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THE CHINA MA

THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1934.

11 The WOMAN'S Page tit

FASHION'S

DECREES FOR

SUMMER

Roman Stripes Make Bid

For Popularity.

FRESH CORP OF STOCKINGS

Peter Pan Neutral Is New Colour,

New shoes have called out # fresh crop of stockings. Many of them have lace tops, for which no extra charge is made. The Lace band is meant to prevent "runa,” | which usually start from the top.

TAILORED COTTON COATS

There is a Victorian suggestion about many of the patterns and colouringa of the cambrics for

Other stockings with "top-inter. est" have clastic there to do the summer though the demand for work of suspenders, and other tope tailored clothes will also ensure are adjustable for long or short the success of modern and con-legs. ventional designs.

Many semi-tafiored coats and skirts will be in tiny checked and narrow striped cambrics, ging- hama, or cotton voiles. Nothing is more useful for summer weat in country or town.

Navy and white, red and white, and green and white look very wel! in checks. Sometime the ground- work is of the white, or it may be reversed. The striped patterns are so narrow as to resemble # now type of cordeotton, but give an admirable impression of dark and ght shadings. In beige, blue, or green they can look very tailored, made

up with unlined.

short coat and closely pleated or seamed skirt. They will be worn with pisin morning shirts in white or any pale tone to match.

Spots And Stripes

Very original ure cotton striped like the old Roman ribbons, in a variety of blended colours that,} despite their almost gaudy look,į

The new stocking colours to date are: Cuban tan, putly beige. Pe mellow pink for evening and peach ter Pan Deutral, shadow beige,

tan for all-day wear.

EVENING CAPES ARE CHIC

can be made into the simplest and Due For Another Run

severest of suits of ensembles. The

shades are well chosen, and in most cases have a black fine tu

Of Popularity.

Velvet Commands Mode of Season

Paris Designers Creating Astonishing Things.

ELABORATE BLOUSES

- It is a "Velvet" season, by night and day we wear this lovely fabric. for frocks and suits and little trim- ming touches.

The Paris designers are creating astonishing things the well dressed Parisienne herself never wears, buti which are seized on by American' and English buyers for the ready- made trade.

We are not going to face the trying days of early spring looking like figures out of a Noah's Ark.

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Basques may be worn-bout this we shall not pad our hips to accen- tuate the size-as Patou is actually doing at the moment the lovely line from hip to knee will not lightly be sacrificed by even so capricious lady as Madame la Mode. Nor for a moment could anyone believe that we shall raine shoulders to the level of our chins and attempt to revive one of the ugly fashions of the early nineties now being exploited by another celebrated designer.

Elaborate Blouse Upholstery satin is excellent for the rather alaborate type of blouse; to be worn with smart afternoon suits, and-another good tip keep

attractive buttons. The crase for sleeves are slightly puffed in a buttoned effects is a growing one, style reminiscent of Romney

so hunt through the family button- painting.

box for something old-and there-

At The Mannequin Parade

International Buyers In Paris.

front over a blue underskirt. be neath which is a glimpse of pink. Her decolletage is low-cut- and·

give the sobering influence, which HPFUL RENOVATION DESIGN DECIDING WHAT WILL BE WORN square, and her transparent elbow your eyes open for unusual and

can be emphasised by choosing

wide, others merely a pin-stripe.

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black accessories. The attractive Women will be grateful to hear

"That cost has a new fine-look part of this Italian tread is that that evening espes are in for a run

at the waist!" And the speaker's Two buyers immediately begin to fore new! Gloating over three the stripes are irregular, some af popularity. Apart from other

argue in understones

the dozen exidized silver specimens that | pencil begins to move in a hurried merits of her dress, and someone graced a "Polonaise" In the early The wary edges and shadings all considerations, they offer a helpful

says dreamily: "Have you 'seventeenish. They are going to blend into

a harmonious scheme means of renovating a "second best" scribble, while, every other journal-else

ist and buyer in her vicinity leans noticed that there is a faint ang look marvellous on a dull blue wool- that does full justice to the charm-gown. ing colours.

ward to get a better view of what gestion of the 18th century about len cost-frock!".

some of the collections we have seen One of the new capes is in gold

Make a pretty little evening Larger designs, both in checks

lame, lined with old rose velveteen may well prove to be one of

blause of ecru Madras Maslin' then up to now?" and stripes, compose many of the

and trimmed with many rows of greatest successes of the scASON.

of the More evening gowns. Here is ajoutline the whole design cotton frocks and bench ensembles stitching. Capes

used are not

a long alim material with rather thick white that have gone on cruises, but merely as wraps, but form the cor-

