AT THE PARIS OPENINGS
THE BLACK SUIT OF THE AUTUMN
AND WHAT TO WEAR WITH IT
"DON'T-DRESS-FOR-DINNER" FROCKS
By JANE GORDON
IN designing the autumn and winter styles the Pacla creators of fashion have been influenced in o dozen different ways. The Persian Exhibition
nt the
Bibliotheque
Nationale
has affected almost every collection.
It must have inspired the Peralan silhouette and the top-heavy draped turbans of Lanvin and Talbot. Persian brocades are used for very flared qvening costs. Oriental Jawellery is used lavish- on afternoon and
Reasons For
Plain Glass
THERE
are somo new re- ceptacles for the bathroom made of clear glass, so that the colours of the talo powders and beth-malta may be allowed to give the regulate louch of dolour" instead of colour being provided by the glass tself.
To this end, clear glass with ribbed effect is becoming popular.
Coloured bath salts also look. pretty showing through large round bottles made of plain glass decorated by several slender black ringa painted
upon them,
TAR HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1988.
Just in
NEW FINGER-NAIL POLISH SHADES
Hedo
Anny Blatt jumper and skirt,
Hin pastel shaded blue; with
C
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1BBED black rayon on wool suit with black corduroy revers, pocket slits and side bands on skirt is by Anny Blatt. The twisted torban of plaid ribbon is an Erik model,
gathered so that they stand up at Paris dress the shoulder joint. evening gowns. The
With many of designer has always had a tremend these dresses long jewelled chains ous fancy for plaids, and our Scottish are worn round the neck, hanging Queen has, as we knew she would, to well below the waist.. given them a great chance to pay her the delicate compliment of featuring plukds on every possible occasion.
WHEN HOOPS ARE USED
Baths made to Measure
by
AUDREY WRANGHAM
IF you are planning a now bath room or installing a new built-in-bath in your home, now is the moment to have the bath tailored to fit you.
Just as you order a coat and skirt. choose material ond colour and arrange fittings, so you can now; in a Bond-street bath expert's salon, have your bath made to the length and breadth you prefer,
Wide Edge
MANY women are having
them bullt in at an angle in order to get more shoulder play. Those who like to lie almost prone in the bath can have a length
THE hand-knitted jumper and skirt sketched comes from Anny Blatt's collection of knitted models. It is in shaded pastel blue wood, and THE late '90 and the early Edwar- across the front and back of the of oft. 4in, overall. Very wide edges, THE
dion silhouettes ure popular. jumper is a tapestry stitch in red. that act as a table for ash trays, Three types of crinolines ore shown: The hat worn with this is one of cigarette boxes and matches, as well Chanel uses yards and yards of Erik's flat felt
tam-o'-shanters,
tulle
ELDERLY people sometimes
find it hard to get in and out
material in the skirt, but does not swathed, with a bright plaid, scarfs for soap and sponges, ure popular. REED'S black stuff it out, and it comes from a fair- pinned at the back with a large gold
Metal Grips suit has red by low hip-line; Molyneux wraps pin. and grey touches satin, velvet, or moire tightly round
The ribbed black suit is of rayon on both jacket and the body from low decolletage to skirt. The blouse low hip-line, and then allows the on wool. The classic jucket is slit
at the buck and has corduroy revers, of the modern built-in bath. For is of bordeaux red skirt to billow out over hoops. velvet. Rode Volola When he uses lace or
the pocket silts, and seams down the them there is a raised shoulder- black felt, high in some silhouette is kept, the hoops Include a soft combed wool, Harris-less metai that are fixed to the side side of the skirt. The yarns used line bath, as well as grips of stain- the crown, is worn are used, but slim underslip makes
Kemp and Horris weed, which are the foundation garment. Roul's crinolines stand out from the wools. There 13, nise a new wool in to the bath itself,
Magay both very firm and slightly rough and out. A grip can also be built- tight-fitting
ting waistline, and all
have low-cut, tight-fitting little bodices.
The early Edwardian influence is clearly visible in Robert Piguet's col-
with this.
lapestry stitch in red on front and back of the jumper. The flat "Taming” is an Erik model, and is swathed with pläid scarf and pinned at back with pilt pin.
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lection. Many of the dinner frocks have tight-fitting bodlees and long, tight-fitting sleeves, rucked
A LOVELY idea for a modern room is to have the mantelpiece entirely devoted to flowers. Run an aluminium trough all along it, build it in with wood and paint it over. The flowers look just as though they are growing out of the mantelpiece, and their beauty is doubled if there is a built-in mirror behind them.
