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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1933.
London Fashion Notes
Our air-mail letter to women
London April 11th.
The outstanding success of the fashion season has been the tailor- nd suit, which is often comploted bay a hand-knitted blouse in fine woollen for everyday went. The suit is shown in two or three piece modele, the latter including B spare skirt which is particular- ly useful as a skirt invariably gets. shabby before its accompanying cost. Another interesting ensemble is a three-piece suit consisting of skirt and one short and one long oat, which are generally all of | matching material but one model shown as suitable for the Spring bride, had a coat and skirt of nat mal shade, and a second long boat in deep beige ermine velvet as an alternative.
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Three blouses are the general ac companiment to the spring suita white one, a coloured and a print ed ons, Dark blouses with light suits are correct this season. blouse in the new "lacquered" satin, though expensive in the first place, is a delightful possession, and for the strictly tailored blouse, this! material is without equal. It washes perfectly, is particularly good in patal pink or a soft saffron shade, and is exquisite in ivory white.
WASHABLE LEATHER
JERKIN
An interesting innovation for the golf course as seen at the Dress Shows, is the jerkin of washable hamois leather. This is seen at Its best when worn with one of the queer little messanger boy caps to match.
The new crepes, both in colours.. and black and white are being ex- tehsively used. Coats are full, three-quarter or just below hip length. Some have long sleeves, and some stop short at the elbow with, perhaps, the addition of a shallow pleated fri across the back." Again some have no-sleeves at all. Black, green, rod and blue crepe-de-chines, with multi colour- ed stripes like those on
marbles
HIGHER NECKLINES
The necklines of last year, with its attractively tied and knotted scarf, is inclined to persist. this year, but its definitely higher than
in evening woar. In some frocks. one gets a glimpsë, of a fold of silk tucked under the shoulder straps and carried across the back
are used for dresses worn withit was. This is especially the case plain coats, the colour of the dress background. The coats are in the new rough wool fabrics. A drees of black crepe with a white stripe has a narrow scarf of white erackle crepe at the neck and a short sleeveless coat; a black and white dress made from a fancy stripe material has a touch ol coral red on the scarf collar of the
short matching coat; & tailored coat frock of pistache green wool mouses is finished with a fat bow
of the neck
KNITTED COLLARS
On many simple frocks of the moment the distinctive touch is
and made collar in bright co ours. One dress of thin, rough surface oatmeal woollen had a col of black and white leather, thear and tunned back cuffs done in half sleeve having a narrow band double crochet in tangerine, green wound round the arm and fnaten-brown, and white, woods. The et ed at the wrist.
fret was lelightful.”
Evening gowns are graceful in buttercup yellow mat orepe with a broad gold galon belt, the cor sage being designed with a narrow flat fold of the material down the centre front and a floating panel 140 correspond falling from the deep, open back decollete over the skirt line.
There is also a growing liking for white pique coats and hats FLOWERS are again worn evening dresses. The correct place on is down the centre front of the
bodice.
HATS
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GAUNTLETS
than a blouse of spotted muslin What could be more charming with gauntlets to match worn with a smart navy blue suit? So air- ple, but so costly in upkeep.
Tall-crowned hats give an illu sion of height, which is also help ed by square shoulders. Turbans. three and four-cornered hats, and close fitting toques of lacquered neutral and pastel colours are be feathers are all worn with opening made into coats and skirts to mesh veils. There are bats with be worn with linen thread knitted cleft crowns and dipping brims jumpers with insertions of Cluny and sailor hats with shallow or
Jace high crowns.
A HAIR STREAK IS FASHIONABLE
The latest decree issued by bair dressers to dark-haired women who aspire to be fashionable is that they must have a streak of white hair. It may from a middle line from back to front or be along one
side.
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Fashion is certainly very oblig. ing this seaso11. You may be
in soft mid-blue, dull green, and black.
A white organdie, caps-coates col. lared with silver grey fox com pletes a very sophisticated ensam. ble.
This gown would cut its gingham cousin dead should that unworthy relative dire to abow ita tub-frock self on the same pier one summer night.
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AS-YOU-LIKE-IT SKIRTS
The classic moulded line shown
at Some
as bright as you like or duli in the sketches above is seen as you like; your skirts may oling. Gut in a thunderstorm, or flow much fullar line. Row upon row round your legs as if you had been most of the London houses.
designers shoved us frocks” with a
from the waist. like a fairy at a pantomime.
Waists can be high or low or normal. All you have to do is to make up your mind-and choose.
CIRE OR COTTON? To shine or not to shine is the first question, since our
dianer gowns, like our dinner, talk, must be very brilliant or not shine at all. Sea-wet cirés compete with sand-surfaced cottons for first place in the evening mode. Watching younger Mayfair at any smart dance club, it is hard to say whe ther the "I've got one of the new cotton frocks" out-number "How do you like my ciré?"
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WAXED SATIN IS STATELY What a host of lovely waxed materials there are now! They have quite replaced the various velvets-crinkled and rippled and rucked-we were last season,
Women, both young and old, who liked to look regal in velvet, will find these new ciré satins and lamés avery bit as stately.
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The right-hand sketch shows gown of this type. Norman Hart nell introduce the new princess line in this classic evening gowa in black satin ciré with a black net yoke Gauging down the centre gives a slender line, and the straight, clinging skirt adds to the effect of height.
The light train at the back is in several of this season's mo
dels.
