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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 22, 1998.

You Need These Frocks For Your Trip Home

What a pageant it is this year, that of fash- ions! What was popular last year is repeated- but with, or, what a difference! The difference

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Two cotton dresses for the Tropics. Left: Gaily-printed crash, tailored with the precision of a woollen frock. Right: Black linen with contrasted stitching and a bright-coloured, looped belt. Right~ evening dresses of pure silk crepe for patio parties, printed in a 'many-colour floral design.. The low, shirred, back fullness termin- ates in a brief train.

serves to eliminate from the wardrobes of the imagined. They are composed, as a fashionably inclined all the sartorial survivals of the 1936-7 season:

Colours are vivid and although

rule, of a straight skirt with a flare black and white backgrounds are or one with a liberally slit hem, a numerous, the newer effects are jaunty hipline jacket or bolero, and wrought by piling colour on colour. à coat. Two of these items are Deep pink mounts through fuchsia Slacks, for instance, this

in which “Lastex" is interwoven. made of the same fabric and the to crimson; purplish blues pile up must be flat in front, without the The real swimmer will, of course, third is contrasted. If the coat is mountainously. their tones and pleat formerly de rigueur, or with continue to demand maillots of knit- lined the lining matches skirt or shades. Yellow is extremely im- these stitched down, and the ne

newest ted wool, but her cover-up coats, Jacket. Large fantastic hata com- portant and so are yellow greens, models just cover the knees. Shorts skirts, capes, robes, overfrocks, will plement the costumes.

sea-water green, and Irish green.

year

IT'S BE

TO

Business

STYLISH Are DIFFERENT Women

in some cases almost reach the knees and are circular; in others one sees those that have grown straighter and narrower than last year's models and snugger at the waistline, and sometimes they wear hip yokes. Beach coast tend to be either shorter than the princess style of last year or longer than the wraps that ended where the partake of that strange combination suit did. The slogan is, “Continu- of sophisticated trends and peasant ed but different.”

influences.

And now for afternoon frocks Catty?

The trend began last year and has

Bathing suits for those who Deck tennis enthusiasts will want haunt the ship's pool, will favour a variety of colourful shirts to top dressmaker styles and fabrics, pre- their shorts or their short skirts, is correct to live in sports clothes tirely with them. When I first senting draped bodices, inset gir, and a collection of blazers, sweat- dles, tucks, gathers. They will be ers and little jackets.

executed in patterned sharkskin, Passive spectators of deck sports spun rayon, lacquer-patterned satin are offered this season as alluring jersey, and many novelty fabrics a selection of ensembles as can be

THESE HOT SANDWICHES CLAMOUR FOR COFFEE

SPREAD

WITH

AND

TOAST

Cheese in a hot sandwich behaven always with aplomb, poise and perfectionate n

pot of deviled ham, with sliced cheese and a bread of your choice, sets a good example to all hot sandwiches. Toast them, of

A fried sandwich is toasted and buttered in one operation. Sandwiches and coffee get any party a great big hand. Men like a man's sandwich. So have them set up with mustard, and the like

“Try a hot chicken sandwich on baking-powder blacuit. with sauce or gravý. It's a meal.

been diligently fostered, so that Many business women are "cat- they play an important role in the ty," but judging from my own ex- current collections. No longer it perience the fault does not he en-

keenly until dinner introduces formality started office work was These five-o'clock frocks are softly anxious to do well, but the head fashioned of silks, rayons, mixtures, typist found fault with me so un- light wools, printed and plain mercifully that I was reduced to a cottons and state, bordering on imbecility. For- crepes and novelty linens. A knitted linen is particu-tunately an understanding parent larly crush-resistant, and sheer took me away from that office, and linena are admirably suited to the

since then I have resolutely refus- tropica. Floral and geometric ed positions which involved, taking prints are present and tucks are worked into the designs, while in-orders from another woman. tricate

years later I was placed pleatings, hand-fagoting, embroidery, contrasted talon slides, in a position of authority over other ornamental closings on belts and girls and men, and because of my necklines, and decorative buttons own earlier experience, I honestly give the surface Interest which tried to be fair and friendly to fashion sponsors at this moment. everyone, while getting the

Some

work

The dress is almost invariably done satisfactorily. With begin- furnished with its jacket. This ners I was especially patient,`and, may be fitted or boxy or a bolero I believe as well liked by most and is always contrasted. Printed of them. With those of my own sleeves on jackets made of plain-age who had remained on a lower surfaced fabrics, are new and seem grade, or with others coming from to have been suggested by the fur offices where they had perhaps been sleeves which cloth coats for north the only typist or clerk, it was . & ern wear are disporting.

pretty hopeless proposition trying Star Spangled Hours

to combine friendliness, with dis- Although dinner dresses and suits cipline. The men usually resented may be tailored, the favourite form having to take even the most tact- al evening frock is romantic. It fully worded orders from a woman. carries a skirt of great fullness at Some of the girls were jealous of the hem, fullness which may be in-

my salary; others frankly thought troduced in gathers at the waist or below a hip yoke or at the knees. me queer in the head to be really

interested in the business, Chiffon, net, lace, sheer crepe, taf feta, slipper satin" are among the · Let any woman work long enough favourite materials – and... such in an atmosphere of hostility, hear- dresses are trimmed with sequins, ing subdued whispers of "Old Mies. beads, jet, and add to themselves Sourlemon," "So-and-so is one of

inka- radiant jackets. Many front. de her pets," "Fob stealer, colletages are square and the hal- herself clever," "Too_pally ter necky perhaps accompanied by the Chist, etc, and unless she a panel back, has been seen by the of the stuff that saints are writer in a number of collections, of, sooner or later she win The silhouette offen stress back down to some of the labels bestow fullness and bustle offe with big ed upon her bows.

OUR MISS X.