"Maizee's"
ONE DAY
SPECIAL SALE
on MONDAY, MAY 4th
Dark Silk Dresses
Hats
Hand-Bags
and
Beach Togs.
Showing now
Summer Dresses Cocktail and Evening
Gowns
HATS:
RIVELLE
6. Gloucester Arcade.
Tel. 33186.
COOLNESS and COMFORT are the
characteristics of Gordon's Summer Shoes.
A large and attractive sélection for all occasions. White Kid.
White Suede.
White Linen.
Beige Canvas.
Gordon's Ltd.
HONG KONG'S LADIES SHOE SPECIALISTS.
at
First showing
Star Satin Dresses
The new Material
in
Tailored Styles,
from $39,50
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
LADIES SALON.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1936.
Fashion
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WHAT THEY WEAR AT HOME
CLOTHES FOR OUT-OF-DOORS
Tailored clothes now show so many, experiments as to make the conventional. closely modelled coat, and skirt almost old-fashioned.
For instance, there is a short coat with a short pleated bird's ta. There are also short coats with basques and with pleatings on the revers. The bolero. shorter still, has been rev.ved. More modern are square padded should- ers. Morning jacket sults are an- other development; they button rather high, and pockets and re- vers may be double, alanting. pouch-shaped or hart-shaped.
PIQUE OR MARCELLA White pique or marcella is muen used for giving a sharp line to re- vers and collars. While the Mar- got ruffle is seen on the dresses of "ensembles," the Wellsian sharp shoulder line on walking suits has
GAYER COLOURS THIS SUMMER
COTTAGE FLOWER
SHADES
Dress salons are now intersper- sing their dark tailored ensembles with brilliant notes in colour. Delicate spring-like tints for the summer are stressed, particularly for débutantes
Brown. always a useful colour, has come into the list again very smart are. the smaller patterns in brown and white
ROUND THE SHOPS
LANE, CRAWFORD'S
In the Ladies Department, this week we find a very smart selec- tion of the latest Satin Dresses in tolored styles. This material is sbsolutely the latest and ever so good looking. The dresses are so beautifully cut and designed. An- other new shipment of stitched hats have arrived and also Ameri- can walking shoes, in white buck- skin, from $11.75 in all sizes.
MAIZEES
Will be having a one day special sale on Monday. Included in this sale (and we know when they have a sale it's a real sale) are hats, handbags, beach togs and a hum- ber of smart Dresses in dark shades-that have arrived too late, for the Spring.
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RIVELLE
"Have some very attractive Dresses for both Day and Evening wear, specially the new nets and laces that are so becoming and fashionable, Besides these, she has a few smart silk dresses and sulta
MAYOS
Mayo's Intest shipment of hate- includes a good selection of rough and other straws in all shades and styles and all head sizes.
GORDONS
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Are showing another, new and. attractive shipment of shoes in sandals and other summer styles;
CHINA EMPORIUM
This store have a large selection of white handbags that goes with most outfits, Tery reasonably priced-and atted with mirror, powder box and coin purse.
ACCORDION PLEATING
Peruched Leather As Latest Novelty
check for the new slim ahort skirt. GLOVES, SHOES, HAND-
the hem Bashed with a brown
wool fringe. This looked well with a finger-tip coat of brown kriobbly cloth.
that, although somewhat more
BAGS AND BELTS
There are two new Farls colours latest leathers destined to be used Dimples and puckers adorn the auttimnal than springlike, are dark with the new spring and summer enough to look chic for the street modes as accessories in the form ensemble. One is almost a prune of handbags, gloves, belts and mulberry shade; the other is a shoes. An ingenious invention in compromise between an ever-ripe British machinery has made it blackberry or darkest plum, with possible to produce a novel treat-
ROSEBUDS AND DAISIES
The rosebud is once again the motif of little girls' jáskíóns. Pale blue organdie embroidered with rearbuds will be favoured for party frocks.
