Shop Talk

Our guess is that Mr. Lewis had a bad evening at the theatre, behind a diadem. It probably stood like a fence between him and the stage and he got to brooding over it. At all events, he’s snatched a diadem off some one’s head and experimented with using it on a Nat Lewis bag. We saw several beautiful ones and one white kid creation with a golden frame looked as if it were slated to go far, with all of your pastel clothes and to all resorts.

There are two distinct classifications of clothes at Lane Bryant’s. They are either frankly youthful or for women over thirty and you will be out of luck if you expect to find dull, dowager apparel there. The dresses are gay and smart, all of them, and very wearable. Prints, chiffon and tub crepe pastels are some of the favorite materials and they are grand for hot weather. Right now Lane Bryant’s “leadership sale” throughout the store offer a practical demonstration proving that the larger woman can find apparel as excitingly new and low-priced as her slim sister.

Cut-a-lene is a new aid for keeping nails and fingertips clean and tidy. It removes typewriter ribbon stains; also cigarette, lipstick and other colorations which discolor even the most lady-like hands. It is hold at Bloomingdale’s.

If you are as serious as we are about the condition of your skin then we won’t have to coax you to listen to us. At the Hotel St. Moritz, in a cool, spacious salon a famous beauty specialist is sending her women patrons out into the world with smooth, radiant complexions, unlined by age or care. Her facials, real purging treatments, are different from anything we have had heretofore. After a thorough skin cleansing with a liquid milk cleanser, a suction cup is used to draw out all impurities from your skin. A healing lotion is then applied. You are now ready for the iron, a real honest-to-goodness one, a queer little metal contraption, electrically heated, covered with face youth cream that penetrates deep into your pores. Gently all of the lines and creases are ironed out of your face and then an astringent follows, which stimulates the circulation, closes the pores and leaves your face in a glow that will last for weeks. You’ll sing Hosannas in its praise after you had the first treatment. Write me for the name.

Hot weather distractions: Marie Ollendorf’s reducing soap and lotion, guaranteed to take inches off in a few applications….Alfred Dunhill’s drumstick lipstick, exciting, gay and sophisticated….The Knox Crusher, an air-cooled hat and a welcome stowaway in a week-end bag or in the pocket of your coat; can be worn off the face, down, or any way you want; in all colors..Saks Fifth Avenue’s Air-Flo, a slim, wedged-shaped compact with special rouge and lipstick cases concealed in a cylinder set in the thicker end….Bonwit Teller’s transparent brims. Big net cartwheels that dip to shadow your eyes and carry a bit of mystery into the bright daylight of summer, with a band of bright “grasses” to top it off…Arnold Constable’s “Kwik-Wate” bathroom scale, accurate at all times guaranteed for one year, dials up to 250 pounds, orchid, green or ivory.