THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH... WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 6, 1922.
SMART FASHION
ATYPICAL "TUB
APOCA cr cooWES-FINE LINEH
TF one chooses to dress simply.jhat of violet straw and white there are sport skirts of finest Georgette, with a wreath of fine white linen, beautifully cut and white flowers.
tailored, or of heavy, rich tub A smart afternoon frock show- vilk; blouses of handkerchieffing the new Paris silhouette with linen hand-made throughout and trig figure lines and waistline & trimmed this year with hem-bit higher than the present mode) stitching: Bweaters of silken is pictured. Black and white! weave matched by entrancing Georgette are combined in s sport bats: Smarter. however, magpie effect that keeps to the then the skirt, blouse and sweater skirt, the pore white bodice being! combination, is the two-piece relieved only by a string of cut sport costume-frock and cape to jet and pearl beads. And large match-ot nem eponge material.drop-earrings match the beads One of these sport costumes is The bodice bas a rather tight pictured. It is in two shades of set-in sleeve which. with the fawn and the material is a soft.seni fitted line of bodice cives ribbed material that has the gaite new silhouette. The large: supple texture of jersey cloth, clasp on the girdle is of cusi The sash with its ample length steel. and deep silk fringe adds much! to the style of the simple frock! and the cape has long scarf-ends: that for a throw-collar. A very chic little sport hating men with chainstitca
in fawn colour and faced with heliotrope taffeta accompanies the costume and the parasol has a cover of hellotrope taffeta.
worsted
GAY LITTLE BEACH FROCKS OF PRINTED COTTON.
The sort of frock that will be!
WONDERFUL COSTUMES POE
EVENINGS.
The two dinner-dance gowns press the simalo, graceful lines! now fancied. One frock is ef delicate bine Georgette with pearl-bead picot trimming to weight the soft material. The high nickline and draped sleeves, and the sloping, irregular hemline are features of ita smartness. The other frock, of black canton crepe has 3 rather intricate
imitated by the proletariat in drapery that cunningly suggests Crotone to achieve the all-over, perfect simplicity but the orange bright colour effect together with striped fan is gorgeous. extreme simplicity of line-is
pictured on the young woman seated on the arm of a chair. Simple as a pinafore is this frack -all in one pi-ce, with"kim no aleaves cat very short and a bateau neckline opening down the shoulder.
The frock is made of French printed cotton. the border design forming & yoke and the short sleeve. This little sleeve is bound! with ribbon matching the nar rower ribbon that makes a very casual but decidedly smart.sash. The frock is bright in colour but the colours have a softness and charm that could not be found in
THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.
French Trast with Crashed Raspberries.
6 alices bread (stele) 1 cup milk
2 tablespoons butter
1 exg
8 teaspoon salt
24 cup sugar
2 cups crushed raspberries, sweetened to taste.
Allow the
any cheap material and the fabric Beat the egg slightly. Ad of the frock has been used to milk, sugar and salt. make the crown of the Het. Under slices of bead to remain, one at the hat brim is a facing of silka time, in the egg and milk until that matches the ribbon trimming thoroughly moistened.
on the froes. Very big earrings Remove and fry in the batter with pearls and amethysts in the
in a bot frying pan until aicely
now tassel effect add a final note browned. Serve hot with the of smartness to an extremely! simple morning dress.
TUB DRESSES SOFT RATHER THAN CRISP,
This year soft, graceful lices are preferred in tub frocks to crisp effects. The modes of the moment call for soft dine's and! not for outstanding kirts and
raspberrice.
NOVEL RIBBON FOR GARTERS.
ruffles. Sheer handkerchief linen One of the ribbons that can be has this soft quality without the bought very cheaply just now Impaess of voile and tub frocks is the new tubular ribbon for for afternoon wear are apt to be making pretty garters easily at of cobwebby linen-made, of bome. There has always been a Course. entirely by hand, certain difficulty in elitching the Machine stitching on sheer linen ribbon firmly without spoiling fa an outrage. The little frock the spring of the elastic or having
ribbon
full casing too pictured. A simple little white the
This is quite frock for a hot day," is of hand and bunchy. kerchief linen which delicate obviated in the tubular ribbon. hand embroidery set off in panel Ae suggested by its name, it has effect by very tiny double frills a ready-made tube, in which one of hand-hammed liner. The simply inserts the elastic, and arrangement of frills and em when the two ends are strongly broidery on the bodice is very joined the garter is made, with charming-breaking a too plain the security that the ribbon will hoe. With this delightful white con in equal folds all round the Brock goes an equally delightful garter.
ONDE IN RICH, FOR THE GEA
TED COTTON
WITH A
SHADY HAT TO MATCH
THE NEW HAT PINS,
Halpins & Is mode have jewelled tassels and pan- dante dangling from their head, acd form. indeed, part of the decorative trimming of the hat they adora. Many of the ornamente remind ons of earrings utilised for a new purpose, and the woman who has lost one of a particularly elaborate sod ornamental, but not very valuable pair, may find a use for the remaining fellow attached to & hatplo
The popular "Creole" design is speci- ally favoured tor this per- рове.
