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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1935.
SUMMER
WHAT THE STARS WEAR
CARNATIONS FOR THE
SUMMER
Joan Bennett, who la featured in three Paramount films-Mississippi and Two For Tonight, with Big Crosby, and Private Worlds, with Claudette Colbert and
Charles Boyer, is wearing one of the smartest summer outfits in Holly-
wood.
It consists of a white linen sult -carried out in classic tailored lines and a hat of stiffened linen with two bright red carnations on the brim.
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Another carnation of the same hue adorns the lapel of Miss Ben- nett's Jacket, and red and white sports shoes and a red patent leather purse completed the costume.
CHIFFON "AND SATIN
There is something particularly alluring; about a soft colour prac Lically veiled by a sheer black material, and Travis Banton, the Paramount stylist, "predicts that a. negligee Incorporating this idea, worn by Sylvia Sidney in Accent On Youth, will have a great in- fluence on coming fashions.
Miss Bidney's negligee is of black chiffon, over blue satin, with full- ness in the sleeves and a sash of the blue satin tied about the waist
WENDY'S. NEW SUIT-
When Wendy Barrie, who is on contract W Paramount, comes over to England for a short holf- day soon, she will bring a copy of the suit she wears in The Big
Broadcast Of 1935,
It is in grey worsted, with lapels faced and stitched with navy linen.. the jacket is hip-length with a
one-button, single-breasted” treat- ment and the skirt is just eleven inches from the floor.
A HANDY IDEA!
Simultaneously with the start of her Paramount picture Hands Across The Table-Carole Lombard has introduced to Hollywood a new combination fashion and beauty
rad.
This is the wearing or almond gloves at night. They are natural coloured chamois gloves, appro- priate for midsummer, but they dre, saturated with almond meal, which keeps the hands soft and white besides glving them £11 elusive and alluring scent.
MARLENE SPONSORS NEW FABRIC
The first of the fabrics especially designed for Travis Banton's use in forthcoming Paramount specta.. cle pictures, will be worn by Mar- lene Dietrich in The Pearl Neck- lace, in which she will co-star with Gary Cooper.
The material is a heavy white faille, stiff and crisp, with 2 tra- cery of ostrich feathers in sliver thread running over it like "a shadowy printäa
Banton will drape this exquisite slk into an exotic evening gown with a new version of the bouffant silhouette.
YELLOW LACE FOR EVENING
Despite the fact that the period behind Gertrude Michael's gowns in Parameinta The Last Cutpoet is 1918, these styles would fit per- fectly into the modes of to-day. . One particularly fluttering even- ing gown worn by Miss Michael-- who, incidentally, is also featured in Paramount's Four Hours To Kill-is of yellow lace, draped in front and carrying a scarf which falls from the should- ers. Underneath the gown a slip of shimmering yellow satin adds a lustrous note.
graceful
ELASTIC FÖR HATS
Elastic for hats has definitely re- turned to favour in Hollywood.
Gladys Swarthout, the New York. Metropolitan Opera House sigrier, who stars in Paramount's Rose Of The Rahcho wears an intrigu, ing black strap under her chin.
Style
Frances Drake, whose next" plc- ture is Paramount's Without Re- gret, also favours the idea and crowned affair with a silver- wears a broadbrimmed, shallow coloured elastic band.
Fashion Decrees Knitted
Clothes And Trouser Skirt
Paris,
Ferhaps you thought-hand knitted clothes had gone for ever.
Nothing of the kind. Lucien Lelong has put them right back
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scarf hand-knitted from bright red wool to form the front of a black wool dress.
Buch clothes are not for the day-time only. Bmart women will
HATS GO ON FOR EVER
"As we wait for the autumn and" winter collections which the dresamakers will be showing soon! the milliners go on their merry, busy way making hats. for the present and the future.
A man once said that women' love hate greedily. Judging by the pumbers women buy them. he may be right. "And the mil- liner provides largely for their greed.
The Paris milliners are fertile.. t-ideas-and daring in the ex... ecution of these ideas and in- variably they and women ready and willing to wear their crea- tions, however difficult, howGYS? expensive.
