1929-06-07 — Page 2

A thing of beauty is a joy forever That is why the hat that you bay at THE DOLLY VARDON HAT SHOP

"

is always your favourite, and one.. to which you are sorry to say byo" even when the season is over.

PAMELA

good-

Would you put a Tanagra statuette in a paper bag, or clothe Venus de

Milo in a sack ?

There is nothing more lovely than a woman's '.. form and, since civilisation decrees that it should be clothed, art demands that the covering shall be a worthy one-an adorn. ment, not a disguise...

A “PAMELA " dress is the creation of an' artist who realises her high calling, and who seeks to give the most perfect interpreta- tion of the modern figure.

13, Queen's Road Central.

FELIX HAT SHOP

18

7, ICE HOUSE STREET.

GAY COTTON FROCKS FOR SUNNY DAYS.

In Muslin, Organdie and Cotton Prints.

FOR EVERY BODY

HATS FOR EVERY OCCASION.

THE PIONEER SILK STORE. Queen's: Road Central and Peninsula Hotel.

SUMMER HAORI COATS

in WHITE and PASTEL SHADES.

NEW KAYSER STOCKINGS with BLACK POINTEX HEELS.

PRINTED FOULARDE.

TAFFETAS.

THE HOUSE" FOR LOVELY SILKS

In the Ladies' Salon

"Summer is icumen in "

and with it all the lovely and gracious things that fashion has planned for women's".

wear this season.

Lane Crawford's Ladies' Salon is the Rendez-vous of well-dressed women.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

"LADIES' SALON (MEZZANINE FLODE)

TEL 0.4567

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1929.

WOMAN'S PAGE.

AMONG THE ARTS. WOMAN ALONE IN FRAMES FOR FAIR

MODERN DRESS-DESIGNING.

Tanagara

Would you put statuette in a paper bag or clothe the Venus de Mila inn Back Such a suggestion seems no less than a profanation of the beauty which has been given to the world by the Sculptor's Art. Yet every day you can see the "human form divine, which was the Sculptor's model and has the added loveliness of movement and life, clothed in shapeless garments which not only disguise bat distort its beauty,

I suppose many people would smile at the thought of dress-making | being ranked among the fine arts," and yet why not? We depend on the dressmaker to show us, as nearly as is compatible with modern ideas of decency, the most perfect of created things-the human form divine made, we are told, in God's Should not this presenta- image. tion be entrusted only to ΠΙΤΣ urtist î

Worth's Despair. A diary kept by the. Worth who

was

||

the founder of the famous house of dress creators, perhaps the tin famous of any time, shows the despair of this midn who was a true artist, at the blindness and prejudice of his country women, our English ancestrèsses.

His complaint, that women could not see the, diference between a dress which was cut and designed for one particular woman, and an- other cut by rule of thumb methods by a "sewing_woman,' is echoed to-day by all dressmakers who realise that to clothe the human form you must first understand it.

I remember, as an art student, hearing Walter Sickett any draw from the feet up, as a house is built, don't draw the bead first, and hàng your figure like a cont hung ora nail."

That is exactly the lesson which the dressmaker las to learn. Her business is to clothe not a dummy, but a living moving shape, shape which is enabled to balance and move, because of a carefully de- signed structure with stresses and balanced proportions cu the same principles as those which govern architecture or engineering, She must work from the body out, not make a garment and push the body into it, as if it were a pillow being pushed into a pillow slip..

Properly Ballt Dresses.

B

›

The practical application of all: this is that a cheap"ready-made dress, or one which is made by someone who has never had the training which enables them to understand the structure of the human form, ran, never do justice to the human figure. The artist needs to know as much about anatomy, and more about surface form, as the doctor, and the dress- maker needs to know nearly as much. Not every one can afford model dresses, and not every one can afford to pay the price of having all their dresses made by an artist, but, just as the fabric of a building ia weakened by poor architecture, so is the fabric of a frock. A dress' which is correctly built to clothe several your form will outwear which have been cut on rule of thumb methods, and what is Taore' it will always, even in its old age, look like your dress," and while showing the good points of your figure will disguise any failings that it may have.

AROUND THE SHOPS.

LANE, CRAWFORD'S.

applications of felt on the crown. The white straws will be particular- ly welcome as perhaps nothing looks cooler or more effective with a summer frock in some pastel shade than an all white hat.

AFRICAN WILDS.

MEETS WITCH DOCTOR.

·

LADY MILLS ON HER ADVENTURES.

FACES.

SOMETHING ABOUT NEW

HATS.

The last consignment of hats which arrived last week for the Dolly Vardon Hat Shop. numbered nearly 200 and though many have found their new homes there are still a lot of lovely things to be Afound.

"Stealing is regarded as point of honour by one of the tribes in Portuguese Guinea. man cannot marry until he has shown himself a good thief. He is considered a super-thief. if. he can steal from a white man or an. administrator."