One of the cut steel and crystal bead tassels, with filigreed head set with brilliants, gives a smart touch to an otherwise simple chapeau when the pin to which it is a finish is thrust into the crown with unerring judgment at just the right angle.
COLOP IN AND CHRE
OF INTEREST.
Glycerin is said to be an excel- lent preventive and cure for sun. burn, tan and freckles. It should be dilated with from three to four parts of roseswater.
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Every summer wardrobe should include one of the handsome white silk blouses, monogrammed on the pocket or the sleeves. Oftep the monogram is achieved by a cut-out affect.
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Medallions of bright wool em. broidery give a festive touch to very simple frocks of silk or lineo, cut on chemise lines,
Oce wonders just where these new long frocks are going to lead DR. Many of them are attaining
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THIS
DINNER
THE FROCH OF DELICATE.
BLUE GEORGETTE? ›
HE FNIT OF BLACK FEATHERS
FROCK OF CANTON, CREPE HAS INTRICATE
DRAPER
BLACH AND WHITE
SECPOLTTE ARE COMBINED IN THIS CASHING AFTERNOON GOW
THE NEW POWDER PUFFS.
Swansdown is no longer Is mode for my lady's powder puff. This dainty and important accessory to her toilette mast now. be of fur, or soft white rabbit, or dyed a delicate tint of yellow, blus, or pink. The brown beaver puffs are also very pop- ofer, and though at first Bight the dark colour strikes one as odd for the pcrpose, the softness of this particular for mskes it & first favourite.
One of the chief recom mendations about a fur powder puff is that it can be so easily washed direct- ly it becomes soiled and clogged with powder, and appears again a fresh as new. Dipped into warm lather and well shaken be- fore hanging up in front of an open window to dry in the breeze completely res tores the puff.
If the puff which is to be carried in the handbag be mounted on a circle or square of washleather, drawn together by a silken cord, the whole can be washed
together, Coloured silk may “rou." and never looks quite so fresh after it has been through water.
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THE NEW TRIMMINGS,
According to the best dress designers girdles no longer count
a generous width, and lace and as all-important, for too much popularity has contributed to lovers knots are being used as their downfall, the same fate hav trimming on their ample folda.
log befallen the sashes and loop- ed waistbands that were counted so entrancing during the spring. To-day the best timmings are made of the same material as the gowns they adorn. This is to be
A French frock of white voila has a many-tiered skirt trimmed on each raffle with rows of pink roses cut from orgendie and ap. pliqued on the surface after the manner of the old patchwork quilt.
orazmented with large petalled flowers of the crepe worked with wonderful self-coloured silk em. broidery-on-to-the-crepe-back- ground, giant passion flowers, great peonies, and wonderful chrysanthemum effects being achieved in this manner.
The same cut-out petal effects -only used in heavy mass forina tion to be seen trimming the latest organdie and crepe georgette frocks. Stiff ribbon rosettes of buze proportions, made more beautiful and dower-like by fancy-coloured or metallic picot edging, are also used to trim some of the smartest skirts of to-day.
For evening wear bead orna- meats abcuni. All the draped brocade gowns are clasped on the hips with wonderful bead- ed cabochons. sbowing the mosti gorgeous multi-coloured effects. Jet also is used to trim day and evening frocks.
Dew
COOL RED FOR ORGANDIE FROCKS.
We are told authorita- tively that red is really the colest colour for wear on hot days, and perhaps for this reason as well for their daringly Smart appearance, lac- quer-red organdie frocks at finding, special favour this season.
Quite simple in style. the only elaboration in these dainty frocks in the form of rows of tiny tucks, round and round, and up and down, crossing and recrossing.
Hats of smooth straw, the brims lined with organdie the same as the rest of the toilette, and painted round the crowns with floral sprays, are being word with organdie frocks in the brightest colourings.
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In its of exaggerated proportions. Steal newest guise this appears as fist and pearl trimmings are other rosettes or wing-shaped cabo poralties,
farge jcbons that define a waist-line squares of white ermine over- that is far more normal than it worked in a mesh of pearls oz has been for months past.
Idiamante, and used to hold the
Some of the most lovely white, draperies of gowns made of the gold or silver lace frocks show new white satin. that is sbat strands of chenille trimming. that with metallic threads, producing are weighted and caught together a gleam of gresa, blue, gold or by torquoise, matrix or opal beads silver the: is very beautiful.
BROWN SHADES.
"Cinnamon," "marcore" and "rual" are three new shades. They
in some of the smartest crepe dre shown in afternoon, dinner and evening gowns in combination with
are autumnal reds, dull gold embroidery and gleaming bronze beads. marocain
gowny, which