THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 6th, 1928.
HAMPOO
LANE, CRAWFORD'S
PERFUMERY DEPT.
PAMELA
is showing this week
Ninon and Foulard Frocks,
Tinsel Straw Hats,
Lace and Painted Sun-shades.
Suitable for every occasion
and specially for Garden Parties.
NEW LAMP SHADES AND CANDLE SHADES JUST ARRIVED. WE ALSO MAKE SHADES TO ORDER IN ANY DESIGN AND COLOURING.
York Building
Tel. C 4864.
Your
THE SIGN OF THE LANTERN
STYLE
Is your
SOCIAL PASSWORD.
May we advise you
MADAMER SARRAULT,
10, Ice House Street.
THE GREEN BAY TREE.
BLACKWOOD, PORCELAIN:
AND JADE.
The Oriental Department of Lass, Chawrond's is flourishing like the Proverbial bay tree. From a com paratively humble beginning some weeks ago with a few choice pieces of old Cantonese Blackwood, it has grown until it threatens to drive cut entirely the European style furnishings from the department which houses both collections.
Silks, the "wonderful embroidery of China, scraps of the finery of her past monarchical glories, followed Blackwood, and this week has zeen the intrusion of porcelain. I saw there some really lovely sets of dessert plates for the extraordinary prices of $7 and $10 the dozen; vasce, large and small; ginger jars, in the familiar and ever delight ful blue and white; bowls and statuettes. None of these are worth less; some I suspect worth consider ably more than is being asked for them: and all of them decorative and desirable.
As for the Blackwood, it goes out as fast as it comes in. There are indeed one or two astute persons who pay a daily visit and seldom leave without some treasure to add to their collections. For though the
INEXPENSIVE SUM- MER FROCKS.
SOME "SARRAULT'
CREATIONS.
Madame Sarrault has a delight fut array of summer dresses, of silk, voile, and organdie, all at very reasonable prices.
The
WOMAN'S PAGE
FOR THE EVENING.
NEW MATERIALS FROM THE "PIONEER."
The Pioneer Silk Store are going. to help us make our evenings lovely. Their new consignment" includes cobwebby ailkatockings, small printed shawls of crepe de chine, and delightful materials for oven- ing wear
Of these latter the most attrac
One of the most attractive is n Sarrault creation of pastel blue crêpe de chine, an afternoon frock trimmed with pin tacks and looped.tive and the newest is the dress length material of embroidered piping. I liked very much too a model of shell pink georgette with crepe de chine. It can be had in 30 different shades, and a large & circular skirt and deep tucks on
number of patterns. A description the bodice, both of them wäre, I
of one will perhaps be enough to believe, under $40.
give you some idea what to expect. The crepe of a very nice shell pink has a deep border of leaves and flowers in broderie anglaise stitched with blue and grey; not all the pattern is cut out, however, it con- tinues as a delicate tracery of out line stitch to a generous height. I saw much the same thing in white stitched with blue and grey), in
Silver and gold lace in dress
An apricot georgette frock is trimmed with broderie corneille. that very charming new decoration of silk and the ribbon. White erepon embroidered with a stift little flower design in green and orange makes a pretty cool-lookin frock, ent with circular skirt and a chic caped bodice. The narrow green ribbons at neck and waist add to the smart appearance,
There are many other pleasing little garments and a certain num-lengths and wide scalloped lace are also to be found among the newly arrived materials, and I saw, too, some charming tinsel stuff, plain gold or silver and a wide range of silver and colour. There was one. bandsome brocaded roll of light blue and silver, and "all these metaltic materials are woven with a very solt and pliable texture which makes them drape well.
Two pretty spring fashions for the school. girl. The truck on the left is made with a jumper of white spot- ted with blue and has 'a plain mary skirt collars and exp. The other model is com posed of plain. and checked material with a leather belt, and would be pretty in any colour.
ber of new summer tats which are very smart. Owing to her impend-
Among the new washing wilks is one with a sort of "cheek effect of short damask threads, this is made in 15 different shades and would be excellent for jumper suite or men's shirts. More than 100 shades of fugi and 80 shades of tobralco silk have also come,
The new stockings are delightful, with pointed spliced beel picces, silk tops, and woven on the 900 gage. The Pagoda make are 83.50 a pair Kayser's, $4.50.
