31 MARCH 1961, Page 30

Will it wash? How much should it cost? Where can

you get it? What are the tricks of the trade you have to look out for? These are the kind of questions which Leslie Adrian's articles are always trying to answer; many of them have now been collected, brought up to date and edited by Nancy Ryan into book form.

CONSUMING INTEREST by Leslie Adrian edited by Nancy Ryan is published by Hutchinson at I 8s.