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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 6, 1938.

One Frock Becomes

July the Fourth Independence Day. For us

date in the history book. For Ameri- can wonmen

new frock:

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Americans are passionate about or

spotted

flowered patterns and spots. But I like it plain best.

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You can wear a dress like the one shown in black or navy,.over, checked · Accessories should gingham shirts

festivals. They dress up for them. for the office. They like topical clothes. In the match the skirt. shops frocks are labelled "for Thanksgiving,” for Christmas," tung blouse, a checked tailored I can see it with a spotted shan- "for Independence Day," as the shirt or one in coloured stripes. dates come round.

Sadie works in an office up top of a New York sky-scraper. You can see thousands of her on the way to work any morning. She is the best dressed working woman in the world.

Sadie makes her braces frock formal enough for a party by wear- ing another kind of blouse. It might be candy pink organdie, pin-tucked and ruffled at the elbows.

trimmed with

Or it might be starch white and Valenciennes lace. Broderie Anglaise by the yard is · another ace high idea for another best blouse.

The salons keep an eye on what she wears. Sadie's little dark frock with its slick touch of white, her Sadie has made cotton frocks elegant shoes, her crisp hat are front page fashion news. always "good copy."

She figured that a little trouble

That typist-heroine you saw in taken over shilling prints would the film last night is a portrait of pay. She began by copying expen- Sadie. She looks a million dollars sive models out of pattern books. on something like thirty-five dol- Where it said "suitable for crepe lars a week.

de Chine, satin or chiffon" she tried Independence is the secret. Paris says

out the idea on zephyr, muslin or "Look what's seersucker. here." Sadie regrets she's unable for her.

Now the shops do it to look at any dress that can't do three jobs of work.

London says - Sadie replies, "Swell

"Pleats."

· And Sadie's summer cottons go to weddings and garden parties.

This year she is wearing them if you gathered at the waistline. If her sew them down. I spend a lot of hips can take it, she has three or time sitting."

four rows of gauging below her She is fussy about styling. Says belt. "no" to any material which can't figure is not razor slim, she sticks On the other hand, if her face the tub. Will not be ruled by to the gores or flat pleats. skirt lengths and collar heights. Sadie makes inistakes about

I like Sadie best in her "braces gloves and jewellery, but not about frock." It is her own idea. She her legs and feet. She thinks noth- brought it with her from high ing of paying twice as much for her shoes as she does for her dress.

school.

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It is chic, practical and all Frenchwomen wish they could wear it,

48 It can be made of cotton, wool or linen. I have seen it in stripes,

She wears them plain, and for walking in town, with moderate to low heels. You seldom see spike and Spanish heels except with formal afternoon or evening frocks.

For one dark crepe "best" dress she will allow three or four sets of accessories. The dress itself pro- bably has a six-gored skirt and a perfectly plain draped bodice.

It will have a rever and cuff set of starched white pique, double scarves of petunia chiffon crossed in front and tied behind like a sash, organdie muslin tuckers for neck, striped elbows and hemline, a shoulder cape of baby blue linen with a bag and gloves to match. That's Sadie on her way to a.date.

with a

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Frock cotton shirt and

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