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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1936
Nomen's Tage
Forecast Of Fashions
For Spring
What To Wear At Home And Abroad
NE of the first enquiries about side just to show a glimpse
of
The hours of closing mails for this service at the G.P.0. are: Canton-Shanghai (via Swato)ther skirts are to be shorter or a very dark shade, which can be Wednesdays and Saturdays, Beg-waists higher, For some time repeated in a shirt-blouse worn” It is 10 am, Ordinary 10.30 am Canton-Kingchow.Nanning Mon- past the mode has been drifting under a little plaid cost.
towards shorter skirts and normal completed with knitted hat, scarf days
and Fridays, Beg 10 am.
waistlines for day-time, including and tie. Ordinary 10:30a.m. Canton-Langchow-Saturdays, Beg the skirts that accompany tailor- These aspects of the suit recall Ordinary 5.00ped jackets or little dresses of wool the Highland kilt in plaid with the Tuesdays and Thursdays Reg. 10 for informal wear.
that positions reversed, for a.m. Ordinary 10.30 am.
The formal reception or evening worn with the plain cost. the mails will be closed hour befrock is not influenced by such checked beige and red coat had a fore the above times.
4.30
At Kowloon Central Post Oce
INWARD MAILS.
FROM EUROPE
Feb.
Hakozaki Mara. (Imperial Air
Mail ex Service)
Mar.
Anhui (Air Mail)
Ranchi. (via Suez)
FROM SHANGHAI
Feb.
Burdwan
Hakodaki Maru
Hakone Marne
Emp. of Japan'
Pres. Polk Asama Mara
Pres. Pierce, Philoctetes Rawalpindi
Pres. Jexerxon
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decisions. They remain as they pleated skirt of plain, light beige were and, in some instances, trains wool. This was going to Egypt, are longer and more important.(and was charmingly crowned by The slit-akirt for the smart after-ja beige felt hat, with wool plait- noon or demitollette is cat to ed through the brim and formingi
28 rather below the Instep. It is tiro pan-poms at the side in the tight, and although not quite of brilliant colours of the plaid coat. the tube variety is glad of the A plain knitted silk jumper re- slit from below the knee to allow flected the sandy shade, which is of freedom of movement,
always the law for the traveller bound for the desert.
Many dresses are pleated, with 28 the skirt just clearing the ground. 23 These are good for all sorts of informal dancing frocks and after-
nooz gowns in mousseline-de-soie-for the traveller. Sand-coloured
23 plisse.
Max.
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Smart Novelty
Cashmere For Cruising
Cashmere and hopsack are good
bopsack is particularly smart for a tailored suit and has the ad- vartage of being 204 excellent foundation for any bright or sober skirt shade that may be worn with it--
A smart novelty in the tailored e world is the plain short
of heavy wool-jersey, slit at one black or dark brown shoes with
Mar
Gen Pershing
FROM US.A.
Feb.
FOR JAPAN
Emp. of Japan
28
Feb.
Pres. Polk
28]Hakozaki Maru
Mar.
Pres. Grant
Pres. Pierce
Pres. Jefferson
Asama Maru
FOR U.S.A.
Feb.
23 Pres. Grant
20
- Feb.
Mar.
23
29 Asama Maru
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
FOR STRAITS AND INDIA
Fab.
Eumaens
Hosang
Hector
Taima
FROM JAPAN
Feb.
Burdwan
28 Hakone- Mara-
28 Tilawa
28
26 Philoctetes
29 Africa Maru
Eawalpindi
FOR MANILA
Feb.
Emp-of-Jap
Mar..
Pres. Polk
FROM MANILA
Tjísadane
Tanda
Feb.
Pres. Grant
Pres. Pierce
Pres. Jefferson
Mar.
Tanda
Emp. of Japan Hakone Maru
Pres. Poik
Hakodate Maru
Axams Marti
Pres. Perse
Banda
Africa Maru Pres. Jekerson Rawalpindi- Gen. Pershing
Tjisalak
Nankin
Taiping
Nankin Taiping
FROM AUSTRALIA
OUTWARD MAILS. FOR EUROPE
Mar.
Feb.
FOR AUSTRALIA
Mar.
VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post- cards for Europe and South America are forwarded "via Siberia” if. sa superscribed,
REGISTERED and PARCEL KAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given above ander 28atherwise stated and where mails are Spadvertised to close at œe before 9 closed at 5 pm. on the previous day. am; registered and parcel malls are
AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via| Singapore, Bandeng-Amsterdam via
28
Burdwan (via Marseilles)
Closes: Reg. 415 p.m. Ord. Pres. Grant (via Siberia)·
Closes: Peg. 4.16 p.m. Ord. 5 pm. Hakone Maru (Imperial Ser-
vice)
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Closes: Reg. 5.m. Ord. 6 p.m. Hector (via Siberia)
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shirts and ties in spotted black or fred and white, brown with green,
or beige with blue, or purple.
"Much"all-white will go cruising. The newest wools and jerseys are (particularly successful in the paler tomes and that vast variety known as of-the-white. Cashmere is an
A charming afternoon frock of black crepe, its · peplum · blouse
braided with bow-knots and ning
Shampoo
Capes
Shoulder capes and head bands made of fine, washable rubber in (various attractive shades which jare intended for the protection of clothes and hair when one is mak- ing up the face are now obtainable quite cheaply.
