THE MAIL'S
THE HOOKED RUG ENTERS THE MODERN HOME
The Oldtime Art of Hand-Hooking Rugs Is Again Prevating in Younger Circles. Patterns May Reflect a Colonial Spirit or Be Done in the Modernistic Patterns
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1928.
FASHIONS ILLUSTRATED
FALL FASHIONS ARE EXCEEDINGLY GRACEFUL
The Normal and Slender Hipline Are Featured. The. Flaring Circular Skirt and the Dipped Hemline Possess Charms. Satin and Velvet Are Favoured -Materiali
REAL LACE TRIMMING
Feature of the Fall Mode In Expressed in the Popularity of Lace as a
Decorative Addition
interesting. when done in hooked' ruge or in quilts.
The needed articles to make a hooked rug are few and they are easily procurable from the
art
Laat fall the elegance of the new mode was supremely established. The winter season emphasized the formality of the mode and the spring and summer seasons showed an increased femininity of line and detail. Notes to add to the
and detail..
The feminine angle in fall clothes feminine furbelows also mark a
is being expressed frequently in new note this season.
Jabots, ruffles, scarfs, deep col- the addition of feminine frills as fars, old cuffs, girdles and all sorts well as in the lines of the frocks of decorative features are intro themselves. There are of course duced to soften the silhouette. draped effects, panels, uneven The fall wardrobe will witness n' hemlines and other means of de variety of fabrics. They will be parture from the straight and nare both sheer and sturdy and each vets in a variety of design includrow outlines heretofore associated will demand a particular type of ing the very smart checke fashion with feminine chic These are trimming to make effective the one and two-piece dresses and car-mportant. But the addition of ensemble. One of the most suc digan suits,
cessful means of bringing feminine charm to the fore will be found in the addition of lace for all pur
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Barking back to a period when it was a natural industry the art of hooking ruga Is to-day one of the favourite pastimes of the younger generation interested in antiques or the acquisition of things posses-shops or departments of the larger sing the flavour"df"days gone by. stores. A frame to hold the work, Colonial possessiona have a designa. to stencil, a hooking im- charm of their own. The quaint-plement, burlap to hook into and reneral departure from the ness and beauty of the hand-made either the wool thread yarn Or straight, boyish line that was for a raga, quilts, furniture, old pieces of pieces of material cut into the long the byword of the mode, the glass and china, lamps, pewter and right width-about a half inch, and new fall models are stressing the brassos all are reflected in the the rug is ready to be started. home decorations of many of the When finished the ends may be cut importance of grace of movement modern homes. It is not always for allowed to stay, as they are
low waist, sang bipline and long There is a flutter and movement skirt with the inevitable dip in the possible to have. these possessions hooked through according to taste.
back handed down nor is it always pos- Thelma Todd, whose spare moto the newest gowns and wraps that establishes an elegance and
A few outstanding features of alble to acquire them. Sometimes, monts are spent in making rugs too, they are not in keeping with and quilts, la pletured working on feminine feeling as well as an ex the mode are: Bows, used freely Wraps for evening are extremely |||| the spirit of the home decorations. a hooked rug efter fishing the ceedingly graceful silhouette. and smarter the girdled hip with But when the home does possess First National.motion picture, The There is no distinct and single tiers, and bindiurs terminating in silhouette, that dominates the style. flares, back fullnesses in formal Colonial leanings it is always pos-Crash."
Miss Todd has used a pattern There is a tendency towards a re and semi-formal modeat lingerie col sible to add to its charms by using rugs and quilta copied from old-of olden appeal and finds that it strained, elegance. The daytime lare, stiff fabrics for the evening decorations costume is slightly flaring, with a gowns; tiera used in all sorts of time patterns and done by hand its into her home
beautifully. The Colonial Bavour waistline that is nearly normal, a interesting skirt treatments; flat as our forefathers did them,
The modernistic note in home adds a quaint note with modern slightly fitted hipline, a bodice that furs for trimming: velvet and sat decorations is also being expressed | furnishings,
is not fitted and a hemline. that Ina featured in frocks for all do comes below the knees. We
casions; scarfs to brighten the de The evening gowns show several tail of the gown colours of wide
acy.
