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HONG
KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1934.
WHY BE OUT OF DATE?
Helpful Hints For Women
Of 40-And Over
is in !tself a tonic: that first appraising glance may well send you into the battle with your head up and deflance in your eyes and what is more becom- ofing than a sparkle. be'it defiance
or triumph?
Why must she be dated? Of course she need not be if she will realise that there comes a tide in the aMalrs of her ward- robe when she must decide either to swim with the current fashion or be content to drift. imperceptibly perhaps at first. but none the less surely, into the backwater of out-of dateness.
Many women who have reach- ed shall we say forty," after a cursory glance at the new fas- hlons declare, they are intended only for the very young. and comfortably decide ta shelve there abhorrent innovations
Instead they will go on wearing the same length dresses that sulted them well some months ngo, the same shoulders. neck- lines or decolletages that proved good friends in the past; and what could be a happier idea than to repeat the Uttle hat "which has been such a stand-by and so unquestionably becoming?
This is the beginning of the drift into the sartorial backwater. and there is nothing like it for dating a woman and, worse still, adding a few unnecessary years.
Wait-And-See Attitude Fata!
Consider friends and acquain- tances; among them someone surely Jumps to your
mind as being definitely dated. The wo- man who always preserves 2 strong tinge of the fashions in which she revelled as a young matron; another who prefers the lines on which her trousseau frocks were cut to anything newer; and yet another who can- not quite relinquish some style or colour dear to her through past assurances of their extreme becomingneas.
It da just now between the sea- soris that the first step is often taken in the backwards direction Rumours are abroad of the extremes to which the new styles are sure to go and caution -dictates a wait-and-see policy and a fatal resolve to carry on with the existing wardrobe rather than bring its Nries boldly up to date with a few additions and subtractions.
This would be economie.I course. and if you have been studying the pages of the fashion journals the destrab Lty of some change in line will certainly have suggested itself by now.
Hats And Scarves li
Perhaps one or the most em- phatic changes in line is in the sweep of the new hats. To many older women these will be easier to wear than some of the recent hats so severely pulled forward and downward, as the new ones expose a certain amount of hair to frame the face.
A hat with a new suggestion about it is always the Parisienne's Arst gesture towards keeping her wardrobe up-to-date. Yes, it is economy to spend a small amount
more and get new things.
It will act like a tonic to the rest of the wardrobe, tuning t up and prolonging its life.
Scarves are going to be every Important and will quite literally play an important part, project- ing smartly to the front in the day time and flowing gracefully backwards in the evening. They will vary from narrow taffeta
bands to large sish-Hire bows and are a good between season buy with which to transform frocks and suits.
deserves Another line which immediate revision is that of the square shoulder, square no longer, but aggressively sloping to show bow far behind it has left the square silhouette.
Many sleeves are of the ragiɛn type and slope from the shoulder, widening gradually to the elbow, and many capes, of different lengths are worn, both in the day time and at night.
Most of them match the dress. even if they are not actually of the same material, and they make a particularly good choice for the woman who is no longer young and for whom excursions in colour contrasts can some- times be dangerous.
If you are not stock size then you must take stock of you figure. If you are plump, tem- porarily plump, or merely minia- ture, you must spend more than the average span of minutes before your mirror. ruthlessly nothing curves and concavities:
Atively determination to do something about your figure, not to let your figure do you down
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"If you follow these general maxims, and add a quota of your own intelligence to meet
particular problems, Aghting glint in your eyes will soon turn to a glow of conscious achievement-an achievement of
own
a well-produced, young looking figure, of difficulties met
overcome.
What The Stout Woman Should Avold
and
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Ever if you are-to put bluntly fat. you can by exer- elsing a little discretion in your dressing, achleve smartness, Here are a few axioms to guide you some of them rather ob- vlous, perhaps, but it is the. ob- vious things that are often for- götten,
Avold that "too tight. too cor- seted look. Casual lines and easy tting clothes will conceal your plumpness. Quality is more || Important than quantity. This is particularly true if besides being plump, you are also on the of side of forty.
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It is far better for you to ap- pear agan and again in, the same dress beautifully cut and cleverly chosen to flater your figure than have a dozen cheap, ill-fitting and ndierently made changes.
Remember that every up and down. line you wear lengthens and narrows your silhouette: every horizontal Une shortens and widens it.
Take Great Care With
Your Neckling
The neckline you choose has a great effect on your appearance. The V-shaped never fails to be good, but, if you have sufficient height, you
can also wear the ever-so-smart high neckline.
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When you choose gloves, sure that they are simple and At loosely. Fussy things mare thestout look froway, a tight glove makes a plump hand
doubly plump. A scarf is a good habit for you, too. It tends to cut the width and has. E soft, becoming effect.
