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THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1930.
4. The WOMAN'S Page
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Costume for Blondes
flonde hair looks well with the vivid red evening frock pictured above.
• Fashioned at paume velvet und tulle, the free shows velvet boilies outlining the midral waist line and a close-lit- ting skin which ends in a tulle flounce, Beintilnire rhinestone spangles are soutterval
throughout the tufle and bala pred by a border hand-sewn armand The neel: Bar,
IN THE EVENING
Woman's Marvellous Appearance
have our British girla Never presented a better appearance by nightlight, says a writer in a Home paper. who continues: Let me emphasise this fact, for, as I have often remarked in regard to day time modes, most of the modern types of headgear would ruin the
most beautiful face on earth!
That terrible strained, pained look of the eye-brow hat, and the inane appearance of exposed high
forehead!
I exempt the bert and the real Tam o'shanter, for they can be very possible, and where they suit. extremely becoming.
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FIRST LOW DRESS
Attributed to the Chinese
IXERXER NAME & N
A gentleman in Chicago has dis- covered where the first low dress was made. There is an element of incongruity about that which al- most persuades me it is true.
The gentleman is in a museum. He has received from China clay statues of Princess and her ladies. in-waiting. Her Royal Highness is half as lurge us life, and she wears a dress with short sleeves, decolletee in a V.
Hence the conclusion that the Chinese invented the low dress. It is idle to complain of improba- bility. I have never been much in society in China, but I understand they do not use low frocks now. That is no just cause or impedi- ment to believing that they did
once.
The real difficulty is the date. Chicago does not seem to have given suficient consideration to
the age of its Princess. She is said to be only thirteen hundred years old. As the age of a female fashion la paltry. All of them, much older of course, must be than that.
And naturally the low dress would be one of the oldest. It has been found in an advanced alage of evolution in ancient Crete. When French savant was shown those Minoan ladies he cried out, Mais ce sont des Parisiennes." They are, let us say, twice as old as her Royal Highness from China. I understand you can go behind them to an earlier mode in Egypt. But the tictails of evolution are Obviously the first low
tiresome. dress was the one Eve put on for her departure from Eden.- II. C. B., in London Dally Tele- graph.
PURSE IN MUFF
It looks like a hard winter for pickpockets if Hollywood's latest fancy of fashion becomes popular. Joan Peers, appearing in Pura- mount's The Two Black Crows in the A.E.F." starring Moran and Mack, makes her muff do double duty. While her hands are tucked snugly inakle, her purse is tucked securely into the top of the beige fox cylinder. When the purse is closed only the amber clasp is visible, but when it is snapped open a commodious receptacle is revealed for money, make up, and the other innumberable objects that All women's handbags.
CURLS AND WAVES
Miss Peers says that this purse. in-muff fad is really a revival of a What sadi fale may have bemote that the ladies of fifty years fallen the modern woman by day ago embraced along with bustles is compensated for by her mar and pompadours. vellous appearance at night time. Attired for evening, a woman can find herself. in making abydy of colour and length she can, us- By night curls and waves are ac sisted by fabric, be coldly ata-
centuated and a real femininity as- inesque, or fluffy and kittenish, sured. On the other hand, the
Pastel Tones
wearer of trained magnificence may newest shades од the only have just ahed her gorgeous colour-card suggest that we may Persian trousers and black satin ali look our best, and most femin-smoking coat, finishing pro tem, ine, by choosing pastel
with cocktail and cigarette. for day, remaining very firm about the sports skirt only just covering the knee!
The
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In the evening we can follow on with white and pale colours that are our own, swaying draperies, and every variety in lengths that conforms to our particular style.
It is smart for some girls and women to affect white chiffon and pearls to have uneven hem-lines and skirts just cut high enough to reveal glimpses of, dainty lingerie beneath. Such a choice is for the fairly young.
Courage is shown by those who choose a more difficult, alder, yet superior style, and insist on a waist and every line being revealed, and firmly adopting a train or many falling flutes of full length.
WOMEN IN SHORTS
Two women players, Mrs. C. Nation and Miss J. Cheney, set a new fashion at the Queen's Club ladies' squash rackets champion- ship on January 20 by appearing In shorts in place of the usual white skirt.
Opinion was divided among the spectators as to whether it was an improvement. .The absence of skirt certainly added to freedom of movement and the costume was by no means unsightly.
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In several private courts fashion, has been set of playing in bathing dresses, and the ladies who do su claim that the added freedom gained improves their game by several acest
Both ladies on January 20. were beaten, Miss. Cheney by the Hon. A Lytton Milbanke, 93, 90, and 0, and Mrs. Nation by Mina M. Haywood, 90, 91, and 9—1
Stylish Evening Wear
For evening wear the more graceful wraps are short. Picture shows charm ing wrap made of cream coloured velvet with brown beaver collar. The wide sleeves are made with shirred puffn graceful
set in at the wrists and a from one
senef of the velvet hangs shoulder of the coat. It is worn with a white evening gown of chiffon which hangs in irregalar hem line, to the her.
