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THE CHINA MAIL,

FASHIONS AND FANCIES

CLOTHES-AND BRAINS

So much brain and taste gare being brought to the making of women's clothes, and they are well worth the study which so many poople now give to them,

Any woman with Intelligence can get some character which is par sonal into clothes while following fashion closely enough not to look pecallar, eccentric, or ridiculous..

When dining recently at one of the most popular restaurants for the beau monde, it was Interesting to look and draw conclusions about women by the way they were dressed. The predominating im pression was one of neatuess, and n dislike of superfluous fuss. It is surely true 'to-day that women do not dress for men. They dress to please themaelves, and it is doubt- ful whether a woman thinks about

lose interest in her appearance' sho| should pull herself together by remembering that she is a part of the stage scene of life, and has her little part in play, ↑ "In youth a little carelessness fa dress may be admitted; in maturity and decliving, years, no.

LINGERIE

The hip yoke . fashion has now spread to lingerie..

The yoke of to-day in not to be confused with that substantial clrcular band (made from two The middle-aged woman has to thicknesses of calice) which once bring, all her wits to bear. on that question, of clothes if she would held the voluminous folds of the remain, pleasing to the eye; as,flannel petticoat... indeed, it is her duty to do. It entt Aalingle layer of laco, net, be done, and no one helps more to georgette, or triple ainon has to wards, making it easy than the support the whole weight of the clever Parisian dress designers, nether garment to-day. Only for who know from experience that it is sports wear is a thicker fabric not only a pretty face nud youth such as crepe de Chine or Milanese which carry clothes well, but exailk permitted.. perience in life and its lessons, and character formed by the use of brains and heart.

How often in French history do we not read of the charm of plain

a man at all when choosing het woon? Une fausas laide, has frocks and hats. She may think worked greater havoc with hearts about the hats worn by some of her than many a merely pretty woman women friends, the dresses she.hasMorning Post." admiredion other women and be a lithpurplexed about how to choose

what dults her best: but it is not THE NEW MAN-MADE FABRICS

woman dresses

to

often that a please her husband against her own inclinations.

She rightly considers that she knows better than he does what is the best and cleverest way to dreas, and looks on his taste as unformed. amateur, as compared with her own should she have taken dress seriously.

For. Wear Under Dance Frocks.

The lace of the brassiere matches that used on the pleated ninon knickery. Both brassiere and the lave on the kitckers are bound with a very narrow band of picqted

'nom

The garment is specially design- ed for wearing under one of the new bouffant dresses that have light-fitting bodies.

not

The lace top is mounted on a foundation of firm but fine We may no longer avoid giving which gives it sufficient strength to artificial materials our earnest con- support the strain of suspen- sideration, for they grow more imers, which obviate the necessity portant every season, and have at- for wearing a corselet or suspen tained a perfection that is noteder belt.. worthy. And they appeal for a To Take the Place of a Brassiere. third reason--they are consistent- This top is very carefully fitted is lower in price than in the ma- so that it takes the place of a terials they imitate. We cannot brassiere and is cut very low at the afford to ignore a produnt that we back.

.

A Feminine Weakness The Parisian does take dress are using, oftentimes, unknown to Flesh pink georgette knickers. seriously, so does the American, but us, more and more frequently and and a frilly georgette petticoat are Joined to the same top. A aingle not always the Englishwoman. Ton more and different ways.' be frankly interested in Fashion in In a general way these man. row of pink pearls arranged in the England is still ranked among made fabrics are called rayon, and new necklace fashion takes the secret feminine

of shoulder straps and } weaknesses.were first introduced as an arti place Fashion is still thought about as ficial silk because of their silky matches the pearls that finish the a frivolous jade leading women to qualities. When we first tried them lower edges of the knickers, extravagance and folly.

out we found them unsatisfactory, The whole garment opens down Moreover, 90 many English for they possessed a low tensile the left side-Odette, in "Daily women get quickly bored with strength were reduced to practi-Mail."

Aviation Goes to Milady's Head.

