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REVIVING OLD-TIME FRENCH GALLANTRY.
NEW FASHIONS BRING BACK ANCIENT GESTURES.
ATTEMPTS TO RESIST "AMERICANISATION,”
"MICROBE WHICH HAS ATTACKED MINORITY."
[By PRINCESS ALI FAZIL, Valted Press Stad Correspondent.}
Pants.-Fashion has always been ¦ Tulle evening dresses with two races and dallied over French ver- made of eontrasts and exaggeraing in the same material.
becoming dowers of different colour-mouth or even absinthe, is now
giving way to the cocktail hour Frenchmen Silk dresses of faille are very,
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these simple, the beauty of them being tough American drinks and liking in the shape. Most of them recall them, and that's why the opinion the fashions of 1385 and give a very of doctors and philosophers and in- stately allure.
fluential people is being aired in the French Press on the subject of the probable decline of French tradi
tions now. in Paris, women are huding their legs and showing their bws. The skirts are lengthening rapidly. And alarming rumours of skirts with petticoat fringes are spread over the town: For the time
All dresses are complicated with being, morning dresses are short incrustations, panels, minute details. but afteracon gowns hide every-To'some it may be a great comfort. thing but the ankles. and evening to see under the skirt two feet robes have no limit and might easily pointing out. No more legs or at sweep the floor!
mast just glimpses of there.
very smart.
tion.
Youth and Snobbery.
They claim that 11 certain snobismi has gripped the youth The era of practical fashions
Very popular for dinner is the of France and that no seaside resort. seems to be over, and women will little dress in fame with a bodice in is now complete without its Ameri- have to endure all sorts of siuvery face and a little coat to match, un-shaking, freezing, drinks, and its cun bar, its white coated barman in order to show the difference pretentious and at the same time tween real elegantes
and the midinettes. Before, it was only in details that the difference could!
seen; short dresses and little hannets used to make it seem that women were dressed in series, like automobiles, now every woman will be able to show her personality, if nothing else.
Stays Returning.
reses, and side cars and gin fizzes, and Martisis. And no country Some couturiers have an amusing road is likewise complete, they add, way of mixing up different shades without its automobil
parties muslin, but that needs & real which are really cocktail parties, artistic sense and can only be and no week-end gathering is com- afforded by those whose eye is a plete or possible without the in- sustumed in the scale of colours sidus sinker, and the more in- without obtaining a clashing resuleidious gin .concretions, which All Ince dresses are bordered by corrode the veins and dull the them of muslin which gives them {brains"oi, youth." an aerial appearance.
Sare corsets are seen and a move- mens to restore them is being Fur coats are specially recon- aunched, but they are not so ter.mended for evening wear, but for rible as the ancient instrument of daytime huge collars and cuffs are torture. They are, however, far even smarter than whole fur asay from the practical and com- They all have a draping effect. fortable waist belt.
marking the waist and rising slight
wards.
The collections of this winter thus in front giving the impression definitely overthrow comfort for that the woman is bending brek
eauty. Except for the sport and morning dresses, we are coming back te the dresses that for years Be
could not look at without laughing. This change will be difficult, even nearly impossible, fat women who live an active Hfe but, on the other band, it will be a good thing for the elegant Parisienne been use it will bring back the toilette of a "grande dame."
More than ever it will be an obligation to heed Paris and to follow scrupulously the new fashiona
A Few Details,
They can be described as follows: Tailored dresses and sport wear for morning-
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This evolution is bringing back ancient gestures which were quite forgotten and Paris hopes to see with this return of the 1856 lines, the revival of French gallantry which had entirely disappeared since the war.
- Dr. Georges. Guillain, a noted nerve specialist, insists that the cocktail is definitely undermining the stomach and intestines of thos who drink them. The household bar is a new kind of bolshevism which has deserted the working classes and now sits on the hearths. of the wealthy. The new rich and comfort loving, generation is com- mittting slow suicide," says Guil- lain. It marks the end of our five o'clock teas, of the salons, of lectures and right conversation, in a word, it is the end of beautiful
aaners, and of our culture."
is
Andre de Fouquieres, who Cigarettes and Gin.
