THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 4th, 1927,
THE FASHIONABLE FACE.
We are getting used to geometric lines for dresses, and cubic art bas been with us so long that it no longer provokes any attention, but when Paris tells us we must wear cubic make up it is rather a shock.
THE TEMPTING
REMNANT.
I saw about 200 silk dress lengths in a shop on Queen's. Road the other day. No, Sir, I didn't uado them all and buy none, but I noticed two in particular. One was in vieux rose shading to green in You must not wear around reso
its floral border; and the other was leaf blush" any more but apply the
a heavy deep bronze coloured silk range in a slanting line from the with a small black diamond pat nostril to the top of the ear, while tern, and a beautifully designed a dab on your chin will add a be-border in bine and chestnut brown. coming length to your face. But There were also 50 lengths of bor follow this counsel with discretion dered Japanese fannel which makes please and you will understand the up delightfully for between season reason for it Make up to-day is¦ frocks,
as definite an accessory to clothes Then I went into the little saDe a bag or a handkerchief. That tun at the end of the shop to look does not say it is absolutely neces ut lovely and fragile stockings sary, for there are still charmingly (they are guaranteed hole proof). dressed women who use very little There were thousands of pairs is or none, but it does emphasise the every conceivable tone, fact that it must be considered in relation to the style of dressing you -adopt.
ly is not the complement of the line of to-day.... If kiad nature gave you a dawless complexion, wear it; it
I found in a Daily Mail a most
The
WOMAN'S PAGE
LITTLE GIRLS' DRESSES.
THE ART OF SALES-HINTS FROM TURKEY
MANSHIP.
There has been a great deal Children's dresses were never so charming na to-day.
Happy the written lately in the home papers mother of a little girl. The girl's about the art of buying, a contro- clothes are not only pretty but so very as to whether a woman can, short that they can be made easily or should be able to buy a dress out of remnants or pieces left over in ten minutes; but the sister att from her mother's wardrobe. 'Care of selling has been neglected not must be taken, however. An over only by the papers but very often dressed child is almost as pathetic by a sight as one wearing makeup.
Those of you who were wine enough to buy remosats whilst the sales were on can now make good use of them and you" can still and suitable lengths in many of the native shops. A lovely little frock for the small girl comes from Paris. It is a straight night gown shape iu pink crêpe de chine, ent with tiny sleeves and wide enough in front to allow for a deep inverted pleat on either shoulder. This is
useful list of the lengths required to makes various articles of clothing, joined, to just above the waist line, which I am sure you would like to with shots worked in pale blue silk The milk and roses style definite- sve. It is an all too frequent and land with blue ribbon. You
tragedy of sales that one buys s
empting length only to find it too should fasten the end of the ribbon short for the intended purpose. If with a button and button hole or you cut out this list and carry itin tiny bow on the inside of the with you when you go remuant dress, so that it can be removed for hunting di can't go wrong. The washing. The round neck, the enda * are for a figure of average of the sleeves and the scalloped bright and of 3in. bust." "
hem are worked in the same blus Ing-sleeved frock with side silk in deep wide-apart button hole pleats, two and a half yards fifty-stitch, and the opening of the neck one inches wide, or three and three is fastened with a small button and quarter yards thirty-eight inches loop under a long-ended bow of wide.
Of pinky-beige wool crêpe with flower shading to wine colour, the hat repeating the colours. Pin tucks are a favourite, ornamentation for jumper xxits and dresses of many materials.
stands out supreme among all the caprices of modern fashion," but if dot read on and learn what Faris
orders."
blue ribbon. THE RACES.
Long-sleeved jumper with "Eton cellar, two and a hall yards thirty. eight inches wide,
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Those high chairs give a good chance of observing shoes
and stockings, but
ren a satin chat,
a leather one or a "cluak of air force blue did much.
The
not
hide
horses were
there too though not
so much in evidente.
the anleswomen themselves. This is very generally true in Eng land, a fact which accounts "far more than the rate of exchange, for the number of purchases made on the continent, not only by these who go there holiday making bat on "passing through."
AND FRANCE.
Have you ever tried Turkish coffee Though drunk without milk it is quite different from the ordi- nary café noir, but I advise you to make it yourself for though easy, of which your cook boy may not there is a mystery in the making realised the significance. The Turks
it in a specially shaped make conical saucepan which is wider at the bottom than the top, but with care sa crdinary pan will do. You must have your coffee freshly roast-
and ground; that is essential. Take for each person a tablespoon- ful of coffee and the same measure
of castor sugar and water, put|
into the pan and boil upon a quick are. Let is rise to the top of the pan, then remove from the fire forsk
mement till it settles Repeat this process twice more, then pour into the cups and drink na hot us
you can.
Here in Hong Kong "we barn every variety of salesmanship. You
Petit Pains de Pommes de may stop in Queen's Road to look) at a long legged doll sprawling Terre." The following recipe from France is particularly useful, here across Madame Sarrault's window where the ordinary boiled potato is an intrigucing glimpse of a dress an often uncatisfactory and eggs draws you in "just to have a look are cheap. Boil 3 or 4 farge flowery round," and Madame comes for-potatoes in their skins-the French say in their dressing gowns-peel Tard with her welcoming smile, and mash them, while hot. Add to But it this purée 1b. of butter and the and your fate is sealed. doesn't feel Fite that, it is more jokes of 4 eggs, then the whites. together and add just enough like being received by Cinderella's beaten to a stiff froth. Mix it all four to make A firm paste of which you can fashion the petit pains, small rolls about 4 ins, long and thick. Put a small piece of butter or each roll and bake them golden brown in a moderate oven.
