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"A Shoe to go with every dress"
ORDONS, Ltd.
Footwear for Milady
Kayamally Building.
RED ROSE BARBER & BEAUTY SHOP
UP TO DATE BEAUTY PARLOUR
2nd Floor, National Bank Building.
New Shipment Just Arrived
Character Cloth
(Formerly known as Korea Mission Cloth) PRICES REMAIN AS THEY WERE BEFORE
THE FALL OF THE DOLLAR
Not to shrink
GUARANTEED Not to fade
Seldom wear out
BITZER & CO.
Queen's Building, 2nd Floor,
EVERY THING FOR RAINY DAYS
at
The Ladies' Salon
The
Milwata Mackintosh from $19.75
in
Delightful Colours.
The
Childrens "Mac" with "Sonwester'
to Match
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1933TM.
Modes of The Moment
Bright Colours and Slim Lines
ARE SHOWING
WHAT PARIS COLLECTIONS, Molyneux and Vionnet are from top or at the side, they have nine to ten inches from the ground. brims which both droop and rise, Those shown by Schiaparelli and turn back, and are of different her school are about twelve. There widths at different points This is also something between the two high-crowned; narrow-brimmed hat which may show individual taste is popular in straw, in felt-in
almost anything you like. and not that of the dress-maker.
Youthful and gay are the mid- season and early autumn clohtes which Martial at Armand are showing The line is alim, the co- lours are discreetly bright.
You take a grey and white check taffette frock with a little sleeve less coat or bolero, and you put with it a daringly bright red belt: You wear a big, fine straw black hat with a dress and coat of bright prointed crêpa... |
When your pinafore dress is black, you have a little yoke and bishop sleeve of bright red trim med with black and white stitching or embroidery about the cuffs There are dozens of pleasing way of bringing colour into a dull
Light Over Dark.
boat-
Then there is the boater, very much changed. This is softened, At the races you see, worn with trimmed at the back or at the side, coats of cloth and satin mixed, tilted over one eye, and wom with dresses with longer skirts which avail. Again there is a do not reach the hem of the dress, shaped affair of picet straw and They may be dark coats over light gros grain, and there are numer dresses or light coats over dark aus small shapes which are the out- Toome of the fuz, the motar-board, dresses.
Fox fur are rampant. The 1 or the barat. ramp over the shoulders and the sleeves. They twist and turn about the neck, the shoulders, and the arms as if they were bought at twopence a yard.
The great favourite is the loose fitting three-quarter coat with lining. What woman
be would dress.
The line of the skirt is quite without it? In black, in brown, new. It is straight, and the main navy, or in white, it goes.com terial is folded over to fall to one fortably with different dresses. It side in a natural draping, thus has either no collar or one that giving a charming lilt to the sil just a straight band. This allows the drees to be seen above it, and houttes wind-blown look.
put with admits of a fur. It has shoulders Plain materials are Agured materials. The hem of the according to your liking; wide to skirt may be plain, the shoulder exaggeration and stiff, or raglan yoke plain, the cuffs of the sleeves, and yielding. plain, and the rest figured except for the belt, which may be plain
Some ma and figured combined. terials are woven in plain and figured designa so that they can be laed on the straight in this new fold-over fashion.
The new clothes, as seen in pub hic show twa different skirt lengths. The long skirts shown by
The capelet collar to a coat in also popular, and if you follow Chanel and her school, to every coat and skirt goes a waining capa let collar.
The hats are diverse and full of character. With high crowns that are dented, slit, draped, pinched, or tucked is some. sort of ribbon or flower trimming sitting on the
INFORMAL ENTERTAINING
BY CATHERINE IVES THE fact that so few people can afford to give elaborate parties -to-day can be turned to exceeding by & clover hostess. ly account Guests are oftea at their very best and happiest under informaal con- ditions, and if a certain amount of preliminary preparation has been dealt with, the same thing is very likely to apply to both host
and hostess.
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With formal entertaining, the other hand, the household and hosts are often more dr less ex- hausted, and guests very apt to react to the atmosphere.
Some of the joys of an informal supper party easier to call it sup- the por even if it happens at normal dinner hour-ure that you can be as unconventional as you please about the table and its ac- cessories; and you can allow your guests to do a great deal of the work. They will enjoy the work, and you can enjoy a rest.
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If it is n party at very short notice you will have to rely large ly on what the larder and the store cupboard contain.
If a few hours' notice is feasible it is best to concentrate on foods that can be very easily cooked or reheaed or served cold.
When cocktails precede the meal, their usual companions, tiny sa-
biscuits, chip potatoes, minute cubes of cheese, arid so forth, can be rather more generous than usual, in order to keep the
voury
At LANE CRAWFORDS.
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hungary happy if the amateur staff does its stuff with more conversa tion than speed.
Sdup is a sound beginning to the menu.
