↑ THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 1, 1939..
How To Dress Attractively According
Black silk jersey is used for the hat worn with the black moss crepe cont. The waisted crown of this hat is of ruched tulle, and the sloping brim is machine-stitched in lines.
With the checked coat is sketched a hat of finely woven natural-colour- ed straw. The strap at the back of the head is also of straw, and the crown has a certain amount of height at the front which slopes to nothingness at the back. The brim is banded inside with wine-coloured grosgrain, and most of the veil is on the top of the hat,
If you are ordering this hat to go with the model sketched, you would order it in straw of the same duck's- egg blue, with a black veil and black grosgrain,
To One's Means
Two Distinctive Day-Time Models
There is also a cyclamen felt hat There are some charming débutante with much the same type of crown, evening frocks, One, of flowered and a deeper brim tilting down over mercerised cotton, is gathered across one side of the face, This has a the bust, with one shoulder-strap veil of petrol blue attached to a neck- of deep powder blue and the other band of petrol blue ribbon, which of dull pink ribbon, price 4% matches the same ribbon placed guineas. Another dance dress, of round the crown of the hat. There Nile green taffeta, full-skirted and
is a dear little plain jersey sailor with the hem and bodice edged with with one quill at the front of the petal points of the taffeta, is 7% crown. This is worn tipped over guineas.
the forehead and held on at the back A red and white spotted crepe with a band of the same plaid afternoon dress has a swing skirt jersey..
and Swiss embroidered muslin at
The most attractive kind of the neck and sleeves. This is worn woman is the one who is pleasantly with a little sleeveless jacket, and efficient and at the same time easy costs 6% guineas. 'At the
to look at. The workmanlike wo- man who scorns all feminine charm may be, exceedingly worthy, but she does not, as a rule, inspire the af- fectionate co-operation of those with whom she comes in contact.
The
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same
woman who has no consideration for One teaspoonful saffron pow-
the eye of the beholder is guilty of downright selfishness. In these days there is no excuse for a woman not to dress attractively according to her means.
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I visited Maison Ira, which is a small dress house where they show you excellent copies of Paris models and a certain num- ber of original designs.
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¡NE cupful dhal (red lentils), der, one teaspoonful salt, four green chillies chopped (if liked very hot add half teaspoonful chilli powder), two large onions cut up not too small, and one egg. Boil the dhal, salt and saffron together till soft. Add the raw onion, the chilli and a beaten egg. Form into little cakes and fry in boiling lard.
dress, with U-shaped insets of the shiny sideforming one hip pocket and one breast pocket. The loose jacket has a yoke and front sections of gaily flowered red silk. An after- noon dress of fine black jersey has fulness at the front of the skirt and bodice gathered into fine, fan-shaped shirring at the waistline. This
The model sketched has a black price there is a full-skifted chiffon dress is worn with a cherry-coloured coat of moss crepe with a little evening gown of brilliant African jacket of corded silk. smocking at the front, and bishop blue with ruching on the skirt and A debutante's dance fock of white
It is fastened at the waist sleeves.
organza has the lower part of the bodice. with a row of covered buttons, and From here I went on to see a bodice of fine black lace, which con-
on excellent lines selection of models cut, as you see,
designed by tinues in ribbon insertions down the for the older woman. The dress Anna de Wolkoff for Busvine's. skirt. There is a good-looking, navy underneath is in a very pretty shade The tailored coat and dress sket- blue dinner gown of heavy crepe of hyacinth blue moss crepe, with
ched are in duck's-egg blue, The made with long, tight sleeves, front lines of smocking at the front of coat is checked with black, the dress fulness, and very clever seaming at the bodice and across the yoke at is plain, with pleats at the front of the waist which produces an attrac- the back.
The price of this ensemble, includ. the skirt, and the bodice cut rather tively slimming silhouette.
models The hats worn with the like a man's shirt. dress and coat, is 10% guineas.
The dull side of a rough-surfaced sketched come from Mary Manners* silk is used for a nice little afternoon spring collection,
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