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Maizee's
FOOTWEAR.
of
Charm and Distinction.
Selected to ensure perfect comfort and smartness for any occasion. Our new prices are remarkably reasonable owing to favourable rates of exchange. '.
If
you cannot call, may we send you a selection on approval?;
GORDON'S LTD. HONG KONG'S LADIES' SHOE SPECIALISTS.
RIVELLE
for
Attractive
GOWNS
AND
HATS.
Orders for Dresses taken.
6, Gloucester Arcade.
Delightful
Range
Organdy
Gowns
in
All the latest materials and styles
for
Dinner Dances
Informal Dinners
Weddings.
Ladies Department
Tel. 33186.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1935.
Fashion
PRE-VIEW
SMART DAY CLOTHES
The smart day clothes chosen for the Jubilee parties are mostly of simple tailored trend. This ensemble, patriotically planned in silver and blue, consists of silver- grey georgette dress, with ruched neckline and shoulders, worn with straw hat and coat of dark blue.
Exclusive day frocks of simpler' fabric incline towards a severer.... almost tailored trend. This is very noticeable in regard to the neckline. Spot or plain taffeta has a plain Peter-Pan collar of pique in white, with cuffs to inatch. Revers and facings of white stiffened plque complete a simple frock of spotted alpaca.
A loose coatee of dark green alpaca is finished with deep cuffs and revers of a wide ribbed buf- coloured pique. This is placed over a slim frock in green and white spotted taffeta, with a cap of the same.
Plain Ane white cambric, with entredenx, of tuckings and border of the fabric-needlerun, is now extensively used for collar, we and small cuffs, instead of the large fly-away bow.
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Stiff pique and linen are em- ployed to give the severe, finishing touch to alpaca suits, or simple dresses of coloured alpaca and taffeta. Pretty little waistcoats of gay, rather masculine, foulards show a rolled collar of plain with, linen.
The American woman 13 very addicted to the alpaca travel gulz - this year. A small spotted design in grey or white on a navy of black ground is invariably re- lleved with vest, collar, cuffs and reyers of stidened white lawn or piqué. The fresh "Anished" look of white is specially American when combined with a tailored style. For day-tline the best. American, English, and French modes are invariably tallored with simplicity in extras very much stressed. This neatness will give a new chic to even the most ethereal summer fabric, though for the moment such materials as alpaca, taffeta and linen pre- dominate..
A plain navy and white ensem ble in alpara may be completed by a white cambric jabot with
pleated lace-edged frills and fine handwork. The bat of white straw or fabric may show a trivo- lous vell!
The black taffeta tallored sult with its quilted cut-away' Uttle coat and its narrow skirt is much enhanced by a shirt of sheer pink-lawnpily blouse
of a
lavender an. Po
Eossibly Watteau flower hat is added.
A great advantage about this youthful tailored trend is that the uses of the suit can be varied ac- cording to the choice of hat and blouse and such accessories as belt, gloves, shoes and bag. They can be hard and serviceable for morning wear and travel. For afternoon or semi-evening. they can acquire more feminine acces- sories.
Dress this season is lovely, but to be "right" is expensive. Yet there was never a year when ac- cessories could so "alter a suit that it can do dutÿlfor two three contrasting occasions,
or
Silk and woof suits, both tailor- ea and semi-tailored, should be in every dress scheme. In that case many of the "rather useless, and very fragile. dresses may be eliminated.
ROUND THE
SHOPS
Some of the prattleat organdie gowns I've seen were at Lane Crawford's yesterday. They were "all so pretty that it was hard to *say which was the prettiest-all these dresses are just the type that one needs for dancing, dinners and weddings.
The white embroided model was most attractive: it had the separ- ate cape, cut, rather plain but very sizlart.
Another very pretty dress in Saxe-Blue, had a coattee to match. Also on display were some extra nice picture hats in whites, blues and yellows.
MAIZEE'S
This week they are making a special display of Helena Ruben- stens" beauty preparations. Most women know that Helena" Rüben-. "-sten is a renowned beauty scientist, and she has beauty aids designed for every type of skin. Exquisite powders in alluring tones, such colours as cream, natural, peach- bloom and other summer shades, as well as cleaning creams, skin tonles, lipsticks, and numerous other beauty preparations.
ŘIVELLE
Would like to remember her customers that she has secured a" very special line of maternity gowns. Orders for these gowns may be given and she would be glad to show the sample gown to any one interested.
EYE
Has a marvellous assortment of shoes and sandals with straw,bags to match for the girl that wants a regular summier rig-out.
MAYO'S
Are" showing a nice lot of em- 'broided volles from Manila E
many дет shades, and should make up very prettily for after- noon dresses. !