The fashion for jackets is a veritable godsend for you. Not. hing is kinder to the hip-line than these straight cut coats of finger tip length.
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not feel that black dreary. On the other hand, do not feel that you cannot wear colour except the bright eye- catching shades...
All-white-11′′ your complexion is good-and. soft pastel shade that is becoming to you are your prerogatives for the evening.
Cultivate A Sense Of Proportion
"And now what about the dimi=" nutive figure? It is very impor- tant that you should cultivate a sense of proportion. Yours is the problem of the miniature painter, to produce a work of art on a small scale.
Avoid cuteness and fussiness: Learn to hate them with a dead- ly hatred. Leave off all extras." The little figure shows off best in Jackets, tailored suits.
A slightly high waist line and a longish skirt are blessinge in dieguise. They lend apparent length to your legs and dignity to your carriage. In an effort to gain height do not go tottering" around on extremely high heels.
Avold hate accessories and clothes that are generally out of proport on for you. Ineist on hav'ng everything besutifully itted.
COMING WINTER
FASHIONS
Brilliant Scarves For The Ballroom
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London, Sept. 20. The alluring drama of winter fashion was presented yesterday full houses in various dress salons of Mayfair.
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Everywhere women were study- ing the new lines, the latest col- 'ours, memorising the names of the season's fabrics. Above all, they were making metal butes on the correct manner of wear- ing the trains, scarves, huge cors- age bouquets, and other accessor~ ̧ les that mark the winter mode.
Smart women will make their entry into the ballroom this win- ter accompanied by brightly col oured minon scarves, which give zellef to the rather dar-coloured gowns. These scarves are of late
storian date, and have to be worn in the old elegant way drap- ed across both arms.
The large corsage bouquets which match the scarves in colour and sometimes in fabric, are pos- ed in the centre of the bodice, thus completing the late Victor- fan and Edwardian revival A yellow scarf with yellow flower,. for example, gave colour to B plum-shade evening gown simply cut and closely atted. Clematis tä trails and brown arum Illes in clamps were two of the more unusual flowers used for the cor- sage trimming.
A Diversity of Colour
Colour alliances of out-of-the- ordinary kind were another fea- ture in the parade of Victor Stie- bel creations. Pinkish mushroom and very dark beige were brought together in a two-piece, the coat. being in the darker colouring.
Cornflower blue and cerise for evening, pink angora dress with long turquoise blue coat lined pink, the dress with neat little... white Eton collar and cuffs for the Riviera sports suit,mediar and black for smart town wear, green-grey and yellow checks- in sults, and navy blue with salmon pink were colour notes which are Hikesly to lead.
The long scarf that can be drawn round the shoulders in a cape effect or thrown back to merge into a train on an evening gown is a happy idea. In the art of variation which is an important
point with the smart woman of to-day, who likes much change in accessories but few gowns to date. Fashion changes so quick ly
PACKING
Bottles of acent, medicine, and nd on have "to be packed carefully if their contents are not to spill in make the cork or stopper" ab- solutely safe, stick a piece of ad hesive plaster over top.
Other methods of preventing the stopper from coming out are to put melted candle wax or melted seal- ing was round the stopper.
-The bottles should be wrapped in corrugated cardboard, and "packed in a shoe.
OXFORD SHOES
Bosu indications are towardsTMTM higher Orford line in front, and emphasizing this line, the newest shoes show the cocktail Oxford with fix eyelets on a high last
These shoes are carried out in faille, fine kud, suede and crepes and sometimes, to elevate them to
TUNICS AND
BLOUSES
Notes From London
(Special Air-Mall Service).
London Sept., 20..
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In the coming months, espe- cially on formal-afternoon casions. tunics will be worn.over velvet and satin skirts; and with velvet skirts and fur-trimmed will be afternoon suits there blouses of lame and metal tal- fetas. There will also be blouses of lace and of satin in ecru and parchment shades trimmed with of doors fine hand-work. Out there will be tailored skirts, of jersey, angora, Hannel, and vei- veteen.
The French have now succeed- ed in establishing beads and ɛe- ins. Long, slim evening gowns are made of closely-massed pall- lettas. The neck of a velvet evening gown is edged with se- quins and bends, while graduated panels of the form a train. A midnight-blue- velvet evening gown has a shaped bertha of dia- mante and sapphire beads, A dinner gown of uncrushable black velvet is Alled in on the shoulder pleces and the back with open- work of fine black sequins. The wide sleeves of a"black velvet ten gown are trimmed from shoulder to wrist with, a band of sequin " and bead embroidery. On" a long-trained black crepe dinner gown the wide sleeves are drawn Into narrow cutis of smäll black sequins. Sequins are used for evening tunics and blouses and
evening jackets; the paillettes may be large but the tiny closely-
massed sequins are much" neater.
Velvet or satin skirts worn with."
