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THE CHIN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8,
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SMART STYLES FOR Symphony in Gray TEA-GOWNS RETURN
ALL FIGURES
Fashion Veers From Slender Lines.
The slim and sylphlike creature has an undoubted fashiod advan- fage. We can't deny her ability to step into clothes and walk out in them with great ease and effective- ness. Fashion, however, Is ΠΟ longer concentrating pop her slender lines.
To-day. the larger' woman may have a more difficult problem, but it is not an impossible one. She
has the opportunity of finding charming and smart clothes.'
When she assembles and wears them well, she has the chance of quite outshining her less statues. que and more easily fitted friends..
This season she will find that many style decrees auft her pro- portions. Dresses on tunte or tiered lines are perfect for her since they give her length, Smooth shoulder lines are sleekly wearable. Plain sleeves Aull her figure. Bo- dices with diagonal closinga becoming.
are
ARROWROOT WILL WHITEN HANKIES.
Imports Agrecable Aroma,
A little arrowroot enclosed in a mualin bag and placed in the water in which handkerchiefs are bolled will give them a faint and agree. able scent, when ironed.
If borax is added to the water ini which they are rinsed, they will assume the right degree of stiff- ness without heing hard, as if ac- tually starched,
Pink and Silver
This charming "užiarnoon gown, worn by Kathryn Serguna, screen player, is of aŭlver and pala pink metal cloth. A slightly gathered blows tops the monidot line of "the skirt, and fusions with a row of circular rhinestone buttons doen the front. Tha'aquara yaka collar la
si fattoring an it is unminal. -
Bringing Up Father.
4 nom gray is introduced by dere thy Wieck, mooie star, who wears a simple frock and knee-length coat The of dull, gray, rough crepe. frock is high of neck and tong of skirt, while the cost is topped with e collar of platinum fox. The tur ban is of matching material.
Back-To-Front Movement
IN NEW GUISE··
Only For Home And Private Wear.”
NOT SUITED FOR DANCE OR THEATRES
Tea-gowns are still,
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they
were over a quarter of a century ago, supposed to be 5 o'clock, af- fairs. The tea-party we know now. blends into the 6 o'clock cocktail hour, but it Is amusing to have a
6 o'clock model of real beauty, which can hold its own against the There cocktail and cinema dress.
is this "distinction between them- the tea gowns graceful with float- ing draperies or in tailored simpli- [city are both garments only for home and private-house wear. They can be worn for dinner and bridge,
Designers' Remedy For Unpractical Mode.
The new back-to-front move. ment and the arrival of the more close-fitting line are responsible for the fact that many new day dressen button up the back. This. muy and often does-look cx- tremely smart, but it is undoubt Jedly a disadvantage in the east |where a lady's maid is out of the
qucation.
but not for dance or cinema.
It will be wisdom on the part of our designers to keep these two types of models separate.
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Englishwomen can certainly look their best in any sort of graceful confection that is rather more the picturesque side than the ul tra-fashionable. This is a type of dressing that goes with the old country house regime. In the late 'nineties in high social circles it WES a matter of interest as to which type of woman could wear the ideal tea-gown and which could not! Social life and fashions have entirely changed. To-day Inost fashions are cosmopolitan; even so that ten-gown in its more lux urious form would be useless to the great majority; but if ita uses are curtailed, the ten-gown of charm has its place amongst a |dignified minority of known good-
dressers.
Fortunately the better designers have already realised that this! mode is hardly a practical one. and are substituting side-fasten- ing wherever possible. All this close atting goes to stress the Jumaller neater waist that is 80
definite this season.
VELVET FOLLOWS THE CLOCK HANDS
Transparent Fabric For Evening.
Velvet has entered the realm of casual attire. The daylime nult of transparent velvet or soft lyons velvet is sponsored by the best shops as is also a stiff velvet tail- ored type..
The valvet blouse in a variety of weaves is worn with wools and tweeds; and velvet bereta, scarfa and gloves en sufle are correct for sports.
