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THE

CHINA MAİL.

FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1934.

111 The WOMAN'S Page tit

NEW NECK

TREATMENT

FOR COATS

Spring Styles In Loud Checks.

MATCHING SCARVES POPULAR

Paris,

you thought about your

Have new Spring coat.

In your collection (one's a com- pany, two's a crowd, three's a col· lection! there should be a smart town coat to be worn over young print dresses prints are going strong this Spring-and a swanky sports coal to slip over your tweed] tailored sait or your knit ensemble.

to say

Town coats are doing things. Thel honours seem to be divided be- tween fur-trimmed and untrimmed ones. Whichever way you take them, they have their points. There are actually new things about these that boast of fur trim- mings. Who would believe that fox or gal- novel ways of putting

be evolved? yak un coats could This year, if you please, fur re- vers are ruffled. Silver fox Berul- ly ripples across the bosom, so does galvak.

tendency.

There seems to be a when fur is in question, of giving an easy shoulder width, but this is purely ornamental, since the basic lines of conts are straight and sleeve tops lean toward closeness rather than fulness. Some of the frilled fura are applied so that they follow a low yoke line or edge deep Woman's older collars. On one stunning model of black, sables are the draped in large loops across shoulders, crossing in the back just below the collar.

On many couts with fur-edged revers the collar at the back is plain. Collarless costs are the rage; you will hear more of this! as the reports teme from the Paris] openings.

the For sports coate conventional fur collars, like the one sketched on the tan tweed, are

in order. Here the smartness lies

Beige Print

The highlight of this gown laita white organdy yoke outlined with tiny, pearl buttons. Of beige silk, the print has a high collar of Rus- sian origin and features an unusual scalloped hemline. Added lines are added by a wide bolt with bow in front as the choice of Sylvia Sidney, a

popular screen star,

FINGER NAILS TO MATCH JEWELS.

London. Finger nuils enamelled to match They are the

in the fabric and such details as my lady's jewels.

pockets and cults. Notice how the latest thing seen in London; white

will: them. The fur in this instance is expe- cially effective: it is natural Rus- Bian lynx that matches the mater in in tone.

big square ones are set on. loose wide folds finishing

when wearing pearla, sky-blue with sapphires, green with jade.

SHADOW-PROOF LACE

London.

You will find that the dillerence between last year's and this year's Shadow-proof lace is claimed to routa is in the neck treatments. It be the most important dress inven-

tached Nearfs

Fashion Fever In London

Sequin Creations Are Notable Offerings.

¡SPRING AND SUMMER DESIGNS

The fashion writers of London

jare having a hectic time this so- BON. They go dashing, about all day from one show to another, with barely time between to satel the their food. Arriving upon scene of action at Claridges Hotel, a Bond Street salon wherever it may happen to be - each day a bit earlier to act a chair

to herself and floor space on which

to rest her weary feet, the said fashion writer is sure to find that the crowd has got ahead of her.

People seem to swarm up the jaides of the walls like flies, to oc- cupy all the chairs, the floor and Jevery inch of sitting, standing and crouching room. For Londoners 'have a bad attack of fashion fever just now. It is all very tiring bui very wonderful.

Spring and Summer Frocks Equally wonderful are the vari Russell, Joas collections of Peter

Norman Hartnell. Saru Jane and Reville, to mention but a few whe have displayed their collections of ispring and summer frocks during

the past week.

Many shiny gold materiale, tin- aels, lumes with gold and silver thread, gilded taffetas and sequins (which are used particularly effec tively by Norman Hartnell) are in of season. Two levidence this

Hartnell's gowns, made entirely of sequins, are real objects of beauty." One of baby blue sequins, and the gun-metal lother of wonderful

sequins, with a long rounded cape to match.

COLOURED TENNIS SHORTS

Mrs. Whittingstall's One-Piece Costume.

BLUE LINEN SHORTS AND

BODICE

Vernal Jauntiness

Gold tones accentuate the intrinsic becul of this motlaus crepe resort ault worn by Mas Clarke, feature actress. The frock buttons down the entire front with gold bone butions. A green, gold and white linen scarf slipped through the slashed collar together with matching swagger gold matlasse crepe jacket make it youth- some, debonaire, and smart,

THE NEW STRAW HAND-BAGS.

Handy Diamante Dress Clip.

London.

find

PLAIN CLOTHES WITH DRESSY CUT

Frills Replaced By Line And Cut.

SUBTLE TRIMMINGS ADD

TO STYLE

Sydney.

First of all, doubtless, it was what is commonly termed "the de- pression which accounted for the sudden disappearance of all ap pearance of frill from dressing, but since then designers have learned to make full use of this absence of frill to develop line and cut in dressing, so that it is no longer necessary to trim clothes to make them smart.. In fact, it is the very absence of trimming which makes for smartness now. jadays.

