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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1931.

THE CHINA MAIL.

The WOMAN'S Page

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Smart Millinery

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"CROCK O' GOLD.”

Some expressive names have been found for the new shades already selected for Autumn by the British Colour Council.

"Creek o' Gold" aptly describes a new orange with a tawny note in it, which has only been evolved after weeks of experimenting.

"Chianti" is the new purple, deep, rich version of, petunia,

Brown is emerging as one of the fashionable coloure of future

A ROOM OF HER OWN.

[By Mrg. Abbie ¡largrove.J As soon as a girl is old enough to have a room of her own, space and means permitting, every mother, i think, should strive to give her one, Most young, growing creatures valne privacy

very highly, their moods are uncertain, their thoughts intangible, and somewhere to hide for a while where they will not be disturbed, helps to quiet nerves that have been frayed, and tempers that are none too good.

There should be nothing deprese- ing about the young girl's room and certainly "should not be a dumping ground of unwanted oddments! The mother of small means, who cannot buy new, expensive furniture, can usually pick up very reasonable, well made, but worn painted or granted pinees, which, when they are thoroughly cleaned, inside and out, rubbed with coarse sand-paper and all painted alike, give an admir- able effect.

The Bed First. Sleep is so extremely important in months, and "nutkin" and "nomad" youth, that the bed and all that in this large range, you can afford, and it should be so are included

belongs to it should be the very best "Raphael blue" and "dragonfly" are placed that there is air all round it, among the smart blues.

although, if you can, it is much bet- The lead for the new colours later to have it where the light from now being given in Britain, with a window does not fall directly upon the result that British manufactur- ars no longer have to wait for the themselves unduly!

young ayes-mostly inclined to work

Continent to dictate what shades will be worn.

WAVE OF GAIETY.

Sports clothes, using the expres- sion in the widest sense of the term, have succumbed to the wave of gaiety flooding the dress world. Suits made of tweed stockinet in vivid colours, bright coats of wool lace, rainbow sweaters, and em- broidered coats to slip on over tennis frocks are among the good things seen in the sports section of a London catablishment, One is of cherry red and white knitted wool, worn with white sweater, loose knit to give it the appearance of being hand-made, and trimmed with two bande of red and white fancy stockinet. A tailored wrap- over skirt has smoke pearl but- tons at one side to match those on the cardigan coat, and the knitted aports cap matches the suit,

PALE COLOURS.

Some people will not look well in the pale colours ordered by fashion, but they must not despair! With shell pink, a scarf of deep coral near the face is helpful, and the same applies to turquoise, be- cause a “night" blue handkerchief is intensely becoming.

Cut a "ord of material into two triangles koot them together, nad let them fail round your shoulders as carelessly as leaves float In the wind. The result is youthful and enchanting.

What else the room shall contain must be governed by its size to a grent measure. Overcrowding on

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the one hand, and bareness on the other, necd guarding against. Things to be aimed for, beside the requisite bedroom articles, are a really comfortable chair, a table firm enough for writing if a little bureau cannot be managed, and a book shelf, or shelves. If added to these a gas fire can be afforded this bed- room-study should be a great help in' concentrating on school home- work, or work of any sort.

A mother, clever with her needle, will add touches of embroidery to the covers, the cushionu, perhaps to the curtains and bedspread.

Any- how all these should be very dainty and gay-not garish.

Colours Harmonise.

The wond-work of the room, and the furniture if painted, are best ail one colour. If the walls have a

dowered "cottage" paper, hangings, ;. and so on should be plain-or the other way about, patterned hung- ings and plain paper or distemper.

Old rose and a delicate grey; sun-

shine yellow. orange and soft

browns, apple green and creamy white, can all form the foundations

of a scheme easy to work into with other shades and hues in a pattern-

ed cretonne, ruga, etc., etc. Blue you must be careful about—it can

be very cold bedroom colour, and fades casily.

hers.

SKIRTS SHOULD BE SKIRTS.

[By Poppy Bacon.]

In every variety of dress, the growing importance of the pyjamas has been stressed for some time

now.

All the advantages of this garb have been upheld as essential Designers have even gone out of their way to feminise pyjamas, with the result that quite a considerable number of the frocks shown in any collection nowadays, both for day and evening wear, are fashioned with trouser-leg effects.

Personally, I think is the ultim- ate orror in good taste to design a formal evening gown with a dividing line in the middle. The skirt is so full anyway, that the trouser effect has no practical value, and it cer tainly doesn't add to the charm of a motive that might be exceptionally attractive otherwise.

When it comes, of course, to dividing tweed skirts it is a differ ent matter. It seems

that it is either a question of abbreviated shortness to allow freedom of move ment, or length with trouser legs effectively concealed, unless the wearer cunningly contrived box pleats; in fact, the legs are com- posed of box pleats,

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Chiffon Creations.

They are carried out in patterned chiffon, and are extremely cheery

. Some designers have been revolu- and diaphonous. A short, tight- tionary enough to make the major-fitting coat accompanies all of them, ty of their walking frocks with and this, to some extent, mitigates

A last word, when the room iskirts of this description, and it will the air of deshabille they seem to complete, and given over to ita be interesting to see if they will possess. owner, it should be treated as 'go'; I sincerely hope not, or the

Beyond seeing that it is cleaned regularly, and that she keeps it tidy, her right to do what she likes with it should be taken for granted a haven where she may work, rest, or entertain her special friends.

A STRANGE COLOUR.

A strange colour, which has a charm all its own, is a curious off- black. It can hardly be called mulberry, and yet it is between mul- berry and bronze. One fashion writer has waxed quite poetic in describing the tint, as though colour were breaking through mist. Anyhow, it is delightful for evening frocks, and has not yet been in the daytime. A simple frock with not a great many flares was made of silk in this colour, the wearer having as the only trimming an intricate collar necklace of día- monds and red stones. But Jace le seen in the same deep shade, and there are neta which look well! trimmed with pastel flowers.

Been

Heat often makes parchment lampshades ao brittle that they crack. Hold the crack to- gether and put shellac

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it several times, both inside and out. The clear white shellac fills in the crack. When this is thoroughly dried, shellac the whole shade inside

and out and you will be delighted to see it come out shining and look- ing like new.

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dress world will be divided into twe ardent camps-those for and those against the complete Invasion of trousers. A compromise is a tunic! worn over an underskirt composed of discreetly pleated legs.

We have already decided that the trouser influence should not be allowed to creep into formal evening designe, and it remains for us to make up our minds about dinner Рујашив.. These are frankly pyjamas, with comparatively narrow legs and for them a vogue is pre- dicted for informal dining and danc- ing wear. I doubt if they will achieve the success described for them, but, in all the trouser inneva- tions, it is quite likely that they will find the largest number of fol- lowers.

A little while ago a famous cou- turier designed an ultra smart frock which was of wide meshed black silk lace worn over a flesh-coloured satin slip fashioned with pyjamas lege. It has been the inspiration of many similar models, and it is quite the latest innovation to ally long-skirted gown of diaphonous fabric with a flesh-pink underslip, this latter usually being made with trouser legs. Slips are now short,! and so they have something of the appearance of shorts.

THEY WENT TO GREECE.

Maybe when dress designers wanted something different they went to Greece for it; in any event a mannequin at a smart parade the other day was given sandala to wear, and told to leave off her stockings but to varnish her toe nails a bright red. The sandals were high-heeled and in shiny white satin. She wore this with a white and gold brocaded frock made with long folda, a slight train and jumper-top belted at a normal waistline.