Influence of things aeronautical- la reflected in the latest hat styles for women. These chlowhats are modelled on the aviator's helmet, being designed to lend flattering Ines to the facial contour and to serve for Impromptu air journeys, Left. an attractive model adorned with gold sequins; centre, a hat of soleil cloth With a suspicion of Egyptian ituence; right, a' hairline left brawn effect with nose veil and an aviatrix-motifs

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1928.

Pamela

begs to announce to all her clients that from November 1st dresses will be made to order.

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fashion. They like nice clothes, I cally no strength at all inluxuries, this is no Inconsiderable they are frequently extravagant water, although they ragained their argument in its favour.

by choosing. hastily; they do not strength when, dry, and they did The woman who longed for silk bend all their intelligence to that not take dyes at all satisfactory underwear, but found it necessary They were inclined to be heavy to keep to cotton, bas n friend in choice, and do not always have a clear idea in their minds of what and they were not supple, although rayon. It is not silk, to be sure, decidedly lustrous. The first knit but it makes garments that look they want. This means com... fusion, and the result of confusion garments that were produced not like silk, yet wear exceedingly well, Is never pleasing. You have to be only stretched, but sagged, and if and who, will deny that there's clever about clothes if you want to a thread broke, it produced runs "Nothing either good or bad but look well dressed, whether you are and ladders much more quickly, thinking makes it so?" A survey poor or rich, That many women leven, than silk. Dyers made their will show that rayon materials aire elever is clearly seen on every products for silk, wool and cotton have replaced cotton to a great ex-

rayon was neither, so it refused tent in the underwear field, Jaide in Paris.

A Frenchwoman, no longer very young nor very slim, has realized that it was time for her to change,

to take colour from dyes manufac Fracks of rayon, or rayon in fured for another type of material combination, with cotton, are now The very fact that the general,stock-in-trade in the department fashions of the moment strese aup stores. Do not assume that rayon her style of dress to suit hor pleness, a wide range of colours, has the wearing qualities of cot- figure. She has set aside the softness, sheen, but not a high luston, for it has not, as yet, although girlish clothes she used to wear, stro, and durability in their at there are promises that we may and has chosen something more proved fabrics, added to the Inhope to see fulfilled. But the dif grown-up, She has had half an ereage fa the consumption of rayon ference is not as great as it might lach put on to her skirts; she and its rapidly growing popularity be, and when the two form an avoids anything, tight, and she serve to prove the advance that alliance, we have the sheon of the carefully, shadows tell-talo, lines has been made in perfecting this one and the durability of the other. about the throat. She wears material. Rayon yarns, at one time It will be noted that rayon not flashes of colour on black or generally discredited, are now only stands by itself, but combines neutral backgrounds, pays mere to staple. A

acceptably with other rayons. get comfortable and good-looking We are told that pliability has Used with the older materials it ahoos than she ever has before, been achieved, and a new line of creates novelty effects that are in takes great care of her skin, and days has been originated... Lustre triguing. These materials are used does exercises regularly, boring has been reduced and a soft sheer as a background and a; design is though she and them. She does, acquired."," And iner, softer yarns, worked out in rayon, or the threads not diet strictly, but says no to more of the texture of silk, havs are used to achieve a mixed effect

fattening foods and d drinks. In been brought out. These improve Foreign manufacturers, notable for a word she is a clever. practical mente have made possible the their textiles, have begun to experi woman with self-control.

growth and expansion of an indusment with this now yarn.

ness in Dress

try that will soon be an accepted So we have rayon and rayon fact, as is the silk and cotton bust and cotton, rayon-and-pilk, and nesa automobiles; the radio rayon-and-wool mixtures added to spect rayon has a dis our fabric Hist. Rayon velvets and areturer silk wool, or rayon volles are featured in the ufactured yarn fabric sections; and wide-spread upon cropa, advertising campaigns have been worm, which instituted to tell the world of dr women of the possibilities of this newg yarn, not only in general 1hlons, but in the drapery and up

mistery field. Rayon fabrics are novel, beautiful, distinctive.

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