Only the mannequin appears un-cloth of allver with

skirt and a bodice which is a solid wool. This gives an astonishingly jeoncerned. She stops summer wear in this country the ages of many dresses.

mass of sequins sewn like a coat of handsome effect to the every inex- neat and smaller designs will bo

This is one of the houses pensive material, and is most attrac They are quite circular, with turns lightly-thereby frustrating mail. favoured,

lurgo round hole cut out alightly the efforts of a worried-looking which shows a moderately high-tive. nearer the front than the back to buyer near her to examine the neck line on its evening wrapë, 10 Have you heard of the Parisian slip over the head.

Bee A straight material-and strolls into the next we are not surprised to one craze for obtaining lingerie effects scarf is attached to this neck open-room.

with a collar made of a solid band with pink velveteen-flesh pink? You have to try it to see how effec- ing, with ends hanging loosely down

of gold braid. -. It is an evening showing. The the back.

tive it is with any coloured dress. or sult, and,"since velveteen washes A cupe like this is very simple steam heating is turned full on, and threepenny bit) on a black printed and not expensive, as it is not neces the curtains of the tall windows are

Thin silk cloaks in vivid colours, like a rag, It is the most economi- sary to use a very costly lame when drawn snugly against the bitterly the back, are worn with some of the

with a draped or hood movement at cal of fads. Charming, too, are similarit is lined and stitched in the macold air outside. Nevertheless, the evening dresses and flung back The cape should reached to the electric fans are whirring, and negligently over the shoulders to weist in front, and be long enough nearly every woman and all the men fall down the back: And it is at the back to swing clear when you wish, as they sip their cool cham- noticeable. that nearly are seated.

Cottons should be inexpensive and hardwearing, and never has there been such a range of smart, yet practical styles. Nothing could be more effective than A white spol (half the size of

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or magpie, accessories will bc

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Thin Silk For Wraps

all the Lavender For The Debulante The debutante can rejoice in

pagne, that they could pluck up ubiquitous three-quarter day" coats

variety of

the enough courage to ask for a little are collarless, the interest being One cotton fabrics,

supplied by the neck-line of the appropriately known

the most effective and concealing thing fresh air.

Another mannequin

frock beneath. "Bopeop" series is of 19th-century Imaginable, as well as being cosy trend. The smaller fioraf patterns for the cold weather still abead of She is wearing a tulle frock which

One of the afternoon' dresses-In surrounds her like a cloud, for this blue lace suggests the umplessant again prevall. The colours in-. clude dainty yellows, greene, blues, If a very narrow strip of lame is designer believes that thin, trans thought that the untidy, Univer and pinks, and old-world lilac, stitched down the side seams of the parent net is right for the summer. hemline might return, for the centra Lavender tints have trailing posies dress your toilette will look The skirt has a tunic effect, and the of the skirt falls about 4in. longer in pale contrasting shades,

back of it is pulled up into a bustle at the back.. Someone wonders audibly what will! The arrangement of a Women will find a marked dif-minute.

bow of happen to that elaborate confection bright green ribbon with long ference in design between cottons

If she is unwise enough to alt streaming ends beneath the lace at down.

the neck in front in new.lgs. That, dress will be sean In America, ati bluejany rate, for, two buyers from New

in York near me are coring their]:

programmas heavily,

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thoroughly new

and up-to-the-

Underskirts Again

for semi-tailored styles, and those for hot summer days on lawn and }river. The winter cruising habli is largely responsible for the ad- vanced fabric vegus, Ones - A third girl passes in a ́ dark On Their Way To School.

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THE QUICK CHANGE SILHOUETTES

New Lines Inspired By Chinese Costumes.

This season we shall be able to make a complete change in our silhouette for day and evening.

Onty of the most becoming new lines for daytime clothes is inspired| by Chinese costume. Aloose. cost of a length which either falls

to the knee or to s point be!

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. CHAR KULAINE

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thigh and knee, helps to achieve LACE RESTAURANT

this. With a neat little

Ing collar and a big fat "coolie”

hat-worn straig `on

in dedance of

at the moment th ert in dias tinctly oriental

There is a wide choice of new "Wraph: "Tor "~ evening"" weare-little evening, capalate and, béleroi, man Jackets, mud: traduits

for:

that rustle at

HATS.

Floral And Plaid Taffetas Seen,

Marcel Rochas introduces, in her- new collections, Immense, láce res- taurant, hals which carr out the trend toward pe