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SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1930.
THE
CHINA MAIL.
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New Millinery.
Here are hats for every fashion- able occasion, showing the new styles, made of fine new straws that drope graciously into the soft folds and lines of the acason's mode. Top Formal afternoon hat of coarse, flexible straw in natural tone and colours with flower orna- menta. flot of fine bakou with draped brim and long back. Close fitting hat of shiny panomalogue. Afternoon hat of lacy straw with bows of satin. For formal occa- sions, of lace and utraw with ribbon trim.
KASHMIR SILK STORE
for
EXCLUSIVE STOCKS
of SILK and
SILK GOODS
Opposite Queen's Theatre.
ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE
BEAUTE
For the best Parmanent Finger & Mareil-Waves,...... Hair Cutting, and
·Manicure, for Ladies & ̧/
Ben Gentlemen. Pedder Bldg. let door. Room &
Tel. 25169, 20 -Opposite szitrance HK. Hotel.
The WOMAN'S Page
NEW ENSEMBLES.
Providing The Necessary Balance.
Very new are the little ensembles i in red and white, navy and white,) black and white, and
green and white jersey designis. Skirts and jackets in such stuffs are short, with narrow belts and fresh tailor- ed types of blouses with stitched shady hats or berets. It is wonder- ful the way British 'girls stick to the berets; when they "suit" they are charming, but they do not al- ways suit! In anything worn with
NEW LINGERIE
COST OF DRESS.
Clothes That Are Cheap But Chic.
How beautifully is the new lingerie..cut and fashioned-all the slips and princess petticoats being
Helen Bryant writes in the shaped differently--to suit the London Dully Telegraph:- style of each model! It is such "Everything in New York is so methods that distinguish the well-expensive!" we English visitors dressed women of the day. This of our stay. And indeed the dol- exclaim during the first few weeks
new "completeness" of the fasti- tar doesn't seem to go any further dious woman of fashion is so dainty than a shilling does in our and so pleasing, but alas! it does country, so that we are amazed at the smartness of the average work- signify expense!
ing girl whom we see on the street, and are inclined to imagine that she squanders her money reckless- ly on clothes.
One can appreciate the wisdom of being insistent on avolting all iden of ethereal and flimsy fabrics, even
own
How can that pretty little secrat-
neont it is noticeable how plain and women with limited dress incomes ary turn up to work each day in]
narrow are the skirts. With the very feminine -raunited "bodica, elbow' sleeves and waistband, the circular, ur pld umbrella, skirt looks really well, for so often this pleasing fashion, with a short shoulder cape and wide-brimmed satin hat of Spanish type, provides the necessary "balance."
for real Summer. Anything trans- parent entails fine lingerie and all sorts of expensive accessories.
a new silk dress with hat and shoes and bag to match? The whole forming an outfit not essen- tially different from the one wo Yet there are compensations in ourselves have just purchased at the superb cut of tailored clothes, what seemed quite a large enough and also the important modern fac-outlay-$39 for a dress, 335 more tor that all thin fabrics are equally for a coat, $14 for shoes, and easy to tailor, and often present a twelve good solid dollars for a per- more exclusive appearance than fectly plain straw hat? draperies and frills in elusive and perishable materials.
This matter of "balance" ulso
For them, too, are plenty of applies to all the smarter toilettes, pleasing examples, in lingerie-the
For the Beach.
Smart bathing costumes as sketched above give colour to the gaiety of every beach. The short wrap is more popular than the longer bathing gown showing the wide trouser effect skirt.
which assured the mode being ex-plainer well cut and shaped knickers ceptionally well presented at Ascot, and cami-knickers of shantung, All such spectacular gatherings crepe, or satin to match the darker where dress plays a stage part were suit or "'ensemble." shorn of much of their brilliance Lace or the fine nets can be subtly and dignity by the short, skimpy introduced or a little fine hand em- skirts and the narrowed, attenuated broidery and drawn thread work. appearance of women three or four The simpler forms of lingerie, well seasons ago!
cut and fashioned by hand, can be all-sufficient for the woman who is particular over such details.
We shall see restored all the pomp and pageantry of the "Nineties," with the elegance and restraint peculiar to the best of modern taste. Transparent draperies will grace-
"I suppose you pay your secre- tary an enormous salary compared what she would earn
in England?" we asked her employer,
to
who answered:
Fifteen Dollars Outfit.
"I don't know what Sadie' would earn in England, but I do know that she isn't extravagant over her clothes. The whole outfit she is wearing at the present minute cost exactly $15, which her mother gave her last week as a birthday pre- sent...."
"Fifteen dollars?" we gasped, with the memory of our own $100 expenditure rankling in our breast. "You don't believe it?" smiled Sadie's employer, "Sadie!" she called. "Come over here and tell us again how much each item of your outfit cost."
"Surely?" said Sadie. She came over and recited:
"The bine crepe de Chiné dress and coat together cost $8.75, the blue shoes were $2, the hat $1.50, and the handbag $2.50, and I still had 25c. over, so with that I bought the necklace," And she fingered; the little blue "crystal" copy of a last year's Chanel necklace, and smiled as well she had a right to -for a prettier and "cuter" little outfit it would have been hard to find....
Where There is Style.
The outstanding thing about cheap clothes in New York is that they have style-and, if you know | how to choose, definitely good style. They are often copies or adaptations of authentic French models-simplified, of course, and with the subtle details (which in the eyes of a connoisseur "make" a dress), eliminated... but with the admirable skeleton of "good line" left intact.
