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THE

CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1929.

The WOMAN'S Page

Chic Notes for Rainy Days

The soft silk ensemble plays a conspicuous role in the midseason wardrobe of the smarily dressed

Woman.

oped.

In some attractive models, one finds quilting combined with fur, as in an attractive coat of all over quilted black satin trimmed with monkey fur in a high, built up collar and a deep band about the fa-bottom-the fur put on in swirling

motifa.

In the short jacket ensemble group, the quilted mode reigns supreme. Here colour is an inter- feature and is skilfully

Faille and flat crepe are the voured media for the silk costumes and they are fashioned both with short jackets and longer coats.

The silhouette in the ensemble eating group remains straight in fact, it is only in the separate coats that

any deviation from the straight, slender line - displayed When the coats of silk costumes are long they are either of seven-eighth or two- third length showing a bit of the dress skirt beneath the hem.

An interesting suggestion of the fitted princess line is featured in the separate coat group. This is noticeable mainly in the back though the front silhouette is slight ly widened. In the back a seara down the centre gives a somewhat closer fit to the figure than usual and from the hips there is a suff- cient widening to make a subtle. flaring line though without a de- cided ripple.

But quilting appears no matter in how small

a touch-on all newer garments."

the

Both the Sat neckline and the high draped collar are carried out The one-sided in quilted trim. rever, bows, and scarf ends, as well as the flat scarf lightly attached to the neckline are all effectively devel-

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Navy blue is paired with a used. short coat of red, champagne with burnt orange. egg-shell with red and many more attractive com- binations.

The all

SUMMER LINENS

BOLD COLOURING FOR WEEK- END WEAR

[By The Hon. Mrs. C. W. Forester]

The attraction of summer dresses this year is largely due to the variety

and linen in cotton materials, many of them being in. those bold designs which charac- terise modern dress and furnishing fabrics. Colourings are particular- ly good. These frocks help to vary

the Inevitable wool and silk gar- ments, and are also good invest- mente for the country wardrobe.

The shade known as "natural" provides an excellent background for the bold graduated black and and red stripes of a very new original linen jumper. debuite lines

in

the

These

are

factor

modern girl's

dress.

The jumper is pleasingly balanced by a shady Bangkok shape that picks up the dark red shade in the stripe. Some women may find it difficult to adquire the taste for these new vogues in linen. The designs are curious, but immensely smart. Rodier featured these cubist effects in the autumn for Palm Beach. They also appeared. at the early Paris openings. At first there was doubt whether they would However, they

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ever succeed.

are

being cleverly used for for country and sports wear

After all, we have had dressing. very similar designs in Angora and Kasha, which created a successful Fanciful Patterns vogue.

Clever and unusua! is

a grey

Kasha, with a design of yellow silk stripes. A pleated skirt and plain cardigan has a border of yellow silk woven in three graduated stripes, and the grey jumper shows a woven fine striped design in yellow. Rodier gives so many cotton and linen fanciful and flowered designs in bright colours on a white ground. The blouse or blouse-like corsage is at its best in tiny patterned ging- bams. There is a lovely design of coral-pink daisies on a still paler pink grouud, made up with a plain pink linen coat lined with the pat- a box-pleated

tern and worn over

Such coats, of course, are simple -the pattern of the quilting in dividualizing each one. dresses are quite elaborate in these ensembles. A high waistline linen skirt.

The linen ensemble is now an es and snug hip is the rule in the one- piece frock while the full pleated tablished part of the summer skirt is also a favourite. Frequent-scheme. Some of these ensembles ly the pleated skirt is mounted on are all in one colour, and pink is a close-fitting yoke given an added popular with young people. touch by a sash, around it and tied and red-and-white are still consider. in the front or the yoke may be ed smart. Yellow, as I predicted, merely in the hack with the sash will give way to a pale green as the Blue and white tied casually across the front warm days come.

is a particularly happy mixture, and pleats.

some noted houses feature the darker navy in addition to a variety of blue shades.

The quilted coat is the very new est expression of Hollywood coutu- riers. Billie Dove, beautiful First National star, who has just com-

Red

Simple. Yet Smart

more becoming What could be

at the "workmanlike" and homely same time smart as this summer dress, in spote, and with short sleeves?

tusaore,

suited to tailored garments. Rather original was a plain beige silk linen coat and skirt, with a three-quarter tunic-blouse of beige patterned with a conventional de- sign in pale bine, and belted with blue-and-beige kid. The plain coat, cut longer than the blouse, showed little of the skirt. A blue straw shady hat and a scarf of beige crepe-de-Chine. edged with blue, gave a cool effect, completed by beige kid shoes with insets of fancy plaited beige-and-blue leather to match the pochette,

Victorian Revivaľ Now that we have returned to the cotton and linen frocks of the nine- ties, I sense a revival of white dimi ty curtains and the pink calico dressing-table, with its petticoated frills in large or small spotted mus- lins.

COLOURS

THAT LOOK WELL IN THE COUNTRY

[By the Hon. Mrs. C. W. Forester]

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No one makes up a country war- drobe without at least one or two schemes of the beige-brown range. Red, once a winter shade, is alike cheerful and fashionable, in cloth, crepe de Chine, silk and wool. The all-black coat and skirt with red touches is very pleasing on days when the sun will not come out.

The country coat may be cut short, three-quarter or full length; in the last-named case it fits closely round the hips, fastening with three or five buttons. Slight fullness ap pears as it nears the hem. What- ever fashion does, that long coat in heavy tweed, or in the newer design of light summery weight and cut on the slim lines, is as much worn as ever. The noticeable differerice is that it falls into a -alightly curved waistline; in fact, almost semi-fitting,

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Even this note is very varied in the real country coats. Many models are based on the old loose trench coat shape, only with square yoke, and "act-in" sleeves, the fullness being held with a belt of fabric, belting, or leather. The Raglan shape is seldom becoming. Et is best that rough country coats should not be too much fitted, as distinctive from those of the more. dressy type required for race meet- ings, travel, and country social functions.

