In West-End shopland the great Sur momentous are dot this year on s "sales are opening, and while
the look-out for bargains in clothes and household goode of all kinds, they are buying on a generous scale. There can be no more Paris fashions for a while and so Paris models which wer lit up by Lopdon shops in May have rarity value.
Practical clothes and' furnishings and in no less a degree safety clothes and furnishings, are the first te be after at the sales. There isa qun on siren suits, for babies of two years up to old ladies'
o its with a steel crown for protection against splinters in an air re new arrivals non fashion india rubber Protects
the forehead. These caps of pro-teal are introduced both prevent. ihe cap sulting ET is and other hats for its in which they are perdes massels. The only difference is in the from ordinary Colour has become an outstanding factor in clothes now that khaki and blue are so predominant everywhere, and also now that black and black and white have everywhere increased. Blues are among the best and the prettiest, especially in the lighter tones which dyers are producing in order to save raw material. For coats and suits in any sort of blue there are charming fittings in the way of blouses and waistcoats in lavender shades, and these go with mufti or with uniform equally well. Blue is much cheered up by red, touches, and. raspberry-red_ handkerchiefs, belts, ties, bags. Wine colour, rust colour, gold,.bright red are all used for accessories and also for linings io darker coats. These colourings apply, of course, to the many black dresses, of which it might be said that everyone needs one. Plain black frocks look right everywhere and can vivified by means of bright touches at the throat, waist, wrists, or by small muslin fittings in the shape of bows or collars.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.