THE LINEN CUBOARD
Another little party dress has a A simple midseason frock which long straight bodice of white could be carried out in jersey cloth taffetas and a full skirt of the same or crepe de chine. The buckle Slim, sleeveless evening frock of material crossed with blue checks, fastenings are interesting.
The same blue binds the sleeves and brocade or other decorative materech where it is tied in a bow with rial, two and five-nighths yards thirty-eight inches wide. -
Princess slip, two and one-eighth yards thirty-eight inches wide for opera top, or two and a half yards if with shoulder pieces.
wave of
long ends on the left shoulder. Fancy Godmother; at Eyelids must be made up with
This frock offers many possibilities her wood cupboards and drawers for using up pieces of almost any fy open and all the things you love sare, only the upper lid darkened
material. It could be made in are spread before you. When at d that very slightly. A sua
riella plain and checked for the last you tear yourself away you feel afternicon, or from the extra length as if you had been given just the picion of rouge under blue or brown
Directoire knickers, one and a cut off the hem of your last year's presents you had longed for, and powder gives that langerous lock
half yards thirty-eight inches wide. dress and remnant of suitable even when your pars book arrives from the bank, you say, with the which is so attractive with a some- Nails what Revere evening gowa,
Short evening knickers, one and plain material for the bodice,
A good way of making up short memory of having looked your best are less highly coloured than antre three-eights yards thirty-eight inches
wide.
lengths, is to have a yoke and since that visit Well, it was more fois but should be filbert shaped and brilliantly polished. Cami-Knickers, two yards thirty-sleeves of one material and the than worth it."
The
skirt of another put on to it eitber Salesmanship is more important straight shaved line at the nape of eight inches wide. the neck is quite gone and a finc Nightdress with small sleeve, in plents or with the fullness than having the best stock, it isn't point or a heart shaped cut which three and a quarter or three and anocked. If the yoke is scalloped only persuading people to buy, it's thirty-eight and bound round the neck and persuading them to buy what they is much prettier has taken its place. three-eighths yards
sleeves with the same colour, as is will never regret. As to the general colour of the inches wide.
Pyjamas with long sleeves, four used for the skirt it is even better. faze powder, sunburn tones of s
You can get the dearest little zzling fairness are the rule. Yon and a half yards thirty-six inches
4
Street, made of strong
Every Saturday morning my Grandmother was to be found in her linen room seated in a high backed chair set in a bay window which caught the morning sun. like to think of her sitting there with her rosewood sewing table be for her, while the maid counted and sorted the contents of the great tallboy which was her pride. No thin place or tiny tear could escapo Grannies sharp eyes, and each was mended with such fine stitching that they barely showed. Few houses to-day can boast a linen room, and the wash amah's methods might have persuaded even the old gene- ration that in the East linea can- not be regarded as a hereditary treasure.
JATY
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We all have a linea cup board, however, and the spring, when every housewife is filled with restless energy is the time to take stock and replace say worn articles, Lane, Crawford'a separate department on the ground floor, where you can buy all house- hold linens from the daintiest little boxes of old bleach guest towels complete with skeins of silk with which you can work an initial to match the coloured border, to house- maids gloves and scouring clothes. They have some beautiful old bleach
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bemstitched sheets, with pillow slips SWATOW LACE CO., LTD.
to match at $30 a pair and Finlay
finish sheets for $17.50.
In the same department there is to be found old bleach cambric which is quite the softest and, coolest wear fer summer undies; and oatmeal linen luncheon sets, that with their lovely colour and simple scalloped borders are 24 pleasant change, from lace and Chinese embroidery. I also saw there some printed cretoane table ares which would be splendid for the nursery or bedroom.
DRESSES AND "
DOLLARS.
"A new hat is a treasure, a
triumph and a tonic," said Mr. Justice M'Cardic, a bachelor Judge, in the case in which Paquin was sued by a member of their staff. it would he have described it like that if he had been married I wonder? The figures quoted in this case throw light on the why and wherefore of those heart rending prices charged for lovely frocks. The designer is question earned may wear both, the format in the wide with short sleeves four party frocks at Clergeten bodice may be long or in the yoke £1,500 a year no salary. In addi day with sports clothes or walking yards thirty-six inches wide.
Collar and long vest, SOVC-thread flet lace over pink or blue shape, sleeves long or short; you tion to this she had four visits a dress and the latter at night, but only with the right clothes. Of the eighths yard thirty-eight: inches crape de chine. They are simply may have pleats or scallops, "V, year to Paris at the firm's expense, two, sunburh is undoubtedly the wide,
Collar and small cuffe, three made to stand plenty of washing, or round necks, but frills lace and attended the race meetings with an and are something quite different unnecessary ribbons are as dead as allowance of £18 158. a day for safcat nad the mere. general, but again be careful to get the tone eighths yard thirty-eight inches in theit somewhat severe dainty Lord Faunthray's long curls. They expenses and six model dresses: 4 right. If you wear a sleeveless wide.
From a 10-inch strip of brocades, and very reasonable in price no longer belong by right to the year. Doesn't it fill you with am- little girl, but, if you love them, bition to serve M. Paquin or M. from $10 according to size. frock remember that your face,
babies fashions have not yet been Worth 2 Then ace what is earned To, bear the enchet of 1987 little arms and neck must complemented or French tinsel riboon you can
chaily"
we are told F £1,000 a your lega (stockings), and don't make a pretty evening pochette,
for libe, though even the latest
" And yet there are women make the terrible mistake of pink while 1 yard of 27 inches velvet is girls frocks must be simple in line pruned into the prevailing mode by a premier vendeuse in Paris, stockings, bronge arms and a pink just right for an attractive tam-o- and as short as possible. The layettes are far more akin to year"
who long to write! (Continued at foot of next column.)'mother's clothes than they were.
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