20 
LAND & WATER 
June 14, 1917 
DOMESTIC 
ECONOMY. 
.\ limes un.i addresses oj slwps, where the articles mentioned 
can be obtained, will be joriDarded on receipt of a postcard, 
addressed to Passe-Partoiit, Land lS: Water, 5. Chancery 
Lane, IK.C. z Any other information will be given on request. 
Japanese 
Kimonos 
Tlic unusual time and their unusual 
features mean that clever shopping can now 
and then be done by those who are in the 
kiiow, so to speak. Just at the moment one of those unre- 
peatable chances centres round some embroidered Japanese 
crepe cotton kimonos. These are not only emp!iaticully good 
\.ilde in themselves, but they happen to be unusually worth 
bu\nng owing to the jirohibition of imports. 
fhese fxirticuUir kimonos were bought as long ago as last 
November, and they have been stored ever since; ready and 
waiting for the wann weather. As a summer dressing gown 
thev sunply excel. The crepe is a specially good looking one, 
and tiie embroidery very eifcctive, white flourishing thread 
Ix-'ing worked into a bold arresting pattern. Tlien the price 
is not the least point in it? favoiu", 8s. iijd. being actually all 
that is asked. 
Each kimono has a sash and is finished with cool, clean-looking 
wiiite facings. They can be had in pink, rose colour, saxe blue 
and \iolet, and witliout shadow of doubt no praise is too ex- 
aggerated to give them. 
Anj-thing more delightful for the summer 
Silk and Wool ^1-,^^^ some silk and wool mixture stock- 
ings can simply not be imagined. Of 
light weight and very cool in use they are so nice that any 
women once wearing tliem favour in future no other kind. 
These stockings wash and wear remarkably well, outlasting 
almost any other make. They are a restful kind of stocking 
in use, which some of their confreres emphatically are not. 
Silk stockings are particularly tiring to some feet, and in 
the summer woollen hose is practically out of the (Question. 
These stockings are a very happy compromise between the 
two, and as such score an immense and well deserved success. 
Another original feature at the same shop are lisle thread 
stockings with cashmere feet: These are much more comfort- 
able to wear than a stocking which is lisle thread all through, 
and the price of 3s. 6Jd. is worth giving. 
A Special 
Jumper 
Catch prices are the custom at every 
shop now-a-days — that is to say, some 
charming model is priced unusually low 
in order to be a special attraction. Of this genre is a jumper 
blouse in white cotton voile costing but 7s. iiJd. It is an 
unusually attractive fetching little garment, just the kind of 
thing to buy and find useful for the summer. 
It is cut with the new square neck, the front being made 
with a centre panel. Tlie collar, belt, tops to pockets, and 
the attractive border finishing the jumper are all of coloured 
voile, and here a choice of colours lie. There are white and 
pink jumpers, white and pale blue, or white allied to heliotrope 
or champagne. 
Such a jumper as this is the neatest, most alluring little 
garment seen for many a long day, and happens to be a gar- 
ment infinitely worth securing. 
I have just been introduced to quite the 
The "All One ' Nail most perfect manicure case it has ever 
been my good fortune to meet. Every- 
thing goes into the nail polisher— nail scissors, file, orange 
sticks, tweezers, nail polish and cuticle cream boxes complete. 
How, is amazing, but the fact remains that it does so. 
The polisher, like most of its kind, is about five inches long, 
so that for travelling this manicure " case " is quite the most 
compact thing possible. It is not the easiest thing in the 
world to draw a word picture of such a unique contrivance 
but the nail pohsher really resolves itself into a little hollow 
box. Pulling u]) the handle reveals the array of manicurint^ 
articles inside. To the uninitiated it is only a pad, in reality 
it is everything necessary to the tending of a well kept hand. 
The manicure pad fits into a leather sheath, so that what- 
e\er happens to it — whether it is packed or stands ready for 
use on the dressing table — the polisliing leather is protected. 
A detachable rim permits of the leather being changed. 
This brilliant idea is very popular in America. 0\'erhere 
in London a renowned firm ha\e the sole rights. They are 
seUing it in silver— either plain or engine turned — tortoise- 
shell, ivory, silver-gilt, and in various enamels of excep- 
tionally lovely colourings. 
Moth Proof 
Bags 
Our regular readers will doublless 
remember that wonderful moth proof bags 
were mentioned in this paper last year. 
Never, however, can the praises of a. really good thing be too 
often sung, and this is the psychological moment for their 
reiteration. Everyone now, liaving gone through the merry 
# and often uncertain month of May, is patting their furs away 
and casting som^ anxious thoughts on their safe " storage. 
These marvellous moth proof bags make this a very simple 
and very secure matter. Once furs, coats, stoics, muffs and 
the like, are safely stored within them, their owner need not 
give them another thought until she takes them once more 
into wear. 
They are the invention of a clever furrier, and the m j.st 
convenient thing known. Proof against moth though they 
are, no disagreeable chemical smell pervades them. Tlius 
they can easily be hung into a cupboard with other clothes. 
Inside each bag is a little row of hooks on which coats can 
be hung. Tiie bag itself is hermetically sealed by a patent 
fastener, and remains aU through the summer the most per- 
fect system of home storage for furs yet invented. 
These bags are. kept in three sizes costing 7s. iid., 9s. iid. 
and I2s. 6d. respectively — postage is sixpence extra. 
Since that wonderful fabric Luvisca was 
Luvisoa Blouse fjj-st placed on the market, hundreds of 
°"* women have had ample reason to 
sincerely sing its praises. As a fabric it is simply without 
rival. It washes and wears, wears and washes with almost 
monotonous regularity, it has the most wonderfully silky look 
— a look that does not vanish with time — yet strange to 
say there is no silk in its composition. 
In a certain London shop, tempting propositions are per- 
petually the order of the day, and not least among them are 
some new Luvisca bloust* coats. These delightful garments 
are a cross between a blouse and a sports coat, combining 
very effectually both functions in one. They are the ea:?iest 
thing in the world to sUp on, fastening with a few buttons down 
the front, belting round the waist and being in short the 
ideal garment for a woman busy about the house or in her 
garden during the day. 
The available colourings are pink, pale blue, mauve, brown, 
navy blue, black, white and fawn, with various coloured 
stripes, while the price, iSs. iid., is a wholly reasonable one. 
Wonderful Sun 
Blinds 
Most things have mounted incredibly 
in cost since the war, but some quite 
unique sun blinds must not be counted 
amongst them. These sun blinds in a cool looking shade of 
rather dark green cost the exceedingly small sum of 5s. 6d. 
complete, with pulley and cord. They resolutely exclude 
the sun, yet their clever construction is such that at the same 
time they admit the air. What their comfort ^means during 
the hot summer weather words can h.ardly tell, but it is very 
certain that they mean all the difference between whether a 
house is bearable or the reverse. -^ 
Getting things fixed is a problem nowadays, hut with these 
bhnds no difhculties loom in the path. The veriest amateur 
can fix them, either inside the window or out, though outside 
is where the majority of people place them. When up they 
quite impro\e the look of a house. The blinds can be raised 
or loweieJ to all heights by means of the pulley. Drawing 
the cord slightly to the right causes the blind to stay fixed at 
anv distance from the window sill, so that every variation of 
sun can be met and duly coped with. 
The five and sixpenny bhnds are thirty-six by seventy- 
two inches. Other sizes can be got, increasing six inches and 
rising ninepence a time. Passe Pariout 