Lady Dorothy Mills, the famous woman explorer who has just re- turned to London from spending four months alone in the wildest part of West Africa, made this cemment in mail week.

Lady Dorothy's object was to make a collection of the wooden fetish masks which are used by the tribes in their religious dances, which very few white people have

ever seen.

A." Sou!" in a Barket. "I set out to make a really good collection of these maska,' said Lady Dorothy, "but I did not get more than twenty. They are difficult to obtain

"Sometimes a native will tired of his god, and you can ob- inin the musks in an exchange.

*

."

*

There is no doubt that, crin and leghorn are the two most fashion- able atraws this summer although pilkaisang is much favoured for shapes designed for more mature faces, and, of course, the oriental ts, baku and bankok, are stili being much worn, while there are any number of fancy weaves of light silky straw. But crin and leghorn seem to be the choice of most millinery creators when it comes to a question of a large hat for afternoon wear, and nothing could provide mere charming

frame for fair faces.

*

Brims are Important.

Edges are receiving much atten- tien by the designers of both hots

and frocks, and often the interest-

geting cut of the brim or the trimming along its edge is what gives style and charm to a hat. There is a white leghorn, for example, which has with

Plissé frills in plain material -give added chin to this, fruck of

figured voile.

"I was anxious to obtain #

Getting back strength after illness:

It is the creat restorative value of Bovril which has sained for it the universal approval of doctors and nurses. It stimulates and ourishes without any of the reaction of drugs and harmful stimulanta The good that Bovril does a convalescent is permanent good-so much ground regained on the pathway to health.

Never be without Boril in The bouse-not caly for emer tencies but, for daily use as 1 kımışlarina" and nourishing Keleb-drink.

IT-MUST-BE

BOVRIL

WHITEAWAY'S

and is tritamed with 1 swathe LADIES' OUTFITTING DEPT.

white satin ribbon, and another lemon leghorn has a brim of white

crin with a lovely sweeping line.

•

*

Black and White.

Black and white is one of the smartest alliances this summer, and is expressed with great chic,

Another black erir capeline of generous proportions, is given chic by an inserted band of white in the brim. It was a swathe of black and white satin ribbon secured by & pearl pin.

*

Flower Petal Erim.

A charming Hower-petal brim made of circles of the stray dis- tinguishes a black cria bat. "which" is trimmed with awathe of black velvet with the two ends drawn through a straw ring.

*

Orin and Falt.

Crinoline is used with felt worked into a lacy design in the form of a medallion joined together and put on over the crin which is cut away underneath, in a capeline of navy blue erin with a wider point on one siche. Five small white camelias poised on the point give a distinc- tive note of chic.

A NEW INDUSTRY.

RAYON BRINGS BEAUTY

TO THE HOME.

The Bayon" or artificial silk industry is already three times the

wooden mask hanging in the hut size of the old silk industry in Eng- of an old native. The white man land, and to-day ranks only after who accompanied me suggested I cotton and wool in importance. should put my boy' on to stealing Almost every item of clothing worn it. I refused, because I did not think this was fair.

women from shors to hats con- tains rayen, and it has established 1 very Sm bold in the world of up- My virtue was rewarded, for holstery. the day I was leaving the village

NEWEST

IN

NEW GOODS

Ex

S.S. KASHGAR

NEW VOILES

NEW CORSETS

"NEW NECKWEAR

NEW HOSIERY

رہو

MILLINERY.

CALL AND INSPECT.

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.,

TONG KONG

WOMEN IN THE AIR. penking engagements and also to

GROWING POPULARITY OF THE LIGHT 'PLANE.

LONDON TO FRANCE FOR

ROUND OF GOLF"

[United Presa.}

A

drop campaign leaflets down on their constituencies. Captain H. H. Balfour was the flying candidate for the Isle of Thanet, while in Scot- land, Mr. Basil Murray has been making a feature of his "air elec- tioneering."

President Cosgrave of the Frish Free State often uses an airplane to keep his appointments, while Bociety women in London have found it the most convenient method of getting to and from their country

Amateur Clabs,

London, June 4.-Flappers, Mem-estates.

the old man came up to me and Artificial sille is the wrong name bers of Parliament, grandmothers,

rayon.

Mr.

There are the society boys and alone and, after remaining there for girls who skip over to Le Touquet, a couple of hours, has flown back to a fashionable. English resort on the London. French coast, for a round of golf and tea, returning to their London homes in time for dinner and the

Week-end Flips...

theatres.

