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WOMEN'S PASSION FOR COLOUR

MAUVE HAIR AND BRIGHT

GREEN TOE-NAILS

Lecturing before the Royal Ph tographic Society on Dee. 8th Me. Yovonds, the professional colour portrait photographer, said that fashion at the moment favour, ed both women and the photo, grapher, Materials were richly. and beautifully coloured and wo men had acquired the habit of changing the colour of their hair almost as often as they bought a new dress. A sitter would go to the studio with her hair platinum hlonde; a few months later sh would be Titian red, or jet-black with a fair areak, or nut brown with a dark streak. In Paris wo, men were tinting, their hair pale mauve, green, or blue-white. Od of the sitters, who had changed the colour of her hair several times, had to revert to nal-brown on her marriage because her hus baad said that it looked more na tural when she played golf: Wo- men's passion for colour has alen spread to finger-nails, and, the speaker had photographed both red and bright green toe-nails,

Concealed Colour in the Dark Ensemble,

COLOUR SCHEMES BASED ON RUGS

Oriental rugs, the aristocrats or the floor, are not only fine: exampl les of what artists can do with colour, but they also serve as an interesting basis for evolving th colour scheme of a room. Whether one large rug reaches from wall, to wall or small ones are. acattered about the floor, there are usually a few hues whirl dominate and there are bits strong colouri which appear mire sparingly.

A fow rather timid home makers have felt that the walls, draperies. and upholsterings should be en. tirely of plain coloured material This, however, leaves practically all of the interest flat on the floor

Balancing Main Colours and Patterns.

run

It is quite possible to go to the opposite extreme, where too much pattern spreads itself in a room. If animated scenic paper around the wall, and vivid flowers and vines in the hangings climb a the windowa and bold designs swing and swerve in chhirs, the whole room would obviously seem too "busy."..

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY JANUARY 13, 1933.

SPRING DRESS SURPRISES

1933 Checks--Padded Shoulders Woollen Corduroys and Hopsacks

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"If winter comes, can spring be far behind That quotation might well be the slogen of the big fashion ter to begin before they produce their spring collections. While we are doing the rounds of our first mid-season's Iress shown thean men

vided with scarves. that can be worn with the tuck-in blouse or Juniper underneath if necessary; and every dress or tailor mads has a contrast in its colour scheme.

Many of the spring tailored materials.

For instance, he may be a small blue and black shepherd's plaid with a reverse grey and black.

With a little courage and pati once a happy medium can be arriv- od at. A landscape wall paper, for instance, might go very well with Oriental rugs if the paper is kept in different shades of the same co- lours: In draperies, two-toned ma- terials such as silk damask are It is amusing to find colour carricked lineas of several colours,

often very succesful. Even hand-designers who hardly wait for win-suits are of small checked woollen fully hidden away in an apps if well chosen, can go well with rently dark ensamble, and there

Oriental rugs. In this case, there are now some eleven ways of in

should be some contrast in the six troducing this colour note. O!

of the patterns. If the rug has a women who hold our fashion course the most usual is the bright small figured pattern then a bold late in the palm of their heads are frock under the enveloping cont.

is usually completing the first collections for next spring. And as most women One of the most favoured is the pattern in hangings plaid dress in which dull blues more pleasing. Or if the rug pro

sents quite a decided design this long to look into the future and see mix with soft reds, greens ielt

what it has in store for them, and i can be contrasted with a more de

about the into yellow-browns, reds

propose to tell you toast-colours mingle, nud the eflicate pattern at the windows.

clothes that I have been shown very Repeating Accents Found in fect is very smart when the frock

Rugs,

Tearly in confidence. is made in a simple tailored style

room give Many places in the A black coat over a coloured dress is invariably successful and a black opportunities for repeating some of belt will provide onnecting link the bits of contrasting coleurs in

the rugs.

A picture frame, or a with the cont.

