JUST A HAT
But there is a charming, happy face behind it.
HOW DO I KNOW? Because I know she always gets
her Hats at ́s -
THE DOLLY VARDON HAT SHOP
PAMELA
Begs to announce
that,
MADAME FLINT
has just returned from PARIS, and has brought with her a collec tion of Gowns, Two Piece Sults, and Coats. Many of these are copies of the creations of Paton, Lavin, Augustabernard, etc., and they may be seen at
13, Queen's Road Central.
FELIX HAT SHOP
7. ICE HOUSE STREET.
DECEMBER SALE
An attractive collection of really smart PARIS and NEW YORK, Gowns and Hats, all offered very advantageous prices.
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Inspection Cordially Invited.
GET THE SILKS FOR
THEIR PARTY
FROCKS
from
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1929.
WOMAN'S PAGE.
WHEN IS A HAT NOT A HAT?
SOME STYLES AND SOME PITFALLS.
Bonnets. bereta, Dolly Vardons, Therefore the presence of the sharp toques, Homburgs, Lancrets, taro- black satin bows, a slick, crisp knot, mies, sailors, vagabonds, pictures, of which the ribbon stays put with Zouaves, mephistopholes-caps; skuil-ends taut and spiky, helmets: these are some of the types of hat, that are worn by the crowd. Felt hats, hard, bendy, glossy, mat, flowered, intrimmed, moulded, draped, pink hate, blue hats, white, scarlet and yellow" hats are to be seen and so great is the variety that one wonders how the wearers have ecme to make their choice, their own final decision; one wonders how their particular taste, has been formed, by whom or by what they have been influenced and by what channels their individual. fancy has run riot into this or that direction.
A Little Analysis. With some the influence is easily to be traced. Let us analyse the crowd.
The chic have obviously been well advised and are exactly right. The truc British matren favours some- thing more definitely Frenchy to go with her black satin.
THOSE INTIMATE TOUCHES.
"MARION PRINCE" FROCKS.
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In Lane, Crawford's Ladies' Salon, I saw this week a small collection of frocks which have as individual a charm as the famous "Lenci" hats and dolls. They are called "Marion Prince" frocks and are created with those delight.
ful intimate touches which give a dress the individuality so very badly needed in these days of mass production and almost uniform lines.
The most destinctive charm of "Marion Prince" dresses is their little touches of embroidery, in coarse, silk er wool, generally in. brightly contrasting shades. There is, for example, an afternoon frock of pale ser green marocaine with collar, and twu circular frills set low on the skirt, of bottle green.
THE PIONEER Running down the left side of the
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SILK STORE
The house for beautiful and reliable materials.
In the Ladies' Salon
Marion Prince Frocks.
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Dresses created by an artist with a special end in view, to give just those intimate touches which distinguish a "ready made" from the gown which is specially designed for your individuality."
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LADIES' SALON (MEZZANINE FLOOE).
TEL. 0. 4567.
hodice is an embroidery in orange and yellow wool. Black marocaine has a collar of pink crêpe one side and a small triangular vest of the same, a similar embroidery to that on the green dress is work in mauve, yellow, pink, and green Wool.
An interesting neck, fastened acroes the, white vest at one point with an antique silver buckle, dis tinguisher another black dress. The The vest has appliqué leaves of the black material, and, on the left hip, holding a well cut godet in place, are appliqué white leaves, also stitched with wool. Very at tractive and warm looking is a walking dress of tan kasha. It is
Those tricorners, stabbed mortally with an eighteenth-century buckle, are worn, through rain and shine, by those with the highwayman com- plex, and many a loyal housewife enjoys the Russian Cossack touch of swathed grey velvet. Turbags owe their popularity with shopping ladies to Gloria Swanson, and, it is not only young girls that fall for soft crinoline Straws with large brims burdened by fall-blown roses and trailing ribbons.
Queen Alexandra is responsible for the myriads of those "good style" old ladies with formal toques of parma violets tied high upon tall constructed wigs.
Many women whom it does not Bait follow the fashion set by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York in choosing a close-fitting hat, shaped to follow the lines of the smiling check and finished off with an osprey pouff or two
We have, by now, accounted for half of the hats in the seething throng, and we regretfully surmise that the rest of the ladies, when faced with the problem of purchas. ing a new hat, must have taken the path of least resistance and bought the first thing that was offered them by an uninterested salesman-or saleswoman. After all, a hat is only a hat, they any as they wend their way gloomily homeward bear- ing a bulging paper bag. lies a mistake. If you cannot be smart, be picturesque, and witty. rather than, sordid.
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The hat is of the utmost im- portance. If you do not feel sure of your own taste you can not do better than to go to the Dolly Vardon Hat Shop, there everything is up to date, and you can get real- ly good advice.
THE FELIX SALE.
cut to simulate a Jumper and WARM OUTFITS IN skirt. A little embroidery is orange wool brightens the jumper and a quaint bunch of flowers, in orange, and dull green shades of kasha i posed on the left shoulder. These are a few of the "Marion Prince" frocks. Each one has its own individual charm, and I be lieve that many women will add their congratulations to mine to Lane Crawford's for having mede so delightful a discovery..
