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Christmas Gifts.

SHALL IT BE SOMETHING PRACTICAL, A LUXURY, OR A MERE FRIVOLITY? Why not a "Daisy de luxe Bag" which is as useful as it is attractive, or an Exquiste Evening Flower ?

THE DOLLY VARDON HAT SHOP

PAMELA

The Elaborately Lovely Mode

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The new evening mode is an outstanding affair. The loveliness and splendour achieved by rich fabrics and sweeping lines are their own sufficient justification.

The elaborately lovely evening mode has swept all before it, it is the acme of elegance and femininity.

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On our salons you will find examples of all that is best and most lovely for evening wear this season.

13, Queen's Road Central.

FELIX HAT SHOP

7, ICE HOUSE STREET.

Announcing Our

DECEMBER SALE !

JUMPER SUITS FROM $20 SMART FELT HATS FROM $6 LOVELY AFTERNOON 'GOWNS.

ALL GREATLY REDUCED.

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PIONEER SILK STORE

CHINA BUILDING AND PENINSULA HOTEL,

FOR CHRISTMAS

SILK STOCKINGS,

EXQUISITE 3 PIECE PYJAMA SETS,

A DRESS LENGTH OF RICH SILE,

A FASCINATING COAT

And for Him

Spun Silk PYJAMAS HANDKERCHIEF and TIE SET.

In the Ladies' Salon

INTIMATE

them" intimate

call The Americans garments"- we say "undies." Intimate, perhaps, because they come so near a woman's heart, but hidden though they be, how terribly revealing if wrongly chosen. The wrong underwear will spoil the most perfect dress.

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That is why we ask you to come to see what undies can and should be.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

LADIES' SALON (MEZZANINE FLOOR).

TEL. 0. 4567.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929.

WOMAN'S PAGE.

CLOTHES AND PERSONALITY.

ARE YOU SURE OF YOUR TASTE?

The business of dressing your type has two dangers, which may be described as the danger of wrong

diagnosis and the danger of wrong

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THE MODE FOR EVENING.

SOME EXQUISITE CREATIONS.

There is no doubt about it that the present evening mode is an out-

standing affair. The loveliness and splendour that are achieved by rich fabrics and sweeping lines are their own sufficient justification, and every woman will want to have dresses and wraps in the grand manner of

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CHIC IN WINTER.

UNDIES WARM AND.

LOVELY.

Discovering chic in winter means discovering warmth. The loveliest model dresses lose their charm, when their wearer is cold and shows sign

of it. What can the woman of poor cireulation du to keep her looks and her spirits in the cold months1 Must she be loaded with coats and furs in a year when she wants to show the new lines of tightly fit- ting, charmingly belted dresses? Little conta to be worn over dresses The richness that is seen every-are only half a solution to the where in the evening rode makes problem, since they may spoil the line of the dress and conceal its pailleted dresses look right again newness. Underwear has, in gen

cral, to solve the problem. Washing satin brings warmth to some; a silk and wool mixture of underwear is for warmth. the second choice Luxury Chilprufe underwear is the third answer of those who really feel the cold and want underwear that will not thicken the waist or hiplines.

treatment. Everyone knows the calamities that can result from faulty diagnosis-the firm-limbed young Amazon who miraculously sees herself as a slim and languor- ous houri and persists in wearing. exotic dresses that cling and drip: the small, vivacious woman who loves to wear the richest fabrico and furs and elaborate frocks of the kind that call for height and dignity: the middle-aged and matronly looking person who likes herself best in girlish little frocks.and not in the least dowds. There But there is also the opposite is also a great deal of lace this danger of keeping too rigidly to

Although lace dresses have your type and falling, a victim to

higher waists, longer skirts, and manntonous uniformity in dress. These difficulties are immeasur. hips that are more moulded and ably increased by the modern dress, accented, they have, as before, the tendencies. The day of the stand-

same flounces and ends, wings and ardised frock is over and we ha fnerd with a choice of style and boleros in fact, are just laco

dresses. fabric. It is then that the dress

Buffing Lines are introduerd In this apparently simple gown of heavy crêpe marocain em- brodried with golden flowers. Trailing draperies at the side give the effect of the longer skirt.

maker who has studied all the newest modes and is competent to judge what is becoming to each-in- dividual, becomes so invaluable to the woman who wishes to dress well. Such an adviser is Madame Rolande Sarranit. She passed many years as a corsetière which has given her an amazing skill in fitting even the most difficult figures. Her French birth and native dress sense, com- lined with close study, are respon- sible for her fair for clothes,

Madame has just returned from Paris bringing with her a collection of clothes and hats rade up of models which she personally select- ed from the winter showings of the important houses. Most of these models are, of course, for sale. But besides this she will design and make for you adress, coat or hat from your own materials, copying one of her stock models or any sketch, which you agree will become you, from one of the good fashion magazines. The price will be a matter of arrangement depending apon the type of garment but will be in no case unreasonable. One stipulation only does Madame Sar- rault make that the material, if you provide it yourself, must be worthy of the model you wish her to copy. for you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear more easily with re- gard to frocks than anything else! Every model which she makes is guaranteed, that is to any if it does not fit or please you it will be put into stock and you need not take

it.

