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PICTURE CRE- TONNES.
THE FACTORY GOES TO THE ARTIST.
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TAJ MAHAL.
JEWELLERY, SILKS AND LACQUER.
The Pioneer Silk Store had many new things to show this week. They have devoted one glass topped counter to a new venture which will receive a warm welcome, I am sure.
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There used to be a very sharp dividing line between the artist and the commercizi, draughtsman,or colourist, but this line has very nearly merged now. The first stop was taken when artists with an It is filled with most attractive established gallery reputation took synthetic jewellery. "There to designing, posters, and the petris of all sizes, in plain and "Total" Erms new venture seems tancy strings, chokers and long. to have proved that applied design necklaces. The colours seemed to caa be as true an art as landscape me very good and the beads nicely graduated. There are also see painting.
necklaces of initation jade in s very good colour which has no glassy look, and of that lovely
Tootal's had made themselves a reputation for printed dress mate rials before they started producing cretonnes, the name "Tootal", on a printed cotton fabric was recog. nised as one to look out for, and the same claim may be made for their furnishing materiala.
eylon stone which looks like a rather milky opal. The genuine fire in these stones makes them very attractive: There are also crystal and amber necklaces, and I
TWO SMART ENSEMBLES.
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Either of three two imart ensembles would be excellent for a urdding or one of the important functions of the early season.
The truck on the left is of mixt-blue and silver-coloured crêpe de roit. Note the "bird-cage" veil covering the close-fitting turban-like tuque.
The wrap of deep lenf green chiffon taffetas with large pierrot frill at the neck accompanies a gown of the same material in a delicate shade of almond green.
Stockings.
You
They have employed artists to amazed at the very low prices asked
for each and every piece. design a series of entirely new
should most certainly inok at this patterns, which are a cross between jewellery. a landscape painting and one of those very original and charming | A new shipment of Kayser silk different end papers which you meet in ex stockings includes 23
shades: mostly of pinky beige or tones, Patio Σπύ gunmetal
pensively bound books. There is,
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for example, Pastoral," which is Mars are the two newest nude a typleat English country scene of tones and "Cascarle
cows and horses in green fields gunmetal Silks.
under a bluo flecked sky. English
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elms, a glimpse of a church and a Among the now silks are twenty farmi house, and the atmosphere of different patterns in printed geor.. the open air which pervades it, gette. I noticed among them some make this one of the most charm. particularly nice black and white ing of the Tootal cretonnes. The and grey and white designs. There colour schemes are good and gen- are several in the new brightly erally light though the Flower coloured cretonne patterns; anc Basket," for example, is printed in very guy with autumn leaves in a stronger heavier tones. There is the riot of colour, and another of close Among "Old Garden" with its beds of set red and violet roses. flowers, ite birds, sundial, and the new designs I liked very much gold Ash pond; the Scottish one on a white ground narrowly Castle," which recalls an old tapestry; the Pride of London " on which the Tower and Beef Enters figure; and the "Bers Paradise" of lovely blossoms. Each design is printed on strong linen finish Tootel Cloth in several schemes of clear good colours, sometimes. the effect is that of a monochrome, sometimes 5 or 6 colours are used..
There is no doubt that you ought to look at these fabrics if only to see what England has been able to pro- duce and to enjoy their quaint beauty. They would be particular-, Jy suitable for use as chair covers. and hangings out here as the light ness and originality of the designs would not seem overpowering on the hottest day. You can see them at Lane, Crawford's who are the sole agents for Hong Kong, and when you do and enquire the price
it will not be hard to find an
excuse to buying some
colours, needless to say, are fast,
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and the prices 81,85 single width and $2.50 double,
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st, 1928.
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"THE" "TRIUMPH OF ROUND THE TOWN.
SPORTS SUITS.
SMARTLY TAILORED, AND BRIGHTLY COLOURED.
