THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1929.
"DAISY" LUGGAGE.
Women of fastidious taste choose Daisy Bags, because they are smart, rainproef, light and commodious.
From the Home of Other Good Things- DOLLY VARDON HAT SHOP
PAMELA
Paris is taking an increasing interest in artificial silk fabrics. They are making their way into the mode by the excellence of their qualities.
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But there are lovely materials too, woven from real silk, cobweb-fine ninou, georgette and crepe-de-chine, figured and plain.
In our Salon, you will find pieces of those materials which Paris has chosen for this season's smartest creations.
13, Queen's Road Central.
FELIX HAT SHOP
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7; ICE HOUSE STREET.
Just Unpacked!
LIGHT WEIGHT SUMMER FELTS
For Morning, Afternoon, and Sports Wear.
French and American Frocks.
INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED.
THE PIONEER SILK STORE
DRESSING JACKETS OF PRINTED CREPE DE CHINE.
CHILDREN'S FLANNEL COOLIE COATS. PRINTED GEORGETTE SCARVES.
There is always something new at the house for lovely silks,
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In the Ladies' Salon
French Chic and English Loveliness.
París has sent a box of flowers, some quaint, some pretty, and all elegant, From England come exquisite sprays and bouquets, as fresh and fragrant as the lovely ladies for whose adorn- ment they were created.
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LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
LADIES' SALON (MEZZANINE FLOOR)
TEL. C. 4567.
WOMAN'S PAGE.
ROUND THE TOWN.
WHITEAWAY'S SALE, FLOWERS, EXQUISITE MATERIALS, NEW FROCKS AND HATS.
'WHOOPEE"! -
SALE NEWS.
A WANDER ROUND WHITEAWAY'S.
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Wet days make some sort of 'Mac
Some delightful new goods are now being shown at the Felix Hat Shop, and I want to tell, you some thing about the latest summer weight felts. Perhaps I have already told you one of the most important & necessity, but no longer a acces things about them in that sentence, they are as light as a crin straw.sity to be regretted. Among the other bargains to be found now at Many of them are in two colour Whiteaway, Laidlaw's is a collection effects. particularly pretty,
of proofed Jap silk mackintoshes thought, in white, with a pastel for ladies and children in many shade. The different colours, cut in any number of strange "moder pretty colours For the little oDES they can be had in rose, and pale nistic shapes, are appliqué to-
or deep blue, sotme have a silk spet gether with decorative stitches in
Among the to brighten them. neutral shade silk. The shapes are
women's 'macs, in navy, red, saxe, mostly the semi-cloche which bas
and sand coloure, are some extra the taken so defnite a place in mode, with a fairly wide brim often large sizes. shorter at some points than at others. Besides the two colour effects there is a very pleasing range in a single colour trimmed with grea grain or cut out pieces of the felt. Lovely lavender tones, pale apple green, beige, and lemon, are the newest colours.
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Then there are the Whoopee hats. As their name suggests they have been designed for the sports girl, and are jaunty, smart and practical. They are made of the lightest-weight angora felt in a wide range of attractive shades, trimmed with a toning ribbon. A sports shape with a generous brim, hat can be worn "Whoopee just as it suits you best, and you can roll it up and put it in your pocket without harming it.
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There are some lovely frocks too, but I must tell you of them next week.
WHITE FELT HATS.
There is a delightful collection of white felt hats now in Lane, White Crawford's ladies' salon.. felt is useful wear at all seasons perhaps, most of all when the hottest days are over and a sudden shower
For may come at any moment. tennis too, or for pienic wear it is always appropriate. The shapes are simple, elegance is obtained by means of stitching, a cleverly pinced band of grus grain, or a brim which widens becomingly at one side.
For Little Daughters, Lane, Crawford's Children's Department are now showing some delightful little American tricks for the small daughter. They are made, just like those for her slender youthful mother, of organdie or cotton print, Aumetimes of both cumbined, and trimmed with little touches of ribbon and clear muslin, What little girl would not feel proud of a two-piece suit, frock and coat, of gaily patterned cotton print, and what mother could resist buying one for her darling since the prices are 10 reasonable?
WHAT PARIS DRESS- MAKERS ARE CHOOSING.
The cotton frack and its sleeveless couice to match is a 1989 summer fashion that will appeal to women because of its novelty.
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Some new printed cotton voiles and art silks, mostly in small floral desigos, have just arrived, and are being included in the sale al special prices.
Have you got a sewing machine t If not, of course, you want one. There are three only included in the sale, which are a real bargain. They are "Titan" machines usually priced at 855, and now offered to clear at $37.30.
