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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1923.

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PARIS FASHION NOTES. [FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,

IBADIL RAMSAY.]

PARIS, November 6th. All blouses are jumper blouses these days. The blouse which was drawn in at the waist and tucked away underneath the skirt bas disappeared as completely old. the

and crinoline

other fashioned ideas. The majority of blouses intended for street wear have high, tight- Atting collars cut after the style of the hamble blouse the Russian possunt; a deep band of embroidery in some parti cularly bright colour or colours is added down the "front to the left side, and perhaps bands of the same round each cuff. Satin made up in this way and trimmed with bands of Chinese em- broidery, the brighter the better, can be most lovely, Some jumpers are finished off with a border of fringe that is kaotted or weighted with a bead at each ond. Still another idea is to scallop the edge or cut it out in points and add a band of fur all round. Low necks are to be seen as well as bigh enes; but there a especially for street wear, this form being considered more in keeping with the pre- sent style of coat that buttons well up round the throat and is cat tight and slim in the body part. For the house, the square-cut blouse is very popular.........

EVERYTHING FOR THE MERE MALE a decided morament in favour of the latter,

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A shoulder yoke is a new-old idea that ia made use of by many designers. The yoke effect is seen ouly at the back and round the shoulders, as it finishes off at each side, leaving the front fat for pleat- ing.

Bead embroidery is more popular than anything else as a depuration. To figures in steel, gold and silver beds as well as in bends of every colour in glass, crystal and wood. These beads, no matter what their composition, are made in all shapes and in all sizes, although the tiniest size lends itself better to delicate embroidery.. Quaint designs and amusing patches of scenes and scenery are worked on satin and crepe de Chine blouses for wear in the hoose or underneath taflormade costumes.

The shirt waist type of blouse is. completely a thing of the past. It is not even worn by school-girls. The only model: that one sees is the long, loose jumper. This either continues in a long, straight line several inches below the waist, or else has what fulness there is caught into a deep waist-band that its tightly round the hips. Any and every material is used for fashioning blouses. Now that Winter has nade bis unwelcome appearance, velvet and duvetyn are well in evidence.

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Suspicion

Amongst the innumerable evils that have come in the wake of America's pretence of going "dry" one that must be noted is the growth of suspicion.

So much fraud has followed America's futile effort that honest American (and other) people are made suspicious when there is no ground.

Here is an amusing Example :-

The hideous trade in substitutes for good honest alcoholic drinks is demoralising thousands and making them suspect anything that has the least appearance of fraud or that they Super-criticalness has become an do not understand. obsession.

Recently Americans, Canadians, Mexicans, and others living in or adjacent to dry (P) America have found a mare's nest in the mould marks on the bottom of whisky bottles.

They actually persuaded themselves that clever rogues were cutting a large round hole out of these bottles, removing the contents, substituting something inferior, and putting back the "cut-out" as neatly as a clever dentist replaces a tooth: that he has removed.

The thing is, of course, commercially impossible. It will be a loss to the world if America loses, besides its freedom. its sense of humour.

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WILDE ROMANCE.

materials are mostly made up into house blouses or for wear under a coat in the street, when shopping or on occasions when the wearer knows she will not be obliged to take off her coat and reveal the fact that she has disobeyed the rules of good dressing by coming out in a blouse and skirt. Velvet and duvetya are used for bouse blouses because they are warmer than the watani

jacket. For wear with a

Something like a literary romance lies coat and skirt, satin, erepe Georgetfe, crepe Maroccain and the host of other silk crepes behind the announcesuent that Messrs. which have been launched on the market Methuen intended to issue an hitherto during the last few years, are lighter, and unpublished fairy play by Oscar Wilde. more elegant blouses are made up from The play, "For Love of the King," is these materials in every colour, light as well; the property of Mrs. Wodehouse-Pearse, as dark. There are also many dainty:models who has all the rights, with the exception in ivory and cream. As a rule, the colour of the book tights, which she has sold to of the blouse is chosen to harmonise exactly Methuens. Mrs. Wodehouse-Pearse, be with that of the cout and skirt with which it is to be worn., Ivory or cream blouses are rarely worn except with cream coat and skirta, or with black ones when the wearer is in half mourning.

