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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1934
The Woman's Page
NOTE OF DARING FOR
WINTER MODES
SEMI-SPORTING. HATS
THER
HERE a much of the old elegance as well as modern
18th daring about many phases of the Quite differing:
The winter modes.
Public are kindly requcated to post styles are chosen for mornings and
This mail is due to arrive at London afternoons, on the 21st December.
INWARD MAILS.
FROM EUROPE
Prosper (Air Mail ex Mar- seilles Saigon Service) ... Pyrrhus, (Imperial Airways
Servicc)
FROM PAPAN
Emp. of Asia
Pres. Hoover
Sirdhana
Chichibu Maru
Kitano Maru
Nov.
**
The designera have
stood out for a marked difference | between the essentially practical and that more leisured, elegant note that has been creeping in for some) time. This is a return to the Edwardian and late Vietorian way of dressing, but with a difference. 18 Sporting or country suits and erf- sembles for mornings and hard wear, including wet weather clothes, are as chic ae velvet and feathers for afternoons.
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Nov.
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Materials can be divided or com-1
22 bined into uses for both. Corded
22 volvet is delightful for the smail semi-sporting sort of hat with. It's Fell can be
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necktie to match.
Pres. Garfield
FROM U.S.A.
Nov.
Enp. of Asin
2
Pres. Hoover
Pres, Garfoll
FROM SHANGHAI
Nov.
D'Artagnan
Sarpedon
Emp, of Asia
Prea. Hoover
Behur
thichibu Maru.
Pres. Garfield
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Nov.
Lisbon Maru
H
Pyrrhus
Tokushmia Maru
Toba Maru
Hakone Maru
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fitted with a dented crown to wear with a hard type of coat and skirt.
FOR NEW COIFFURES
20 Successors To Tiara And
Snood Effects
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· Hair ornaments in a new medium
Princess Marina's Myrtle Sprig
Elaborate Preparations For Royal Wedding.
LITE
(By. MARIANNE MAYFAYRE)
London. There is a little myrtle tree in 23 that looks like tiny crystal bende.
sewn together are practically un-one of the hothouses at Frognal, breakable and can be clipped into where many of the plants that will 17the hair without damaging the be used in Royal decoration for the 20 waves.
wedding of Prince George and
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These new hair decorations are
fixed, but it will be either eleven
o'clock or an hour later.
The Decorative Window-Sill
PRACTICAL IDEAS IN EXTENSIONS
Happy the house to which the architect
shown himself Than generous in the matter of window sills, for therein lies, great oppor-} tunity for the effective, and the de coretiva. For the houso that has
not been thus endowed there is the question of the extension of the existing sills. These may be deye- loped with the aid of brackets. The bracket of hand-forged iron is to-day being developed along excel- fent lines, its production being en- couraged by the vogue for console [tables and shelf-fitments in the place of separate pieces of furniture.'
A meagre sill can assume adequate proportions with the addition of a wooden extension, bracket-support- ed, the whole clothing itself in carefully selected tiles. With luck you may find to fit it a set of old Dutch tiles in aubergine of the type that forms a complete picture, say
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NOW BEING COMPILED.
DIRECTORY
1935
of Amsterdam shipping or of HONG KONG'S BEST flower-group.
Or you may go to one of our women potters for in The work of preparing the lists tile composition conceived on simi- of the wedding guests is now being lar lines. taken in hand.
Ancient Needlework
Coloured Glass
Or, on the other hand, there are
Old needlework patterns are in the buff-grounded, gaily patterned as much request among designers tiles from the Dorsetshire kilns, and of curtains and hangings as among the tiles in plain, dull black that.] the women embroiderers of Mayfair. with the white cement to emphasise A four hundred-year-old design the juncilons, show up so jauntily has just been re-drawn in. Its against coloured paint. original black and white by the de- Thus equipped, a sill is ready to signer for & Piccadilly. salon and display a collection of cacti (strange copied for him at Dartford to make growths that threaten to become as hangings for a country house. The great an obsession as the aspidistra of old) or to cope with the burden | "naughty-nineties" style of hair-
effect is of gros point. dressing.
Women are having their old tape- of autumn bulbs.
The extended all may, in the bed. Talking of "serialised' perfume, generations since the time of Queen atries rehung in the traditional way the refreshing and stimulating Victoria. In has grown consider-arras was hung in mediaeval castles room, take the place of a dressing- Athos (via Siberia) Aaroma of the pine tree is now ably since it gave the first sprig for-that is with loops of wide braid table proper, assuming for the pur- D'Artagnan (Marseilles Ser-
20 brought to the bathroom not on! that Royal bridal bouquet in the depending from wooden rod and pose a gathered petticoat and a Closes: Reg. 10 am. Ord. 10.30 a.m. in the form of bath crystals and far-off forties.
