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1928.
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BOUDOIR DAINTIES.
SEEN AT A SOCIETY SHOW.
At a recent fashion show staged
·
re-
lounging
in America for Russian fugees in France, pyjamas and tea gowns had the
woar,
loor in the matter of intimate
All were exquisitely feminine, is colour and cut, even the pyjamas with their tricky little jackets and full trousers,
Yellow's Popularity,
Yellow was surprisingly popu- lar. It's a colour women have let alone. Certain types are very amart in it, though. Miss Evelyn Sloan is one such.
She modelled in a gorgeous py- jama suit, satin trousers of dufo- dil yellow gathered into ankle bands of lame that had burnt or- ange figures in it and the long coat of the lane, with yellow maribou around the shawl collar-and, wide eufts. Simple ́lines, but so gorge- ously becoming and lovely!
Of course all the models ex- pressed the Individuality of the manikins just as their own clothes
do.
Misa Consuelo Gimbernat, for instance, chose to show an exqui- site lace pyjama suit. Ecru ince fashioned it, made over rose-beige fat crepe. The upper portion was of the slip-on variety, with a mo- dish Vionnet neck and wide, baggy sleeves snapped to form a cuff. "Oxford bugs" best describe, the trousers, with their dainty scallop- ed edge. A wide tight hip-band was of the crepo, with a single fenther pom-pom for ornament at one side.
A Tea Gown Train!
To heighten the dignity of a women of regal bearing Miss Shepard showed to advantage a ten gown with a sweeping train..
Orchid and purple were its
WOMAN'S
WORLD
Lounging pyjamaa and tea potens become these four young ladies of New York society fleft to right): Evelyn Sloan, Consuelo Gimbernat, Geraldine Shepard and Eleanor Alexander.
HAIRDRESSING.
GOODBYE TO TÉE ETON CROP.
COMING FASHIONS.
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FLOWER PIECES.
LINE AND COLOUR.
GOWNING THE TITIAN BLONDE.
VALUE OF TIME.
FIVE MINUTE TASKS.
ELITE STYLES
DAINTY HATS LOVELY HAND-BAGS NOVEL FANCY GOODS
Not many people living in these Colour is more important to the which have taught most of us, to times have escaped the conditions Titian girl than any other. Her look upon the extravagant expendi best tones are browns, blues, ture of money almost as a crime, greens, white and tans. Certain and more and more people
extract) colours kill her. She can never learn every day how to wear greys. She should shun il- real value for their money, in happiness or rather in the means ver like the plague. Gold kills her of providing it. but bronzes, sometimes, sot her off. The best rule is to match the tone
of her eyes In colours.
The girl who has brown eyes, should choose browns in rich tone for daytime wear, or tans with warmth in them, no hint of drab
ness.
But it is amazing that so many! people should still be spendthrifts where time is concerned.
Yet time means so much to every one of us, if we only know the secret of using it wisely.
Nothing else but the manner in which odd minutes have been used has been known to have made all the difference in the careers of menį [who hayo inter become typical ex-| umples of the successful man and of the failure respectively.
Yet at least half the people youj
The daytime frock, shown today is of sandalwood brown imported wool with sulf-trimming. It has intriente pointed yoke effect bath meet let Wielr time drift past un- back and front and the collar can profitably. It is in the use of short be worn tied in a how in the back periods that most people show the with ends hanging, or can be left most carelessness. open, as in the picturo.
Yet it is with time, as it is with money, the small amounts that count most in the beginning.
Find a way of using every odd five minutes, and you will soon be
Four folds of the cloth, with in verted hand notches, give the un usual waistline shown and the same trimming adds a puff cuff to so fascinated. by your gaing that the long sleeve. Pleated. panels you will have realised once for all
on both sides add fullness. The the value of time,
but was designed of tan felt, atit-
ched in dark but lively brown,
banded in the same lone.