Good cut is the answer to chic for both day and evening clothes, and synonymous with this is the necessary for good carriage on the part of the wearer,

And, having mastered the art of fcut, designers are now turning their attention again to the subtler form of trimmings, particularly in'

but evening clothes,

trimming which doce not conceal good cut- iting, but rather draws attention to

the salient points of good dressing.|

And the longer we look into the mirror of fashion, the more are wo convinced that plain clothes- with cut-are the salvation of style.

Otherwise. how

would the famous couturieres find the heart Lo go on?

MODERN MODES AID MOVEMENT.

New "Prow" Silhouette By Lelong. BLACK LACE EVENING GOWN.

Paris.

One of the most interesting (and characteristic) things about

In one London shop were seen the modern fashions is that they are to movement, new straw handbags for spring nadfcrented in relation early summer.

contrary to the styles of "carriage They are made of straw days," when, if we are to judge by of over- records worked in circles like the crown of photographic

stuffed ladies, the sartorial ideal) Light navy, red and black are the was the wax figure. To-day, not colours, and each straw bag has alonly do clothes accompany gun-metal frame top.

emphasize the action of the human

a hal.

and

be

London. Мгв. Fearnsley Whittingsta!!

astonishment If you are looking for a new kind figure; they also have a sweep, a is because conts have ruffles or at-tion of the twentieth century. It caused a gasp of

or button straight has all the flimsy, unerushable among the women spectators at the of dress clip, glance away from the movement of their own, so that across the cheat that your old one qualities of ordinary lace but a Melbury Hard Court Club, Ken-straw bags to the jewellery tables even in repose they seem to will look demode. On furiess ones backing" thread is introduced insington, open lawn tennis tourna and you will see large round clips advancing or receding, the ruffles are of the fabric. Some the weaving process to prevent the ment recently when she came on covered with small beads instead of

the court for her match against times they are single, sometimes lace from being transparent,

Mrs. Wheatcroft.

She was wearing sky-blue linen shorts and bodice (a one-plecu Paria. garment) and a woollen cardigan The full neck is applied even to

New vells atop above the eye. to match.

The sharia had three pearl but sports coats; witness the blue and brows; their function is to cast a

fashionably tons on each leg, and the waist is becoming shadow on plaid illustrated, which

band was fastened with 1 whito spoken of as the monk's collar. Im-heightened foreheads.

pearl buckle. agine the coat in a dusty brown

This is the first

double. We saw a beauty in a heav

ily ribbed wool, called corduroy, with n Pierrot ruche; it was fetch-

EYE BROW-LENGTH VEILS.

ing and young.

gray

and you can see that it suggests

ume that a

box.

Lucien Lelong, who first put the! the familiar diamante.

kinetic line into out style vocabu Chalk white or bright red beada iary, has now launched to "prow! This is well named, make these clips to brighten up a silhouette." tired frock.

for the vaporous forward sweep- A new set of individual bath salts ing draperies do suggest the film packed in little cellophane sacks are of spray thrown out by the sharp put up in a semi-transparent gold nose of the ocean liner as it cuts

through the sea. Each salt sack is coloured accord-1 A black lace evening gown, ing to its name. The varieties in carries the figurehead simile oven The misty, voluminous and jasmine.

front fullness is framed by clude hyacinth, rose, cau-de-Cologne further. Usually the

These are made by the Cerebos cascading raffle that may (without shorts differ in colour from the

salt people.

too great a stretch of the imagina in most cases, are seems to bodice, and

tion) represent the divided foam to/white.

that flows past the ship's sides to opens out into a square collar in be abandoned when it comes

One women spectator said "It

reunite in its wake, which in the the sporty type. of coat. Checks, back and wide revers in front.

Lace, becomes a train. the gown

chiffon

the Ideal are To say the least, it is comfort-black-and-white

Other women seld that this was match by 4—6, 6-4, 6-4, but this tulle,

fashion of cannot be attributed to her cos-materials for creating this statu- able to have a matching scarf at-jamong the season's smartest pat

More ters. The diagonal camel's hair the beginning of a

tume, which was serviceable in eaque silhouette, which obviously tached to your Spring cont

is best suited to the evening. than that, it's the thing, for, an in the sports coat is new and ex-multi-coloured costumes, and

would not be Jong before the every way. edict seems to have once more tremely chic.

the contour of the robes of the gone forth that one must have the player has appeared in shorts with frait one sees pacing under the mudled look without actually muf-ja coloured costume. olive trees of Italy's hill towns. ing. When this neckline is released it

Matching Scarfs

Sobriety of materials

Mra. loud ones, and plaids are "it." The looks more suitable for bathing courts will resemble a rainbow.

Whittingsta!! lost shadow check is than for lawn tennis."

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