The sale at the Felix Hat Shop is still on, and the special bargains this week are to be found, I think, in some very nice three piece woollen jumper suits which run from about $20. I saw one in a pretty tan shade, of which the jumper was lightened with stripes of a silvery silk, and similar models in apple green and an attractive pearl grey. Bois de rose wool..
makes a very smart ensemble with
a jumper woven in small checks
ONE WOMAN TO ANOTHER.
A great many of us here do not do much cooking ourselves, kitchens are amal and inconvenient, and the hot weather get us into lazy habits. But all the same, many of na get at times an itch to cook and there is something particularly nice about a surprizë dish, one that is unknown to the boy and is 27 familiar homesido made with touch. If you ever have that cook- ing itch go to the Book Shop and Bible Depôt. You will find there
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splendid selection of cookery and household books, all modern
which rua" from authors, cents upwards in price. We get so into the way of a regular menu here and there is nothing so nice and refreshing as some quite new dish, and from these books you will be able to produce dishes which are as simple to make as they are delicious to eat.
Another section of the bookshelves in this shop which deserves special attention is that devoted to books on infant and child welfare. The maternal instinct which was sup posed by our grandmothers to be born in every woman with her child- ren, does not always manifest it- self, and we no longer accept the philosophical attitude The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken nway
"when one of the few pre- cious little ones of the modern family is taken from us. We are humble perhaps, and know that we are ignorant and that it rests with us to learn to do what is right for our children. These books of which I speak are written by people with knowledge, and although few child- ten can be successfully reared ab solutely by the book" they do give a wealth of useful hints which even experienced mothers will be glad to learn.
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Pioneer News, This weck's budget *Pioneer News" includes description, of some charming new kimono of crêpe de chine. They can be had in a wide range of colours, and have a printed design rather like those on hanuri coats. One example, which I thought very attractive, is gray with a landscape design in white, blue, and brown,
Then there are new embroider ed pyjuma suite, in two pieces, made of crêpe de chine and em- braidered in small flower de- signs. They are really negligée fur the colours are for the most part dark, tête de nègre with yellow, black with rose, etc. A morning yarn of white satin trimmed with appliqué net and white embroidery would be charming for a bed or breaks faxt gown, and there are some new designz in founel cullie coala.
SOCIETY DINES ON
DAMASK.
"Society dines on damask." How strange that would have sounded a decade ago, of course, they dine on damask with what else could We cover a table we should have Brid. But during these last ten years we have got so ac customed to littlo islands of lace or licen on a sea of polished wood, that a return to the damask table zeems an amazing innovation. But with the more habillé and magni- ficent evening mode lovely linen cloths have quite inevitably return- ed to grace the dinner tables of smart women. The age of the mat was, the age of the sennty tunic Trock, an informal age which fol lowed the war, and which has now passed.
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Damask has returned in yet more lovely forins. Sometimes colour' is introduced, into the "weave or ac- tually hand painted on the mate
rinl, for the coloured table centra of "pre-war days is an dead as the antimaccasar," Whiteaway, Laid- law's furnishing department has just received some, lovely examples of pure Irish linen damask table cloths with matching napkins, both in the plain white and with the new colour effects.
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FROM ONE WOMAN TO ANOTHER
"I'll tell you my secret, I made all these cakes myself, from recipies. in a perfectly wonderful book
which I found in a shop in Wyndham Street. THE BOOK SHOP & BIBLE DEPOT, they have got some excellent books on children too.”
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in the bed material is also used to border Beautiful eyes were once a pre-f geons," said a woman beauty 'sur- is now revealed; they are marvel-
lous. room is limited it is often a prob the cardigan. Both cardigan and sent from nature. Now they are geon." Jem to know where to put one's jumper of another tan casemblea present from the beauty surgeon. The cartilage is not touched, Danger of the Quack." hats to keep them free from dust, have aleeves, the jumper being She (usually the surgeon is a and sometimes we only cut through "Cutting, by quack surgeons Have you seen the new collapsible woven in a specky design with woman) will cut the lids of a pair two of the five layers of skin which is dangerous, of course. They do hat wardrobe that will hang in oyster silk. The same oyster silk of small eyes so skilfully that the make up the eyelid.
not know how to cat properly, and any odd corner or on the wall or is wovon in stripes in the jumper eye looks half as large again.
Small eyes only look snall be may leave their victims with a behind the door, and will hold of a three piecò casemble in Air And then she sewa the lid with a cause the lids are close together. | pair of Chinese-looking eyes. thred hats? It is made of cretonne Force blue.
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We cut away the skin at the top, "There is no danger to the sight and at the sides, nd then sew in this operation; I have been round the lids with a bultonhole working on similar cases for years, stitch, using a surgical needle and with the help of four men our horsehair.........
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