PAMELA'S 1929 COLLECTION,
In another column. 1. have given you some notes on the essentials of the 1928-1999 adrance fashions, and if you pay a visit to, Pamela's. saloon you can see how these new features are used. A wonderful collection of model frocks and hats from the important Paris and London houses has just been, un- packed, and they prove that the new season mode is very lovely and gracious combining as it dace the thic of tine" with colour and movement,..
The collection of dresses may be divided into sports suits and after- доба or evening gowns. Sports suits are not, of course, all intend- ed for playing golf in, and many of them are as smart as the after noon Trocks that they so often re- place.
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There are three quite distinct expressions of sports, wear." First and most popular are the two piece auite with a woellen sweater and The gaily patterned silk skirt. skirt is generally of crêpe de chine but very soft satin crêpe and even printed silk are used. Nearly in. variably the skirt is knife pleated. The pattern of the silk stresses in every case the colour of the jumper and very often the latter is trimmed in some way with the skirt material. The same effect is seen in suite with the jumper of Katakla, a sort of wool crêpe, and silk plented skirts, which have each of them a kerchief of the same silk to wear across the shoulders.
I saw, for example, a suit of Persian red Katakla, which is worn over a skirt with graduated red spots on a black ground, and an other of alia the green with a pink and green check skirt. Beige Katakia makes the jumper to be worn over a kilted skirt of black and brown plaid.
Among the suits with woollen knited jumpers perhaps the most charming is in clear amber yellow. the skirt having a gay pattern of small blue, red, and green flowers on a yellow ground, though a honey beige in a fancy knit stitch which is worn over a black marrocaine skirt is also very chic, The black is used as a plain band at the acck of this jumper-and-a-mano zram worked in yellow silk gives the definite note which holds the ensemble together.
The second style is the crepe de chine suit, which is intended for smart afternoon wear. Perhaps the most chic of qil has a jumper, with a close fitting neck line fastening at the back, of navy blue, and a knife pleated skirt patterned in blue and white. A kerchief scarf. of the same silk can be worn across the" shoulders if desired.
Last came the all wool suite in very fine jersey. Most of these are three-piece though some of them are an ensemble of jumper and skirt only. The jumper is generally of a different colour to the skirt and cardigan, but je strapped or trim- med with applique of the second colour.
There is, for example, a three- piece of navy and beige. "The latter is used for the jumper, which has a large modernistic" bow of the Davy appliqué in front at the waist. Scarlet and natural make another very chie suit.
SEEN IN LOCAL SHOPS.
LASY, CRAWFORD's furnishing de partment has some lovely cretonnes including the "Tootal" fabrics mentioned elsewhere, and "Rural Eton" designs There is an ex- cellent selection of reasonably priced cretonnes in at present, and I hear that a new shipment is 4x pected very shortly.
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What is the S.P.T.O.W.1 fortunately, it does not exist "at present but it most certainly should, it is the "Society for the Proper Treatment of Windows" How many people treat their win- dows, the eyes of their rooms, pro- perly! In very many houses you will see them misused, blinded by heavy hangings, their proportions In the ladies department I found spoilt by ill arranged valances, or with curtains some new flowers, both for evening draped sketchily and day" wear. The colour range that only make them look more runs from white and palest pink bare. Things have, in fact, come throngh almost every tone of pink, to such a pass that there actually. red and bronze to wonderful orchid is a movement set afoot by architects and manve tones. The flowers seem to do away with window drapery to be mostly single blooms, roses, altogether, and, substitute a frame, camelias, and chrysanthemums, end like that of a picture, which will are very beautifully made of velvet, be chosen with regard to the view silk and organdie. `Both silk and from the window and general fur- muslin, and in some cases velvet, nishing scheme of the room. And are alightly stiffened, so that the this is allowed to happen at a blossoms are crisp without loosing period when furnishing fabrics are the silkly softness which makes
more beautiful than they have them so attractive. All the prices
ever been, surely, it's more than are very reasonable.
time that the S.P.T.O.W. was formed.
