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Oct.
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Oct.
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Oct.
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6; 1934
The Woman's Page
A black crepe dinner sult with a turquoise blue crepe bodice due to become very popular with the younger set. A removable black inckel udda a touch of informality while colourful animation is derived from a huge corsage of bright red geranium. Evelyn Yenable, screen Betres, is the model.
PATOU'S DIRECTQIRE
GOWN
When You Go Shopping WOOLLENS ARE
Make Your Purchases Proportionate To Purse
POINTS TO BE REMEMBER
CHOPPING has always been 1 woman's most fascinating past- time-the lure of the shop-window is too strong to be resisted. Many women pride themselves on their flair for a good bargain, but others are less shrewd in their purchasing. Like everything else shopping is an art that must be carefully studied
in order to obtain the best results. To be a good shopper you must first and foremost be really good at simple mental arithmetic. goes without saying.
This
To begin with you should start on your shopping expedition with a round num in your purse. propor- tionate to what your purchases will amount to. It is always very unsatisfactory not to know the exact amount your purse originally con- tained when you make up accounts on your return.
You should inform yourself of prices. This can be done by discus- sions with friends, by studying and preserving price-lists, and by com- paring prices between one shop and another. You would be surprised to discover the difference there often exists even between standard goods. It is. the shopper's business to buy with due regard to both price] and quality. This sounds like a platitude, but many people put) cheapness before everything and de not realise that a better article at a somewhat higher price is often more genuinely economical.
Examine The Bill
Shop assistants are merely human and it sometimes happens that they
themselves are not quite sure of the price of the article required-it is
1.1
Tomata red fashions this snappy woollen frock so well suited to the thie Mary Carlisle, seren actress. The dress is tuck trimmed and fen- Lures a matching coat trimmed with elvet cat. The hat is of black taffeta,
BROWN WOODEN SEQUINS
Paris.
LIKE GOSSAMER
THIS AUTUMN
The Latest Dress Materials COMBINATION COLOURS
London.
Much of the interest in the new autumn coats and dresses lies in the materials of which they are made.
This means that If you cannot have the fashionable fur trimming, you can make up for it by choosing
la fabric which is obviously "up to
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert bat our
the minute," with a smart scarf of, readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling,
Tet us say, stiff eatin or aatin embroidered with a design in tingel] thread.
The hairy materials are the most important and interesting among the new fabrics. Some of thern have a surface with hairs about an inch long, scattered sometimes thickly, sometimes very sparsely, over the surface.
If you do not boast a stream-line figure, choose one of the woollens on which the hairs are so fat that they give merely the effect of a plle.
wear.
Country Plaids
Plain materials are more favour. ed than patterned onss for. formal]
But if you are planning country clothes you will choose! checks, plaids in bright colours or two shades of the same colour, or tweed with just that effect of faulti- neas in the broken pattern which gives hand-weaving its charm,
Thick bright threads "darned" through horizontally on a dark ground give a charming effect- especially for a suit and accompany- |ing overcoat.
-Diagonal stripes in self-colourings are good, and there are a good
up to you to see that they find out Paris.
the price from a reliable source. It AX, whe has introduced some many boucle materials and others of the newest lines this season, which have a knotted effect in the JEAN Patou completes & this to these occasions that your own has thought out a tunic made of One Directoire gown with knowledge of prices and values brown wooden sequins over a slim
One of the most fascinating coats neckline which is cut low in front
comes into play.
| brown satin skirt. And she makes seen in the collections was made In with the edge pulled outward, giving
It is enough to point out that the armholes of her coats and some woollen which was woven with a glimpse of a tucked muslin vest. shoppers must be on the alert all of her frocks nearly waist deep to tiny bits of astrakhan in broken THE SEASON'S SKIRT LENGTH the time and see that they make al give the new loose effect.
lines. -
Woollen materials for autumn) dresses can be as thin as you like, 1
the
When "It square deal.
comes to handing over the money or your
Mistakes
Paris.
1
KIRT lengths, for coming purchases run your eye over the bull SHEATHE-LIKE FROCK RETURNS with the new gauffre or check pat-
season, remain practically as and add up the figures yourself.
terns in self-colours, stripes in before, except that there are fewer You will sometimes find mistakes
fancy yams on a plain ground, or trains. The waistline for day wear even here. It is so much better to THE sheathe-like evening frock in a colour against a contrasting|
fox dpt one even here. Its coveries, on the spot is to eat hovived. la-with very few
No trimming, except a smart It fits more one. normal. For evening it la normal than later.
closely than ever to the figure and, belt, is necessary, in addition. or high. There are a great many
more often than not, shows an un-Don't forget that there is hardly a semi-fitting, princess-ish evening
When buying sarees or materials even hem or simply dips at the back. dress material made to-day which gowns with no definite walat-line at
for dresses the stuff should be held The hobble tendency at the knees has not a matching one of coat ail.
near the face in a good light and is relieved by the skirt being allt weight, either with a plain or fancy the effect, examined in a mirror.]to give walking room.
