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THE CHINA MAIL.

THURSDAY MARCH 15, 1934

111 The WOMAN'S Page 1

Capes Collars And Sleeves

New Capes Play Big Part

In Paris Modes.

and

There is a lot of fuss about necks, shoulders, and sleeves. The hood line is popular, so is the cow? neck, and there is a new mighty collar which is slung about the neck to change low at the back, you may have it in fur in rushed and shirred velvet, in feathers, and in ruched ribbon.

Then there is the cape.

What

can be done and is done with the cape passes all imagination. You can have it drawn tightly about the shoulders in that pinched way that suggests surrow mind and

a tempar which gives way before difficulty. You can have it all wide and ruffly with feather trimmings, muslin, or ribbon ruches, and not loo low on the arms. You can elici it at the back, or you can hang it straight from the shoulders no that it ran be a cape at the back A drappery in front.

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Then there is the long cape which Maggs Rouff makes in wooll for the day, and in velvet, satin or fur for the evening. And there

is also the wide, hip-length cape in velvet with a fur band which dips at the back and rises in front. Black velvet capen are lined with white or with colour, always the lining is different from the cape. Mainbecher is making tweed capes to go on coals and skirts some to take off, while others just trim the shoulders. There is a lot to be aald about capes this year.

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COMPLEXIONS TO SUIT BABY BONNETS

More Hand-Packs Are Coming.

Daintier Nighties

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New Slender Lines For Night Wear.

RUSSIAN INFLUENCE IN VELVET PYJAMAS

Paris,

We do a lot of talking about fashions for morning," noon and night, parties of all sorts and sizes, but only at rare intervals do we remember another occasion for amartness though we have no audience for it, or at least if an audience very, very limited' one! We refer specifically to bedtime costumes-nightgowns and paja-

Inke,

It's a far very from dainel wrap- pers of "other days" to Almsey finery or "our times." Instead of gunnysack, being shaped like a

sleeping outfits of the "now" are molded as smoothly to the body an akin Itself. No copious folds of flannel to wrap the feet is, no wool- en bedsocks or mittens, or night- caps. All is chiffon and silk, satin or valvet these days, regardless of the rise or fall of the mercury. House are heated now and bed- covers, warm as toast, weigh only a few ounces instead of pounds,

Like top cloths, nightgowns and pajamas favour alender princess line. A two-piece nightie is even popular and is made like the new evening gowns, backless and high in the front, with a little lace bodice to accompany. It is blue crepe de Chine trimmed with Ince ruffles of the same shade.

Special "perambulator" complex- tons are being prepared for the spring-bonnets and baby-boy's caps. Even if hats have become differ. ent again by then, when will like the new make-up, which gives the face a milk and roses colour, like that of an old-fashioned debutante's, More hand-packs are coming. there is a new one which makes the hand look fragile the skin is trans- almost to bleached white parentness.

This pack is called "The Invalid." BIRD AND FISH LINES FOR EVENING WEAR. Wind Swept Lines For Daytime.

This is the rest of the fashion new it was last week in Paris, Fish and bird ilhouettes for evening, Slim silk dresses with a strange back trimming like a hen's tally

The mannequin showed could be swept.: aside for altting down.

These frocks were worn

colds to which people, fail vidim sparkling capon" of silver-painted could be avoided were it not for the aigrette Yeathers and silk jacket neglect of taking ample precautions quilted in a pattern like fish scales. One of the most effective and reliable WAYS II by the use of Respiralds. The Day dresses and costa, had bris

anawe lange in the windswept lines quite dife

merit of their talsetly upon the the slinky evening ones fact that they act directly respiratory system and Cut Coats tapered into superior (to liquid zamedies

wwallowed Anys swirl Plaids and stripes and ara immediatel

dissolve slowly in the mouth crazy design, ag

Manecie:(raposts. Ben'given of which wind Ead-blown'

rerens of colds.

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the fabric!

Rusela creeps in to influence the sleeper with a. pajama of orange: velvet, and a black velvet mermaid gown trimmed with pink ostrich fenthera is the Molyneux concep-

Paris

Fashions Influences

Effect Of British Film Modes.

The

a dared panel or pleats. Directoire idea appears at Worth's! in the form of gowns which al- though they have only a sugges- tion of a higheer waist-line, have For the Arst time in dress his-the trailing skirt of the period

NOT A PASSING PHASE

tion of smartness for secluded tory a British film has influenced doubly flounced at the hem. Side audience.

THE NEW JEWELLRY

Pearls In Fashion

again.

are

Again.

thread, and a pair of bracelets for

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Vernal Grace

Parisian fashions. And the effect by side with this skirt, however,

has come to stay!

Not so much in the silhouette but in details of "sleeve interest, Malsh and jewellery.

there is the straight, slim type which Jean Patou shows. This is rounded at each side stam, and usually slit up there a little Even his day skirts have a modified form of this hem "line.

or

More Graceful

A basque on some of the evening clumsy padded The slightly

gowns givet A silhouette

which Jewellery has been slimming. It sleeves worn by the men to the we have not seen for some time.

Day Sults. Day suits seen in the collections as shrunk from the barbaric to the film are translated by the dress-

used Victorian, and pears are makers, in the spring and sumcomprise frocks skirts with three-quarter For sports and day wear there mer collections, into a graceful full-length coats,

narrow bangles of painted sleeve with fullness between the loons jackets, fitted jackets with ori leather ombroidered with a gold wrist and upper arm. Occasional without flared basque, and loose, straight costs with no fastenings one sees a sleeve completely and often with pipings or quilt- gauged-on a dinner frock, for ings as a trimming.

Blouses are made like severe instance-or a dressy coat sleeve will be semi-fitting to the elbow little waistcoats, perhaps with some looseness about the bust; in and there fall into a loop of the the approved tuck-in fashion, with the elaborate jabot effects down material.

The collarless cont-lines and front; or even Loccasionally on

Jumper lines, fronts finished: by a thick padded Two-piece frocks' are shown in roll, with a matching belt, the ruffs nearly all the houses. White and guimper worn, are all adapt-¡pique bows, cravats, neckbandı ed from the dresses we saw in this with dependent tabs or vests-a

are stiff and starched, and, often film. Even the variation of the they seem to be worn Atting collar are reminiscent of way round, so that the mannequin them. So you see it in not just is wearing her "bib" down her

back passing phase.

Quite apart from the tringning on the

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*Skirts Are Slimt og From there we go to the Regency slim evening

or Directoire fashions now show the concentrate ing in Paris. The stand-up revers back Schiaparelli' which adorn, some of the jackets, interesting for, the the important fabots and gossamer-uses.

like blouses, we shall wear this spring, are inspired by this epoch They came in again^i the Ed wardian years, so you will be able to see what they look like in your

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23-A beverage (pl.). (2-Rescue 26-A series of staps

26-Twirl 27-Pronoun 25-Preposition

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Europe (abbr.) 32-Nickel (abbr). 23-Arabia (Port) 35-Bind

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