Worn on well dressed hair, st
its correct angle, every hat looks right, but there is no getting
away from the truth that the hats
of this season need careful posing. Tilted wrong the smartest hat in Paris can look dull, ridiculous or pretentious.
Accessories.
ever.
Gloves, shoes, bags and jewellery With are as important as the soft, high, folded bodice, jewel- lery is sometimes dispensed with about the throat. But pearls or a glint of diamonds give a simple bodice importance.
Loose fitting gloves in crinkly
worn with dark tailored clothes. soft white kid, in soft suède, are The "fancy" gloves to match the dress are not seen much in public.
Well cut shoes, whether they match the dress or are just black And the or brown, are essential. style of the shoe should be that of the ensemble.
too pleased to meet one of the traditional breakfast dishes at supper. Bacon and eggs, kidooys and mushrooms, creamy dried haddock, or nice plump kippers.
A creamy one made with water- cress or sorrel. The soup itself made beforehand, and a few cress or sorrel leaves added at the last minute as it is finished and ready. to be poured into bowls. Or a nice peasant soup "made with or with out meat stock, but with plenty of! vegetables. Either of these soups can be served easily and attrac tively in pottery bowls. You can buy delightful ones for very little to-day, Failing time for prepara-look-simple. tion, you can choose one of the Stewed fruit in jolly bowls, with many good tinned varieties of cream or janket. Little creams in poa, or even just fresh fruit (used as a table decoration for the first part of the meal).
BOUP.
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"After the soup you could have a really good and not in the least expensive casserole of beef or veal which has been sitting quietly over or in a very gentle beat. Or a hot or cold pie of steak, and kidney, vend and ham and eggs, chicken and lecks: or a cold bird.
A salad, of course; dressed at the table or bedside it."
If the party is fairly large and some of the guests knowledgeable about salads they could make two or three different ones and com- pare notes.
The sweet course should be and
A variety of cheeses is no dearer in the long run than a quantity of one kind, and both easily and plea- santly served on a wooden board.
Rolls,or-if you live in a town the kind of bread you buy by the yard, and viscuits."
Butter in nico neat slabs or lit- tle brown pots.
Cider and barley water if it is a warm night. Chianti in its plen- sant flasks if it is cold; and coffee to and up with.
Tablecloth and table napkina can Before a cold dish, or even in- be raade of cheap gay cottons; and stead of it, there might be a pilaff salt, pepper and mustard contain or a risotto with additions of sau- ed in glass or pottery instead of sage; and many people who never the silver that so often tarnishes at eat an ordinary breakfast are only the wrong moment
Round
the Cown
Seen this Week in Local Shops
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are being sold with twenty per nes left and some useful cent. discount off every one all this lengths suitable for curtains or In preparation for the wet wea- month. There are a great many cushion covers. ther there is a stock of delightful charming shades of blue xa well as "Milwata" mackintoshes the white and all the usual colours. Ladies Balon. They start at Those trimmed with organdie are At GORDONE, Ltd.
10/50 and are at various other very smart and attractive. In ad- I saw some fascinating shoes in prices and every conceivable, co-dition to the shady hats are many pale blue and pale green linen laur. The white rubber Milwata's with narrow brims of the "Boater" with collars of cherry, green or type, which are very useful for black are particularly pretty, and
so are those of self-colour Jade
fainy weather.
Iy. attractive. There are some very At WHITEAWAY LAIDLAWS.
green, and old-gold being special-
light maes" in silk with all sorts
of different collars in many becom-
most priced at. 18/50 a pair, á inexpensive little shoe in string coloured canvas at 12/50 while the popular "Striped-Awning" shoe can still be got for 10/50 & pair. The Magpie shoes in black and
One of the first things that white are almost all "gottie, but
Also &
ing shades Children too have not caught my eye at Whitaways was there are a few sizes left. been forgotten, and there are some & table stocked with pretty lamp few in brown, and white, which sweet little macs complete with shades at the rather amazing price are a very popular shoes at the mo-
of seventy-five cents each. They ment. Souwesters to match each one. The bottom price is only 812/75, were in painted valuma and in all but there are other qualities too. sorts of pretty designs, patterned Another useful adjust for wet days with birds, flowers and landscapes is the rubber ptoe in black they seemed to me quite the bar- or brown which can be slipped on gain of the week. in a moment to protect light shoes, and which does not look clumsy with light dress.
Another attraction is those do- lightful coloured blankets. Any one who has seen those light fleecy bed covering in wedgewood blue, or mauve of rope will find it hard to be satisfied with the old-fashioned white ones with the striped bor I saw many charming hats which dere There are still some craton
At The DOLLY VARDEN HAT·
SHOP.
At Miss NAYLORS.
Upstairs I saw many pretty things,
Miss Naylor has Imported Voi- les and Novelty Fabrics direct. from The States, which range from. 15/50 and 18/50 and aro in all the latest colours, and the she gets a fresh shipment every two weeks. So that are can always be certain of finding something new
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