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SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1932.

Eve

26, The Arcade,

Gloucester Building.

GREATLY REDUCED

BEACH PYJAMAS

from $12.50

BATHING

...COSTUMES from $12.00

SUMMER

HAND BAGS

from $4.00.

Just Arrived

LADIES'

MILLINERY

ALL LATEST MODELS.

Prices Reasonable..

YEE SANG FAT

Co., Ltd.

PHOTO-SUPPLIES

Kodaka and Cameras. - Films, Plates and Papers, étc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.

ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES

Price Moderate.

A Trial Order is Solicited.

A. SEK & CO.

Tel No. 23459. 26A, Des Voeux Road, C.

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ALEXANDER INSTITUT DE BEAUTE

Phone 25169. Pedder Building --

(1st Floor)

Opposite Entrance to

Hong Kong Hotels

Lustrona Dil Permanent Hair W

AWaves

THE CHINA MAIL.

The WOMAN'S Page

Tennis Two-Piece Popular Nowadays

Ideal For Squash And Beach

Evening Frocks Are More Filmy

An idea which seems likely to be pyjama nightie, wide at the ankles, with cross-over. top and a plaited girdle of the same fabric slotted through the waist. H

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come very popular in these days of two or three purpose outfits is the tennis, two-piece. Not only is it fashioned for tennis, but it is the Filmy and Feminine. ideal costume. for squash rackets Evening frocks are becoming and a beach suit at the seaside. more and more filmy and. feminine] One piece is a blouse and shorts as time goes on, and gowns of lace, garment combined, and the other is net and chiffon are displacing the: fashion's a'skirt and belt which is slipped on moulded satin dress in

like an ordinary skirt. One model favour. Full skirts, fichued and is in a soft white silk hopsack frilled bodices, flowers and sash fabric, and the skirt had silvery bows are shewn, and more than half buttons at each sido. Another two of the latest frocks are of spotted! Fish-net- lace worked piece was similar in design except materials.

that the blouse had a coloured scarf with shilling-size spots and chiffon collar which came down in a long spotted with self or contrasting end and wound round the waist over colour are the two most popular the skirt. If the shirt was not materials in this connection for worn it formed a smart wide waist evening wear. Bright red and blue sash with the blouse, and, shorts, chiffon with white dots is used, company this ensemble, and both silvery grey, pinkish beige and the models were made with fared peach are notable. The grey even-

ing frock has already achiev skirts.

Suitable Lingerie.

ed &

some big success, and

models are The question of suitable lingerie most fascinating

BA -delightful to be worn under ensembles of this being shewn.

A Real Test Of Woman's Taste There was coloured cardigan to sc. while for spotted lace all tones of

Midsummer la A

"Trial:

OLD BOYISH VOGUE NOW OVER

Midsummer is a real test of a woman's taste. If you

this year. One of the neatest tricks of the season, is the way lowers are used, made out of 'thel dress material. Leis of flowers make a simple little dress exotically appealing.

of the fichu type,

De is always important, and the model was made in plainum-grey designers have evolved a new gar-fah-net lace, worked with large coin ment called cami-shorts which is spots to tone. The skirt, which There are charming flower hats considered as a practical new tennial just cleared the ground, was cut can look for festive occasions-little, tilted, fashion. It consists of a pair of with clever fares from the hips, and well-groomed right through the chic affairs. Flower shoulder straps nicely cut shorts attached to cami- the bodice was sweltering weather and appear cool for gowns, and collected when everybody is per- where a bow spiring and complaining, then you season. are

popular. have attained the some of chic.

Summer dresses this year help you.out quite a lot. They have shed. all the gadgets and excess trim mings that have a way of getting wilted and making you look that way too.

Midsummer things that are new and charming rely on perfection of cut. They have quality of fabric and lovely colour and need nothing} in finel extra to put them across style.

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You will And nothing mannish in the new midsummer. things. Even the slacks come short and have a feminine look about them. Linen suits are beautifully tailored but not the least bit mannish. The old vogue for the boyish silhouette is definitely over.

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Any dress, gown, bathing suit ori what have you must mold the hips and bust this year and only those that shriek their femininity "in subtle cut and line are the really!

chic ones..

. Don't be deceived by simple effects. They are intricate enough in their cut.

Bodices with draped yokes, skirts with decaptive simple straight lines and just enough flare, asymmetrical lines and so on are cut to such par. fection that they mold the figure just right and have no bulge ar which are Largs, Boft and Natural, strain to spoil the effect. Artistic Tinger and Marcal War Of The simplest daytime things are Treatment, Shampooing, Henna Paek given colour by belts, hats, bags, Kaay colour), Hair Cutting and Mani- and shoes. Evening wraps give enre for Ladies and Gentlemen. Come dash and excitement to the simplest -selentions, Artistic Work by European

Expert, Mr. Alexander.

evening gown. Jackets for sports things are what make the tennis court and golf links ablaze with smart colour.

