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"SWAN'

Genuine

Chinese Silk

HOSIERY

Best Quality-Latest Style-Fast Colour Ladies' $2.00 Pr. Gent's. $1.25 Pr.

for ALL SIZES & COLOURS.

THE WING ON CO., LTD.

GOOD LUCK.

"GOOD LUCK”

A

BRAND

NEW SEASON GINGER

Most reliable, good strong colour, mellow and well preserved.

The China Ginger Preserving Co., Ltd.

No. 16, Bonham Strand, East

Telephone C. 989

THE CHINA MÀ

FASHIONS AND

FANCIES

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1927.

EXTENSION OF A

STOCK-TAKING SALE

AT

BOMBAY SILK STORE

extended

FOR 8 DAYS.

ENORMOUS REDUCTIONS., NO. BETTER BARGAINS

Inspect Our Special Offers Before You Buy Elsewhere. BUY YOUR SUMMER SILKS NOW,

BOMBAY SILK STORE,

No. 2, D'Agullar Street,

GOING HOME?

If you are returning to Europe or Amorica, WHY NOT GET THE BEST ACCOMMODATIONS while travelling, by ALLOWING US to protect your reservations?

THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC., are official agents for all steamship and railroad lines throughout the world and issue all tickets at tariff rates.

AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES in GOLD

⚫ DOLLARS, STERLING OR FRANCS provide security against loss or theft and are the most convenient method of carrying money. THESE CHEQUES HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF TRAVEL and

banks cash

Bruk cash the

them readily. After banking houre, as at other times, hotels, shops and restaurants accept them in payment.

all

For large sums of money, it is convenient to carry AMERICAN EXPRESS LETTERS OF CREDIT. Their use among travellers the world over has been established by their unquestioned reliability and ready recognition. An added feature in that drafts under our Letters are exchangeable for AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELLERS CHE QUES at our branches at a charge of 1 per cent.

Complete information can be obtained application to-

THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC.,

4-A, Des Voeux Road, Central,

Hong Kong.

Phone C. 4825.

Your Car Should Be Overhauled

Before the fine Weather Comes

REPAIRS & OVERHAULS

Carefully and Cheaply Done.

The Wonderful Lättle “WHIPPET'—

See What It Will do-

No Obligation.

Filling Station Service.

Tyres and Tubes Stocked.

THE DURO MOTOR COMPANY, Ltd.

Constant and Careful Supervision.

Tels: K. 1226 & 226.

Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.

General, and Commercial Printers and Bookbinders.

BOOKBINDING IN ANY STYLE

FROM PAPER COVERS TO FULL. LEATHER EFFICIENTLY COMPLETED

PRICE MODERATE.

CALL

SPECIAL RATES FOR QUANTITIES.

OUR SERVICE AT YOUR DISPOSAL

OR PHONE

5, Wyndham Street

Telephone Central 22.

The frocks are many, their colours váry, the silhouette deve- lops individual lines, fabrics ex- press variety and still each frock demands its coat in the mode that will distinguish the spring-time.

Interesting Lines Introduce the New Silhouette.

found a two piece dress which in- cludes a striped sweater and a black crepella skirt. The more formal version of the tweed coat adds a grey goat stole to the coat and a crepe de chine' frock in two pieces; with smart stitching in white.

In many of the coats worn with new frocks there are definite types for certain occasions. For the sports, ensembles are to be found possessing loose lines in three- quarter length models while others are long and belted. Afternoon

THE SHINGLE IN PARIS.

Coats, too, express variety in fabric as well as style. The length of these new coats accompanying their frocks are given much scope by a generous interpreter of the fashion mode. They are short, long, or longer, according to the type of frock they accompany. The great shingle controversy Their exact length is, of course, has reached the point when people hipline, fingertip, and full length. actually are betting upon the pro- The essential part of their exist-bable length of time that will elapse enee, however, is to accompany the newest frocks for spring.

There are many lovely versions of these spring ensembles. For in stance, Callot sponsors navy blue softened by a lighter shade in a heavy georgette. The belted blouse in peplum effect is panelled und bordered with beige lace and over it is worn a navy georgette cout of hipline length.

