THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14– 1923.
FASCINATING UNDIES
PRETT TROUSER
NEGLIGEEL OF CRCHID
OPERE EDGED WITH RIBBON
BLACK is going out" in!
costume, but in negligee wear!
it is especially smart-just us
TO STARCH THE TROU
while black was favoured in ends falling at either side of the frocks. negligees took to the most straight front and back panels. Rorgeous colours. Woman al-'Other panels at the sides form ways seeks contrast in negligee taceful sleeve draperies. The wear. Frobably it rests her tem- panels are of Besh tinted chiffor. perament to get into something bordered with creen lace, and radically diferent from what she under the panels is a slip of desh wears outside her baudoir. A: coloured Georgette pressed in o ay rate this summer's bride has shallow plaats. The narrow rite on of two striking black reg-bon exactly matches the flesh tint ligees in her trousseau. One of the negligee. these negligees is of black crepe
de chine painted in huge spravl
TROLER NEGLIGEES. Jacket and breeches Br2 25 tog designs by band, and The popular as ever for boudoir wear | colours used in the hand-painted but the simple, straight pajama design are repeated in Georgette lines are hopelessly passe. All Cash and border. The painted the trouser negligees are cut in design is outlined with gold dashing picturesque styles and thread and big gold tassels swing one of these costumes is pictured, from the sash. Gorg-ous?-well, & most engaging affair of orchid I should say so! Imagine one of crepe" de chine with a mantle- these black negligees painted in jacket faced down the sleeve with scrolls and motifs of maise and silver ribbon, and loose trousers mauve, or in coral and apricot, or shaped in toward the ankle and peacock hue and jade-with the edged with ribbon. Here again rib- & trimming gold thread tracery, and wide bon you see, as bems of mauve, or coral or jade feature! Georgette.
A silver ribbon girdle passes throughslashes at the sides
A charming and very practical of the jacket, tying it in grare- negligee is ready for travelling fully and the tower edge i
with dangling ball ..uge. It is made of babutai silk weighted
in deep blue or rose colour or ornaments of silver cord. Some other lovely shade and has
There is a new Cossack long, soft silk tassels on flowing nezligge much in favour. The sleeve and "sach. The nexligee straight box coat is rich y em- is 90 soft that it can be folded broidered and fastens with cord and tucked into a silk envelope, frogs, and the loose trousers are and takes up co room at all in the gathered into close-fitting cuffs travelling bag. Another practical that lace up with cord. In desp travelling negligee is a slipon blue crepe de chine, embroidered model of tan pongee with the with orchid and silver, and with kiraono sleeves extended to great frogs and lacings width, slashed up the back and cord this lounging suit is smart bordered around erize and stash indeed.
with black silk. Brick tassels fall from the points. A black
FOR A CHEN SILK PITA IGREGULAR
of silver ed hem. Both garments are of
crepe de chine.
REAL LACE AND REAL LINES.
THIS LOVELY AC CHINE HAS A GA SCPDEP OF SILVERA
Aretas By
JOEL FECER
"DAIT) FERGONY
CHIFFON AND LACE *WITH GAA CE - FIL PANELS
OVER A PLEATED
AIX EXQUISITEL
PLAIN LITTLE NIGHTIE
CFWHITE SILAS
OPALS.
Are They Really Unlucky?
How often the wearer of opals hears the exclamation. "You are very brave to wear those unlucky stones. I suppose you are not superstitious.”
THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.
SSEAU SET OF "ST" HANDKERCHIES WITH FRILLS GA BEAL VAL LACE
Apple and Corrænut Pie. One cap grated cocosaur, cups grated apples, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 cup sugar, pie dough.
Linea deep pie dish with
NOVELTY STOCKINGS.
One hears a great deal con- cerning the return of the embroi- dered stockings of yesterday. Up to the present, however, these are only to be seen for evening wear. Some of the prettiest are worked with tiny motifs carried out in hand-embroidery of a darker shado than the stocking itself; while from America one hears of black and white silk stockings worked with tiny bees or minute butter- flies, carried out in gold and silver thread
Bronze stockings showing" ex-.
There are many women who pastry Pare and grate enough tremely fine printed lacques would rather go unadorned by apples to make two cups. Sprinkle designs carried out in gold, are a jewels than por opals on their with lemon juice to prevent dis-novelty in Paris for wear with
bronze slippers, fingers or round their necks. This af the cocoanut in the bottom
coloptation. Stir in sugar. Puti
From sources one hears a is really very strange and un ressonable, for in olden times the of the lined pie dish. Add apple great deal concerning the com opal was regarded sotually as the mixture and bake ten minutes ing vogue for white shoes. On the Riviera these are exclusively greatest talisman of all precious in a hot oven..
White Reduce heat and finish baking. used with white dresses. stones. It was the emblem of
When simos: done cover with reantelope, or suede models, are hope and thought to combine every virtue-both moral and healingnaining coconut and finish being were with white woollen
dresses. of the other coloured gems. Among these is the cure of dis- esses of the eye and power to render anyone invisible.
