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Anyo Maru.
THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1935
The Woman's Page
Pros. cover
Tilswa
Emp, of Japan
FROM SHANGHAI
Mir.
Tyndarous
Pren McKinley
Chiiral
London
Fashion Conscious
Aeneas Athor II Malacca Maru
Pres. Hoover
Emp of Japan
FROM U.S.A.
Mar.
Pres. McKinley
Chitral
Pres. Hoover
Emp, of Japan ·
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DESIGNERS GIVE CORRECT
LINE TO LINGERIE
BEAUTIFUL FABRICS THAT WEAR WELL TWO TYPES OF MODEL-COLOUR
PROBLEM
Lingerie, in. Its modern phase, Lingerie, colours Incline to the is an all-important item in the new soft shades of blue and pale; wardrobe of the well-dressed wo-green, the pale primrose yellows man. Not a ripple or a seam must and, of course, the infinite variety mar the streamlined silhouette of of peach tones which range from the morning, afternoon or evening deep rose peach to the lightest tints. The great advantage of frock.
To this end" famous dress do this popular colour is that there signers have guided the correct are so many lingerie laces which other lines for all types of undergar-tone happily with it. In ments, and manufacturere are ex-colours, when lace is the decora celling in the production of fa-tion, the exact toning of the con- brics which, by reason of their trasting colour has to be selected beauty and lasting qualities, are carefully, if one is making up one's perfect materials for carrying out own lingerie-as so many women do nowadays. The safest choice these attractive designs...
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It matters not what the garment is a clear soft ivory-coloured face.
Stripes And Spols may be There are the slinkiest,
As a matter of fact the ivory of woven milanese, silks, the wash-
shades or very pale helge are able-satins, and, most favoured of all, the
among the most satisfactory lin- then erepe-de-Chines; there are charming flowered mous-gerie colours; they are attractive French And Englishness in our womenfolk. A Paris selines and chiffons, voiles, and in crepe-de-Chines, lingerie, satins, remarks that many of us have still other sheer cotton materials in and as a background for floral de- Women In Contrasts fashion writer visiting England which the lingerie designed for signs in all fabrics. In some of
INCOMPARABLE GAIT
to learn to acquire chic while 1935. day and night wear is modell-the newest lingerie fabrics Ivory preserving that "ladylike" air which'ed.
we are said to inherit with our
jor beige is used as a background
for stripe and spot designs in the latest 1935 spring colourings,
Slender And Willowy London. The Frenchwoman who is plung-clear complexions and incomparable
Lace and hand embroidery are fed suddenly into the whirl of Lon-gait. don life, as we know it to-day, finds our French observer, the two of the chosen mediums for the that Paris, by comparison, wears a Englishwoman unfailingly looks adornment of the present-day lin-
is a lady" (an ambiguous phrase, but geric, and although for day wear 18 D'Aguilar Ster Wellington St.
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Mar.
Santhis
Behar
every
Conte Hosso
Toyoka Maru
Toireslas
Doucalion
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FROM MANILA
Mar.
Taiping ....
Emp. of Ruzaie.
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Nankin
FROM AUSTRALIA
Mar.
Taiping
J
Nankin
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There subduced air.
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Ta brilliance, a spirit of optimism in we know what she means) so long the lines are necessarily slender our capital which she tells us con, as she concentrates on outdoor and willowy, for night wear there 18 trasts altogether too strongly with clothes or simple styles. She can are two distinct styles, the slim- For the quiet, somewhat depressing at-appear on the golf links in a bat ly tailored and the "pretty-pretty" mosphere which prevails in Paris, tered felt and ell-worn tweeds and frilled and ruched designs,
these models there are flowered them off with an air no
silken To a Frenchwoman, the forma-carry lity of night life over here is al-Frenchwoman could ever achieve. silks and musling with a
surface and texture. The delicate The pitfalls appear, to our most startling. Opera hats and
frills are most beautifully finished
inset with the white tics, sables and ermine are crities, when wo "dress up." The'
finest ; and to be seen everywhere and every Englishwoman tends, then, to ex-
of hand needlework: Often there night. Dressing for dinner is the aggerate the mode of the moment. lis
ribbon trim- soft allk A That is to say, her dress will have 5 rule and not the exception.