"SNOBBISH " COTTON GOWNS
The fresh crispness of printed cutton will appeal to many women. The difficulty with the cotton even- ing gown is not to make it look as though "tub frocks are loog this year."
Dressmakers have overcome this difficulty by intricate cut and by choosing very lovely patterns. The model sketched on the left is de. signed by Vietor Strebel in a de lightful cotton plaid. The ground colour is white and the plaid is (Continued un next entrima).
DISCOVERIES IN CHIC
THE NEWEST ACCESSORIES
CRUISING FASHIONS IF you are one of those crafty Wool is essential for top-coats, and clothes wise people who de whether of tweed or of a knitted mand first of all in their ward- material, and it makes jumpars, robes well-cut, plain black frocks, and swimming suits. For ful-houra jacket suite, frocks sun back beach crape frock and then spend bliss. thinking up delicious sunny days there can be two-piece little nonsenses to go with it, you suits in striped flambola, in tus will like the idea of a simple black sore or Macclesfield silk Skirts crêpe afternoon dream worn with are now full at the back and front black suede glowes that have a while the sides are kept slim. double frill of black organdie flar- Loofah linens, which are not easi- ing back at the wrist to match a y crushed, and tweed linens in black organdie collar on the frock. With this you get all the frothy and frilly effect of the organdie without the fuss of white, and something in which to look entire- ly different.
A Belt. Short cardigans coming to the waist have square buttons in the Another idea for a little 'plain. colour of the cardigan and there black dress-if it is a woollen one are sleeveless waistcoat cardigans is a belt of twisted copper and for the young and slim who can silver wire, with a copper clasp. with puff sleeves or with little yokea magpie in picking up bright las have short woolly jumpers The modern dress designer is like length capes and negligible sleave things wherever she can find them, tops or with long sleeves puffed at and the copper wire used to make the elbow. Stripes and scribble this chic girdle is composed of the lines are sean on most of the short same strands that you see gleam- jumpers and high round necklines ing in the sun at the top of a tele- are finished with scarf ends, graph pole. The itching of its in- crochet "tire" or wing collar; terlacing lines is somehow most For the evening there are frocks flattering to a slender waist. A in angel skin or cire Jace which bracelet of the same wire goes with pack well. A printed material it to echo this accent of silvery, like tumeore is being made up into coppery tones on black. There is dinner frocks with full skirts on great vogue for copper these ahip yoke and with a messjacket days, and it never looks to better conter: Lace and georgette. dinner advantage than on a black fabric frocks with transparent tops are of, dull texture. useful for wearing in hotels or at
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informal parties. An avening Airy nothings are taking very frock on slim lines for cruisers definite and practical shape. who do not care for a frilly even Nothing could fook, more light- ing frock is of a knitted materia) hearted and less calculating than with black and white stripes and a little evening cape in drawn. is finished with a bow of black cire thread organdit, but observe how ribbon. Cruising ecats are best in admirably, it is adapted to go with catmeal or baige tones with big anyovering, frock and made a storm collars, trime tailored Unes, freah sensation every time., It and big pockets. The swagger comas just to the elbows, where it coat looks rather too rural for the unde in a crisply pleated frilli, dock, but it will probably be worn after that it either tiesin front at many resorts in tweeds and with a big-bow or crosses over the shepherd's plaid designs. Among bogom and ties in a smaller bow holiday hate there is a pancake behind the waist. beret of Jinen thread in an open
canvas mesh for cruising. Straw The elongated bag is very smart hats of natural colour with wide just now. Having much increased brims will go with any sort of in width, it becomes very shallow dress, and there are many nique and rather the shape, of a neat and fancy organdie sets of collars, parcel that you tuck under cuffs and bowa.
arm.
of tulle or chiffon gave an almost ""pantomime fairy"" effect.
fulness starting just below the These models circular skirts with
hip-line.
dance
A orimson moire-cloth frock had a circular skirt and a white boat-shaped collar that mada a fichu back. This was much ensi- er to wear than the "clinging" frocks in check and plaid gingham and plain mercerised linen shown in this collection.
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DULL BUT DISTINGUISHED. Woollen fabrics, like the crisp cottons, call for originality make attractive evening gowns. One Russian designer chose orange, beige and brown and snip striped woollen fabric in soft
pad the ends of the overskirt from hem to kures to make a fringe of the material.
Another clayer contribution to the "very dull" evening fashion was a model in sackcloth and chif- fon, Frills of sackcloth cut on the crass trimmed an oatmeal chiffon evening gown from knees to hem. The frills rose to. V-shaped paints at the back, and the effect was at tractive and original
For those to whom wool or cotton evening frocks seem a little daring and cire satin too shimmering, there are a host of duller cirés. Many of these are so dull surfaced that they shine on more than a matt silk.
One evening gown in "augar stick" striped waxed chiffon moulds
the figure closely and has an ima portant саро of the materia), which ties with a bow in front. There is nothing "glistening" or shiny" about this gown.
The striped ciré chiffon fa dull-surfaced as matt silk. The stripes are very fine and must at tractively coloured in white, sky, yellow, autumn red and brown,
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The danger of Improper Feeding
B
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Remember alaclt la the amount of food digested that nourishes.
Do not food Baby just becausá-ha eries-pmhably the reason. Is indi«. gestion from overfeeding, not hunger. ... It is important to get the naturs of the food right as well as the quanilty.
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