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SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931.

THE CHINA MAIL.

A The WOMAN'S Page t

Smart Millinery

Chic Frock Patterns

Maison de Modes

M-me D'OBRY

Dress Designer and Milliner

18. Queen's Road C.

Phone 25611.

Parisian Novelties

Prices Moderate

SMART COMBINATIONS.

To begin with, the newest note this Summer is contrast... smart preposterous combinations of fabrics and colours ... a plain coloured lit- tle jacket over a printed dress... Å plain collar and belt with a black dress a dark coloured jacket with a striped skirt ... nccessories carefully selected (at The Oppor- turity Shop in Ed. Ezra Road), an accenting note.

The frock with separate jacket In a variety of forms is a lending fashion and there is nothing more suitable or becoming for a smart day in town nothing more practical and dignified for the office hours of a business woman.

CURTAINS.

Printed cretonne or chintz make) attractive curtains for Spring, but) they present difculties in use. The sume colours may not suit every

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LATEST IN

LADIES'

SPRING HATS

AT

YEE SANG FAT King's Theatre Building.

CLOTHES ARE TEST.

GAY TENNIS FROCKS.

-Becoming dresses for the tennis court are made from a new open- work tweed.

This is used in a primrose-yellow and white mixture for the dress and cont. The dreas

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is carefully tailored. Inget bands ensure a trim fit round the hips, and flare towards the hem to give the necessary width. The coat yellow crystal link fastenings.

Another delightful material for a tennis or country drese is panama, which looks like silk linen, and, like linen, in well adapted to drawn- thread work as a form of decora- tion. A peach-coloured

panama frock, treated in this way, has groups of narrow box-pleats set) rather low on the skirt. This frock, like the model sketched, is available in a number of attractive pastel shades.

AVOID UNRELATED CLOTHES.

Fiction is full of Instances in which the heroine dashes off to buy a new hat just because sho feels depressed and knows that a new hat will revive her spirite. But in real life the smart woman buys! nothing on pure impulse. She plans her wardrobe just as carefully as a good business man plans a busi- ness campaign. It is not with un- related hats and dresses, etc., but with a complete ensemble of shoes, hats, dresses, coats, gloves and suit scarfs to be worn at the proper deep coral-coloured hopsack place and occasions.

pattern in each window looks garieb from outside, with the result that plain dyed material or net curtains are often substituted. One way of The case with which she gratific, solving the problem is to line the her desires for pretty clothes this cretonne with a plain coloured case- year is both an opportunity and a ment, preferably cream or pale An oppor-beige. This not only solves the pro- test to every woman. tunity because the low prices per-blem of colour harmony both ineide

The nicest suits for warm days mit her to buy more than ehe has and outside the house, but it con-

siderably lengthens the life of curare made from bright and light- felt it possible to buy before .... tains and it enables the cheaper weight tweeds and hopsacks. teat because so many beautiful cretonnes, which are only patterned things are within her reach that on one side, to be used.

she is tempted to buy indiscrimin-}

ately just because things appeal to her, rather than because they are the things she needs to build up a perfect wardrobe. If she indulges without careful consideration, she is falling in true economy... economy to herself.

SLEEVES

It is amusing to see the varied

sleeves on the new afternoon frocka. You are in the fashion if you de- cide to have very short sleeves, Then, there are elbow-length sleeves

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&

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Mezzanine Floor,

30% DISCOUNT OFF

CHILDREN'S

SUITS DRESSES

HATS SOCKS.

self-consciously, as long have they been out-of-date. Three-quarter sleeves should be reserved to those with graceful hands, because they emphasise the turn of the wrist and the play of the hand more than thei very short or very long sleeve. It doesn't matter how long the sleeve is, if only it fits anugly. A tab-: instead of a cuff--to drop over the band is quite modish.

A TRAVELLING HINT.

TWEED IS PRACTICAL.

Mr. Ross

of

to be

worn

sponsors

blouse

method of mending them at home is

with

MENDING KNIVES. of paler-tinted shantang, #pot- After a night in the train, in a ted with white. The skirt has