With this costume, the coat
RUBBER GAITERS,
should be a richer brown, or the A BOON IN WET WEATHER. same tone. The
Titian-haired
Rubber galters, in fawn, prune
groy, and which have
girl looks magnificent in the right furs-mink, sable, badger, summer and ermine and other luxurious tan "lightning" fasteners at the front, and brown furs. But her fur coat are one of the newest ideas now
A. P. C. Building
A DAINTY DRESS.
The novel yoko, of the prim rose georgette dress pictured above, cut in one with the loose sleeves is in primrose lace, while the sash, lightly indicat ing the natural waist above the full, uneven skirt, is in deeper. yellow satin ribbon.
or her fur collared cloth coat put into practice for keeping the THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.
should be conservatively, startlingly, rich.
not lega warm, and dry on cold, wet
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CHEESE TARTLETS,
Line 10 to 12 very small patty
line
Add the yolk of an egg, 3oz. of grated cheese, cayenne and salt. Whip the white of the egg to a stiff froth and stir it lightly to the mixture.
Bake the tartlets at once in a oven for about 20
Vogue of Black.
days and for preventing the stock- ings from becoming mud-splashed. They are economical and dur- Tans, Browns, For Daytime. able, have a neat appearance and] FRILLS AND LONGER SKIRTS, PICTURES FOR NEW HOMES.
Tans and browns for the day can be taken on and off in a few pans with short crust pastry and Beconds-a point which will three-quarters All them with the time, but the evening costume for appeal to those women who find following mixture: Make about a A recent dress show, foro- Taste in pictures has undergone
whole story. Get the right shade troublesome. Except for the girl who alms shadowing Riviera fasllons for as radical a change as taste in the Titian blonde, often tells the the fastening of ordinary gaiters Bill of rather thick white sauce,
the coming year, emphasised the furnishing, and nowadays folks of blue or green, and everyone in colours-orchid lame with at a consistently boyish appear lightly longer skirt, the short would rather leave a wall unadora ball room will turn to look after shirring meet, is a graceful purple feur de lis figured ance at all times, and never wears coat, and the coat-frock, Brownl ned than hang up something in a in it, Sleaves flowed to great
feminine frock the 'Eton crop in varied shades was seen, from frame merely to fill a space. In a Titian girl. Sometimes a white while it also alenderizes. width while the gown was cut
A Bow's Drooping Grace. diamante, in intricate but quiet. on extremely slenderizing lines has passed. The shingle is de the pigger brown that was so present-day decoration pictures gain, if it be rich but simple, say design, or strass, will act her
On the side is a huge bow of moderate with the train extending magically finitely longer, with the ends of popular a few years ago, to a are often used to bring colour in- from the side. White fur band- the hair either curled or folded charming light brown' suggestive to a room, and for that reason the beauty off luminously. Black the self material that adds its drooping minutes. Sprinkle with grated
of a pale bronzo chrysanthemum. flower piece is most popular. Titian girl should ignore for even- grace to the general fluid beauty cheese and serve hot, ing all around the edges softened at the back of the head.
of the gown. The bodice is simp the garment and enriched it.
There is a well-known artist who ing. A new fashion for the long- Draped frills were among the
To-day are pictured two of the licity itself. The material, colour Transparent velvet, maribou and haired girl is the arrangement of most favoured trimmings for oven is an exponent of the modern co-
Black is a tremendous favourite, At any of satin-in pink and reds-fashion-plaited colla just behind instead ing gowns, which are often of luur woodcut. His lower studies most successful evening gowns and line make this gown and the
especially black lace. ed a cut pyjama suit Miss Eleanor of over the cars. The hair must chiffon in very pale shades. Very are simple in form, bold in treat- for the Titian blonde. The frat greatest of these is the colour. Alexander showed. Its coat was
its Batin curve round the car, to which the lace is also frequently used. ment, and brimful of colour. is a brocaded cloth, in gleaming The other evening gown is blue, the chic restaurants one finds the extremely long and
Beaded frocks were encrusted These pictures of sweet English green that shimmers like bright soft, yet a decided blue chiffon majority of the women gowned in trousers banded into velvet gives a delightfully shell-like with beads of varying sizes; a flowers, such as forget-me-nots, light on water. The skirt is shir fashioned avoltly to the figure with binck, and yet the general effect is jappearance. The side-curla of a beautiful frock of gold tissue was crocuses, marigolds, in bowls and red on in three semi-circles about no suggestion of tightness but gen- not at all dull. So many beautiful, While velvet seems the season's shingle are sometimes drawn be closely embroidered in this way jara against black backgrounds, the hip, dipping as it shirs and tly suggesting the form. It has jewels are worn with these appar are singularly effective. There is giving the uneven hemline that is intricate trimming, a bow knot of ently simple black frocks, and near- choice for evening wear-whether hind the ear and pulled forward with coral.
