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THE "MAIL'S'

HIGHLIGHTS IN THE MODE

The Sports Theme Is Dominant for the Daytime, While the Tea Hour, the Formal Dinner and the

Dance All Show Dresses With a Decidedly Feminine Feeling

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1928.

FASHIONS ILLUSTRATED.

PERIOD GOWNS EMPHASIZE FEMININITY

The Formal Lace Gown in New Versions of the Robe de Style Follows the Princess Line With a Soft Fullness

of the Skirt

FASHION'S LATEST DEMANDS ARE BIZARRE

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A great variety of weird and 'Interesting costumes were displayed at the recent Costumers' Convention at the President Hotel, New York. One wonders if the Zulu afternoon gowns will find a place in milady's wardŕ obe. The colonial wig, centre, is, to say the least a unique head- dress, Experts decree that fashionable women are now looking to the stage, and screen for ideas in dress,

BEDTIME FASHIONS FOR LITTLE FOLK

Autumn forecasts are represented

in the clothes that grace a season well on its way:

umble Idea is firmly ca- tablished, Each frock must add ↑ coat of like tendencies. The little one-piece frocks belted smart- ly and having tucks or stitching for additional smartness

may have

either a very straight line with no fullness or a pleated skirt that Bares smartly. With these are worn the coats of linen, eretonne, piqué or flannel. The all-white coat in straight simplicity is as happy a cholec as it ever was. It creates a fresh appearance when worn with the all-white or pustel tinted sports frocks. The washable coats, how- ever, are very now and are having a most successful season-especially polka-dotted silk, too, are happy with the very young person.

selections for a blue and white com- bination.

Lace and tulle are gaining popu- larity for formal gowns which give both grace and picturesque appeal. All that is feminine in the mode is emphasised in these dresses. There is a grace of movement as well as an absence of straightness from the silhouette that marks them 03. pecially feminine.

Coats for formal and semi-formal occasions are seen in all sorts of ailks and chiffons. For the daytime

darker tones in silks or georgettes are preferred in rather straightline effects, -But in the evening floating chiffons in wrap lines are the most popular choice,

robe.

In the First National film

The robe de style is accking new silhouettes to continue its extreme The very bouffant effects formerly popularity in the evening mode. associated with this type of gown Ing replaced by a new and entirely are finding themselves gradually be- different type of dress. Femininity still marks this dress as its most pronounced, feature, But there is a new noto of a slenderly outlined Colleen Moore has created an es figure moulded along princess lines pecially smart and suitable ward in place of the traditionally wide "Oh, Kay!" Miss Moore intro- and crinolined aspect formerly asso- duces many costumes. From sports ciated with the robe de style. The The short and three-quarter

effects-in which many sleeveless voluminous skirt falls in soft lines jacket which la so very chic in its The charm of organdie is seen in dresses are shown smartly belted about the figure. nonchalant simplicity is very ap- the bouffant models which add a to the sweater 'ensemble propriately seen in velvets. For picturesque note. All the delicate the vachting the navy blue reefer in tones of pastels are seen in this flannel accompanied by a white fatiffly dainty dress. flannel skirt and jersey blouse makes The appeal of chiffon is undimin- one of the smartest ensembles.ishing and the fluttering grace of Navy blue and white as a general panels, tiers, dipped hemlines and thing is one of the smartest com.floating scarfs leaves this type of binations introduced. Scarfs which dreas one of the most successful for worn with the white dress the formal afternoon or dinner. - The are very often of polka- evening dresses appear exquisitely dotted navy blue and white. Small dainty and different in flowered white sports hats with a band of the chiffon.

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DRESS PAGEANT

OLD TIMES BROUGHT BACK FOR A DAY

A PROCESSION.

Venice, Aug. 23.

Thanks to a happy initiative on the part of the Government, word went out all over the country some time ago that an exhibition of the ancient costumes once worn in every town and village, should be held in Venice, and that there should be a revival of the old songs and dances, A correspondent informs the "Morn- ing Post."