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vase, book ends or portfolio, may carry tones similar to those found in the rug. A conspicuous object

medium

Small checks,

size thecks, and very large checks are Ring to be seen a great deal in the spring.

The hip-length jacket is tight stting, but had rather full sleeves, the fulness being from shoulder to

elbow.

The skirt has only a slight flare ind the reverse of the material forms the rever of the coat.

A soft beige material is used for three-quarter length coat and plainly tailored skirt worn with a check jumper and scarf made. of the Guest woollen material, which Ains a beige background and a

low woollen jumper with two little another tailor-made has four poo pockets put in at an angle; and- kets-two breast pockets and two hip pockets-put in at an angle on

the jacket.

new collections In one of the there is a charming full-length unrk brown corduroy woollen coat with a round yoke which ties in a Low in front, and a waistbelt of the same material" tying in a rab- bit-ear bow in front.

The dress which belong to this coat is a fine beige, boven and: blue check material, fastening ma diagonal line with flat round but tons, and tying in a sash at the back.

Then there is another dress that

Soft corduroy woolion materials,ight blue and bright greens as if it was made of the finest wooden buttons, raglan sleeves check. with padded saulders, as well as ordinary padded shoulders, and dingonal fasteringa to jumpers, dresses, and coats are just a few surprises that the spring of 1933 will produce for us.

Coats and jackets will be, belted; three-quarter length coats will be wpular; seventy-five per cent. of

background.

A black corduroy coat and skirt hopsack, which has a small and is provided with a scarf of sorger beige spot on a dark brown The dress is made mcts black, white, and grey checks, rain in this finest woollei mate with a brown velveteen Van Dyck rial, which is also used to make the collar, and the velveteen also forms fuck-in blouse which ties at the the lower half of the sleeves neck in a small bow.

Grey corduroy wool makes a most effective jacket and skirt which is the coats and jackets will be pro-Iwer with a bright yolk-of-egg yel

It is comforting to know that we need have no fear for our fashion. future, even as far ahead as spring

1933.

PARIS WEDS COLOUR TO

GOLOUR

Dress Notes From The French Capital

The traditional fashion of the pretty little dress under a long. fur-trimmed coat is maintained in For ordinary Paris this winter. running about in town the dress is in woollen crepe, for bridge or

The use of flowers for the oven-

falls back on aigrettes and Paradise she wears them. plumce when she wears evening toques. If not she repairs to turing is one of the fashions which bans made of brocade, satin, of appeals to everyone, since they make it so easy to get a colour note into a dull dress. metal tissue

In his half-season collection,

It is this very casincas which the

tea paty it may be in silk crêpe, Lucien Lelong uses quite a lot of haute couture deplores, and soʻ

crêpe satin, or velvet.

Bright colours are worn under dark coats, or the whole ensemble may be worked out in black, brown, dark red, dark green.

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small checked materials with plain woollens and silk crêpes. On many of his morning ensembles he puts some kind of metal or jewelled clip, using these ornaments to finish of

scarf.

aroids ne much as it can, but even the haute couture cannot resist the use of some flowers, those which are beautifully made by skilled hands

When flowers are used they must

bright green dress under a black or an open neck, a waistbelt, or a be of the very best hand-made kind,"

brown coat, a dress of bright red under black, yellow under brown or black purple, pale gray, light beige, are all in fashion.

The coats which go over them are cut more or less straight, and fit at the waist. None has a marked flare. A high for collar may

be

His waistbelts are met at the and have some relation to the dress natural line, and are wider in front the materials of which they are than at the back...

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Checks and Spots.

Cocoa brown is one of his colours, and in the soft little woollen

made....

Theatre

At the Theatre,

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invariably mixed, afternoon and evening. The Continent never haa

worn, but it is more fashionable to dresses, with lỏng, tight sleeves and; and never will wear evening uni

fastens closely round the throat' or lies open, aa, desired.