October's special gem, it recalls,
in its wonderful and varied play of colour, the glories of a bright: autompal day.
It is only within the last two centuries that, for some reason or other, the opal has gained a name for being unlucky. Popular superstition declares it fatal to love and a sower of discord be.. tween lovers if set in au engage- : ment ring, but this malign in- uence was not ascribed to the stone by the aucients, and is a comparatively modern slander.
The so-called black opals, on: the other hand, are always re- į Add a quarter of a teaspoon ofgarded as exceptionally lucky baking powder to the mashed stones. In fact these beautifall potatoes while you are beating jewels are thought by the super- Lizen of the sheer handker-them and they will be much stitious to be emblematic of the chief weave that is so soft and lighter and fluffier than other good eye, as opposed to the evileye. According to the legend, Noah's Flesh tinted lingerie is the fine and so daintily airy is made wise.
special talisman in the ark wAB L this 523800 and the up in the most beautiful hand-
wonderful black opal, and the alchemists of mediaeval times believed that, as the traditional "philosopher's stone," it possessed the virtue of manufactoring gold. Except, perhaps, pearls, opals require more care in the handling than any other jewels. They are very brittie and easily fractured in the process of cutting or set- ting, and owing to their extreme softness the polishing is a matter of time and care alone.
SILK OR EINE LINEN FOR
silk hem finishes the foot of the straight silpon garment and from fashion
silk.
UNDIES.
To keep buttons from falling
the waistline fall streamers of material used is softest radium sewed garments for the bride. Decrow tan and black ribbons, silk, crepo de chine, or sheer And no lingerie could be lovelier held by twin rosettes of black bandkerchief linen. Some of the or more comfortable for summer off, saw them on with a much batiste underwear is in delicate wear. A trousseau set is pictur- smaller button on the wrong side. colour combinations, like primed chemise and step-in panties This makes for nestness and good and daffodil, orchid and being of flesh tinted handkerchief appearance, besides strength. pale blue, flesh pink and tur. linen with frills of real Val. lace Five years ago any negligee quoise, and so on, the fabrics set and tiny hand-made roses on both that showed a stresmer of ribbon together with hemstitching. But garments.
MUCH RIBBON USED OS NEGLIGEES.
rese
admitted itself cheap and or most of the exclusive trousseau
dinery. Now ribbon is the garments are of silk or finest WORTH REMEMBERING. smartest trimming a negligee can linen, in flesh tint or pure white. have and the most exclusive Some trousseau lingerie is
Give the new patent leather
this
008
• · •
...
Orange or pesch stains can be removed most easily with cold water. Wat the spot in cold water and then rub cream of tartar over it. Put in the sun to dry.
Opals are always cut en cabo- chon, excepting the variety knowa as fire opsts, which are often All these characteristics make Pressing while it is damp makes this the most difficult precious it about right. If stiffening is stone to imitate, and paste repro needed a small quantity of gum ductions are seldom seen. This is probably the reason imitation arabic is all that is necessary.
opals are not worn to the extent of other paste jewels, and so over-
real stones. come the prejudice against the One of the finest opals of modern times belonged to the Empress Josephine, and was known as the Burcing of Troy," from the in
• •
models are loaded with narrow pictured, exquisite garments of shoes a coat of vaseline before ribbons, sewed on by band like the most exclusive style. The you wear them and then wipe braid, binding edges, or falling in night-gown and chemise, shown them, off with a soft cloth. This Lace, if it is to look its Taceted. "gay shower-bowe. The pegnoir in separate pictures. belong to a softens the leather and renders it loveliest, should not be starched.
pictured is a dainty and cool bridal set which includes a pat less likely to crack. affair for summer days and is one ticoat and camisole (aot pictur
Like all of the prettiest negligees in aed).
the nighties If new shoes are a bit too tight summer trousseau. It is made of of this season,
is wring a cloth out of bot water pale apricot crepe de chine and on sleeveless. The garment negligee, pocket and sleeve are simple as can be, in line; the and while the shoe is on the foot
Don't wash or scrub the mat- borders of pale blue ribbon picot lower section shirred to a little put the damp cloth over the part edged with silver, the narrow tid- Empire yoke, with a strip of filet that is too tight. The hot water ting with soapy water. It will bon sewed on by band in a Greek lace set in at the front. But causes expansion of the leather. injure it. Go over it with a broom that has been dampened key design. Turned Back lapels there is a deal of exquisite hand or revers are a feature of this work in the cording around neck To keep cut flowers fresh, clip in hot water and then go over it negligee to match the now fash and armholes and over and under their stems. By doing this, it with a cloth that has been dipped ionable revers used on frocks. the set-in strip of lace. The will be found flowers will remain in salt water. Salt freshens the
A pictured teagown shows also chemise matches the night-gown alive several days longer that colour and prevents it from be-umerable flames which appeared
coming yellow. the use of ribbon in loops and in style, and has the same scallop.a).
to be blazing within Ita depths;
baking.
A SIMPLE AFFAIR.