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THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1929.
The WOMAN'S Paget.
Fashions for the Cooler Months
The new eaucou crepe fashions the sports frock displayed by Saily Blaine, left. The modernistic pattern in midnight blue and geranium red is repeated on the neck line and the white kid acces- sories complete the costume. Crepe also fashions the gray sleeveless jumper on the right which Fay Wray is weaving and takes the plac of the sweater for warmer days. The pleated skirt is grey also and the ensemble derives its gayety from the darker bands of grey silk which are appliqued on the jumper,
HYGIENIC FOLLIES
[By a Doctor]
censure.
The present style of women's dress has come in for a lot of critic ism and
All sorts of ills were predicted for the wearers of what, to my mind, is a most ra- tional and healthy style of dress for
and read quite pathetic descriptions of the perils
women.
pings which only tend to confine the emanations of the skin. In: the name of all that is logical and sane why cannot everyone that is healthy and well do likewise, and thereby keep well? It's not done, you know, it's not conventionall
Where can be found a healthier set of men than our sailors, their necks and chests exposed to the hot sun of the tropies, and the cold wintry winds of the North Sea. of our women folk who were sen- Yet it is a fact, so far as my ex- sible enough and brave enough to perience goes, that as soon as Jack dely the criticism of prudish males gets shore leave and done mufti he and females, some prudes even develops sore throat, bronchial belonging to the medical profes-troubles, and longs to get back to sion. Influenza, pneumonia and al-the open necked "Jumper" I, for most every disease hut housemaid's one, say, let the open necked knee have been attributed, or aug. fashions, the bare arms and the gested, to the fact of women wear-
short skirts stay. It is a sensible,
1 have heard
WALL PAINTINGS
QUAINT TOURNAMENT
SCENES
PANEL MODERN ROOMS
[By Elisabeth Kyle]
Of late years pictures have been growing steadily scarcer upon our walls, and the decorators, whose scope in Victorian times was limited to frescoes, round the insides of pub-i
buildings, have, after an eclipse
l
of centuries, again come into their own as regards, domestle architec ture. One wrongly chosen picture can ruin the whole balance of a room, hut the mural artist ablé to blend both walls and furnishlugs into a happy completeness Is.to-day s much sought-after person.
This is especially true in the case New
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of Frances Burr, the young
York artist, whose decoration takes
a unique form. The fashion of hanging a room with painted panels which relate to one another, has, of course, never quite died out. But.. for long no one has emulated the old Italian method of embellishing cer- tain parts of the picture with tinted plaster and gold leaf until each janet stands out in low relief, & gay piece of primitive decoration, sparkling with colour.
Early Masters
Miss Burr, when in Italy some years ago, studied those early mas- ,ters who employed gesso in their work. Then she went homo, experi- meuted, and adapted the process
It's A Girl!
The masculine, trend in feminine
FASHION NOTES
GROWING POPULARITY OF THE
· BEACH ENSEMBLE
[Dress Critic of "Daily Telegraph"}
The bathing ensemble has sumed a definite place in Fashion. At places where a large part of the day is spent on sunny beaches it behoves every woman to look her best. The choice of the whole bathing outfit should therefore be governed by the wearer's type.
While some girls get delightfully- sunburnt, other fair British, skins simply become scarlet. For then some form of coat and cape is very necessary. How to look striking without being blatantly vulgar is not always easy when women insist on sprawling about in imitation of Lido life. It is therefore time that our experts started, to give more thought to beach clothes,
were
Palm Beach insisted on garments that could not fail to attract atten- tion. Perhaps the earlier efforts
a bit overdone by some de-i signers. But now the best of the exclusive French and British houses give us charming and more practical modele.
Black and Yellow
One of the favourite colour combinations of the season is black and yellow. The quaint trousers are of black satin (shoes also black); the CORT, in a bold modernist pattern, is yel- low with black spots, worn with a yellow blouse and sash. The hat, in a distinctive novel line, is in a
to a highly original form, utilis-dress has ever, extended to tennis attire. ing mediaeval subjects in modern What would grandmother say if she
would e this sweet young thing, dress-soft black and yellow straw. In a inloor decoration.
ed in nannel trousers, for all the world similar model worn by a dark-hair- like a man!
ed type the yellow was substituted by coral-pink, which, like yellow and also white, contrasts well with black.
