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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 80TH, 1926

FASHION.

There is such a wide choice of styles and colours and materials now-a-days that it is absolutely your own fault if you do not look well and suitably dress

ed.

There are the wonderful adaptable capes, in every shape and form to suit young and old; beautifully fluffy dresses to soften hard outlines and disguise 6gure faults and the straight boyish modes for the adorably young and slender whom alone they suit. There never was a time when every type of woman of any age could pick and choose

her modes to such advantage, " Embroidery.

Dresses with embroidery in darning stitches are now, sa I remarked last week, all the vogue. The stitch allows many different patterns and the patterna, of course, can be obtained from the pattern companies. For those who want to.see the effect of embroidery there is a pattern on this page. It may be used on long and white sleeves, or around the bottom of a dress or for scarf ends.

Cami-knickers made most effectively of pale blue silk with godels of a lavender shade.

This design in the colours listed, would be charming on a back-ground of tan, navy, white or parchment. In develop ing this kind of colour scheme, however, be sure that the lightest shade of the colour used for the embroidery is at least two shades darker than the dress itself. or the design will cot stand out sufficient ly from its background. Any design of this kind would look also very attractive in red, blue or any other colour on white. Beads.

Beads are still very smart as a trim- ming for evening gowns, but they must be sewn on correctly in order to look well. The other day I saw an evening gown in town, white and quite pretty, but the beads were not sewn by hard which was a pity, If you purchase a gown with beads have them sewn on again. It will guarantee a much longer wear and add considerably to the appear- -aace

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Variety in evening gowns is large in Hongkong, a fact of which a round of the stores will easily convince you. There is a sale of dresses at tho Femina store, at Lane, Crawford's and Whiteway & Laidlaw's. One has to go a-hunting but that only makes the pleasure of finding something to one's taste all the greater.

In lingerie elaborate embroidery is going out of fashion. The best lingerie relies now exclusively on simplicity and different shades of colour. There is a

The

WOMAN'S PAGE

which may be worked of white material | THE BEAUTY PARLOUR. or in pale blue with godets of a lavender shade Femina has exquisite and very dainty lingerie, which it is worth while seeing.

One of our illustrations also gives & suggestion for a practical tennis frock which may be worn for almost any out door games. The neck is round in the back and V-shaped in front. It locks charming in white with its tie in strong contrasting colour. The back is in one piece while the front is, in three.

Wet Weather.

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The weather of last week has shown most women how badly we are equip ped for the rainy days and it interested

me very much to see how women tried to solve the question of shoes for these floods. Most of them it seemed could not find any solution to the problem at all,

Large hat with soft lines and charming colouring. The material is tulle; on one 'sirle, is à ginail bouquet of flowers or a trimming with bouquet effect.

At the hotel I saw somebody with Russian boots; a little too warm, it seems to me for this temperature. How im portant it is to have just one pair of good walking shoes in black ör brown.

It was almost the same with mackin tashs. Probably the reason why women are not fond of the usual mackintosh is because it is too often drab_in_colour Manu- and lacking in style and finish. facturers, however are now endeavouring to overcome this difficulty and some very attractive designs have lately been put on the market. The new mackintoshs are decorated with borders stencilled in oilpaint, and very bright they look.

M.M.V.

Cosmetics.

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Don't look into Don't look into a mirror and say^*' Woll. That does not settle anything at all. The secret lies in your A great deal of money is wasted on powder and in the subtle tints of it. The cosmetics because the purchaser does not only safe way is to apply powder to the make sure beforehand what is the right Lace before a mirror at evening and in powder or cream to buy. Cosmetics are daylight. May be you want two differ- as individual as perfumes, and it is en-eat-kinds-of-powder- tirely wrong to use a powder or an Eats and Accessories. astringent because some one else uses The large hat, the small hat and the the same. One look at some women's

tam are rivals and at present each of dressing tables and you will see that I them seems to maintain its place. The speak the truth. Among the necessities Queen, who has been seen weaiing amall of a dressing table I should count a bots with narrow brims, appeareu recently vanishing cream, a cold cream, a good has with quite a talcum powder, face powder and the re- Wimbledon Large hats are One great. quisities for a manicure at home Be-advantage over small ones. They do not sides there may be an astringent, a per-show strained features. A small hat fume, lipsticks if required and some ether leaves nothing to guess work. and more individual articles:----------

