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Pictured aboua is one of the latest black gowns. Ita au- preme achievement is its un- usual drape, a graceful, flowing ‚acar!' caught 'on the shoulder with a flower and hanging down both the front and back for more lacy unevences.
The Right Ceiling,
The pleasing aspect of a colour) -ceiling has been well-proved, and
Here is scen a red gown that used tulle for the triple titred skirt with sida dips and shiny, soft,gleaming matching satin for a cleverly draped bodies. Its neckline, a charming sur plice effect is cdged with a tiny line of the red.
KEEPING FIT.
housewives whose homes are being WISE WORDS TO THE MIDDLE-
re-decorated are introducing col- our where it has never been at tempted before,
were shaded.
AGED.
"Middle age should be a time of
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1928.
WOMAN'S
FEATHER JACKETS,
VIVID HUED-PLUMES IN LAYERS.
Little feathered jackets for oven- Ing wear aro' fashion's latest novelty, and are one of the most intriguing dress details inventer,
At a recent new year dance a girl wearing a picture frock of blue talle with a "longer at the back" skirt mounted over deeper.blue silk, wore a fascinating little, coat of kingfisher blue feathers edged with luffy marabout.
The cont, was sleeveless and curl- cd upwards delightfully on the hips, looking very feminine and giving a suggestion that a beautiful bird had fluttered into the ballroom and wrapped itself about the dainty
wearer.
Many sorts of feathers can be used for making these Bille jackets, from the long fronded ostrich" to the small smooth fowl's plumage.
Small feathers in scintillating or glowing colours; arranged closely one above the other exactly as they appear on the bird's back, are spe cially suitable for the new conts.
They are usually lined with rich brocade or figured silk and ure shuped closely to the figure.
Staccato.
Conversationally, you must bo staccato. Short Rentences full of of “arresting" facts or fancies are popular. Arresting is an adjective, coming into favour. If you have never read your "Pickwick Papers" lots of the younger generation haven't got a copy and look up some of the conversations of Jinglel They are the style you must cul- tivate.
Diamante spins д gleaming spider's web for decoration on a flesh moire envelope purse for evening. A diamante handle adde allure.
WORLD
VERY DAINTY.
A luxuriously flounced dance frock, of gold metal cloth and gold lace,
FASHION PHASES.
TAFFETAS AND SATINS.
When taffetas vas cautiously urged as a tentative medium for the faring silhoueteo that swept all bof re it in fashion, there were few who accorded it a hearty welcome. Things are different now, however. It has been demonstrated that the now flair for great elaboration, gathers and folds of fabrics, finds no more lovely expression than taffetas. We find it now not, only in the "eriod" frock or robe-de- style, but in chic afternoon. models and in two-plece practical dresses.
Many windows on the grands hulevards are given over entirely to taffetas displays. One shop choose navy blue as the colour, and features taffeins in this colour in combination with georgette in frocks for older women. Another shop selects black for afternoon wear, trimming it with white and belge lingerie touches, and another window selects a practical morning phane, showing charming little two- piece dresses, combining plaid taffe- tas with a plain pleated skirt, the Iatter trimmed with the plaid.
Satins are still popular, and are followed by georgette and velvet combinations in the amarter stylés. Crepe-satins, Canton-crepes, and flat crepes are among the new season's favoured materials.
Yokes simulating a dropping shoulder-line and yokes effected by means of sun-burst tucking, or by TOWB of stitching form an Interesting phase of the fashions.
"Squares" for Men.
Men's.fashions change so slightly that the new vegue for "squares" is emphasised. Stripes have had their day.
For pyjamas and dressing gowns, broad plaids are used.
One dressing gown of flannel in Woven in squares four Inches in dimension. The colours are jade green, peach and cream, and a very fine combination it is.
OVER THE TEA CUPS.
(SPECIAL TO, THE "TELEGRAPH" by “Joan")
Is That So?
Heen
ELITE STYLES
DAINTY HATS LOVELY HAND-BAGS NOVEL FANCY GOODS"
A P. C. Building
Misa. Dorothy Francis of Boston, who in a new Ameri-.
New York,
ea Company is shortly to moke her debut in Grand Opera, in
‚THE BORED CHILD.
[By Wälter M. Gallichan.]
When I asked Muriel, aged eleven,
THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.
ORANGE CAKE.
Bent 2oz. of butter and 4oz, of
If she had enjoyed the children's caster sugar to a cream, add 2 ogga, party she answered: "No, not ane by one, and the grated rind of bit."