unlimited choice, so that it is easy chic itself this season. The front, self colour in satin, outlined in ly always a vivid flower on the
shoulder. - In the boudoir or on the ballroom
in a similar manner.
to discover the flower plecos auit-where the six rows of fine brilliants. floor.
An unusual evening frock was ed to any particular surroundings. of lame with a chintz effect in Unobtrusive framing such pa pustel pinks, blues, green and gold. passe-partout and narrow bead- Turquoiso bends were sewn in anings are best, and the pictures lend elaborate manner on a dress of themselves very well to formal| silver tissue, which was accom- panied by a coat of shot rose gold arrangement in series. and blue tissue lined with orange pluk chiffon velvet and collared with brown fur.
anklets.
THE STAR OF FRENCH FILMS.
Here is Mlle Lily Damita, famous star of the French movies, and she's wearing a gorgeous evening wrap that probably did not cost any more than the New York Central Tailroad!
Good Reproductions.
But we must not in conceit im- agine that, we moderna brought A day frock of pale cocoa- the flower ploce to perfection. The coloured chiffon was embroidered old Dutch artists were supreme with gold in round motifs and at this kind of painting, and, for- bordered with matching crepe de tunately for us, these delightful Chine; it had a loosely hanging pictures are reproduced in prints] rever on one side. The small felt that are the last word in fidelity to the originals. Thus the erea- hat was to match.
tive genius of another, age allied to the mechanical perfection of
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Purple velvet fashioned a smart short coat worn with a pleated this age enables us to beautify our
walls with copies of great masters 'skirt of cloth to match. A
that in colour and texture are al- diamond brooch. decorated one most indistinguishable from the side of the coat. The grey hat priceless originals. had a purple band.
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The work of the skilful amateur Coral pink bands were Intro- in pastel or water-colour is, of duced into the scheme of a brown course, by no means to bo despised," cloth coat-frock which was worn though needing careful and im- with a hat of folded brown velvet. portant framing if not to appear
Something New.
wishy-wasby.. A wide white mount, or a coloured mount, or coloured lines ruled in around the akoteb, will often give emphasis to a picture that would otherwise be insignificant.
Now that such interest is shown In handicrafts, and there is much
The resourceful will also find in- experimenting with the embroi-
in the three-colour dery needle, paint brush, and spiration strencilling paraphernalia, a West flower and garden covers that so End shop is displaying boxes of often adorn the best class of Eng- handkerchiefs half of which are lish and American magazines. As embroidered, the rest, being merely colour printing, tho, reproductions printed with the transfers. Each are excellent in quality, and the printed design is accompanied by titles and advertisement matter a handkerchief already embroid are rarely printed upon the picture ored with that design, So the Itself, so that they may be framed worker can see what her embrol without betraying their origin. dery should look like when finish
ed, and is provided with a guide to
appropriate stitches and colours. The lace used in Hogerlo be- Children like such work, but comes darker and darker in tone. grown-ups are ready to be Ecru lace on peach georgette is at Instructed, too.
favourite spring combination.
BECOMING GOWNS FOR THE TITIAN TYPE.
An evening gown is seen at the fleft), of blue chiffon, trimmed with sath and brilliants; sandalwood-brown, wool daytime frock (centre); and an evening gown of gleaming green
brocaded cloth, the skirt shirred in three semi-circles,