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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1935
SUMMER
FASHION NOTES FROM FILMLAND
Alluring Spanish Styles
According to the Hollywood style barometer the coming trend will be one of Spanish colour and contrast. inspired by the daring and breathless creations worn by Marlene Dietrich In "The Devil Is A Woman."
Travis Banton, noted stylist was in charge of Miss Dietrich's wardrobe for this picture and believes that the gowns worn by the blonde star are having an outstanding influence in the now season's styles
Fringes w be used in far greater abundance than ever be- fore and will bring a seductive note into the daytime mode as well as the more formal trends. Laces will predominate in the fabric feld. especially in darker colours.
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LACE STOCKINGS Even lace stockings and the exciting "fascinator" which ties under the chin will spring into vogue as soon as Dietrich's man- tillas. mits and spider,- web hotsery are offered to the fans. he believes.
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Stml another fashion from the picture is the sudden interest in lace capes for evening Travis Banton designed Wear, several capes for Miss Dietrich's wear in place of the Spanish shawi popularly associated with the senorita. The capes are much smarter and will fit per- fectly into the fashion trend for the evening.
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Marlene's lavish use of car- nations should give impetus to the growing use of this lovely flower in formal wear.
RED KID SHOES
And the shoes Marlene Dietrich!
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Although shoes are scarcely noticeable in motion pictures.. these have been given special attention. The bighlight of her shoe collection is a pair of red kids embroidered with beads and spangies. and
with amusing patent leather heels,
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An old fashioned Boughet and a Bonnet type seil is a quaint new iden in wedding attire und is warn here by Rosalind Russell M. G. M player. The bonnet d fashioned "from tulle and horse- hair braid and orange biomona are raught at either side jasten- dng the veil in place,
Style
IN - BETWEEN DRESSES
It's a kind season for in-between dresses. First of all there is all this uncertainty about the length of a skirt which means that if you have not felt like letting it drop to the hoor you needn't feel out of the picture; whereas if you have, you can still be obviously in the right, in the eyes of many im- portan, designers.
Then materials, too, are help- ful; not only" in their immense variety, but in the licence to stay up as late as ever they please now given to so many which never used to be allowed cut after sun- set.
People with clever fingers or a knowledgeable dressmaker who can produce good frocks for a modest fee can really have a mos; extensive evening wardrobe for a very moderate outlay.
One of the secrets consists in having one wrap which can go out with several entirely different frocks,
For a girl to whom coral is a particularly kind colour the wrap might be in coral taffeta; three- quarter in length, voluminous in the sleeves, waisted, and full be- low the waist like a Russian tunic. She can wear this over white or coffee coloured organd! or over black organdi spotted with white over a formal evening dress in soft reversible satin in the same brave colour; over organza with
ver on
a design of black, coral and sil-,
a white ground, or over dark blue or very dark green taf- feta.
ILLUSION OF SUMMER
Mary Ellis, the Anglo-American singing star who featured in Para- mount's "ALL THE KING'S
·HORSES” with Carl Brisson, and "PARIS IN SPRING" with Tulile Carmina and Ida Lupino, is be- coming known as one of the best. dressed players in Hollywood. Twn of her recent gowns certainly
point to this title:
One of them is a charming frock which gives an illusion of summer It is fashioned in apri- cot flat chiffon and boasts a blas tunic of new design. The sweep-
The bouquet is an old fushion-ing dress is built in tlers and the ed notegny of multi-coloured Homer's.
wide hat with a dip in the back suggests the colaing millinery trend.
The other is a formal afternoon
gown in crisp, black taffeta. El- ver fox adorns the shoulder line
and the huge muff, and a small
taffeta hat is trimmed with a large pom-pom of glycerined öst-
rich.
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Prints For All Occasions
In London, this season, printed materials are wom at any hour of the day, morning, afternoon or evening. There is & revived fashion for printed silk. "dresses with plain coats lined to match, novelty being dependant upon the altered length of the coat end the printed design.' Given a coat and skirt in plain material, it is easy "enough to spice the Summer
wardrobe with variety.
