Woman's world

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 82, 1 September 1914, Page 6

Woman's world

FROCKS THAT PACK IN' THE POCKET.

The holiday girl is sfcaillingly energetic this year (says an .l'n; ; lish exchange). She appears to have had a surfeit of railway, steamship t i:c motoring excursions, and, as her annual sumirer vacation draws near she is arranging to cover mules of road i>y wheel, or to tramp ac;oss the green lie Jus witii all her luggage neatly packed in a knapsack.

In batches of two,* and 1 t'srecs, the July and August holiday girls arc pi'"panmg to start oil' merrily, -redurnij their requirements to a :ninmuiin. for half the fun of the expedition is ••Inning to rough it a bit." The cycling and the pedestrian tourists take much the same amount of luggage with them, tlio only dillneiicc lie ing in the t-ystem of knapsack that is used, and with 'ltoth the essentials vie a good map of the country, and a macintosh.

CAPACIOUS " HOLD-ALLS."

An Express representative was infoiHUKii at one of the leading outlining shops that not for many years lias Ulcic been sucJi ci demand fox light-weight, portable '"hold-alls." "Some of these are intended for strapping to the shoulders, and others for attaching to a bicycle, it was stated, "but nearly all arc made of waterproof material, anl are remarkably capacious for their size. They will usually contain all tdiat is necessary for n tour if the articles te be packed' are judiciously selected.

"Special uncrushablc Mouses and summer frocKs are obtaiiiab 1 .; for then? ouitlits, so tnat tourists mi.l not be faced with si formidable lui i dry problem, while the new eollapsviie hnwhes and coniibs t::ke up little space." Quite an innovation for the walking 01 cycling woman tourist is the inclusion" of si semi-evening frock in her baggage. Although she li>:: is herself to just a lew recessary ;,i::clcs, she fully realises the importuici of havinga suitable chaiige for dinner wli-r. visiting friends on hen route i«r when spending tlie Sunday at an hotel. 'in the West End shops thinly crepe de flliine frock*, so marv;d.'ously compressible that they will roll up into a tiny parcel, are now to he lad. The parcel can eas'ilv be carried in u coat ,o,ket. " . ....