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DRESSES AT ABCOT."
A lady correspondent writes to "The Queenslander" :-
and greys our first lady in the land is so fond of, and really. I liked the dress better than all the rest. It was of the new soft rose tint.
DRESS AND FASHION.
A window full of gorgeous silk remnants-most of them containing Ascot glories on Gold Cup Day now shade, somewhere between sufficient material, with a little of were this year simply superlative. apricot and peach; her cloak and something else, for an evening June was in its kindest mood, and dress matched, the former finish-frock-fascinated women shoppers a summer sun poured its glorious ed with a high collar of clipped in Hay Street recently. There warm rays on the heath, and Na- ostrich feathers. Princess Mary were various lengths of exquisite ture responded to it with a thou was as keen as ever on the racing chiffon georgettes, chiffon velvets, sand beauties. No one who went and wore a black gown liberally brocades, taffetas, tinsel tissues, to Ascot that day is likely to for- | embroidered in red and white, and embroidered silke, satina and shim- get it. The flowers, the dresses, a red hat. I did so admire the mering. lames, all nt 5a. 11d, a yard, the women, all vied with one an- Duchess of Sutherland, who is in a bewildering assortment of other for supremacy. They all such a lovely woman, and looked exquisite shades. The clever seemed winners, from the charm- charming in a black coat and black dressmaker turns out frocks ing alfresco luncheons and teas in hat, with a diamond Prince of that look as they might have the club tents and gardens to the Wales feathers on the band in come straight from Paris,- with pack in the Royal enclosure. I front. All the other royalties were a couple of odd short lengths should say the attendance was a present, and they all seemed as of material nowadays, The record one, but one never knowe gay as larks, despite the weather. fashionable "broken" effects seem really. Any way there was tre Lady Patricia Ramsay looked so to have been designed specially to mendous cheering when the King amart in' green · with a big hat. help drapers get rid of their "rem- and Queen, with the Prince of Princess Alice wore cinnaman pants of once costly silks, Wales and Prince Henry, bowled | brown; her daughter, Lady May
Summer Fabrics. along on the emerald green turf, Cambridge, was looking very girl- Tub frocks are to be patterned, and they were full of emfies and ish and nice in blue. It always plain, checked and striped. So grace when they appeared in the does amuse me so, after a big show there le opportunity for almost | Royal stand. The Queen was where royalty is present, to read any fuji, luvisca, crepe-de-chine dignity and elegance itself in a the different accounts in the papers that entices by its price for pros- lovely orchidmauve gown of geor- the next day of the dresses of great pective summer frocks, Japshan is gette, inlet with lace, and wore a ladies, from the Queen downwarda. |ʼn new fabric specially woven for filmy cloak of similar shade, finah- No two are one gown in the same tennis frocks by the manufacturers ed with wide cape collar of mauve light, nor do they describe it as of viyella. It is guaranteed as a ostrich feathers. Her toque of being of the same colour! I really good washing silk. Noelene is an mauve and silver brocade was sometimes think presswomen, let artificial silk material, woven charmingly folded and rather alone pressmen, are colour blind, many lovely designs in soft pastel broader on one side. Diamonds so varied are the descriptions. The colourings. Cefanese locknit in and pearls gave a sumptuous final Queen's dresses at Ascot, and white is to be greatly worn for note, and I noticed the mauve sun- those of the house party, have all tennis. Scarlet buttons should be shade carried was quite a plain differed in the descriptions as
Plain to secured for its trimming. taffeta affair, without any trim- shade! When you've seen them Enens, too, are going to be fashion- mings at all-just a bit of differ-yourself, well, you can afford to able, but they will need a touch ence from the wonderful creations laugh.
or two of embroidery" worked In In the paddock. The King wore a
cotton in a matching or contrast- beige coloured top hat without the
ing colour. Then voile, which is a usual black band, but the Prince
fabric that can be grave or gay, of Wales stuck to his dark attire,
Don't overload your skin with according to the mood of the selec- with buttonhole, of course, and creams and powders, but rub a tor, will be well to the fore when black silk topper. Prince Henry little vanishing cream on the face, the warm weather arrives. Wise was all in grey, with grey top hat, neck and hands before starting out women will buy their volles at the and Princess Mary looked particu-on a motor journey or a day's aport. anles. Checked tobralco, too, is larly charming in a filmy frock of
going to make some. smart hard eeru lace, with large hat of the
wear frocks this summer. Although same tone. Princesa Victoria, the
the main object of the drapers in King's unmarried sister, was pre-
having sales just now, is to get sent in pale grey. It's very seldom
rid of superfluous winter goods, the Princess goes into society, now,
the women who "nose round.” to since the death of Queen Alex
put it slangily, will find many a andra. She seemed to thoroughly
bargain in lines suitable for sum- enjoy it, and went into the pad-
mer if she looks for them. dock with her nephews. Princess Arthur of Connaught looked very smart in parchment coloured lace,
SUMMER BEAUTY HINTS,
When you are flushed after a strenuous game, apply some clean- sing cream and follow this with the application of an astringent lotion sprinkled on clean cotton wool,
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To keep your hands white in the preserving season, scald all skin frufts; then the skin will peel off like paper, leaving no stain.
