THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 15,
Blossom L
A NEW YORK LETTER
New Spring Hats Are Exhilarating
Latest Styles Offer Thrilling Allure
Buying a new hat at most times of the year is usually just adding the final smart touch to a new cos-+ tame. But, buying a new hat when spring is just promising to blossoza, well that is a tonic, an inspiration and usually quite an adventure. Ask nine women out of 10 what is the most exciting fashion of the year
know of
THE SPANISH GAUCHO
~~~ TODAY'S COSTUME
Cuder a stim, black wool towa coat a black and white print frock girdled in stitched red patent lea- ther. With it a white felt pillbox touched with red, short white gloves, a red patent bag and black patent shoes:
and they'll say "spring hats.” Watch unwrapped new arrivals and see for them in stores experimenting with yourself the newness, the flattery new lines, new colours and new de and allure that make spring hat tails. It's a game and a delightful time the fashion thrill it is! If game that can do more to lift femi-you're tall and dashing try the nine spirits than most anything I Spanish effect on your head. The wide brimmed gaucho type hat with loose chin straps have a world of swaggering chic about them
And those new chapeaux patterned after A lot of words spent on the sub-the peon's headgear, with wide off ject of so simple a thing as a hat? the face brims have a nonchalant But then a spring hat is far from air that's most eye catching. a simple thing. It's an experience, another chance to make a new per- sonality out if the old one and de- finitely a fashion lesson unto itself. Go out and try on some of the just
DEMONSTRATION
OF
LYON'S TEA
will be heki in our St.
Francis Branch, from Te-
morrow until Saturday, from
·10.30 am. to 12 noon, and
4 to 5 p.m. daily.
CUPS OF LYON'S TEA
FRESHLY MADE,
be distributed
Come Along!
THE DAIRY FARUL ICE
COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
Specialists
PILLBOX FOR TOWN WEAR
NEWS HATS like spring
are ready to burst forth in co lourful bloom Sketched three sta mng success The gancho hat in black felt has the new backward si ping crown, chin strap and sipping brim, with little top sht to reveal your hair, and a band of inbornet grosgrain-fort trim-The tiny-felt-
adered in red Fellow and green flowers. And dashing peon type hat is black Baku. straw with an off-the-face taring brim and band dubo stitched "TE- bon for trim.
Keeping The Years At Bay
"I got a shock when I saw myself Watc too, for thickening at the in a mirror," said a friend to me back
the neck where is not so recently.
Leasily noticed. She is a very busy woman and, wash the neck with hot water and like many of us, has not realised
pply: the effect of the passing years Lastly, here is a recipe for those until she was suddenly confronted who wish to banish grey hairs The little spring pillbox is ultra by her own image in a looking-Strain a quart of water in which chic for town wear and is appear-
glass.
salted potatoes have been boiled; ing in sophisticated shiny straws
Wrinkles, double-chin, superbring it to the boil once more and and fabrics. And sailors, large or finous flesh, greying hair, how de pour the water over an ounce of small, with thick kettle brims are pressing it all sounds. Still, with powdered borax and half an ounce among fashion's newest darlings.
a little trouble these signs can be of powdered camphor. Allow to The off the face on one side only" kept away until one really has stand for three days before strain- berets are amazingly flattering to reached the sere and mellow ageing and bottling for ase. A little you who can't afford extreme, re The trouble with busy women should be rubbed into the scalp vealing hat lines. And there's some nowadays is that they often make daily. This will also keep scurf thing youthfully appealing about little effort to keep themselves in away. the big bonnet silhouette that is good condition
still in high favour for spring! Let us deal with wrinkles first. Stitched jersies with brims or tur-Their onset is usually insidions, ban style are extremely wearable stealthy and, like a thief in the hat styles. The Fifth Avenue re- night, they rob us of our clean- plicas of straw-and-yarn are stun- cat, smooth contours. ning for casual wear. And the very high style group which recalls the "bird in Nellie's hat" is amusing, and very new, like the white straw sailor with black patent leather birds perched on the crown,
Patent incidentally is a favourite spring trim Veils, definitely are still with us, usually in the brim only or streaming down the back Summer felts are as always for those who prefer them, but shiny strays and braids are most preva- lent.
IN LOCAL COLLECTION
From an unusually appealing local new hat collection come the fellow ing descriptions. A navy blue, felt sailor with rather narros brim and huge navy taffeta bow faring from the top..
At the first approach of wrinkles about the neck, practise nodding and throwing back your head alter nately; then move the head round in circles and look back as far as you can, first over one shoulder and then the other, keeping your chin well in at the same time Practise these movements regular- ly.
Banish Grey Hairs
BOYS WILL BE BOYS!
Often after a
Have you signs of a double-cinio? Get rid of it without delay. One good
Exercise is to lace your arrive home
ches, burps fingers together and to place the minies – But knuckles under your chin Then lor anxiety open your mouth wide, dropping applied. the lower jaw, and slowly and Cooling, soothin
tive. She-ko is firmly bress it up again by resistament of ance against the hands beneath heali the chin
Before going to bed The navy pillbox of straw braid wash the neck well in bot trimmed in chamois. The navy felt and dry and rub in plenty with round, flat crown and ittle cream. After that slan cluster of seashells smack in front well for
The black straw, large sailor with
kettle edge and double veil on brin black dotted in dubonnet!
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