known as the best dressed Parisian and dictator of French manners, be- French leaders and educators are lieves that the cocktail craze will deeply disturbed over the incursions pass like other fads Fouquieres made in the French homes by the say," The American Bar "nierobe newest fad the household har. has after all attacked only a In recent years, France has sub minority. It appears in the young mitted to many Americanisins. people first, but usually leaves them Frenchmen are smoking American at the age of reason. It is just an- cigarettes, despite the high duty ou other of those habits taken from foreign tobacco; Ameriman auto- the Yankees which we adapt badly mobiles are rolling about is increas and are inclined to exagerate,, ing numbers; advertising, salesman- The American Bar in the honic ship. high-speed real estate "" | is, of course, one of the results of hawking; American plumbing; out-prohibition. On the other side of door sign boards; house top electric the ocean it has its reason for be signs; wearing apparel; sportinging, but here it seems unnecessary. [activities and even the language The Americans do not drink wilę For evening weir. a display of they speak is getting the American with their meals, and can therefore the most luxurious materials, tough.
support two or three of these lea Bounced bodices and long skirts The Frenchman is beginning to sant aperitifs, but several cocktails wany bordered by fur.
get a bit apprehensive, even resent a day, as we often see here in our Coats must be much shorter thanful, at this American invasion, friends homes, appear somewhat of the skirts and it would be advisable The most Insidious propaganda, an exaggeration. We must simply to have a separate coat for each they claim, is through the inaugura-wait until this mode passes, but dress. However black coats aretion in Paris of the American bar meanwhile, I think that reason will very practical, because they can and the Americah drinks. The old | prevail and that the good manners match any dress, so long as the hat fashioned aperitif hour, when and deportment of our fathers will is also black.
everyone sat leisurly on cafe ter- not be seriously menaced."
Afternoon dresses, to the ankles, with many panels which make the body slimmer, so that the waist appears at its natural place or even higher.
Diary of Coming Events.
To-day,
(December. 3.)
Queen's Theatre: "Coquette." Tea Dances Hong Kong Hotel, World Theatre: "Shadows of the and Peninsula Hotel, & p.m. English Association: Lecture by Night."
Dinner Dances: Peninsula Hotel, Sir
Charlotte Henry Gollan
Star Theatre: Woman Dis-Repulse Bay, and Hong Kong Bronte," Cathedral Hall, 5.30 p.m. ¿puted."
Hotel, 8.30 p.m. The Samoan Dancers: Theatre Royal, 0.15 p.m.
Queen's Drummond."
Theatre:
“Bulldog
World Theatre: Shadows of the Night."
Tea Dances: Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel, 5 p.m.
H.K. Hotel, Dinner Dances: Repulse Bay Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Tides: High, 1.16 p.m. and 10.99
Star Theatre: "Woman Disp.m.; Low: 5.53 am, and 3.50 p.m. puted."
Harmston's Cireus, Praya East,
9.15 p.m.
Tea Dances Hong Kong Hotel, Land Peninsula Hotel, & p.,
Dinner Dances: I.K., Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8.30 p.m.
Tides: High, 12.28 p.in. and 0.56 p.m.; Low. 3.33 .m. and 3.31 pm.
European
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Wednesday, (December 4.)
Hockey Club ». Army, U.S.R.C. ground, 5 p.1.
European Mails:-Outward: Europe vid Siberia (d'Artagnan),
1.30 p.m.
Thursday. (December 5)
St. Stephen's Girls' College: Sale of Work, 11 .m.
Helens May Musicale:
Music
of Childhood," 6.30 p.m.
HK. Football Referees Associa- tion, French Bank Building, 5.30 p.m.
Y.M.C.A. Ladies Night, 9 p.m. Radio Exhibition, City Hall, 7
p.Tn.
Samoan Dancers, Star Theatre, 3.15 p.m.
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Tides: High, 10.51 p.m.; Low; 0.30 a.m.
p.m.
Friday, (December 6.)
St. Nicholas, Christian Fellowship Meeting. Helena May Institute, 10.30 a.m.
Radio Exhibition, City Hall, 7.
Queen's Theatre: "Coquette." World Theatre: "Mark of Zorro.". Star Theatre:
My Best Girl." Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 5 p.m.
Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 6.30 pm.
Tides: High, 11.27 p.m.; Low,
7.24 &.m.
European Mails:Inward: Europe vid Suez (Rajputana).
Saturday. (December 7)
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