1938-02-23 — Page 2

URSULA JEFFRIES

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 23, 1938

Picks The Fashion Winners

MONDAY'S RACE MEETING

A SARTORIAL TREAT

THERE are ways and ways of inaugurating a new

lion.

season.

Spring comes when you detect the first dande-

The first male straw hat means summer, and autumn is supposed to begin with the first flushed maple-leaf.

But the Spring social season, in Hong Kong can't really be taken seriously until the Annual Race Meeting comes 'round.

For that is when the paddock

Selecting a winner from among hierarchy meets on common

the many eye-compelling outfits ground and their ladies sport sar- torial embellishments 'mid sporty up after one frustrated glance at was no easy task and I gave it surroundings. And so; until Sa- the assembly before me, but as a turday, the members enclosure at solution to the problem I totall- Happy Valley will be a very smarted up a number of sure wins and place and a very horsy place, in- Jam willing to bet half-a-dollar or

deed.

a fiver's worth, shirt, stockings

What with the weather behav-lor silk flimsies that none of my ing the way it did the day before, selections rate among the "also- I fully expected to have a very rans." dampening experience on Mon-

day, standing among the golosh- es, puddles and umbrellas. But

STUNNING SUIT-DRESS

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ANOTHER WINNER. And isn't she winning even from this

Miss Peggy Humphreys with a friend.

heigh-ho! wasn't it a lovely day? To begin with I commend Brilliant sunshine, brilliant all the stunning outfit worn sport and a brilliant gathering of Mrs. James Whitham. It was a followers of the turf.

suit-dress of a shade of yellow So you who have not already bordering on khaki, and it went attended a meet, go and vent very well with the brown acces- your civic pride on cheers for the sories and other trimmings. jockey who wins to-day's ladies' two-piece affair, it consisted of a event. Or go on the final day slim-fitting dress and a hip-length just for the fun of it. Go, even cape; the latter being particular- if you

know nothing. about ly fascinating buttoned to the horses, and I wager you will en-throat and lined with brown to joy the eye-filling pageant of match other touches. The hat elt.

The slender-fitting frock very handsome pair. modish dress elegance at any that went with it boasted the new she wore was also black, with in- I next nominate for a possible stove-pipe crown with brim dip-terest centred on the very clev-winner the two-piece gray-green SELECTING THE WINNERS

ping low over one eye. Actually.erly treated gathered shoulder ensemble worn by Mrs. Hampden it was only half a brim, like an trimming. leye-shade turned up at the corn- Monday's turn-out of suits anders. frocks were of the sort that stand Next I embrace with enthu- out by inspired simplicity of cut siasm the frock and hat and colour. There seemed to be by Anne Dodwell ah, yes

rate.

worn

TRIUMPHANTLY SATISFYING

Ross. Again we meet the smart suit-dress which sports a hip- length cape, only this time we see it off-set with a brown collar in flat-fur. The neck trimming on

Her sister Diana looked chic in the frock beneath was interest-

ap-

no fixed rule for hats. Crowns the hat! It was one of those a gray suit, and as an interesting ing, too. It looked to me like either went up and the brims perky little pill-box affairs in contrast sported a draped olive, two immense buttons, or tightly down, or both simultaneously, black felt, strapped under the green blouse, a saucy sailor in ap wound flutting to giva the but there was a noticeable neck-chin and flaunting a flower-like perfectly matched green straw, pearance of buttons. The effect and-neck race for popularity be-trimming on the left rim of the gloves, bag and shoes, all to was triumphantly satisfying. tween toques and a whole new crown made from, what I took to match. You can take it from-me species of berets,

be, narrow strips of the same that between them, they made a

A HAPPY COMBINATION

SMART? of course, it's a VOGUE FROCK.

Twenty-four hours round the clock,

You'll look smart in a VOGUE FROCK.

The Secret lies in their style and cut.

GUE

1st Floor, Gloucester

T., Hong Kong

178, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

I put Heather Gerrard on my |list though I only caught a brief glimpse of her from a distance, but she deserves to be placed among the "sure things" if only because she wore that happy combination, black and brown. Too few women appreciate its distinction and fewer still under- stand its soundness as a basis for a winter wardrobe. It was Heather's hat that attracted my attention first-a black-- toque banded with brown mink, |_ Peggy Humphreys comes in for attention next. She wore the flowered print frock which she modelled with such success at a recent fashion show, and which I bave already mentioned in a pre- vious article. Remember the one with white daisies and pink dog roses splashed across the front of a black frock from left should- (Continued on Page 3)