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Models for ever occasion.
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Sale proceeding. Our entire stock of goods'
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Cocktall and Evening Gowns,
RIVELLE
Gloucester Arcade
Fashion Flashes From
The Riviera
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1938.
Jashion
PRE-VIEW
BEAUTY RESOLUTIONS FOR THE YEAR
Have you made lots of New Year résolutions? It's a custom at this time of year, but hope you haven't completely finished the Job. Could you squeeze in a few Beauty resolutions?
Here are a few suggestions. It you can keep them all, you'll find. yourself much better looking by the time next. New Year comes
round.
FIRST-Cleanliness is beauty's first cousin, and it you don't keep your skin scrupulously clean it
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cramp your feet because you feel proper size is too large?. You can... think of other bad little beauty habits for yourself and resolve to get rid of them."
SIXTH-Mannerisms- they're hard to break, but you can man- at vir relation to apur you
a New Year
on.
with your handkerchief when taik
A few to beware of are fiddling
won't look fresh and unblemished... ing. aitting with knees crossed and. Sp a good resolution to make is too much leg showing, fidgeting with your napkin at table, sitting this. Every night be sure to wash
with legs curled round the leg of or clean your face before you go to bed, no matter how tired you
the chair, slipping off uncomfort- able court shoes under the table, arc..
giggling through nervousness..
If you don't do this already, you'll find that after a week. It will become a armly fixed habit, and you'll never dream of getting into bed without first removing every scrap of make-up and dirt
SECOND-Resolve to clean your teeth night and morning, and if
THIRD.-Can you apare a few minutes each day for hair-brush- ing? It's a good ́resolution to
possible after. medis. Clean, healthy teeth react on your health as well as your good looks, so it's The fashionable silhouette this well worth while taking this little Riviera season is sporting-hair-trouble to preserve them. tength swagger coat with plain wool frock. Smartest coats are1in vividly-coloured velvet with tailor- ed Persian lamb revers.
"Wool frock" is frequently inter- preted in terms of stockinet. Interest is concentrated on the up-, per part of the dress, which is cut closely to the figure, with diagonal opening buttoning down one side Necks are high and collarlesa.
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Wide scarves in heavy. crêpe, loosely knotted round the throat, are in neutral colours to contrast with coats. Very wide, long cloth scarves, bordered down one side with far, accompany cloth frocks.
make, and one which brings as its reward a head which shines with good health
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SEVENTH-Can you spare 趄 resolution for your feet? To file the nails, straight across, get rid "of-corns and callouses as soon as they appear? You'll gain a lot of comfort if you do.
EIGHTH and last-Will you re- solve to take more exercise in 1938 than you did In 1937? Don't"
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suddenly become -that would do more harm than good--but a small dose of exercise each day will work wonders for your looks.
If you're a business girl walk to your bus three mornings of the week, or take a walk in the mid- dle of the day-anything to atir up your circulation once a day in
Add to this the resolution to shampoo the hair regularly every" the cause of good looks. fortnight and take immediate pre- ventive measures if you see plens of overdryness, too much grease or dandruff.
FOURTH-What about hands? Do you let them take care of themselves until the wind chap them or a nail breaks? It's very Leather belts are as narrow as easy just to cut or file them, and string. Often their place is taken not attend to the finer points of by printed, foulard scarves, folded the manicure, Ant round the waist.
For golf, there are jackets with
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BEST FRIEND knitted backs and sleeves. Fronts
Here's to the romance of woman's hand from angagerunt circlet to wedding
band
Gracefully moving through the play › Of work and love-in a woman's way. TO assure un's self of
satin-smooth nails, ure. I tapering
...the superior polish. It applies smoothly, sets evenly and has a st "ing lustre. It does not crack, chip, peel or discolor. You many wlect from 12 shades, any one of which will bland with gown, complexion, lipstick or rouge. Try PLAT-NUM to iny.
PLATNUM
Nail Polish
"anufactured y PLAT-NUM LABORATORIES
Fifth Ave. New York. PRICE 3.60 Bottle Sole Distributors:
Auw Pil Seng's Trading Co., Ltd. "Hongkong.
Your Eyelids Are Telling Tales!
The one feature in your face that gives away your age is your eyes. "And even if you are still young. work and strain will affect them immediately.
You must give them regular at- tention if you want to avoid those repy lids which spoll the mast artistic make-up.
Gentle massage of the eyes will increase the circulation and give firmness of tissue.
·Ude an eye cream and press the tips of the fingers firmly on the eyeballs, kneading and stroking alternately with a firm circular movement
auéde fronta and inely hand-
sometimes have a dozen pockets, six-a-side.