FOR TAR STAINS
New York critics have hailed ber ari as something entirely new, and owners of period houses are glad to avail themselves of it. America is a little tired of modern thenies, a little anxious to find it well in. same field which stimulates the imagination. It has begun vague-
come
ly to resent the fashion which forces it after a hard day's battle with a sternly realistic world, to home and read realistic novels or look at realistic pictures. That is why it is turning with relief to the mediaeval subjects and fantastic fairy tales created by the artist.
All her life
she was attracted by tales of knights and ladies of ong ago, and she has materialised in gesso and gold leaf those dream castles that have
lain at the back of the minds of most of us at one time or another. Here, 100, her study of the Italian Primitives has helped, for only their naivete and exquisite
simplicity of form translated into modern terms could give so purely decorative an effect to à living
room.
Use benzine, and be sure to rub
FOR MEDICINE STAINS
Most of these can be removed by applying a solution of pure alco- hol.
Picture Hat of Straw
Graceful in its outline and con-. ception, this pleasant model is also serviccable in protecting the nape of one's neck from the almost perpendicular rays of the sun
and their attendant court gold, before the king and queen
The real bathing suit is a less elaborate affair, though gally coloured. Jersey and the variety. of stockinettes, plain and pattern- ed, are generally favoured, as well of silken as the large range
materials.
Gold Anklet and Ball
When this charming girl's boy friends call her a ball and ebain" the doesn't post. She merely lifts a shapely ankle and admits it, for she's really a prisoner of love, and has started a new vogue for the anklets with a miniature ball and chain in gold, "being shown" this season at Sing Sing and other resorts-Psed by Sally Blane.
THE EVER-USEFUL LIME
A cream-silk coat, lined with red, is very attractive over a swim-] ming suit of red and white jersey. Blue and white and, yellow and white, made up in bold contrast, chin. The latter are only for young satin dress. Thick, lustrous satin, look charming with a long rever-people and for summer-time............_____ ingeniously made up either on sible cape in the two shades.
severe èlassic lines or in The Spider's Web
a very For the River
There is a book called "The picturesque way, can be fashioned Beach fashions: can be very Spider's Web." There is also sto real advantage. charming or the reverse but model of the name! It is an even- it is rather a pity to confuse ing frock all in black net-natural- them with modes for the river, ly of the very finest texture. The which are so essentially British. web effect is seen back and front The short circular skirt with tuck- of the skirt and on the corsage. ed-in blouse of white silk, or a Although cobwebby, it forms lime is always sung. Really it is pretty jumper, is a successful river a very definite design mounted over marvellous for all sorts of toilet style, with the gay flannel blazer a very dark silver lame. The effect and household uses, apart from its or coatee ready to put on when is strikingly lovely. Two Euge pop-food value. punting or sculling is over. Then pics of black tulle outlined in It has its use atter shampooing. there is that restful lady who re- sparkling diamante just relieve the. Here are some moto hints for its clines on punt cushions in a fancy darkened web.
use in the house generally, cotton or voile ensemble with a be- Gossamer black is very attrac- It will remove any fruit stains. coming gay sunshade of paper, cot- tive, almost more so even than the without roughening the skin. The with river fashions at Cambridge is something so elusive about these the hands. Lemon juice combined ton or silk, such as we associate velvet and panne of winter. There lime should be used before washing
new, gauzy black effects. Our with salt is also useful for removing dresa artists this year have ink-stains from all kinds of articles.
or Oxford. Wate
- Ribbon Strings and
The praises of the useful
The Tournament Miss Burr's own small dining room, decorated ing clothing open at the neck and healthy and more or less becoming and exhibited in New York, is an in this manner of a diaphanous quality. As a mat- mode of dress.
As regards the interesting study in treatment. The never-changing blue of her the flash has been made heir to, cantion. can be made to them? True, be attributed to over clothing, and not many years ago it was most the woodwork and the wrought pennants, awake a room to joyous iron lighting fixtures were gaiety, while interspersed with cuddling. I think that the bulk of reprehensible, and considered ill the medical profession will agree bred, to even hint at the fact that especially designed to harmonise those vivid notes of colour, as in The War has with the sculptured walls. These her panels called "The Isle of with me that women, who wear few women had legs, clothes, bare their necks and chests swept away many senseless pre-show a mediaeval tournament, the Joyous Gard," and "Escorted by necessity brought panel over the mantelpiece de a Hundred. Knights," the calm to the fresh air, are less prone to,
judices, and and seldom suffer from, sore throats,, about the land girl, etc., etc., and, picting the queen of the tourna green seas, the little distant hills, simple tonsilitis or bronchial trou- that women have legs, good, bad ment, while each of the other walls each crowned with its pink gesso episode. The castle, the dark poplars rising in ble; more than that, I believe and indifferent, is now apparent to contains some
arrival of the knights, the sum the foreground, give one a vision every sensible man wishes he could everyone with eyesight.