A BUTTERCUP RETINUE
Miss Betty Torrens, whose wedd- ing took place during the week (February 26) at St. Martin-in-the- Fields. had some old lace lent by Sir John Kenneaway to wear with her vellum-coloured satin dress. Mr. Randle Baker Wilbraham, the bridegroom, is the heir to his father's baronetey and Sir Philip Wilbraham's only sonD.
There were six grown up brides maids.
They had doing trail- ing frocks of buttercup yellow chif- fon with short coatees of the same shade.
BORDERS OF FUR
Many of the new favourite satla Callot frocks show borders of fur. uses fox as a trimming to white, so A hunt-ball hostess does Paquin, has been seen looking perfectly charming in a Princess gown in a sporting shade of reddish-pink in A panne, with a border of skunk. thick white satin looks marvellous when edged beaver, and dove- coloured grey velvet is at its beat with a deep hem of platinum-fex.
In each instance the fur is used only as a border to the dress, but appears again as 4 lavlah decora tion to the matching evening coat. Such trimminga provide a change in the treatment of the uneven hem.
Fashions Latest Mode
GREY HAT
HIGH COLLAR FINISH
FABRIC of
SOLDIER, BLUE
GREY GLOVES
TRIMMING
of KID. CARACUL
in GREY
GREY HOSIERY
BLUE SLIPPERS
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HINTS WANTED
Letters to Cinema Stars
Twenty-five per cent. of the fan.) letters written to feminine stara are requests for beauty hints.
Mary Brian is besieged with let- ters asking for the secret that keeps her hair constantly lovely.
While on location with the Para- mount company, making "Burning Up." starring Richard Arlen, Miss Brinn received the following lotter, postmarked New Zealand.
"Dear Miss Brian: How do you
do it? Meaning-how do you keep your beautiful brown hair wary, soft, lustrous and alive- looking? How do you dress it? It always looks natural, never set and sleek, yet tldy-just the way
I want mine to look and never does."
Miss Brian's answer to this dis- tant fan's call for beauty Informa- tion should prova a helpful hint to all women who are interested in keeping their hair beautiful.
"Cleanliness, as in everything else," says Mary Brian, "is the most important step, toward healthy and attractive hair. I do not believe in too many washings, but there are such things as dry shampoos that keep the hair dust-free.
"Every other week my hair is washed after a hot of treatment, with melted castile soap. After three soapings and thorough rin- sing, diluted lemon juice serves to- soften the effects of the water and As a finishing touch I put soup. four drops of rose of geranium oll in one glass of hot water and slow- ly pour it over my hair. Then I rub vigorously with a towel, and let it dry. The geranium oil leaves a natural sheen over the surface of the hair that picks up the lights, and lends it that "alive" appear. ance.
"I prefer finger waves to marcels, because the wide loose curis ap- pear more natural and less set. It is also beneficial to dry the hair in
the sun.
"When my hair becomes difficult to manage before the next water shampoo is due, 1 try an egg-white remedy, which is simple, speedy and effective.
"The whites of two eggs are beat en until very atiff. The mixture is then applied to the hair and sealp and rubbed in thoroughly. After the egg-white has been allowed to dry, and this takes about twenty- minutes, brush and comb the hair vigorously. As the dried egg-white flakes off it carries with it the sur- plus dust and all, and leaves the hair, clean, fluffy, and what is most important, the waterwave, or marcel comes forth intact from the sham- poo.
"I keep the ends of my hair safe. y waved, by wetting them a bit and pinning them in flat curls with hair- If the ends pins until dry. of the hair are kept curled and in place half the battle for hair beauty When my hair was long, I le won. rolled it into a very ftat knot at the back of my neck, so that it did not blur the lines of the head or inter- fore with my hats."
EVELYN JOINS CONTROVERSY
"Why all this controversy over the new fashiona?" asks Evelyn Brent, star of Paramount's produc- tion "Slightly Scarlet." "No one is saking women to wear trailing dresses on the street, and fourteen inches off the ground, which is the smart length for daytime wear, la far from hampering. In the oven- ing, an ankle-length skirt is most graceful."
Thus one of the screen's best- dressed players answers the univer sal question of skirt langth. In "Slightly Scarlet," Miss Brent wears ten ultra-chic creations that follow to the letter the new mode asta waist lines, hemlines, and materials.
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AMERICANS LIKE LILIES
Az enormous amount of an East-
Hly pattern is sent over. to American women for their bou doirs, while a design of horses after Rosa Bonheur, in a medallion on a flowered ground, and two Chinese designa, one à Chinese Hegency and the other Chinese pagoda, are taken: from original documents framed and hung up in the shop.
