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THE

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1928.

"MAIL'S FASHIONS ILLUSTRATED

TOWN CLOTHES

The Warm Days Introduce Styles Suitable for

the City

as Well as the Countryside; Short Sleeves Are Worn.

NEW LUGGAGE THAT MAKES TRAVELLING EASIER

The

Wardrobe Suitcase I a Decided Success for Short Journeys

or Week-Ends. Light Motor Trunks and Spacious

Travelling Boxes Alo Appeal to Luggage Shoppers,

THE LINES OF THE HAT ARE VARIED

The Summer Hat Shows an Increasing Fondness

for Wide Brims, While the Sports Cloche Still Points the Road to Chic.

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For those who spend a major cases, dressier than those chosen part of the summer in cities, with for country, walks or the seasture.,. just week-ends or vacations in the The polka dotted silk dress is ex- canatry, the wardrobe presenta aceptionally fashionable this season. doubly troublesome aspect.. The It gains an ensemble effect clothes suitable for sports and country clubs are of course out of the question in great cities. Pastel tints and brilliant shades are all very well where green grass lends a soft background but where the us phalt pavements sizzle in the haut dull or neutral tones are decidedly better.

For many reasons the, flowered erepas and, chiffons that are no con- veniently introduced in WAUMI weather form the most successful of town dresses, with navy blue and black chiffons and silks also reen in trimly designed costumes. There is an absence of the sports feeling

in these clothes, too, They are decidedly trimmer, and In some

"LEISURINGS" OF FINE

FABRICS.

The already famous fashion twins-Formality and Femininity- have taken the world of dress by storm. No department has failed to feel their influence, and it is not, therefore, at all surprising to find boudoir apparel and lingerie-grow- ing daily more fascinating and elaborate. Perhaps these garments are less effected; for they have al ways been feminine, yet there is an increase in that quality, this sea- yon.

cades are

to

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matching coat or cape, or has a finished appearance with the aid of a fox scurf. The georgette ensem- bies too, are good for lays in town. These are successfully shown in navy, black or beige tones. The frocks, while simple in line, pra- sens a feminine feeling and are. generally accompanied by matching coats of georgette or crepe.

Short sleeves, too, have returned to a somewhat prominent place in Summer fashions and also are shown in Lown dresses.. Alice White, in First National's "Harold Teen," wears

a simple dress

of

black particularly acceptable for

town wear. sleeves 100.

It has the new short

of the crepe.

This 'cape, the wkle, shawl collar and the hem edge are all fringed, Preference is shown for the pastel tones-coral, French blue or turquoise. lavender,, pench, rose and blue are also favourites.

Pink,

Copen

Travelling WA anec dreaded because of the number of pieces of luggage found necessary to hold the various articles essential to even a short journey or week-end visit. luggage designers, there is found To-day, due to the ingenuity of

a single suitcase so eintipped that it may take care of an entire wardrobe.

This new suitcase possesses all the features of a wardrobe trunk. In fact it is a miniature trunk. It posesses hangers on a trolley, Nile.space

for hats, shoes and acces Hories. One type of wardrobe suitcase opens at an angle with the top standing open. One side con- taina a wardrobe effect with the hangers for dresses and coats while the other half has removable séc- tions with tray arrangements to hold separate articles! They pos- seas pockets for shoes and space for hats, too.

has an over-

When a slip is imperative, it is often made as a part of the tea gown. À crepewatin slip with in- sorts of thread lace dress that is principally WIBK draperies of chiffon and the same lace that trims the slip. Another negligee of printed Georgette has pustel flowers on a peach back- ground, and the garment is worn over, a slip of orchid crepe de chine,

LINKING HEADWEAR WITH FOOTWEAR,

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Another type of wardrobe suit, ense is somewhat square in shape and has itself divided into spaces, too. It also supplies adequate space for clothes so that they need not be

are so generously featured. It is the summer leather.

crushed. In fact these small trunks may accommodate at least six dress- es, two hats, shoes, lingerie, and all the accessories essential to the ensemble. They permit the travel- lers to tour in comfort with a se- robe is complete in but a single cure knowledge that their ward-

piece of luggage.

Motoring is becoming more popu- lar and in luggage displays there are some exceptionally smart and desirable motor trunks on display. These are very light in weight nowadays so that they may be car-" ried intact from car to hotel, They come in various sizes and are

equipped so that two persons may use them comfortably, as they are divided into compartments. These automobile trunka make it possible to carry a complete wardrobe with dinner or sports clothes handy at a minute's notice. mf.

The hot summer has a way with horsehair and leghorn give more

it that makes wide brims wider variety to their shapes inasmuch

as they droop In soft lines.

The cloche is undoubtedly the

every season. There is an effort in the early season to bring the hat selection for aports and travelling. of moderate lines into extreme This season finds the cloche worn popularity, but as the summer ad- in a variety of materials. Felta, vances and the sun grows 'strong- | straws and silks are all used with er fashion weakens and again ad- equally chic results. The silk hat mits that the most successful hat stitched amartly is proying a de- is the one that shades the facecidedly popular. choice. For sports, And again it is the open motoring and travelling the stitch- are shown in fascinating groupa.

ed silk cloche is ideal. It keeps The new Gladstone bag which may season for the very large hat.

