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THE CHINA MAIL.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1933.

11 The WOMAN'S Page 1

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SHOULDERS AND BASQUES

It is the same with all the modes of

actual the moment. The silhouette for simple styles appears u1 Arst

greatly ax it it had not changed, but on closer investiga tion we soon realise nur mistake.

The wellrut smart overcoat ix jone ut the very necessary garments } we require at once. Like the hut, the

for be there topcoat must travel and apori. Tast year's coats do not look a bit well, even the mackintosh requires

sentation.

♫

new pre-

The majority of the tweed-olster types of oats are belterf, which 18

ja vogue young and businesslike. looking, especially for the slight or The Forrect fairly slight figure.

jadjustment of the belt adds style to

the new models

There are many suhtle details in trimming Buttons are important, and chromium fasteninge of all kinds look well. Kid or leather as the bells are not quite so new fabric one with backle of chromium fo match two or three big buttons jot the same attractive metal

Cravat Collars

The Searl-nilar, leombined.

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new

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beige North

A topcoat seen at the Country meetings har

119091 thin how I sart-collar Tsetset boidered with small shaded Leno's teathers, a town was per-b Fed all ag teather meunt

: Other Collars of so short furs

J Wor raval that can closed up or

Same Collars of the tabs are anlined, and softly draged Others form a smail Y is the front. and drape Bottle round the throat,

Many card or velveteen coats are at in the news longer three-quart up alter the la teeth. mude

with only "swagper" style. straight collar and ends of for; or of fabric bordered with fur.

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Edwardian Length

In Gloves.

Women's Tennis Shorts

"Standardisation Must

Be Made.

TOO MUCH VARIANCE

IN LENGTH

(By BRUCE HARRIS)

London.

Regretfully report it, but ther

is chaos in the Women's Dress Do

partment of [tournaments.

our lawn

tennis

There is what every man and the woman

knows-war between

skirts and the shorts. But that is

not all. The girls who wear the

shorts are themselves at hopeless

variance.

Come with

me to Roehstapton

and gotumit the cardinal tennis sin

of taking your eye off the ball.

Glance discreetly downwards, as though to admire a ground shot, and what do you discern? This- that of the half-dozen pioneers no two follow the same ideal.

At the one extreme the unabash- ed garment that looks like plain 'eut-down longs; at the other the half-and-half apologetic affair that ought to be a skirt but isn't quite.

In between are all the ramifica. tions of length and pleat. frill button and hagginess that would challenge the descriptive powers of a fashion editress.

Before next Wimbledon, it is plain, there must be standardisa. tion and stabilisation and several Some of the latest gloves almost other "ations"-if we are to en- 'reach to the shoulder line in a new joy our championships in pesce.

Between now and then, maybe, jagode medium which looks excel-,

lent in a light putty shade next a the All-England Club will follow 'dark bottle green evening gown the example of the rulers of swim- worn with shoulder capelet of ming and standardise them by tape measure. But maybe it won't de fong elbow-length anything no foolish, evening mittens ju cihffon “lastex” In place of the Club deg at the of a cornflower blue

Wimbledon most-head we might one morning a sort of pown made of blue and pink satin discover

Jolly Roger in bifurcated form, h ribbon with a bustle back.

Vivid coloured kid gloves appear token of woman's freedom to weur

just what she likes. for sports wear,

crushed ice These cravat-collars are certainly!

or

iced water

GET FRERCS REVEL (Garonne) FRANCE

ja feature of the new nutumn coals. and can be chosen to suit the in- dividual Collars mark the new ¡models, quite as much as, sleeves.

Varying Lengiks

sable.

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SUITS AND SUNDRIES

TO MATCH

I listened at Rocnampton to the views of a lawn-tennis mother of Conservative, tendencies.

"There's nothing immodest about shorts," she allowed. but on a tennis court they are out of place,

Dressy coats. especially in the Suits and their sundries must and I'm sure they no more encour. than knee- Hest furs, seem inclined to be most match. This may sound expensive, age free movement

popular when of full length, show-but is not really. Careful buying length skirt. Why don't the men ing hem beneath. Roughers all that is necessary to make up retaliate by wearing pleated skirts? (afl. Lyttelton Rogers nudels in fur and fabric retain the jan outfit which appears to be twice I'm sure jeomfortable three-quarter "swing" as expensive as it actually fe, and Tin. would look lovely in one."

There

Home well-Atted slim will keep its smartness to the very coats a title over the half-length end. |schien is smartest for the semi-

with a

alim

are

COASTWISE ting-tailored coat,

bv

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I WISHI WUZ AT THE NORTH POLE WHERE THE NIGHTS ARE SIX MONTHS LONG BY GOLLY- PM TIRED

A Player's View

VICTORIAN MODES FOR EVENING

Bouffant Gowns Of Tulle Or Organdie.

FORMALITY, DIGNITY AND ELEGANCE

1

To-day fashion decrees that with the setting of the sun, you have to become H moderatsed Victorian lady. Semi-long bobbed hair, that has hung loose ull day, musti But even this cratic of the latest be picked up for the evening and high on your vogue pointed with favour at one the curls mounted

and slender young

competitor, head, to add dignity to your coif- narrow skirt beneath.

and fure. long Velvet coule of the new three big new cosy wraps show waist whose shorts were cut

Lower Watgt-line quarter length show a tightly-fitted coats with deep cuffs and enormous full and of white flannel of some (in my

has The waistline this season Black velvet collars of fur. For boat or motor substance. Their wearer Itanie of satin below.

[over

important untutored view) possessed the un-gone a tiny bit lower, your shoul- white satin tunic looks they are practical and charming, and here the skirt should looking. Quilting je used effective usual aptitude for wearing mas ders must be draped gracefully in

cloth-cooats, as ity on

with feminine a lace or tulle fichu, and to carry 0 collar, culine garments be worn just above the ankle.

out the old-world affect you may The dressier types of skirta are cutts, and pockets of a quilted satin jcharm.

Miss G. C. Tomblin, who two leven wear a single fresh flower, a worn distinctly longer than those the are practical and important- in tweed and for sport. This rule in red or grey

look wonderfully years ago was the poineer of shorts little jewelled ornament, or makes for good style.

smart when adorning a plain but for tennis-playing women is laugh- diminutive silver bow perched on ing at the present wave of “con-your hair, just as grandmother did It will not do for anyone to lay heavily ribbed blue serge. down hard and fast laws about Where a basque is cleverly worn version."

in years gone by. "You may have heard," she said, Formally, dignity and elegance coat sleeves. Some houses of note they wide shoulder is almost a amuse themselves with pade and necessity, for by width at this that people used to throw things spell chic in the evenings during

even with a at the first man to carry an um- this year of grace 1933. puffa, whilst, as is the way of auch point the hips can, things. violent reaction movementa fluted basque, appear quite slim. brella. My shorts used to incur

This is a fashion point I con- criticism, but I knew the declare for the sloping shoulders.

Fairly wide sleeves are in any tinually stress, as it is such a help would come because it is common- Case usual, especially those with fut one; added to which, whatever sense. the elbow shoping inwards at the fashions come and go, few of us wrist. Such shapes are good with have met women who do not yeara altra-high collars in fur or when to look as alim as sature and the a cuff of fur is used. Some of the present vogue permit.

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