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and her sister, Lady Maud Carnegie, who was laughing away
Wear gloves if you are garden- with friends, was in taupe colouring, picking wild flowere, or doing ed georgette and lace, and
any other "grubby" work. pink hat,
The Long Skirt. There has certainly been an at- tempt to introduce a longer skirt, and some women essayed it, but personally, I think, it is very ugly, as the fronts are short and
the
After rowing, digging, or a hard game of tennis, the hands should be rubbed with vaseline to prevent blisters forming..
Eat plain, wholesome food, and allow yourself plenty of fruit.
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New Season's Hats Sunshine that is springlike in its brightness, despite low tempera. tures, arouses
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1927.
DAILY CROSS WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for vocasional ahonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
HORIZONTAL
1-Tiss together 6-An assoolatu
-An enclosure for amati animala 9-To Travel by water 11-To pat 12-A viper 14-Procured
18 Recently come into
existence
17-To M with water 19-Mark for
Identification 21-A digit 22-Larger 24-01 little height 26-A state in Brazil 28-A narrow place 80-Pronoun $1-Relative position 2**** stupefy by a
"ow
onoun
3. Not straight'
2 aparate artiole SR-A180
20-fat rid of 43-Part of the head
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©the INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE
HORIZONTAL EMOTIO 46-A passing fancy 47-A legal room 48-To buit
49-A beam of light: 5!-Prefix donoting
"again" 12-Dab 63-365 days 165-A cut of meat
57-Bombarded 150-A viper
VERTICAL
1-An exclamation
used to frighten and 2-To x on a uteke
-Notary Public
(abbr.)
4-A tyrant
1
20
VERTICAL (Cont} ¡18-Speak
18-Negative answer 17-Frenzied
18-One who operates
on teeth
20-Depart 21-Rendezvous 122-Exalted
23-Coursa
| 25-A colorless liquid
27-Part of verb "to be" 29-A unit
24-Wild animal $5-Woven
37-Flesh of animal 30-Preposition
41-Pleated through the
air
|42-A. prophecy
B-Large body of water] 44-Part of verb "to be" -The apike of an ear 46-From dawn to dark
of corn
7-To adulp
8-To cry like a drow
10-A great dent. 11-Extanding far
downward
15-Used in cleansing
48-Knock
50-Affirmative
|62-5sed-case
|54-Exclamation
158-Potsessive pronoun
|58-Light Dragoons
(abbr)
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in 'to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
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fashion may be chosen from little toques of French inspiration, fash- ioned entirely of flowers, prefer ably white or Parma violets.
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desire in most like large hats: And even in sum women and girls for a hat of mer wide-trimmed styles are lighter type than the close-fitting, suitable for avery occasion. Alter- glowing-toned felts and velvet-native special wear headgear that draped shapes that have proved will be strictly in accordance with so cosy and becoming all through the dull winter months. Though clearance sales of winter goods na turally entail the necessity for keeping the new season's goods
Fanciful pleating is going to be To ensure sound sleep, take a hot well in the background for the pre- very freely introduced on summer back tails down to the ankles. A bath at bedtime and relax complete- sent, large supplies of advance froçka. Dresses of crepe-de-chine, sort of "draggled tailed filly" ap- | ly...
model hats for early spring or be georgette, ninon, etc., will be de tween season wear are already corated with pleating cleverly and pearance is given, and anything but amart. It is said that the
awaiting special display in Perth symmetrically worked out in geo- shopa. Lightness in weight is the metrical effect designs, autumn and spring will really see
Combina- longer skirts, but I doubt if there
most striking feature of the new tions of fan and vandyked patterns spring styles. Fancy and plain with panels and insets of straight will really be very much differ ence, and certainly not with an
woven hemp straws. Swiss peda knife pleating will result in many uneven hem. But there is no
lines, crins, and crochet viscas novel and pleasing effects. Scarves occasion is the first principle predominate. knowing what freaks the goddess
Crowns are very to match frocks will be pleated good dressing. But all fashionable high in all models, and the similarly at each end.
footwear designed to accompany fashion may try on. One thing I
ensemble effect of the narrow soft am sure of, and that is young girls
Dressy Shoes.