There is the bouffant gown shades, blues in wide choice, green, lines of the dipped dress, while up elsewhere. The new or revised Peal in the First National film, which goes through succeeding black printed velvets in tiny calico others seek to remain short with may have been created in Europe to chosen as a dinner dress, a sleeve- season with undiminished appeal prints, dull crepes and sheer ond straight lines to begin with, but in America: It be less chiffon in flesh tint. Three Colleen Moore, in First Nation comes standardized and so draws circular ruffles to the knee-length Now it shows several puffed floun- colour velvets, laces in all colours of the home, Angies at. present upon to offer an explanation of other instances to a series of the present day decorative scheme cht. season's mode feel called ces to add to its variety and in and weights,
als "Oh Kay establishes a chic public notice that when at length hem emphasize the feminine move- For the woman who looks and wardrobe which advances many of it reaches us It strikes us as ment Real lace is introduced as their undoubted purpose to stress
flounces of uneven finish, The feels smartest in sports clothes the season's most important points, a novelty. Again and again an effective and quaint trimming normal waistline and loose bodice there are to be found a new fash-Mias Moore is noted for the orig- this has happened. The latest for the collar, pocket and ends of with skirt falling in dipped lines lan which possesses a little of the Inality of her clothes and at all thing to be collected in the the sash which ties a slender of grace in the back is another elegance of the present day mode. times chooses a suitably selected States is Indian Jewellery of benton wafat favourite of the fall: Another apFormal fabrics are developed in wardrobe as well as one featuring or filigree aliver, so that old formality that the war caused to pealing formal fashion is of the simple sports lines. Imported vel now modes.
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in these quaint old rugs and quilts.
Patterns which express our 'angles,
elegant and they are designed so
INDIAN JEWELLERY as to harmoniza with tile,new type of evening dress. They, too, a Though our fashions still dome uneven as to line and distinguished as to cut Flares, fullnesses and from France for the most part, our tiers mark their chic
"crazas very often seem to reach Coats, too, show the dipped hems by way of America. That is to line, seamings and graceful lines and Kam that dominate the fall frocks. Für say, that any particular rage for collars and furless cuffs are new an item in the fashion becomes the notes. Coats in some instances rage in America before it is taken
our geometric lines, our own stim- ELEGANCE THE NEW KEYNOTE silhouettes struggling for suprem-variety including browns of all are much longer to conform to the oppres
ulating designs, and fresh combina.
tion of colours may all be found
So great, a changes being and used in place of the pattern wrought in the temper of our of olden days if they better suit fashions that
are
a tople of chief interest in home decorations. The bizarre effects of these designs are really
Luxurious Fur Wrap.
This unusual squirrel wrap by Max is designed for the discriminating lady. The light and dark skins are vory
cleverly arranged while the circular
cape and attractive border lend a cor
tain charm to the wrap,"
the originators of
formality, the feminine theme and
elegance, the latter "restrained,
but very apparent. For one thing.
they say that social life has again
taken on all the characteristics of
be discarded.
Standards are set and conven tions followed, and to meet the fashion needs of this now, era in social life there must be standards aet and conventions followed in the apparel we select, One playe tennis, goes shopping, attends a luncheon and bridge, and ends the day with dinner and an evening at the theatre, or dancing. For no two of the four occasions can she wear the same type of fruck. wrap and accessories, *.
This the rule, of course, in circles where social life is the business of the day, but whether that be our life or not it shapes the general fashions in which we share. And It follows logically that we arrange our wardrobe to include the types that best fit the life we lead, stress. ing certain things to the exclusion of others, but somehow meeting every need. Fundamentally, adher- ence to type is a form of elegance. Every characteristic of the mode of to-day contributes to this other characteristic whether it be fem- Inine detalls, formal requiremente or the ansemble principle. When our sports clothes take on the niceties ofline that now typify. them, and are made of fine fabrics In arresting colours, they become instantly possessed of elegance, We shall see that elegance is), basically, refinement of the essentials.
* Even our cotton clothes are beau- tiful, their cost increasing, as cle- gance is features We like them when they possess the allicy, sheen of rayon threads) In: their weave, and this new. Yarns is adding ele Rance to elegance, making velvets and antina more attractive. Before we purchase a mo fabric through. fabrica count mon one thing, for they trimmings-as well.
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Backlaces, belts, buckles, and brooches are eagerly sought for. and command good prices. Antique specimens are, of course, especially prized, and as there is great quantity of auch work in England (often laid away by its owners, in long neglect or sold for next to nothing in lots of outmoded orn- amente) American women who are over just now:are, busily buying on all they can lay hands on. They scour such place as the Caledonia Market and return in triumph with strings of silver fish or buttons or jointed collar necklets, and by the time, we have ourselves discovered how suitable such decorations are. to the present fashions the best goods will have gone West and what remains will have soared to prices beyond most of our purses. For those who have old Alig or fringed jewellery or embos work, presented long ago by Uncle Tam on John (which of has not had at least one uncle India), and left for many In the bottom of the jewel-caan disturbed, now is the time to br et forth and wear it.N
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The collar, cuff, tie, scarf, pocket and all other places which require decorations will find lace brings a charm of its own as well as con. forming to the present day stand- ard of femininity W
Alice White whose fall ward- robe is an interesting one, wears frock of simple charm and up-
Show Girl Miss White has
Lace Evening Gown,