This news led to much searching in old chests and boxes, and the grandparents of the preacht genera- tion were called in to tell what they knew of almost forgotten costumes.

These efforts have brought to Venice a throng of persons, some of them from far away Sardinia and Stelly, from the islands of Istria, and Lagosta, and from all the little mountain and sen const towns of the Veneto and the Alto Adige. The groups are mostly made up of young people, but among them are a few older folk who have enjoyed the opportunity of wearing. once more the dress which was customary in their young days.

- Variegated Procession The Plazza of San Marco was the scene of the first evening repre sentation, and the Public Gardens the second. The procession pass ed round the Piazza, aftor- wards Alling through the Falz- zetta. The procession was inter spersed with bands, that from the little Republic of San Marino being one of the best.

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Wonderfully interesting repre

sentations were given of many of

Pour le Sport.

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To further accentuate the femi- jacket. and one and nine aspect, the mode in this new two-piece ensembles Miss Moore type of evening gown dips the skirt presents an interesting array of well at sides and back. There is sports and daytime clothes. Her a grace of movement and a delicacy formal dresses for afternoons, din-of outline which marks it one of the ner and dance show a feminine most feminine of formal gowns. trend in line, fabric and detail and are colourfully appropriate in flow-will also play # prominent ered and plain effects. All the ac role in the fall evening gowns. cessories that complete a chic ap Its softncap and ability to drape as pearance have been selected with well as its lustrous beauty make it skill and add a note of individuality, one of the most fascinating of

materials for the robe de style.

head coverings, and men with silver trumpets which they sounded as they walked.

Lace which મ 90 popular,

an

Billie. Dove, who always, takes the

of fashion's novelties, wears opportunity to introduce the latest especially pleasing collection of clothes in the Firat National film, Assisi too, her men in blue and The Night Watch." One of the red, had trumpets, and during the formal gowns which Miss Dove trip to the Gardens by boat, their wears is of radium lace designed notes floated over the water.

along the newest Princess lines with Rome was stately: Genoa full of a softly outlined skirt in which dignity, Modena and Ferrarra dipped sides and back show a wore white perruques, and carried heavy maces dating back to the period of Ducal sovereignty; and ever loyal Trieste was most Im- pressive.

modern treatment.

The petite young lady on the right, sounding "Reveille" for the family, is clad in a simple but smart pink and white striped pyjama suit. The pink silk quilted astin dressing-gown on the loft, designed by Henry a la Paners of Paris, would be a highly prized possession by any little miss.

MAN DISPOSES, BUT

A History of Fashion

alone, she, poor thing, having other

It is not on record, alas, that and the individual must solve them. Adam made any violent protest Sardinia's contribution Included in the olden days, the woman who about Garden of Eden fashions. He the representation of a wedding burned, but tanned only after pro the breakfast table after a night in probably grumbled a good deal at party which rode on horseback....

longed exposure to the weather, WAR There were dogs in the show, satlafed with an application of cold the open, but Eve, wise woman, pro- sheep and the shepherd, and a car cream, nothing else. To-day the bably left him at the paychological laden with fruit and drawn by oxen. cream is an after thought and the moment to finish the morning paper A little girl, aged five, from Ma- first procedure is a healing lotion things to think about than what the cerata, gave, an astonishing per- of a mild type. formance in an old folk dance, with The use of cold cream in a gen loss of Adam's comments is a sore rest of creation might be doing. The a young man more than twice her erat way is misuse. It lubricates, ant in these days. Think what height. The girls and young men but it does not do many of the in their brilliant costumes, with things we think it does. Cleansing upon by the harassed husband who subtle arguments might be drawn Towers in their hair, and wearing creams are excellent, especially for disapproves of the innumerable earrings and gold chains made the woman who must keep clean, things there are to disapprove of wonderful picture.