Patou, expressing many interest- ing versions of the spring ensemble, frequently chooses prints to fashion the dress and line the silk coat of darker shade.

The collarless cont tops the col- larless frock in smart manner in some ensembles. The blouse is embroidered while the skirt and coat in-deeper tones carry out the compose theme.

before the short-haired mode is definitely out of fashion. (says a "Daily Chronicle" writer). Mar- garet Bannerman, just back from Paris, saya that there is no doubt about the shingle having lost favour with Frenchwomen.

In Parle, now women are wearing their hair longer and dressed close to the neck.

ENGINE TROUBLE:

The compose frock, with its separate jacquette will undoubtedly be the favourite of amart women everywhere this spring. It matters not whether the frock that appears beneath be in one or two pieces. Some are worn in long lines ex- prossing new ideas in flat crepes Men, like motor-cara, are Hable or sheer fabrics while other dresses to "engine-trouble." Through lack will express themselves in the of sufficient exercise, injudicious extremely popular two-piece mode. eating and drinking, neglect of one The ensemble costuine expresses kind or another, their internal Itself in all fabrics and for all machinery gets out of order and occasions.. From the very tailored then the troubles begin. ‚· mode to the most formal ensemble; the matching cost and dress are seen everywhere.

The tweed coat that will be worn so much this spring in black and while mixture is correct for sports when worn without a fur stóle but may, instead of a tailored collar, possess a calfskin collar in trim outline. Beneath this coat is

and evening coats are elaborated with loose diagonal folds or fringed trimmings. The tiered effects in both coats and dresses are becom- ing popular.

Bolero and bloused effects arò seen with increasing favour in the smart frocks. Even coats Arc, adapting a bloused effect by means of vertical waist seamings. Both coats and dresses are permitted great freedom in their selection of fabrics. It is quite usual to find at least two materials featured in one frock or ensemble. Lininga of the coats are often found a suitable material for the frock which helps finish the ensemble.

The

Colours for spring vary. blacks have a place of prominence particularly when combined with white-while blue in all shades is exceptionally popular. Green, too, is much used while beige and grey exert a strong springtime appeal.

Natli Barr, a charming new First National player, is seen wearing several spring ensembles of youth- ful charm in her first First National film, "Diamonds in the Rough.”

WOMEN'S SHOES IN 100 A.D.

Leather soles of shoes belonging to the Roman women of Londinium in the first century A.D. were among the interesting discoveries at Founder-court, Lothbury, É.C., where excavations are proceeding on the banks of the River Wallbrook near, the Bank of England.

Small and pointed as any modern shoe, these leather fragments, em- bedded in the mud of the old-Wall- brook, have survived the ravages of time to show that the Roman girl was as proud of her footwear as la her modern sister.

Three such soles have been

found, and none of them is worn in the slightest degree, apparently Indicating that the owner had dis- carded them as out of fashion.

If your machinery in clogged, if you are constipated, verish, bilious. bad-tempered, headachy, "blue," just try a little dose of Pinkettes to-night and you'll be in perfect working order in the The high heel, had not yet made morning. Chemists sell, Pinkettes, Its appearance, for one of the or 60 cents the vial, past free from women's soles has a low beel.. Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 60, | something like a rubber one, atill Kiangse Road, Shanghat:

fastened to the leather.

BRINGING UP FATHER.

DON'T KNOW WHAT [TO DO-1 WONDER IF I

COULD MAKE SOME

WHISKERS OUT OF ROPE

?

Hong Kong's Artistic Photographers

The

YING MING STUDIO

Queen's Road Central

(Official Photographers of the "China Mail.")

CHY LOONG.

New Season. Preserved Ginger.

Best quality Prompt attention to Exporters. Oce:-231, Queen's Road Central, 2nd floor. Tel. Central 2530. Factory:-500-504, Canton Road, Yaumati. Tel. K. 869.

SEND YOUR FRIENDS AT HOME.

THI

NEW OF

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WEEK

AND WHEN YOU GO HOME. KEEP IN TOUCH THROUGH

THE OVERLAND CHINA MAIL

· WEEKLY EDITION OF THE "CHINA MAIL."

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"E-TIME!

YOU

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