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SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1931.

Smart Millinery

Chic Frock Patterns

THE CHINA MAIL.

The WOMAN'S Page

Maison de Modes M.me D'OBRY

Dress Designer und Miner 18, Queen's Road 0,

Phone 25011..

RESLOW STRAW HATS:

JUST ARRIVED

CHOICE OF COLOUR.

The question of colour in re- lation to decoration presents for some of us almost Insuperable diffi- culties, difficulties only accentuated by the vast range of shades which are new obtainable" in wallpapers, distempers, paints, and enamels. In addition to which the freedom from decorative convention 80, ap- parent in the home of to-day, whilst it unquestionably increases the interest and possibilities, also Ladds to the number of pitfalls into which the inexperienced may per-- haps stumble.

Broadly speaking, the world is divided into three classes of people; those who are born with an instinctive feeling for colours, those who acquire his knowledge through painful and often expen- sive experience, both for them- selves and their friends, and others) who remain and are content to re-1 main, 'entirely insensitive to colour!

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REMOVAL

SALE

Ladies Hats from

$2

Washing Dresses from ...$5

Bathing Costumes from ..$6

Hand Bags & Flowers 30% discount,

LADIES' SHOES

Best Quality Foreign-made. Ladies' Shoes

at

Reasonable Prices.

COLOUR HINTS.

Dresses of gaily coloured print,] cretonne, and silk are apt to lose; the full splendours of their hues very quickly unless precautions are taken. Some colours fade readily in the sunshine. Greena and blues are probably the worst In this respect, but if the first time that the garments are washed some Epsom salts are added to the washing and rinsing waters the sun will have no effect on them. Use about one teaspoonful of the sults to a gallon of warm water.

Some materiale are guaranteed not to "run." Unless you

have such an assurance in writing, how ever, it is safer to treat the gar ment_as_loose-coloured when-you. first have occasion to wash it. Certain chemicals will fix certain colours. Thus if your dress is blus

But perhaps the most general cause of failures-the legitimate reason of the frequent dull, drab rooms or the restless, discordant ones—is the fact that the majority of us |cannot conjure up in our mind's an adequate picture of the eye inal result before we embark upon the decorations. There are, how- ever; definite principles which govern the application of colour, and a new chart has been devised, which clearly illustrates these laws] and which will be found an in- valuable help when deciding upon a specific colour scheme.

Eriefly, the chart is based upon the generally accepted theory that there are three primary colours red, blue, and yellow-which, when mixed in varying proportions, will produce all other tones.

SWELLED HE'D."

Woman's Plain Speaking To Women.

:

"Women seem to have been get ting more and more inflated ideas of their own importance, and I think our own organization is suffering from a disease commonly known as swelled head."

This was one of the opinions ex- pressed by Mise Dent, a Yorkshire

THOSE LONGER SKIRTS.

Skirts are longer, but admirably chosen to suit the costume. With the short- tailored coat of cloth or fur the skirt will cover the knee and fall inwards in a slim, narrow, beconting way, by the method of tiny box-pleats or the knife-kilted skilful shaping befow a hip-yoke. In fact, the cut of the skirt is more than ever important in the tailored suits, and one which must be care- fully studied. Very often those who can cut a coat to perfection are not so successful with a skirt- the latter is now full of fabric- work and shaping.

ensemble,

In the case of the when the longer coat la so often worn over a thin dress, the skirt part is by no means easy, but being of thinner fabric it falls more imply in the narrowed way Inta the figure. This makes skirts; a pear as if they were a little longer, which they should be in the case" of a dress worn with long coat than that which is cut in a coat- and-skirt style.

BEAUTY HINT.

more

In hot weather, when the skin

rather naturally becomes

greasy, beauty specialists advise the liquid kind of powder. It is the practical to use, because fewer, ap- plications are required than is the case with loose powder. Some ex- perte consider that one application of the liquid powder will last all day, but if this is found insufficient a little of the liquid powder can be easily carried in a small perfumé- phial in the handbag.

This powder, like others, can be obtained in several shades so that all complexions can be suited-a fact that comparatively few women seem to know..

unknown expense, and unknown ramifications of working," York- shire, she said, opposed a resolution arranging for affiliation to the In- ternational Commission on Agricul- ture. The resolution, however, was carried by a large majority.

or green steep it for two or three A charming colour scheme might delegate, when speaking at the hours in a tub of warm water to be obtained by merely employing Albert Hall to the National Federa which four ounces of alum. have one colour in various weights of tion of Women's Institutes. Women WING ON CO., LTD. ing, hang it out on the line in a different proportions of write.

been added. Then, without wringtone,.produced by the addition of from nearly 6,000 English and

Welsh districts were present. shady spot, and leave it until dry. A bedroom, for instance, might

"We are getting very far-away?" Fabrics of other shades should be carried out in this way by tak-she added, "from the simplicity of be similarly treated, but a differing as your basic colour a

our early aims and ideals, and from deep GULLİKLE FABent solution is used.

The variety of subjects consider- One table-blue and then work out the room what we set out to promote in the ed by the Conference included the spoonful of ox-gall dissolved in as follows: the walls should be country villages, which never had sufferings of animals that are trap- one gallon of water will fix red; washed in a very pale shade of anything done for them at all. We bed for their fur, and the Slaughter but for pink or brown to the same this colour, with the woodwork are embarking on all sorts of inter- of Animals Bill, quantity of water use one table- several tones darker. Whether the national, semi-political matters spoonful of alum and a cupful of beadings of the woodwork or the which we, in Yorkshire, consider

panels of the door be picked out in outside our scope."

SPECIAL

SALE

OF LADIES' SILK HOSE

GIRDLES HATS

BATHING SUITS CAPS & SHOES

AT

YEE SANG FAT King's Theatre Building.

salt.

ALEXANDER'S..... INSTITUT DE BEAUTE.

Many dresses, of course, are of a still deeper shade is a matter On the grounds of "unsuitability, several hues. In these cases you which should be decided by the must treat them according to the character of the room and your predominating shade if this be personal taste. Then the carpet or bright; otherwise according to the rugs should contain the actual shade most likely to run. Reds and royal blue tixt and introduce purples in particular have a ten- various paler shades of this colour: dency to leave their appointed The bed coverlet, down quilt, and places and intrude upon other day pillows might also be carried colours, thus spoiling the dress out in these darker and lighter entirely.

blues. The curtains would look well in a pala cream, with the cell- These "nevers" are worth membering whenever you washing washed in the same sitade, for loose coloured, garments.

relief; Never use hot water and never rub the dresa; long steeping will restore a very hot iron. To obtain the it to perfect cleanliness without. best "finish," fron light-coloured Never roll it up In a damp state, garments on the right side and but dry it thoroughly; then damp it dark-coloured ones on the wrong. alightly before froning, Never use W. B.

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WATER STAINS:

Water stains are very often the most difficult of all stains to re- move. The following method, how- ever, is excellent for the purpose af removing such stains from navy, black, or other materials, which show up water stains so conspi- cuously. Sponge the garment with a cloth wrung out as dry as pos sible in a 5 por cent solution of, Lustrous Oll Permanent, Finger and acetic acid, and then rub lightly Marcel Waves Hair Cutting and with a dry cloth until "quite dry. Manicure for Ladies and Gentlemen. The line of the water ring should Pedder Bldg, fat Floor, Phone 25169. be erased by rubbing the edges Opposite entrance Hong Kong Hotel with light, straight strokes, using a damp cloth, All traces of the stain should be removed by this treatment.

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