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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1938.
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Not only is the little "canotier" Such hats rise sheer, and may be having the time of its life with flat or given a cockade plent. tailored auits for morning in Paris,teristics have brims split to rise in- Other shapes with similar charac-
but its career looks like being pro- to high fan-shaped cockade plisse longed for months to come by mia-at one side back and in matt black shiny coarse straws bound king it appear Napoleonic.
round with gross-grain look ex- Napoleonic hats have inspired the tremely becoming on the head.
latest phase from Erik, who em-
phasises height at the back
sailor-brimmed shapes.
of
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frock over a yellow underdress and a charming white angle-skin lace Ascot dress, made perfectly plainly, over a wine red underdress.
Several of the plainly-tailored day frocks in fine woollen materials have wide Norwegian belts in lovely shades of reds and browns. A navy-blue coat of broderie An- glaise, cut full-skirted in the Rus- sian style. is shown over a light blue dress; a brown woollen lace coat, cut slim and straight, is worn over a tailored frock of apricot crepe-de-Chine.
or
RISE AT BACK
Discs of pique, panama and can- vas weave straws sit on the head with amazing comfort through sub- structure headbands. Though flat these dises all rise at the back when perched on the head. A is an Indian bird with golden yellow trimming on black silk pique straw
beak and shaft of yellow along one wing. seen this black bird with its sunny This is the first time I have
yellow beak posed on a hat. The yellow is called "soleil," and looks gay in gros-grain band round the wide brim of a dressy sailor shape in violet-coloured straw to match a rosette on the crown.
Violet blue with magneta is an- other effective
contrast, while electric blue velvet ribbon to match a veil surrounds the 'crown of a shorter brimmed "canotier" in golden yellow straw.
MOTHER TAKES SEAT IN COMMONS
The dinner suit sketched is easy to wear and exactly right for a dozen different occasions. It is in black silk, piped with gold kid, and gold kid antelopes prance up the front of the jacket. A Paisley
The two most excited visitors Par- linen evening frock in various liament has had for a long time shades of mauve is cut on long, were ten-year-old Michael Samuel slim lines, with two enormous, box and his six-year-old sister Shirley, pleats at the front of the skirt, the who sat with their father in the top of the pleats forming a high Strangers' Gallery to watch their waistline,
mother take her seat.
Dr. Edith Summerskill did not Another tailored dress in heavy forget her children. She waved a dovegrey marocain bas 2 wide hand towards the gallery after she waist-belt with square motifs of had signed the roll.
silver kid. A printed crepe, with It is customary for a woman to tiny blue tulips, crocus heads and have one woman M.P. as a sponsor, bachelors buttons on a white back-but neither Miss Wilkinson nor Mrs. ground, is cut simply and red Hardie was called upon yesterday.
carnations form the waist-belt.
FACECLOTH AND TAFFETA
Sir Charles Edwards, the Socialist chief Whip, had the erstwhile rebel Sir Stafford Cripps with him.
The trio managed to keep in step There is a debutante's dress of more than is usual with Socialists, white dewdrop net with black vel-but they could not compete with the vet ribbon over the shoulders, military smartness with which Capt. round the decolletage and at the Margesson marched Sir hem, which is bordered with box Broadbridge to the Table a minute George pleats. A black taffeta evening later.
coat is banded down the front with
black face-cloth and is shown with
a black taffeta dress which
has AMERICAN WOMEN
wide bands of chiffon, one, char- treuse and one deep green, over the shoulders.
DISAPPOINTED
to
A nice little ginger day suit, with a single-breasted jacket piped with Mr. Joseph Kennedy's letter yellow, is worn with a golden yel-Senator Cabot Lodge announcing low taffeta shirt and a large felt a drastic limitation of the number hat of the same colour. A suit of of Americans to be presented at black wool georgette has a jacket Court comes as a particular blow to cut out in a diamond shape down about 300 of his fellow country- the centre-front, to show the shell-women.
pink broderie Anglaise blouse" un-"] These had already applied to the derneath. A black crepe after-Embassy for presentation. In most noon dress has a wide bow at the cases the publication of his letter neck of coppercoloured chiffon was the first notification of rejec which continues into long drapery tion they received. all down the front.
As the result of the Ambassador's ruling only about 25 American
.
An amusing colour mixture is women will be presented this shown in a power-blue afternoon summer. Half a dozen of these have dress, one short sleeve of which husbands or fathers in business in is cyclamen pink and the other England. The rest are wives or navy blue. These two colours are daughters of Embassy or Consular mixed and threaded through the officials serving, in London., front of the bodice.
This compares with 47 presenta-
THE turned-up
HE latest sailor shope has
back brim showing a cockade plisse fold, This Erik model is in black straw bound round with gros- grain, and the veil is red,
tions of American women at last year's Courts. Only 17 of these Of were in the Diplomatic list. the remaining 30 10 lived in Lon- don and 20 had crossed the Atlantic specially to be presented.
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Bride's Four Trains
A traditional bridal gown of white duchesse satin, with old fami- ly lace and clouds of tulle, was worn by the Queen's niece, Miss Anne Bowes-Lyon, when she married Vis- count Anson, the Earl of Lichfield's heir, at St. Margaret's Westminster. on April 28.
The bride wanted a wedding gown that would look stately and yet light and modern. · The gown itself was of the old-world bridal satin, with tight bodice, and the skirt standing out on the hips in modified period style. An unusual touch was સ narrow chemisette worn just above the heart-shaped neckline. The sleeves were long and tight-fitting.
OLD LACE AND TULLE Bodice and skirt of this graceful Handley-Seymour wedding
gown were trimmed down the front with diamanate and pearl bows of gradu- ated sizes. Each white satin shoe had a similar bow.
some
A new way of wearing old lace as a train was decided on by the bride. Lady Lichfield, the bride-
her groom's mother, lent valuable point d'Alencon.
The bride wore
four trains. Three trains in one cascaded from the shoulders. They consisted of a lisse foundation, edged with silver lame, onto which were gathered quantities of tulle and then the old lace, the ends of which were looped together with orange blossom.
The fourth train was formed by the very full veil, falling from an orange blossom wreath.
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