SÁTURDAY, JUNE 1, 1935
CHINA MAIL HOME SUPPLEMENT
HINTS FROM SMART WOMEN TO AID YOUR CHOICE
A Large New Assortment of STRAW HAND BAGS
for
Spring and Summer
Prices From 30 cts. to $300,
Silk Kimonos, Underwears
and Table Linens
in Latest Patterns
See them ed
Mayo's
Aurelia's
Photo D'Asis
The
CHINESE BAZAAR
China Bldg. Queen's Road C. Hong Kong
need, and surely want some cot- tons. And women who are taking any of those cruises which head toward southern places really need nothing other than cortons—an ex- clusive wardrobe fuil Actually of course, lovely tub silks and acet- ates and linens are very import- ant too, but women are familiar with these and will buy them any how. Since they, too, wash well, they all belong in the same sump- mer class.
You will find a wide choice of tive linen frocks in cotton and local shops, for morning, afternoon. and evening. Yes, the evening field is alive with cotton dance frocks. And when temperatures soar, nothing feels more cool looks as fresh or responds to per petual, inevitable washing like de- lightful cottons:
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One mistake must be avoided--- and it is such a prevalent one too. Women must stop tossing their conceptions of cottons into house dress class. A really modish cotton costume of the type one is willing to wear in sophisticated places is as much of a special creation as any silk that ever was
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Those three things which contri- bate in unison to the making of any really smart costume must be jast as present in cotten things are: as in silks or wools. They first, fabric; second, design, and third, workmanship. To begin
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the chromium plating of metal by cellulose paints and also lacquer- ing the furniture instead of show- ing its natural grain and thereby achieving more colour in the inter- ior, did not always prove practi- Gl The scope was still too limit ed. So pictures had to come back to the interior; bat no more the still life and landscape of yester- day with which the whole family wandered about the room to find a suitable place and light.
The pictures of to-day are not confined in frames, but they are designed as a part of the whole decorative scheme just as the r chitectural background, furniture, Fighting fixtures. Frames in most cases became necessary because the pictures are replacing the plas ter ornaments which the present These interior hardly tolerates. pictures are seldom painted on exo- vas, but frequently appled directly on the wall, bringing back a re- vival of the technique of the old fresco paintings.. New materials and methods have been discovered with new possibilities and often de- lightful results. In Hong Kong this is still something unknow but on this page I am showing a few examples of how the painter of to- day employs his imagination.
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with, many of the more exciting new cottons cost as much as inex- pensive silks. Then comes the de- sign. And the modish cotton fol- lows the very same lines as the summer silks. They have match- ing jackets, handwork every de- tail that makes sophisticated silk or wool And thirdly and most. important of al-cottons must have the workmanship. Women still expect just to stitch a Lew scraps together and get results.
But it can't work out that way. A cotton suit or rock or coat has to be made with the very same care with which anything else a smart And it is Woman Wears is made. just this that shoots the prices up to points that unthinking women Without rebel at. It must be so. this punctilious workmanship the cotton does not belong to fashion.
Printed piques are still making the best of the spectator and sports dresses as well as knock- out street suits tailored to the Jast seam.
The wales are fine 'as pencil lines and the colour con- trasts are positively, breathtaking.
Paper taffeta, that crackles and rustles with as much racket as the breakfast news sheet, comes in lovely Soral patterns against dark backgrounds. It is Smart stuff for the first printed daytime dresses, and
pastel the light colours make grand perky dinner and party zOWNL..
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When the thread with which you are sewing becomes knotted, put it toward the needle and it will frequently unravel without any further trouble.
MODE ELITE
ENTRANCE CHINESE
BAZAAR-
CHINA BLDG.
SUMMER SALE OF
GAGE HATS
COMMENCING TO-DAY
$5.00 to $10.00
SOFT SPORTS HATS
$2.25 to $6.75
PICTURE HATS
$10.00 to $14.00
Cash Only
ALWAYS
INSIST
on the genuine
"AERTEX"
Every yard marked "AERTEX".
"Made in England
The best quality at most reasonable prices.
BRITANNIA
SILK STORE.
The Leading Silk Store
in the Colony ..... China Building (Opposite King's Theatre)
SECOND ANNIVERSARY
SALE
1st to 6th June
HATS From 1.00 ap Cotton Frocks 3.50
Afternoon Frocks 950
|
Mang's
Gloucester Eidg. Pedder St.
A pot or two
of GLOXINIAS
or.
CALADIUMS
will add colour to
your room
Obtainable from
THE CLOVER FLOWER SHOP
Gloucester Building Arcade