Silk organdie frocks of wild rose pink are made with frills, cording or ruching. A neckline of dainies will be an attractive summer noer'
a suggestion bloom surface.
of the lovely grey-
an aminity to a starched "rever. The Margot or Marie Stuart bon- net goes with little tailed or bas- qued coats, and the bowler or the hard coalite shiny straw jutting forward with more modern coats. Stik tailormades for weddings usually incline to the basqued line, and have fanciful fastenings and. revers. Skirts with these little coats are tailored much as usual, though in silk there may be a
· modified. circular skirt, or a skirt with pleats fastened down at one
The blackberry shade in alik can side. Some of the little light robe-de-style or the cinema dress. also look delightful for the elegant woollen jacket autts have a school- girl's turn-over collar; this collar is also seen on long costs.
TAILORED BLOUSES .. Lovely pale unts that recall sum- are anely, boxpleated me days, and green swards make a good selection for the young girl, tatlored blouses of plain crêpe dé and are specialy successful in some Chine and fine linen for wear of the lovely new printed crepe, ing with bplainer tailormades. blossom
chiffon and cotton designs. Peach bas ousted the harder More elaborate blouses anowise, Sèvres blue is chosen instead drawn thread, and fine tucking. of peacock, and a 1ly-green in lleu Some little afternoon blouses are or emerald.
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with skirt of ground-length, woru with a matching chiffon corsage over which comes an open work bolero of the afx.
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Reai old sweet pea cottage mix- in fancy allks to matek coat lin- tures give us palest pinks, mauves Ings. Colour contrast is seen in and a pearly grey, though the lar the piping of pockets of jacket" get grown modern flowers strike suits or in the linings of capes, tel choice now is so lars, and so deeper and stronger.tones. The pas- boleros, and costs; but it is not beautifully blended that no general Boutsche Braid is also young enough to wear such shades used on coata, but it sults only
should neglect the chance. v-at The range in that favourite plain-surfaced materiala. :
leader, blue, is very wide, but the Patent leather court shoes with paler tones are most popular. Love-in-the-Mist, & delicate Bèvres, punched designs are a revival with a whitey blue cloud colour. There are also country shoes with are exquisite t the new aerophane low beta to what is called lug and tulles. A crêpe satin in white Kago colour belge suede, with Turquoise in ita palest tint is stili is splashed with a sea-blue flower:
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darker leather trimming.
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All head sizes,
Just arrived
NEW HATS Latest styles and Colours.
Mavo's
HONG KONG
In the
MODE
WHITE HANDBAGS
◆ LATEST DESIGN TO MATCH YOUR SPRING COSTUME. Attractive yet not expensive, With mirror, coinpurse, powder box, and
rouge container
companied.
ac-
CHINA EMPORIUM
WHERE THE CAREFUL BUYERS SHOP FIRST,
other surfaces. in curved, waved, diagonal and
In the first instance, the process was applied to light-weight dress materials and fabrics designed for interior decoration, eiderdown and cushion covers and curtains. The peruche process is worked in lea- ment of leather known as the
thers with great success. Peruch- peruche:
ed leathers, are being shown in This is really a development of many of the latest spring colours. accordion pleating made. Pacific Bengal belge, English famous by the dancer Letty Lind green, Cork buff and Carleton, and in her skirt dances, and of the an important feature is the per- box, knife and pla-pleated mate- manence of the peruche. riais used so much in fashions at Another new and interesting -the present day. The modern treatment. of leather surfaces peruching, however, provides an shown In & range of "fashion almost unlimited variety of designs colours is known as canyon leather.
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This also has a broken or uneven surface with an artistic finish that hit the happy mean between brightness and an entirely matt effect, the English calf skin which gives just the right texture for the tanners' purpose being treated al- ternately on the fesh side and on the
This new il-Britan leather is not only made in shoe feathers But asorti love handbag and belt leathers, and provides can original and beautiful skin for the desimers of morta garments of the
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