SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1924.
THE CHINA MAIL.
FASHION Takes Her SUMMER HOLIDAY
BARB
WIRYSLOW
The Vacation Wardrobe Makes Generous Use
of Flannel, Crepe and Knit Fabrics
Luggage Meets the Wardrobe's Needs.*
in
ETS COAT. FESTS
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and knit fabrics are the backbone of the swimming suit mode. Which brings us, as any discusssion of sports togs is sure to do-to knit apparel in general. No traveller but will find oom in her baggage, no matter how limited and it is a certainty that the more limited it is the more room she ONLY the censional woman has an for the crepes include the envy or auit in Rome one of the many smart will find for at least one knitted frock oppitunity to prove Shukespeare's varieties--like the wafle weaves; and fashions of the day. Their colouring: Assertion that "If all the year were the medium-like crepe de chine; and playing holidays, to sport would be as the lighter weights-like Georgette their jaunty lines and their wearable tedious as to work," but the average With a reasonable amount of care
Dil woman is quite content to be busy packing they come up selling from from their extremely light weight.
recommend them, and the males, 1
amount of their desirability re- through, the major per
portion
of the year, Journey, but it is left to the knitwear livier on the memories of last summer's garments to give one hundred per cent.
Fibre silk has beauty and is practi- hulalay in anticipation of the of service on a journey. They seem lines is proof of its charm. The wheel cal, and the two-piece dress of simple holiday to
It doe come,
not take inmune to the usual results of clone fortune teller to prophesy a journey, packing, and need only
motif provides a trimming touch that or meeting, or pleasant days ahead, smile to make them ready for wear.
shake and a
raises the model from the usual to the holiday time is play lime, and the For the long vacation there will be playground is usually in the mountains, evening frocks and wrapa; afternoon ends, completes the costume
to wind about the neck and fall in long on the shore of some inland sea, or at costumes; sports cluthes; chats the shore. As to the success of the capes; and all the hatsy shoes, hosiery
suits are pictured, the one Consisting vacation, many, things are contributory and other appurtenances thereto.
the weather; the company; the sur-the short vacation there will be only roundings; and last, but only lasta single evening frock; a coat that will because ધ is the climax--the wardrobe. do What are
do double duty as an evening or a day.
発
and
For
use Loliday when there are time wrap: sports clothes for travel and no smart clothes to wear? There is daytime wear; and
Certain
HOTICA
only those acces
a single answer, for there could Hories that are imperative. pussibly be no other. There must be types of a vacation may make an after- amart clothes; correct clothes; clothes non frock necessary, but when it is that travel to their destination without possible it should be omitted, as it losing their charm. Whether it be an
ments bat; orena trip; a nater four; or a series of
shoes and hosiery; and the usual accessories to
afternoon week-ends in the country or at the attire. There are few afternoon occa wardrobe that it not only its owner best type of sports wear will not grace -but every pecasion of the sojourn. Attingly, for sports wear is a most
Fabrics Play An
elastic mode. Important Part. For her who is
to "spend the sum-
Choose Few From The Many.
less Jacket, and the other straight line tion of the Chinese in its cut. In both dress and coat that has just a sugges- models the trimming is knit in, and the eleeveless ensemble boasts mono- gram motif, on the con Оле сла readily see that either suit would be suite unwrinkled after even a lengthy
journey.
Sweater Part Of Wardrobe..
The ubiquitous sweater will be a part
interests of versatility and general use- of every vacation wardrobe, no matter how limited. It has its uses in the fulness and becomingness, and it is an either for wear with the separate skirt, exceedingly
comfortable
garment or for the added warmth that one finds necessary now and then. The pictured node, and makes use of the famil,ar, but always smart black and white com- bination. The best type of knitted
TA
FILOPPED PE
FASHION OF WHITE.
UMMER demands white, and what ammer demands. it usually gets, so far as fashion is concerned. There in no time of the day, when it in not smart, no, time of day when it is not correct, and its coolness adds no small nmount to its desirability, The fashions that go to make op "Tho Fashion of White" are quality fashions, Chris
present season, THE GAY PARASOL and beauty, as well as smart
savouring nese Fine fubrics soft wool and flannels, crepes, Milks, materials, laces, hand embroideries and lingerie chiffona have a part in this very dis
of
NO accessory of the summer catam, tinct mode, and there is no trautility of
is as picturesque as the paranoi, and it is a practically indispensible style detail if the ensemble is to be innovations in fabric, colour and design truly smart. There have been so many that one may choose from many ader
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their styling. range of garments or the
freedom of line that no other garment
there is practically possesses. Pleats knit in-stay in, and wearing qualitica. It has many usex,able models. Fabrics Include stik,
limit to the most satisfactory that of a general linen, velvet, chiffon, and one hesitates knock-about wrap that one does not to any it, lest it he not believed-cotton have to worry about apolling.