Visitors from across the Channel one too many frills or flounces. ming in the form of side tie sashes Frills, wide or are amazed. too, at the rapid Further, it seems that it is in her over the hips, growth of dress conciousness in choice of evening dress that she narrow, are arranged over the their English
sisters: Whereas errs most often. The general im ahoulders of these sleeveless night- FOR EUROPE.
Englishmen, no matter what their pression the Parisienne observer gowns, or form a jabot, wide at the throat and narrowing towards social status may be, are undeni-obtains in London is that the wo
the natural waistline. Asama Maru (via San Fran-
sably the beat dressed men in the men do not sufficiently study per-
In more failored type, made fu ciscot
In the sonality in dress, and have not Clowos: Reg. t. p.m. Ord. B.20 a.m. world. English women,
whatever the pre-plain silk materiala, there is a lik 'Emp. of Russia
past, have had 'n great deal to realized that, learn from the Pariseans. on the vailing fashion of the moment, iting for hand embroidery in self- subject of clothes:
must necessarily be adapted to the coloured
OUTWARD MAILS,
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But, nowadays, they have not wearer. 12 only just as many claims to chic
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am and elegance as the Parisienne. They may even be developing a re- putation for greater elegance than the Frenchwoman.
Mar.
FOR JAPAN
Mar.
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Assina Maru .................... Emp. of Russia Arsunie.
Tiinegarn Fres. Wilson
FOR MANILA
Mar.
FOR U.S.A.
Mar.
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Beama Maru Emp. of Russia Aramla
Arabia Maru Chitra! Aoneks
Arabia Mari
Chitral Athos II
FOR STRAITS
French Criticism
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BONNET-HATS
alike. Punched em- broidery in self-coloured silks. Punched embroidery is most effec tive. Collars and cuffs, yokes and should cape sleeves are are adorn- ed in this way on many of the new
We shall see a certain number models. There is a delicate vein- of bonnet-hats later on in the ing stitch which is also used in spring-only for the girl in her conjunction with extremely no And, now, for those exceptions twenties-but far newer than these tucks. ¡to this rule of fashion conscious-are the little Breton sailors which are worn perched on the back of the head.
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Instep Length
Sleeping suits and nightdresses are instep long and full skirted, and in both the garment is practi- cally fitted to the figure, by meana of clever cutting, the finest of PARCEL For puffiness under the eyes, dis-seams, or hip.yoke empiecements MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier solve a dracham of powdered jor hip ribbon Bashes, Other! than the time given above unless tannin in an ounce Intherwise stated, and where mails are
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11-Mova rapidly.
12-Not at any time 13-Woo
14-Near by
15-Parmit
16-8mall lump of butter
18-Mother (short) 1D-A-vegetable
20-Girl's name
22-Ireland (poet.) 24-Eagle 25-An emperor of
Rome 27-More sorrowful 29-Withhold $1-Nloer 36-A relativo: 30-Ennai (Fr.) [40-Grease
41-Girl's name
42-Bird home
44-Dry
46-Exista
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60-Preposition
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64-Comrade
58-Dropped B
68-Gouneli of state,
VERTICAL
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3-Indefinite article.
Part of the 6-Kind of dog
Trust 7-Persin 8-Plural, suffix
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VERTICAL (Cont.)
15-Allow for temporary
17-Tinge 19-Command
21-A church omolat
(abbr.) 28-A bird
26-Torn seunder.
28-Bofors {30-Man'" (sESTIO 181-Doctrina
62-Half a score 53-Quif mounde Deanyed
33-Serfa
35-Slash
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47-Station (abbr.) 50-A grain
62-Man's name (short) 64-Father (short)
The anlution of the above with a new cross-word puzzle
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Bringing Up Father
WELL! Į WONDER “ WHAT'S IN THE PAPER
TO-NIGHT OUTSIDE
OF FOOT-BALL NEW87,
ww.im BANK. ROBBERY IN CHISELVILLE-A BURGLAR TOOK ONE THOUSAND
DOLLARS AN' THE
* PRESIDENT? HAT"]
WHY ARE YOU SO HAPPY. ME DEAR?
HUJUST GOT A LETTER FROM MY BROTHER- HE'S IN CHISELVİLLE HE SAYS HED DOING A FINE:
SO SEE BY THE PAPER-
NOW JUST WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?
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