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URSULA JEFFRIES
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 23, 1938
Picks The Fashion Winners
MONDAY'S RACE MEETING
A SARTORIAL TREAT
HERE are ways and ways of inaugurating a new
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lion.
season.
Spring comes when you detect the first dande-
The first male straw hat means summer, and autumn is supposed to begin with the first flushed maple-leaf.-
But the Spring social season, in Hong Kong can't really be taken seriously until the Annual Race Meeting comes 'round.
For that is when the paddock hierarchy
Selecting a winner from among meets on. common ground and their ladies sport sar-
the many eye-compelling outfits. torial embellishments 'mid sporty'
was no easy task and I gave it surroundings. And so, until Sa- the assembly before me, but as a-
up after one frustrated glance at turday, the members enclosure at solution to the problem I totall- Happy Valley will be a very smart ed up a number of sure wins and place and a very horsy place, in- deed.
jam willing to bet half-a-dollar or
a fiver's worth, shirt, stockings What with the weather behav-or silk flimsies that none of my ing the way it did the day before, selections rate among the "also-. I fully expected to have a very rans."
dampening experience on Mon-
day, standing among the golosh-
es, puddles and umbrellas. But
STUNNING SUIT-DRESS
by
heigh-ho! wasn't it a lovely day?] To begin with I commend to
Brilliant sunshine, brilliant all the stunning outfit worn sport and a brilliant gathering of Mrs. James Whitham. followers of the turf.
It was a suit-dress of a shade of yellow
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ANOTHER WINNER. And isn't she winning even from this
Miss Peggy Humphreys with a friend.
So you who have not already bordering on khaki, and it went, attended a meet, go and
vent very well with the brown acces- your civic pride on cheers for the sories and other trimmings. A jockey who wins to-day's ladies' two-piece affair, it consisted of a event. Or go on the final day slim-fitting dress and a hip-length just for the fun of it. Go, even cape; the latter being particular- if you know nothing about ly fascinating horses, and I wager you will en-throat and lined with brown to buttoned to the joy the eye-filling pageant of match other touches. modish dress
The hatt elt.
The slender-fitting frock' very handsome pair. elegance at any that went with it boasted the new she wore was also black, with in- rate.
I next nominate for a possible stove-pipe crown with brim dip-terest centred on the very clev-winner the two-piece gray-green ping low over one eye. Actually, erly treated gathered shoulder ensemble worn by Mrs. Hampden it was only half a brim, like an trimming. eye-shade turned up at the corn-
SELECTING THE WINNERS
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Next I embrace with enthu-
TRIUMPHANTLY SATISFYING
Ross. Again we meet the smart suit-dress which sports a hip- length cape, only this time we see it off-set with a brown collar in flat-fur. The neck trimming on
Monday's turn-out of suits anders. frocks were of the sort that stand out by inspired simplicity of cut siasm the frock and hat worn and colour. There seemed to be by Anne Dodwell no fixed rule for hats,
ah, yes Crowns the hat! It
Her sister Diana looked chic in the frock beneath was interest- either went up and the brims perky little pill-box affairs
was one of those a gray suit, and as an interesting ing, too. It looked to me like down, or both simultaneously, black felt,. strapped under
in contrast sported a draped olive two immense buttons, or tightly but there was a noticeable neck-chin and flaunting a flower-like perfectly matched green
the green blouse, a saucy sailor in a wound flutting to give the and-neck race for popularity be-trimming on the left rim of the gloves, bag and shoes, all
straw, pearance of buttons. The effect tween toques and a whole new crown made from, what I took to match. You can take it from me
to was triumphantly satisfying, species of berets.
[be, narrow strips of the same that between them, they made a
SMART? of course, it's a VOGUE FROCK.
Twenty-four hours round the clock, You'll look smart in a VOGUE FROCK.
The Secret lies in their style and cut.
GUC
1st Floor, Gloucester Bldg., Hong Kong.
178, Nathan Road, Kowloon.
A HAPPY COMBINATION
ap-
I put Heather Gerrard on my list though I only caught a brief glimpse of her from a distance, but she deserves to be placed among the "sure things" if only because she wore that happy combination, black and brown. Too few women appreciate its distinction and fewer still under- stand its soundness as a basis for a winter wardrobe.
It was Heather's hat that attracted, my attention first a black- toque banded with brown mink.
-Peggy Humphreys comes in for attention next. She wore the flowered print frock which she modelled with such success at a recent fashion show, and which I have already mentioned in a pre- Vious article. Remember the one with white daisies and pink dog roses splashed across the front of a black frock from left should- (Continued on Page 3)
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