Knives, particularly fish knives, SHANTUNG FOR THE SUMMER.cross-Channel steamer, or in an a deep hip yoke, buttoned at either sometimes come apart at the haft, hotel. It is only too easy, in the side, and wide flat plents in front, and have either to be repaired at a Tussore and shantung dresses hurry of packing, to leave the rub and the suit looks equally well in shop or are put on one side as use And a place in every "aports" ward-her hot-water bottle behind, out of green or bright blue, with a blouse less. An unfailing and lasting robe. The fact that the coloured aight under the bedclothes. If of spotted shantung to tone. chantungs are fadeless makes them good length of narrow, bright-i An alternative sult in finely- to fil the cavity in the handle with doubly attractive, and the material coloured ribbon is tied to the bottle checked brown and beige tweed has powdered realn, hont the metal part is made in all the new colours. at night, brought up under theja neat little waistcoat of pale brown that fits into the haft until it is red conspicuously crepe. There is also nivier-firm, hot, and then replace, pressing it Sleeveless frocks of this fabric with pillow and looped

home. The resin is most pleated skirts and short tailored round any handy bar or hook, it will light and procurable in several dif- firmly conts are recommended on grounds serve as a useful reminder when the ferent colours. It is a delightful effective for mending purposes. alike of utility and chic. That they traveller packs up in the morning. suit material. are inexpensive is an added recom-

STUDY NEEDS.

From Monday to Wednesday.

19:28:33:19|4|28||||||||mendation.

LADIES' SHOES

Best Quality Foreign made Ladies' Shoes

at

Reasonable Prices.

BUTTONS POPULAR.

UNDER COVER.

If a cold boiled fowl, a glazed tongue, or other prepared food has The two-piece overblouse and to be packed for a picnic or a sale skirt theme le also a popular and of work, it will carry quite safely satisfactory daytime costume. It is if placed on a dish and protected by apt to be finished with much bota wire dish-cover of just the right ton trimming (a favourite 1981 size. The whole thing may then be. trimming touch) and a contrasting firmly wrapped in paper, and the scarf of polka dot or plaid.

cover will keep the sauce, glaze, or

For afternoon, we sce chiffons, other garnishing from being either plain or printed ... many of damaged. them taking to the jacket idea and combining a sleeveless dress that can be worn for dancing, with long-sleeved, short jacket.

TIMELY FASHION HINTS.

If ever women needed

excuses

for dressing well, they undoubtedly have them this year. Spring has |brought a new promise of prosperity, |We are starting out with new con-

WING ON CO., LTD.ditions that indicate better things

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will not be only too willing to do her part?

EGG CUPS.

A combined egg cup and saucer constitute the newest time-saver In the pantry, because there is only one thing to wash up instead of two. It la made in blue and yellow pottery and the stem of the egg cup is gracefully moulded into a Baucer four Inches across giving Jubt enough space for the spoon and salt, Pottery fireproof dishes to match these saucer-cups--are also made in oblong and square shaper so that no space is wasted in the small ovens or on the gas ur electric cooker.

FIGURE DECIDES.

Lace, chiffon or flat crepe hold places, of prestige in evening gowns

lines- -some with long elim others of romantic ruffled silhouette. Your figure will be the decid-i ing factor as to which type you will choose. Necklines are varied, with draped treatments, square effects the most butstandingly new. Hemlines are exceedingly wide, with tiny scallops, petal edges, elushed hemlinea that reveal a lany pet- ticoat, and pleats.

MENU HOLDERS

Menu holders which are unusual and attractive add charm to well- laid dinner tables. A friend who makes the most of such oddments”, was proud to show her latest ac- quieition. She has bought a num» ber of holders in opaque glass, esch representing feh. Though this set portrayed the same fish for every holder, it is possible to get avery pretty variation including swans, saafia and so on. Against the polished table, and undar, gleam of shaded menu-holders are a tast

to the table equipment.

the

So the first bit of advice we would offer to prevent the mistake of buying injudiciously is this ... study your needs. Think of the life you are going to live this Sum- your social activities ... your real requirements. A thorough study of your Summer plans will save many a sad mistake and a waste of shopping energy as well as money.

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SUN HELMETS

For Naval, Military and Civilian Wear.

We have now received a

ful selection of Sun

Helmets suitable for all

occasiona and KURTAD-

teed Sun Proof as well as Rain-

proof.

Also latest styles in STRAW HATS.

Prices moderate. Inspection invited

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153-155, Des Voeux Road, Central.

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AN APRIL BRIDE.

3rd floor.

ters of Lady Karen Pretyman and Lady Army Biddulph, were among Lady Rosemary Agar, Lord Nor-the children, and Lady Jane Eger- mianton's daughter, who married ton and Miss Jean Goschen formed Mr. Christopher Jeffreys, of the part of the retinue. Children look Grenadier Guards, on April 28, St.specially charming in sunny tones. George's Day, at the Guards The bride, who recently acted in the role of a bridesmaid, was Chapel, chose for her brides-faithful to the traditional white. maids a very pale primrose yellow in satin. The Victorian revival da | spotted: prgandi, trimmed and in noticed particularly at weddings and serted with iny frills of Valen-formal functions, where: femininity cfannes lace.

in dress has a chance to assert

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Her two little nieces, the daugh=|itself.