The coat is trimmed with stit- ched tafetn and Ined with printed silk. As a simple coat and skirt it is suitable for im- mediate wear with perhaps a two- toned check skirt in light and dark blue, For dressy occasions the addition of a large taffeta bow lends a gay note to the en- semble. Later on the coat can be
worn with a navy and white printed crepe dress that is a com- panion to the cost lining: The t- tle cape can be made of pavy woollen fabric trim- med with stitched taffeta. It can be worn either as an ad- dition to the coat or, if made of taffeta only. it will add chic to e dress if worn separately and tied with the bow. The gown is made with a separate underskirs
that the tunic can be worn over a skirt If necessary. This makes a smart costume for early summer days.
SHADOW EFFECTS
Shadow effects are popular this season in London. For instance, a navy blue silk has large white spots with irregular rings, encir- cling them and a smaller spot has
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a reflected spot in shading similar. to the eclipse of the moon. An other crepe is printed with shaggy Towers where the erect is white rather than navy... A pretty green crepe has a shadow design that is called thistledown, and a new colour combination shows a black silk printed with apple green and yellow. For a brown ensemble, a chic lining silk consists of a dark brown stripe, a "shaded brown stripe, and a white one. A light duck-egg blue woollen coat looks well,on young people worn with a blue and white patterned dress.
POPULAR STYLE OF TRIMMING'
Stitched taffeta is a popular style of trimming, but stitching in new forms, such as triangular blocks, or piping stitched by hand on both sides of the cord, gives the effect of both quiting and piping, and carries out the gener- al tendency for cloque or meta-. lasse effects seen repeatedly in both woolleis and silk materials at the moment. Quilted linens are used for short sac coats and evening capes, and to give a stiff. finish to a gown made of elastic- like fabric.
Gloves are elaborate, leather and suede are used with tamets and tacking appears in unusual ways, such as diagonally from the side seam partly across the hand and gauntlet, and suede is en- braidered a l'anglaise for evening.
Amber effects in stockings again appear. they are graduated from light flesh tints up the shin to black, dark gray and brown at the back of the calf.
wear.
LINEN'S POPULARITY
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the most popular material for" every kind of wear is kaen. The odd, threequarter length coat, de- signed to turn any sort of little frock into a smart oudit, is now being shown in every big store in town. It is available in a full range of "dress-making colours' and S. obviously doing a roaming trade. It inoɛs well in navy blue and very sinart in navy and white but for the rest I think it will suffer the quick death fate of all popularities -
Non-crush and non-iron Seer- sucker dresses, though equally the rage of the moment, are I think likely to stay fashions course un- til the very end of the season, and will probably reappear next year. The range of colours is extremely good and the designs are excri- lent--especially the muld-colour- ed stripes.
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New Shipment of Goods expected Fortnightly.
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SALE
Allwool Bathing Suits $4 50
Dunlop Sandals
Wash Dresses
2.25
1.95
Coats
4.50
Linen
SEMI - EVENING
GOWNS
Sliver grey more would be a pleasant choice for a woman who likes to wear a great deal of black or grey and sliver, with oc-
· cassional, experiments in fame or crange, lemon yellow, or one of the "curious greens they dye so well to-day,
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For her; a full length coat may be a better choice, tailored, but with fairly full sleeves; alter- natively, a three-quarter length coat with a loose back and a collar which ties in an impor- tant bow if she wants' it to; "or possibly a cape with rounded shoulders and a little quilting on collar and hem to give it stabi ``uty.
Besides the organdies and or ganzas already mentioned (ant there are literally scores of these to choose among), there are quantities of enchanting volles. some of them embroidered. There are ginghams, and zephyrs, with ΟΙ without interwoven threads of cellulose fabric, and all the silks, printed and plain., smooth and crinkled, dull and shiny, artificial and real.
OMNIPRESENT PIQUE Pique is probably the most widely used cotton, of the mo- ment. In white, it makes those dashing capes and coatlets which enhance thin, dark frocks, and also the flowers and scarves we wear at our throats. and, the glove gauntlets which wander ap our wrists. In white, too, it can make a jabot or frill or shoulder caps for a sombre evening dress, or a whole dress of that amua- ingly prim variety which suits many modern young persons so well.
Mothers-That-Be
'The modern mothers-to-be face facts far more frankly than did their mother's before they them- selves were born.
The modern woman who is going to have a baby has jobs to do, in- terest's outside herself.
She cannot afford to look badly dressed, and during one of the im- portant times of her life she cer- "tainly doesn't want to..