A few minutes once a week- that is all you need give. So what hands soft and smooth and the about resolving to make your
nails neatly and Inconspicuously manicured?
FIFTH-Check up on your little |habits, for the next resoluțion. Do Tailored cloth-of-gold' blouses you bite your nails, or ups, rub are seen with velvet sults at cock powder into your skin. without tails and dinner, Jackets are first. removing the last layer, buy short and fitted, and skirts are shoes which are too small and ground-length. -
THREE WAYS
Of Turning Up A Skirt Hem
If you are turning up the hem of a skirt, and the material is a thick tweed, it ́la dimcult to
avold a ridge the hem is just turned up and then felled down. One way of avoiding this tell-tale line is to sew a strip of Prussian binding to the raw edge and
to slip-stitch this down to the skirt.
If the skirt is fared, there is still a better' way. · Mark where you want the edge of the skirt to come with a row of tacking stitches, and put another row: along the raw, edge. · You will have some surplus mate- rial in this type of skirt, so be- tween these two rows of tacking stitches, set all the surplus in tiny pleats.
then fell the opposite side of the Cover the material with a damp cloth and press with a hot frun- nearly all the pleats will disap- pear, and the material can be invisibly stitched down.
binding on the skirt material. with Invisible siltches. Another way would be to bind the raw edge with bias binding and
BEAUTY BOX
Round The Shops
Ladies are reminded of the last two days of the special sale - at LANE, CHAWFORD'S. LADIES' SALON of shoes for day, evening and sports wear" in all sizes 'and many attractive çoğurs,"
There are also Gossards corsets and girdles at greatly reduced
prices. All sizes are carried.
A special discount of 20 per cent. is given on all Charnaux corsets as well.
At RIVELLE'S the sale is pro- ceeding apace where the entire stock of goods is being offered at half-price, including a very special selection of "evening and cocktail gowns.
"The clientele" of this popular shop are strongly advised to
· visit pay." a
and make their selections from an unlimited orray of smart dresses at extremely cheap prices.
MAYO'S have repclved andther selection, of very bright hats in "models to suit every taste and, for
splendid assortment of novelties every occasion. There are also a
and ornaments for the hair. "
Milady will, and a wonderful opportunity at HENRY & COM- PANT for purchasing smart costs. whether it be. fur or otherwise, at practically cost price. Another thing, no reasonable offer made is refused.
There are also novelties, in con~"! tume jewellery, bags, belts, etc., all- at 20 per cent, discount. Watch their window displays, ladies!
SILK AS A FABRIC
NEW YORK
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The Allhouette for formal after- The crusade for fibre identifica- "noon' wear presents the slim skirt, tion 's making us all more the bodice draped to emphasize acious of the yarns that are woven the bust, the slightly, concave into our dress fabrics. Each yarn, diaphragm, the wasp waist or the has its own character and pos-glove-tight elongated midriff in sesses qualities which adapt It pre- the corselet mode. Theso two eminently for certain uses.
types of corsage are well contrast, ed in two of our illustrations.
Silk is the most slastic of the Abrea. By reason of this fact it offers special, resistance to sagging.
FOR THE TIGHT SKIRT For the tight skirt an elastic bagging, bulging, stretching, and, materini is desirable as a precau- pulling at the seams, for instead tion against spilling, for even of splitting under strain, it ex- when a slit is introduced in the pands. Furthermore, 'it endures name of freedom of front pleats weight without growing limp, are permitted, the skirt remains having, in comparison to its thick- · swathed over hips and thighs, ness, the greatest tensile strength of any fibre. It drapes flattering- ty: it rustles: it cleans:
BEGINNING WITH FORMAL AFTERNOON
The relation of these qualities to the present mode is clear. Let us consider our silhouettes.
In doing so we well omit these that swing and sway.on, man- nequins and those that fall into discreet lines on office workers and teachers, for silk fabrics are formal in appearance and high in initial cost and not so appropriate as wools and acetales and rayon mixtures for the hurly-burly of hurried hours. Rather, we wil
begin at four-thirty or five o'clock and continue, the moving picture. through the night, for these are the hours when. silk fabrics step forth in glogy,
Then with the second and third ́!. fingers, pat in the cream beneath and above the eyes and towards the temples. DO NOT RUB IT IN,':
as the skin'round the eyes in 100 delicate to stand harsh treatment.
Leave it on as long as is convent- ent--preferably for about 10 to 18 minutes.
Remove It gently with colton
wool..
If you have a rather
[date "--try putting some... eye tissue oil on the lids. It will give them an attractive gleam and add
certain something to the band
of your eyes that wasn't there
before,
Last Two
Two Days
Special Sale
Ladies' }
Day, Evening and
Shoes
Gossard Corsets
all Sizes.
