THE
Sports Clothes.
There is no season of the year when sports clothes exert so strong an appeal as in the chill days of Jate autumn. The warmtlf of woollens and the colourful appeal of the dushing sports outfits make them unusually suitable for this
season.
chic.
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1928.
"MAIL'S FASHIONS ILLUSTRATED
PARIS NOTES
Some Simple Day Frocks
worn
The skirt kilted or futed from
well-cut hip-yoke is with a blouse-like jumper; some- times a square scarf with shoulder Other models cape-ends is added.
ahow a bolero hanging loose over a well-fitted waistband. Long sleeves are seen on nearly all the afternoon dresses.
Very chic and useful for wearing under the long coat of cloth or fur coatee in antis or plain or printed velvet of tiny pattern., Many of these show a light face or net blouse, or a sleeveless waistcont of white satin with erystai paste but- tons. In a fine black velvet or a black and white design this is a very pleasing vogue.
Chinese-red and a dull bottle; Kreen are frequently noticeable with a day froek of black broad- cloth, Some of the new tunics charmingly demonstrate these vivid touches of colour. A nurrow kilt- ed skirt of black cloth has a long tunle of the sanje, with a loose waistcoat of Chinese-red silk em- broidered in greens and blues, und Fastening with engraved gold' but- Lons. The outside coat for this lock is black brondfail, complete with a draped turban of black velvet and eloth caught with an um- broidered ornament,
To go with start frocks, Louis XV. heels are seen on patent 'lea- ther and crepe de Chinese shoes. For walk many neat black shoes show a Cuban. heel and the one- Henna-coloured strap fastening. kid shoes are strapped with beige und grey with snakeskin. For the evening shoes cannot be too decora- tive, and to this end jewelled heels and gorgeously embroidered trimmings are usual. Black sutin and crepe de Chine with a strap of diamonds, or the Court shape with diamond buckle, always look well.
THE PERFECT VILLAGE
GLASSWARE IN MODERN DESIGNS IS SMARTLY USED
For Table Service, for Lamps, for the Boudoir and Other
Decorative Purposes, Glassware in All Colours and
Shapes Is Increasingly Effective
BAD MANNERS-IN-
GOOD HOTELS
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Many are the sins of omis- slon and commission of hotel to guests, managers according but what of the failings of the guests themselves?. Recently I have travelled through a large part of England and Scotland, and I have found much discomfort. not through bad management, but be- cause of bad manners.
Hotel bores are bad enough, but Hotel bounders make. the best- managed establishments fortable.
uncom-
There are the bounders
who sit up until the small hours and then wander about the bed- room corridora bounding blithely at the expense of other people's sleep. There is the bounder who is never satisfied with his food and keeps on saying so, the bounder who is always looking for mistakes in his bill and angry because he cannot find any, and the bounder who drags his customer into the ladies' drawing-room to talk business "because it is nice and quiet,"
A Dietary Rebuke
Not exactly a bounder but never- theless a source of irritation is the man who can drink nothing but milk and eat nothing but baked ap ples and salad. There are more his kind than is generally known. With his slops and his salade he makes the rest of us feel like glut- tons, if not cannibals.
Always there is, the man who needs something-a hot-water bot- tle, an additional blanket, or an aspirin at two o'clock in the morn- Jag, and rings until he gets what he wants
Among Dogs and Grills Also we have the feminine bounder who cannot sit down to a meal unless her pet dog occupies
The Tiered Skirt
A blue broadcloth frock with a skirt
angles and circles. These lamps a seat at the table. -Worse atili The modern noto in American
may appear in living room, dining is the gushing bounder who rushes featuring the now popular circular homes is extending to its decora-
room or boudoir. They are to be over to the grill and screame ecsta-fiers and Inserted trimming of satin Live features. There are all sorts
It is the creation of a found in designs and colours suit- tically: "Oh, just let me learn at the waist. of home accessories to be found which are designed in the modern-
able for every room. There is a how you frizzle these nice things!" noted London dressmaker.
A Silent and Oil-stained Man istic manner. Colour and line
distinct charm registered in their have been combined to lend
Hovely if unusual lines and their entirely different aspect to familiar in the crystal flowers glassware often startling colour effects are objects.
definite stand in refreshing, to jaded senses.
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Jars and
THE MAGIC DROP
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And there is the motoring bound-
er
who salls into the lounge
White Jersey-- and Sunburn
and
All sorts of combinations are seen in which sweaters of all
Strest, Sussex, Oct. 29. weaves and designs are united in
In the heart of the Sussex the common band of chie with
downs, six miles from Lewes, is
during tea time and in a loud voice A drop of "Vaper" looks very skirts of either matching or con- found the perfect English village,
informs the universa of all the de-small, but, when placed on the trasting colours. The knitted It is a village for which artists
In interior decorating as well as modern use. Its decorative appeal The boudoir finds itself a choice!
tails of her tour. She is usually handkerchief its effects are far sweater with either woollen or silk might sigh, and which would cause in clothes, the desire is always to is great and the table is made love-spot for glassware. All the dress accompanied by a silent and oil-reaching. A single inhalation is
Itly by the additional use of glassing table accessories in glassware stained man. skirt in an always smart combina Amèricans to open their eyes in have something "different".
sufficient to, bathe all the com- home to is always fatal to make the ware beautifully designed in either express a new viewpoint and are
The "Good" of One's Health plicated passages of nose tion. Skirts are generally plcated wonder and send them
dream and, talk about it to incredul- | "different" object conform to sparkling crystal or in the various charming examples of the modern There is, too, the flapper bound-throat in an antiseptic atmosphere. this fall and the wider the pleut
ous friends,
definite modes, It must be colours which make it doubly at art.
er who smokes cigarettes until "Vapex" grows stronger, on ex- the smarter the skirt. Sweaters For there is not a shop, a public- carefully studied and its use-tractive.
