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DARK BROWNS AND
DEEP REDS
Latest Colour Trends
One should watch the colour-· card carefully, for many women have to consider the jerseys and tweeds required for moors and
sca.
With Cowes ahead, the nautical navy blue has prominence but red is making a very early ep- pearance this year. In fact, even in the heat red has been a notice- able favourite. For cooler ragatta days the correct shade of a dali. rich red will be worn with navy as the alternative to white and the "tiltra-fashionable yellow, ́-
Brown is also returning, and for the moors it is generally the foundation for tweed mixtures
There is an Interesting colcur In a red chocolate-brown cloth. ar, 1800 shade. that is smart for the slim tailored coat woim with a mixed brown wool plaid skirt
The tailor-mades for early aut- umn will be" very smart. Some semmi masculine Norfolk coats for Scotland will have half-belts of matching leather and buttons to correspond.
Chromium and Gold Woll house-frocks in dark brown and deep red look attrac tive fastening up the front with hooks and eyes in chromium and gold. A lacquered green belt and shoes is a good contrast with a grey homespun.
WOITL
It is never easy to contemplate autumn requirements in hot wea- ther, but the task is less difficult in these days when fashion is for ever giving us something new. It may only be a button or a buckle. a neckle or a shoelace, so long as it conveys a touch of novelty, colthes can be kept up to date.
The suede golfers' jumper, with the zip fastening, is not so smart as the new short jackets of cha- mols leather with gold or silver büttors. These differ from the "old jerkins; some are basqued and double-breasted; others long and slim, like a tunic. In some cases. the collars are straight and lined
in with a cloth of hunter's green or red.
Smart, too, are tailored shirts, made of chamois, "with coloured studs and links. There is the bright yellow shade in chamols and the dyed cafe-au-lalt, ""They look well with tweed shirts to blend, gloves and beret to match skirt
Coloured linens and all sorts of muslins have been a vogue for dinners or after-tennis suppers. by the river, and at country house parties of an informal character. Apart from the popular white and cool pastel tones, these cotton dinner, frocks have all aimed at the clean clear colours,
The Evening Cape
There are many long capes worn with evening dresses... They seem in the country to be rather preferred to the pyjama-coats, just as tea-gowns and loose kimo- nos of gorgeous fabric are more in favour than the coat and trousers.
Many women prefer to try for picturesque effects by night, and are faithful to the charms of limp chiffon dresses worn over rustling taffeta or starched lingerie petti- coats. In a way, such effects are closely skin" to the old-fashioned polonaise or overdress. This pro vides a chance of change, for un- der a solid crepe of taffeta polon- aise all sorts of fascinating in-
be gerte petticoats, can
worn. Printed silk over-dresses, too, are prettily placed over plain pleated underdresses of ninen. They are young-looking and very wearable.
These revivals greatly assist the more orthodox evening wardrobe, that somehow can often appear out of place in the real country- There is a great house party.
feeling shown for some sort of demi-toilette during the holiday season. In fact, some of the very smartest clothes come under the category of cocktail and cinema fro£5.
Notes From London
Clothes For The Holidays
Hoilday clothes repeat the fas- hion for dark and light contrasts. A skirt of white wollen material is worn with tailored shirt of bright blue silk with blue-and- white striped belt and white pa- nama hat banded in blue. A cat and skirt of knitted linen thread in off-white" has navy buttons. and a hand-knitted Jumper in the same colour. A band of navy grosgrain trims the white bat A pink linen suit with three-quarter swagger coat is worn with a rough straw hat of the same colour, the
accompanying bbuse and ribbon "trimming"on the hat "being of wine red. Linen suits with short tallared jackets look well in string colour and are worn with brown blouses and brown áccessories to match. Grey may be worn with bottle green, and all pastel shades with darker toned accessories of the same colour.
Favourite materials for seaside wear are annels," tussores, and heavy linen. There are also 72- rieties of linen crash woven with an uneven thread. Shorts in these materials are worn with
of contrasting matching tops skirts and are often completed by a buttoned-on skirt in the
the same material as
shorts themselves. For those who do not like shorts there are well-tailored. divided skirts of linen, which reach to just below the knee. These often have loose quarter coats to match.