"Why not?" I asked.
an orange. Stir in lb, of flour sloved with a good teaspoonful of
The ceiling health, happiness and prosperity, which is a shade paler than the but without the first the second and walls, gives a goul effect; cream third are very difficult to achieve.... is also favoured, whatever the Middle age is also a time when it scheme in the mon So strong is! this popularity for pastel toned difficult to live healthily, neverthe
is for the majority more and-more
She was offended because the hos baking powder and a pinch of salt tess had engaged a clown to juice and a gill or more of milk. alternately with the strained orange that when a white ceiling was seen less, it is a time when strict atten in n carefully-decorated house the tion to the rules of keeping fit
amuse the children. "He was so Put the mixture into two sandwich other day in direct contrast of brings a greater reward than at
silly" she commented. Evidently London, Dec, 29. the ebony floor, it was considered any other of man's seven stages...
where the clothes are plain and Our Christmas shows are now in her intelligence had been affronted tins, and bake in a moderato oven "At the first glance you naturally well-cut. I have
some full swing, and anotlier addition is by the puerile antics of the unfor when pressed. Cool on a sieve, and about 15 minutes, or until firm sharp, and not nearly so restful those in middle life owe it to their think the dress drawn here by marvellous pendants-gargantuan the good old favourite, The Pri-tunate clown. as the other roons whose ceilings, immediate circle, and especially to Stephanie is made of striped ma- women, strung on black watered soded "The Letter" which Miss affairs which are worn by smart vate Secretary." This has super-
when cold spread one cake with their dependents, to make a reason-
- Many children of to-day become whipped cream, sweetened and elde fitness one of their most terial. This, however, is 'not the silk ribbon.
Gladys Cooper has withdrawn at grown-up prematurely. They are flavoured with orange essence. constant nims. Not necessarily itcase, but owing to the limitations of
long last from the Playhouse, and difficult to amuse, They look on in Cover this with orange sections Bess for a hard outdoor life-that black-and-white, the lines are used
I believe she intends to go on tour acute, boredom while their elders from which all the white pith has is comparatively easy--but for
with it. It is one of Somerset play at musical chairs with a pas been carefully removed, the pips carrying on the daily routine of a to portray tucks-and still more
Except for a bit of broadcasting, Maugham's successes, and any tour alonate zest. When grandpapa leta įbeing gently squeezed througit a Fedentary life without a lamentably tucks. The skirt consists of two Andre Charlot, whom our artist has of it would be more like a triumphal himself go in "Here we go round small hole in the centre of each sec early failure of life's powers." kinds of pleats, load and narrow, drawn this week, has been out of progress, especially if Miss Cooper the mulberry bush" the young folk tion. Press the second cake on the while the bodice portion, even unto the limelight for almost a year; but makes what is termed in the profes- gaze at him with compassion. "Poor top, and cover this with more whip- the sleeves, has pintucks at inter it is certain that he is not idle, aion a "personal appearance" old man! How can he be so silly?" ped cream and oranges. Vnts of about one inch. The model and that we may expect him to though I never could understand the These wise words to the mid-was in woolerepe de chine-green-spring a theatrical surprise on us phrase, for people either appear or number of modern children revolt After the age of twelve a large dle-aged ure quoted from "On Mid-banded with a darker shade. The before long. It was Andre Charlot they do not! When Knights Were from nursery games and refrain daring, octagonal shaped brim, has A deep rose velvet hat with, a die Age and Keeping Young" by shoulder bow is, as you will know who gave us the series of Charlot Bold" Is another old favourite from romping. They become in a long, uncurled ostrich feather E. L. Hopewell, Ash, M.D. (Mills now, a fashionable touch.
tensely self-conscious and appear to under the back and side brin. and Boon, 38. Gd.). "The forties are important," he reminds us,
despise fun, They dance with a deflant seriousness on their faces. They do not wish to exhibit a long- ing for enjoyment, and they scorn I have been reading and enjoying those among their companions who a novel called "Josie Vine" by M. delight in uproarious mirth. Such
SMART & UNUSUAL
A dream of wool "crepe de chine-green-banded with á darker shade. The skirt con- siets of two kinds of pleats, broad and narrow, while the bodice portion, even to the „zleeves, have misitucks at inter- wals of about one inch.
The Fifth, Decade.
"beenuse it is in the fifth decade
Vanity Street. Madeleine has
Revues which filled the Prince of which is being put on at the Savoy Wales Theatre for months on end, Theatre. and incidentally discovered much sketched for new talent. When I last spoke to to manifest themselves; it is in the us this week an exela Charlot he was scouring the English
model giving
that early processess of decay begin
Paris.
years between 40 and 50 that the sive fires of life may be stoked anew, and another variety of that garment that the clock is to be set back if it of which I thought there could be is ever to be. The fifties are im- no more varieties-I refer to the portant in that the breaking-point jumper. These are her words: “A is so often reached between 50 and very smart jumper made of golden 60: the healthy sexagenarian has brown satin, with a deep and novel turned one of the most dangerous turned up hem. The cuffs are also corners in life's race, and may well original and smart, and the narrow look forward to many years of at belt is completed by an amber ness and a ripe old age."
