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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 27th,
1927.
The
SMART SHOES
FOR ALL OCCASIONS
FLOWER FANCIES.
The big manufacturers of arti ficial blooms are, we road, prepar ing for Bowery summer. manner of materials are used ta!
All
fashion this latest pusies. Flowers
of silk, velves, and organdie we are accustomed to, but fewern of glass, of straw, wood shavings, of cork or feathers are something new.
is
The organlie Bowers come in a variety of lovely and delicate
the heart shades usually light at al tied wah a deeper tone. The Chinese chrysanthemum perhaps the favourite flower wear as a shouiter kust or at the hip, and is "amde of organdie shroded Goto strips which are can
ingly curled.
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Fragile elosively attractive blos sums un slender stalks are made ofį blown glass, anal are again mostly used on the shoulder of delicate dance frocks. There are houtonnier
JUMPER SCHIS FOR EVENING WEAR,
sutia charmeuse à Supul luck
THE VIZIER AND
PEACOCK.
WOMAN'S PAGE
A THE BRIDE'S DINNER | all diese requirements. The materj
PARTY.
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Preparations for a dinner party} Once upon a time there ruledi
wrinkled over a certain district of China, aj nearly always mean Frue! and wicked king, who op- bow and much anxious thought on pressed his people with taxation part of the hostess. Since a dinner and passed his days in feasting and perij is the most formal entertain- watching the dancing of the beauti ment, which we give now-a-days, the appointments and ful girls with whom his place was arrangement. Filiz, Beyond the boundary of his service need to be as faultless k Areal pleasure parks the people possible. A Ettle hitch many be
om were atuering, and in the next king-soothed over in the comparative
wed
were being informality of a bunch of a dance, gathered together to invade his hut met, and one severest crities, dominans. The people would have other women, demand a very high wetrned any change of ruler, but the king was as indifferent LO WILE us to the sorrows of bis subjrets. in all the country only the Vizier sought to save the kingdom and daily in vain he sought the king
ipad his armies to its defence, Yet with all his faults Chin, the kim has left a permanent, men bria, for the east empire of China is me after him, despite the fact that he was dethroned.
This was the story told me by an assistant of the Swatow Lace Com pany. I wish I could reproduce it in sen picturesque phrases,
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standard at a dinner.
Aunt's Vase, Possibly the greatest ordeal which young bride has to face is her
She herself, her! fast dinner party. house, and her arrangements are going to be faithfully noted and Friticised even if in the most kind
spirit. The greatest pitfall that lies in her way is the indiscriminate use of as many wedding presents Anni as possible on her table.
150 ar asing her will like to see
will think we vase, and Mrs. XV.
THE
'LITTLE FROCK."
rial is soft powder blue' georgette, { and it is cut with an open sleeve. less jacket and a tiered skirt. The
In plare of the chenise dress jacket, which can be taken off show- ing a rounded neckline, in trimmed which held its own so long. Paris with a border of glass beads in n has inaugurated the "little frock,"
Tucks slightly deeper tone, and has a very and very charming it is. pretty soft line, with a cape effect and pleats and tiny tiers-all those n the back. There is a large auft, quaiat and dainty accessories which posy at the waist in tones of grnett look so simple and chic need the and lavender, from beneath which most skilful handling. The little falls a tiered essende. Of course, frock" is not a garment for the the colouring of the dress must amateur dressmaker unless she has depend on that of the bride and peeslar genius. of the room, hat in style this dressi
would be addtairable,
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The Table Cloth.
matter of
Aufe
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I was in Rolande Sarraults's on Wednesday, and Madame took me behind the scenes and introduced ime to the latest arrivals from Paris. The dressing of the table is only They reminded me of fragile blos
GR an assistant lifted them little less important than that Sus of the hostes. Either table mats, from their tissue paper. There are! for which plain embroidered linen among them several white frocks is now more fashionable than face one in chiffon with delicately pa
wol polisket, eloth looked sprays of flowers to decorate equally well. If the Intter is it. The pattern and the little tiers chosen the damask design is a ou the skirt give it an old world
Few Barour which is moment.
