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THE CHINA MAIL
FASHIONS AND FANCIES
Negligees and Pajamas That Make Smart the Boudoir.
The Tailored Mode Invades the Modern Resting Hours, but the Flowing Lines of the Lounging Robes Still Find a Chic Field
in a Varied Wardrobe.
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19, 1927.
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The wardrobe of the modern wo the Autumn and the Winter months man le necessarily varied. There while the warmer days express a are clothes that fit every mood and more delicate material with lighter every mode. And naturally the tones atill maintaining a sense boudoir shares in the trend towards inimato luxury.
of creating a vast number of lounging robes both for the sake of variety of appearance as well as variety of mood.
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the bottle upon your under things or handkerchiefs; perfume applied in this manner is not lasting and when first applied, it is overpower- ing and unpleasant. to those near
you.
Second: 'Never touch perfume to may stain. In the second place, a you gown. In the first place it daintily gowned woman with too much perfume defeats her purpose. When putting away your lingerie, gently spray it with your perfume if you have not used tufted baga.
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ture. Many striking examples in the lounging pyjamaa are seen that express a sense of daintiness.
The sleeping pyjamas, too, lends itself to a variety of modes. It The sleeping pyjamas, too, lenda may be distinctly boyish in its ap- course, less formal.Hera a great peal with braid and frogs supplying variety of fabrica are used along the only trimming, or on the other tary in the art of perfuming. Per- These simple rules are the elemen- with combinations of the most orf-hand may run to all sorts of truly fume indirectly is much more last- ginal Ideas. All sorts of colours feminine lengths in obtaining ing, infinitely more appealing and are used in contrasting effect as maximum of trimming in the way more restful. It is always better well as fabrics that are extremely of lace, ribbon, embroidery and ap not to have enough scont about man, with ringlets, bold eyes and e varied in colouring, design and tex-plique. It is a matter of choice, you than to have too much..
alone. Some of the newest sleep consideration of others in the mat- entire contradiction to herself For child-like appearance. would be an.. ing pyjamas are also shown in ter of applying perfumery is as should she use a heavy scent of printed fabrics that need but little good a rule here as in any other.orchid, for trimming. Otherwise they run to pastel tints.
PERFUMERY—A SUBTLE AFT.
The tailored mode, which is so great a part of our sartorial exist- ence, finds itself expressed in the boudoir. There are all sorts of gar- ments created to achieve a distinc- tive tailored appearance. Loung- ing pyjamas are one of the smartest means of introducing a tailored 'note, There is a trimness that is Lucien Lelong, a famous per chic and a charm of colour and de- fumer asserts that "olfactory" fath sign that is also appealing to fem- gue threatens mankind unless wo Inine types.
men learn to use perfume correct There is usually a dash and ap- ly. A subtle elusive scent is always peal to the correct lounging py interesting but famas, They are apt to express an choose heavy, exotic, spicy odours to-day women Oriental note in both fabric and and then pour. it onto. themselves design that also is to be desired. until they are positively abnoxious, Some of the Jackets are cut wide with loose sleeves and rather full subtle art. To reek of scent even "Perfuming one's self is a gentle lines, with trousers of the accepted the most expensive is not only in ft. Others adapt an amusingly cut bad taste but defeats the perfum- coat that is slightly fitted, with a ery's purpose that of giving ad- ripple at the hips and sleeves that ditional allure to women.". are rather snug.
Negligees show variety, too. The tea gown is distinctly the most im portant member of this group. It respects all the dress modes of the merely trail in beautiful lengths of moment. They are not apt to requisite fabrics luxuriously trim- med, but may exhibit many of the of the moment. The lounging nag- characteristics of the formal gown ligee is the most feminine, fragile and perhaps most charming. It is of chiffon which is suitable for in- timate hours in the boudoir or breakfast room. .⠀
wears a very charming example of Natl Barr, First National player, the modern negligee..
perfume to the lobes of your ears and to your temples with either a perfumizer or your finger tips.
Three:: As a final charms, touch your lips with perfumizera tiny drop with a
Mr. De Lelong is right. My, how There are four distinct types of many times have I brushed by a wo- pyjamas, Chic requires a sense of man who smelled like the whole per the fitness of things and quently the ability to choose. the odour lingered long after she had conse furmery shop in one. And then the proper clothes for the proper oc gone. She, certainly succeeded in caalona. There are pyjamas auita- attracting attention but as for al ble for tea-time, lounging pyjamas, lure-well, it was more like disgust beach pyjamas and sleeping py There isn't a man on earth that likes jamas. Each ta charming In, is to smell a whole flower garden at proper place and each distinctly out once.MAA of the picture when worn at the
wallet by We women spend a lot of time and wrong time.
energy in learning how to put on The beach pyjamas are first and make-up and how to dress. Then now and then your gown and you Four: Put your undergarments on foremost in the sports feeling, we go ahead and ruin the effect by will find that you exhume the most Some follow the sports materials dreaching ourselves by heavy per elusive kind of delicate sweetness used in the sports frocks, Linens, fume. If women want to make the with just enough allure to make printed silks, Shantung, challis and most of their loveliness and of one want to acent more. That in the other fabrice, all in vivid colouring, course we admit we are all lovely test of perfumery, propo are the most approved things for women will give more care and the outdoor model that has taken thought and study to perfume and such a strong hold upon the fash how to use its eyorilis fonable public,
Mozer. De Lelong gives us five rules The pyjamas that are worn at on the right way to use perfume and home for the tea hour are entirely all of them are important. different in their appearance. They One: After your bath and brisk express an exotic mood and appear rub down, spray your body lightly In luxurious fabrics-lames, bro with your favourite scent Toilet ordes and velvets being the accept water of the same brand of your ed choice. These very formal perfume is best for this. types, of course, are seen more in Two: Apply a few drops of your
about an inch square, heavily per
Five: Keep little tufted bags, fumed in with your handkerchiefs, your gloves and the lining of your hate NOPPAR
There is of course, a wrong way and a right way in using perfume just as there is in everything else. Among the don'ts there are two warnings which stand out because First: Never pour perfume from they are almost universal sing
HRINGING UP
Use very little and only the best Study yourself, your perfume. kinds, Study the scent which best Decide on that which suits you suits your type. A little blonde wo- best. Stick to it-And use little.
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