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THE CHINA MAIL.

FASHIONS

AND FANCIES

GREAT REDUCTIONS

IN

ALL DEPARTMENTS

JULY

FROM JULY 8TH.

THE WING ON CO., LTD.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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GOOD LUCK

"GOOD LUCK”

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

Hong Kong's Artistic Photographers

The

YING MING STUDIO

Queen's Road Central

(Official Photographers of the "China Mail.")

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Ltd.

Newspaper Enterprise,

General and Commercial Printers

and Bookbinders.

BOOKBINDING IN ANY STYLE

FROM PAPER COVERS TO FULL LEATHER

EFFICIENTLY COMPLETED

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SPECIAL RATES FOR QUANTITIES.

OUR SERVICE AT YOUR DISPOSAL

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Once again the robe de style may be seen exerting a strong influence upon, the formal mode.

it is seen

in all fabrics and in all colours and has many ways of distinguishing its

lines and detail, }

Certain types may emphasize their special qualities of beauty with real distinction in wearing the bouffant evening dress. It is parti- cularly becoming to the picturesque type, and also leads distinction to the petite miss when correctly

chosen.

glace taffeta is often used to cronte this effect. It is used with remark- able results in the robe de style with extreme width at the hips. Gathered flounces fall in irregular lines in this model, and are held at the front by a taffeta flower.

new bouffant frocks. very charming results in many

With all white gaining in its up- peal as the aeason advances. an un- usually effective evening gown de- signed in the picturesque robe de the style manner is seen in crepe satin and uses a lace collar with old-time appeal at the wide cut neck of the filted bodice. A full skirt shirred to join the waist possesses an un- even hemline and is slightly longer in back than,in front.

of

They

are seen in pastel shades and are. worn over drops of deeper tones. These rely but little upon trim- mings as their colourful fabrics a simple are sufficient to create charm:

Ex-

HORIZONTAL

4-Cwns

1-A globa

7-Vinegar container

S-The great artery

11-A molluck

12-Part of a wheel

THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE,

HORIZONTAL (Cont.)

51-Spoiled

54-To prohibit 55-Unit of time 57-Performing £8-Tall and thin 69-To let fall

14-An Oriental weight 61-Prefix. Up 16-Curly hair abtained 62-Hog-meat

from sheep

17-Man-like

19-Seize

21-Not in

22~Hide

24-Single

25-Conjunction

26-A watch charms 27-Crop

29-Church of England

(abbr.)

30-You

32-A Hebrew

34-To .cook in an oven 36-A unit of weight

$7-Boiltary

38-Bawed

$9-A label

41-Tora

43-Thus

44-Mo!sturo

46-Guided 47-Exclamation

<0-A pair

63-Ineline

66-To infilet, as -

vengeance |87-An alkali molution

68-To nisk

VERTICAL

1-Verbal

2-An alcoholic liquor

3-Exls: 4-Exclamation 5-Skill

6-A mále deer

7-A coagulated mass' S-A compared with 3-Capable

10-Prefix meaning

Male"

11-To woo

13-A relative

15-A long slender

apear

16-To court

17-An unruly crowd -A swart potato

VERTICAL (Cont.) 20-An Insect 22-Enumerated 23-Tolled 26-Discovered 28-Declined gradually 31-Garden tool 32-A spurt of liquid 33-Te move from side

to alde

33-To be cognizant of 38-Bent

40-Once more 42-To express

gratitude

43-Plg-pen

145-5mfil compact masE

46-A Ilmb 48-Noah's floating home 50-Long-handled

peddles

152-A ditch

53-Blte repeatedly 54-Sound made by a

dog

56-A list or record BB-Burden 60-Compensate $2-Used in writing 64-Group of States

(abbr.)

66-Right Excellent

(abbr.)

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

In general, the bouffant frock too The bouffant skirt that is longer should strena simplicity as in back than in front offers another much trimming tends to make it interesting effect in the robe de fussy. An over elaboration spoils

youthfulness. style, crented in pastel colours. its charm and These are lined in a deeper shade quisite fabrics should be chosen

SNAKE JEWELLERY. that is thus given an opportunity and these should be emphasized. With the yogue for laces and of displaying itself in the swaying A single flower or group of Blowers Other properly placed are often the only

Ladies are not only wearing the nets being featured for the sam- movements of the skirts.

across forms of trimming used,

fashionable snake necklets with mer season the robe de style comes skirts turn themselves up

Virginia Lee Corbin wears an ex- evening dress, but earrings, brace- into further popularity. It is ex-the front and so reveal a deeper