very pretty. i
people, and unfortunately, till white silk dress is trimmed with fower manufacturers seem to realise tiny rose buds and squares of fine that the beauty of a design depends, embroidery, and here and there a largely on the position in which it gold thread. There is a white mus is usel. You see a pattern dein dress very simply made with a ficha collar, and another chilton pure table and rice-rizer, and delicate sprays of flowers standing on their heade where the cloth. fall over the edges of the kalde, If the damask pattern is, of any value st. all it is meant to
an integral part of the table de rrations. For use with an pergne or elaborate centre piece choose a cloth with a plain centre or tabte mats. It is unnecessary to elaborate this theme, but I saw a very pretty lovely design painted on the finish- eith in fine old bleach linen in Lane, Crawford's in a design of ed garment with spots of metal mange blossom, which would be paint, which catch the light like genceful and appropriate for uneheads but are less ornate, and have at a bride's first dinner party.
The zool Vizier has not hern for- I don't like it if we don't have her signed round an oval or circle ou dress with a wide stripe of small'
gotten fur, his story has been-en-épiry on the table." But unless woidered and painted by patient the beide has been lucky enough Chinese craftsmen over since his to have had present which fil dralh sene sal years ago. I dejin," she will be wiser to risk dis porates one of the charming tittle buser which the Swatow Lace Cu have just received. The gentle looking old man in his blue role, is seated in his garden, trying to think of some way to save his, country. Above his seat spread the branches of a big free and in the distance a quaint red bridge spans
stream.
These boxes covered in black salin with all sorts of interesting and lovely desigus embroidered on them, are in various shapes for gloves, trinkets or handkercitiefs, I noticed one oval box with a nea cock whose spead tail glowed on an ali gold held which I ked partieniarly, and there are toany others with designs copied from eld mandarin embroideries,
BY THE WAY.
TION INDER "Trudies" wen to get prettier and more frase day by diev, lut there des atser to much Dusion Boat the new Van Raalte glove Ak ngerie that has just arrived 14 Powell's unless it be the illusion that isn't there at all! The material is like a very fine silk
dicated with the large roses, of proplin and it canes in the faintest
grey georgette and semised silver tissur make an attractive jumper) for proning one, and is allied to
a finely pleated skirt af
goy it.
The shoulder for rivals the fornl this mouth the bow of black ratin is
in puputurity, and Find with grey gougrite.
The other jujur suit illustrated has a shirt of back reted and a jumps of dubi quid lame fonturing the slimming Fatou susk, and Incque pored ridbraideries,
little upstanding collar fastened with a bright red button is a new nate.
Ent busfet olmurs, !: is impos. !
that Piese gessamer garments with fine net of Thee can math or wear, but like the stock ing and gloves, made by the saunes. are indred strong and noble, and delightfully enot in V-SRs: The Sign of Intern, has received another chiprent, ot thus dainty ries orang femtees which are designed as
AERT,
Two tones of the same Odođe art after allied in the manner shuru
It run at times be an ecoñumicat buve in day and evening guns, plan.
holders. The most piquante the newcomers is a charming lealy with slanting eyes and appointing a few people in order red lips who wears a green that her table may be an harmon dress and a gorgeous flowered head. ious whole.
