TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 49, 22 June 1928, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

ine Evening Mode. OWING to the very exacting demands of the fashionable life to@ay, frocks must be representative of the ever-changing manner of the mode. These demands have resulted fn a generous array of new lines, subtly modified and given a fresh importance by the use of especiallydesigned materials, new colours, beads, and flowers. Precious stones an metals are seen everywhere woven into the evening mode, adding the glamour of the opera, the dinner, the ball, and the functions that turn winter nights into a blaze of glory. Gold and silver threads gleam through fabrics in floral and geometrical patterns, and sheer crepes brocaded with small delicate metal designs are used for formal gowns as well as the richer brocades. Jewelled buckles of pearls and brilliants are used on the narrow tailored belt or placed at the hip to mark the end of the surplice ‘closing line. Such a buckle to accent such a line is as important a part of the whole, as the flower arrangement of a beautifully appointed dinner table. making a cluster of brilliant light and eolour on the expanse between the accent of one’s necklace or earrings. or the jewelled buckles or straps of one’s shoes. Faces that Match the Mode. INTER is the very season when ‘ good looks are most important. Society is always smartest and gayest in winter, and more formal in its demands. The most distinguished parties always come in winter, when you simply must be lovely-now is certainly the time when you should pamper your skin as it has never been before-be lavish with your faceereanis, cold creams, cleansing creams, and yanishing creams. Tf your puritan background has made = you consstent in the use of soap and water, cut loose this once and see what a cleansing cream doves in its place. Use soap and water, too, if you wish, but use a cleasing cream first. If you haven't a favourite one, try the new ones to convince yourselves, And don't forget your hands are an important part of the picture. Use lots of cream during the winter: | these long-suffering appendages have to haye frequent baptism in soap ‘he water, but do it gently, and use the best soap; also be sure to dry your hands thoroughly so that no mvisture remains to chap the skin. Your hair | needs careful attention in this season; in summer it lives a splendidly free | natural life, with the wind blowing through it and the sun vitalising the sealp and hair-roots. Many a head: never sees the sun in winter, what a change-close air-tight felt hats keep. away the very air from its roots, | Whenever a warm, sunny day makesit possible, give your hair a sun bath. and brush thoroughly so as to reich | the scalp and dust off the hair as well. There are so many aids to beautylovely simple things that make your good jooks stronger, surer. and sator for all the next winters to come.---Mrs, M. Thomas, 2YA. , | The Pearls of a Queen. | ‘A RETURN to more feminine fushions is due in some measure to the good taste of Royalty, which has set the example of wearing the right clothes for different occasions: sport: clothes in the morning, simple silk | frocks and ensembles in the afternoon. | and longer, flowing skirts made of beautiful materials fur the evening. With the same good taste, Royalty bas never given way to masses of imitation jewellery. The pearls of a Queen, the emeralds of a Princess muy be famous, and these Iadies would rather wear no jewels at all than wear false stones, unless in 2 case of Ciplomatic security. Royal Simpticity. No one could be more simply dressed in the morning than the British Royal Family, the Queen of Spain and her daughters, the Queen of Rumania and hers. In pleated skirts, jumpers, eardigan coats, and long cuats, with small felt or straw hats, fur at the neck, and a bunch of flowers to match the ensemble, they may be seen doing their shopping in the Rue de la Paix and its neighbourhood. They are never extravagant, they know what they want, and they realise that dressing well and suitably is part of their job. This attitude alone has its intiuence cn dress,

(The Professional Awakener, WIRELESS is fast completing the extinction of a trade whose decline started years ago on the appearance of the American alarm clock, Laneashire workers, whose watches and clocks could not be relied upon, engaged a man with a long pole who clattered along the streets in wooden clogs knocking at workers’ windows to get them up in time for work. This became a regular trade. Then the American alarm clock saved the expense of the professional awakener. Many of the old-fashioned folk, however, preferred to rely on the human clock, but now that the time is "broadcast" everybody’s clock can be adjusted several times a day. and the "man with the pole" is becoming extinct.