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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1936.
FALL
Modal by Mme. Anny Blafi
SAPBI
WISE WOMEN
knit to fit
WITH
Ramada
A VITELLA HOUSE PRODUCT
SUPERFINE PURE WOOL
Look! This chic frock has been worn at least a score of times yet it fits as Aleekly as the day it was made. And why?
"because there's a "life" about 'Ramada' wool that gives lasting style and fit to anything you knit in it.
Ramada is the perfect wool for fashion knitting. Famous knitwear designers use
and recommend it. An exceptionally soft and kind' wool, it has wonderful wearing qualities and colours that are absolutely jas, to sun and washing. An other advantage--the colours never vary. You can match up any 'shade of 'Ramada’" wool, at any time, in any shop" where
Ramuda' can be bought
From all "first-class, stores through- out the East. If any dificulty, please write Wm. Hollins & Co., Ltd., Viyella House, Nottingham, England,
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LONDON FASHIONS
Furs For Early Autumn
Travel coats are made this sea-
son of fleecy sports fabrics, natural, grey, and tan, and of knotty tweeds.
Among the favourite styles are the reefer and a long swagger coat, rit on mannish lines, neither of which is fur-trimmed. The thred cutline may be belted or unbelted and has wide, comfortable sleeves, large practical pockets, and wide belts of leather or of self material
useful and comfortable driving roat of two-colour bird's-eye tweed has cape sleeves and close stitching on the small upstanding collar, cuffs; and pockets. Fur trimmings an coats are mostly of the harder- wearing long-haired furs such as lynx. skunk, cross fox, and a few of the fatter furs such as nutria and beaver. In their natural tones these look, well with neutral, col- oured tweeds. A coat of red-brown tweed has a long collar of cross fox which lies flat on the shoul ders, the two heads forming a point in the centre of the back.
The newest line in sports coats gives an hour-glass-silhouette. It bas wide apels and packet naps which stand out over the hips to accentuate the fitted waistline. It
is best untrimmed and made in a brushed fleece fabric.
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Smooth suėde-like materials such as broadcloth and duvetyn are used for more formal coats.
These have fitted bodices and flared skirts with squared shoul- ders and high necklines. They are much trimmed with bandings and insertions of Perslan lamb This fur is also used for walstcoats. yokes, and sleeves. Skilful methods of treatment enable furs, to be made up into coats with as much intimacy of detail and cut as those in woollen materials. fur coat with tunle effect is flared all round, It may be in Krey: brown, or black Indian lamb and is to be worn over a slim woolllen dress which exactly matches the colour of the fur. Another shape shows the fullness falling from a fitted shoulders line, giving a lump- shade effect. A slender, straight full-length coat of."black pony has an upstanding collar and extreme width at the shoulders: Soft deep turs such as sable and mink make coats of slim. straight outline with wide sleeves and classical shawl collars. Grey Persian lamb and ombre dyed lamb ure used for front-belted swagger coats; the sleeves are moderately wide. A coat of grey Perslan lamb cut on princess-lines has a double-breast-
ed front and gathered sleevės,
Casual fur coats, both belted and plain, are cut on swagger lines in
SCARF-MAKING
three-quarter length They have Velvet Or Knitting
convertible collars and sensible double-breasted fastenings. Fa- vourite furs are black ponyskin, grey and brown lamb, and bronze. or black seal, Lapin also is dyed and used with considerable effect for this type of coat, which may de given a more formal ‘appear-: ance by a large fox collar.
Ermine for evening wear still re- mams the favoured fur. It is used to make a straight hanging" .box coat of hip length with deep arm- hole sleeves A stiffly Blared .ermine cape of two-thirds length: has a flat neckline and, wide rip- pling collar. Floor-lengtn coats of waite ermine are moulded to the Sgure with new yokes and sleeves which give either shoulder em- phasis or a mass of fullness above the narrow CURS.
The scarf is again in 'request zu provide that touch of colour for the
cannot winter. Colour
be too bright or too greatly varied, and it is in this intention that many peo- ple are making their own scarves, whether by means of knitting or bé confections in silk or velvet. Some scarves are made by means of two pieces of ribbon from a to eight inches wide. One piece may be striped, the other plain. Or stripes and spots may be joined to gether. If the spots are big. these are eut out and the edges neatly tucked under and sewn, it may be thread. with a different-coloured
In this way pattern may combine " with patten" to make a varied scheme. At this time of year tailored sults look well with an up- propriate scarf, which many peo- ple prefer to a fur. "Bouclé" silk or cotton in dead white or creamy yellow can be knitted into short. narrow scarves which turn over under the chin as though they were a stock. A good way to do these is to make them about six inches wide in moss-stitch-one puri, with an uneven number of stitches. In addition they can also be on the bias, by putting on one stitch at one end and taking off one at the other, These nar- row blas scarves look well in a bright colour in plain, stocking- stitch, the slant giving them the effect of weaving. * Velvet "scar- ves can be made of brightly strip-, d velvet, backed perhaps with black velvet, it both are thin and supple. A allk backing in a bright colour can also be used. Thus many are the varieties in scarves which can be made to fill in the tops of coats and dresses,
Beauty
News!
