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THE CHINA MAIL.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1934.

1t1 The WOMAN'S Page 1

Evening Dress Variety

New Skirts Mostly Touch Ground.

HIPS ARE MOULDED

concen-

Paris designers have trated on getting as much variety 48 possible into the evening mode. A great many new ideas have been developed, and some of the pet fea- tares of last season retained.

all

touch the Skirts nearly ground. And most of them have trains some of these being of the very important kind that have not been

for years. Hips are

seen

moulded, and skirts may fare to a prodigious width below this line, or remain narrow until the train com- mences.

Sequins Again

One instance is seen in a divided! mermaid-tail train of gown. This! dress sequins on a

is

of

blue Bapphire foundation of green aliffened net, sequins having re- turned with force. It has separate mitten sleeves to match.

or

The season's eccentricity-buck-

fina

wings- ram-stiffened emerge from scame at either side of the back of the skirt, and are placed just below the wastline, ori much lower, on the gowns they de- corate. "Dorsal fins" sometimes jut out at the back of the corsage.

Taffeta, dull satin, tulle, and printed crepes, besides sequin-cov ered fabrics, are "new," but all the

crepe, plain, dull-surfaced ganzas, and lames are still used.

And black Bummer velvet is the material of a hostess

ROWN.

Southern Exposure

Binnen Vischer, screen actress, is not the only one who favours This type of bathing suit. Fashion predictors say that the of the most model will be one pupular this coming season. The kult in one piece, with trunks of navy blue and upper portion in a lighter shade of blac, red and white. Note tying arrange-

nent of bodice,

or.

DRESSY

DETAILS

Medieval sleeves are faced with What Can Be Seen In

gold lame and beautifully

em-

broidered in red silk, and the front

attached to the

hevay gold necklaces.

of the corsage is

Corsages Cul Low

PRINTS ARE DUE. Shaded Colour Schemes Expected.

wear.

London Shops.

Three-Quarter Coats

A Feature Of The New Fashions.

NO PARIS INFLUENCE IN LONDON COLLECTION

Three-quarter coats and tunics, Well-defined waistlines, Pleated frills as trimming, "Baby Boy sallor hata

These were some of the high- lights of an English dress collec tion shown in London recently, the designor, Jane Huans, claiming to be independent of Paris infuence.

"Three-quarter" was a fraction to juggle with at this dress show. There were three-quarter sleeves. besides the coats and tunics of this cut. These brief sleeves will mean that summer gloves will be im portant-and expensive!

Daytime skirts wore un- changed in length, but were so cur- tailed in width as to be almost

balance the wide flares from the knees of the skirt.

Of material interest was old. fashioned white bengaline, used, for a bridal gown having an unusual train of curtain-frilled organdi. Boldly-patterned black and white cire (waxed) satin made an arrest- was ing tailored sult, accompanied by outstanding where Ascot and even-la blouse of elastic-woven chiffon.

hobble.

Lampshade Outline

The "lampshade" outline

ing gowns

Bedroom Modes

Nightdresses Resemble Evening Frocks.

Bedtime modes are no longer re- garded as apart from the trend of fashion. They follow the line of the season as closely as models de- signed for waking hours. So mark- ed is this development that many of the new nightdress models might almost be mistaken for evening frocks.

Fabrics, styles and line, in fact, differ little for evening or bedtime wear. In both cases. gowns tre carefully moulded, and importance la consequently attached to perfec. tion of cut. A well-tailored look is equally essential to all models of the night.

SLEEVES STILL IMPORTANT

Detachable Furs New Mode.

are still an

important

Sleeves were concerned. The Calendered chintz, very shiny be- skirt of one vividly printed chiffon cause it is put through a kind of part of the ensemble, and now that Ascot dress was adorned

with steam-roller during is manufac they are so frequently made in fur,

they are really cosy... another three frills, and an evening gown ture,

WEB

old-world

of pastel-tinted stiffened chiffon material to return for 1934, summer had a deep frill at the hip line to dresses.

It is a good idea to have your fur Įsleeves shaped like cooking sleeves, fso that they can be slipped on and

off according to the weather.

Elastic at the tops holds them in

Menu Suggestions For To-morrow place, if you don't have fur sleeves

TIFFIN

Mashed Potatoes Pickled Gherkins

Grilled Sausages and Tomato Sauce the liquor, piling it up well. Make the sauce and cook it gently for a few minutes, Grate the cheese fine. ly, and add three-quarters of it to the sauce with seasoning to taste. Stir until it is melted, then pour over the salmon and coat it. Sprinkle the remainder of the cheese on the top, put into a moderately hot oven and heat through, then put under the grill for a few minutes to brown. Serve in the dish, Suffelent for 4 or 53 persons.

Veal Curry Fried Rice Butter Waffles Golden Syrup *DINNER Giblet Soup Salmon au Gratin Cornish Pasties Chicken Galantine Egg and Tomato Salad

Cranberry Fool Butter Waffes

.

Egg and Tomato Salad.

Cranberry Fool

then you must have lots of fur- twisted about your sleeves in bands,

Something Every Mother

Should Teach Her Child, Regularity of the daily habit is of the utmost importance for every child-neglect of this exien- tial health precaution is the cause of much sickness among children and greatly hinders their develop- as every ment. Knowing this, mother must, she should not only Impress upon her child in its early years the necessity for regularity, but assure herself that nothing the is allowed to interfere with dally function.

