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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1920.
HIR PAGE
FOR DINNER WEAR.
The der damer mali per quin is shown on M. Maure left. It is of in pevalvarda turautiful pudeliteve n silk, despunt d'aven the begivan, poreng anh
Airt, the thu lengths sweepers ang mphet and food bowmoet in gain in a boon printest train, Pier
Pas shetty anormal shades docker nat me mbden then the dress and embrodesed in greenegedi threesi. P is Band with a pritet ski Amar Plafon, put the deems trimmed
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Designs of the Moment.
What the new lingerie larks in feolour contrasting with the then quantity and bulk it more than Such ribbons tune in prettily with compensates for in daintines the Blez. Valenciennes and Trish and
exquisite 1:1
fiat-. crochet laces that derk the White." 6 cruise. remains modern lingerie Lavish embroi- supreme. The woman- olderies are hand-wrought on ma-% rednement will not willinglyjamas of silk or satin, sometimes be indured to port with it for a in pastel tints, otherwise in al colourful tival; but she is easily most crude colours. When of an persuaded to include here and Oriental taste they may be used there a garment of delicate pink, Jeffectively as a smoking cart in an item of pale orchid, a bit of the privarg of one's boulez. azure blue, just for lurk perhaps, oreven something of maize colour!
NEILIGEE GOWNS
For hours of ease there are
or of Nile green by way of var ying the montong of the charming delightful negligees, either tea. all-white underwear. Somewhat way, after the French idea. English startling is the recent introduss practical, after the ion of brown and of black lingerie.models, or flavoured with the art made of crepe Georgette and of Nippon or India. The fabrics dyed net. trimmed with lace of tun the gamut from fine cloths to the same dull hues. White netransparent gauzes, with emph- as a lingerie fabric is fairly new asis placed on the silks and it bas been with sufficiently Crepes that have been found so long to have passed the fad charmingly suceptible of negligee stage. Nothing can exceed its euro pieces, lose or sashed: airy daintiness, particularly when and while high colours are ex- tinted in flesh tone and trimmed tremely popular the same may be with the finest of lace. the latter said of the black model-perhaps frequently over-wrought with because they lend themselves so hand-embroideries. The French admirably to travel exigencies as are partial to netbut only in the well as to the elegant atmosphere extra Ene qualities. Otherwise of a pastel-finished boudoir.
A robe d'intrieur of fame col- they profer nainrook in white or Occasionally in criam colour, orloured satin brocaded in silver is fine linen in pure white. The fact built on the classic lines of the that such things are hand-made Mogen Age. Indeed the Beatrice is an additional factor in their of Dante or Petarch's Laura value rating. To be sure, mavy might have worn an identical gar- machine-made garments mayment with its straight silhouette <claim great beauty, and there is accentuated by the introduction no doubt that the better made of silver lace down either side machine onderwear is to be pre-broadening from ankle to hip. ferred to the inferior hand-made The sleeves are Bowing in a product that comes from over-subtly draped effect and the seas; but other things being equal medieval idea is constantly car- the discriminating woman likes tied out in the silver cordeliere her fine lingerie sewn by hand. loosely fastened in front.
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STRIPES EVERYWHERE.
as expensive as silk or maybe There is evidently going to be because there is a wish to return an enormous craze for stripes to first principles. There cottons. this season. Most of the new however, are far removed from materials show stripes, either the coarse, unbleached goods of wide or narrow, and ribbons seem our grandmothers' time.
to have no time for anything but Princess slips of sheer Georget-stripes of the most variegated de crepe are simply trimmed with description. On one ribbon one tulle and ribbon for wear with could count them in a dozen clinging frocks of silk or muslin. different colours. Shirt blouses, Frequently the ribbon is a two-stockings, and even handbags all toped affair or with one side of alshow the same tendency.or
FASHION NOVELTIES.
LATEST IDEA IN EVENING
FROCKS.
To follow fashion's programme this season a woman will need the purse of the fairy tale which could never be emptied. Luxo- riance and costliness of material is the keynote of the newest models.
At the salon's
of Messrs. Paquio. Ltd. in Dover-street, society gazed for two bours recently on the creations of the famous Paris house. Wonderful javening gowns and opera cloaks were displayed by the graceful French mannequins.