She mar-

fore her fira marriage, was Miss Mabel Cosgrove, & great favourite of both Sir William and Lady Wilde, the writer's parents, and was brought up with the two sons, Willie and Oscar. ried one of Oscar's friends, Mr. Chan Toon, a nephew of the King of Burmah. While she was in Burmah she received the play from Oscar Wilde as a Christ- mas gift. He wrote to her from Chelsea:

The waistcoat is another garment which has become just as important an item of a woman's dress as the blouse. It has now reached a stage when it is recognised, as much a woman's garment as a man's, and Under andher cover I am sending you a feminine wardrobe which does not include

a fairy play catitled For Love of the

like to see in your Garden House on some night when the sky is a sheet of violet, and he stara like women's eyes.! Alas! it is not likely. So far, Mrs. Wodehouse-Icarse has refused to allow publication of what is to her a private and personal souvenir of the poet.

at least one of these useful garments can King," just for your amusement. It is certainly not be considered complete. the cutcome of long and luminous talks The latest models are long and straight; with your datinguished husband, in the and I should most of them have a high collar, but not temple and a the river. all of them have sleeves. Many have not Feren a back to them, but simply fasten round the waist with tapes or ribbons. These are handy, slip-on affairs which can be put on hurriedly over an old blouse and worn whilst out shopping. When sleeves do exist they are in mousseline de soie or Dinon rather than in the same material na the rest of the, waistcoat, whereas the cuffs which finish them off are of the same material. The waistcoat that crosse over in front is not much worn, as it is impossible to add a bigh collar to! models of this type, The straight-fronted ones are more popular, as they can be bloused at the waist or left hat in front and pleated at each side. Besides, they lend themselves to the addition of a high collar, a detail of fashion that is growing in favour every day.

Waistcoats of plaited ribbon look well when worn with a cloth costume of extra heavy texture. Those made of silver or gold tissue, acraps of old silk tapestry, or Bilk worked with handsome Chinese embroideries, set off to perfection the plainest of velvet costumos. In fact, noth ing is quite so becoming when worn with a daric velvet costume as a waistcoat worked in Chinese blues with a thread of gold running through it and a piping of lacquer red velvet finishing of the front; the red lacquer, note is repeated in the lining of the coat with which this in worn, and a charm ing ensemble effect is thus obtained.

THE ROHNSON CRUSOE CIGAR.

A bootblak was, puffing away at the end of a cipr, when a gentleman, think- ing to have a little fun at the boy'a expense, asked him if he always smoked cigars.

Oh, yes, ir, pretty often," answered the boy.

"What brad do you generally amoko 1" asked the getleman.

boy,

Robinson Crusoe, sir," answered the"

The gentle an pondered a little. "1. never hard of that brand," he said. "It'e a name I've given 'em myself,” announced the boy. You see, Guvnor, old Cease wa castaway."!

practice is to milise suede in this way, de corating it befoehand by stencilling pat terns on it in "ay-colours or in black and white tones, White lad, on which designs and motifs are painted in black, u also called into play As well as these more or-lear unusual paterials, there is another one less anal, but perhaps more decorative, which is used a great deal for As well as, these everyday models, the fashioning waistopate. This is there are others that aim more at being variety of water wave Brocade in black and original and curious. Designers seem to silver or black and gold tones. Waistcoata grow tired at times of the neuil material and made of this fabric with high-fitting go far afield for fabrics that are novel and collars and awat line slightly draped and wonderful, in an effort to create models finished with border of monkey fur, which will be entirely different from the are quis the lat, acte in fashion. Such usual run of things. Many of these material may look bizarre and frightening tako Breitschwantz fur and turn it into in the had, but when worn by a tall wor original vests of this type: Ther scallop man capable of carrying off startling effects, the hem and bind it with scarlet leather and uner a three-quarter cost in velvet or suede. Another iden they put into satin, cita, the effect is smart to the point

of being remarkably, 50, (Continued at foot of next column.)

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