1935-06-01 — Page 12

SÁTURDAY, JUNE 1, 1935

CHINA MAIL HOME SUPPLEMENT

HINTS FROM SMART WOMEN TO AID YOUR CHOICE

A Large New Assortment of STRAW HAND BAGS

for

Spring and Summer

Prices From 30 cts. to $300,

Silk Kimonos, Underwears

and Table Linens

in Latest Patterns

See them ed

Mayo's

Aurelia's

Photo D'Asis

The

CHINESE BAZAAR

China Bldg. Queen's Road C. Hong Kong

need, and surely want some cot- tons. And women who are taking any of those cruises which head toward southern places really need nothing other than cortons—an ex- clusive wardrobe fuil Actually of course, lovely tub silks and acet- ates and linens are very import- ant too, but women are familiar with these and will buy them any how. Since they, too, wash well, they all belong in the same sump- mer class.

You will find a wide choice of tive linen frocks in cotton and local shops, for morning, afternoon. and evening. Yes, the evening field is alive with cotton dance frocks. And when temperatures soar, nothing feels more cool looks as fresh or responds to per petual, inevitable washing like de- lightful cottons:

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One mistake must be avoided--- and it is such a prevalent one too. Women must stop tossing their conceptions of cottons into house dress class. A really modish cotton costume of the type one is willing to wear in sophisticated places is as much of a special creation as any silk that ever was

WOIIL.

Those three things which contri- bate in unison to the making of any really smart costume must be jast as present in cotten things are: as in silks or wools. They first, fabric; second, design, and third, workmanship. To begin

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the chromium plating of metal by cellulose paints and also lacquer- ing the furniture instead of show- ing its natural grain and thereby achieving more colour in the inter- ior, did not always prove practi- Gl The scope was still too limit ed. So pictures had to come back to the interior; bat no more the still life and landscape of yester- day with which the whole family wandered about the room to find a suitable place and light.

The pictures of to-day are not confined in frames, but they are designed as a part of the whole decorative scheme just as the r chitectural background, furniture, Fighting fixtures. Frames in most cases became necessary because the pictures are replacing the plas ter ornaments which the present These interior hardly tolerates. pictures are seldom painted on exo- vas, but frequently appled directly on the wall, bringing back a re- vival of the technique of the old fresco paintings.. New materials and methods have been discovered with new possibilities and often de- lightful results. In Hong Kong this is still something unknow but on this page I am showing a few examples of how the painter of to- day employs his imagination.

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with, many of the more exciting new cottons cost as much as inex- pensive silks. Then comes the de- sign. And the modish cotton fol- lows the very same lines as the summer silks. They have match- ing jackets, handwork every de- tail that makes sophisticated silk or wool And thirdly and most. important of al-cottons must have the workmanship. Women still expect just to stitch a Lew scraps together and get results.

But it can't work out that way. A cotton suit or rock or coat has to be made with the very same care with which anything else a smart And it is Woman Wears is made. just this that shoots the prices up to points that unthinking women Without rebel at. It must be so. this punctilious workmanship the cotton does not belong to fashion.

Printed piques are still making the best of the spectator and sports dresses as well as knock- out street suits tailored to the Jast seam.

The wales are fine 'as pencil lines and the colour con- trasts are positively, breathtaking.

Paper taffeta, that crackles and rustles with as much racket as the breakfast news sheet, comes in lovely Soral patterns against dark backgrounds. It is Smart stuff for the first printed daytime dresses, and

pastel the light colours make grand perky dinner and party zOWNL..

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When the thread with which you are sewing becomes knotted, put it toward the needle and it will frequently unravel without any further trouble.

MODE ELITE

ENTRANCE CHINESE

BAZAAR-

CHINA BLDG.

SUMMER SALE OF

GAGE HATS

COMMENCING TO-DAY

$5.00 to $10.00

SOFT SPORTS HATS

$2.25 to $6.75

PICTURE HATS

$10.00 to $14.00

Cash Only

ALWAYS

INSIST

on the genuine

"AERTEX"

Every yard marked "AERTEX".

"Made in England

The best quality at most reasonable prices.

BRITANNIA

SILK STORE.

The Leading Silk Store

in the Colony ..... China Building (Opposite King's Theatre)

SECOND ANNIVERSARY

SALE

1st to 6th June

HATS From 1.00 ap Cotton Frocks 3.50

Afternoon Frocks 950

|

Mang's

Gloucester Eidg. Pedder St.

A pot or two

of GLOXINIAS

or.

CALADIUMS

will add colour to

your room

Obtainable from

THE CLOVER FLOWER SHOP

Gloucester Building Arcade