If you go to the extra trouble of draping a curtain all round the mirror it will give tho effect of looking out of a window,
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Strawberry Trifle
WH
WHEN you have no fresh fruit st hand, tinned strawberries can make the basis of a very good.trifle. Sponge fingers should be stuck to- gether, with strawberry fam, in order to line the bowl.
The strawberries should then be arranged over the sponge cakes. (leaving several berries for garnish- ing.) The juice, slightly heated, in then poured over, and when it has penetrated the cakes, custard made with powder, and allowed to get .nearly cold is odded.
When cold, whipped cream, flavoured with vanilla, is arranged the custard, sprinkled with chopped nuts and decorated with tho
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CORNS
are killed and loosened with just one applica tion of Geis-It. A drop or two ends the torture:
of throbbing corns. A few days later you can Hft off the corn raot and all.
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··Makes you forget eurns. «
and.
and slik yarn dresses,
used for evening knitted after the style of
the soft Shetland lacy designs.
of the bath for levering oneself in
Safety Tap
for the
The colours are slate-prey, lin- ANOTHER safety device-es- den green, olive green, chartreuse,pecially
nursery
With your travel tweeds and silk prints, wear the lovely Parma violet shade
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With dark town tail- leurs, black and white evening dresses, try the new scarlet, clear and cool as a jewel-
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Skirt are slightly shorter and most of them pleated, the pleats being ́actually-knitted into the skirts, so that they are not likely to come out.
THE other model sketched
Creed's black coat and skirt, banded with grey and bordeaux red to match the blouse of bordeaux-red velvet. High hat by Rose Valois,
QUILTING IS SMART
lite hot tap, red for danger, us used in all the miniature baths at the new Westminster Infant Welfare Centre opened by the Queen.
Bath Cushion SPONGES are not always
things of beauty, but they can be kept in stainless metal grilles.
Perforated bath cushions for loan- ing back in the bath, and stainless There are numbers models in metal stands either for a shaving Molyneux's autumn and winter dress mirror or a book, which fit upon a show, und although there were a sponge tray, are modern alda to bath great many mannequins, it took lounging. them well over two hours, going as
fast us they could, to show the whole
collection. There is a big group of with sequin sad blister-pearl em
of length jacket of dull pink duvetyn, "don't-dress-for-dinner" frocks.
black crope, cut slim and straight, broidery on the shoulders, is worn with brillant Javanese embroidery with a slim black velvet dress; o' in sunray points forming necklaces, tight-fiting little jacket of mauve
düvetyn 19 worn with a black georgette dinner-frock.
T
THE MATCHING
FAN
THE heat wave brought fans into vogue by day, and tuomen Wert scen carrying them in the restaurants,
Following the matchmaking” fashion, à sound) of the newest evening handbags are accont panted by little fans of the same materialis
FA good choke with a simple summer evening, Gudmi isa. handbag in pale blue satin, painted with an eighteenth- century design of Bowers,, ene cleard. in a curly but
•frame The little fan that goes with it. has mother-o'-pearl sticky
Sliver brocade.evening hand- bags with silver
clasps, cre completed by brocade fans with plain white sticks and are more modern looking than the dainty mother-o'-peart reminders the eighteenth century mode
of
There is a good deal of quilting:"0 collarless flared black satin quilted coat is lined with pink satin quilting. Some of the suits and coats have hoods; one belge-coloured - velours coal lined with summer ermine has an ermine lined hood.
Many shades of violet, Floren- tine pink, Guards' red, and Picasso blue are the new colours here.
OUTSTANDING models. In Pict's
ingludé un accordioni pleated coat of yellow-beige wool, the pleats swinging out from yoke and
sleeves of black sealskin. A classic tallor-made every long Jacket ́milé at'
Hop pockets is of navy blub and black- grape ¦coloured (stripod i salting? shirt and waistcoat, are of, navy blue crepe, #521dder to Jalk
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A black circular knee-length cape has the collar bordered with pom- pons, and was worn over Dalinti black dress with violet gloves edged with pompons.
Smocking is used on the yoke and Tweed jackets in vivid colours, rich-a frill, of a dark green dress, and for the very high collar, topped by
ly embroidered at pockels and agdit shoulderilnes, are worn, with, these dress. dresses.
on a slate grey, afternoon
The long coats here hang · Joose A short-skirted sült of grey-and- from the shoulders; the coals of gold brocade has a Siberian fox dressy afternoon auttaare kned collar. A Picasso-green cloth short length, wrapped round tightly! und avening coat has looking-glass and he bordered by fur." The sleeves of bead embroidery on the leaves; crepe dresses are bishop style. similar embroidery is used round the armholes of the black velvet dress worn underneath. A loose hip-
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