The Archive · 1927

"BLUE SPRING" IN PROSPECT

The Colour Wheel Spins This new fashionable bohemian.

which is an easier and cheaper form of entertainment, was known a "bottle" party, and there were many cheery gatherings of the kind, 'Another kind of party which it is expected may be popular in Londort is the "surprise party," so called because the guests raid the hostess'd House, bringing wine, wowien and song with them, whereupon' the hostess, who has always been forewarned by arrangement, greets Aer duets, suitably dressed for the fecasion, and affects astonishment fat seeing them to the best of hoe ability, though the clement of surprise for her is usually in the umber of total strangers who appear as "surprise" quests than in the time and place of hee Fashion is looking ahead, and while every woman. spends' hours plating the furs and woolly' abues of winter, the dress artist is thinking in terms of Tight fabrics.

sees jentclo sunlit Tawas on summer to work to giv the form of beaut be shown as "the latest thing" in February or Mare "What is the colour of the year?" ig the first question a woman asks at me when th new fashions are Thix is question that also bir the beauty spec After all, what is the good of telling beauty by the ounce, s0 to speak, or massage by the hour if the finished result is not to hare monize with the colour of the own party. rly Parties Amongst the "intellectuals" thers ig a youre for startling portion the ¢: in howe of four o'e the afternoon and ending them i the carly hours of the 7 who are jovited early are ally' Une hoot's and hostess's most unate friends, so Uhat these parties usually begin with a small Circle of comrades and end with ferowd of nequaintanees, So far no parly of this kind hax equalled that given for the debut Lorelei," who went tired (0 bel fatter three days of it—but you never know,

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