Women'are
intrigued by
the
new fringe fashions in which curts take an upward tilt away from the placed brow. These cunningly
little curls soften the brow line, yet give a wide sweep to the fore- head that has been found to be such a becoming Vogue" in, these days when eyes and eyebrows have so much care bestowed upon their beauty.
by Most faces are improved some softening at the brow line,
dressing has soft side curis just and it is often a question of facial
over the ears and at the nape of tupe as to which is the best way
the neck. This is the type of up- to arrange the front coiffure. The
standing fringe. that while it ac- shape of features. the eyes and
centuates the charm of a youth- eyebrows are among the most imful contour of features, becomes portant points to consider. C
A girl with piquant features. can take the modish row of short upstanding curls over the front of the brow, but this would be too trying for a well-rounded face. Then the fringe should be de- signed, by side placing, to give a little additional length, to the features. The rather short, pret- tily shaped fringe is helpful when the forehead is too high. A wide brow needs softening at each side with waves of hair or tiny curis Just over the temples.
Bub, it is the girl
the older woman also, for there is a note of dignity and distinction in the restrained effect of the curls
"over the brow."
A half fringe is a new idea. This is arranged on whichever side of the brow proves most be- coming.. and the hair 18" drawn back in a soft wave on the other side. However soignee these hair- dressings afe, the effect is never allowed to be stift, and there is plenty of scope, for strengthening individual beauty points and of sulting the coiffure to the shape of the face and the profile.
FOREHEAD KEVEALED Sometimes there is a double row of tiny curls at one side, and two or three odd ones carefully placed at the other: Each curl is placed with delicate artistry, and with the slightly tilted back effect that does not altogether: bide the act- ual hair line, but just accents the most becoming curve of the fore- head. These upstanding fringes suit fair and dark heads alike, and are not difficult to achieve when the hair has once been trainéa. If necessary a little transparent fixative can be used to keep un- ruly tendrils in position.
Swathed Crowns" Give Softer Line
Crowns of varying degrees of
height sway the latest modes in millinery. The creators of fas- hion have given a softening touch to the new line by means of trimming, which swathes and elr- cles crowns and "brimg. Colour contrast is also provided by this
means.
Short brims that roll up both sides, slant down on one and up at the other or peaking slightly forward back and front,
of the дем.. are characteristics high-crowned venture in autumn, Parisian millinery, according "to Suzanne Taibet." This madiste insista on hats being not. only smart, but elegant, and -makes fittings swerve in a manner en- tirely opposed to the perch for- ward that got its impetus from elastic grips to low crowns. These hats are still worn. also berets.
with one new model of black felt Alanting from high up on right to way down on the left where * Cat black feather dips beyond
over, one eye.
Felts sway and a smart black shape railed with machine-stitch- ed lines arid a velvet ribbon trim- ming. vies with one of English violet blue felt showing a match- ing coloured ostrich trimming at the back.
Both navy and bottle green are smart and may urge the use of ratural coloured turkey quills. Violet blue is the new craze. for felt shapes, and this particular style shows it on to perfection. Other colours, greens, browns and Burgundy reds, are liable to be seen as the autumn season dern- lops.
Hats bank up high crown m panne velvet. These are for oz- casions and not ordinary
wear,
them.
so lace velling enhances and this medium, takes a short drop all way round a brim.' 'This brim peaks slightly forward in front from fatter sides and the shape in black panne is complete with a rosette of seed pearls sur- rounded by lace set right at the centre front of the crown. Gloves of the panne with black lace in- serted shadow the back of the back of the hand and extend into a gauntlet cuff.
الله
RAGE THIS WINTER
1.
The new semi-tailored dinner frocks will be the rage this winter, high neck and long sleeves. In lamé, lace, velvet, or any rich
will be material, they
smart enough for quite important par- ties. These frocks" show skirts that just touch or clear the ground. Only formal frocks are. can just come trained. Bleeves
the elbow, but long-fitted ones, that suit all women, are as fashionable as ever.
over
Purple is a good colour for day and night. All-white is much worn, especially in matt mate- rials White matt batin is effec- tively, mixed-with the shiny satin- surface. Many of the more luxu- rious matt colours are tr'mmed with white fox.
There is no doubt that these fringes of 18th century inspiration and becoming In are youthful many instances when the hair is dressed with curls at the nape of the neck. as it so often is, an upward tilted fringe of tiny curls can give better proportions to the coiffure and make the head more shapely in outline.
the Silhouette shapeliness of whose hair,
bead is essential in all the new grows in a fairly low and be- coming line over the brow who is ways of hairdressing. Whether the hair be short or long at the back, abre to make the most of the
set in a wide wave across the upstanding fringe vogue for the brow can be softened here and
crown, or sleek and straight, heads are improved when the hair is there by a fascinating little curl, while still keeping the beauty of
correctly shaped. One of the dif- ficulties of the front and back the natural brow line. Eyebrows should be shaped to suit the type
curled coiffures is the awkward line the hair sometimes takes over of fringe chosen.
the crown of the head. With a well-shaped head the hair may fall lace. naturally into a graceful contour at the back. Clever shaping by a hairdress will achieve the same re- sult.
THE UPWARD TREND
The trend of hairdressing modes this autumn for the front of the hair is an upward tilt, showing the full beauty of brow, eyes and eye- brows after the manner of eighteenth-century coiffures.
The rolled back swirl from the brow, either to bue side or the other, surmounted by stray curls skilfully placed to, best advantage arranged at the sides, or show- ing slightly above the swirl In front--is very much of this period, and suits clear-cut modern faces well. Usually this style of
The lovely lamé designs are so richly woven that sombre, shades' and designs are best. A pale pastel shade of pink ris b'ended with a silver weave a completed by a tailored jacket of fine silver