She has an unsheathed
An Important Item. Gamma || sword in her helt and her hands are
The bride should remember that she is the most important, and made of ling beats an onin finest in the folds of her long sleeves. MARPLE SHEETS:-Marple sheets.
be the most attractive, net generally in the shape of ruse I was told at Whiteway, Laidinw's should
feature of her party. Therefore, buds half opened and surrounded have come down again in prier however hose proud she may be, They are guaranteed against the ravages of English washerwomen a good rest with a miad free of all Some of the latest hats are teim-but, sufortunately, not against the worries, is essential before dressing, red with plaques of a patch work wash amah. They are certainty the and her gown should be carefully! of velvet draves and flowers. Circles, strongest bed linen on the market chosen. balf circles, or triangles are made, and are soft and fine.
by green fenveg,
up of a dozen or more different TRAVELLING Rugs:-I saw some bride to woar her wedding dressi Bowers in gilfully ended and delightful travelling rugs in the eutra. cenkara,
same shop made of soft camels hair wool in various colourings and patterns for $37.50.
I saw a short time ago at the Sign of die. Lintern a' lovely hat
Hons D'OrYRES:-The French trinum with Bowers made of cork part and varnished, and I was Store have just got bottles of mixed delighted to see there yesterday Hors d'Oeuvres from France which drawer fail of Be posis made gave a lot of time and work in pré- of word daxings treated in the aration and are a delicious selec same fashion. They are the more tinn
PEKINESE TEA Coey:-The latest appealing beanse of their light- Terk; soften the Hite of, & erin teu cosy is a full sized Pekines straw is spoilt after a very short mad in artificial. für with a most time by ile weight of the blooms lifelike head and, tail, I saw too, -which-trim-ie: but these flowers, a black cut who performs the same
despite their bold miss weigh prae office, both in Powell's- tically nothing. Besides hat trin wings there are pusive and sprays inst
It used to be the fashion for a
for the first dinner she gave, but now that so many brides choose either period or dance dresses, this convention has gone out, and a simple evening frock may be worn instead. I saw such a one in Lane, Crawford's at once girlish and with that alight air of importance which is so appealing to the newly made wife.
The choice of a dress should always depend on the circumstances Just as, in which it is to be worn. for example, it is the back and the line of the skirt which is ost observed when dancing, so when the
will probably either be sitting down
A NEW WAISTCOAT: Haw the hostess is seated at her table it is. fascinating waistcoat in mainly the front of her bodies to wear on the hip, and in every Rodante Sarrault's. It is made of which people see. After dinner shu ense the enlours and shapes are so fine geft, sede eut out in an all exquisite that it would be hard at over design so that it looks rather any little distance in say whether like Richelieu work. Rather draugh
t perhaps but very chic. they were real or of silk.
or moving slowly about the room talking to her guests. The parti cular dress of which I spoke covers
even
The China.
flowers round the skirt and straight. down the middle of back and front.
Of the coloured dresses thought a yellow georgette patterned with a blue flower and finished with a blue belt and a tiered skirt. was exceedingly swart. Another belted model is made in Fissur Borhes fine silk which is rather like a sponge cloth. Another new idea is n dress of cotton voile with a very
not that unfortunate habit of com- ing unsewn.
Food And Trifles.
Those were just a few of the The 1927 design chine ware which little frocks from Paris, but I have I saw at the same shop is very not space to tell you about them lovely. One dessert service is call: all, Rolande Sarrault's window will
and has
he decorated by some of them le Spring time" powdered blue surface and a tiny the time you read this and you wil iserder of brightly coloured flowers find the others inside. and a dinner service Montcalm "! he small groupe of conventiona Powers an A parchment coloured ground. In both these designs the
The continent seis, silver, cutlery grad eolers have been chosen with the object of giving and table lamps or candles should! culiarly bright and jewel-like, he chosen to follow out the iden effect. to the liny flowers, and both suggested by the dinner service and are particularly pretty and dis the general furnishing of the room, i tinguished looking serviers. The latest pattern in table glass is the St. James"! which is deeply fluted half way up each glass and has the delicacy of crystal.
(Continued on next column).
The question of a menu is foo wide to ruter into in this article lost the bride would do well to feed the beast " remember that applies to both sexes equally, and the question of drinks is her hus bani'y province.
After a warm and tiring day-there is nothing so refreshing as
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