1937-03-17 — Page 8

COLOURS Coiffures

CALVES

By KATHLEEN PEARCEY

Fashion sees red in Coronation In the country it is different." year. Pillar-box, danger," rouge du Tweeds may always go adventuring. Pape are colour news. Flaming Herringbone, scarlet and black makes scarlets and royal crimsons when a gay, slick suit. Rough home- hight falls Lesser and even love-spun frieze in Venetian red, flecked lier reds in the daytime. This may with grey looks goods for the more be difficult for some of us. Red can casual garments dedicated to sport

be superb on the right woman and

on occasions. Otherwise it is apt HAIR AND THE NEW HATS to be a little alarming.

RULES

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There is a milliner in London. making and selling hats which are exactly like those peculiar to the Certain rules for red should be first days of motoring. They have observed. It must not shine. Scar-stiff, fiat brims, buttoned, pancake let allied to the gleam of satin will crowns and safety-pins. They may swamp the most vivid personality. not suit many women, but they do Georgette, chiffons and dull matt herald new ideas in hat lines. crepes are lovely. Velvets for mag- They also mean that we must re- nificence and women with important organise our ideas about hair. Al- figures.

exandra fringes are already here, and For the daytime the lovely red of padded hair is being mentioned in the rowan berry is becoming and well-informed places.

has no harshness" in its shadows. Fringes are required to wear The tender russet red and a crimson many of the new hats. Whimsical with a cool hint of purple in it are caps after Robin Hood and Juliet other nuances of the season's smar-caps are giving way to other and

perhaps better hats.

test colour.

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FOR TOWN REDS ARE DISCREET

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* CALF-LENGTH SKIRTS

We must look to our legs. Every-

A suit of crimson angora. A body else will. The new skirt stops! black top coat lined with crimson short at the calf, which has led a and black shadow checks. Black hat, sheltered life for so many seasons. shoes and gloves. A crimson hand-Like red and Alexandra fringes, the bag. Only a "red-head" could fail (new skirt length takes a little time. to look attractive in this.

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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 17, 1937.

There's Spring in the Air

Bette Davis, screen star, wears one of her new Spring evening gowns, a black linen dress that features a bias band of bright red pique at the top of the bodice and two bias bands of the same matèrial on the skirt.

How to Wash an

EIDERDOWN

If you are grand enough to have an eiderdown covered in real silk, you must never wash it. Send it to the cleaners instead. But if you have an eiderdown covered with any other material, it can (and should) be washed like this.

1. Bring it out into the open air on a fine breezy day. There must be no prospect of rain.

2. Hang it over a line and beat it well.

3. Next prepare a bathful of luke- warm soapy lather made of a good soap powder or from-soap flakes. Place the eiderdown in this and squeeze it thoroughly and quickly. Be sure you wash every part of it, working methodically from, say, left to right.

4. Rinse it in a tepid bath of vinegar and water. (Half a cup- ful of vinegar to each gallon of water.) This should fix and brigh- ten the colours as well as rinsing of the first lather.

5. Then rinse it twice more in vinegar and water of the same tem perature, and after the third rinse put the eiderdown through the wrin ger. The latter should be set loose- ly so that the eiderdown will go through quickly.

6. Place it over two lines in 2 shady place to dry. Change the position this is important from

time to time, shaking it as you move it to fuff up the feathers, Peg it out lengthways and not too tightly. 7. When it is nearly dry, lay it fat on a table and beat it gently with a cane." ~

It may take as much as two days for your eiderdown to get thorough- ly dry

Encased in new spring-style footwear Miss Hazel Pickford dis plays the tootsies

pated to be the mast matched in the world.

na shades are su

COLOURS

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to get used to.

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