I saw also in the same depart- ment same Jaeger shetland kait cardigans in white and pastel shades, and several very smart Jaeger jumper suits with knitted skirt and sweater trimmed with a woven, silk design. «
Chintz lamé is the very newest thing for evening gowns and one of the big Paris houses is using velvet-chintz for picture frocks. We are lucky in being able to get this latter material here in WRITE- WAY, LAIDLAW's. Although it has been procured as furnishing mate- rial it would make wonderful even ing cloaks or in frocks conjunction with plain ring velvet.
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„FELIX is expecting over 200 after roon and evening dresses on Man- day. The frocks contained in the last shipment went so rapidly that there is little in shop to-day, except of course, the new autumn hats which are extremely attractive, and are very reasonably priced.
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Among the charming new even ing frocks I
w in the DOLLY VARDON EAT SHOP yesterday are a couple of black taffetas models, One is trimmed with appliqué flowers of painted silk which are outlined with a tiny rule of gold lace; the other, which has a two tiered skirt and a "V" neck back and front, has circles of bright- ly coloured small dowers sewn on to both bodice and skirt. I saw one most charming sports suit with a white silk jumper" and knife pleated pink and white plaid skirt. The jumper having a collar and tie of the skirt material. I was told that a large number, of jumper suits are expected some time next week.
The Daisy de Luxe" bags, of which I wrote last week, have proved as popular as I thought they would and a new consignment has been ordered.
YOUR WINTER COAT.
CUFFS AND KERCHIEFS.
The new curtain nets" which 1 saw in Whittaway, Laidlaw's yės- terday are responsible for some of this oathurst, although if you are a regular reader of these columns you will know that it is a subject which has always been very near These nets which are my heart. woven of silk and 'cottan net arr are most attractive of their kind I have seen. You will perhaps re- member the first coloured curtain nets which were quite plain. After them cau nets with silk borders key patterns and stripes. Then the borders began to be more fanciful flowers and lace designs were introduced, and among the last shipment (about three months ago) came nets which were broidered in a lace design with gold or coloured silks...
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The newest of all are woven of silk thread in fairly close designs inspired by stamped velvet, and have a richness and "body" which none of the earlier nets had, the patterns, in fact, have become a part of the fabric instead of being a trimming.
The colours are rich and varied." Blues, golds, and azelia pinks are the first favourites, though green and even black patterned with gold are shown the latter being very attractive indeed.
MISS TALLULAH BANK-
HEAD'S CLOTHES."
AN UNEDIFYING PLAY.
"HER CARDBOARD LOVER."
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Losos, August 22nd. Miss Tallulah Bankhead's ad mirers had queued up for hours on Tuesday outside the Lyric Theatre. The cheaper parts of the house were. crowded with women, and had Miss Bankhead been the greatest actres ever seen she could not have been more enthusiastically received. Most of the audience seemed to think that the part was greater than the whole the actress important than the play, "Her Cardboard Lover." Certainly most Little peaked yokes of fur, at the of the cake of the piece was given hack are a novelty on day coats in to her to hand over to an audience several houses, They obviously who apparently would have devour- have developed from seeing a kezed stale bread,, had it been offered chief tied round day frocks and to them by Miss Bankhead. jumper suits, particularly as there The play is officially described are two peaked ends in front, one as a comedy; but much of it is of which alips through a slit in the farce. It has been adapted from other. Such fur kerchiefs will be the French by Valerie Wyngate of astrakhan, caracul, ermine, or and P. G. Wodehouse. It seemed other short-haired fur. Shaded strange to find Mr. Wodehouse, so grey, beige, or brown astrakhan or well known a writer of good, clean shaved lamb on dark red cloth coats humour, associated with a play: can look extraordinarily "good. which has all the murky' ugliness: pur-Black may be seen on bottle green, of a piece in which suggestiveness for the modistes have not yet given abounds in the manner of the old- up' hope of making dark shades of time French farce.
