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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 1982.

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The Tokyo correspondent of the London Daly Express writes

Extreme simplicity will characterise the forthcoming wedding ceremony of the Prince Regent ollirohito and Princess Nagako Kani, the date of which has not yet been announced. The betrothal cere mony had to be postponed owing to the death of Prince Higashi Fushimi.

The

Prince Hirohito's first gift to his fanede will be a smut lacquerel sword, the order for which has been placed with

famous swordsmith of Qwako. sword, which is th be beautifully decor- nted with the imperial etest, a sixteen- petaled gold chrysanthemum," will be twelve inches long and shentheil in red brocade. This will form the prince's betrothal present,' and will be given some time in September.

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Princess Nagakö's trousseau will include dresses in foreign and Japanese styles for all seasons of the year. Her.ceremonial dresses("jini-hito-twelve thickness Kimonos) are being made at Kyoto

about £2.000. necklace and of the value of £100,000. teen chests of drawers of paulownia wood, costing £100 each, have been order ed for the accommodation of the imperial wardrobe, which will include ten suits of foreign clothing for the prince estimated to cost $500,

for

1,000 AT A BANQUET.

The wedding festivities will include Thron many fanquets and receptions, thousand persons will be entertained as the banquet and creeption to be given by the Emperise for the Prince Regent. The cost per person of the banquet to be given by the Empress will be £5 Lo for food, £g for souvenirs. and S1 for Other items of ex- general expenses,

pense will include the repair of the Kasu- inigaseki Palace, which is the Tokyo, re sidence of the Prince Regent, and the prince's tour. of the imperial shrines, the grand total being £500,000.

Imperial Household officials contend that much more fight be expended, but) Prince Hirohito desires to keep the finan cial outlay to the lowest possible limit.

Princess Nagako, the future Empress of Japan,,, was born at the unpretentions Tokyo residence of her father, Prince Kun, on March 6th, 1903, when the clouds of war with Russia were gathering Prince Kuni left for the Manchurian front a forthight before the first birthday! anniversary of the young princess, nad Nagako, was absent for two years. therefore, spent her childhood in the sole care of her mother, n daughter of the Satsume clan, which is noted for ita! discipline for children (especially daugh ters) and its severity of living. She was taught always to wear a kindly smile, and be kind to her neighbours and gracious to her servants.

SCHOOL.

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When the princess was five years old she was placed in the kindergarten of the Per resses Schoal. She is described na an attractive" and bright pupil, with bobbed thair.

The first imperial message regarding the engagement of Princess Nagako and Prince Hirohito, eldest son of the E- peror, was made to Prince Kuni' in January, 1918, although the announce ment of the informal engagement was not made until more than a year later. The princess was taken from the Peeressen" School to begin a special course of study, to fit her for her future as empress.

Princess Nagako is fond of outdoor life. She plays tennis a great deal, und tends her own little garden. She is now taking lessons in western music, both piano, and voice, and as pastimes paints pictures and writes poems., She also has mastered the use of the typewriter, and she takes many photographs, sometimes developing and printing, her own pie-

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DRESS FRIGHTFULNESS. FASHION CRITIC'S SARTORIAL IM- PRESSIONS IN GERMANY.-

"The Germans are well clothed, but not well dressed," says the writer of an article in the Tailor and Gutter, who has, been making sartorial observation in Germany.

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We find it necessary to make this statement because our House was, at one time, a user of this, Dottle

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After long experience we find that it is not a good bettle. It is easily broices, and the sizes fre- quently vary to the detriment of the buyers We discontinued its use in the interests of our castomers.

We sell the same bigh-class gehlity Whisky in this battle. We have one quality only.

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Their clothing, he says, shows evidence Shining eyes

of prosperity, and "may be regarded as

a symbol of successful recovery after the

War

He found that the Germans are not fond

of simplicity in clothes.

"The plain lounge suit without excre scences," he says, was the exception rather than the rules the rococo, in Almost tailoring art, was uber alles.

overy other cost seen was plastered oveT with ornaments. The pockets were patch- ed on, often with the addition of flaps, and pleats in the patches. Of the Ger mans it may be said that they love a yoke upon the backs of their coats, and possibly this is symbolic.

"For pleate generally they show a decis ed partiality, and a large proportion of their conts have a pleat down the centre of the back. Instead of soft curves and graceful contours there was harsh angul arity emphasised by the squareness of the German figure. The whole effect was that of hard lines."

DOCENTENÁRIAN AND MODERN

WOMEN.

Mrs. Elizabeth Badler, of Alresford, Essex, who was born over 102 years ago, has given an Essex journalist her opinion. of modern women: Their dressed are as disgraceful as their smoking habits" she said, and in my young days they would have been put in the pillory." The old lady recollect the Chartist riots, and sard that in Essex she remembers a man walking about with a loaf dipped in blood aud carried on a sword,

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