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One of the best bargains of the sale is the offer of Madrus muslin for making curtains, at half price. There are some very lovely designs among these muslins, some white.or cream and others with a floral pat tera in colour.
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IF WHITEHALL DICTATED FASHIONS---
A LESSON FROM ITALY.
Women of Italy are still in danger of being forced to dress ue- cording to the jurisdiction of "a
Fashions Committee.'
The only people in favour of this proposed legislation are women who have not got enough to do, and have no idea how to dress themselves
They will not let the subject rest, and are anxious to form a committee * once.
This, it is well known, would con- sist of certain society women, who are all so plain and badly dressed that nothing on earth would per- suade younger and more attractive women to follow their lead..
Other countries credit Mussolini with having a finger in this pie..
Dress-Repression.
This seems a little unfair, because women's influence and freedom has "prospered so well under his regime that it is hard to believe he will, after all, countenance a "dresa-re- pression "1
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Every intelligent woman in Italy discussing the new Italian Academy. There are, of course, Bumerous literary and scientific aendemics, centuries old, in Italy, sne of the best example being the Arcadia, where every authoress and poetes aspired to be consecrated as a "shepherdess."
But there is no national academy -like, for istance, that of the Immortals of France-and for two years one has been promised by the Fascist. Government, who stated at first that women woold not be admitted.
Italian women naturally resented this obvious injustice, and now it is revealed that two women members have been elected; they are Grazin Deledda, who won the Nchel.Prize in 1925, and Ada Negri, the poetess of world-wide fume.
Two Famous Women,
In a new quarter of Rome there stands a little villa, ahut away from visitors and the curious.
It is the home of Grazia Deledda, who has lived more retiringly than ever since she won the Nobel Prize three years ago,
She is somewhat alarmed at the approaching overcrowding of the neighbourhood in which she lives. People tire her, and she has elected to live a methodical, almost mono- conous, life, in comparative retire.
ment.
Ada Negri, on the other hand, lives in one of those beehives that
Last Days.
The sale at the Dolly Fardon Hint Shop is drawing to a close. There remained, when I went in earlier in the week, only about 50 hats and, perhaps, some 20 frocks. They are all very desir able and marked at real bargain prices, and it will be well worth your while to look, in, in case- at the very hat 'you want is among them. I hear that some delightful fall goods dre_wait- ing to be uapasked when the sale
is over.
we call an apartment house." There is one thing which every
Away up at the top of the house good housewife looks out for in she has a little balcony, from which eale house linen. Sheets, pillow she can glimpse a strip of sky: a cases, towels, and table linen, are parapet shuts out a view of the always in use and always wearing street below. out. Your original trousseau "I call the balcony a bath tub," of linen, cannot be expected to last she says. "It is so long and nar you all your married life, and it row and shut off." Paris is taking an increasing in-will be an expensive matter to re- Ada Negri has no real affection terest in artificial silk fabrics which place it all when it wears out. The for that little flat, and whenever have won their place in the mode, wise housewife replaces something she can she escapes to Monza. not without initial difficulty, by the every year, and she chooses sale There, in the villa belonging to ber excellence of their qualities. One of time to do so. In this way for a friends, is a spare room that she the interesting features of synthetic comparatively small expenditure at often occupies. silk, to which dress creators have regular periods, she can keep her She adores the large garden, not been blind, in that its greater linen cupboard always full of linen where she can walk and laze, ob- luminousness alters the character in a good state of repair. There serving the way of an ant or a of some colours which are considerare some excellent bargains now lizard, the singing of a nightingale ed matt tones in real silk. With re-being offered at Whiteaway's in bed (which inspired one of her most gard to real silk the materials most inen and towels of all sorts, favoured this season are very" fine ninone georgettes with a alight crêpe surface, and lusterous, crêpe de chine. Like the artificial silks. they are generally patterned with small designs, flower heada arranged
taupe or putty tones.
PIONEER NEWS.
moving prose lyrics) or the unfold- ing of a flower.
She is a philosopher, super-sensi- tive to all impressions.
After those first verses that re vealed her to the world, and which were in open rebellion to so.ial
Take the
bull by the bottle
(BOVRIL)
WHITEAWAYS
GREAT SUMMER SALE.
LADIES DEPARTMENT.
A Large Assortment
of
Lace Collar Sets, Collar- ing by the yard, Laces, Trimmings, Buckles, etc., at
SPECIAL SALE PRICES."
SEE SPECIAL - WINDOW. READY-TO-WEAR HATS
ALL
ONE
PRICE
$2,50
EACH.
