SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1931.
THE CHINA MAIL.
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BATHING SUITS CAPS & SHOES
AT
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BUYING A HAT:
Why is it that buying, hats for ourselves is such..a.serious.business,. like viaiting the dentist Income tax collector, but so very amusing to watch in others?
A PATED MIRROR.
One of the most capable women I know, who runs her home and family most efficiently, nearly faints with fright when she goes
A new style of hand mirror ja out to buy a liat.
particularly attractive on a dress- Another woman I know, an ardenting-table plainly equipped in ac- feminist and famous writer, always cordance with to-day's fashionable takes her husband with her when tnete. It is in a wooden frame, she buys a hat, and they both look wretched. The lady tries on "any old thing." gives it bang
there 10 no other word portraying a mass of foliage. I am and turne fiercely to her
not sure if it is new or an antique, husband saying: "Does this make but the idea is well worth adopting me Jook Frenchified?" "No,
by anyone who likes to make most my dear," replies the husband, of her friends', gifts, and who has meekly and very truthfully, and the had experience with painting on hat is bought,
wood. The surface of the mirror I liked was very highly varnished
In Paris it is still more amusing, because the assistants are real diplomats in the matter of tact, and everyone is happy.
In Spain, hat-buying is a family affair. La Senora takes her hus band, children, maid and even dog, and all of them, excepting the dog. air their opiniona. It is awfully amusing to hear and watch them. na the shop assistants in Spain are extremely cheerful and patient, and many of them must have kissed the Blarney Stone, so complimentary are they.
In Germany and Holland 1 also noticed that women took their hus- bands on hat-buying expeditions, and their taste in headgear was rather dreadful, I thought. They prefer large overtrimmed hats, and are extremely solemn over the mat- ter, breathing heavily on the models and discussing trimmings very seriously-and noisily.
In Ireland, especially in places like Wexford, for instance, hat- buying is also a family affair, and ofter, if the shop is small and "Intimate," finishes up with a cup. of tea, and nobody hurries.-D. S. in Evening Standard..
COLOURS AT THE COAST.
How well made are many of this Summer's beach fashions. In love- ly rainbow colours, wraps of turkish towelling, prove difficult to copy unless the home dreammaker is real- ly expert. They are not like the slip-on wraps of last year which were merely large towels drawn. into frills at the neck. Now the wraps have capes acrose the back Lustrous Oil Permanent Hair Waves set to form wide aleaves, with the which are Large, Soft and Natural, fronta plain, and the revers faced Artistic Finger and Marcel Waves, Oll back with a contrasting colour. A Treatment, Shampooing, Henna Pack (any colour), Hair Cutting and Mani-three-piece suit in fine wool is cure for Ladies and Gentlemen. Con- tailored and consists of a short scientious, Artistle Work by Europena bathing costume in navy and white, Expert, Mr. Alexander.
Opposite Entrance to Hong Kong Hotel.
CHARGES MODERATE.
A VISIT WILL CONVINCE YOU.
wide trousers, all navy, and a navy cardigan showing many smail triangles of red and white on the pockobe.
with the handle straigh: Instead of curved in the usual manner, and plainted with rich, dull colours,
Ex.
COLOURS.
Secret Council Choose The
Season's Tints.
The British Colour Council, after selecting the fashionable coloure for the Autumn and Spring 1932, have decided that shoe soles must be in colour,
OF
The creator of the colours, Mr. Robert F. Wilson, explaining the work of the council in an inter- view at their headquarters in the heart of the London shopping area, Kuld:
"It has been recognised for some time by all interests connected with 'women's fashions that co- operative effort would be needed to combat France and America. The council came into being to create colours which would be fashionable in their seasons. Colour is the greatest influence of fashion.
"Before, a firm of silk manufac- turers would plan their cards for the season and their shade of say, 'cerise' would be different from that of another company. Matching was difficult. Dyers were placed in an awkward position by the variety of the shades.
"América. recognised the difficul ty and a council was formed, which had the effect more or less of standardising shades and colour. Our aim la similar.
Educating Opinion.
"I create colours. A committee select what they know to be the most popular shades, and a card is drawn up and issued to all concerns. Thus we have the dyers inanufac turing the shades which the people want, and the shops stock them.
"Fashions do not occur hap
MICROSCOPE AN AID.
After exhausting every other source of inspiration, the secrets of nature as revealed by the micro- scope are now being copied by the inventors of dresses and décorative
hazardly. We have carefully to design. watch the trend of popularity here,
The idea was started by a French
on the Continent and in America.artist, Mme. Albin Guillot, in col- A fashion is more often created by laboration with the geologist M. Mme. Guillot discovered educating opinion than by a chance Regot. fancy."
Mr. Wilson produced a small pile of square papers, each a different (Continued at foot of next Column)
A picturesque wedding gown in Ivory satin.
under
I that beautiful colours and,patterns can be obtained by looking at sub- stances
the microscope. Organic and inorganic matter is used to suggest effects which are imitated in the material of women's
dresses, carpets, wall-papara and 'atufis, and in, every form of orna- mentation.
Thus, apparently prosaic matter, Buch as crystalline cafeine, will supply, under the lens, a surprising richness of
unsuspected tones varying from jet black to the most striking blues and yellowa.
QUS
A
Whalebone, rhinoceros' tuaks, todosulphate of quinine, and numer-
other substances disclose wealth of diverse shades and curl- ous shapes which would make the futurist artist green with envy.
jahade of a different colour. He
said:
"These are our creations. We do not create one colour and make an impressive announcement of it as the 'one and only colour of the sea- son. Here we have them all to auit everyone, and every purpose; Silke, linens, stockings, shoes, band- bags, buttons-every conceivable garment and article which women and even men use and wear can be
got in the colours we have select-
ed.
our
"We are gradually, gaining on competitors, and British creatore of fashion are coming into their own. It can only be achieved through colour, and we are doing it. Religions "Taboos."
There are so many ramifica- tions. For example, a British firm" of needle manufacturers lost thou- sands "of" pounds worth of South American orders simply because a rival foreign firm wrapped Ite needles in coloured packets....
"Again, it would be useless send- Ing goods of certain shades to cer- tain countries, because their rell- gious or political leaningsmake those colours taboo. It is the job of the Colour Council to find out all that.".
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