The Smartest of
WASH FROCKS
in Silk and Cotton
prints are now to be found
at the
f
DOLLY VARDON HAT SHOP.
SPRING
New sandals
and.
plaited shoes just arrived
SMART spring clothes
find their comple- ment in such shoes as these. The good style and new colours will ap peal to the well dressed
woman.
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Footwear
fat Milady
Kayamally Building.
Just Arrived!
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TUB FROCKS IN MUSLIN AND COTTON PRINT
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In fact as well as name.
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The Lowest Prices always
The Most Popular Store.
"Courtesy and Bervice" is our slogan.
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QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL,
CHINA BUILDING,
The Hats that bloom in
the Spring tra la!
Have a lot to do with the
case, when it's a case of feeling a little tired and dispirited-They give one a new zest for life, and, help one as nothing else does to look on the bright side.
There are some lovely hats, on display in the Ladies Salon
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1933.
THE TRIUMPH OF
TAFFETA
TAFFETA has been so little in
the fashionable picture lately that it comes as quite a surprise to fine it used again. But it looks so crisp, and clean; and fresh, that I think it will soon re-establish itself as a favourite dress mate riel.
DRESS AND MODERN
LIGHTING
interior decorators always
consider women's looks when
What Paris
Wears From
"Six to Ten"
THE fashionable social hour used
to be from five fo seven, but cocktail parties have changed all that, as they have changed; to some extent, the arrangement of flats and houseD
It is not a common fashion to have cocktail bar in the hall or living-room (this last a modern in- vention), but there are houses where the oscktail bar is established, and when invitations are sent out for six o'clock the party may well go on till ten, and the guests disperse to dance and sup somewhere else;
It is for such parties that the dress which is neither quits after-- noon nor evening is worn.
Soft Haf" Slackness
American women like their skirts. to the ankle for this style of dress, Frenchwomen wear them longer and choose richer materiala, and, again, some women go in their morning ensembles of woollen crepe, little jacket and small hat.
The Parisian. society of the hour is-nob as slack in its rules as it was a few years ago, but in the eyes of people of the old régime it still has the "soft hat" sinckness
inform which they all dislike. "Paris en chapeau mou me de- gouse is what one small, stately great lady" has been heard to
and Bay,
they devisa strange lighting effects for modern restaurants 1. In Paris the lighting of restaurants night clubs is becoming so exagge ratedly theatrical that the business of dressing for the evening has become more difficult than ever it was in the past.
In plain colours it is having a de- finite vogue, and it is interesting to note that the texture is finer, This difficulty is realised by many softer, and altogether more adapt Parisian couturieres, who will be able than formerly. The new taf forced before long to install spe- feta gowns are trimmed with close-cial lighting arrangements in their ly shirred panels and motifs, and fitting-rooms if the vogue for the resultant fullness falls softly "artistic lights" continues. and gracefully-but you could not bavo shirred the taffetas of other years because they would have
stood like a balloon.
look which only comes when time, money and taste work together to produce it..
Unless a woman has an imma-
She
culete coiffure and complexion, she does not look well-dressed. may look pretty, beautiful, inte- resting, but she is not what the rue de la Paix calls well turned Are out.
A question is often put: women in Paris dressing well and much during the "crins The an awer to it is that some are and some are not.
If a woman does not want to spend money and time on her clothes she uses the "crise" as her excuse. If she does want to dress well she also uses the "crise, and says that it is a woman's duty to spend a8 much and more. - than usual if she can afford it.
At dinner parties given at the fashionable restaurants there are women
Some New Silks
WOMAN'S BEST. FRIEND
Tea is every, woman's friend, what is more comforting when one is tired or sad than a cup of teal What 'oasier to make or more re freshing when, taken ↑ "
But there is, of course, tea and. tes, and there is a world of differ- The Remond collection is very im-water is fresh, and caught just -on ence in the way it is made. If the portant this year. There are a lot the boil and, the tea is good-you of patterned silks which look as it have a drink which it is hard fo they were hand embroidered, some equal. have raised stripes, others have spots, and, again, there are tapes- try patterns.
Black taffeta is often used with some other material for a formal the use of actresses. Here stage beautifully and expensively dressed dull. Plaid crêpe marocain is a
day gown,
A model in black bag- heers has the sleeves slashed slight ly at the tops to show little crimp ed flutes of taffeta, which material forms also the gauntlet cuffs and the deep waistbelt.
* Floral Taffetas.
There is another type of taffeta which is definitely intended for formal evening wear. It is rich and stiff as faille, but is satin smooth and has a glistening sur- face. There are many modern floral taffetas, but very few show ing blurred chine patterns. The flower design stands out bold and clear, looking as if painted by a
| Japanese artist.
Some lovely broche taffetas show small interwoven patterns of silk or nietal thread, the silk in self or a contrasting colour. I like ons which has neat little deep cream flowers woven into a pale cream ground. The gown is made with the new full skirt that has the full- ness drawn to the back and gra- duated into a small train. The bodice is cross-over in front, drawn closely round the figure with a rather high-waisted effect, and divided at the back into two straps which pass through jewelled buckle at the waist.
to
be seen. Furs
One long-established and very well-known dressmaker of the rua de la Paix already possesses a fit- ting room designed exclusively for beauties are enabled to study their clothes in the exact light they will and velvet, satin and lace, dia be subjected to when seen behind monds and pearls, make ensembles the footlights. Nowadays it is not which have come from the master uncommon for a private client to craftsmen and women in the rue request fitting in this room in orde la Paix der to appreciate fully the possi- bilities of her choice!
1
A long velvet wrap in nasturtium red with a collar of sable which Madeleine Vionnet has madé fa shionable, Lanvin's shorter cape trimmed with fox, Lucien Lelong'a ermine wraps, all speak of luxury. And the dresses which are worn under them are in supremely good taste, whether in velvet, black or brown satin, lace, or crêpe
A New Problem.