BY THE SEA SHORE.
BATHING SUITS ARE GAY AND CHIC.
After the rain, the sunshine;
ing visit to Paris, Madame Sarrault after mackintoshes, swimming suits is keeping her stock lower than-trado never, stays still and while usual just now, but there are pleaty there is money to spend women will of pretty things to choose from all find a good excuse to spent it!...
Chinese families who have eated for the same. this furnitura over many years, polishing it until it has a surface like satur, are now eager to sell
And after all the purchase of new swimming kit is an excellent excuse, for many of us here spend a large part of our time so attired during the warm months, and there is no need to dilate on the wisdom from the point of view of health of so doing.
it in order to refurnish with Euro- of the best coloured jade. One I pean goods, there is little doubt but saw of a deep green tone with a that in a few years time the demand very beautiful fire was $750. for blackwood will grow again. Small pendante, some square, some Antiges always have a value though over, and delicately carved, run that value may fluctuate with the from $1.50 a pair. Some of these fashions of the period, and it is can be made up as buckles which very doubtful if the extremely low form a very important accessory to price now being asked in Lane, frocks to-day. Another fashionable LANE, CRAWFORD'S have the most Crawford's will be able to continue trinket can be made up of the attractive new bathing dresses în for long. As the supply diminishes small pendants which Parisiannes prices must go up, and the supply are now wearing set with alternate all manner of colouses and styles of antiques is not inexhaustible: plaques of gold to make close fitting The latest is the skirtless suit fitted
The latest venture is Jade. But bracelets.
with a brassiere inside. Though But whether it be as buckles, neck- the jade quite properly finds its home among the choicest silver laces, bracelets or rings, the smart skirtless, these new models are so ware. Happily for us, however, it woman to-day considers her, ward cut and trimmed, that they have in as comparatively inexpensive as robe incomplete without some jade exactly the same effect as a two the other oriental goods Necklaces jewellery. The wholesale merchants piece combination, and are the most of beautiful colour and graduation say that they cannot ship supplies comfortable wear possible for swim: can be got from $16 to $40, though quickly enough to antisfy the deming. They are made in a thick mer- corised cotton material which clings naturally more is asked for those mands in Europe and America.
| less tightly than wool or jersey, and does away with the almost inevit- able" scratchiness of the former. Besides this they do not hold the damp, thus risking a chill if you sit about on the beach after a dip. 97
I thought a rather severe looking model with a dail orange top and black trunks, joined by a workman- like belt, very attractive. Another shape which I saw in black and in apricot, has the trunks disguised, by a series of short frills each bound with a contrasting colour Very chic is another skirtless model, the yellow top having a plaid pattern of black braid with black knickers Among the woollen muits perhaps the most attractive is a two piece consisting of regulations of saxe, blue, and a pair of scarlet running shorts built just like a boy's which are secured with a white belt. Caps can be had to match any suit whe ther woollen or of the new merceris ed cotton material,"
THE PIONEER SILK
STORE
Particularly invites you to inspect
TO-DAY
Miss Madrid Silk stockings
Algerian embroideries, Brocaded Spun crepe.
Elizabeth Arden declares: “Make-up is merely a deception"
* You would not want cuilation poarte if you could have the originale. "Why then-accept an artificial complexion. when you may have a
genuinely lovely one!"*\\\=
Elizabeth Arden's scientifically pura Proparations make it possible for every woman to bare a naturally fine clear skin, which no cosmotic can duplicate.
Far Cleansing there is Venetian Cleansing Croam which melta into the pores and dislodges every tiny particle of foreign matter.
For Smoothing sed ening there is the delicacy of Venetian Velva Cream or Orange Skin Food, for nourishing, if you require mors determined. treatment
For Toning and Bracing thera is Ardena Skin Tonic with its invigorating tendency, or Venetian Special Astringent, for neglected cases.
ELIZABETH ARDEN'S
PREPARATIONS
Are Stocked at A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. Tol. C. 16.
LUXURY WITH ECONOMY.
CERTAINLY
You should inspect the selection,
New this week at
POHOOMULL BROTHERS
Silk Embroidered Kimonos, Flowered Crepe de Chine dress lengths
Bordered Crepe de Chine.
DO YOUR SHOPPING AT
POHOOMULLS.
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IN
ZEPHER,
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ETC. ETC.
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