I have not space to tell you much about the new stocks. There is some adorable sports wear from "Alix " of Paris, for whom Rolande Sar- rault is the sole agent in China. Exquisite evening frocks, after Borgowpetadeste hecido millinery and a number of "hoods" which can be made on the head to suit each individual customer.

year,

"Evening wraps have any amount of variety of treatment. Any sort of coat, cape or wrap is right this year as far as length goes. Every kind of fabric and fur is used but one and all are magnificent in

colour and material.

Pamela is now showing some wonderful evening frocks which ar- rived late inst week. There is one of wine reh georgette, cut on close princess lines and flaring froni knee to ankle. A wreath of flowers is placed across the hack just above the knee, serving to emphasise the long line of the thigh. "A wonderful looped basque which takes a paunier lipe is the feature of a dress of. pale peacock blue satin. Falling, to the knee at the back, it is drawn up over the hips, to fasten almost at the natural. waistline in front with lovely strass Luckle. A difficult line to wear but a very gracious one if correctly mannged.

Leaf green satin makes one of these balling jig saw frocks. The hack is very cleverly eut and quite defies description, beyond saying that a flat bow developing, from & hip yoke, falls in two long straight panels to the ground. Maize lace makes a dress with a charming rhythmic backward movement, and a deep decolletage at the back. It is very long and close fitting giving a truly willowly line on the right figure.

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THINGS. YOU OUGHT TO KNOW.

This season the higher waist line is more important than the higher education.

Evening dresses of net are import- unt..

Purple is one of the most popular evening colours, and

green in in various dark shades is excellent.

Some women who feel the cold and that they cannot wear wool next to the skin in comfort. For them the Ladies' Salon of Lane, Craw ford's has an excellent suggestion

in the form of the new American sports undies. Being made of the finest mercerised tricot and cut on very slender lines, they can be worn under woollies without adding per- ceptably to one bulk. There is an excellent selection, too, of silk and wool, and all wool, vests and com- bination in various weights, and little camisoles of shetland knit to wear under jumpers of either silk or wool or under afternoon frocks.

Those who prefer silken under- wear will find a big range of Kayser and Celanese silk undies, and you do not need me to tell you that Lane, Crawford's are famed for

their exquisite erepe de chine and satin lingerie.

Narrow belta define the higher waist fine on many of the new models. This frock of printed taffeta h basque which evolves into a train of trailing side draperies.

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THREE KEYS TO CHIC.

CLOTHES ARE NO LONGER STANDARDISED.

The day of the standardised, hold in their hands and offer to almost uniform, frock is past. The their clients.

Let me illustrate. There is a cont new, more feminine, fashions leave of wine red velvet, the new three room for individuality, "the mode quarter length, with collar and can be interpreted in a hundred and cuffs of grey mouflon. It might be for evening, for afternoon one different ways. Directly, that worn happens, it becomes much more dif. when it would be exceedingly smart over a black silk dress, or even as ficult for the woman who is not quite sure either what she likes, a bridge coat. A black marocain, or what suits her, to choose her dress for afternoon is cut with an clothes, and the value of a shop original and beautifully fitting hip like The Attic, which you will find yoke. There is a deep U decolle at the top of the Bank of Easttage in front filled in with a plain Asi Building opposite the St. vest of eru georgette, at the back. amall bow like those Francis Hotel, goes up immensely. of the neck is

The Attic, a told you some Vivonnet is so fond of. Amazingly weeks ago, was opened by two cheap is a two piece of pale green ladies who have a very special gift silk, with a pleated skirt and an for choosing and designing clothes, open coat edged with wool braid in and their policy is to sell as cheaply a deeper tone. A charming jumper ne possible. You will find nothing suit has a skirt of oyster kashatulla dowdy or cheap looking in The with dull blue showing in the Attic wardrobes, every frock is pleats, and a knitted jumper in silk truly a creation, a model, n Rolls and wool in the arme oyster tone.. Royce, not a Ford of the dress with narrow stripes of blue and a world, though the prices are often tinsel thread. Madonna blue crêpe not so high as those of standardised de chine makes another afternoon garments indie 1 hundreds Theryl-frock which would be very becoming. are now-a-days three keys to chic for the not so slender ngure. The originality, personality, and style, shaped collar is edged with the those keys the ladies of tho Attic beige silk which makes vest.

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CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT.

CHRISTMAS GIFTS

NEW

WOOLLY COATS AND CAPS

NEW PRAM SETS - BREECHETTE SUITS

PULLOVERS JERSEY SUITS. HATS & BONNETS, ETC., ETC.

A LARGE STOCK TO SELECT FROM

AT

POPULAR PRICES.

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THE BOOK SHOP

AND BIBLE DEPOT. Christmas is the Children's Festival Make them happy this year with a real Christmas present, a box of Paints, a Doll, a Stencil Set or one of our splendid selection of 1929 Children's Books.

2, WYNDHAM STREET.

Three Keys to Chic ORIGINALITY,

PERSONALITY,

STYLE.

To give these three to women of discerning taste, at the lowest possible cost, is the aim of

The

Attic

on the 5th Floor of 6, Queen's Road Central,

Rolande

Sarrault

has now returned from Paris and is showing. her new collection of

Gowns, Hats,

and Sports Wear-

at

Coats

PEDDER BUILDING, 3rd FLOOR Telephone: C.. 2252,