SPORTSWEAR
Gay versions of the newly feminised
sports mode are these fashions in dresses, suits and Waistlines are higher and skirts flaring. Above Sweater of
conts.
Jersey with short cap sleeves, fastened at neck with three buttons, Shirt of tweed in tones. At Centre-Cost of tweed tailored
in the sports manner with raglan sleeves, high 'belted waist-line and huge patch pockets. Left-
Sports suit of basket weave in pastel sports. colours, the jaunty short jacket features the novel
fringe trimming.
change more rapidly there that immediately one buys a 'dress the sensible thing to do is to wear it-and wear it out.
runs a good second. These suits are mostly relieved by the daintiest white or paleet pink muslin blouses.
adjective "chle"? In New York To buy something and cherish -It is odd that the fashion for the $3:95 dress and the $39.50 ean, | it, even for few weeks, is un- black should prevail with such in- from a distance, quite easily be wise. Except for such conserva- sistency. It becomes an important confounded.
tive things as suits and heavy feature when tailored in these How is this made possible? By coals it is hardly worth while to fabrics, as it shows up to the beat Very often these inexpensive sweated labour? No. By over-buy things of high quality with advantage agningt flowered things are to be found cheek by production. A big silk mill for the idea that they will last.. chiffons. Now that June is well on soma for clothes" and motor-cars both the wing, it will continue to make jowl with far more costly ones in instance, over-produces by the great stores-or even in little thousands of yards of silk. And obey the same rule in America: distinctive contrasts in the bril specialty shops on Fifth Avenue sells this at much less than the "Buy 'em-and scrap 'em!" You liant sunshine. Imagine going into a shop on usual price-less even than coat must not want to "get used” to a The tailored style of these suits Bond Street and picking out a price--to a dress manufacturer, frock in America As soon as it is decidedly feminine, with scal crepe de Chine dress with the who over-produces dresses in his becomes "comfortable"-something lopa or taba frequently cut into fully Hoat In the Summer breeze, broidery down the centre seam, or newest waistline, bows, tucks, turn. And sells them at ridicu- you really enjoy putting on be- borders of jackets and skirt hema. and the largest hats will shield a frill or tuck placed on the slant.
gores, or whatnot-for 16s.! lously small prices to the shop on
cause it has become a tried and Nipped-in waista define short lovely faces from a hot sun-but all For the cunning dressmaker who Yet this is precisely what you Fifth Avenue. The clever shop- trusty friend-beware! Such a peplum basques that balance epau- are representations of deep study. knows her job can conceal as well do on Fifth Avenue. You may per benefits. The clever shopper feeling spells danger! That dress lette capes and introduce a differ- Line is accentuated, and every curve as reveal, and this is a season when even got an ensemble—a coat as ... for it takes time to discover must be almost ready for the junk-ent version from short straight of the Agure is revealed to the bast the requirements of the older wo- well as a dress-for $3.95. And the little by-paths which lead off pile. So scrap it!
cardigan and semi-tailored lines. advantage.
man's fashions are well understood. it will be procurable in a range the main road of extravagance to
New sleeveless, short or long. The return of the bolero or The present models entirely re- of sizes from 14 to 40... In the hidden valleys of economy...
sleeved blouses look crisp and coatee for lace and organdi Isa sa fute age; they can, in some mar- fair number of colours and it and that is why visitors imagine
dainty in stiffened muslin designed helpful to assist the flare or godets vellous manner, combine a certain will fit!
that clothes, among other things, The feminine mood in Summer with pin tucks, which add a more In the really ethereal skirts. Then simplicity and clearness of cut that What sort of a dress can you get are expensive in New York.
or less rigid character to single how useful sometimes, when a figure auccessfully avoids all idea of the for 168. in London? A perfectly After one has lived for a while suits for afternoon wear and race
revers pulled across the front to is a bit wide, is the "trimuned" back | “bitty" -garments of the older good house dress, probably, but in that city one's idean about meetings is silk and taffetas, par- form a short line movement on one
a tiny line of buttons, silk em-women of a previous era.
would you dare to apply to it the clothes are modified. Fashious ticularly black, though dark blue} side of the jacket,
Rosie's BEAU GED.M-MANUS
HELLO-ROSIE, I WAS JUST". LEAVING FOR MY OFFICE AND
THOUGHT I'Q
CALL UP AND SAY GOOD MORNING
GEE-I 'FOR- |GOT TO 2. TELL HER.
I'D PHONE. HER LATER
I'LL PHONE
AGAIN”
YES-DARLING"
JUST WANTED] TO HEAR YOURİ VOICE AGAIN:
GEE-1 THINK
SUMMER SUITS,
I'LL CALL
HER UP
AGAIN-BE- FORE I GO IN THE
OFFICE-
OH-YOU DARLING-I'M GLAD YOU CALLED AGAIN-
IPHONED YOU-BUT YOU HADN'T ARRIVED AT THE OFFICE SO I WAS
WORRIED -
WELL-I'VE BEEN IN THE OFFICE TEN MINUTES-1. HAD BETTER PHONE
ROSIE
OH YES-1
THINK Sol
·NO! I..DON'Tİ THINK SO ·
GEE THAT BUY MAKES ME SICK HE'S
ALWAYS PHONING: