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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1935

The Woman's Page

AMUSING CLOTHES

"Thrilled” And Orders

On Spot

all particulars are shown in the "PILL BOX” HAT NAMED AFTER

schedules exhibited at the Post Offices.

All letters ele, must be marked "By Air Mall" and be handed in at a Post (Hice...

INWARD MAILS.

FROM EUROPE

May

FROM U.S.A.

May

Pier, Hönver

FROM JAPAN

May

Jeypore

Ranchi

Africa Maru

Melbourne Muru

Takuula

Pres. Hoover

Yaxukuni Mare

Ranchi

Talthybius

FROM SHANGHAI

Patroclus

Prox. Hoover

Yasukuni Maru

May

FROM MANILA

May

Tandu Taiping

FROM AUSTRALIA

Kay

Tamisa Taiping

FROM STRAITS

May

Conte ROKED

OUTWARD MAILS.

FOR EUROPK

Empy of funsin (yla Vançou- Ever}

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PRINCESS MARINA

London:

Are your clothes, amusing? not, you must consider yourself Just a plain, oldfashioned girl" and this would be unthinkable! All joking: aside; it iş, really surpris». jing to find how universally the teraj "anusing" has, taken the place, of, "amart" and "chic" in the parlance of the dressmaking, and -millinery salons.

"I am sure Madame will like this model" says the vendeuse, "it is 3 so amusing," and she summons a mannequin clad in a frock which 4' bizarre in colour and weird in design. Madame declares herself

thrilled" and orders it on.. thi apot. How often "have 1 henni a stout, middle-aged womma condemn? a really lovely, frock because sh considers it, “dull and winterest-f- lag" and ask for one which is "more amusing,” for, mark you, this; desire for "amusing clothes is by no means confined to members of the younger generation.

Irene Dunne is in Warner Bros? · Istest" musical, "Sweet Ade- line,” which is coming to the Alhambra and Central Theatres soon,

of curls, to the high-crowned, wide-

It must be just another evidence brimmed Tyrolean felt with the

A GLAZED FINISH

STRAW HATS

Crowns Shallower Than Last Year..

VARIETY OF CURVED BRIMS

All the English woven straws tive that smooth, satiny appearancs needed for the svelte. headline. frowns are shallower than last yens, but there is a light deepen- ing, at the back which makes for comfurt in wearing.

There are a variety of curves of brims, from shovel" brims, which are pulled down over the forehead. | to aureole shapes which rise from the brow to discloset he Intest; "stand away". curled frigge. But always the line is clear and beeqm- | jag and what trimming there is should be flat and compart, whe ther it be posy or ribbon...

COLOUR SCHEME

Few Suggestions For Elderly Women

For elderly women, a wine-co. loured kaltted dress with belt and collar in a deeper shade of the same colour or in a pretty brown would be effective. Other Bug- gestions are a soft green having

phire-blue with a deeper blue belt.

of emerging from the depression-bright little feature fantasy at the Solution Of Water And brown trimmings, or a dull sap. this hankering for the bizarre and back. Turbans and toques were

Waterglass

For

This is the way to open

the new Kiwi tin-

4 amusing in clothes, writes. a Paris of every description-"pill-boxes," |

correspondent to the "Christian "Thibetan priests' caps, "tca-cosles," Science Monitor." One cannot Cossack turbans in fur with a. A solution of waterglass is use- blame the dress-makers and milli-wicked looking dagger thrust fal during spring cleaning: ners for providing the sort of through the front, high taques of giving a glossy finish to painted or models which their clients demand, felt or velvet with a long quill enamelled walls and woodwork and and so we have skirts so tight, that struck through the middle of the pollshed floors. To two quarta they must be split to the knees to crown, (a menace to the neighbours of water add one good tablespoon- allow the wearer to walk or even on either side), replicas in panne ful of waterglass. Thoroughly soak]] to sit, or so full that they might velvet of the shiny hat worn by a large soft cloth in this solution 4 he worn over a hoop-skirt; we have the old-time cocher, Victorian hate and then squeeze it gently' to re- Bodices which appear to have been with narrow brims turned up at move surplus moisture. Wipe the at on "hind side to" with all sorts the sides with a feather trailing at polished surfaces evenly all over] of intricate drapings at the neck the back-all' extremely amusing with the eloth so that a thin filmi fastened with big clips of nickel and not a few really becoming and of the solution is smoothly aprend or brasa, "capes thrown over the smart, as well

shoulder, Toreador style and so Among the more conservative of on. But, after all, one needn't take, these "amusing" hats, the demure

over them. This will soon dry and harden, and will give a good finish; without damaging paint, enamel, o

the matter ton seriously, for it in a little straw bonnet by Madamo varnlah. p phase, which is sure to pass very Schiaparelli with its white ribbons 5. Closes: Reg. 9.15 a.m. Ord, 10 am. quickly. In another scan or two, tied under the chin (reminding one

General Pershing (via Gan

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pen-of the old poem, "Tying her bonnet 3dulum swinging back to the other under her chin, she tied a young

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May

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FASHION IN SLEEVES

heart within") is really

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extremo,, and we shall be wearing maa's frocks and hate of the most con- quaint and amusing. The modern You may be as fantastic as you

adaptation of the tricorne, with its like. There are balloon sleeves.] forward movement and nickel clips long, graceful, hanging sleeves falli

[servative character.

"Pancakes" and Toques

It is the milliners, who have car is the great success of Madame Leing back from the hands, Russian ried this idea of "amusing" models Monnier's ⚫ winter collection. sleeves pouching very fully but to the greatest extreme. At a confadame Suzy's narrow black felt caught at the wrist in a tight caff glcert at the Inter-Allee Club the is typical of quite another style of of embroidery.

Thats of the fashionable women, who "amusing" hat, while the popular Sometimes the sleeves are of dif composed the audience, beggar des "pill-box" made famous by Princess ferent materia) and contrasting jcription. They wer of every Marina and named for that charm-colour to the rest of the frock, but "amusing shape imaginable from ing Indy, with its mass of coq this must he done very carefully or the still popular "pancake," perch feathers hanging at the back, is a they will look showy without being

peritously on the side of a mass revival of Victorian days which is effective.

FOR JAPAN

May.

3

Emp. of Russia

General Pershing Chenonceaux

144%

not only "amusing" but smart and distinguished, as well. As a matter

VIA SIBERIA- Letters and post of fact, the "plll-box" vies with the carde for Europe and South America high Cossack turban for supremacy Ziberia" { ao among the smaller hata. Hats are forwarded "vis

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with brims, by the by, have not. REGISTERED and PARCEL MAILS are clused 15 minutes earlier proved nearly so popular as was than the time given above unless predicted, even though they are intherwise stated, and where mails are turned up, at the back to accom- advertised to close at or before 9, 4mmodate the high collar of the win registered and parcel maila are closed tér coat.

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