Une marked fashion ebange attracted much comment. This was the total disappearance of the back 10% the evening frock, and the arrival of 盒 front. reaching A
high 33 the throat. Another novelty was the introduction of costly par- adise plumes and ospreys into the trimming of evening cloaks. The beauty of trear featherS made the wonderful confections of tissue and brocade, with their vivid linings of rose pink, more exquisite syll
But only the super-wealthg were daring enough to inquire the price.
grapes
HAT OF PEARLS.
COMMAISET SETSTORE.KA. Tida
Mele. Lahe Lipkowska, the wellAma - Tyric stipraus, ** seen alege a caring her marvel- bars hot or porrie, valued at BADO
WOMEN AND WORDS.
FOOLISH GENERALITIES.
TEA DANSANTS.
TRIFLES THAT COUNT.
A correspondent writing from Havana says-To attend a smarti tea dansant here is to be tempor arily transported to Paris. The women are perhaps not as smart, but the majority of them wear: remarkably chic clothes and are exceedingly pretig.so that thera is a charm about them that noual maydens. They certainly follow Paris and wear things that we in the more conservative. United States would consider ultra. Short skirts are no povelty anywheresi but here they wear them shorter than anywhere outside of Paris.
Most of the smartest frocks seen here to-day had very full short skirts, short sleeves and rounded necklines of various depths. The smartest of all was of brown tafets veiled with brown maline, turked to the waist line above a deep hem. There were bands of brown velvet ribbon about two inches in width,) placed almost together at the wais: fine and falling over the skirt straight to the hem. The bodice was covered in the same) way, giving the effect of a sheet material striped with velvet The tiny puff sleeves were of brown net finished with a heading of the net. A metal brocade bat of brown and gold had a wealth of brown paradise sweeping the shoulders, fo: paradise is a forbidden plumage in this land, and the majority of the has worn are laden with it.
Have you noticed that many wellgowned women are wearing their wrist watches on a crey grosgrain or moire ribbon ? Everybody seems possessed of a diamond wrist watch, and it is the latest fad to wear it on a grey ribbon.
BUTTERFLY ON THE WRIST. Mascot posies for ting wedding pages are rather rare. Four little begs wore bunches of shamrock for luck at a recent fashion- able wedding. Their
Moralists base asserted often attendants, miniature and dainty, of late that, socially, we wames had a quaint noe in their are not as nice as we once were: costumes. Wrist bracelets were joined above the back of the hand neither so moral, so modest, nor with lace butterflies.
well whose so
mannered. *titre delicate wings stood up with a Kathleen L. Murray in the Eret such as these that earns for a It is paying attention to trides touch of nonchalance.
Tag Standard. We are, they woman the reputation of being aaser, lacking in reticence, in well dressed, and how surprising conversation wenibon at the for-travel the world over. One ses 15 quick fads and foibles are to
hidden apples of thought; our here jewels as lovely as could be EVENING GOWN|dancing and our dressin: are both found anywhere and in settings
that are still novel on the rur del open to criticism, and we have
la Paix. With the exception of becume far too familiar with a penchant for long earrings there livce. Worst of all, weswear; is little difference between the that is taken at the last and jewelry worn here and in either
America or Europe. greatest proof of our depravity. No nice woman. they conclude, would nee swear words.
GRACEFUL
Crepe meteor in a blue, somewhat softer than tur- quoise, with a mitery tone. is the material of this at- tractice etening goen. The hip-poke is of plain silver cloth of subdued sheen, while the coreslet, which, like most of the present day corsages, is fushioned on soft silk. brassiere foundation, is of blue nul silter brocade. This corselet is held up by chains of silver cord and Then from the top of the curaelct at the back, there fulls a scarf of blue tulle that is caught up with the skirt und from which falls a long nar- To train of the silver bro- cule.
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A NEW SLEEVE.
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It sa af frimene type bat wbtle much fúlunna lilive tite elbour held vat hy on inside cord, then this fuluess pedrasen inbincað Famed of the arguin binding which is stretelord w'bit along its Bowser ending, an that if fores; and it is chiffon-faced. Th• mrad hon is fired with a deeper qerys with an iwatatitntsing fydd of the fleurette, quž Gour-pette be a furtiv, by se ilhed nhlst the prena with electora ut gerozpurs,
JUTTINGS.
It is the little accessories that are impressive in watebing
BEAN DECORATIONS. group of dancers. The woinen
Wooden beads are extensively i who present the best appearance used as decorations to hand either soit velvet with flattering dresses. Most of these beads are almost invariably wear black hats,
bags, hats and even blouses and lines or a satin or fabric faced brilliantly relonged, while others
There are gold lace hats are in natural wood. Mraw.
