THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, JUN
15
MILLINERY NOTES. ́ ́
FASHION NOTES.
parlod because we do not and surely will not, without a long period of transition, wear tight bands under our arma,
WOMEN BED
to
Very neat and dainty sewing is A pratly bit of colour is added. So it is perhaps the carsst essential for such things as putting to a dark dinnar gawn by a maker that knows how strongly in brim linings in hats and mak- boutonniere of bright coloured wedded their ing shapes. Bows and mounts, valvet ribbon. The tiny flowers present Hoes who can give no on the other hand should always and leaves are made of valvet the real answer to the question be tied in and nos sewn. For this ribbon in a rather stiff and prim of silhouette. For the first time long straw or millinary needles arrangement but the very gaymat in dear knows how long the should be used, and good strong colours are selected. One little [cotton. Many amateur fail]nosegay of the sort is made of object of corests is not to accentuate or diminish any one because they try to secure their smarald green valves ribbon with part of our form. We have no trimming with "40" cotton when dashes of brown. Another is in taste for such exaggerations abould be used, the result geranium shade. And orange and Though there may be side puffs being that they always look yellow is a specially well liked
"wobbly.”
combination for these vivid little and side shirrings, panniers and
boutonnieres. even the insertion of hip arino- By tying in is meant putting a lines, the intant to make one's ineedis threaded with double
If you have a long string af hips look larger or one's waist cotton through on one side of consequently smaller is absent. the trimming and back on the pearl beads, dr jes beads or in Waists may drop down some other, and tying the two ends fest any sort of beads, wear it just now in loops and loops arouDË whare midway between what we tightly in a knot.
the arm-bracelet fashion. The used to regard as our waistline The reason why a lining in the loose loops at beads will table and cur knees and yet it is not brim by an amateur so often down over your hand--but that through a desire to give the gives a hat a home-made look is exactly the affect" fashion impression that we Bre enor-is that she does not know that commands.
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mously long-waisted. For we be should havO ironed it Two strings of beads are worn adopt all these vagaries of clothes when finished. This is done by around, the neck, if some special without actually hanging the placing the brim flat on the table colour combination is desired to foundation Upon which the near the edge with a piece of match a colour blend in the clothes are to be worn.
tissue paper over it. The edge costume. A string of jet bende of the brim should be especially and a string of pearl beads give a Undoubtedly some of the ex-caressed so that it is perfectly good effect, or pearl and caral, or
SPORTS OF FASHION.
tremes in silhouette recently put out by the great dressmakers have simply bean by way of diversion.
fat.
jet and blue beads. The bead strings must be the same length -orona string only slightly| longer than the other so that
These are but sports of fashion. The extremely short skirt, the two strings will lis close to- They appeal to the woman who is though it appears again and gether on the front of the bodice. willing to
Some women are restringing| something again, is certainly not a good unusual in order to gain the selection for the woman who their pearl and jet necklaces now buys with the future in mind. into one long necklace of alter- necessary note of variety.
extremes.
wear
the
These are not clothes There can be little doubt bat nating pearl and jet beads—a designed or bought by the womac that the short skirt will gradually very smart effect in fashion's es- who must wear her clothes six retreat before the skirt of slightly timation at the moment months from the time she buys longer proportions. Straight Among the fancies in jewelry them. When you buy for the long lines are also a conservative are the dark amber beads. Light future as well as for the presen: selection and while short sleeves amber has perhaps been more in you are wise in avoiding such are still numerous, longer sleeves vogue in recent years than dark will undoubtedly supersede the amber. But now lovely dark And of course the object of the shorter ones before another six amber, as soft in colour sa buck interest of
wheat honey, is found in many many women in months have passed. watching the tendency of fashions| And it is pretty safe to say beads. It is lovely with black, is so that they may buy wisely, that we have not had our fill of and it is quite as lovely with blue [selecting what seems now and the long waistline. It is a line and with white. Even with grey conservative so that it will still be that produces en effect of it is good for there is a depth; smart at the end of the season, youthfulness and of late years and softness to its colour that possibly at the end of next anything that does this is sure gives character to the more neutral
to be retained.
Season.
18767.
The draper? hip silhouette is worked out here in emerald green sulin with a panet coross the buck citught at the shoulder and hip with rhinestone ornament. The panel is lined with silver cloth.
The very for weistline with a full skirt is developed here in black taffeta embroiderent in cons with the hip width accentuated by a sash of corul georgette.
Modes
of the Moment.
In the afternoon frocks shown! As a matter of fact the Spanish some of the skirts were neatly, if dress is pot easy to wear. It not quite, as short as those shown requires a sort of characteristic and wore a season ago.