Transparent velvet is in the lead 14g an avening fabric, but for every elegant frocks paysan velvet; both mat and panned, has particular prestige,
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Kay English, acruan metrasa, intro- ducon the new Etom collar and neurf 'ties on the important sengger suit which fashion saya la indispensable Le very collegs wardrobe; The out ls in belgs and brown ticeed with a brown jersey blouse. The berat in in brown frli.
FURS STILL HOLD' PRIDE OF PLACE
Latest Collar For Flat Fur Coats.
SILVERY ONDATRA, THE NEWEST SKIN.
Furs take top placé in fashions] while the wintry weather lasts. Mink skins have their edges elim-) inated to give prominence, to the dark line in the centre, and, the shoulders of the coat are square
and, box-like
The newest collar for any cont {of flat fur is a large Puritan one with a small flat bow fixed at the throat between the points. This collar is very youthful looking.
Hip-length fur coata take leo. pard and panther. There are also silver fox capes for evening. The skins are placed diagonallly.
Hudson seal and silvery ondatra (a new fur) are used for sports. These are made into three-quarter- |length coats, cut on slightly swag-
ger lines.
Seal and black ermine ara seen a lot by day. These coats STA made loosely, and most of them have broad belts of the same fur.
FEATHER MODE IN FASHION
Quills Featured In Many Berets.
Just at present there is every-j where a rush of feathers to the shoulder-and homely feathers, ↑
PINK QUSTS WHITE too; the cock, the hen, and the
FOR DAY WEAR
Popular Shade For
Accessories.
goose furnish material for the |sophisticated evening ('capes -- and
elegant flowers spraya. รุ
There is a really fascinating Hittle cape of hen's feathers, waxed to an almost incredible aleekness, that adds the last touch of chic For day wear, where colours are to a velvet gown; and an amusing concerned, pink seems to bave shoulder "ruche" of cut and dyed successfully ousted white. Pink
goose quills that emphasises the handkerchiefs are charming, and
# taffeta
not only are pink handkerchiefs, rustling stiffness of
frock. but pink costume accessories of
Some of the more aristocratic all sorts are the most flattering birds are also represented, among things you can sew into your dark
them the ostrich, its curling coloured drones.
strands dyed to every deep and delicate shade, and the heron, whose oddly decorative plumage Even by of your jacket, and the palest pink beat seen in black.
mode peralsta; day the feather tiny hat-and these are small and quills are gaily slotted through getting smaller-slapped on one.
Pale pink collars and cuffs on a dark dress are charming.
A pale pink floyer in the lapel
berets.
side of the head and exposing the the crowns of felt hats and velvet coiffure on the opporite side, are positively breath-taking.
KEEP AN APPLE IN CLOTHES CLOSET
Absorbs Offensive Odours.
.....
On Their Way To School.
When, the children are ready for school one thing more before they set forth in the chill damp morning air, give them a Respiroid each as a preventative against cough, wore throat and colds. The aromatic, antiseptic vapours released as these pleasant tasting oval lozenges, dis- Stale perfume, perspiration, shoe solve in the mouth provide an polish and other odours often be- antidote to the germa which cause come offensive in your clothes bronchial and nasal affections, closet.
For grown-ups top-preachers, An apple, into which cloves have singers, public speakers---Respiroids been stuck, will absorb the var-are invaluable, keeping the throat ious smells. Simply take an ap healthy, the voice strong, and safe- ple, stick whole cloves into it un- guarding the whole bronchial syn- till the surface is entirely covered tem. They are obtainable, at all and attach a long string to the medicine dealers, or, post free $120 stem. Hang the apple up in the per bottle, from The-Dr, Williams closet, being careful not to let it Medicine Co., 461, Klangse Road, touch any of the garments.
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10-Haring ware 18-Army Ordnance Department
21-City thoroughfare 20-Howied
24-Farm, animal
26-Fish egge
27-Parched
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34-An individual
32-Foreign
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