Pique Voiles
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"Practical washing frocks are made of printed and pique volles and ginhams. They are to be seen in designs of brightly col- oured stripes, spots and plaids. The newest bathing dresses are in chenille and real and simulat- ed hand-knitted wool. These materials keep their shape well. but do so best when interwoven with elastic rubber threads. The one-piece swim suits with attach- ed skirt are still the most popu- lar and are generally in plain colours. They have adjustable shoulder straps or a halter neck- line leaving the back bare for sun-bathing. Navy, black, and brown are always most effective, but this year pastel colours are much used, particularly a rather dark dück-egg blue. It is "colour which looks very well against a lanned skin.
For evening wear there are "de- lightfully simple and cool dresses in printed linens in bold checks and bright floral designs on a white or pastel background. Or- gandi, both plain and faconne. remains a favourite material as it is fresh and cool looking. In some frocks this is used severely as though it were a stiff fabric. Others are much frilled, the frills running up and down the skirt to the knee, or apron lines or curving up to the waist in front. Net and tulle are seen in dark colours such as navy blue, brigh- tened with a corsage bouquet of yellow and white marguerites, or chestnut brown with cape of mat- ching tulle trimmed with a band of mink Black tulle frocks also have fur-edged capes. An ermine cape or contee is the most practi- cal of wraps, and there" are also attractive capes of ostrich fea- thers generally in bright contrast to the gowns with which they are
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1934.
FASHIONS IN
SHORTS
The skirted style of Schiaparel It is interesting, too, in Spanish plald cotton that meets down the centre front and looks like stand-" ing any amount of tard wear, while maintaining, a smart idea. Other designers foster ankle-
Pleated Versus Scout length skirts cut of an identical
Styles
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Are you going down to the sea in shorts, pyjamas-a skirt dressing gown?
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Bathing suits, of course, Bre understood, and this year's fovelty is the model made from""lastex" that moulds the figure ilke a cor- set, writes correspondent. It will stretch or shrink to any pro- portion and practically dry, in a minute, Bright colours 'range next to sober ones..
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The seaside wardrobe to be cor- reet these days should consist of entirely, special clothes, I a skirt is preferred Jean Paton sug- gests a model with 'definite quali- ties perfectly tailored in linen to wear with an accompanying. Jac- ket. This item, by the way, will ald and abet colour contrasts ac-· cording to the shade of your "maillot," but when in doubt. white looks well over any colour, Fabrics are important," because they must be supple and at the same time practical in a hard- wearing sense,
wrap-round plan which is straight in effect, but with a subtle gradu- ated bell-width,
I like Mainbocher's "dressing gowns at half-length, which are special to sunbasking "shorts" ensembles in gay coloured silken prints that would sway on the most meagre breeze. His coolle- smock blouse will suffice to cover whether "maillot" or "shorts." made in taffeta, Turkish towelling or what not. Follow it as one ex- ample in the beach-wear category. If you have a long, slim, straight leg line.
SMART FOOTWEAR
A new idea for crening foot- wear is to have the heels and bous dyrd to lone with the colour acheme of the dren. A black satin crepe. ramp, for example. would have turquoise blue heels and bour; or, the bows only art dyed the colour of the frock. Al silver and gold is still in favour.
White, choes are to be the chief feature of cool shoe wear for the holidays, and the plaited vamp shoe is one of the inccesses of the season. There is on increasing demand for fabrię, shoez.
Pyjamas are still a trend, and Chanel launches forth ons navy blue and grey jersey for wear over matching. white ΟΙ coloured "maillots" Red next the latter colour, for example, looks smart with a red bonnet and gold metal fah motifs appliqued on to a red belt.
These might change to a single silver metal ship" buckle on navy blue in this latest contribution to beach-wear styles where "shots". are displayed in a perfect manner They are of the knife or box- pleated variety and look like dl- minutive skirts beneath tops to match that might sometimes have high square and low back decol- Jetes covered by white linen de- tachable capelets of rounded or collar persuasion, with ties in front. It is a smart style in all navy or grey and urged for sun- baskers in black and white spot- ted surah with capelets of the sil ken fabric.
