A contrast and very definitely for youth was a marvellous organdie powdered with bright nosegays. A joyful crumpled thing it was, which must not be ironed, All that it asks for is to be "tugged" after it is washed. It had all the coolness of the sheer organdie with friendliness added, for a girl might play blind man's buff in it (if she felt like it) and come out of the romp looking as fresh and delightful as she went into it. For youth, too, was a sheer organdie in soft blue covered with a pattern of all-white daisies. If you want to imagine it, think of an April sky.
For the woman who is sleek and slim and very, very perfect are the silk lacs, for in them she will look like a porcelain statuette. The colours are delicately subdued and the material is for all the world like pliable lacquer. Then there are the silk linens. These are in white and in pastel shades of pink, blue and green. They are faultless in their perfection and are high in fashion's favour this year. Crisp, helped by organdie or muslin frills, softness itself if used alone. these silk linens appeal to all types of femininity.
There are imitation linens for the inexpensive frocks—the kind you want lots of on the hot part of the Suez journey home. The des these are splendid—gone are the days when a thing that was cheap had look cheap too. For children's frocks these are the stuffs to buy. They will last for years if you want them io and if they are to be "handed down," but if you d ant them td last it doesn't matter because the price is so reasonable, All Tootal's 1938 cottons are here also, Now is really the time to decide on what we are going to get for our summer frocks. We have had one warning—the next time a burst of warm weather comes it will probably be here to stay. Then we shall feel languid and tailors will be so busy! that they won't be able to make dresses in the ten minutes which we demand and won't be able to give us all the attention which we deserve Or, which is worst of all, if we procrastinate, the early birds, or the ants, or whatever we feel like calling those inhuman creatures who faithfully obey the injunction to "shop early" for this, that and the other thing, will have been at their horrid work and there will be nothing but the second-best left for us.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.