NEW WATERPROOFS JUST ARRIVED.
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD
FASHIONABLE COMFORT.
La Mode does not always concern herself with comfort, but the new "Daisy
luggage which all smart women are adopting, is a miracle of convenience.
WINDOW GAZING.
HISTORY IN AN IDLE MOMENT.
enjoys window-gazing. Some of ur Everyone, or nearly everyone,
gaze at frocks, some at jewellery. some at books, and not a few at food, but whatever our individual temptation, the windows of a curiosity shop attract us all.
There are "Daisy" bags in various shapes and sizes, adapted for various needs, but they have several things in common, smart appearance, good workmanship and There is a particularly interesting market was the Daisy de Luxe hat
The first on the window, now at Komor & Komor's. practibility. bag, which can be carried over one article in it is over a hundred on the Ice House Street side." Every arm and will hold enough for a years old and many are far older. week-end visit. It was quickly fol- To a student of China and Chinese lowed by the Nokabout bag, a small art there is a long chapter of his- Gladstone shape which can be folded; tory to be read in that window. Rat when not in use and makes a Against a background of a red and most useful travelling companion. gold screen, made up from trag Then came the Daisy pouch, a largements of carved and lacquered wood hopping or hand bag with an inner from ancient temple doorways,, are pocket, made in black or beige ranged objects which speaks of every
phrase of Chinese life.. leatherette with a moiré surface.
All these Daisy bags can be found at the Dolly Vardon Hat Shop the home of other good things, Their moderate price puts them within the reach of every woman, and their charm and utility quickly endears, them to every user.
FLOWERS.
There is the fire god, a large fance figure, whose movements sug- gcate the dancing flames. His effigy was made 900 years ago; in the days of the Tung Dynasty. Standing on either side of him are two largish figures, of coloured glazed pottery, of the Chinese Bhadamanthus, the Judge of the Nether regiona. They are of the Ming Dynasty. Two gneer, covred vases of green-grey glazed pottery come next. The lids are graven in aprials with a leaping Hame on top, and far back in the Same perfectly wonderful flowers Sung dynasty they held the ashes are now decorating an upstairs win of some one whose soul had gone dow in Lane Crawford's Exqui- before the stern and upright Judge. site evening blooms which seen to In one corner is an oblong box of have the moisture of the hot house baked clay on whose siden dragons. yet fresh upon them, orchids glow have been moulded. It also once ing golden against a frond of lern, held the ashes of some Chinese man richly red roses, and the shy grace or woman who died, in the long of sweetpens. Never, I think have ago I seen evening flowers more real A mere cheerful domestic note is struck by two charming pots of the or more lovely.
From Paris comes a box of more Ching Leung dynasty made of sophisticated blooms, intended for glazed and coloured pottery; in the day time wear. Some of them are shapes of a hen and a rock each the of felt, a new soft felt almost as sitting on a neat From the same thin as crêpe de chine, a bunch of period comes a pair of beautiful Scotch thistles in taupe and grey carved ivories with figures among
foliage. ia delightful.
in unequal groups, spots, and un-
I always enjoy going to the injustice (she interpreted the suffer- even squares, the grounds are often Pioneer Silk Store, either to buy or ing of a proletariat), she became alightly broken with a wave, to gather news for this page, for a supreme lyrical poet, lightening, or stippled surface. The every time I see something fresh to į Not Thrilled By Politics.. colours run in two ranges, wise to admire.
The Italian woman at heart is rust red shades combined with dull
The first thing that caught my eye thoroughly domestic, wrapped up in orange, beige or black, and blues,
She has not got The purples, and greys combined with resterday was a piece of chiffon family life.
brocade velvet in a lovely crushed vote, but then politics do not attract Pamela is now showing a number strawberry shade, and there are her, as was proved by the small of pieces of both real and art silks many other colours as well. Then number of women who utilised their which have lately arrived from I was shewn flannel coolie coats for municipal vote.
Women are deeply involved in the Faris and London. There are, be children, and some nice dressing sides figured silks, many pieces in jackets in printed crêpe de chine, development of charity work by way the newest plain shades. Most of and delightful squares of printed of social assistance that is making
great progress in Italy....... these pieces are dress lengths with georgette.
Countess A new shipment of striped silk, the number of yards varying accord-
Dolores Macchi di ing to the type of dress for which mostly with coloured tripes on Cellera, lady-in-waiting to they are most suitable. There are white, has also arrived, and I was Queen of Italy, has received the no two pieces alike of the patterned shown some silk socks for men in good medal for merit in this con-
acction.-Daily Express. very pleasing colours.
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