NOTES FOR WOMEN

Wairarapa Age, 23 February 1927, Page 2

NOTES FOR WOMEN

PERSONAL ITEMS. Miss Hester Saunders (Solway) is 1 spending a few days at Levin. Miss Fiona Taylor (Masterton) is ■, visiting Wellington.

Miss Margaret Bagshaw, Essex Street, is in Dunedin on holiday. ■ Mr. and Mrs. A. HoHings, of Wei- I lington, are the guests of Mrs. Stanley McLaren, Lansdowne. Mrs. Leslie Jago, Napier, is visiting t her sister, Mrs. Hugh Perry, Cole Street. Mrs. M. Murray, Auckland, who has j boon staying with. Mrs. H. A. Cunning-* ; ham, of Lansdowne, has gone on to Dunedin. Miss Olive Small, who has spent some considerable time in the Wairarapa and for the past two weeks has been staying with Mrs. G. Taylor (York Street), returned to her home at Seatoun yesterday. * 1 Treat your hair gently and your scalp roughly,” is the advice of an authority on the subject. Mere, brushing once a day is not sufficient. The scalp should bo stimulated and loosened, and a brisk circulation induced by

regular massage, not rubbing but moving the skin about briskly from nape, forehead and ears to crown. Combing the scalp firmly with a not too blunt comb removes scurf and is otherwise beneficial, with vigorous brushing , afterwards to free the hair from dust. , When brushing your hair, remember to make partings all over the head and brush the scalp. Hair specialists advise brushing the hair up instead of vVitli the usual downward stroke. Juniper frocks, an English writer observes, tend more towards semi-fitting models-than to the straight loose-hang-ing type of design. Another variation of the same idea is manipulated with the tight hipband. The vogue for a neutral coloured costume, with a hat to match, is still seen amongst the smartest women, a new note of colour being struck by the brilliant grosgrain ribbons that encircle the crown of the hat. Cobalt blue and black adorn a hat of taupe coloured velours, for example. All-white is very popular again this winter for evening wear, when simplicity is the keynote. White jumper blouses, especially those fashioned in satin, are beautified with fine embroidery in white threads.

Green, because it is becoming to both blondes and brunettes; black, because it will always be popular; and red on sufferance are the three most popular shades for the autumn. However many other colourful frocks we may buy, there is »always the urge to have one Black frock ‘in the wardrobe. It suits out difficult moods when the gay colours only irritate us. The flambuoyant red is among the slain, but the mild ones, plum, wine and rust shades, are worn, and usually with vivid blues underneath to give the fuchsia tonings. Green and grey is a quaint ensemble becoming to most women. Most attractive are the plain green georgette frocks worn under green coats trimmed with grey fur. Pale shades in georgette and ninon are popular for evening wear, hnd the reseda tones are most favoured. Green velvet frocks have little coats of dark green cloth to complete the outfit, which also carries a hat of plush, high crowned and almost brimless, trimmed with velvet foliage of a darker shade at the side.

Hat jewellery is very popular. Not only crystal brooches and daggers, but almost every type of stone or jewel can be seen on the autumn hats, a London writer remarks. Mother of pearl and other sheel ornaments arc very effective, and brilliants are set in these, and on every conceivable background, for millinery purposes. Old shoebuckles set with brilliants are much sought after, while Victorian bog-orna-ments set with Irish “diamonds,” and many old brooches are being unearthed—even cameos and mourning brooches are utilised, the latter doing duty on coloured hats. Jade makes a beautiful ornament for a black hat, and this is run very close by cornlian and Scotch pebble. Long pieces of black jet or bone, studded with paste, make a tall frontal trimming suitable for some faces. Swords, sheathed or otherwise, are very popular; and the motorist can find a miniature car to adorn her hat,

the air-enthusiast a propeller. Nearly every type of bird can be found on millinery, some carved from bone, others in jet or metal set with brilliants. Storks, ducks, and even eagles arc made for the up-to-date woman; and one of the most novel hats seen this season was a black beaver with a gilt bee-hive on the front and tiny .gift bees flying all round. Old ear-rings, 'coloured or otherwise, are often used effectively by the enterprising milliner. Short hatpins are more favoured now than they have been ror some time, but are rather for ornament than use. The heads arc usually of some brightcoloured stone, and if any other stone is used on the hat, it must match. AUTUMN FASHIONS. Taffeta jumper-suits are among the autumn novelties, writes an overseas fashion correspondent. I have never loved taffeta like other things; its important rustling annoyed me! but this season’s taffeta is soft and clinging, smooth, pliant, and—silent. Evening fracks for very young people are made of it. I saw one, a lovely wistful blue, made with long scalloped bodice and scalloped skirt, little puff sleeves and a blue mother-of-pearl plaque its sole ornament. It had been made for a schoolgirl, and the modiste who showed it to me said: “The girls of 1G ate so trying and particular. Far more fussy than their mothers.”

Our wardrobes have lost that twinsoul look. You can wear a coloured coat over a different coloured dress, i though you are expected to see that 1 your colours are good mixers and do not clash. Also, balance must bo pre- . served. If you wear a brown coat over • i a grey dress and a dark red hat (it | sounds awful, I know, but it can be ; j done, and done well) your dress should t have some touch of brown about it i to support the coat, even if it is only ’ i a wide hip belt or the openwork emI broidery down the front of the jumper, which is so smart. And, of course, you : should carry a red handbag for the ; sake of your hat. j Although wo are let off crowds of things |his year that we had to ©bservo j last, everything should look as though it had some reason for being there, • ■ some purpose wi its frivolous life. We : do not pin a brooch on just because it is a brooch that a best friend or > grandmamma once gave us. We wear it because it will restrain the ends of a ' ' scarf or keep a tie or dower in -place, i j In the same way, if we pull our tammy- . i crowns over to one side and secure ’ • them just above a permanent curl by , means of a- crystal and onyx pin, tho > least wo can do is sec that our vanity or cigarette case and our bracelets are , crystal and onyx, too. They are trying so hard to make us : I give up our shoulder nosegays in the . ' evening, and wear tiny feather ruffles ; instead tied with ribbons that float i down the back, but with organdie j frocks and feather “tippets,” won’t j . the ballrooms have a summon sh air?” ,