We require many coats to-day: therefore, the choice to suit the occasion should be easy; but, etill, For mistakes

be made. can

this example, nothing is smarter year for Sandown or Kempton than that iron-grey cloth suit with plain, one-sided, pleated skirt, and the Newmarket coat three-quarter. slightly fitting and slightly flaring, with cut seam and pockets. This

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Black And White Contrast

The

Lounging pyjamas: have gone modernistic in a big way suit on the left, worn by Joan Crawford, shows n, blazer coat which buttons smartly on the side and has lapels of plain black satin, match- ing the wide cuffed trousers. Josephine Dunn, right; wears a stun- ning ensemble of black silk crepe with modernistic splashes of white, and the sleeveless jumper of white shows corresponding patterns.

must be Much money and care gives a most becoming sunshine- sheen.

spent if the choice of detail be cor These loosely-woven and light-rect. Shoes and stockings this

should be completed with silk-and. weighted wool garments are alwaye Reason are to a great extent match-

This can be

wool or Lisle jumper. varied on warm days by a white

this is not correct in the heart of cambric blouse and jabot, and smart sports hat in felt and straw; yet the country.

Cardigans and jumpers are im- portant for real country wear, and The cardigan tweed always right. suit is about the smartest item in the all-English scheme.

welcome in a cold country. They are even preferable to those new shot

popular in the warmer For the moment, however, these sports jumpers in striped lisle thread, which may become still more

ed to the suit or dress, whenever the colour allows of it.

Gauntlet gloves of thick suede or weather, washleather, stitched with black or

some sober colour, look well.

Two Original Jumpers

There is not a single detail in the sporting tweed cardigan or wool woven jumper that is missed by the astute and exclusive exponent of country clothes. One of the is in newest cardigan coats

brown tweed, with just a faint fleck of yellow in neckled the mixture, a colour which is re- even in the belt of brown and yel- peated in hat, scarf, blouse, and low kid. The border all round in What else looks. so fresh and un- the self-edge of the fabric itself is a sult can be sophisticated in country surround-interesting. Such ings? Yet how difficult it is to one of the successful selections for It has that pleted the stellar role in "Careers," A wool coatee is a great asset in obtain that pink crackle peculiar to the week-end visits. wears this lovely white satin coat, the average English summer. Worn the dressing tables that so wall happy knack of looking quietly chic quilted with white stitching and having conventional roses appliqued over a sleeveless jumper, in a lovely harmonised with the chintz wall- at all sorts of social affairs in coun-

eggshell-blue shade of lace-wool, papered rooms of Victorian daya. try life.

There is no monotony in the latest in pastel colours all around the bound with wool stitching in deep. These scooped-out wooden tables, Wool, Silk, and Lisle front closing, the hem and the guffs. tones, it is a becoming ad- with their petticoats of pink-and-

of jumpers. Apart from every held

multitade

Scarves must not be too "voyant" A narrow belt is worn with this, dition to the sports wardrobe, being white,

oval variety of wool-and-silk weaves, lisle jumpers only seem woven after

unless in a special colour-scheme. expressing the newest edict in waist cooler looking than the wool cardi brushes and muslin

worn dress," also be lines. White grosgrain is used for gan. It

A large oval mirror of there are now many delightful the striped footballer's idea, of

Coloured umbrellas are of Graduations in colour and

Over Checks

large and practical character, with white Dresden, stood on the table, examples in lisle thread added to the which we sometimes tire. and there were handsome examples list.

Fabrics this season seem to interesting handles of carved wood,

Wool Lace Coats

can

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A bizarre note is struck by the model on the left with ite. futuristic design and dainty net collar quite unlike the simple creation on the right with its puritanical air.

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the chic turban, and while kid slip-over, a plain crepella suit if it is pers with suntan house complete in a matching colour. Miss Dove's smart ensemble.

A fine beige stockinette is used of a very fine mahogany bed, ward-weight, as well as in weaves assist

In creating entirely novel designs. create fashions to suit themselves, as a contrast to the elaborate for a jumper and skirt, which is robe and chests of the period:

be content Their infuence is far-reaching in examples in carved crystal and worn with a coarse wool-lace coat, The best result is arrived at by One may well also in beige. These wool laces are a tasteful combination of old and with a jumper, shaded wool every phase of the mode. One of ivory that will distinguish the

tones of red and pink, the most attractive country colour dressier type of summer sunshade. most effective. Some of the "fine" new effects. But the country house în

wool schemes is achieved by that over- ones may have duil metal threads should never fall to convey the the dark lines of the embodied in the weave or a colour sense of welcome which is so essen, weaves being reserved for the edges. checked sporting effect. A black

fially British and is so greatly ed over-design in silk.

Tussore or silken-linen are well helped by English backgrounds.

Camelia

The New Era

in Feminine Hygiene

which d. No

lways been a cause

that wherever

dopted!

dea which entirely supersco

all other

nable all drug ut general stores.

For Afternoon Wear

Snake-skin, and novelties that

A faint glimmer of dull gold thread, and grey or beige and white tweed closely resemble the reptile tribe, only reflected in a strong light, will have a contrasting colour In-are popular for belts and hand- troduced by an over-check design, bags, to match shoes whenever

fait silk and crepe de chinesust the thing for bridge parties.

the shade of which will predominate feasible, for the matching vogue is in hat, scarf, and pochette.

insistent in all good dressing.

Pamela

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