OUTWARD MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
Nov.
Chitral (via San Francisco).. 17
Closes: Reg. 9 a.m. Ord. 9.80 mm.
vice)
Pros, Lincoln (via Siberis and
Et
San Francisco).... Closes: Reg. 4.15 p.m. Ord. 5 p.m. FOR JAPAN
the successors of tiara and snood Princess Marina are now blooming effects, and are in keeping with the which is receiving extra special at new-old curled bangs and the tention Just now.
It is the tree that has supplied a japrig for every 'Royal bride for
water softener, but in a full range
Royal Rose Leaves
In this swinging loose from the wall, slender triptych mirror,
Aquaria, instead of pictures, are case it will doubtless elect to cover of toilet necessitles--soap, talcum
a new decoration for the London Its surface in mirror-glass.
the powder, balsam.to be used in the
The staircase window, usually At Royal weddings the Royal dining or drawing-room, for bath for easing stiffness after family follows the happy old custom latest models are let into the wall gaunt, uninteresting proportions, exercise, toothpaste, and mouth of throwing "something for luck and the heating apparatus conceal-rather a baffling proposition in its may employ its sill to good and or- 17 wash.
on the departing, bride after the ed altogether,
namental ends by endowing it with Christmas House Party wedding breakfast. A friend of mine has among her possessions. Blenheim Palace la now occupied specimens of coloured glasa. With some paper pink-and-yellow rose-by the Duke and Duchess of Marl-the light behind, to throw the depths leaves that were showered overborough, and they will remain at of tint into relief, these will make Princess Mary by her brothers be- their beautiful home for the au-the whole glow like some medieval
rose window. fore she left Buckingham Palace turn. for her honeymoon.
Their first house party will be at. The Princess, laughing, brushed Christmas time, when the stately them off her, coat before she went rooms will ring again with children's London.. into her car, and a bystander pick-laughter.
Princess Marina
Nov.
Athos II (via Biberia) Pres. Lincoln
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FOR AMERICA
Pres. Lincoln
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PILL BOX TOQUE
SMARTEST
FOR MANILA
Nov.
Pres. McKinley Emp, of Asia
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FOR SHANGHAI
Athos II Pres. Lincoln
FOR STRAITS & INDIA
Nov.
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Chitral D'Artagnan
Popularises It
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17: No phase of. millinery fashion
21 was ever more flattering than the eighteenth-century modes in hats,
superscribed.
REGISTERED And PARCEL
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JUMPERS
The pill-box toque is one of the ed them up. The rose-leaves, used Diplomats And The Wedding TUMPERS, or rather jerkins, for 17 smartest of the new, models for 遗憾 a substitute for old-fashioned After the Royal guests, the most the new jumpers show the in- 27 autumn. Princess Marina, has made confetti, were made by ex-Service important people for good places fluance of the swaggering brawling Lit popular, though it is not easy to men especially for the Princess must be found at the wedding of Tudora of the films, are cut like a wear unless trimming and angle are Royal, and incidentally became a Prince George and Princess Marina fencing blouse, hip length and carefully adjusted.
fashionable. "send-off", requisite. are the Ambassadors and their trimly belted. Tweed linen is de-
ladies.
lightful, also the new fine chenille Preparing The Abbey
Spain, still affectionately remem-cloth with a thin raised line. Work, in preparation for the bering its English-born Queen, feels! VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post the three cornered creation in Royal wedding will be taken in itself closely linked with the Royal eards for Europe and South America velvet and feathers that sat so hand in Westminster Abbey shortly.lovers. The fine Embassy, on the are forwarded "via" alberie" if o charmingly on softly waved curls. With the precedents of the wed-corner of Belgrave-square, will be Yet the tricorne can be simple dings of the Princess Royal and the the scene of much entertaining MAILS are closed JE minutes earlier enough for mornings, as well as the Duke and Duchess of York to guide when the influx of wedding guests than the time given above unless perfect completion to an afternoon them, thost in charge of this task from all parts begins. Senor dej otherwise stated, and where mails are ensemble of rich velvet and fur. will find it a fairly straightforward Ayala has hurried back from his advertised to close at or before 8 mIn felt, with a single wing or a registered and parcel malls are closed bow, it is disarmingly simple with modation of the guests is still in co-operate in the social plans,
one. The staging for the accom-shooting holiday in Scotland to at 6 p.m. on the previous day,
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hour for the ceremony is not yet sense of personal enjoyment.
existence.
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