Quite recently a Normandy cofffe was made in felt, to be worn with a tallormade.
There
are Renaissance toques, or bereta inspired by old pictures.
Only the brave and the fair can dare to wear these hats withouz calling down ridiculē
Hats are the things in women's dress which have attracted most notice. Brims with no crowns and crowns with no brims, each⠀⠀ one twisted and curved, draped and trimmed to suit the profile. of the wearer.
To say "auit" pia, divergence; from truth since,@frankly, the mulliner of our day does not seek ...to suit her eustomer-so, much gaa she sets out to train her to wear what she provides for her. Most hats are un acquired taste. Those
made by the milliners whose names make any hat Ing- hionable, are worn however queer · It may be,
The milliner. too, is uke "the restaurant keeper-sne delights to tempt the epicure with fruits which are out of season.
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All through the heat of mid- summer women have worn felt. and velvet fats or they have risked sunstroke by wearing R brim with no crown.
Feathers have been flaunted re- cently not only ostrich plumes, but gorgeous Paradise feathers, at- rettes, ospreys, all those birds' plumage which are not permitted
in the British Isles.
Never
was- there
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greater wealth of them worn than at the great social event which closed the Paris Season-the Midnight Race at Longchamp.
What will Autumn give us? Slightly. 'deeper crowns from Le- monnier; higher crowns from
on the map. Not Just hand-soon be wearing hand-kaltted of black glycerined ostrich feather knitted sweaters of the plain and evening capes. One made from fronds?..
purl pattern that we all knitted a few years ago, but smart hand knitted suits for the afternoon, and wrap coats
More than that, he uses knitted fabrics with beautiful materials and luxurious furs.
An evening wrap of off-white and brown Italian brocade has a Stand-knitted brown wool lining and knitted facing for the collar
Icvers.
FOX FUR TRIMMING Bulver fox fur trims a black hand-knitted coat; it borders a
fine black wool was reloved with radiating panels in allver grey.
There are also knitted capes for smart-sports girls. They ft close round shoulders and reach half way between hips and knees.
Another innovation la an ever- ing dress with a trouser founde- tion
Rose Valois, draped berets from Agnės.
STYLES WE SHALL SEL
...THIS AUTUMN
The love of velvet goes on. Felt is used in the palest and darkest, colours. Fur has a place in trim- ming and, again, feathers.........
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HONG KONG
Just unpacked
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Autumn
Hats Made to Order from
Finest Fur Felts.
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Opposite Hong Kong
China Building
Hotel
SHOSE
LAST 2 DAYS
CLOSING SALE
ALL GOODS OFFERED BELOW COST
Your Opportunity To Get A Real Bargain.
Shoes have probably never been
BEAUTY SECRETS
The very wide brimmed hat is
If you use a liquid powder as a so cool as this year, when many foundation, remember to apply never worn In winter-it looks
people have taken to, sandals," your rouge first. wrong with winter clothes. The They are inclined to match gloves, Anger-prints" with the rouge, Make three small hat, or the hat of moderate
being white, and perforated and then pat it in, and lastly smooth it proportions is the one to choose.rather elaborate, In Paris the ever very gently with the tips of pin beel is passed over where any the second and third fingers, tak- sports suggestion is in clothes. The ing care not to have any hard rims heel, which need not be in the or edges. Obvious make-up is In- leas; clumsy, is freely worn and artistle, and does not beautify at shoes are well cut up under the in- all. Make-up should emphasise
But what may happen is the fashion of dressing the head for evening with more than elaborate hair curia and colls and waves
The French woman of former days, near and far, liked elabo-, rate evening coiffures,
The Frenchwoman of yesterday did not, but she of to-day is not averse to them, and she of to morrow may take a violent liking to them-encouraged by her mil- Uner who, while an artist is also
business woman
Already there are feathers and a host of lovely Jewels stars, diadema, combs, Indian fileta..
of
Then there are flowers. Many women have worn garlands flowers this season and, at a big ball, a dark haired Carmen type of woman wore a deep crimson rose at her ear and bunch of roses at her waist, She was dressed in black tulle,
Debutantes wore small flowers
in tight garlands and had them tied with ribbon behind.