Liberal candidate for Parliament, is Mrs. Corbett Ashby, who was a one who likes to make flying visita. The other day she hopped off to Berlin in her ordinary afternoon

offered to let me have the mask of to call this wonderful new textile, for bankers. young and old of all pro There is now a strong movement his god in exchange for a little hat it is no more artificial than steel, fessions are becoming "air-minded" on foot among the country clubs to Lane. Crawford's have just receiv-brooch my husid had brought and while it has much the appear so fast that English manufacturers provide landing feids for their ance of silk it has none of the of light model sporting airplanes members. Several private estates. ed a collection of eunmer straw hats for a few frapes a Paris. including many white models. There The most extraordinary thing chemical and few of the physical have become spirited competitors already have laid out fields for

characteristics,

of automobile salesmen. are among them some made of thew was a witch doctor coming

There is their personal use and the conveni- new Yedda straw which is so much home in the small hours of the

Rayon is, perhaps, one of the most the London business man who, every ence of their friends who wish to worn just now. I was looking too. morning with a man's 'soul care important discoveries of the age, morning, steps into his light plane make an air tea time, call. at some graceful wide brimmed hats fully packed up in what looked and when men, as they must in the at Hendon and wings his way down Leol Guinness, son of Mr. Benjamin for afternoon wear in pastel shades, like an egg basket.

near future if they do not mean to to the south coast for a bit of salt Guinness, is one of the latest of black, and burnt straw; with the; "The natives believe the human be physically inferior in strength sea air before tackling his day's prominent civilian fliers. On several occasions he has flown to Paris new swathing of velvet, crepe de chine or satin ribbon. One resida soul can be captured by evil and vitality to women, adopt more work in the City.

rational clothing, they will, in all greek row is trimmed with spirits while the body is asleep probability clothe themselves in and it is the witch doctor's job to go into a trance, follow the cap tured sou into the unknown, Enormous as the effect crayon and rescue it from the evil spirits. has been on women's dress, even

Mask With Wagging Chin. more striking perhaps is the differ

ence it has made to English homes. "When he recovers from the Colours and textiles which were trance, he brings out the basket only within the purchasing powers The Englishman, because he is so dress and luggage, and after mak saying that the recovered "Soul of the very rich, and even more fond of his week-end excursions, is ing two hours of calls returned to is packed in it."

wonderful colours than it was postaking to the airplane with a vim, London. Among her visits was one At the Felix Hat Shop next week Lady Dorothy said the witch ible to get with other materials, for it allows him to hop over to to Frau Stresstmann, wife of the there will be a special display of doctors have great hypnotic powers can now be used by every one to France, Belgium or Holland with a German Foreign Secretary." tennis hats, in white and various and

wonderful herbalists. give beauty and dignity to their minimum loss of time. This method Then, of course, there is Lady new "pastel ahades, including Some of their herbs provide cures rooms. Fayon has other qualities of travel completely removes the Bailey who stands in a class by... "gull' and "oatmeal." These unknown to the civilised world, which specially recommend it for delays and discomforts of crossing herself as the most daring woman' hats are made in a specially light and have been taken to America furnishing purposes. It is very the Channel, which until to-day had solo" flier. Her exploits have weight and are simply trimmed with for examination by medical ex- strong and the dyes will stand the always been a stumbling stone to increased the interest of English La band of moiré ribbon. By the parts.

aun and the washtub through, many international visitors

women in Aying. Lady Cobham_is_ According to an official of the De another air enthusiast, while the same mail a "collection of bankok.

Lady Dorothy laughed about years of service. straws with wide brims is expect "hairbreadth escapes.

Whiteaway, Laidlaw's have a Haviland Aircraft Company, manu- wife of Sir Samuel Hoare abares her ed. These will be mostly white or "They are all in the day's work splendid selection of rayon materials facturers of the light and popular husband's interest in aviation. black and some of them untrimmed. and one gets used to them," she for curtains and upholstery in a Moth, there are at present, more Advocates of the light privately- I was noticing a new selection of Baid. "Once a forest fire had been great variety of colours.

than 300 privately owned and pilot-owned piano say that it is cheaper green hats many of them trimmed it to destroy a plague of locusts.

cd Moths in England. This mum to travel by plane than by boat and ber, which does not include other train For about $4.50 it is possible makes, is fast growing every month. to Ay to Paris from London. At This year's general election has Stag-lane aerodrome the problem of brought the airplane mame promin housing has been calved by the cop

•

CHEZ FELIX.

are

with fawn in varnished paillaan, | My boy' said that the path

and one very lovely crinoline bat, through the forest was clear, "and.

with a drooping brim, trimmed with we set out. Meanwhile the flames An attractive display of dresses black, caught my eye. Verz most had swept round in front of pain unrevailes and organdies are too in a green silk turban trimmed and we had a 20 minutes, print on display-in Dolly Vardon's This ently to the fore. At least two canstraction of a number of small han- with coloured embroidery and a for our lives. My clothes were colour, by the way, appears to be didntes, if not more, have beengers. A machine is cared for and painted buckle.

scorched and blackened."

the vogue this sensor,

using their private, planes to keep housed for about $15 a month.