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WOMAN'S PAGE.

LADY OF THE NIGHT BOND ST. FASHIONS

How Charning You Will Appear. These Summer Evenings.

You may be tiny, and have a babyface; you may be tail with the classic features and bearing of a queen; you may be blonde. Titian. or black-haired fair, or dark of akin; quick in thought and action, or alluringly lahauid. This year you can look more individual, more beautiful, and more decidedly your self. than ever before in the history of fashion,

"Our second mannequin exemplifies the spirit of the Napoleonic era, in a high-waisted gown which, though slender in line, is more inclined to flare fully at the ankle. The hemline is even, and the apper portion of the gown is the most decorative. Puffed sleeves, or Diree- toire capelets are used, and the decolletage `is not very deep. This sort ot gown is most effective in soft colours, deeper than pastels, yet not too bright, whether in lace, satin or net

Most frequently adopt- ed by the smart American net, is the formal gown which follows the princess line. A very low back, and curved front neck line, sometimes forming a cowl, and can be deve loped only with a sleere- less dress. (The chemise neckline seems somewhat paase" this season.) In this silhouette, we find the most intricate details, sometimes started from above the normal wajat- line, sometimes from the hip, and usually mid-way between hip and knee. It may be made in satin, fat crepe, lame, or spang led fabrics, and is Bat- tering to both short and tall.

Our fourth choice is the less sochisticated gown, of chiffonne, net, or taffeta. It is girlish in inspiration, and is best suited to the slim. It

may be beruffled, bellcan ced, or bustled, and is in

nvariably accompanied by a jacket, that makes it adaptable. to less formal wear. Peplums are widely accepted and particularly effective in taffeta, and the new stiffered laces. In all these materials, full ness may be developed from the waistline down. "but taffeta seems most flattering when it is fitted softly, gathering fullness toward the hip. Narrow bettings at the fabric the dress is made of em- phasizes the new trend, and rhine- stone buckles, inconspicuous in design, are appropriate at centre, front or back.

Our first consideration is the wide range of fabrics to choose from, among which the most im- They are all so lovely, they're a portant, are webby, clinging silver little bewildering, these new crea- Land gold and metal brocades;tions, and it remains 'for the Lovely coloured laces going from ivory Lady herself to decide on when and through the riotous gamut of where she'll wear the various types colour. to binck scintillatingly of costumes in which she becomes spangled nets; sating and flat so charmingly glorified. crepes, and the mare delicate mar

These new quisette and tulie.. gowns are practically never trim- med with any ornamentation, other than the smart accessories which must be wisely chosen.

And the Wrap... Applying Emerson's theory of compensation to summer fashions one can readily see how a balance. In the recent Parisian collections is struck up. Evening wrape, for presented as advance signals of instance, maintain a stand of brief what will be a la mode, for the, ness, their night associates, the summer, four distinct types of dress evening gowns, effect startling ex- seem to stand foremost. The first tremes.

is the dress which follows the lines Perhaps it is that the skirt detail of the body, by means of detail-is so intricately charming that the ed inserts of self-fabric. It is ensemble theme is enhanced by this slim almost to the knee, and be- brevity. Or perhape it is that the comes more sweeping in line as it short wrap is so overwrought with detail-that a little renches the ankle. It's hemline is fashionable remindful of a mermaid, and pro-more would be too much. But what vides freedom for dancing by means ever the cause the effect is smart of elever slits, which are overlapped and the Summer Dictum is with the by soft folda,

short wrap.

Notes on the lines of the Sports hats can be taken from the hat worn by Anita Paige, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer player. This model shows one of the wide brime which are being emphasized.

this season.

IN MALAYA.

AN INTERVIEW WITH LADY- PEEL.

"Beauty and Clothes in the East" was the subject of an inter- view with Lady Peel recently pub- lished by the Daily Mail.