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turies and blouses are slim and ROYAL WEDDING “RED SEA AT ITS
narrow, and slit at the hem.
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Evening Gowns
Beads will also decorate even-
ing gowna Minute""gold and
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silver beads, in all-over patterns. Nine Feet High And
will be seen on evening tunics. and velvet afternoon gowns will be touched with beada. Three- quarter length evening coats are made of massed black sequins, and lined with black velvet; the velvet collars are large. A severe-
·ly tailored cocktail suit is made entirely of black sequins; the skirt is split, and the blouse is 'of bright red sequins.
Even by day clothes have tou- 'ches of bead and sequin em- broidery. The top part of the sleeves of a square-necked black wool dress with a túníé skirt is trimmed with tucks and lines of amall black sequins. At the hem of the turic and on the narzow. belt of another black wool dress is a narrow design of black se- quins. There are jabots, collars, and cuffs of dull white sequins on black wool and sit day dresses, Beveral materials are woven to give a sequined effect. Failles and taffetas and dull-surfaced crepes have dots of gold and all- ver, and into the surface of a fine wool fabric a tiny bead has been потер. Cellophane imparts the zame effect to wools and dull ma- terials
Tea-Gowns
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London, Sept. 20. Work has already been begun on the wedding cake for the marriage. of Prince
George and Princess Marine. It was announced last night that the order for the cake which is to be nine feet high and will weigh 8001b-has been placed with Messrs. McVitle and Price, the well-known biscult and cake manufacturers.
The cake itself will be made at the Edinburgh works of the Arm. and the icing will be done at their Harlesden works.
"Prince George's wedding cake is to be brought down to London from Edinburgh in four main sec- tions," said an official of the firm, "It will then be assembled at Harlesden, the icing added, and the whole cake 'mounted 'on a silver stand.
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WORST"
The Duke of Glouces- ter in A Heat Wave
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London, Sept. 13.
The cruiser Bussex is enduring: the Red Sea at its worst. The "following" wind from Suez abated overnight, but this brought no res-
pite from the intense heat. The temperature on the bridge at midnight was 85deg...and in some. of the lower decka 100deg. There was a common impulse to snatch "a few hours' rest on the upper
decks
The Duke of Gloucester repaired to the cabin on the upper deck usually occupied by the comman." der when aboard. His equerries resorted to air mattresses on the lower signal bridge, and made sure of some comfort till the bands arrived to wash the decks at day- break.
A FAVOURITE RECIPE
Nobody has yet been seriously "The recipe for the cake is one affected by the heat. Everyone This autumn the tea-gown
that has already proved to be a resorts to fruit juices and cool garment associated with vam-
Arm favourite with the Royal drinks, and the ship's canvas tanks pires in ancient films may come to its own again. A fashion par family. Made of Empire ingre- are crowded for hours with relare dients caly, it will taste exactly of bathers. The demand for fresh ade given by a Hanover Square
the same as the cake made for the water has over-taxed the capacity establishment to-day included eight or nine varieties of the weddings of the King and Queer, of the ship's condensers, and
the Duke and Duchess of York! glorified dressing gown, the most
request has been made to be attractive modela being made
and the Princess Royal and the from velvet. Artistic ahades of Earl of Harewood. Even the birth-sparing with its use till the best wine-red and grape purple made day cakes for Princess Elizabeth wave has been outdistanced.
trestion colourful and and Princess Margaret are made to yet not vidly impossible for ge- the same recipe. neral wear, while as practical iterhere will be all kinds of orna- ed the shoulders. This was about will be the usual lucky sixpence scarcely romantic device envelopments and decorations, and there
two renare fret of funnel which inside. The cake will be decorated had been sewn neatly into each
with natural flowers; we shall ask robe, so that the wearer would be
"the
Apathetic evidence of the severity of the heat is shown by
the fact that while ofrers were
nigrant swallows dropped on the enjoying a post-lunch siesta on the quarter-deck a fight of early
decks exhausted. Some eagerly drank from finger-bowls held out to them by Capt, Bonham-Carter, and almost collapsed in his hands, veral cases designs for Bowers What flowers they would like were merely printed on the maWe are now finishing of the They afterwards settled in the terial: Therefore the buyer could details for the cake's design. 15. rigging, where several dimid desert
ours the "DI wit probably take six weeks to: wheat-ears were also gla embroider the t
till sundown: terres herselt.
complete.
In daytime wear gloves to match coat linings, large fur the cocktail hout, they are finished - protected from draughts, in since George and the Princess
cuffs which may prepare the way formuffs, shorter skirts that come below the knee but reveal the calf, tucked sleeves and Jabote were points emphasised.
with year or rhinestone bal ends to the tie laces
Just occasionally they are Anish ed with rhinestone eyelets with are extremely efective.