mons from the heralds, the leading of an enchanted land. The over- of two champions into the field. laying and burnishing of high sach at the end of a sliver chain lights, such as armour, with gold held by his lady and the actual or silver leaf, is of important de contest, a blaze of verrailion and corative value in those schemes by which the artist seeks to bring back romance to New York.
ter of fact, a great many ills that short skirts, what reasonable objec-The Loor is tiled in deep red, while skies, the scarlet tents and way Nothing is more attractive in the surpassed themselves in giving us Stains on white cotton or silk
shred much of his own unnecessary clothing and go about in comfort as the so-called weaker sex does,
My own experience has been that since women took to wearing the open necked, thin clothing, morning noon and eve, there has been a sen- sible decrease particularly at Home,
TO REMOVE MILDEW STAINS
The stains left by mildew on our gowns is heartrending, but there are methods of removing them if they are not of too long standing.
The ever useful ammonia removes
in those who formerly suffered most of these if diluted in a from relaxed sore throats, tonsilitis | little hot water. Black is particu- and bronchial catarrh.
larly auccessful if treated in this way, but a very mild solution should be used with colours, and,
Fresh ale and free play of the lungs will never do anyone harm, as long as people lead an active if these are not "fast,” it, is life and keep the blood circulating. safest to turn to petrol, Rab on **The open air treatment is adopt-gently with a pad of cotton wool, ed for that dread disease, tuber- first on the wrong and then on the culosis. Men and women are ex- right side of the material, wherever posed to the fresh air day and stained, and then lightly brush the is night, eat drink and sleep in open entire surface over with a clean shelters. They are not swaddled piece of damp wool to remove any up to the throat in useless wrap- I high-water marka that may remain.
(Contimed at foot of neat Column)
The Diamond Vogue
aummer mode than the shady, and evening designs full of poetic, should be covered with a little salt offen beribboned, hats. They are meaning, and recalling all the and soaked for a while in a shal now tied frankly under the chin charming fantasies of past modes, low saucer into which some lemon- with a quaint, narrow black velvet without unduly pandering to their juice has been squeezed After ribbon, or a wider ribbon bow to absurdities
the stain has disappeared the fabric hould be well washed to remove match the trimming. The contrast between the sleek, modern shingle Another reason for the craze for the acid, which, if left is liable to and the picturesque aimplicity of all-white is the diamond vogue, destroy the fabric of the material. the hat is most attractive. This is These leading stones of fashion Lemon-juice and salt are also just where our British girls score, look their best with a background splendid for cleaning panams hats for the mast charming British of white. Black is a little obvious and other white straws, but it is types are being catered for by and sudden for diamonds. In many most important to remove all traces clever French milliners. There is cases it is apt to be too hard in of the acid after its work is done, subtle difference between the contrast. Black is ideal for pearls. and to ensure this it is beat to newest fashions in hats, and these The Queen of Spain is among the serub the straw with a nail brush, Large sun shapes tied under the clever dressers who prefer white Salt and lemon-juice is excellent or white and silver as a back- for whitening marble, and it is ground for their diamonds. When equally useful for removing, ink- wearing coloured stones she endea- vours also to reflect their shade in the frock
A Very Wide Range In Summer Dresses
BRANDEDWhite Satin
An interesting factor in evening fashion is the revival of the white
stains which have dried on a writ- ing desk. In the latter case all traces of the acid must he washet off with soap and water, when the wood should be polished with a good furniture cream.
Camelia
MELIA” < Lolves
Ideas whi
other forms
Insist on CAMELIA.
Obtainable nt, all drug and general stores:
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Fall length sleeves, short sleeves and no sleever skirt or pieces let in, Evenness of the hero la gen In the mi
of the kirta comes
the
Pamela
is now showing an attractive display of materials in PLAIN and FIGURED
NINONS
and
ART SILKS
suitable for Afternoon Gowns
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