Most unusual of all were the

but cannot use water oftener than But Adam, having missed his op once a day. dresses of the men from Lagosta. The problem of short or long as he did not. mins it elsewhers

portunity to lead posterity in this They were long red robes belted hair is atili unsolved for many, namely, the putting of the blame on at the waist and their heads were Patient, tedious months of growing some one else's shoulders must be orowned with a sort of turban, in out the hair until there is a neat content to go down in history as the which were inserted pieces of re-little roll, or curls in the back of husband who approved. Or was it flecting glass.

WHAT SUMMER TEACHES US

the neck is all undone when warm that Eve, coming upon his fashion weather comes this has been notes unawares, used his philoso- proven. Bathing and golfng and phíc utterances on things aartorial tennis all prove an aid to the busi⚫ to 1 ht the fire? Fall always reapa, a harvestness of the barber, who, is told to of Information, grown during, the “Cut it off short!" and so undo the summer months, for while clothes long" months of struggling with are of the utmost importance, good unruly endo

grooming, le imperative. The sun Perhaps the best answer to the and wird, with their tanning and question, of lengt

barning properties, and the lake, broad one do as

For the City Fathers? The later paterfamilias in history more careful that his thoughts should be preserved.He did not em down at home. He felt

the power of numbers in the town hall and retired there behind Its

| sea or bathing pool, with their order that your coiffure may be in-protecting walls, discussing, with

| ruthless effect upon hair, turn our dividually becoming. pendapat attention, whether or no, to the care smart with short hair,

you are his own kind the mays and may-

so; nots of dress in a progressive and

Buckle, Buckle.

modern in

the cities, with their standards and straighter lines in skirts, giving full-that is not, alwaye, a genuine satis it long. But not too long! And it ous for her laws, issued in 1458

Sport styles are showing the of skin and our crowning glory, id long hair becomes you best, wear enlightened spirit. Bologna fam their valletti, the men who keep neas, by inserting wids pleats. This up the tradition of the ancient times, Jade white sport frock of heavy dat faction is generally conceded that the mid very complete fashion journal, wearing the old constume of the crepe worn by Louise Brooks, film Train travel, as well as motor dle-aged woman with a well kept ordering that Mrs So-and-So be ona,

Dorothy Knapp it? showing: you., officers of the Commune. fatur, gives slender, youthful tripping, out-of-door sports, and all "bob" looke years younger than dressed less elegantly than her yet? Well, it's also a van

ilhouette, to which women are partial. Here was Florence, brave In her The sailor, collar in new noto In of the unusual things that summer she would with long hair. Youth Juperior in rank, and promising cabe holding lipstick and powder white and scarlet, and long-folded fashion.

prvega. I vacations bring,,,,present problems, has time to experiment."

dire punishment to any, presump. - Rhinestones give it a "sparkle..

tuous females who might think themselves better than they were. There was none worthy to wear stuffs woven with gold and silver threads. One suspects that such finer things were reserved for the official robes of the city fathera themselves, just like the ermine, - which was considered too luxurious for even the rich ladies of Bologna. Having disposed peremptorily of fine stuffs they decreed that the wives of hereditary knights might wear wool and velvet, permitting them, moreover, to indulge in a certain red colour, which had pre- viously been forbidden. As to trains, which were an all-important datall, two-thirds of an ell was the limit for the great. Such ladies were permitted to wear six rings, but only one diamond brooch, while the necklace could not be more noble than coral. Madame on the next social step downwards was compelled. Ja limit her train to half an ell and wear only four ringa, Common folk were distinguished by trains measuring one-third, and woe betide the ambitious who sought to Increase that length. There was an official yard-stick in a publie wall, and the unfortunates who aroused suspicion were compulsori ly measuredLL SOL

Switzerland, too, about this time." Look cognisance of fashion, but showed markable understanding led maiden's dilemma. Iped her to leave her itting her to with all the wonder

were forbidden to ows. She could deck gold and silver and eries, yet one

won-

should have decreed