THE CHINA MAIL,
WOMEN'S
SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1929.
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FANCIES
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Frills of Yesterday.
Contrast in Quantity, Not Quality
OLD MASTER HATS
FROM MODERN MILLINERS' STUDIOS
Among the Newest
Fifty years ago one's party frock was something to worry about if one's purse was none too fat. No less than 70 vards of material, four dozen rosebuds and carloads of spangles could create 4 sinart gown for the dance, as Fay Wray depicts so charmingly on the left. Nowadays, however, a simply ravishing frock can be created from eight slim yards of tulle and a box of crystals and pearls. On the right, Miss Wray appeare in an ultra-chic gown in white made from what it takes" nowadays. A fingertip length evening coat, made from a negligible amount of gold cloth, com pletes the smart evening ensemble.
Camelia
The
New Era
PICTURESQUE REVIVALS
By the Hon. Mrs. C. W. Forester.]
The hat is, after all, the frame for the face, and if the setting-of the picture is entirely unhelpful, a great opportunity is lost. Nothing is more cramping or fatal to one's inner feelings than the knowledge that one is "wrong" about the head. It may not be the fault of the ac- tual head or the hat! It is often a case of a bad day, a wrong choice, or that one has made an unsuitable selection for the occasion.
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The ultra "chic" milliner laughingly tell you that hats are full of "moods"; in reality they reflect too quickly their moody woarer, Su
it is as well to take special trouble for one of the bad days, such as that first "outing" after influenza, and try on a goodly selection before choosing a couple that will always! present a kindly tolerant form of head-covering!
Nowadaya, more than ever, it is the extremities or Important etceteras that will attract attention and give a significance to the ge- neral appearance. The wrong hat is almost as bad as the wrong shoe! Both spell ruination to any outfit. A hat can express so many things. There is the ultra chic of fashion which naturally makes most appeal
10 readers at the coinmencement of
Here is one of the gayest which has
the spring season. Then must ar-over been conceived. The geometric all- rive the question of line and size, which has to take the rest of the wardrobe into consideration.
Colour serves many purposes; but that, again, depends on current fashion and clever make-up; for it
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WOMEN MOTORISTS
LEARN TO KNOW YOUR OWN CAR
CAN SAVE MONEY-
[By Betty Ashmore]
In old days it would have been considered a coarse and unladylike for women. to be interested in ma chinery. They were supposed to leave such matters to their fathers and brothers, or better still to their chauffeurs. But nowadays, when three. women out of four own small car, and only the richest' among us can afford a chauffeur,
it is the greatest possible advant age to have an elementary know- ledge of mechanics, enough, that is, to enable one to cope with the mil- der forms of breakdown.
The times may be past when feminine passengers refused to be left alone in a stationary car "in case it started by itself," or when they expected the engine to blow ap at any minute-but a great many women, faced, with their first car, are sill apt to regard it as an ob- atinate and dangerous monster, whose moods they can neither pre- dict nor understand. They drive out in it grimly expectant of disas ter but without the necessary know ledge to evade it.
In
Thrills of To-day,
As You Like Them, Long or Short
The Best Plan
small over design in brilliant shades makes
reality only a very A vivid contrast to the pure white background of the all-wool material amount of information is neces which constitutes this wrap, and is as eary, and this is comparatively colourful as the matching dat-heeled simple and easy to pick up. I have Oxfords.
never found handbooks on mechanies much use they may not be as is useless to pretend that paint, gular. Irregularity, or, on
Jean Arthur shows you how one wrap may be utilised in two powder, and lip-stick do not play other hand, the classic type of beau- confusing as they look, but most women (myself included!) will
ways. It is fashioned of a pastel shade of pink velvet and heavily. their part.
ty may remain, but the "poise" has
embroidered with guid sequins and pearls. The border at the bottom Among the many interesting re-altered. There is rarely the quiet give one glance at the complicated
diagrams and instructions and shut is of deep rose velvet, sequin studded. Now, on the left, Miss Arthur suscitations from modes of the past, dignity and grace peculiar to the the book with a bang.