buckle." You will note one thing to which Madeleine does not refer the height of the pockets. Only The signs of disturbed balance in kets placed in such a position, and
a alender figure could "take" poc health in the late forties are in it would have to be a very digestion, impaired circulation and slender figure at that. Needless to sleeplessness. Attention to the say, the pockets could be omitted al- general health is the chiof anfe-together without the jumper losing gird against these evils. "The its chic note. sequence of tired man, tired diges-
Signs and Safeguards.
tion is simple enough for ready ob-
servation, and itself calls for com-
by exercise, being out of doors,
sunlight, d good mixed diet, plenty
of fluid to drink, and peace of mind.
F
A King's Earring.
•
The Street of Adventure.
For
F. Perham (Hutchinson). In parts "silliness" makes them blush for this story approximates "The Mill their friends. on the Floss,” for it has an attach- ment between a brother and sister We used to play more heartily which in beautiful without being in when I was a child. We were also the least mawkish. It also has & susceptible to excitement. family which, in the masterly self-weeks before Christmas we tingled concentration displayed by every in. with expectancy. We had very few dividual member thereof, reminds mechanical toys, no gramophones, one vaguely of the Sangers in "The no loud-speakers, no professional Constant Nymph" but only vague entertainers. But we played, and ly, because somehow or other the we had more imagination in our author doesn't bother to keep that games than is shown by the children aspect of it going. Inatend, she of to-day. The other day, when a centres her story on the brother boy of nine was playing with a kit- and sister in London, on the one ton, his sister of twelve remarked:
"You baby!" hand, and upon a scintillating,
psoudo intelligent, dominating Theso terribly old, bored children icicle of a woman of the kind are, to put it paradoxically, still too provinces for revue girls, being a which fascinated the unattached young to recognise the inestimable great believer in giving the right men home on leave during the War, value of occasional silliness. As
** but
Glittering Frocks.
montense modifications of life and. I hope you managed to nequire in people a chance, and confident that on the other. In the ordinary way, our elders used to say: "They have habil." In an interesting chapter the form of Christmas presents there is much undiscovered and un-I throw a novel down these days too many treats." on "Auto-Intoxication," the author some of the very attractive jewel- developed talent in our provincial whenever we get to a chapter observes that the may be avoided tery which is now being worn town. He also held a series of which boging something like by fashionable women. I.refer of auditions on Sundays in London in this: "Then came 1914 with course to the semi-precious stones, order to give business girls a chance the rattle of. drums and such as amber, crystal, coral, inde, to try their luck Naturally he the clash of sabres.. and turquoise to mention only a didn't get away with these revolu-something in "foale "Vine" made the smartest women in London seem You must, glitter nowadays. All fewwhich are being used for the Lionary ideas without opposition me decido to stick it out to the last to be wearing shining frocks. All manufacture of delightful car-rings, from members of the profession, chapter, and I'm glad I did. If the now fancy dresses are made of pendants, necklacca, buckles for and Sir Frank Benson asked: Why one had any doubt as to whether coloured American cloth-unfortun shoes, rings, bracelets, and what introduce new people into an over "M, F. Perham" is a man or woman, fately, when it gets warm it is a King Charles I. started the not. Take, for instance, the lady crowded business and give them her sex would be revealed by the triflo odorous and frocks woven of fashion of wearing a single earring. in the picture. Most certainly here hope where there was none? Andre way she seems to enjoy rubbing in tiny, unbelievably small, bends are The Van Dyck triplicate portrait jumper buckle is matched by a Charlot. replied, in effect, that it the agony. Why harrow our feal-popular. Some of them, are dia- was flashed on the screen, and the necklet of amber and her car-rings was time we had some new blood in Ings by letting Josie take "Jessor" mond patterned in silver and black, speaker told how this jewel was and single-stone ring are en cuite, the theatre and that some of the old (her faithful mongrel dog and The Duchess of York's newest frock worn on the scaffold. It is now As this form of jewellery is. not hangers-on "packed up! It was equally beloved of her dear is of the palest possible gold lame, preserved as an important relic at cheap there is no likelihood of its quite a lively warfare while it last-brother) to the lethal chamber be with a deep bright gold lace yoke Welbeck Abbey, the seat of the Duke becoming too common; and it is a ed, but it didn't materially upset cause of Portland.
someone disliked him?and vandykes of the lace In the very charming fashion, particularly the scheme of things.
And why the ends skirt/Me S
SOMETHING NEW.
A very smart jumper made of golden brown, with a deep The cuffe are also original and and novel turned up hem. the narrow belt is completed Bit by an ember-buckle,