These oonts are cut to give slender lines to the figure, have slanting incrustations, seamings, or tuckings to give them the right lines.

crooked neckline,

a jewelled clip as trimming, it is demurely charming..

Navy blue with blue and white chocks, brown with brown and white checks, black with black and white spots, very small, are three

London

You may see a dozen women in afternoon dress to three in full evening dress at any of the Paris theatres unless there is a gala or a first performance.

But here and

Fur coats are worn on very cold' combinations'; which will appear there some notability of the stage...

might clash in one part of the room and harmonize in andther, for it often happens that in one days, but the general taste is for

cloth and fur or velvet and für.

room

small rug the colours at two ends. Very trim and young is the new may differ decidedly. A large cost and skirt trimmed with fur

was noticed recently, whic).

and worn with around littlel had seven sinal rugs on the floor Russian hat to match. I met it in

it arranged so that the prevail

black cloth trinimed with astrak ing colours gradually moved tro han. rust at one end of the room to off. The skirt hung with just that blue at the other, although all much of fullness about the knees rugs contained both colours. which is becoming the short coat It would be possible to give quite fitted the hips closely, and was a useful sques of art lectures by the bordered with a band of astrakhan; use of old Chinese carpets. The round the high neck was a close designs are so perfectly balanced fitting collar of the same fur, The the colours so beautifully toned fastened under the left car. contrasted and blended. If you fastening of the cart was at the are at all interested in the subject side down which ran a band of the you should visit Homor and fur." Komors and get them to show you The round hat also had a band of astrakhan, and was set forward wane, of these exquisite "antique" darnef. You will see some very

on the brow, tilted a little to one good examples of modern Chiness side

Jean Patou he made some short carpets in the show rooms, of the. Jade Tree, the Caravan Peis evening dresses in his new colle Mr. Andre's Beauty Parlour ping Hug all organ and the Beieren, lut to distingeishes them by both Lang Crawfords add white putting with them a hat which aways generally have few Eng. marks them as restaurant dresses. lish carpets the designs for which

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For the evening, net and satin early in the year. will take the place of velvet, which, at the moment, iw worn by every

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The Great and Good,

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trance.

When Josephine Baker appeared in the audience recently, dressed in a long black velvet dress, with prickly little sleeves in lacquer red wreaths of stiff little glossy curls bends and her hair done in standing up round her head and falling in earrings, everyone was interested and avery lorgnon was

turned on her.

Popular Velvet,

Not all the distinguished people at a recent important literary gathering in Paris were well dress od, but there were many who were

Oun fair woman was wearing a brown and beige dress under a brown velvet cout, and with it a dull hydrangea pink soat and hat When Madame Paul Reboux; the trimmed with brown. Both but and pretty wife of the well-known seart were in velvet, gengwriter, came in dressed in turquois. A woman in black woollen crepe velvet, out very low at the back, had a Chartreuse green velvet and her hair, smooth and glossy, scarf and toque, the scarf being waved closely to her head, she he tied under the left, ear into a two-tracted considerable attention. end and one bow arrangement. The coat was trimmed with astrakhan.

Fumour in the Fashions, wir Everywhere there is a rage for

Ta dress fround scarves are tied into velvet bow. They are fastened to bow belt have how fasteners, little bowal trim siteres, spiky small impertinent bows at on the crown of a hat and lift it to merriment.

There really is a sense of humour about some of the present fashions,

with a pale face and sleek black Another woman, tall and slim, hair, wore ruby red velvet under an ermind a wrap, and had glove, što, match her dress sa p

the theatres, and starestaurants. Lace and not dresses aro worn at when no dancing is in the even ing's programma. Satin and velvet, blistered crêpe and plain crêpe, are chosen for die eing

Black with bright coloured trim mings,white with ither, gold flow, velvet, are com"

white crepe dress with full Jowtivelvet, sisevés look regal; e Crorepa satin dress with a long wash of gold tissue draped from one shoulder to the hem of the skirt is sím! also royal

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