There to every indication that the milliners will make evenirig hats. The question is-will they become popular?
SMILE AWHILE
“1 may aɛy Tim regarded as quite smart," announced the ́ap- plicant for the stenographer's post- tion: "I've won several prizes in Schiaparelli makes them, some crossword and figsaw puzzles, and times scooping the hem of the word picture competition lately skirt upwards to show, the trouser Yes, but I want someone who leg foundation(it reached to the can be smart during office hours." ankle and is of a different colour returned the prospective employer. from the dress) sometimes draping "?" Oh, this was – durin the overskirt and lifting if high in hours!" said the stri front o
Violet trousREY RED WO Leaving "woollens, what about black evening gow this for a novelty wrap a short to show fow the draper crcular cape made from leopard chestnut -dres were skin, covered with a waving mist blue
One cape of green wool had nar row "stripes" of red wool intro- duced at the back.
LEOPARD AND OSTRICH
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step, lightly made, and yet have particular beauty polats and not a low heel which makes them ex- draw attention to bad ones, tremely comfortable. Where height
Is wanted it is, high enough. But the French have imitated the Americans in adopting the well- cut, lower shos, made sometimes with a Norwegian front.
ALL TO MATCH
Remember the p rouge Durkd cheek rouge
must match, and blend. Always buy the same make In both, and the same tone. Be-. fore applying tip rouge, pat a little cream on to the tips first, and a more pleasing result is obtained.
Be very careful when powdering your neck. Apply slightly more foundation cream than on your face. It may be necessary to use a allhtly darker powder also. A point to remember when buying powder is that all shades darken a little on the skin.
WHERE CARE IS NEEDED
Eye make-up requires great care." Speculation is rife about the' -* permanence of the fashions which If eyebrows and eyelashes are have appeared in advance of the darker than your hair, it is best to rest. Some satin frocks have leave them alone in the daytime. been seen in white and in black If they are much lighter, either and purple with simply made Bod- the waterproof, or the ordinary ices; perhaps with a scarf thrown mascara, should be used. Brush it backwards over the low neck, and on carefully with, a small brush, do having skies with their ramness not let it be too wet, and do not partly set in front. They touch put too much on When it has the ground and are a shade on dried, brush the eyelashes with ger at the back On the other another small brush-this last hand, everything seems to point brushing is one of the secrets of to drapery of every kind. Dresses natural-looking eye make-up. may be gathered all down orel
Eye shadow. fends beauty to the
side, leaving a fin of beading, and eyes. It can make them look big- this makes for horizontal creas- ger and brighter, but it must be ing Atting closely across the very carefully used. Only a trace figure. Greek draperies may hang of it is required on the fingertip. in pleats from one shoulder and Begin at the corner of your eye. all down the opposite hip, but near the nose, and place it near to they are firmly, clinched: by a the eyelashes. Do not cover the brosa, straight belt. Some after lide with it, as this gives a hollow noon dresses have close gathering eyed and tired effect.
FOR DIFFERENT OCCASIONS:
on the inside line of the shoul-- ders, so that drapery waves across the chest and arms forming short sleeves Day dresses may button
The application of a little cold down the front, but some plan creant on the lids first helps the shoulders run into sleeves growing colour is, of course, chosen accord- eye shadow to blend well. The more and more immense downing to the colour of your eyes. In wards. It is as though amall the daytime, especially in strong capes were gathered in at the sunlight, the use of eye shadow is wrist to make aleeves. There are hardly necessary, but in the even- sophisticated dresses the bodice ings it adds a great deal of beauty made like a corset by gathering to the eyes.
all down the front so that hori zontal folds, spread on each side. Folds start from under the stays down the front.
COTTON STEPS UP
Pique suits the coat a square- cut collarless sacque, and the skirt. made with fan, pleats back and frontare seen a good desi in the holiday collections; but the most surprising "pique fashion fa the eventr coat one, Cháik-white que is used for these boats, "are quite straight and s'm→ pla in design and they are often orn over really elaborate silk
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