NEW
AFTERNOON
EVENING
&
FROCKS
LANE, CRAWFORD'S
LADIES SALON.
MEZZANINE FLOOR
PAMELA
EVENING GOWNS
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21st, 1927.
AFTERNOON DRESSES
Ladies are cordially invited to call
Pamela's new Salon and inspect, at their
leitare, the new importations from the Leading Fashion Houses abroad.
At
SHINGLING WAVING MANICURING
The promptest and most courteous service in Town
CAMPBELL MOORE.
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MADAME R. SARRAULT
No. 10, Ice House Street.
VANITIES.
TIME AND BEAUTY,
The
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WOMAN'S PAGE
| FRAIL PASSENGERS., PAMELA AND THE
FROCKS AND MORE FROCKS.
Beauty should be served by The big liners coming from over benuly. It is not only, my lady's ten thousand miles of sea are carry- garments which should express herg very lovely passengers." Down in the depths of their holds are bat everything she possesses, has boxes on boxes of fragile beauty
dresses and flowers "destined to been the creed of all the ages. In
bloc during a short. Eastern winter the service of beauty lovely furnish.There is a fancy frock of misty geng, and decorative schemes have green georgette in the Sign of the brengdesigned and made by patient Lanterns on the keroes of pinkish
large silk raftsmen for nothing is too rare or
viot hus, with a band of the beautiful to lay at the feet of the same flowers encircling one arm) beloved.
hole after the very latest whim of Time which used to be so long has fashion. A parma violet frock has a bead fringe as trimming, ricus become of the utmost importance in | rate is trimmed with a wide girdle this age of hurry, and so it is only of sequins in mother of pearl colouring. There is an apricot Stting that beauty's timepiece coloured dress with a lovely petal should have come under considera- | led skirt like a Gloire de Dijon.| tion. A little bondoir, or travelling rose, and a white one has a page boy cape edged with silk fringe and clock such as those now to be seen tiny rows of the same fringe from at Lane, Crawford's ́isa åt offer waist to her. ing for any, lovely lady, and they are so charming that it is quite possible she may be on time "as the Americans say if she possesses one, for she certainly could not resist looking at it.
Black net over georgette makes a little dream, which charmingly youthful with its frill and velvet bows,
』
PURPLE COUCH.
Have you been in Pamela's new showroom? She tells mo that it is no larger than her old premises, but it has a very charming and spacious look and a pretty colour scheme. A big couch covered in dark purple velvet faces you as you enter, and very inviting it looks with its gay cushions and the low joss table before it on which. lie the latent fashion books. The
fittings, wardrobes, etc., are"warm. toned mahogany and the floor is covered with Japanese matting, while the ample windows flood the room with light. A very attractive web for flies who like pretty frocks! But it is not fair to compare Pamela to the spider of the rhyme for no one minds being tempted to walk into her parlour; it is a treat in itself to see the pretty things: she is displaying quite apart from
In Powell's I saw a green gear, gette of a jade tone. with a very derp gold lace hem, and a lovely picture frock of gold lace and lemon georgette. The bodice and the joy of purchasing and wearing
underskirt which shows just in them. front are of the lace" and the 'skirt proper of the silk, which is tucked in all its length. Pervenche blue is useil for a beautifully cut dress with the new double girdle of | diamanté, and there is a charming robe de style in fine black lace all set in a trilla Lane, Craw- ford's, tuo, have received a ship ment of new dance and dinner dresses but they, arrived too late for me to see them this week.
Madame Sarrault is showing some very pretty little street frocks of viyella and fine fannel and is de signing more afternoon and evening dresses besides those she has received from Paria
BY THE WAY.
"WHO'LL BUY." Who'll buy my sweet lavender?" tried the flower girl of old, but to-day we wear" flowers made by hands, just as lovely if not so fragrant and les perishable than. the living
blooms. The flower has become almost as important an article of dress as shoes and stockings, and hardly any toilette is complete without one. The lilies of the field are replaced to-day by the lilies of France and so one expects to find them in the showrooms of Madame Sarrault. Do you want a button hole there is a marigold, a rose or a bunch of small felt flowers in gay colours. For your fur or an after. noon toilette are gardinias, dahlias and voilets, and to "wear in the evening, enormous roses and a chry santhemums of silk and organdie..
BLANKETS.I was told in White-
away, Laidlaw's that they have a & handsome dress of beaded geor- large stock of the best Whitney gelle, with a bead fringe hem for the blankets at really remarkable price older woman. as they were bought at an oppor tune moment, and certainly it is a wise time to buy them now.