Below, the ground. Many Hong Kong silk merchants knees are frills, flares, flounces, overlook this necessity to provide pleated insets in short any width-| long mirrors in a good light for making device which appeals to the their customers. It is not enough ̧ingenuity of the designer. NOR knockabout wear, a costume to admire the material on the coup- with a hip-length jacket bolted ter unless the stuff happens to bel
FOR KNOCKABOUT WEAR
FOR
at normal line, is most favoured an old favourite of assured It is very much like last season's becomingness. esult, and has the familiar four .9 pocketa.
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POCKETS
Then again the effect of a new POCKETS Bre
hat needs to be scrutinised in a full length mirror because even the pro- portions of a hat need to be con- AIR MAIL-Imperla Airways vissidered with regard to those of the Singapore, Bandoerg-Amsterdam via Singapore Saigon Marseilles via Satgure another fact which is often ron. Correspondence for Europe and overlooked.
dealgner.
In
For Chilly People When you look for a patterned woollen, you take it for granted that it is woven. But this season, fy
it has already been announced; there are new rough woollens and tweeds, suitable for dresses, with 28 much
designs printed on their surface evidence as ever, and are intead. Some of these blouse and fastened in a number of new ways scarf woollens have a shot effect. Bars of wood suspended from cords
And here is good news for those. are used instead of buttons by one chilly people who fall back hopeless- Another is using metally on what someone has called "the or composition clips.
inevitable woolly Jacket" as soon as winter comes. The new fine, sheer VIA SIBERIA— Letten and post. Cepted for transmission by, these Ser-more to be said on the art of buy
woollen materials make delightful cards for Europe and Faith America vican, Rates and all particulars are ing the best in various commo- all the necessary shopping in a blouses ure forwarded "via beria", if so shown in the schedules exhibited at
Another new way of combining superscribed,
the General Post Ofice and Kowloon dities much of which le acquired by given neighbourhood before pro- REGISTERED
PARCEL Office. All letters ott, must be mark-personal experience and friendly ceeding to another because, petrol colours is to have a long coat in a MAILS are closed 16 minutes earlier ed "By Air Mall" and handed in at counsel. The great thing is to make and rickshaw hires have to be taken dark shade, say in brown cloth, than the time given above unless the General Post Office. Unless a note of where certain things can into consideration, when we go a-lined with a brighter contrasting! siherwise stated, and where malls are superscribed for despatch by a spect advertised to close at or before & a.m. Be air mail service, correspondance be bought best with regard to fresh shopping and economy must be colour, perhaps a soft blue to match practised in more than one direc-the frock, which is of the same. registered and parcel male are closed will be forwarded by the first service ness, quality and price.
material. at 5 p.m. on the previous day,
And it is well to remember, to dotion.
ard
intermediate countries will be ac There is, of course, a great deal
available.
such as harbor. plow, and altho.
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121
127 128
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57 58 59
HORIZONTAL
1-To warm by genial
host 5-Mold
32
165 164
67
69
71.
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HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 56-Sterling (abbr) 67-A school book (pl.) 62-Man's name
10-A place for the ante 68-Own,
of goods
14-Large lake
15-Alvar in Italy 16-Current
17-Alver In Egypt 18-A Mohammedan
> 'princa
19-Paradiso
20-Higher 22-Tradera
24-Consumer 26-Station (abbr.) 27-Agitating 31-Ascends 136-A fowl
37-To
in a
stealthy manner 89-Combining form.
Wind 40-Angers
42-Very cool (Post.) 44-Row
45-Made a mistake....... 47-Memento
49-Lace fabrice 50-Kind of deg
$2-Those who sleep .Ci-Guided
67-Drugs 69-Large plant
30-Part of a stove 71-Perform
72-An Engilah titie 73-A number (pl.) 74-Scars 175-Clip
VERTICAL
1-Crooked 2-Melody 3-Part of a window
trame-
*-Box usad le dressing
5-Beginning 6-Pronoun
7-Axelat
B-Peeks
9-Plural of erratum
10-Walk
11-Storste
VERTICAL (Cont.) 23-Paraguay (abbr.) 25-Jear 27-Flings 28-Earth (Fr.) 29-Ingotive
Heavy
winda
32-Interest (abbr.) 33A
fish-net 34-Turkish offiolal 35-Gradan
43-THOR
akilled in dietetics 46-8mall valley, 48-A letter (pl.) 51-Decorated with
reada 33-Babbles 55-Male bee 57-A missile 68-To
cover with PAYOmEnt
60.Magnifying gīnai. 61-Extend over- {63-Parein
64-Combining form.
12-Alver in Qarmany 18-Indites
Air 66-Amirt
68-Combining form.
Outside
21-Organs of hearing
The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzzle will appear is Monday's issue.
for brass, copper and all metals
use
BRASSO
the
polish that
gives a lasting shine
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