My Lady's Jewels
need
Jewele
occasional spring-clean like everything else. Try this treatment for bigger and better sparkles
DIAMUNDS—Wash in warmi Hoapy water; or, dip into ean-de- Cologne several times, for a very bright polish,
EMERALDS, SAPPHIRES "AND RUBIES.—Wash in warm, soapy water, and dry with tissue
»PEARLS.—Néteri
The would “be well-dressed" paper. women should carefully watch' her step. That is to say, she should never buy to the old hap- hazard way. The mode is very exacting, and requires study and and foresight. Some wise young people collect their best acces-- sories before their frocks and then work round to the all-important hat scheme!
A really delicious evening frock for a young girl was made of gingham, but not at all the kort of gingham which we used to know. The threads, of cellulosed film running through it give it an unaccustomed fairy-like appear. ance very far removed froin its normal, sunshiny workaday life. The bodice its closely, the skirt (and this is a notable point) flares from the waist, instead of from very much further down and a heavily ruffled underskirt of black taffetas gives it a silvery grey and black effect instead of the black and white it actually is.
umah. If
dusty polish with tissue paper. Should be worn as much as pos sible, of course; and restrung at least twice a year.
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FOR BRIGHTER COOKERY
All good cooks know that a touch of Bovril greatly im proves their soups, gravies and casserole dishes. For Bovril. not only adds nourish- ment and flavour on its own. account, but brings out these qualities in the foods to which it is added. No kitchen is complete without Bovril.
COOK WITH
BOVRIL
Eve
Opposite Hong Kong Hotel
China Building
Big Assortment
Shoes and Sandals Straw Bags
Summer Colours
White, very pale pastels.. or ex- ceedingly sombre colours seem to satisfy people best this spring. At this time of the year this is always apt to be the case.
When you think of hot evenings / your mind automatically veers towards lettuce-like greens and faint, misty blues, to the pure white which is so lovely with sun- tan, or to fimy blacks and pur- ples.
You may go gay with a printed crêpe or chiton or one of the luxurious printed cottons with raised embroidery, but you do not want to gear these riota of colour on successive" eveninga, and the in-between tones of green and blue, orange- and red which căn de such kind things to the“ skin" under artificial light are not so reliable when you have to con sider daylight at dinnér and arti- ficial light later on in the even- ing.
Most Satisfying
For the older women who can. wear white as well, as some, um doubtedly can, Ronald Morrel has
· designed an unusually satisfying ensemble. The fabric is a heavy rough crêpe with no shine to it anywhere and, consequently, a far greater capacity for slimming Ita Wearer than any material which catches and reflects the light.
The dress has a moderate squarish decolletage with twisted
· shoulder straps which go down to the waist at the back on either side of a convex piece of the fabric, which rises well above the waistline. The skirt is ample, but cleverly cut in sections on the hips so that there is none of that balloon effect below the waist which happens only too often with the new feeling for fullness at the top of the skirt,
Over this dress goes a loose three-quarter coat of the same stuk, its bowing sleeves set on with 'cartridge plaats below the shoulder, its low pockets finished with the same pearl and silver embroidery which makes the belt of the dress...
́Charm of "Spota
For the very young, or the not so young but elegant, a most engaging affair in organdi, is to be commended. The model is in black with handpainted white dots all over it. A flowing, floor- length skirt has its top fuftress disciplined by clever gauging be- low the waist in front, and there. is gauging on the simple, "square- necked bodice: as well,
This is a dress which wonta look fresh and charming on all sorts of occasions, yet quite rum- ciently sophisticated for those who like it. Whether in black like the original, or in a tender green or in navy blue, it would always, of course, have the same white dots,
Another white one
be attempted by the
slender and preferably very fair for Titian haired person.
to Match.
SHORTS SHOULD BE PLEATED
There are now shorts in all cul- ours and fabrics. Nearly "all" of them, however, are of the pleat- ed variety, and this is all to tha good.
One of the most popular cruis- ing sets seen this season consists of a shirt-and-shorts set in crease- resisting linen. The shorts are pleated, of course, and the shirt short-sleeved, pocketed and cut with an agreeably tailored sever- it really a workmanlike outāt.
Besides shorts, divided skirts and trbtzers, there is miso a wealth of alternatives of cool frocks and two-plece dresses and suitings. Some of them are "ad- mirable for slipping on over a swim suit and lazing about, in Others, equally admirable, are more essentially for going ashore
A Boon Abrosa:**
The divided skirt is doubted boon to the wom does not like herself In trousers, because, with crossed, it really does look an ordinary skirt. On the hand, no undivide possibly show so much, freedom
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