"The Home of Elegance
"Catalina"
and
#4
Mayfair"
Hats.
THE DOLLY VARDON HAT SHOP
St. George's Building
You can have & pair of lovely shoes
for every new out- fit, at reasonable
prices... and be assured of original style and comfort.
PATENT SUEDE REPTILIAN
KID CALF
SILK.
GORDON
Footwear for Milady.
Kayamally Building.'
Maison Marnac
Dress Designer
from:
Patou, Paris.
4, Pedder Street (Opposite Hong Kong Hotel)
Interprets the New Mode gracefully and inexpensively.
The Season's Most
Successful Models.
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
Every new fashion
note is to be found in this outstanding collection of beautiful styles
in.
Organdie
for
Afternoon and
Semi-evening Wear
Ladies' Salon,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1931.
WOMAN'S PAGE.
Summer H
T
Whiteaway's. Now that the hot weather is definitely with us and", in view of the absolute' necessity of suitable underwear demanded by the new modes, the well-dressed woman cannot afford to miss paying a visit to Whitenway's where the very latest in summer underwear ik bring displayed. There are night- dresses, petticonta, and bloomers in Subtint," a fadeless wastring material richly emboidered and fare trimmed. The summer vests which are all silk, are by T. & R. Morley, The Vistru vost is an other popular make, also in silk, and is very hard wearing. For the children I was shown some "Airtex" shirts and sleeping suit; this is a very cool material, stands a lo of hard wear and is ideal for the youngsters in the hot weather.
Maison Marnac.-The designer in this salon has expressed the lotest styles in the new creations see this week. The sweeping floor-length evening gowns look very gay with their bright colours and the new short conta. The latter are mado of the same material as the dresses an look very smart. A glance at a dinner track is sufficient to show how becoming and cher, is its char- neter. A dress which plays a con- picuous part is a picturesque affair, the wide skirt of which is decorat
Eve, Dress for the new season is distinguished from its predecessors by innny changes which, while small and subilo in themselves, are yet ensily recognised by its initiated women, therefore, who want to keep parenitation for dressing with the times cannot afford to put off the important business of choosing sumer outfit, Eve, true to an established reputation for providing all the best things that fashion has to show as soon as they are launch-moulded-to-the-figurs bodice and a éd, has assembled n delightful collection of "Grafton" voile and print dresses. The prices (from $12.50) I thought very reasonable for so charming models, and an early visit to "Eve" should be
ROUND THE SHOPS. well worth-while,
[By "EVE."
Lane, Crawford.-Fashion never stands still for a moment at this atore, Just arrived this week are Come very charming formal after- noon and semi-evening gowna" On which are used as a medium, to a very large extent, two vere beauti- ful materials, organdie and not. It is easy to understand why organdie holds a place of honour in the wardrobe of every well-dressed woman; no other material gives that beautiful floating effect that looks so graceful and is so cool on Leven the hottest of days. Many of the new models have semi-fitting bodices, and variety in skirt treat ment is provided by means of flares, fan pleats, panels, dingonal und scalloped tiers, circular lines and draperies. To go with the after- noon frocks there are some beauti ful dressy hats in all the latest becoming styles.
The Dolly Vardon Het Shop.- There is no doubt that some of the emartest hats in Hong Kong are seen at this charming little salon in Chater Road. The truth of thin statement can be proved a shoot and probably profitable visit to this house of elegance and 'good value. The Intest models of the Crta- fits in- lina" und "Mayfair
is the Purymar dicato that most popular straw this summer. I saw some exquisite inodels in ereno. line in pastel shades trimmed with velvet ribbon and strays of flowers. For sports, there are lightweight
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tweed straws and large-brimed hats which are ideal for bench wear.' These are mostly in the populars colours of yellow and pink.
Gordon's. With the ider of en- hancing their reputation na, pr Voyors of elegant footwear, Gor don's have just imported a few select models of hand-made Spanish shoes Few women realise that Spain ranka'ns one of largest ex- porters of high-grade footwear, but, according to trade experts, some of the best shoes in the world are manufactured there. There.can be no doubt as regards the beauty and excellent workmanship-of-than models displayed at Gordon's. One particularly attractive model is a court shot in two shades of beige with a short vamp and high heel.
