Clothes and the Woman

New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 430, 19 September 1947, Page 17

Clothes and the Woman

) ) ANY a husband has heard the complaint, "I simply can’t go out; I haven't a thing to wear," which, as often as not, he finds hard to reconcile with the state of his wife’s wardrobe-or of his own cheque-book. But a crumb of comfort is coming his way via the Talks Department of the NZBS, which has arrenged for a series of six morning talks from 2YA by ‘Margaret,’ a Wellington modiste, called What Shall I Wear? By the time the series is over, the girls and women who have listened will have learned, the speaker hopes, quite a bit about the economics of choosing, buying and wearing. The talks will be weekly, on Tuesdays, at 10.25 a.m. The first, on September 23, is to be on general lines, emphasising, we are told, the importance of clothes-conscious-ness. The second will be directed at the girl who has just come from the country to work in the city. She will be told what clothes are suitable for different occasions, how to ‘touch up the office wear and get to that five o’clock tea or cocktail party with the least trouble, and how to make a basic frock serve half-a-dozen purposes. In the third talk the city girl will be instructed how to’ choose dresses and

frocks with an eye to making a limited income go as far as possible. In the fourth the young mother with a young family will hear how to dress her children as well as herself by adapting garments for different uses. The fifth

will be fom the housewife who may, or may not, be able to relax in the afternoons and do a little entertaining or visiting. And the sixth and last will deal with clothes for the "society woman" whose taste may be in tune with her financial resources, or discordant, as the case may be.