The sizes small draped ⚫ioth
are as varied as the colour*. or metallic of gold
turbans. with billows of tulle veiling! them, bu: these are pot
and
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A MERE BAGATELLE. The revived vogue for "chain"
aud
|| Sow, it is foolish to generalise in this way, when, on every hand.
see perfectly nice doing most of the things of which the censorious ones disapprove. We all know women with those. really moral qualities of kind- liness, charity, tolerance and generosity who, on emergency, can produce a variety of epithets smart as the all black hat, whe. bags is being elaborated for the that would have made our grand-ther it is paradise trimmed or not. benefit of those who have more mothers shudder. On the other black, with a goodly percentage do with. The latest idea is to Almost invariably the shoes are money than they know what to mothers wouldn't have turned & having the ankle straps and var-hare the mesh as fine a possible
design in gold hair of their powdered beads. ious trappings dear to the French with
shoemaker. With the exaggerat platinum, after which the entire They had some fine rousing
surface of the bag is studded with expressions of their own, and ed skirt that is full as well as permitted themselves a far greater short the shortsamp shoe seems diamonds, with an all-dismond
But how mount as a finish. licence of speech than we do to peculiarly at home.
stubby and queer it looks with a day.
JAZZ LETTERS. long and relative tight skirt! The woman of fashion bas quite The moralista-who-set-s Naturally one's type should be discarded white sed cress1 "note=" standard almost invariably set considered as well as one's frocks papar nowadays. Nor does her Victorian, or even a Cromwellian in deciding whether to accept or wonderful waiting-table show de one. forgetting that these turn a cold shoulder toward the licate tints instead. The colour standards bre not really of moralshort vamp shoe. But that is craze provides an excuse for the but of costom. Human nature always the final test, and it is the most brilliant bues One lady never changes, but custom does.woman who knows her type and was recently startled to receive a every decade or so. Besides an dresses it who carried off the letter, the envelope of which era of puritanism always ushers palm.
in one of greater laxity. The ladies of the Restoration laughed
at Congreve's plays-which the censor would certainly not permit us to do!
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HOW TO CHOOSE-DIAMONDS.
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lights
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mirrors.
Clover sometimes of beautiful workman-
showed orange, red and black, and was sealed with green wax! NOVEL POWDER PUTTS. Long-handled powder puffs for use on the back, which have As there is a rash on diamonds recently appeared in the shops, It is a tiresome, present-day just now, some hints given by an are a logical corollary to the latest worth tendency to lay stress on the expert
repeating.fashious. They are reminiscent of ethical value of every action, to Always examine diamonds by the "back-scratchers of a buod- deduce character from a gesture, daylight, he said. A novice cap red and fifty years ago, which we a word, a mode of dressing; to easily be deceived by a white have always regarded as relics of lay down a dogna, and insist, hat sapphire flashing under electrica barbarous past. They were
no nice woman would do things that both nice and perfectly paste" imitations can be de-ship, however, and stadded with horrid women are doing every tected by looking at the back of jewels. Some were in the form day. The tendency breeds the stone, which will reveal the of a hand, with the fingers curved
wberess backing. hypocrisy in the medium-aged, mirror
in the act of scratching and transparent.made of ivory. Others were made and exaggeration in the young, real diamond is who, quite naturally, would rather To obtain the best flash, see in the shape of forks with two OF be considered "mad and bad" than that the setting is of the "claw" three prongs. They are still met dull and out-of-date. So virtuous type, but ask your jeweller to with occasionally, in antique young women paint their faces, overhaul the claws occasionally, shops, though bat few seem to and tint their hair, and are only as the gems are apt to work loose, have survived the passage of years perfectly happy when they are See that your jeweller gives you to testify against the state of not so strong is the youthful ja properly worded-receipt with a society in which they were made spirit of revolt.
guarantee
A MUSTARD TRAP.
A peculiar shade of mustard pellow, reminiscent of the “green- argallery crowd, is much in exilence among the new spring colours. It is seen in hats, coats.
and all kinds of materials for evening wear including a gorgeous velvet and chiffon brocade. As
not one woman in a thousand can wear it successfully, there will be some awful howlers made in the near future, one fears, T
"THE ELSIECO"
LINGERIE.
IN JAPANESE
SILKS. CREPE
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We hereby guarantee all our underwear to be hand embroidered including the Scollops plain, fancy and Ribbon Beadings let in at Armholes, Neckbands & Kneebands of garments.
Lane, Crawford & Co.
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