FEMININE BEAUTY.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1938, Page 3

FEMININE BEAUTY.

PRAISE FOR NEW ZEALAND WOMEN.

LATEST AMERICAN FASHIONS. “New Zealand women need feel no inferiority where dress or looks are concerned. They have good figures and features, taste in dress and the same advantages in dress as we have in the United States. Their greatest problem is in the high cost of imported models and materials, and the high duty imposed upon them,” said Mrs. Abby White, who arrived in Auckland recently by the Monterey. Mrs. White said that spring fashions in New York and Chicago seemed to favour navy blue, wine red and London tan for colours. The navy blue was generally relieved with pastel shades such as hyacinth blue or azalea pink. Shoes, gloves and bags were of gabardine and all matching in colour. Heavy jewellery and vivid makeup were still fashionable. Frocks were worn very short with pleated skirts and bolero packets. Sleeves wereshort always.

“The winters there see little change of fashion generally. The houses, trains, trams and shops are kept at such a warm, even temperature that silk summer-weight frocks are worn all the year found with a heavy coat for outdoors and high fur-trimmed goloshes,” said Mrs. White. While evening gowns were still worn at floor length and with very full skirts, dinner frocks were simply cut and short, although not as short as street frocks, she added. Bolero jackets and matching sashes.' with plain frocks were very popular. “Finger nails are still very vivid, and I have even seen them varnished black. For young women the page-boy bob is preferred, while older women like the hair rolled back from the

face. Hats are the flat Breton style and all veiled. “People in New York and Chicago dress very informally for the theatre, in fact it is only for dancing that formal evening dress is popular. For all that night life in New York is very bright,” she added. “The last picture session is at 2 o’clock in the morning.”