demonstrates how graceful the wrap appears, with the skirt of the white satin formal gown showing below. While on the right, this none is more interesting than what "Gainsborough beauties. To be
Enroe cape can very nicely be worn with the knee-length variety of is known as the "picture hat" or the truthful, the great ladies are few Far the best plan is to take your
rock which so many women prefer for theatre, and restaurant wear. a reliable garage and "bonnet." The latter has, doubtless, and far between, and when they do new car to
far as it goes. The moment the been sympathetically received on exist their efforts to retain the large ack one of their expert mechanics account of interest in the Dutch picture hat of the past are pathetic! to show you the way about the slightest thing goes wrong they pictures. These old masters inspir- The newer smartness has done engine. For a small tip either he ed milliners to create hats with much for the moderns. The up-to-or, better still, somebody's chauf-tre absolutely ost, and have either wide-winged effects. or the close-date dress artist, hairdresser and feur aff duty-will tell you the few to appeal to some polite stranger fitting caps. The picture-hat can milliner have especially made the really important things in a clear or ignominiously ring up the nearest always be beautiful if the lines of study of line and proportion and interesting way. Most me
the famous masters are adhered to fetish. in the main.
Waywardness or vacillation may be discovered in the sweeping lines
chanics enjoy showing off to an admiring and grateful audience.
Watteau Leghorns The Dress Parades of late have
It is astonishing how few women. displayed bat styles to perfection, ever bother to learn the first thing of a brim that should, however, at in keeping with the trend of the about the car that they have often least suggest a "profile," or a style. season's frocks. The Watteau" re-used for years. They know how to Yet features that charmed in the vival is very definite-yellow Leg drive it (hardly that sometimes) picture hat of old were often irre-horn with cherry-coloured satin rib to start it, and stop it, but that's as
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Obtainable at all drug and general stores,
tume is the one Oven, the popular basket weave materiak The colour Bcherue to black and irtretise bisch felt hat and chartreuse In match. That compart tick McGino's hand in a collapsible. you please, ideal for use at the
bons and clusters of red and pink roses, mingled with loops of ribbons at the back --
Yellow is a favourite shade this summer. A pale primrose "Manilla" of drooping tendency shows that softly-lined brim of chiffon se correspond with a fascinating froek of the same The ribbon trimming is laced, picot-edged, and threaded and "bunched in the coy, old way.
Most interesting is the hat with two brims. Two kinds of straw in pale and dark green compose the shape of the sketch, with a cluster of exotic orchids placed on the right
All well-dressed women realise that shapes to carry us through the season are bound to be expensive.
They
for they have to possess Tiany points, apart from fashion. must be of a lasting fabric, which looks well in all weathers, must undergo a freshening-up process de fore the season wanes, and not lock "tired out because they have faced.
a wind or dust storm!
The tailored hat is perhaps the
most difficult problem for the hat box, as this season it goes beyond what is termed a sports hat. Its medium-sized brim and skilfully draped crown are the secrets of its Buccess, for this type of headgear must be practically devoid of trim- ming and yet not look harde
For French Faces
We have tired of those hard hats, though always maintain that a French woman can even do justice to that forehead revealing shape! But then she is frankly very much made op. The smooth white forehead, blackened brows, carmine checke and vermi 1rps are all part of that hard geometrical hat
straw or felt. It may be ful in Chinese-red or white, but the all-b with ciré
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Whole Secret
One may not consider machinery an interesting subject, but the time you give to it will save you endless. bills, and you will not be at the mercy of unscrupulous garages;
If women owners would only treat their cars half as well as they do their other treasured possessions they would very seldom have tronbles at all. A car that is kept filled with oil and water, whose carburettor and plugs are cleaned occasionally, and which is properly greased, will run for years without complaining.
But the whole secret, to my mind comists in seeing to these things oneself not looking on while they're done, but doing them with your own hands. Most garages, in London at any rate, are extremely busy, and the work is often left to Inexperienced youths who are more interested in football scores
than the state of your car.
If you do the various necessary odd jobs yourself, you will not only have the satisfaction of knowing. that they are conscientiously done
(a great comfort when you
are
alone on a deserted country road) but in course of doing them you
Just the Loveliest
Look closely at these legs and see. will learn all the ins and outs of ; whether or not you agree with the best your car, and will thus be able to picker in the country, Flo Ziegfeld, who face any sudden emergency without says that Barbara Newherry, above, of Chicago, has the most beautiful pair in America
alarm.
Pamela
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