Special discount of 20%
Charnaux, Corsets
Ladies'
Salon
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
all COATS Must Go Buy
No reasonable offer refused:
Special discount of 10% 20%
Bags, Compacts, Dressing sets, Costume, Jewellery, etc.
Watch our window display.
HENRY &
Gloucester Building,
The pleated, tucked, shired and smocked technique, which are used with consummate skill on the more or tulle seem actual. The fabric is elaborate fucks, always define the the drama, a drams of movement, natural planes and curves. In of light and shadow, of" shifting other words, the body is given its colour tones, of pulanting rhythms. natural character by these dra- We will not say that only silk can peries, and for this purpose fabrics be worn woven into such poctic which will follow the contours over fabrics, but its pearly luster, its which they lie are essential. Not softness, its durability, its accep- all weaves or silk are suitable from tance of "dry-cleaning processes, atandpoint. For instance, render it.. both beautiful and taflets, being stiff, would establish practical.
this
Its own lines and some of the In a smart green silk-crepe evenTM heavy silk velvets would be too ing dress of Diretoire derivation, bulky to sculpture the form; but the silk jerseys, crepes, georgettes, softer failles, satins, sheers, may clrased among the most
be
feminine and yielding weaves, ideal for this silhouette. And although they are not in this respect superior to some woot-and-rayon mixtures, they add to their drap ing quality unrivalled formality und elegance, prover for important functions.
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worn with a very modern jacket of silk fringe, we see crepe used to express statuesque" drapery.
Fabric. has been chosen that falls, heavily and settles into rich folds as the skirt, descends from a rather high waistline. Drapery like this could be achieved also with wool, but formality would be sacrificed and also the tradition of the costume period whose lines are borrowed.
EVENING VARIETY
METAL BROCADES Evening silhouette are numerous
In our formal modern frock of and sharply contrasted. One may flame-coloured all metal, brocad- choose between the sheath, giving fed with oak leaves, we have an the wearer a poured-in appear example of a fabric which could anco, and the modern interpréta scarcely be equalled in richness, tion of crinoline, in which the and elegance in any other fibre. wearer becomes an intangible, and even were it to be emulated cloudy creature, of romaned Or, in synthetic yarns, these would desiring neither effect, one may more readily tarnish... emulate the high-waisted, slim- skirted ladies of the Directoire or Empire period. Again, one may express the mode' for 1938 In high style. skirt that flows away from the mid-thighs in gentle fullness be- low a corseleted bodice for a wasp waist
The sheath requires a material which has body' and is yet supple, It must mould the form but have plastic character fjæelf.··
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Metal brocades for formal after- noon wear as well as evenings, and for; Jackets and accessories, are
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PARIS FASHIONS
Turbans are in fashion: some are broad, others more lender in line, and both Porsia and North Africa" have supplied the milliners, with ideas. Bilk, felt, velvet, and dress materials are used to drape these turbans. Many are bi-coloured, and a black and sapphire-bite velvet turban looks well with a black duvetyn dress and a three- quarter length coat of broadtail Some of the felt toques are worn with vizor brimis; others are more simple in shape and are built up with little rosettes or telt, velvet, and alternate rosettes of gros-grain and velvet Broad-brimmed felt hals are turned up sharply at one side, and berets, of which there are an equal number, have the same movement. Velour-felta are in fashion for the morning. A dark/ green velour cloche and a green velour cloche and a green scarf. go with a brown tailor-made, or with Afternoon toques continue to be one in a lighter shade of green. trimmed with veils which do not necessarily cover the eyes but fall at the side of the face. Fose Valois has a toque, which is tall brim and a short well at me side, and tapering, with a narrow rolled
Dressmakers are giving attention Silk presents for itself yet an-
to dresses for the younger set; other argument in relation to the Helm-Jeunes-Files specialize in styles of this season. The mode iste jersey frocks with Peter Pan one of lavish trimming Sequins, collars and neatly byttered bounces paillettes, jewels, beads, ribbons, trimmed with Unes of siliching or embroideries, are introduced into pin-tucking, Certain dresses have the fabrics in heavy and intricate incrustations of Ughter colours designs Materials are needed and the bodite of a reddish-brown which will not tear under their dress shows L-chaped dnsets of In the crinoline allhouette the load or stretch and ang "Better Daler brown squares of pink and fabric steals the story. The body than fabrics woven from other soft blue woollen: material make a beneath: seems mythical and only abres the all materials withstand tailored blouse with long tight the yards. upon yards of chiffon, this strain."Christian Science Reeves Colours are important in mouse-linede-solre, silk net, voile | Monitör."}}
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