smart tollettes is not so extra- will make a fight of it, if they are
brims and pinched, bent, or draped
Of servico- Dressy shoes of a most elaborate vagantly elaborate. asked to part with their comfort-
crowns of the latest winter styles, type are displayed in Perth. The able type yet charmingly dainty are able short skirta. In the paddock
is much the same. Brims invari height and slenderness of their summer shoes of patent leather in after lunch the scene was of mosaic
ably turn up at the back, and many spindle heels makes one tremble gunmetal and dark brown maho colouring, and quite bewildering in
have a V-shaped cut immediately
for the street safety of their pos-gany shades, some fine glacé in in the middle at the nape of the sible wearers. its brilliant beauty, and I really
Colour and the dark blue and maroon, also a dark of the models don't know which colour prevailed.
neck. The new hats, which are as gleam of gold and sliver are as blue lizard, many There were blues galore, all the
softly squashable as tissue paper, freely used in the decoration of being trimmed with strappings of yet so resilient that no likely treat- heels as toes." dainty tints of sky and: flowers,
Against Cinderella water snake. The sandal shape Is pinks also yellows, reds, and wine
ment can crease or crush them, are slippers of this type, useful brogues popular still. Toes Incline to shades, and a whole gamut of
trimmed with ribbon, either two of tan willow calf, with thick sales roundness, with a short. vamp and mauves to deepest violet blues, and
toned Petersham or velvet, a com- and flat hesis of crepe rubber, high Spanish heels. fuchsia tones. Flowers
bination of both, or painted ribbon | look like footwear intended for The knall of the nude stocking feathers trimmed lovely hats, and
bands, patterned in various tones. elephants as compared with that has beca sounded. Nothing incapacitates more quickly Pleated motifs, never very large fashioned for gazelles. But a re- when possible of the same shade were worn by lovely women. Several little things I did notice, for sports, business, or pleasure than and usually oblong, adorn moaf deeming point about styles that as the dress are being, worn by like the return of ostrich feathers
proper means are adopted to eliminate hats, sometimes several of them obviously are unsuitable for or leaders of fashion overseas. With on many of the hats. They were their cause, the attacks increase in set at various carefully considered dinary knockabout wear, is that black garb pewter tones are favour so dressy, and after flowers I think frequency and intensity as time goes angles on the one model. Belge, modern dress notions concur with ed, whilst with beige and sand nothing more suitable for such an on.
rose-beige, light blue, champagne, the opinion of fashion experts in colours the same tunes repeated occasion. The Queen wore them. It is in the blood that the rheumatic Sahara, rosewood, natural and that suitability of attire for the in the hosiery.
poisons, rise, and only through the creamy tones predominate in hemp in her pink hat on the Friday of
Crin Ascot which alas, was spoilt by blood can they be driven out. Thus, lace, and visca straws,
whilst the rubbing in of embrocations rain, but taking it all round it was or finiments gives but temporary re. shades range through many grada- a glorious week, and though there lief, permanent cure, often in the most tons of beige, rose-belge and rose- was no Royal procession that day, severe and chronic cases, has in almost wood, and, like the plain and fancy the Windsor Castle party with numberless instances been wrought by woven hemps crin straws are con- their Majesties motoring direct to **DR. WILLIAMS' PINK FILLS...... spicuous, also, in black and navy. the Royal stand, the after part of As a Blood Purifier and Blood Tonle The gem-like colourings of winter the day was fine. But, of course, Dr. Williams Pink Fills for Pale millinery find no place, apparently, the wonderful creations of Cup People have been pre-eminent through in the subdued indefinite tonings out the world for over five-and-thirty characteristic of 'twixt season 'im- Day were not to be seen, and com-
Years, And through the blood they paratively few women attended the
portations, races. To do my duty I attended balld up the nerves, restore health and
A with others of my friends, and as strength to the whole systeme
remedy for anaemale conditions, we only had a short motor run we debility, digestive weakness, and as "did" the afternoon in comfort, restorative after fevers, dysentery and and got home for a delightful din-other serious illnesses, they are uned mostly for shady, styles. Posies ner party and dance in the evening. rivalled, ilgi
and
THE HANDICAP OF RHEUMATISM.
rheumatism, and unfortunately unleas
Summer hats will show larger brims which will droop becoming ly and shelter from sun glare. Crinoline will be the straw favour
Of chemists everywhere, or or closely clustered bunches of gay I must tell you about the Queen's free $1.50 per bottle 18, for towers of realistic manufacture gown though, on the fourth day. bottles, from The Dr. Willlama Medi, and ribbon velvet will constitute
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It was a change from the mauve
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