Another Regency design, distin guishable from the Victor in by the drapery, and loops, comes from Aldaris Fark, the seat of Lord Stanley of Alderley, where hung the original curtai
........ Commemorative designs, so popu... "lar during the last century, can still be repeated for those who would and amusing a pattern of the Frince Consort astride a prancing steed, or Nelson's victories printed on chints, or a Waterloo pattern with Wellington's name overlaid..
Emerald Green
A new and charming frock made of emerald green silk crepe. The lovely large
collar, which 1s gathered onto the blouse, is extremely new and flattering. The gown has the high waist line and longer skirt, which shows the uneven hem line.
NEW FALLING FLUTES
When every new note of Fashion is discussed, and the brilliance of colour and fabric assured we can-
not help observing how much the skirt lengths can alter the type and outlook of the wearer.
With the
new falling flutes on the ground, weighted by these trimmings of ruches or fur, or with definite yards of rich fabric treated as a train, we must behave with dignity and de-
corum.
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EVENING DRESS?
Deaf Ears to Plea for Lace and Gold
When Mr. A. Rochester Brown put forth the suggestion that man
his should gold-braid
evening clothes he maant harm to no one, least of all to those godlike arbiters of fashion who preside over the des- tinies of Savile-row.
Mr. Brown is the acting master at this moment of the Gold and Sil Ver Wyre Drawers Company. Like any other enthusiastic drawer of wire, he is animated by a desire to revive the fortunes of an ancient but somewhat neglected craft.
Fall-dreas uniforms are no longer insisted upon in regiments other than the Guards and the Household Cavalry, and this fact, in conjunc- tion with the gradual disappearance from modern life of ceremonial dis play generally, accounts for a de- pression in the gold lace industry which is beginning to be regarded as serious.
Popular Furs
Mr. Rochester Brown rightly foresees a much brighter future... in which, of course, the wire drawer would share if men would only redress the balance by wearing gold lace in the evenings. Here, doubles, Mr. Brown reflected, was a really useful outlet for those who long for colourful variation in masculine dress. Put ever such a thin stripe each trouser-leg, and you would set every member of this ancient com pany spinning miles of gold wire to the rest of their lives,
Almost a Crisis Alas! for this picture of
ed finally. "Gold stripes! Why, д happy gilded manhood and old
for the drawers you cannot imagine the difficulty we of wire, Savile-row will have had in getting even black braid con- none of it. Discreet revela-sidered for evening dress trousers." tion of the plan by a representative
Braided scams were a little device
Age
Nutria is the fur used in this smart coat worn, which is extensively pa- tronised, by noted stage and screen stars.
of the Daily Telegraph nearly pre- Intended to avert that time-honour- cipitated à crise de nerfs in this respectble thoroughfare. were held aloft
ed contretemps consequent upon a Handa guest being hailed as a waiter. in müte horror, Many men elect even now to accept A the risk rather than wear the stripe of distinction. Military men in par- ticular reject the atripe in their cvilian dress as savouring too much of uniform.
at the impiety of the thing. master tailor of the old school started to intone "Odi ego aurum and turned mournfuly away, Plau- tus and his own emotions ab viously choking him.
Savile-row's decrees ure in trath law throughout the world of mas- culine elegance; but its despotism is of the discreetly deferential kind. One famous tailor tried to picture himself introducing the innovation to his clients, and his shudders were nearly audible.
"I could never do it,” he announe-
Gloves for All Occasions
Gloves are important items in this season's ward- robe, suitable for sports occasions, for shopping, dressy daytime wear and for evening. Here is displayed an attractive pair suitable for shopping --of tan kid with trimmings of dark brown.
Too Great A Risk Another variation the tailors found difficulty in "putting across," as the Americans have it, was the alleged "blue dress suit," In arti- Relul light the difference was scarcely discernible, but, again. well-dressed men would not risk the change,
"Britons are the most conser- vative creatures in the world so far as their dress is concerned," said another authority. "They hate to think they are conspicuous, and the fear of it makes them resist change in the smallest detall. You cannot attempt much more with them than to alter the shape of their ties oc- casionally or the number of their studa."
"The only chance for gold stripea as a fashion," said another expert, "would be for the Prince of Wales to appear in them. Even then-I don't know. The Princo recently wore a sweator under his dinner) jacket at a boxing match, but I have not noticed anyone with suf- ficient courage to follow his daring example."
"Once, forty years ago, I saw two": men at a public dinner with gold braid upon their waistcoats," said a member of one 'Savile-row arm:" "I do not know their fate, but I never saw them again," he added, solemnly.
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For the beat Permanent Finger & Marcel Waves. Hair Cutting 1ánd
Manicura for Ladies
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SUMMER MATERIALS
and LIGHT WEIGHT DRESSES
suitable for present wear.· ́
COATS & DRESSES
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and a nice selection of
SPRING HATS
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