This season finds the large hat its shape so well even when pack- accommodate so many dresses is

ugain reigning supreme, and in aed in small quarters and is very found an attractive piece of lug-variety of straws that gives an ex-cool on the head.

It is found in a type that ceptionally kage.

Fine fur felt hats are also worn

most.

wide choice. The

has sides that expand to take care transparent hat is perhaps favour for sports.

They are of chiffon

night bag is expanding into a sult with hais of heavier straws. The colourful of the summer hats. of excess garments. The over-ed, but it shares Its smart lines like fur felt and ard the moat case with a tray that takes care of large hat is simplicity itself, yet Tiny pin tueks, clever cutting and toilet 'accessories,

it is infinitely varied. Among the grosgrain ribbon all combine to Hat and shoe boxes are to be straws used are horsehair, the give them the awagger essential to found, too, These take care of a large hat of linene straw, the large sports chic. wardrobe that demands a number rough straw in two tones, the large The hat featuring polka dots is

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of hats and shoes for an extended hat of shiny paillasson, the large equally successful as the summer stay. When accompanied by a hat in natural balibount), the large frock of polka dots. It comes in large suitcase that takes care of hot of natural leghorn, the large silks of all colours and in straws many dresses and an overnight bag hat. with the draped headband, the with polka dots embroidered for small needs and toilet articles, large Milan hat with the twisted colourfully upon them. Ribbon the travelling outfit is complete for headband.

effects as well as the entire hat

the most extended journey. Brown The lines of the large hat vary, of polka dots are smartly seen. leathers, black leathers, light pig- too. There is the hat of uncom Alice White wears a large hat of skins and all sorts of combinations promising brim, broad and narrow-transparent black very smartly in of leathers are used.

or in the back than in the front. her Intest First National film, There is the large brim that droops "Harold Teen." It is of the new so becomingly as wel as the stiff type stressing simplicity yet giv- outline o fa large Milan. The ing an air of amart sophistication.

Colleen Moore, whose latest First National film is "Happiness Ahead," and whose love for travel takes her to all sorts of places, finds it neces-

For those whose travel needs re- quire more than a single piece of luggage, there are charming groups of luggage which stress an ensem- sary to possess all sorts of luggage ble note. Small wardrobe trunks, for both short and long journeys. is covered in the same leather of hat boxes, overnight bags, and ault- cases all made of the same leather

'n

arc

as

Miss Moore, has found the new wardrobe suitcase a decided success.

which the other pieces are made. (Buffalo hide, by the way, is the smartest luggage leather at the It is the most con- moment.)

specially designed compartment for dress shirts and the appurtenances thereof.

If, during the period of mannish styles, there was a' tendency to- ward eliminating the negligee, hostess and tea gown, in favour of the pajama suit, then that ten-

Special week-end савез have dency bas disappeared.. Pajamas

the shoes are a high-heeled strapped a trip. Upon the distance travelled venient trunk imaginable, this lit

been devised for both men and remain, but they are inclined

women, and they usually accom- model cut very low on the sides and the duration of the stay de-tle affair, for the woman contem The world is full of a number gorgeousness, along with the rest

modate all that will be needed on of the boudoir apparel that is of of things, when it comes to the Silke, crepe de chine, and several and high in back.

pends the number of pieces-plating a summer over seas, and the average trip. For the golfer fered. Satins and silks and bro wardrobe, and a good proportion of novelty fabrics bearing clever There linen bags to link sometimes one piece becomes two, when it is combined with a suit there is a separate bag, designed used in their building, these things must be considered in trade names are important in the linen shoes with the linen hat, when a tray is removed, if the tray and hat case, It meets every ward- with a zippor fastening, that will and they abound in: fine details that relation to the individual ensemble. footwear mode. They are pat-there are bags of quilted crepe in holds tolles necessities and folds robe need of a really extended trip. accommodate an extra garment or make them exquisite.

It is so very easy to spoil an effect, terned, the fabrics, and were, ap-

the same shade as the shoes, and compactly into an oversight case, The question of a motor trunk two, if needed. It should be ment-. Practical boudoir garments find yet so very easy to achieve it, that parently, inspired by the vague for sometimes the crepe bag has a thus leaving the needed bit of is always in order, these days of tioned that luggage is much lighter rayon an excellent fabric, for ita it behooves us to learn the fine art prints, although many of them take motif of printed alk or some other space free for an extra frock of trekking across the country in an In weight than it used to be, though

of linking one appearance is deceptive, and its

costume detail to on the ikoness of brocades. Linen

fabric, which matches the material coat.

automobile. Special attention is quite as sturdy of construction. colourings are beautiful. Moreover, another with a third, and subordi- Is quite as smart for shoes as it is

of the shoes. Scarfs and sunshades We thought the peak of con- given to the model that straps on One luxury plece of luggage. Is it washes well, which makes pos-nating all three to the whole. Nor for the tennis frock, and the for-

are planned to match the newvenience was reached when the behind, or fits neatly onto the runa shoe wardrobe case, planned sible the lighter shades of the may we love the beauty of any one mer are accessory to the latter, footwear, especially when it is in wardrobe trunk was invented, but ning board. The interior of these with drawers that will hold, each fashionable colours. Garments In of the threo.