The bathroom, too, while emerghe in dazed and drinks cocktails posure to air, and it is, therefore, a post office, and fulness as a part of the decorative possess, all sorts of variety, and house, or even
On the formal table, delicately ing from an uninteresting spick until she is muzzy. She is general 'very economical in use. scheme be well considered as well designed glassware is preferred. and span whiteness IntoTMu.colour- show many interesting features in petrol pumps are unknown.
Streat, sometimes known as as its Individual appeal. But there There is great beauty in the fragile ful and stimulating room, is find. collar, scarf and neck treatments.'|
It has is a definite place for the objects Diagonal stripes are extremely Street, is aptly named.
but one street, narrow and wind-of decorative appeal done in the appearing goblets, candlesticks and ing a new use for the glassware
with a surface which made modernistic manner, and when well finger bowls, the comptier and ex- of modern tendencies. The cardigan outfit is decidedly ing.
car groan placed and combined, they add quisite glass flower centrepiece, bottles in all shades and designs successful. It calls for blouse and every spring bolt in a
much to the appearance of the These may appear in the most do-to match the new colours of the licate of shades or be noted for bathroom are to be found as smart skirt of knitted goods and the acts disapproval.
Of Course a harmonious This rustic approach rane be home.
the fine workmanship in clear crys-accessories. companying jacket to make an in- teresting
Corinne Grifth, seen in the First three-piece ensemble, tween typical English sceneryuspect must be preserved.
orchards, whose Glassware has been among the tal. For informal tables glassware Here colourful effects are desir-hedgerows and
first to respond to the modern's in sturdier lines is favoured, Here National film. "Outcast," whose! able and the gayest shades of the trees are laden with rosy apples, call. It may be found in conven- colourful appeal is exerted and the lovely home in Beverly Hills ex- from behind which peep farmyards, tional shapes in places heretofore entire service, done in the presses much that is beautiful in Knitted frocks and suits also with hay stacks, stables,
reserved for allver or china. It may modernistic manner creates keen the modern decorative schemes, is Their dovecotes. posgeks wide appeal.
Colonial designs and especially well stocked in glassware be seen in familiar usages but in Interest. There is a beautiful tiny church, the modernistic designs. At any those peculiar to foreign countries suited to its new purposes.
Her weaves are especially interesting this year and their lines, while of the Early English style, on a rate glassware is among the fore being favoured examples in in- table appointments in glass express
formal glassware.
infinite variety as well as exquisite atressing simplicity, also pay a wall of which is a list of rectors most ranks of things new. marked attention to the
The stimulus of novelty is also taste and Miss Griffith's luncheons details dating back to Philip Bemond in
The table is among the chief, which pronounce this Benson's 1337.
places where glassware reigns seen in the new lamps which have and dinners are especially enjoy- To complète the picture there is
As centrepieces, candle bases supreme, smartest effects,
of glass for their very able because of these smartly, new day sticks, entire luncheon services or modern lines and their shades with and modern pieces of glassware. Alice White, in First National's a smithy, from which every "Ritzy Rosie," has opportunity to comes the clanging of hammer and display one of the smartest sweat- anvil, a fine old manor house, and!
of the fall. er outfits
A sport a village school. Everything is sweater of chenille weave woollen unspoiled.
season are introduced.
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in two shades of gray and black
bined with a skirt of black pleated shoulder, forming a
and
with diagonal stripes effect is com-
collar.
It
An unusual neck hangs down on the right side in treatment is scen in the scarf a tie streamer caught by a metal.
over the left dog.
wool crepe.
which swings back
Satin Wrap
Smart Dual Creation
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Miami, Florida.- Miss Rene Bonney wearing the latest smart outfit for beach sirens on the tropical strands this winter. The suit is white jersey with high collar, and a charming Jacket with full sleeves completes the ensemble. On her legs, Miss Bonney just wears a coat of tan.
ly a local resident, and she uses be provided with a "boundera the hotel to "learn all about life.” room," in which the bounders of Again, we have the severe, austere, both sexes can be assembled and
forbidding sort of woman who knits
at you; the woman who shouts, permitted joyously to bound to- "Waitah, I cawn't drink this gether"
coffahn"; and the confirmed invalid Good manners are as necessary who is travelling for the good of as good' management In the ideal, her own health and the injury of hotel.
everybody else's.
Why can't every up-to-date hotel
-R. E, C.
Kayser
SLIPPER HEEL*
HOSIERY
For afternoon and evening wear, smart women prefer "Slipper Heel" bosiery with the Patis openwork clock, Ofsuch. a fine, clear texture that it is but a film of lovely, silken color. And it has the exclusive' Kayser feature, "Slipper Heel" that gives the ankle a slender, trim, beauty line. In all favored costume shades.
At all leading dealers.
Kayser
*Tradernath Rega
The circular cape back of this tour-: maline satin wrap is cut in one piece with the alcoves, The border. fa mink fur
One of the truly distinctive creations is shown above. It is one. of the smart, new negligeea which can also be made to serve as an evening wrap. The material is heavily brocadod crepe, the trimming
fluffy marabou."
Christmas Gifts
BAGS, GLOVES,
STOCKINGS, HANDKERCHIEFS,
NOVELTY JEWELLERY,
POWDER PUFFS
Pamela
13, Queen's Road C.