Dressmaker themselves tell me that added thought is necessary when designing modern evening dresses, in order to be certain which light they will look well in or which will be detrimental to them. They have to advise their skirted evening dress is very popu
For some parties the shorter clients accordingly, and be able to suggest what dress should be wornar, and light colours are worn by
all but dowagers. in a certain surrounding. -
Quite a number of smart Pari siennes, who are continually dining out,' study carefully the different lighting schemes of many restau- rants, and have a special dress and make-up which they will don for certain places. On the whole, how ever, theatrical lighting is not very kindly received, for many women who go to a restaurant for the first time, unprepared to look well in à pinkish or blueish reflection, re- ceive a bad impression and will not willingly return.
ACCESSORIES THAT MAKE “THE
MODE
SCARF NOVELTIES-VARIED SLEEVE STYLES-DESCENT OF THE COLLAR
frocks of 1933,
The New Scarf.
T'S
"
But when all is said about the fashions, it is the exquisita simpli- city of the cut of the dresses and the perfect make-up of the women who wear them, which give tɔ g gathering of fashionable women, or an individual, that well-dressed
(Continued on next columna
SPRING'S TAILORED
SUITS
Englishwomen are renowned for wearing tailor-made suits to per fection, and Paris tailors who specialise in this branch of cloth. ing always bear them in mind when designing new models.
These specialists may have ex- parienced many vicissitudes during recent years with the abundant pro- duction of 'ensembles," but it is frankly impossible to oust the tai- for neatness throughout the world. lor-made from the position it holds
THERE is a new and narrow good use of them. The narrow jauntiness marking the bows scarf-collar and bow in one is an and light-wool scarves that will exception, being a fashion that
A small patterned lainage in finish the neck-draperies of the should be somewhat "rakishly three tones of blue is an interest- semi-sporting jersey suits and worn, and therefore best relegated ing. example of the season's tailor- ed suit, the model being worked-up to youth. Welsh-flannel in blue-and-white
with great effect to show naridw Ways of Sleeves. can 'have a small scarf-collar in a ̈
insertions running in the contrast- softly-woven navy, or white, check the latest barometer of fashion. value through these bias incrusta The sleeve must be regarded as ing lines. The blues are given full with a fringed end. A band of Changes in sleeves have been very tions which have a tendency to this added can trim the crown of definite, and styles are so varied bring a deeper shading when placed a white felt powboy type of hat, that every woman can select a style next the portions of patterned ma with a flat bow and a smaller to suit her. The long straight-terial cut on the straight. fringe..
fitted model of medieval line is the One sports suit in beige and becoming standard that most of brown mixture has a straighter our up-to-date sleeve designs start skirt line, but it is made to but- In a Spring suit of brown fan-from. Some revert to the leg of ton halfway down either side when nel, this style of collar fastens up mutton, with fuller top: others are overflaps release width for move, to the throat, and ties with a soft trimmed only at the elbow and ment. These flaps, however, are bow of yellow-and-brown striped wrist. Very intereating are the closed underneath on to stretches jersey. There is a now and attrac wonderfully-fitted "Raglan" type of crêps de Chine. A new gold tive, thin-almost like a wool-lace- The wider fitted in armhole is gen concava button in varying sizes is scarf that is woven-double, buterally an easier line an attractive note on this tweed wider, like a man's muffler, and in Some evening frocks show a hand-suit-Two are spaced below the many blends of colour. This is kerchief-piece that winds round ons polo collar neckline of the jacket worn under short sports coats of arm, and so makes a sleeve, the and two lower down are divided pony, deer-skin, or suede.
other arm being left bare. This by a leather belt. A sports suit With short reefer tailored coats seems a silly vogue, but models which has a very youthful line, and of cloth or tweed, sweaters of soft Like the small collar-band it does one that can be easily worn under ly blended wool weaves have the not aid our appearance towards a top-coat for early spring, is minde collars of polotype, or finished beauty but does suggest a neat and from that charming pepper and with a bow at the throat. Unless I new simplicity. ANY salt lainage weave individual to for the very young, the collar that It provides a more direct contrast English tweeds. can be worn open is generally more batween travel and tailored coats becoming to older women whs and those of a picturesque trend. should be careful about neck drape.The cape.collar endi the coat shape
eries, are also with us and these are more ruches also make a pretty finish. All the smartest type of wool decorative, The little cape with a A ruched collar of velvet ribbon can accessories" to-day-sre, however, us, big collar
fine and it that with skilful ad Amusing justment, most
can make(Cont
Gor velvet be worn with an evening: dress in outhful. Several turn with a deep berthe of ostrich foot of nest Column Leathers
Synthetic yarns show many small patterns and there are quantities of real silk materials with a orinkle, a blister, some shiny, some
o twill. In spotted materials favourite, taffetas is shown and al colours are massed together on a plain ground.
Rickshaw Brand Tea packed by the famous Brooke, Bond Com pany of Ceylon, has been awarded Le gold medals for purity, strength and Bavour. The large volume of sales in Hong Kong indientes ita popularity.
dens in Ceylon results in the price
Exportation direct from the Gar-
to consumer being much lower than other teas of similar quality,
Cook
with BOVRIL
BOVRIL adds rich flavour and better nutriment to soups, gravies and all meat dishes. BOVRIL makes them more appetising and tasty. Always keep a bottle of BOVRIL handy in your kitchen.
BOVRIL
There is only one BOVRIL
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SPECIAL PURCHASE
OF
NEW SPRING MILLINERY.
We have just unpacked a special consignment of New Spring Millinery and to commence the Season with we are offering them all at
$2.95
EACH.
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