1935-10-12 — Page 9

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1935

CHINA MAIL HOME SUPPLEMENT

i Paris calling

Paul Bennet and Cie

Tweeds Are A Sure Tip For

The Autumn

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LEEVES for coats and after-

MOOL dresses are full, gathered in to armhole and wrist, and sometimes ornamented with fine braid. For morning, square receding shoulder line and leg o" motion effect.

Necklines. High for day wear, with the smail Peter Pan collar popular for mornings. V neckliner slope towards the shoulders and are outlined with broad facings.

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Skirts for day time, two inches shorter bias-cut and slim-Stting. Inverted pleats back and front, or small row below the knee. Calf length dresses for afternoon, far- . ing from a wide waist-belt. Even- ing skirts shorter in front. Drap- ery at the sides.·

Colours include rich wine and prune shades, Venetian reds, blue- Kreem Madonna blue, mahogany, and a rich chestnut Coats of bura gundy and cypress green. Black for afternoon. relieved with gay touches: red and violet smart for evening

Materials. Thick tweeds for town, some with reversible patterns. Face cloth and velours for coats. Novelty wool for morning frocks; velveteen for afternoon. Varieties of lame, chiffon velvet, crushed chif- fon and satin for evening.

Tweeds are a sare tip for the autumn, so go ahead with the gay- est of them for your new outfits.

A new craze for initials is sweep- ing the coastal pleasure-resorts of the continent. Every day return- ing holiday-makers are arriving carrying with them the fruit of this latest treasure-hunt.

This variegated alphabetical in- vasion, truth to tell, meets an army already in possession, but the home contingents are not quite so fan- tistic and alluring *x the way legions that have crossed the Chan- nel

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The initial craze, of course, start- ed in correct conventional style a season or two ago as a chic dress accessory adopted by the Parisian dressmakers.

Popularity soon killed the fashion that was loved too well for the - ing of exclusive dressmakers.

But the unruly initials refused to surrender their pitches on jumper and cardigan, tailored lapel, beret, and belt. As pendants, clips, broo ches and bracelet decorations they remained triumphant best-sellers and twinkled defiance at the dress- makers

There is glamour too in the quest for the right initial. "Initials are so common." Say's the fastidious woman a little superciliously, but sooner or later there comes an odd half-hour in the holiday programme: when she catches the infection.

It happens not infrequently that the last to fall victims catch the new epidemic in its aggravated, multiple form. Did not she who writes this remain immune till the last hour of the last day, and on her way to the boat pause thought- lessly at the jeweller's widow where three little wooden symbols were assembled in the corner of a tray? Modernist they were in design and fully meriting the shop ticket that proclaimed "le dernier cri," yet there was an oddly familar sir about that little group. Who could resist these faithful friends of a lifetime or have the heart to leave them unclaimed in a foreign land?

Josephing

Meckes.

JOSEPHINE C GOWNS

AT GREATLY REDUCED

PRICES

PAUL RENNET ET. CIE

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