Spanish angularity that is at the Skirts are full and skirts are same time virile. narrow, they are shirred up on the hips, or draped in one-sided effect. They are straight gathered, some- tithes with criaclines at the bips
the hem to make them stand out.
THINGS THAT COUNT. You have heard, it till you are but it is well worth while just now weary-until it is meaningless-
and sometimes with cording at to remember that the line is They have panniers to add width after all the most essential thing at the hip and again they bang about clothes and the achieve
sheathlike at the sides,
ment of smartness, For we are sometimes much at sel There Sleeves are short, full and long, are so many influences, so many wide and scant, puffed or corded. periods, so much talk, that it and here and there is
a sleeve seems 19 if there really was that hangs to the shoulder by a nothing distinctive or character- thread of beads or a ribbon. istic about the mode of 1921. Collars are sometimes absent.
We may vary our frocks but we The French are making much do not vary our forms. Our gowns of a silhouette that shows a may be of any period but our waistline unbroken from the arms figures are twentieth century. to a point almost to the knees. The low placing of the girdle is everywhere noted.
They are the complex result of
our mode and ideas of life, the sports we enjoy, the things we Some there are who are pushing eat, everything that makes the circular skirt, while a good twentieth-century civilization many other French dressmakers different from that a hundred will hava none of it.
THE SPANISH INSPIRATION,
years ago.
CORSETS EFFACE THEMSELVES.
Spanish styles are coming. This So it really is tremendously spring many of the French dress significant that though we talk makers are copying the Spanish of Second Empire tendencies in modes. And those who like to clothes there is no tendency to find analogies in dress and like to push Second Empire lines in see history repeat itself very corsetry. The corset makers have precisely in fashions see a con- at last found out they that can nection between the Second bope for nothing from advocating Empire tendency and the revived the nipped-in waistline, that their Spanish.
salvation depends on making The stress then is laid on nine-corsets that achieve the utmost The corset teenth-century Spanish costumes. in self-effacement. It is a popular notion-at the maker has done her utmost now moment to feel that you would when she has produced for you a look especially
corset that makes you look as if charming in Spanish clothes. Nine young you wore none. women out of ten, blonde or So we wear frocks inspired by brunette, stout or thin, tail or the Second Empire, but we do short, whatever their type, believe not affect the narrow waist and that there is something about constricted diaphragm of the their own particular charm that Second Empire. We may wear only needs a lace mantilla and a Directoire clothes, but they swaying Spanish skirt to produce cannot be more than a re- An affect positively irresistible, miniscence of the Directoire
Typical of much that was most favorably received
is this Charlotte frock of Capucine red, the skirt of which is of crepe de chine. The bodice of Georgette crepe is heavily embroidered in gold and rhinestones,
It was inorn with a black satin hat, embroidered in
gold.
NOTIONS.
FASHION NOTE.
There will be something amiss
To remove iodine stains from linen or cotton, wet the spot with with the shirtwaist that ends alcohol, rub between the hands abruptly under the skirt-belt this and then rinse in cold running finished off with sashes now and
summer. All shirtwaists are ·
water.
tailored sport shirts fit neatly under leather belts. Sometimes shirtwaist sashes are of ribbon- A woman who manages to ring and the Roman strips ribbons are the changes constantly in her the favorites for this purpose. attire, and yet to possess only a Embroidered sashes ara TEXT modest wardrobe, attributes berjpretty and are made of the success to the possession of a material of the waist with a large wall-made slip of black satin.embroidered motif at the front of With this she wears a variety of the waistline and small garlands tunica, both of the evening and across the sash-ends. It is not |day variety, as well as looserest- necessary to hem the long sides gown draperies for small dianer and ends of sasb-picot-edging is functions. The same slip does the proper finish and will save duty with a foulard over-dress you a deal of trouble. One smart and a gabardine short-sleeved |sash, matching a linen waist is of coat.
linen with buttonholed slashes and black velvet ribbon run in and out tying in a bow and loog
The short wrist strap umbrellas ends at one side. are frequently so similar in appearance that women constant-
ly make mistakes in cloak-rooms and clubs.
Travellers have their every want supplied in these ingenious days. To avoid these, thera is a new Folding coachangers of many* ides out of painting initials in kinds are to be had, but up to black on the strap, as people now nothing has been seen so always have done on their bags ingenious as the one which and suitcases. The umbrella type possesses a clothes-brush one and of letter is, of course, miniature,ja soft hat brush the other. The but quite legible and clear for even bristles extend halfway along the most short-sighted of umbrella each arm, and take up no extra
room at all.
users.
USE MALINE BOW.
Let your dreas hat be large and something with a shimmer; half transparent. This tempting model wears an enormous tour of maline at the back. The frame is of horse hair