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LONDON
FASHIONS
Suits and Blouses
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London, May 23. Contrasting coats; shirt or long" of silk, cotton or linen, show var- lous combinations of material and colour. A plain navy blue Unen skirt is worn with a short jac- ket of navy and white check and a navy hat. A plain brown coat." of light wool goes with a blue and brown plaid skirt and brown.. accessories; A brown linen three- quarter coat is wùm over a green and brown plaid linen dress, and a black and white printed linen coat almost full length looks re- freshingly cool with a plain white linen dress and nat.
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Walle pique is a material for coats and may be worn with brightly coloured printed linen and cotton dresses and also with navy and white or black and whlte crepes of spot design. silk crepe cost of pastel pink or blue looks well over a black or navy dress, with hat and acces- sories to match the dress. The colour" of the coat is repeated on A the dress in a. bow or dower.
multicoloured printed of coat crepe is worn with a plain dress of one of the darker "shades in the print, with hat and acces sories to match.
Three-quarter length and fin- ger-tip length coats of taffeta in plain dark colours are worn with dresses of check taffeta, and with brightly coloured printed crepe de chine. For more formal wear and in the evening these tafeta coats are shown with gowns of embroidered organdle and net, with full trailing skirts.
THE BLOUSE THEME
The importance of blouses, now thar coats and skirts are so much worn, is clear. The variety of "blouses" is infinite, for.there are pull-ayers, waistcoats, little costs, Doleros, taburs—almost everything and anything that can be worn under, a jacket or coat.
"The materiale in which they are made are even more varied than the styles; nen cotton, satin, surah, taffetas crepe. lame, and other less easily clas-' sifed materials, are include in this long list,
The relation of materials to styles is interesting. A. Almy muslim dictates one style. a Armi tweed or hand-knitted woollen another. Satin calls for some- thing a little dignified, taffetas. for simplicity and a crisp bow.
Materials are extraordinarily inspiring. Stripes are many col- oured, broad, narrow and mixed. The dressmaker cuts them about and places them at crazy angles with clever and audacious live- liness."
A linen or cotton blouse should be cut simply so that it can easily be washed and troned.
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A check surah or taffetas blouse almost always has a crisp bow or a fan-shaped
Black and white shepherds plaid in summer tweed is made Into a Uttle tailored jacket with black buttons and revers." A soft fame-colour crepe has a Jabot front and three-quarter. Chinese sleeves. Puffed short sleeves look young and right in anything. although I personally think they are a mistake in wash- ing materials.
Alpaca is a material which makes good simple blouses, and hand-knitted cotton yarns are extremely popular," especially, in their natural colour, which is a deep cream. Spots. tartans and flowered crepe, are also widely
work.
The waistline is Armiy indi- cated. The blouse may be tuck- ed into the waist, all round,
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it may be made with a short
back. Again, It may be cut jer. kin fashion. ..
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The neckline may be fussy or trim. It can be soft yet not untidy with a drapery which has long ends to tie in front or at side. with a cowl; with. revers; with a collar and tie: or with ruffles and frills. It is more frequently open at the throat than closed.. although a satin blouse, with a stock collar showing above a cost with ä square cut neckline, is particularly smart.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1934.
Japanese Influence In New Styles
Current events naturally: in- Huence current clothes. French penetration into North Africa gave rise to turbans and Higree jewellery and Moorish stripes. while more recently the Vincen- nes exhibition brought in a num- ber of exotic fashions. That the
1870-to-1900 exhibition nearly " succeeded in resuscitating itself In 1933′ is indisputable, and it is only necessary to look at the sleeves and the waists of to-day to see their family resemblance tone their grandmothers. This year the efforts of the Japanese in relieving China of the worry of self-government have met have recognition in an influx of Japa- nese tendencies.
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A Chanel model of gold lame, worn with a short jacket of gold sequins and lame, clearly shows the effect of the kimono sleeve.
further almost There is Chinese suggestion in the arran- gement in a slant of the sequins with which the jacket is embr.: 1- dered. This is like those slanting
Chinese coat. embroideries on a This dress has, besides the kimo- no suggestion, the back fullness of which so much is made this year. The close fit of the skirt knees empha- in front to the
fullness, which may sises this remain full and reach only to the ground, or may blossom' eut into an immense and spreading train.
rest of the dress has the silm line to below the knees, after which it blossoms out into a slim tall. A becoming feature of these dresses is that the dress with the... Mandarin armhole is of printed, crepe, while the obf is of dark" plain. "contrasting material
The muscular lines of some of the dresses are not confined to those of Japanese provenance. Some skirts, seem, as it were, to develop a sheath of muscles or pleated fullness which swisher across the front of the dress. They also have another cascade". of them from the back of the knees to the floor. What makes them suggestive of muscles is the way they gush forth from a given point.
LINES OF THE FIGURE
the Chanel model the As 13 idea is to keep the lines of the figure. Here the knee is well outlined, for instance, and these Enes are to be thrown into feller by means of bunches of fullness. The Japanese note of the obl is completely done away with. by repeating the effect of loopling 'ör pleating to the ground. Some backs of dresses are made in this 'way, and there may be four loop- ed tiers. each of which sticks out a little beyond the one below it. In such fashion were some of the old, bustles made, only they were
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Huge white' cobweb Unen hand- "kerchiefs, edged with a wide band
the natural ot real lace, 'are anities of the popular lingerie -touches.