CHARGES MODERATE.

A VISIT WILL CONVINCE YOU

His Day Off.

POP

HERE YOU ARE INSECT!

HOLD THIS!!

There is little costume jewelery

WAKE UP! THERE'S ANOTHER

SALE ON OVER THE

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Lactogen is pure, tresh, fall-cream, modified dried milk with extra cream "and natural milk sugar added, made in all important respects exactly like breast milk. Put Baby on "Lactogen": Doctors and Nurses are telling Mathers every where, "Lactogen is indeed the better milk for Babies they

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or a bunch of flowers top, and is made so that it will le giving the effect of little slicove frilis knotted the tie last completely flat under the most close at the shoulders. The fichn formed also becoming very fitting garments. Fashions In a deep V to the waist at the back, lingerie are, of course, as important but there was a plain inset of the these days as those in frocks and lace reaching to the shoulders, and coats, and every dress now has its a folded belt of deep topaz pink silk special petticoat cat on the same was finished with huge drooping style... if your frock has a flared loops at the waist. skirt your underslip must be the same otherwise you will. find that The very latest arrival in the an ugly line somewhere. world of fashion is known as the there is Gone for ever are the days of "Nine til Nine Dress," and it made first collection straight, awkward petticoats which its debut at the often spoiled the line of the most shewn by Mr.-Freeman Page, who)

has only recently entered the ranks perfect dress.

It is interesting to notice that the of English dress designers. Cinema double-breasted fashion has spread frocks have, of course, become arm-length coat and a polka-dot blouse. (super-imposed over gold. The front even to lingerie, and, that some of ly established in our wardrobes now The dress itself had no hooks or was slit down to show the yellow the latest nightdresses are being and Mr. Page's gowns are really the eyes or other fastenings, and fitted "petticoat," and the mannequin who made in this manner. Very attrac-logical descendants of these. It was snugly to the figure by means of an wore it received hearty applause 'tive is the plain white crepe de called "Dance: the Polka," and con- ingenius arrangement of the belt. when she appeared. An Ascot frock Chine nightgown with a double-sisted of a pinafore dress, a waist-, It could be worn in the street with called "Green Meadows" was 'in breasted top decorated with, four "soft" crepe de Chine buttons. It has no collar, but over it is worn a waist-length Eton contes of royal blue crepe de Chine, also double- breasted, and Anished with four white crochet-covered soft. buttons. There are short sleeves reaching to half-way between, the shoulder: and the elbow.

BARGAINS

For a long time, of course, every nightie has bad its accompanying| coatee, and the popularity of this fashion shows no sign of waning. The floral and patterned ninons, crepes and volles have costees: to match in the same material, but these thinner fabric Jackets are hip length, with a few gathers at the back giving them a waisted appear- ance, and long cape sleeves slit up the centre. The nightdresses which

go with them are sleeveless, coming up to the shoulders in points where they are tied in bows. Narrow lacé jor net frills decorate the hernand top. Extremely popular, too, is the

WONDER WHO THAT IS MA'S

GOT HOLD

OF

By J. MILLAR WATT.

"SEEMS AN OBLIGING,

SORT: OF FELLOW

its accompanying coat or indoors patterned marquisette, green, as the without it, and in warm weather name implies, being the ruling tone. the polka-dot blouse could be left

Guen the Material! behind and one of something thin- To make one material look like ner, like white apot muslin, something quite different seems to aubstituted.

In fact, there are be the aim of the designers at the innumerable ways in which the present time-witness the glazed changes could be rung by means of chintz-but few of them have different blouses.-

succeeded as well as the originators Another Novelty,

of a suitseen recently without Yet another novelty in this collec-actually touching it would have tion was an evening gown of blazed guessed its material correctly. chintz. It could be made fr any Fifty per cent, would probably have. colour or combination of colours, said "fine white, flannel" and the but the actual model a view was of rest would, have voted for "white plain brown glazed chintz, with a face-cloth." Actually the suit la bib of white chintz Anfahad with question was made of white **tooth” edging, not hemmed or washable doeskin! It was bound, but left "raw" This bib remarkable example of the posal- was detachable for easy laundering. bilities of leather for finely tailored At a distance the chintz looked Hike clothes, and shewed, too, the aatif, heavy, silk of the type which tremendous improvements which our great-grandmothers wore so have been made since the days of effectively, Greÿ,' as usual, was clumsy leather motoring coats, and much favoured in this collection, only slightly less clumsy leather There was a misty grey chiffon golf jackets.

HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

Donations and

due and can

Treasure

criptions are now

to the Honorary

Mrs. Wynne Jones 161,