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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6rm: 1926.

ELIZABETH ARDEN

FASHION.

In these hot summer days the question of how to dress in the coolest way is perhaps more orgent than any others.

Our dresses concerning pur wardrobe. should not only look cool: they must be cool.

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to avoid the annoyance of having your shoulder straps slip fasten them cross- wise in the back. This saves you the troublo of snaps and pins. Colours for Summer Dresses.

WOMAN'S PAGE

BEAUTY PARLOUR.

The Permanent Wave.

· HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Dovering with Straw.

If you have a hatshape and you want to cover it with straw, begin to sew on the straw at the centre back and outer

If you are planning to have a per- manent wave the summer is the ideal time for it. The wave stays in most easily during this weather. But before edge of the brim and work inwards, so that you get a neat outline everywhere. you ever attempt a permanent wave-be Cover the underbrim first if it turns honest with your hair-dresser and if you down, but the upper side of it first. if have ever attempted to dye your hair the brim turns up, so that you do not tell him so. It is very necessary that: he should know as the dye may cause get the stitches showing unnecessarily straw project quite in both on the damage to your hair as soon as the the more exposed portions. Let the permanent wave is put in.

rupper and under sides, and give these edges an extra tack together at the finish. Yi. the hat shape is made in separate pieces, take them apart for sewing the straw on to them, and tack together again afterwards. You will get a neater effect that way!

For summer dresses "pastel shades are no longer smart. Navy blue, though dark, has a certain freshness and com- bines well with white or flesh colour, The material that must be chosen is While beige" and sand colour are pool one which does not soil quickly and can and combine well with other shades; be cleaned easily. A simple costume gray is less casily combined, but is cool suitable for sports or every-day wear is itsell Polka-dot fabrics combined illustrated on this page. It shows the with white louk especially fresh and cool! effect of a jumper dress and can be work for the summer. With the sale of pretty ed in one piece er with a separate skirt.

summer frocks that is going on every The beauty parlour is developing The material may be linen or silk of where in town this week it ought not to in the Colony now. Besides shingling, any colour. Pink with black, or green be very difficult to and something suit-rabbing, waving, manicure and the other with black, would be a very, effective able to almost every taste.

things we have been used to we shall colour combination. The embroidered

have in a few days a beauty parlour that design in front might be a monogram or

will specialise in scalp treatment, facial the design of an animal, the latter in

message and other processes. harmony with the design on one's bag,

Landau from the Astor House in Shang -for--Paris now is putting small silver-

Chai is opening a beauty parlour-on-these plaques with animals, cut out like

lines on the first floor of Mme. Flint's stencils, on the new bags where the monogram was to be seen before.

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Light shoes or so-called slippers came into fashion with the slim and straight

Gulf dress, one or two piece suit, skirt with inverted pleqta to give full width.

line and the heavier Oxford fell out of favour. Now, however, the "Oxford" or semi-Oxford shoe is being worn-again with the fuller or pleated skirt. The sketch on this page shows a semi-Oxford with a pleated skirt. This shoe which can be made of different materials- leather, silk, or satin-gives to the foot a very slim and graceful appearance,

Mesh stockings are coming into fashion because they are entirely without the sheen that gleams unpleasantly from the cheaper variety of silk stockings. A Costume Slip.

With transparent frocks," the type, cut, and the colour of the underwear de mands a special attention. "A costume. slip of an unbroken line is the most satisfactory choice, and it must harmonise with the frock over it. Crep satin is a better fabric than crêpe de chine as it seems more part of the dress. A con fusion of straps over the shoulders is never attractive and care should be taken not to show more than one set.

The slip illustrated on this page may have either pleats or gathers on both sides to insure width Pleats, however, are less apt to give a bunchy" effect to the frock worn above it. If you want

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Back view of the slip with crossed showbier straps.

The irregular jahot is very much in cridence again, from the large rippling ane dawn to the hem of the dress and belted in at the waist, to the shorter.one. down to the waist that appears on many sport frocks.

Evening frocks are still cut. very low in the back and often have straps of rhine stone or pearls. The hips show draperies of silk floating panels, or Rowers so that the whole frock gives a suggestion of "fluid" motion.

Tissue paper.

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For those who do not want to ruin a handkerchief for the removal of the powder and the applying of cold-cream E advise the purchase of soft tissue paper. It is economical and saves the trouble of washing cloth or handkerchief..

A low-cut Oxford

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Cut Flowers in Vases.

It is very hard to keep flowers in vases 48 800n Is the hot weather begins. always distresses me to see flowers fade so quickly and only the other day I dis covered how one can keep them fresh longer. When you bring them home pat the first into a bowl with water so that. they float. Then cut their stems and put into the vase a smail piece of ice. Powder.

Do not rub powder into your skin. It clogs the pores. Apply it lightly and then you can use it more frequently. Don't forget before you go to bed to remove the powder with cold-cream. After you have tried all day to keep your skin dry with powder, the only natural thing to do is to apply a good cold-cream in the evening. It opens the pores and starts the blood circulation.

COOKING RECIPE.

Braised Duck and Mushrooms.

Ingredients: Two az butter, b. mushrooms, pt. brown sauce, onion, 6 to olives.

These ingredients are sufficient for one for two dacklings. The ducklings are brown- ed in the oven-13 min. in a casserole with the lid off. They are then taken out, cut quickly into joints, and put back with the gravy. The mushrooms (peeled) and with the stalks removed) are put in with onion finely minced. The duck is cooked with the lid on for 4 hour in

a slow oven; put in the olives 13 min. before serving.

"THE UNCHARTERED

SEA"

[BY STEPHEN KING HALL--Edward Arnold & Co.]

This is a book which most people in Hongkong are now reading. Its interest lies more in the description it gives of this Colony than in the characters it con- tains.

The plot is not new: a poor and young girl marries a Hongkong taipan who is Satin slip with pleats or gatherings on many years her senior. He is wrapped both sides.

up in commerce and regards marringe as necessary in order to carry on the family name she has all the comforts that wealth can bring.bat, nevertheless, longs for a touch of romance. Then at a Peak establishment. The experience she has Club dance she meets a naval officer and had in these facial treatments ought to the romance begin. Their meetings at make her a reliable adviser on all various social functions can hardly be matters concerning the complexion. In-called "love-affairs." But gradually. dividual treatment of the complexion is they decide to cut their moorings and as necessary as the individual treatment sail the uncharted sea" together. An of the hair. Wrinkles can be removed elopement is planned after a dance in by a good masseuse but an inexperienced Repulse Bay. But just at the moment one will probably rub more wrinkles than they are going to leave the hotel news ever into your skin..

comes that the taipan has been killed in motor-car accident. In one sense, we Pimples.

suppose, this must be regarded as a happy ending, bat it seems rather hard luck on the taipan.

If you are troubled with pimples on the face pay careful attention to your diet. You want to be far more careful in this respect than you would at home. Avoid pastry, ice-cream and all sweets

All the characters in the book are. fictitious and the account of the shipping strike in Hongkong is not bistorically

as much as you can and do not eat much accurate. But there is no doubt regard. fruit I have found that fruit, especially ing the appeal the story has for residents. tropical fruit, affects the complexion out It is fascinating to follow the develop. here, and many of my friends have told ment of scenes on one's own doorstep me likewise. Do not cover pimples with as it were. Some of the dialogue is also powder. That is just the wrong thing particularly amusing. to do, as you close all pores and the infection, if it may be called an infec.. ion, will spread.

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