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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1938.
New Easy-To-Wear Tailored
Dinner-Suit Style
Lace Evening Gown And Shawl With Padded Border
Walking through the West End of London you might imagine that some childish giant was playing with colossal boxes of bricks, knocking down houses and building them up again just for fun.
This game of bricks was in great evidence Olaf's new collection. His clients, however, like the her- oine of the well-known poem, pos- sessed "that calm which stamps the caste of Vere-de-Vere," and refused to allow their attention to be dis- tracted from the clothes, which were exceedingly good.
PLANNING THE PICNIC
The difficulty of carrying water is always a problem for pienick- ers who like to boil their kettles in the open.. New water-bottles are now made in the very light- est aluminium. These are carried easily and have well-fitting screw. stoppers., They are oval in shape and are made in three sizes, the smallest being for haver-sack use.
New vacuum flasks which re- cently appeared in London are covered, with coloured composition and are square in shape, so that they are easily packed. They are made in blue, green, pink and pale yellow and the screw top makes an excellent drinking vessel.
Light aluminium tins are made for carrying food. There are ad- Justable divisions inside the tins, so that various things such as fruit, salads, sandwiches or cakes. can be carried in them and kept in perfect condition.
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One interesting model is a new kind of evening cape in heavily corded night-blue. silk, hanging absolutely straight from shoulder to hemline. The shoulder "boxes" Another good evening dress are filled with yellow water lilies, of fine lace printed in a blue and and the dress underneath is of yel-red flower pattern over a cire satin low angle-skin patterned with black slip, the bodice of which is red and circles of stencil design.
the skirt blue.
of The drapery The evening dress sketched is of the dress is held in place by occa- dustgrey wool lace. The longsional little buttons of lace. tight-fitting tunic is bordered with THIRTY YARDS IN SKIRT a padded roll of dusty pink. The A debutante's dance frock has skirt is cut on the cross and the 30 yards of green tulle in the skirt, large square shawl of lace is also with single violets scattered here bordered with a padded pink roll. and there and the heart-shape These evening shawls are parti- bodice made completely of violets. cularly useful during the summer There is a plaid chiffon evening months.
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INTELOPES in
gold kid across
the front of the jacket are novel feature of this black silk dinner suit piped with gold kid
E
VENING
gown in grey wool lace has an
accompanying shant in similar
material. Shawl and moulded tunic ‚are bordered with padded vull in a
shade of dusty pink.
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PRINCESS LOUISE'S 90TH BIRTHDAY
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"I wish I could do, more myself". was the
the message of agenarian Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll to friends meeting at her home, -Kensington Palace, to plan a dinner for her children's hospital in North Kensington-her favourite charity.
THE BRIDE CHOSE BLUE
A close friend of Princess Julia- na, Miss Penelope Maffey, daughter of Sir John and Lady Maffey, was married to Mr. W. T. Aitken on April 28, at St. Peter's, Eaton- square.
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Pale blue was the wedding colour chosen by this bride. She wore a dress of pale blue-duchesse satin, which set off her fair hair complexion. The dress was made with long, tight sleeves and a heart- shaped neckline. It was plain to the hips, from where the skirt bil- Her Lady in Waiting, Mrs. Alec
lowed out in fulness with a train Holden, acted as "special messeng-cut in one with it. er" between the Princess, who was resting upstairs, and Lady Newnes Gowns of slightly deeper blue and her committee.
lisse were worn by her bridesmaids, who carried wreaths and bouquets These dresses,
They met in the pleasant down-jof mixed flowers. stairs dining-room overlooking the made on much the same lines as the Princess's garden, with its old bride's, had three-quarter sleeves. lawns, low hedges and daffodils, and fairly full skirts. massed in front of a plane tree, all bathed in sunshine.
Despite her age the Princess took
The bridesmaids were Miss Pene- lope Mitchell, Miss Gwenllyan
the keenest interest in plans for Philipps, the Hon. Rosemary Daw- this her. ninetieth birthday dinner Livia Paravicini,
son, Miss Audrey Sale-Barker, Mlle. and Baroness held last week, on May 5 at the
Gisela Vietinghoff. Savoy.
The Duke of Kent attended the. dinner, on her behalf. Lord Read-lain, the Bishop of London · and ing spoke. The Queen's Mistress of Lady Ilchester and her daughter, the Robes, the Duchess of North- Lady Mabel Fox-Strangways, were -umberland,--Mrs.--Neville --Chamber-Jamong, those present...
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