Lovely things are being prepared MANDARIN COirs-At the Pioneer Silk Store I found very charming for us to wear this season. "Frocks modern mandarin coats which which set your heart and your feet fasten all the way down, and are dancing, gracious afternoon gowns made of a heavyweight crêpe priated in pleasing patterns. They and, I had almost said impudent, also have a stock of Persian coats street frocks. Chic is such a well and some pretty new dress lengths used word that it hardly conveys one, which was white with a border of closely set black and gold flowers the joie de vivre expressed in the I thought very smart.
autumn mode, which is so delight-
All these clocks are as fat as a watch and most of them have the most delightful stands or folding leather cases. With their square gold faces and the luminods figures they are very modern, and as they run for a week there is not much excuse for forgetting to wind them.
FOR THE DANCE SEASON. A Veryful a compromise between the boyish In the service of beauty Elizabeth large assortment of carnival novel- Arden, whose wonderful prepara- ties has been received by White tions are so justly popular, puts up of inst year in a new guise, blow away, Laidlaw's. All the favourites her creams and lotions in jars and outs, hats, spectacles and folly boxes which are aft ornament for sticks, and a number of other amus
tioba are
and the Feminine. Nothing could, on the face of it, seem more in- congruous than a little wisp of a kilted crêpe de chine skirt, worn under 's boyish woolen pull over. But see Miss 1997 wearing it, with bare to the shoulder, where a silken flower to match her skirt is pinned, and you will realise what a charming mode
her pretty
it ia
aros
For the same girl's evening wear
I saw a bouffant little dress made of fine black lice over pink geor gette, or a yellow taffetas frock
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Particularly invites your inspection
TO-DAY
of the attractive display of
FRINGED EVENING Dance Coats and Wraps
Very striking and only just arrived in Hong Kong
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any dressing table, and ber balls ing trifles are there of which it of June Geranium soap look good would not be fair to give away the secret. When you go in don't enough to eat. Talking of soap forget to ask for the cigarette box, have you tried her waterproof make it is new to mo at all events and up cream which will preserve your is very intriguing.. favourite complexion even when METALLIC SCARVED.Pohoomall's bathing Bath salts, too, are pack-
handsome ed for travelling with twelve cubes have some new and very in a suede or leather box which patterns in metallic scarves which looks like a jewel case.
make up well as dasco, dresses. These scarves will with, the clips The presentation or travelling are all put on by band by native bpacs of Elizabeth Arden prepara women and the metal does not
most fascinating. The tarnish. I my there, too, some new trimmed with large ovals of slight-cut skirt. Perhaps the most charm. kilted skirt, and very cunningly Bon Voyage Beauty box of pink patterns of brocaded silk which ly gathered pink and blue ribbons ing of all was a very modern drees arranged tucks on the jumper, lacquered metal is ingeniously pack-make up well for, colder weather on the full skirt. Some of the new showing the Spanish influence. The which is quaintly finished with & ed with twenty Venetian prepara dresses. Most of the designs are evening gowns have an almost material, is fine black net, em-little lace fichu and a tiny posy at tions, and an ideal gift for well adapted to European taste. tailored look and rely more on the broidered with small bouquets of the breast. It's the sort of frock traveller. The same thing can be
PARIS HATS.Madame Sarrault cut than on trimming. as for in flowers in pink and blue in a fine which would be equally charming had in a smaller size for the week- end bag. The very latest Arden has just got a large number of very stance one I saw of yellow crêpe stitch. The skirt, made a series of on seventeen or seventy and there a very full circular frilla is very long at the back and are very few of which one can say, beauty box is a smart little case of smart French hats for the autumn which had black leather containing cleansing and winter seasons which you would skirt, which, however, hang quite cut almost to the knee in front, as much.
straight, and had a square cut and it is girdled by a wide black Pamela tells me that a French cream, face cream, skinfood, astrin- do well to see. gent, etc., also a small box of tooth- THEATRICAL MAKE-UP-That Lane, paste buckle for its sole armament. silk sash with a large bow at the atter and dress-maker is very shortly sailing from France to assist her, powder, brush, soap and cleansing Crawford's have the full range of There was a lovely frock of green back.
I bave not space to tell you much and that she has her own buyer in tissues. These boxes really make grease paint, etc. required for satin beauté hanging beside it with little toilet table in themselves a theatrical make up will be good neck cutlined by a fairly wide about the afternoon frocks I saw Paris who is sending her goods by when open everything is to hand news for those who are thinking pattern of dull gold square-cut fa fine reps, wool manocains and every parcel post, so we may ex- and a quite ample mirror is held of amateur dramatics or fancy dress beads, which also had a beautifully crepes, but I must mention one in pect to and continually new and errect in the lid.
parties.
· (Continued on next Column.) grey rep of jumper design, with a charming goods in Astor House.