Pale kid gloves are returning to dressy hands. White, pale pink or champagne are all notable. Beige shows signs again of be- coming a universal favourite as an accessory shade,
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The combination of blue and green is important in both the precious' and sportą jewelry mode; it is carried out in stones enamel New rings and bracelets are on the square. They are made in the shape of lidless-and- "bottomless boxes. Novel enrclips
tiny' hinged napkin rings may be. also worn as cuttinks
White leather gardenias or tiny bouquets made of seashells are alternatives to natural flower boutonnieres to be worn with tailored outāts.
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The tailored coat and skirt with slim narrow skirt and short jacket or finger-tip swing
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material being linen... white and natural or a soft pastel shade, or bright, navy and cinnamon brown. A new linen in ecru col- Our is woven with coloured thread to resemble tweed. Fine lingerie blouses are seen with these suits. Lawn and handker- chief linen blouses are trimmed with tucks and drawn thread jabots. A heavier plain linen is for more tailored shirts of bright colours, navy and brown, in con- trast to the suit. Check ging- hains and taffetas finishing with a large bow at the neck give a touch of bright colour to a natur- al linen sult. The accessories should Eccentuate the colour note Organdi, another blouse material, is seen in white and platn pastel colours and in. many textures.
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Worth's new crownless evening toques of tulle ribbon are being eagerly adopted by famous elegantes. The supple cross bar red ruffled taffeta tams, also made by this house, having shir- red tops worn with matching scarts, add Zayety to daytime ensembles. The mushroom and
KIMONO SLEEVES AND OBI
Both kimono sleeves and tunje lines this season acknowledge Japan. The tunic may be an evening coat which wraps round the figure to the knees and with" full sleeves fastens across on one shoulder. Or it may be part of the evening dress itself.
The often suggested on sleeves are
the dress by wide flat pieces laid across the shoulders and down the back on each side. These are frequently used with printed crepes, which also often have an Oriental suggestion. Some of the rather high bateau necks, with the least possible" sleeve or epau- let, continue over the shoulder in the form of straight flaps Tunics reach to the knees and below. These, incidentally, do something to mitigate that tendency to t which is not always appreciated by those who are less sure of their gure. They give a long, straight line which accommo- dates a good many people. Real ly, Chinese jackets with a small stand-up collar, loose sleeves, and reaching to within six inches of the knees are worn for eveninga. These are made of stuffs sugges» tive of Japanese prints.
"bird-cages" and stuck out in- stead of being flat.
Materials for evening include. first and foremost every kind of czepe, often with a large pattern on it. Some of the most beautiful of the prints have black grounds with large green and, white flo- wers or leaves on them. These often have little points of yellow.. or pink as well. Popin is used again in some of the bright shades. Three-quarter coats are
· Supyžпn quərəyə ue se pasa púe made of bright blue poplin with pleats all down the middle back, while the dress with its train is of the same stuff with an em- broidered silver bodice. Lace, net, laize are all appearing for evenings, and there is the usual amount of sätin, crepe de Chine, chiffon-much of this flowered, -georgette, as well as fallle and taffetas.
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Almost any fabric, almost any. emphasis and almost any colour may be chosen-not all at the same house, naturally; but when you have seen what all the im- portant people have created for this year's spring and summer evenings, you know that colour schemes are as varied as silhouet- tes, and materials as cathoile as either,
One more tribute to Japan is paid by means of the sash, which appears in so many guises this You can be Eighteenth Cen- spring. The looped sash worn tury, Empire, Edwardian or Victo- by the Japanese womari 15-re- rian (at the back of your skirt), produced with certain limitations. Oriental and ancient andro- Some evening frocks, with a low. mantic or ultra-modern and" bäck, have two loops below the "sophisticated. You may be puffy waist reaching half way to the about your sleeves even if the back of the knees. Round the arm-holes and resting on tbe. shoulders are two loops which give the kimono look. Sometimes the low V-back has big reve These may be joined at the vale so that they almost make a Ipop or academic hood, and two Eat
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troduced are a change from the ubiquitous flat sailors.
the back are also set so that they spring away from the wait. The
shoulders prefer a very smooth covering and have your skirt vary full at the hem; or sleeveless and with only a very restrained draping about the skirt.
High necklines in front and lower necklines at the back are still in but so are front neck- lines lower than we have seen for some time, square ones, and V shapes.
Majestic Butter Sponge
1 cups Simpson's Self-Raising
Flour
cup butter
egys
cup sugar
cup milk
teaspoon vanilla essence
INSIST ON
SIMPSON'S
SELF-RAISING
FLOUR
Cream butter and beat in sugar gradually, then add well beaten egg yolks, milk, then flour, sifted with a little salt; lastly vanilla and stiffly beaten egg whites. Turn into a buttered and floured deep cake tin. Bake
in a moderate oven. Remove from tin, cover top with white icing, and when icing is set, pour over, a little at a time, two ounces melted chocolate and spread evenly.
Oliver Twist Cake
1 cups Simpson's Self-Raising
Flour
cup brown sogar cup butter cup milk
cup chopped nuts 1 teaspoon cinnamon
eap black currant jam cup seeded raisins
1 teaspoon nutmeg
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Blend butter, sugar and eggs in one stirring. Add jam, nuts and raisins. Sift to
Add gether dry ingredients. alternately with milk. Pour into well buttered tube pan. Bake in a moder- ate oven 40 minutes. Cover with. jelly frosting, made by cooking cup currant jelly, 14 cups sugar and 2 table- spoons water until they form a soft ball. Pour slowly over 2 stiffly beaten egg whites..
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