The jungle almost adjoins her garden (wrote the interviewer) and the cries of its fearsdize inhabitants may sometimes be heard in her drawing-room, but the English- woman living in Malaya cajoys nearly as much 20th-century com- fort as a townswoman at home. So says Lady Feel, the wife of Sir William Peel, the newly appointed- Governor of Hong Kong. They have recently returned to London from the Federated Malay. States, where Sir William was for three years Chief Secretary to Govern

ment.

There arc,

There are

for example, the newest fashions and dependable clectricity in Kuala Lumpur, the capital, besides English and French vegetables from the hills cooked by golf courses and tennis courts for the excellent Chinese. play when the heat and the rain permit, and since all women to-day are more intelligent and better in- formed" than their mothers about the essentials of good health and a good complexion, the ravages of a tropical climate can be foiled by consistent and reasonable care.

Twenty Years Abroad,

As the wife of a Colonial official, Lady Peel has spent twenty years in equatorial climates, and when I commented on the freshness and clarity of her skin yshe, merely laughed back.

"I take erdinary care of it and lead a normal life. I have done great deal of walking in the jungle, accompanying my husband when he is inspecting. No, I have never bees in the forest, or heard any Becu anything more terrible than voice less familiar than the chatter of the monkeys.

There are wild beasts, of course, but I did not see any. We have tramped ten miles a day, and spent four days at a trek. certainly good exercise.

It was

women

"I think the women at home would be surprised to see how elegantly the European dress in Malaya. There are enter prising French dressmakers who make our clothes, and the fashions. in Kuala Lumpur are very similar to those I have seen in Bond Street, even to the of-the-brow hats.

One Sad Aspect.

There is only one aspect of life in the East that is not happy-and that is having to give up one's children. Until the babies are to- tween five and seven they thrive beautifully, but we have to let them come home afterwards, and do all their growing up in the English climate. My eldest boy is eighteen; he came home over twelve years ago. Fortunately I have seen him many times during that

period.

We have Chinese servants in Malaya, and they excel at the three household branches of work over which we are very, particular-I mean cooking cleaning, and laun dry. They keep our silks and linens in perfect condition

and

All English people who have lived there will know of that de licate frait called durian. Every- one is supposed to taste eventually cat and enjoy it. It has an odour that is so nauseating that I have only once had the courage to sample it-something like tur- peatine and decayed meat--but I at assured by connaisseurs that durian has a delectable flavour."

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Malay orderlies at Carcosa," the Chief Secretary's house, wear their native costume and, look very pic turesque.

BACK TO HAIRPINS.

LONGER TRESSES OF 1930 DEBUTANTES.

Women may protest; they may Frecall with bitterness-the-days-of- immense hats perched on chignons; bat hair-pins have returned to the shops.

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1030 rally wants is that Botticelli, look.":

A Compromise True, these are hair pins with a Hair dressers are, however, as difference, ethereal things of black suring their perturbed clients that and bronze, and a thousand shades this does not mean a speedy return of golden brown, destined exactly to chignons, hair acts and false to match newly-grown treases, with pads.

It is a compromise between the blunted ends that will not cause angony to the careless. But they masculine fashion of the cropped to cach side in soft curls, or in are hat pins the meat and businessmooth hands, ma

Chey have been recalled to keep in place the miniature, bùn,

sausage rolle and plaite that 1830 debutantes are wearing low on the neck to hide the shaven sapes of which Fashion has tired. (Continued as foot of next column),

In order to resemble as much as possible one of the Italian Madon- as that were exhibited in the Academy, a centre parting inust be worn, with the hair falling away

it fashion demanded by free that is why so many old elegant woman of the moment, with hats are worn like bonnets, half

way back on the bead to reveal the all her waking hours occupied.

“Botticelli - forehead"—carefully A tour of some of the Mayfair hair anlons revealed to a Daily bleached, creamed and powdered Chronicle woman reporter that the hair arranged to encourage what the Sweet Young Thing of pericet oval,