fill a muslin bag with bran. Pour over it three or four pints of boiling water, and let it stand until cool. Then put half in a basin with enough soap jelly to make a lather, and squeeze the blouse well in it. Do not rub on any consideration. Add «old water to the remaining water, and rinse the blouse thoroughly in it. Then roll up tightly in a clean cloth, and iron in half an hour with a moderately hot iron. If ironed fairly wet don't use starch.

SUNBURN. "Rightly or wrongly," says the Lancet, "the face browned by -the sun is regarded as an index of health, and there are some persons >\viho feel that the money spent upon a holiday has been well spent if they come back sunburnt. This

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AN ENEMY OF THE TEACUP One of the doughtiest eighteenth century enemies of tea-drinking was Lady Bradshaigh, of Haigh, near Wigan. She left an endowment for a "receptacle" — meaning an alms house—for aged people on the estate, the stipend to be 50s a year. But there was this exacting clause —"I do positively forbid the inhabitants of the house to use any foreign tea known by the names of Bohea and Green, and if any of them persist in drinking it or expending money for that purpose they shall be dismissed. Those who can afford to indulge themselves in an article so unnecessary and expensive, so destructive both to time and health (the tea such persons must drink being a sort of poison), I shall not allow them to be proper objects of this charity."