The tremely beautiful robe de style in a lets, and girdles to match. tremely interesting in both these fabrics. Often a bodice will be Just as all white is effective in formal scene in the First National stiff slave necklets to go with the

It is of gold bangles seen in soft silk or taffeta and a the evening made, all black may be film "Ladies at Play." skirt be made of Chantilly lace in seen with stunning results. It is deep rose taffeta simply and charm America, and were promptly super- bouffant tiers that are most effec- usually picturesque in Chantilly ingly designed. A simple bodice is seded by a flexible ornament having joined to a full skirt which adds a a snake's-head clasp, with jewelled tive. Net in row upon row of Ince in extremely wide and full on

transparent border for effective eyes. Gold and silver or imitations gauzy loveliness will fashion an- tiers. A snug bodice that possesses nesa. Graduated formal flowers of of those metals are used, and the other wide skirt while a small a deep cut decolletage is another chiffon and a large flat bow in the latest variation of the fashion lies bodice may be of either net cover- feature of this type of gown.

front are the only decorations used, in twisted gold and silver ropes, ing silk, or of plain taffeta.

Silver and gold in the lames and and there is seen an air of youth of which the small, ones are worn As an many of the new evening metallic laces are expressed with and simplicity that is very charm-round the neck, while the larger silhouettes are wide at the hips, a much skill and beauty in the robe ing.

dé style.

OIL-PAINTED, GLASSES.

tone.

Black and white combinations are extremely effective, For in- stance, all white soft crepe satin, satin side up, le, used to form a slim bodice and full skirt edged with deep, uneven border of black The same lace is

front side.

Old-world garden scenes giving Chantilly lace. the effect of massed colour are en-used for u huge flower where joying one of their periodical bodice and skirt are joined at the vogues, and a very charming idea just introduced in the West-end is to have little paintings of this description carried out in oil on

white wine-glasses and finger-

Printed chiffons are used

with

bowls. Each piece is signed by the WOMEN'S BUSINESS SUCCESS. artist. The popularity of lacquer furniture at the present time has

THE BRIGAND NOTE.

The latest effort of the Rue de la Paix to escape from the eternal mannish "tailor-made" is a suit of which the coat begins like an or dinary coat and ends in a sort of glorified brigand's belt.

Quite 12 or 14 inches wide, the belted bottom part is sometimes made of cloth, with pieces added realistically to suggest holes for cartridges and pistols. Sometimes it is made of leather decorated in the same way. A third variation makes the belt of a new sort striped webbing material.

of

Jumper suits of crepe de Chine

prompted the designer to paint A new success for women in busi- glaar which will harmonise withness is revealed in the first year'a the lacquer dining-room. One set working of the egg and poultry pool of glass is particularly attractive. organised by housewives in the The green pedestals and tall stems Province of Saskatchewan, says of the hock glasses are surmounted an Ottawa, message. A turnover or antin have these "belt bottoms" hy white bowls on which the Jap of £107,223 is shown on a share in cloth to give them an original anese bridge, trees, and stork are capital of £2.474. All the direc- note. Often the belt is In a con- painted in red, blue, and gold. The tors, with one exception, are farm- trasted shade to the garment on finger-bowls are adorned in simi-ers' wives. During the twelve which it appears.

con-

lar way. The old-world flower de-months the pool, which has 16,000 When cloth is used it may be în signs are equally effective. Slim members, disposed of 1,190,000 the same shade as the suit itself hollyhocks painted up the sides of dozens of eggs and 810,000lb. of or in some contrasting colour. A the bowls in yellow and red, red poultry. One result is the deci- new idea is to have colours that are nasturtiums or cerise fuchsias are sion of the leading provincial not strikingly different, but equally popular. There is a great creamery to turn over to the pool trast slightly. demand for sets on which Madonna its entire egg and poultry business. The striped webbing belts are lilies are beautifully painted in In future fifty-two local creameries chiefly used for jumper suits in- some detail, the white bells with will act as assembling and shipping tended to be worn under a coat or their golden centres and green agents for the pool, and will place in the country,. All sorts of gay follage looking very charming. Pink all their organising and marketing colour combinations are to be seen. tulips and red daisies are among facilities at its disposal. The pre- A vivid bluish green with a stripe other subjects which appear on this sident of the bureau is Mrs. Bertha of yellow between looks charming attractive glass, of which large Holmes, the wife of a farmer at for the bottom of a navy golfing quantities are being sold.

Asquith.

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BRINGING UP FATHER,

came

over from

ornaments girdle, the evening frock. Earrings and, if desired, a bracelet in the same design can also

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be worn, though it would require a effect without appearing to be over- statuesque figure to carry off the adorned.

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