parasols of this once, despised fubrle the must go a raincoat of some sort flowered cretonnes and printed lingettes Into the vacation wardrobe there are very gaily figured, the brilliantly either of rubberized crepe de chine or
-in equally brilliant colours being transparent oil silk; a weather-proofed most in favour tweed topcoat-If space permits-finely hand tailored and hand finished; and what the material, and the strong
Colours are gorgeous, many accessories of bathing apparel; evening
yellows, greens and blues: Chinese clothes.
the
no matter
Hals will und daytime lacquer red; and vivid plaids are among
her
individual, and a scarf, long, enough model adopts the vertee of the tailored bilities it is not dißcult to choose the followed, logically, in the wake of
Two
of sleeveless dress and mating sleeve, wrap is the cape, for it has a grace and
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Sports and the Country Club demand
frocks; flannel skirts; sports shirts of flannel conte, capes or suits, with white fur collars or braid bound; sports English broadcloth and silk crepe, Georgette or linen; for White for morning wear means flannel, sweaters. afternoon it is lace, hand embroidery, brings out the sheerest Inces and the dainty lingerie materials and crepo especially Georgette; and evening chiffons over silk, with marabou or ostrich, ar beaded. Footwear, in the graceful lines of the dress shoe, or the more sturdy nes of the sport shoe, is of kidskin, buckskin or reignskin.
Keeping strictly to authentic lines and fabrics, the fashion of white in cludes every detail of apparel from head to heel. Yet-to provide the inevitable exception and prove the rula -one authority insists on "node stock- inga" even when all the rest is white." DID YOU KNOW-
be simple for general wear of Bangkok straw, felt the shades and effects most promittently or suede, and the picture type, of hat featured. The short, stubby parasol will play its part. From all the possi
the short, stubby umbrella, and the most attractive and those beat adapted curved rib puronal has
given place to to one's individual purposes. Whatever the perfectly flat Japanese style. The the cholce, the modes described are the handles are, sometimes, no more that most approved fashions for play:
five or six inches in length, and are quite as gorgeous as the fabrica. They are made of guialith-or Home.composiTHAT the choker necklace of large, tion of that sort--wood-enamelled or slightly graduated beads in green carved; or lizard skin.
NEEDLEWORK AIDS
To Beauty and Comfort D
Accenting fabrics-bolli thair colour and design-trimmings take opposing tones and vivid colours. Embroideries, beading, hand-painting, ribbons, braid,
Plaids-both as a fabric and a decora- hemstitching and clever appliques, alt do their share to achieve distinction. tive note are much used. The results
roid, bronze or silver finish, has stuð or drop earrings to match willow ostrich collar is quite fiat, and THAT a clever interpretation of the made of the long, feathery ostrich mounted on aatin band? It comes in a single colour or a combination of two colours.
THAT Paris is wearing the famitiny Klass bracelets in a new way? Twelve
bench; there must be a well-balanced sjons that the semi-formality of the keeps pick-up work at hand all the year [ always a thrill in the finished plece pillows, so that there may be an air of the various combinations of fabric, of them, in the sombre.shades, are used
TN these days of fascinating needle-making way for something else that spread; scar?s for chiffonier, chifforobe work pasalbilities the average woman will vary the monotony. There is and dressing table; and recovering round; and more especially in the the more thrills the better, Ноиве summer, when the leisure hours of
dresses and Aprons present alluring of differentness--so infinitely desirable colour, unusual design and trimmings and they are worn from wrist to elbow vacation time must bu, filed, she seeks possibilities to the housewife even the bit of handwork that may be caught when she cannot cut or fit for they furnishments all the time about the nier" in play, and need have no restric-..With a general idea of what is prov. up and laid down at will, proving work providing the Anish. One might rejuvenation of the little things.of.the to her who "lves with" the household come partially made, the decorative employment for a few minutes or a
tiss
But the usual woman will tire of a
set in the number of pieces or ing most acceptable this season, it is few hours as occasion arises. So there call them "All-done-but-anishing "com. She changes the material, the the sine of her luggage, any fabric is quite possible to make a satisfactory are always new things of very great pieces. The stitches used in the colour scheme, and the type of decora possible, for she may depend on the choice for either the long or the short Interest to her-appearing in the art closet-like wardrobe trunk and the holiday. Sports clothes head the list, shops, some of them seasonal, others convenience of shoes and hat trunks to of course, for is not summer the time asexul all seasons of the year.
embroidery on these frocks and aprons tion cach time, assuring the conscious- transport her belongings, not only of sporta:
are ridiciously simple, but extremely ness of "something different," and unfely, but in prime
They are characterized, like a task that means the patient swiftly, and the pattern grows rapidly work.
Some effective, so the work moves along insuring against monotony in her needle the woman whose luggage is limited, curelessness-without it, they
condition.