The rain reason why large hats do not Here is a simple face treatment which come more into fashion is undoubtedly one can use at home: Once a

week the shingle and the bingle. Not only are steam your face by putting a wet and these hats unsightly on shingled head warm fannel cloth on it while you lie but there is nothing to fasten them to, down Afterwards apply heated almond in the time of the long hair one used f oil The flannel draws the blood to the dangerous hat-pins. But hat pins weat

out of fashion when short skirts came in Skirts are going to be still shorter Few women apparently, however, realise the importance of the impression created upon other people when they sit down. With short skirts in fashion we ought to pay a little more attention to this matter. At one time it was considered "almost

abandoned" to cross one's legs.

Smart tennis frock of "white silk with tie in contrasting coloure. Back consiste of one piece, front of three pieces.

surface of your face. Wipe off the ail and use an astringent. This ought to be done at night so that the pores have suficient time to close naturally and thorouguy before any make-up put of again. Steaming or cleansing during the day may be dangerous as the pores have not time to close.

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The small handbag, poche ΟΙ pochette," is not at all fashionable at the present. The large handbags have taken its place. These large bags, of course, allow any amount of accessories to be carried along, from lipsticks to powder boxes and vanishing cream read in a Parisian paper that the really fashionable women carry such large ones that they are able to put an extra pair of silk hosiery into them and a mackin- tosh in order to look always next when asked out to tea on a rainy day.

At the Pandora " I noticed the other day powder boxes for the dressing table. made of cocoanuts and as I have no trust in breakable powder-boxes I purchased one of them and find it very satisfactory. They are much more useful and less expensive than the glass boxes.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

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When heavy pressing has been done, & gloss or shine is apt to show on the garment.This may be removed by steaming and brushing. To do this, one dips the end of a press cloth in water, wringing it as dry as possible. Next, one thickness of a dry cloth sponge is placed over the material, with the damg cloth on top.. The pressing iron should. be very hot, and it should be moved very quickly back and forth over the wet muslin, two or three times. A whisk broom or a hard cloth brush should be ready and, while steaming, it should be used to brush the material briskly. This will remove the mark of pressing com- pletely. In hard-finished materials, such as will and serge, if the steaming pro- cess does not ramove the mark," a fino sand-paper may be used to raise the nap a little.

To feel refreshed in the Morning.

COOKING RECIPE.

The almond oil is a skin-food as well as a cleanser. The astringent is applied to keep the skin itself tight. A good astringent is glycerine and you can make an excellent astringent by putting a little If you want to feel refreshed in the lemon juice or a few drops of benzoin in morning, take hall a tumbler of soda. water; the last is wonderful for the face.

water with a teaspoonful of Eno's or take. Make-up should be nothing more half a tumbler of soda-water and fill up than the touching up of the natural with milk. After you have taken this colour. Make-up should not be used for then have your morning tea. Either. the street at all Many women put too of the two recipes will do you good. mach white on the nose. Never use any Try which one suits you best. white. on a prominent feature. Another bad habit is make up the eyelashes, with mascars. The eyes look too hard and stare from no background. If you make up your eyelashes you must shadow them as well so that they look deep and thick Chop an onion very fine and mix with and richly rooted

twd cupfuls of carrots cooked and cut Another problem is that of using ipin strips. Season lightly with half a sticks. As you know the use of the lip-teaspoonful of salt and one-eighth tea- stick can alter the appearance of your features entirely. If you are not an ex pert be careful in applying it and do not forget that the first purpose of the lip. Young carrots are surprisingly good stick was to keep the lips from getting baked. They should be scraped, split too dry. It is only recently that the lengthwise and placed in a casserole rouge tipatick has come into vogue to with plenty of butter and a little sugar remove the anemic look from a woman's and baked until tender. The sweetness Embroidery, in darning stitch. Pattern face. Your lipstick must not be cherry and favour are not washed out. but

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