The plot can be described in a green fashionable for winter year. Even so, dark red with kerchief and few words. A woman divorced deep cus-they come up to the from her husband, whom she still elbow of Persian lamb shaded loves, engages as her secretary & from dark beige to dark fawn is young man whose duty it is to much newer and very chic.
striped with black, with an under design of flowers built up with touches of blue and orange.
Lacquer Screens,
Another new venture is the chase of some very interesting. screens from Burmah. They have carved, black wood frames enclosing panels of black lac inlaid with gold and mother-of-pearl. One. I saw had a really lovely picture of the famous Taj Mahal, another had four different famous buildings one for each leaf. The workmanship is good and the screens quite unusual.
JACOB'S
make her ex-husband jealous. The secretary played the part so well that she for a time forgot her ex husband.
Bedroom Scane.
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SCIENTIFIC TESTS FOR. PATERNITY.
COURT ACCEPTS, PROFES- SOR'S CONCLUSIONS.
VIENNA
11. ICE HOUSE STREET.
LORD HALDANE.
GRAVE OPENED, AND COFFIN TAMPERED WITH.
LONDON, August 26th.
unscrewed. The remains were not
Deep, Elaborata Cutis.
It was found yesterday that Lord Deep cuffs, and emetimes in.
After the tests of blood taken Haldane's grave in the burial tricate as well, afford one of the
ground at Gleneagles, Perthshire, from child, mother and alleged had been broken into during Thurs interesting notes in Worth's collec
now generally tion. A dark elephant-grey velvet The complications connected with father, which aze coat had cuffs of paler astrakhan this by no means edifying story employed in such cases here, had day night and the lid of the collin reaching right over the elbow. make it possible for a bedroom shown a reault entirely favourable disturbed.
A forester on the Gleneagles Nutria cuffs on a cloth coat of the scene to be introduced, and for to the man, Professor Reche, with same colour had the fur cut up at Miss Bankhead almost completely his new method of testing inherited estate yesterday morning found &
characteristics, was consulted in a to undress three times.
man asleep in the graveyard. His the back in M chape.
clothes were smeared with clay. ROYAL
"You are wonderful," a woman paternity case. There was a long collar of nutria!
The man is alleged to be the per- AFTERNOON which elongated into a band round cried at the end when there had He made minute examination of
the baby's fingerprints, nails, hair, son who stopped. the funeral pro TEA
the hem but stopped its continuity been several curtain calls
Miss Bankhead played on the and nine other physical features, cession in Auchterarder, exclaim- at the waist, where the coat was BISCUITS fastened over with a tab of cloth.strongest of emotional lines as the and similarly of those of the man ing that Lord Haldane was not This was a charming coat and only character in the piece that and woman. His conclusions, put dead. He told the, forester that he something of an exception, because really mattered. Even a message before the court, wore that the had an appointment with Lord the long roll collar of fur and the from the man with whom she child exhibited no single charac Haldane. The police took the man band round the hem are, compara-imagined herself in love made her teristic of the man, while it show into custody. He is believed to show a violence of passion which ed many which appeared to exclude coine from the south of England tively speaking rare."
and was well supplied with- caused her to remove rest of her the man in question, clother-
other is the chief point about te dedared that it was quite in Her Cardboard Lover." Miss not show some details of hereditary resemble him, as teated by scientific undresses, resemblance to its father, and a microscopical examination of skin, Bankhead frequently
man simply could not be the father hair, nails, teeth, and the rest And she does it all very well.
Mr. Leslie Howard acts quietly of a child that did not in the least Professor Reche's opinion entire End naturally as one of the lovers (Continued at foot of next column.) Ty satisfied the court.
A daintily tempt
ing 'assortment
that makes tea time a treat
-W. & R.JACOB & CO., Ltd. DUBLIN INELAND
The band of fur round the short coat was, however, again in Worth's collection. It in the type which the Rue de la Paix house made for June to wear in the motor car scene in Clowns in Clover It is deac in black and white printed velvet with point fox.
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money.