Pockets of small patch and cone-shaped form figure on the plainer scouts variety perfectly cut in white pique as well as in navy and grey jersey. White pique shorts in one instance show a red jersey top which is high recked and aleeveless, a point featured again in an all-white" suit with slottings carrying a navy and white spotted crepe de Chine tie that ends in a bow one side of a alightly lowered front neckline.. Navy blue scout-shorts look well, too, with burnished steel buttons at -side" fastenings to match those running down the centre shirt front brening of a white high-necked top which has tiny breast pockets. It is on suit that a metal ship in full sail serves as a belt buckle.
· PLUM - BROWN
The Coming Shade
For Autumn:
One of the most striking aut- umn shades will be plum-brown, nearly the tint of a ripe purple plum with a tinge of brown. The blue-purple adds a becoming rich look to the dull brown. This is
a Victorian revival, but with add- ed depth of modern dyes.
It is the milliner's prerogative
at this season to try out the early autumn shades. Shapes have for some time past been reverting to дож the Edwardian, and are adopting a real Victorian trend.
We shall see the series of pur- ple, plum, chocolate-brown, and suggestion of magenta and wine tones. The unripe blackberry is perfect for the new large, cloth bezets to complete the tweed tall." leur for smart occasions up North. There is always a hint of red- purple in heathery mixtures, but in headgear in soft cloth, pange, faille, and velvet these shades can » be more pronounced.
"In the cloth pancake beret of large proportions there is much skilled drapery. The crown," may be fairly fat. In which case the brim is trimmed with twisted loops, falling to the side. Other draped beres take on an abrupt side-tilt-very smart, but requir ing skilled adjustment and wear- ing
Older women will wecome the forward movement, suggestive of the Watteau tilt and much back trimming. Black panne, or a rich" brown shade, is filled up at the back by loops of fabric or wide tinted wings, Wings, birds.. and, feather fantasies will appear in the shades of the nineteenth cen. tury.
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Dress, Music, And Polo
Faminine
fashions made a In the Augustabernard - dresses, charming accompaniment to the music of the Grenadier Guards
and the Irish Guards as they paraded on the polo ground at Bagatelle before the President of the Republic and the Ambassa- dors of Great Britain and Bel- glum. Everywhere were summer
usins and
hats"
Once
light and bright
again figured crepe dresses were in the majority; all reached to just above the ankle, the black and white organdie dresses were longer. Large brown hats were worn with printed dresses. A few velvet hats also, appeared, like berets. Emerald and chartreuse green, a "rose-red. white, sky-blue, and yellow were colours that caught the eye. With Agured dresses gloves were of white organdle. 'Dresses were cut away from the throat in square lines or softly draped about the base of the throat Sleeves were short and daped. Here and there was a very tight wrap-over skirt. Grey is not so much worn as it was, nor is there now. much navy-blue. Black and white and brown and beige have taken their place..
Evening dress during the Grande Semaine has been bright and rich. Batin. taffetas, metal brocades are among the materi als." A Batin dress may have riinging skirts" with full back draperies, some of which start quite low dawn, while others, as
begin higher and flow to a wide train. The long, slender train is rare, but many dresses have a full hem-line which sweeps the floor. When chiffon dresses are worn the skirts are full all round a deep hem-line, and some are shorter in front than behind. Bright taffetas sashes go with crepe and chiffon dresses and chiffon sashes with satin or silk crepe dresses.
Pale spring-green feathers are used for capes, and are put with white, black, and mauve dresses. Loose-fitting Chinese coats made of flowered taffetas and satin. have also been worn as wraps. Others are of quilted taketas. satin, and velvet. A dress of bright orange organdle checked with brown has a brown tazetas fichu frilled round the edges, the fichu being cut like the old- fashioned crossover. Hair orna- ments have been chley jewels: diamonds, pearls, as tiras or stars Shoes match the dresses. Ear-ring are fashionable.· The 1830 coiffure for the evening is worn with full skirts. The mid-
over die parting and curls
the ears and high on the head are becoming to young faces.
NOW,
children,"
said the teacher, "here's a question about business. Do anyone of you know what a joint account' is?"
"A butcher's bill, miss, called out a little boy.
Among those present
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