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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 24, 1938.
Tweeds + Good Taste-Long Service
Summer ends. Over the bridge nerringbones, checks of every size we call October, Autumn staude. and design, lovats and shepherda' We are thinking of a new dancing plaids. frock and
tweed.
Tweed belongs to Autumn.
There is no translation of the word "tweed" in any language Women in every country in the world ask for tweed when they
want stuff for a winter coat or country suit.
When they wear it . . wherever they are.
they think of heather and the moors
mist driving over the russet bracken . the sharp chill of the north wind and
Scotland.
The 'reputation of this firm has been built up on their superlative tweeds -combined with their unique service.
A special expert is appointed to advise customers on a suitable selection for the garment they have in mind.
They are more interested in your being a credit to their old firm, than in selling you yards of materials at so much a yard in- order to "get business."
Every letter order is given in- Scotland knows the secret of dividual attention and samples are making tweeds.
sent with advice and suggestions on making them up.
To the house of Frazers of Perth come royal Duchesses and Amer-.
Frazers will take a lot of trouble ican tourists. The game-keeper to find out where and how much whose coat must last a dozen years you intend to wear your tweed suit the young woman who pina or coat before selling you the her fashionable faith on a good material. town-into-country suit. sportswoman needing a golf skirt or a race-going ulster come, too.
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The colours in their tweeds are frankly copied from the splendour
of moor and mountains and sea.
Every year they discover à new blue in the lake shadows or another purple on the hill.
In their 1938 range they make harmonies of colours like lime green and grape purple, crimson and grey and larkspur blue, bur- gundy red and dusty pink.
They make plain tweeds for clas síc suits and formal top coats,
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One of the cleverest tweed... Women who like the texture, but fashions of the season is a plain not the rich traditional colours,
In Paris, plain coloured Scottish skirt, checked-jacket and plain top and soft neutrals of tweed, will be tweeds were used for some of the coat lined with the check. I saw glad to know that modern tweeds best-looking top coats.
this done in plain mulberry with run throughout the whole range
checks.
A formal coat in dull blue, for mulberry, green and beige-grey of pastels example, trimmed with long scarf fronts of moleskin, would take care of any outdoor occasion during autumn and winter.
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The favourite swing coats in several salons were made of 2in. checked tweed.
and small checks appeared in the At Marshal Rochas lovat tweed
same suit.
"How much material?" is a ques- tion that worries most women who
are planning a new combination of garments or a suit with a longer jacket, or a more pleated skirt.
Frazers realise that nothing is more maddening than that quarter- yard left over when the job is done.
They will tell you exactly the amount of material you will need for your garment, and when an inquiry comes from abroad.
You can have this tweed made up in Scotland, too.
I never believed in self-measure- ment forms until my tweed suit arrived from Perth a week ago tailored na though I had been there for half a dozen fittings.
Witty Kitty
For myself a little pinkish mauve tweed jacket over a black skirt is Ito be a day-long standby until New
Year.
HATS FOR TWEEDS
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Competent fadles tallors from Shanghai where tailoring work is known for excellent styles and
workmanship.
Numerous 1939 styles including
fur coats are on display.
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THE HONG ZANG CO.
“146, Des Voeux Rd, Ctl.
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