They certainly save their cost many times after a week or so of use because dresses which show a film of powder around the neck and shoulders look most unsight- ingly and necessitate frequent visits to the cleaner.
These capes are also very use- ful for shampoo purposes
SMART NOTE PAPER
One of the smartest of the new! notepapers is in a pale coffee co- lour, much deeper in shade than the more usual cream.
If you decide to use this type of stationery then you will also like
to keep upon your desk a bottle of very dark brown ink, which looks most effective with the pale nota- paper.
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The size of the sheets is rather Amaller than before. They are large enough to be folded once and then slipped into rather large squarish envelopes.
NEW FLAT COMPACT
Compact, in the true sense of the word, is the newest silver mesh model in a narrow silver metal frame, two and a half in-
* double cluster of pink camelches square, it is unusually fat, lias at the throat, is worn here by Rochelle Hudson, screen actress. With it is wom a black velvet hat featuring a soft drop- ed bow at the side.
ideal cruising fabric for informal every colour and weight give
evening dresses. In colours. the ending satisfaction.
but the softness of the ALLOUT mesh provides a roomy pouch for your loose powder supply: High- light an unbreakable mirror that doesn't distort your features
pleasingly wearable without de
dirty-pink, pastel-blue and sea-| To return to the homeland, black tracting from their chic.
green are chosen for watner will be seen as usual for smartest climes
Knitted silk frocks
Accessories
Hats and accessories. nowadays It can be relieved make all the difference. They are
are street wear. also seen for evening as well as with a multi-coloured bonnet, or helpful, and it is interesting to for day suits, though for the lathat in one of the new straws.?
several of which closely resemble ties with the austere styles and combine foolish ultra-feminine fan- shaded laces or hand-drawn linens often strange colours into a prac-
Duvetyn is a material that brid-tical scheme, of dressing.
gon. Correspondence for Europe and ter wool and canvas are best. They
ed for trasmission by these Services look well under the loose homes 4
Rates and all particulars are shews pins and woven seafaring costs Gin the schedules exhibited at the Gen-of tweed,
Assama Haru (vis" Siberia)
Closes: Reg 5 pm. Ord 8.30 am. Rawalpindi (via "Marseilles).
Closes: Reg 9.45 m. Ord. 10 a.m.
FOR SHANGHAI
Hakozaki Maru
Pres: Grant
Flector
Kaama Marni
POPEYE
(PUT ON YER WAG TILL YER HAIR GROWS OUT — [MY GORSHBUT FYA LOOKS FUNNE
Feb.
Mar.
WELL DON'T
LOOK AS
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All letters etc, must be marked "By
Fanny Things
ges the difference between, velvet
Women frequently declare. they and felt. It is effectively and easi-would far rather be in the fashion
ly manipulated into the new fool's
even if it is ugly. This attitude caps, with curling brims added. A can be understood, but they will severe taflored suit in black
find plenty to assist them in turn- diagonal serge bound--with braid had a waistcoat and folded pect of a new mode or colour to
ing the first, perhaps crodé, as-) cap of yellow duvetyn, the gauntgood account. In the search after let gloves were also in yellow.
up..
:
Parma and a deeper violet have originality even the best designers may make jistakes, which they appeared. Thick-ribbed. tailored suits in the darker tones of this rectify as the newer season warms colour look well with white acces- sories. For the evening, too, these days. Freaks creep in to No ugly fashion survives in shall see many frocks in. pansy cause a sensation, but the real sta shadings.
Chinese Green
There is an unusual Chinese olive-green that will be the choice of a few distinctive dressers. It is the most diffenit colour, as its muddy ingredients require skilful 45 make-up and a congenial back- ground. Black will help it-
Fashionable women know that,
especially for the tailored trend, once they depart from the familiar black, white, brown or navy, they come up against very complicated forms and mixtures in dress Air Mail" and handed in at the Gen.
{shades' Often the most novel and Experienced travellers" realise interesting colours are very eral Post Office. Unless superscribed 28 for despatch by a specific" air mail that silk slože does funny things becoming in themselves. Yet if 28 service, correspondence will be for at sea or in tropical lands. Linen, they can strike a really new note intermediate contries will be accept too, is more difficult to keep fresh, in fashion they are worthy of the warded by the first secriot available. but wool-weaves and wool-laces in trouble taken to render them more
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will appear in to-morrow's issue.
GAUZE
A piece of game laid over the
of the creator of modes is-like dressingtable accessories when us that of an author-to discover
ing powder, and then shaken out bestseller.
of the window, will save many a dusting. Coloured ganze makes an ideal rag bay and button bag, as the exact material wanted can be easily seen,' which' saves en- ptying the bag for a weary search. A piece of gauze should also be kept in the ironing basket so that when a damp cloth is needed for pressing purposes one is always at band.
We
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repack and the shaving soap lathers and cleans more easily in hard, water. A stout piece of cardboard, When packing a case for travell-the size of the trunk, covered with ing it le much better to put in a felt and cálico, will be found most tube of good shaving soap than useful for re-frming and pressing an ordinary cake of soup. There clothes, and it takes up hardly will not be a cake of wet soap to room.
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CARS
A VERY USEFUL CAR
THAT FOLDS FLAT,
AND CAN BE CARRIED
ON THE BACK OF AN AUTOMOBILE.
UPHOLSTERED BACK,
AND SEAT
Price $9.00 Each
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