SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1935
CHINA MAIL HOME SUPPLEMENT
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These new dresses are quite un- like all the full-skirted gowns we have seen up to now--probably be- cause the material is, thicker, or because the fullness usually comes from the waist instead of the hips. with a fitting line above. They are. of thick velet. of magnificent bro- cade, or the heaviest satia, and some of them are beautifully em broidered.
For Evening Attire Every Frock Has so are most attractive.
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OOKING at the new even-
ing growns with a purely unprejudiced eye, it seems to me that the first thing you will have to do when you buy them is to learn to walk in the way which suits your dress.
You cannot, if you want to look like a Botticelli angel-all wings and draperies--stride or rush into a room; you glide in as though your feet only just touched the ground. "And there will be dozens of these dresses this winter, with chiffon wings and enormous cloaks.
If your dress is inspired by a mediaeval Italian duchess--that is. if it is full in the skirt and rather fitting about the bodice, you will walk leaning slightly backwards for the simple reason that you will trip over the thick material of your skirt if you do not.
The head-coverings of this sea- Apart from the lace ones there are dozens of hoods in the dress material. Ton will find them very practical for evening wear, so when you are buy- ing dress, material get some mor» for your hood.
About this shoulder-line business -really the most popularis the high-in-front and the very-low-at- back kinda return to our old favourite of a season or two ago. But there were some dresses at the collections with collars spring- ing from the shoulders like flower petals joined together.
You need have no waist-band "or sash at all this, season, but if you can wear it. and like that sort of thing, you can have a thick silk rope in one or two colours tied round your waist like. 2 girdle. This can be repeated on your ever- ing chak-in fact, that can look like a monk's habit with loose shoes, bood, and girdle. But the material must be rich enough to make the effect really luxurious.
A cunt or cloak--there are hun- drebs of cloaks-of your frock material lined with velvet and furless will be an excellent addition to the wardrobe..
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It is fashionable to put one's wrist into the stocks--the latter, in this case, being" of silver gilt, severely square, and hollowed out towards the middle. "Its twin is shaped Eke a cogwheel, while to match them both there is a really outsize clip like a five-bor rate.
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Rings, are now being man of several chaitas whien we ́ane 'told are metal but which must surely be of gossamer, so fragile are they. Tiny paste buckles hold the ends of each chain together..
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Black, moire bows are replacing more coventional fastenings 032. 63 pearl necklaces. Besides having Such mundane advantages as cheap- ness and ease of fastening, these bows look very effective.
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Necklaces which only partly en- circle the neck are particularly chic on evening dresses. The necklace, which is of crystal, is perhaps six" to eight inches long, and has a clip or each end. These clips fasten to the shoulder straps of the gown
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