But always these clothes, by A studied labour of many months for them in one's hands. There is a wide range studies the model rooms in big shops, On her shopping trips she wishes variety and yet
practicn finds that fabric is a most important best interprets this characteristice, is mar
results, failures. The fabric of the hour, that piece of tapestry work, in which they of materials and colour schemes bringing away new ideas for future
must set stitches patiently, and set practically no limit to the latter, since use. factor, since some materiala take up less room and therefore pack to better
flannel, for it takes kindly to tailoring many of them, before the realy beauti-
Art shops have these bed room one may follow her individual taste, sats already stamped, and usually have ful advantage, und some travel better, and desirable. In white or in vivid colours, approved of fashion, may be achieved
and possesses the "chic that no can be finished. The tapestry handbag with the article.
pillow top, fire screen or chair back rather than the suggestions that come a set finished to show the possibilities are quite certain to arrive none the it makes sleeveless frocks and coales auch an achievement truly worth worse for their journey. These fabrics suits; skirts; blouses, and the so- while.
of the pattern, but if one wishes she are the ones that should be given first popular slim coat-wrap that is every--
There are all the needed pieces for may choose her material and her the sleeping rooms, one is alway find to order. .consideration, for unless one travels where seen. It will play à prominent
designs and have the stamping done ing a scarf or a spread that is worn with a wardrobe type of trunk, every- ..thing should
part in holiday fashions, whenever it task, the fruits of which are too far lest band work have to be replaced by napkins or towels to hem, and it is a
or faded, and dreading replenishing day, be done forestall น wrinkles
is possible to include it in the ward-ahend, so for her there are the pieces machine embroideries.
The average housewife always has and a generally mussed robe. appearance.
of art needlework that will progrces housewife does over a sleeping-room simple matter to individualize linen with
Que famous Bathing apparel--whether it be for more rapidly People who make a business of beach wear or for participation in
to completion, this every year, planning her curtains; bod-
an initial or a monogram. travelling have become addicts to two active water sporte--is colourful and,
Luncheon sets and bridge sets are always in materinis crepe and knit goods, and when necessary, convenient. Alpaca,
demand, and if the clover lady crochets, have fearned to throw on them the Katin and fine silks are the first choice
Well embroiders, there is practi weight of responsibility. Both are for the beach suit, that ventures only
rally no limit to what she may achieve. really separate clashes of materials, occasionally, if at all, into the water;
She may need a new cover for her. bridge or Mah Jongg table; a new side: board scarf; or she may have some one of these pieces in mind as a prize for future parties or for the table at the church fair. If one likes to be Individual, she may make all her own! handkerchiefs, passing over the tedious work of drawing threads, only to puli In others, by making use of the aquares that have coloured threads woven Ento
FOR THE GIRL CAMPER.
THE
summer camp for. girls ban some use found for paplin, serge, tweed, became a national Institution, and drill and linen. Flannel-the sporte overy year more and more young Rented. It is quite certain that the material of the_season-in-also-repre people spend a large portion of the outfit will contain bloomera or knickers nummer in the healthful atmosphere. sometimes both are advisable, middy of-mountains, takes and hills. These blouses; and a knicker sait. camps have been established sufficiently long so that directern.can_max-with- authority, what clathes are needed, and robes what type of clothes are best fitted to and
The outfit will include a practical
#werber
BM; a sensible bath.
the strenuous outdoor life that the depeni shperthe
more often
sult; and penkers exact type than not, on the camp, directors. requires no Ironingly pulling,
young people leadIt is imperative requirements of
the
that they be practical and stand up Crepe underwear is sensible sor, for under the most strenuous Bort of wear,
and yet, they must be smart, or youth and there must be the many decustories won't wear them!".
of even the most typical sports outfit
The material most in favour in khaki-middy ties and handkerchiefs zwo of in its natural colour, though there is the most important.
Whimsical Dolls With Droll Little Faces Lend A Certain Bizarre Chari To The Boudoir,
are little short of marvellous.
as one bracelat.
A Bit Of Hand Stitchery Gires Real Individuality To The Linen Table Appointments,
the web. There she may embroider or model desired, then trimming them with Anished There are knitwear possibil
Initial and a hem will finish them. Sko.
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even more
Fruits
inexpensively by making the
way thus match every costume, stamp embroideries and ng them herself from a specially pre Bands, medallions
of lace, ties, and there are all sorts of pillow. and edgings-all covers, bags, dolis, both ornamental and pared: pattern. Plain linen kerchiefs matching in pattern-may be used on useful and ingenious decorative exocto may be initiated or monogrammed Garments, and one may attain the end for household use, handkerchief, the nicest work of nick garments-running the fucks and set-eas of the art shoe There are infinite ways to the busi There is the scary, blouse of frock manner of fine French lingerie, of
the stitches by hand, after the that becomes distantly, doubled In plath
smcingly
answer any questions/ or How." In event sond embroidery Is added and oftentimes it creation with le attention from the remembered that Christmas in Always- quality will become an exquisita If such one exists than it should be more than doubled in intrinsic value. deft needlewoman ask that calls abundaven the day after Christmas Underthings that are extremely expenfor patence is the making of the beaded And there are always friends who sive may be duplicated by purchasing bag, but, it is a work well worth while haven't everything they want. So there plain garments of fine materials in the and the maker will pease a thing of is really no excture for fl handcr
"beduty" when' a 'touch of docorative Food Karment, when the fabric: is of ] has everything she needs för: herself d