By following a few simple rules she remains well dressed, keeps the appearance of an elegant qut-". line, and is frankly unembarrassed by an event so natural, yet so per- sonally exciting.
She chooses quiet necessarily black, greys or blues.
colours-not perhaps soft
Sharp colour-contrasts and large patterned fabrics she bars. (They are not often very smart, anyway). Softly draping crepes, georgettes, and slim fat woollen fabrics all lend themselves to slimming out- Inės,
She emphasises hem-Unes by a little extra fulness instead of walsts.
In wardrobe planning, wide seams, hand-sewn, she allows for later alterations to fit, of course.
And so she looks charming and keeps happy, not in the least afraid of looking a sight in unbecoming clothes: which, at a time when she most needs peace of mind, is half the battle in assuring it.
NEW CONTINENTAL STYLE
trans-
Evening gowns
with parent skirts are the latest style to be adopted by fashionable women on the Continent, accord- ing to Travis Banton, Para- mount's fashion designer, who has just returned from a trip
to
Europe. *
"Evening gowns that are shor- ter in front than at the back are outstanding in the current fas hion trend all over Europe," the Paramount. designer declares. "Most of them also feature the transparent skirt as an added allure."
turning · more and Europe more to Hollywood for its styles, he said Paris, and London style. dictators are coming to regard Hollywood as the world's chief style source.
WASHING THE FACE
There are some women who in- gist on soap and water for clean- sing purposes, however, dry their skin may be. For their benefit 'I' would like to make a few sugges-
tions: ...
1. That they use only nursery soap or soap of the super-fatted variety
2. That the water, If hard, should be softened by the addition or a few drops of spirits of cam- phor or a pinch of toilet oatmeal. 3. That before washing, the skin should be prepared with a "dreas- ing" of oil or a soothing scream
That they should wash their faces once a day in barley water. an old-fashioned but unsurpassed cosmetic for the dry and sensitive skin, and one that is easily pre- pared:
Bare-Headed Cirl
The best of hair is apt to become dry, harsh, and even lank, just now, and olliness along with all these is a perfect pest.
either as soon as it is cool enough,
Now I have a word of advice to or you can wait till it is perfectly say to the summer girl.
It is not a good thing to go about bareheaded too long, because the heat dries up the hair, and per- haps makes the scalp greasy. ' -
The idea that one's hair should only be washed occasionally, is, happily, an obsolete one.
Wash your hair as often as you uke; indeed, in summer it should
cold, when it will be a jelly.
If you are a blonde, let your final rinse be one of the liquid in which two handfuls of tamomlje“ flowers have soaked for about ten minutes: you can also have a lemon rinse; add to a quart of water the strained Julce of two lemons
A vinegar rinse is best for the brunette. Or try rosemary ten for your rinse. Pour boiling water be washed about every other day over some sprigs of rosemary, boil About an hour before you wash it, them up together for ten minutės, give your scalp & good massage then let the liquid cool. This is n
goal with liquid paramın.
very old-fashioned and very good For
shampoo you should hair beautifier which is again com- your share an eighth of a bar of pure ing back to its own. Castile soap into a fug, then half
Too-dry hair wants plenty of all
a pint of boiling water should be scalp-massages, and too-oily hair poured over it. You can use it needs, scalp-massages of witch
hazel.: A good friction of eau Cologne after your towel dry is splendid toute for all types
Massage as hard as you can une give the scalp blenty of exer
For some people piqué la even as a dinner coat, as long better as a formal evening dress, crisply -tailored, with wide.
not,
some are white and some coloured, some have large designs and comparatively coarse threads; while some are very fine and cobwebby, ::
SOFTENING EFFECTS When the "prim" dress, with Its turnover Quaker collar and plain, snug bodice, short, neat sleeves and long, full skirt, 13 a ittle trying as it may well be, It can be modified by a slightly lower neckline and by having an overskirt of organdi or lace, opening in front over an under- skirt of the same material in a different colour, or with a con- trast in fabric but not in colour.
If frills and soft lines appeal more strongly than these plain dresses. It is easy to and excellent examples in volle or chiffon, or gandi or stik.
The neckline is usually mode- rate, sometimes, still quit high arid infront. The skirt is usually full length coat eves slim about the hips and mode
aluerent sorting råtely wide at the hem. ⠀ The them.../sleeves are generally quite short.
times no thore. than capelet which covers the top the arm
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