White linen Oxfords are trimmed

patterned material. Kerchiefs it was merely the beginning, and trunks, which are made of a light one, a pair of shoes. There is a this material are offered in a wide The fashioris of the hour, as

with coloured kid---red, blue,

are another link in the chain, now the trunk ia a last resort, espe- weight leather or of duck, is so pocket in each drawer for the range of patterns, and at this sea they pertain to hats and shoes, are green.

are the flowers of print.

eially in foreign travel. We have arranged that two travelling to hosiery that matches the shoes, son of the year, when there is no widely varied. They range from The felt hat, the leather hand-

in its place the wardrobe suitcase gather may each have a half to and a careful indexing is possible demand for warmth. In the nog- the smart little tailored hat of felt bag and the leather shosa, all re-

and the wardrobe hat box, the lat- herself. Or they are fitted up with

on a small white card provided for ligee, they prove themselves EX- or straw, with which shoes of main classics. They exist, as they

ter used for other places of ap- separate compartments for the the purpose. The drawers may be tremely popular,

leather are worn, to footwear that always have, because they are im- THE LUXURY OF TRAVEL parel quite frankly. Folding hang- various articles.

removed, the extra space used for Printed materials are much in dazzles with colour in now and orig-portant in a practical way, but favour for robes Intimes. The Inal effects, worn with hate quite summer accessories demand and

Increased facilities in travel fabric itself may be

chiffon, as picturesque as they. And the get the right to be frivolous, even

have made the tourist an insti- Georgette-either silk or cotton, link that joins the two together to the point of fragility. Colour is tution, and the result is seen

in or voile, but the idea is the same. is, sometimes, a handbag, again a not confined to dress or evening any luggage shop. Even if one These materiala drape well, and scarf, or some other important shoes, it appears in the classic has no desire to enjoy the pleas may be lined or unlined, the latter costume detail planned with that pump or Oxford, designed for ures of places apart from homo a necessitating a slip that will har end in view.

wear with the frivolous Hammer

visit to euch a store will plant, the monize and thus provide a correct

Window displays attract our no frock, of which there are so many, germ of restlessness. Just as wo foundation. Lace la a favourite tice with the flash of reds, blues As a result of this flair for colour rely upon the ensemble In our trimming, or it may make the and green. It is quite possible to and design, some beautiful ensem- wardrobe, so will we come to rely entire garment. It is not as work-find such a display that features bles are being offered, made up of upon the luggage ensemble that oble as the sheerer fabrica,

not a single pair of the usual black hat, footwear and bag of the same has taken the place of the many There are many clever origina shoes. And leather may be wholly material, or a hat trimmed with separate, and absolutely unrelated, tions in a variety of materials, missing from the fabric cast, al- the fabric of the other two.places. among them the modola that make though coloured kidskin 18 ກ Bengalin silk makes such a set, Its These ensembles come in two, use of crepe de chine. An cape- favourite material. It le used as pattern a strong orange and blue three, even four pieces, and are cially lovely negligee omite ite a trimming, and makes a nice con- against a green background. The designed to take good care of sleeves and takes, Instead, a cape trast with the woven fabrics that, bag is of the envelope type, and one's belongings on every typo of

date.

ers are part of the equipment of This demand for smart luggage, any purpose the owner may de these wardrobe pleces, and it le and for pieces that are fitted to stre. amazing what they will accommo- the individual need, has brought Another Innovation is the new into being the custom tailor for combination lock that is making For some trips the wardrobe luggage. This means that the the key-ring unnecessary. One suitcase with its folding tray of leather, shape and colour can be has only to remember what the toilet things is adequate. When pre-determined, and the interior combination is, as is the case with another piece must be added there can be fitted out in any way that a safe. The entire ensemble may is the wardrobe hat box that will appeals to the purchaser.

open to the same combination. take care of all the headwear and Special attention is given to footwear necessary for the stay, luggage for men, separating it en- and still have room for extras. If tirely from that, designed for The art of knitting makes it pos- even these two pieces are not women. There is room for the re-sible for a sweater or a jumper to enough, then there is the small quired number of suits and for the wear its own trimming in its pat- trunk that is not large enough to type of small things that are. im torn, Some of the new models be a bother, for a porter can easily perative. Builders of men's luggage | have a bow kalt into the sweater carry it on his shoulders.

recognize the need of transporting at the point of the V-neck, but A trunk of this sort seems hard- dress clothea anfaly, na well as newer than this la the kalt-in sash ly more than a large bag, and it play togs. And there is even a with ends that do really tie.