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Youthful ed with rows of frills. wearers will love the georgette dresses, so simple and yet so in- tricate to make, and for the very young it would be hard to find n one. monde prettier dress than entirely of net with the fashionable flounce-decked skirt..
HOW TO LOOK AT HATS.
There is nothing more diffcult than choosing a new hat if you look at hata with the same mind nu. Parisian. And the woman who does hot look at hats with this mind has missed the real meaning of a
hat,
It is not merely a covering for the head, it is a head-dress, a finish to the dress and jacket, an orna ment which should look as if it belongs to the hend it adorns, and it should say something to the world as it passes of her person- nlity.
That is why Parisian milliners make the new hats on the heads of their clients and not on a block of wood only.
You make your chalco sitting be fore one of those cosy little mirrors, with a shelf in front of it for your bag, gloves, and the hat you have just taken off, with a milliner be hind you trying on the bats she has beside her, and a rendense at your side.
This stage setting helps a great deal. You feel that the matter is serious and may be treated at leisure, you are prepared to give your whole mind to your choice, and your two milliners put their mind to it with just as much en- thusiasm.
I love that look of concentrated criticism which comes into the eyes of the real, creative-milliner when the looks over your head at your reflection in the mirror. She frowns, she nods curtly, she puts her hands to your head and twists- the thing round, pulls it back, to the side, or a little to the front..
"It must be longer there, deeper here, raised, there, and then it will be all right." If a hat is not your style she knows; if it is, she also knows. And what is more, she says so, and helps you to seo that she is right.
In choosing the new spring hats this acason the choice lies between the very small brimless hat and the
straw hat with a brim. The littlo
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BOVRIL
WHITEAWAYS
LADIES' OUTFITTING DEPARTMENT.
"SLIMFIT BRASSIERE
-BRAND
ONE OF WHITERWAYS STANDARD VALUES
With Elastic back.
*
#2. Without Elastic back.
THE "SLIMFIT" SUMMER BRASSIERES Made from strong white Cotton Mesh good St. Comfortable to wear. Will wash well and are very durable. Sizes 82 to 42 inches.
SPECIAL
VALUE
PRICE
CORSETS AND
AT
GIRDLES
POPULAR PRICES.
CALL AND INSPECT.
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
EVE
Kayamally Building.
Little Details
Add Great Charm
to
New Frocks
Grafton Voiles
Zephirs
Prints.
PRICES FROM $12.50.
MADAME BETTY
Wishes to inform her clients that from to-day she will be moving, to
more spacious premises
15, Ice House Street,
The Brim Qucation. There is the question of a brim,
mings, are good style for wearing with simple jacket snits in woollen Prepe, or with tweeds. The little
hat may be in fine straw of the Some faces call for a brim with hats with a shadow of a veil across Panama family,in pattern, or a tilt to it, others for one which the brow are more suited to after- plain, in ribbons,
knitted
or
crocheted bands of silk or some droops. The crown may be rounded noon in town. thing else, and usually in two and shaped to the head, or it may colours, or black and white. The be draped. One new straw-shape point is that the crown should fit is something after the old English and the outline bo becoming to all sailor form, and is becoming to many, with its draped crown and points of the face:
There is where the skilled milliner its slightly uneven and tilteil brim,
The beret as it is known is not being raade, but the little fitting bonnet with some sort of Bower trimming at the side and a sharp ear dipping low is correct and be coming. This little head-dress is combination of the beret, the. is so precious. Sineo good bats are It is as if the old sailor had for expensive, it is wise to consider gotten its stiff, uncompromising tricorne, and the bicorne.
The very big picture bat with - well with how many ensembles one attitude to life, and had becom hat may be worn. A shiny black gentle and tolerant and understand a flopping, brim, made of fine materials, handworked, with bu straw goes with an ensemble of any ing colour, but not a dull straw or a Shiny mixed straws in faney worn in full summer weather in.
weaves, with narrow ribbon trim-town and at the sea. Lfelt,
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