Över-eating, tos, many sweets, and insufficient exercise

rity.

are the most usual causes of stomach and howal troubles. in little children, for it is these that upsot regula- When a laxative is neces- sary, and even the healthiest child needs one at times, Baby's Own Tablets are Just the medicine needed. Devised specially for the use of children, they are pleasant taste, mild in action and alto- mother safe, as they are guaran

to contain

narcotic no opiste They

correct in- fantile indigestion, constipa- den, check diarrhoes, cool feverish. new, relieve colds and croup, expel worms, allay teething pains al most as if by magic. Your chemist can supply Baby's Own Tablets:

in

brown Bag in two shades of leather drawn up at the top by a thick silk cord-very new and ori- Corsages, by the way, are cut lowginal. Also a pochiete in nigger in front and high at the back; low plzlted horsehair, with chromium huck and front, with sleeves; high fastening. Another new pochette in back and front, with or without thick Ottoman silk, with a heavy sleeves; or very high in front and crystal ring as fastening.

pint flour, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoon- 3 hard-boiled eggs, 4 large, toma- backless, with or without sleeves. Cent in grass-green tweed, with fuls baking powder, plat milk, 4 tees, little endive, 2 spring onions, Cowl or burnous drapery at the the new large pointed revers, held tablespoons butter, pinch of salt. little mayonnaise, French dressing. back is popular. One toilette con-at the high waistline by two Beat the yolks of the eggs, add the fard boil the eggs, cut them in half sists of a black satin dress with leather loops. Another coat in milk, sieved flour, baking, powder, and carefully remove the yolks. Rub graduated quilted motifs all over beige, fastened by two bars of unaalt and the melted butter. Beat the yolks through a sieve and mix: it, the silver lame wrap-trimmed polished wood.

all together then stir in the stiffy them with a teaspoon of" may- Gloves in brown kid, with deey besten whites. Cook on hot onnaise and the onion very finely in the same way-being lined with black satin.

gauntlets of plush, for country buttered waffe. iron.

Heat chopped. Slice the tomatoes. Stand Gloves in brown kid spotted the Iron between putting in the half an egg on each slice and All with gold, for smart cocktail

batter for the next waffle.

with the yolk mixture, Sprinkle with salad dressing, and decorate parties.

Giblet Soup In Two-piece suit

with endive. Sufficient for 6 small navy and white, with three-quarter-length 3 or 4 goose giblets, 4 slices

salads. butter, 1 carrot, 1 coat having steel chain fasten- bacon, 2 oz. inga. This suit ag a smart military turnip, 1 onion, 2 oz. flour, 2 quarts

Ib. of cranberries, about 4 dez- good stock, seasoning, and the air and is most spring-like.

Frilled pique allps to be worn juice of 1⁄2 lemon. Wash and clean serispoons sugar, gill water, 1⁄4 Prints are due and manufac inside dark suits-always a chie the giblets thoroughly. Melt the teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1⁄2 pint fat, in a saucepan and fry in it the of milk, 2 eggs, vanília or orange turera ring in a new note by work-

Upturned sailor bat in shiny giblets cut up, the bacon, and the favouring essence, 1⁄2 gill of cream. Ing on marocain, satin, moire, ro

over and wash the cran- main, as well as the ubiquitous black straw, with fusst of pale blue yegetables prepared and sliced. Fry Pick

corded ribbon in the crown Worn till, brown, then sprinkle over the berries, and cook them with the Shaded colour themes may re- Hited to the side, this model has dour, and stir until it is of a brown sugar and water until tender. Rub * place two or three contrasting chic unknown to the "off the face colour, then add the stock gradual them through a sieve and stir in

colours in spring ensembles and hat... Aoral designs become modernised Square clip in dull gold on wood; let simmer gently for about 1% to ed egg custard with the erge and EAR in small, medium or large patterns also another clip in gold like 2 hours. Season the soup to taste milk, adding 1 dessertspoon of for evening goWNS.

letter in the Chinese alphabet with salt and pepper, and pour it sugar and flavouring to taste, over the diced giblets in the tureen. Leave both the custard,and, eran- Small designs will vie with larger very effective.

Salmon au Gratin

berry puree to get cold.. Mix them Pale blue taffets with a silver ones for both day and evening wear

1 large tip of salmon, 1⁄2 pint of together and, stir in the lightly new and lovely with many designs worked up on overcheck-

thick white sauce, 8 oz. of cheese, whipped cream, and add more. the diagonal. All the textiles lead material. one to believe that the new spring The new chepiile necklaces in seasoning. Turn out, the salmon, sugar if required. Chill the mix- clothes will bring the Impression of pink and green; érystal clips in remove the bons, divide it into ture and serve it in custard cups. soft tonings rather than vivid green and blue; paaris of all sizes about 8 pieces and put into a but-decorated with a cross of whipped colours.

In pink, beige, and natural.

tored pis-dick or pyrex dish with cream.

chiffon and crepe de Chine.

accessory.

ly and bring to the ball, skim and the ground cinnamon. Make a boil-|

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