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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933.

Your

SPRING

HATS and FROCKS

So smart, so new, so becoming they make you feel like a million dollars-are waiting for you at

THE DOLLY VARDON HAT SHOP.

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SPRING

New sandals

and plaited shoes just arrived

SMART spring clothes

find their comple- ment in such shoes as these. The good style and new colours will ap- peal to the well dressed

woman.

OPDONS, Ltd.

Footwear for Milady

Kayamally Building,

FROCKS

that are:

NEW

SMART

INEXPENSIVE

are always arriving

AU PETIT LOUVRE

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Removal Sale Now In Proress. PIONEER In fact as well as name.

The First Silk Store in Hong Kong The Largest Stock of Bilka The Lowest Prices always The Most Popular Store.

"Courtesy and Service" is our slogan.

THE PIONEER SILK STORE CHINA BUILDING.

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Blouses

QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL.

Hand knitted woollen, lisle and silk

- liale jumper blouses-

Satin, georgette and crepe de chine dress blouses Piquet and satin tailored waist-

coat blouses.

LANE,

The Ladies - Salon

CRAWFORD, LTD

EYES

STUDY YOUR SETTING

When You Buy. A "New Frock

Drraning to their backgranud, unless it is for the stage, is almost a lost art among mo- dern women. It is well worth white to consider home settings and the other surroundings in which the new frock is going

to be seen.

& EYEBROWS

THERE was in my youth a rhyme shape can be cultivated. A tonic that had to do with eyes and for the lashes and a special nou- was pointed at vanity-Its moral,rishing pomade for the brows will so far as I can remember, was to soon work wonders. the effect that colour, shape, and size did not matter, for so long as eyes can see what more have eyes to do."

Now every woman knows that eyes have a great deal more to do than merely see. In fact they have so much to do, so much to see and not to see, that it is little wonder that they are the first feature to show signs of age.

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The tonic should he applied to the tips of the eyelashes with a camel hair brush, and the pomade every night until the desired effec is obtained. Afterwards, occasion- al use is sufficient. The tonic and the pomade, are made by an emi nent, cosmetician and can be used with- perfect- safety...

Plucked eyebrows that had the effect of entirely removing all na- Ophthamic surgeons will tell you tural expression and substituting that the sight should not be in- One of perpetually startled sur- fluenced by age much before fifty prise are mercifully out of fashion. if reasonable. cara be taken, but This does not mean, however, that the setting of the eyes is often olda straggly appearance is permis- beyond the number of the years. sible. If the brows are too wide. Eye-strain will quickly induce or a bad shape they can be pluck. lines and general over-tiredness or ed into order, and in every eas lack of condition is reflected at they should be shaped by the use once. If there is any continued of a tiny brush, made for the pur- As soon as we find ourselves at-

sense of discomfort or strain ad- pose. If a smear of brilliantine is tracting attention we become self- conscious, and are tempted to fid-vice should be taken without de applied to the brush-e much the

lay. get with our dress and look slight Jy embarrassed.

IT is amusing to see a woman make a really effective entrance into a crowded room or restaurant, and it is extraordinary how few of us can do this.

A Good Entrance

For Tired Eyes

A good eye lotion should be used If you can make a good entrance

restaurant without after motoring or riding, and a into a smart looking awkward, you can pride warm compress, laid on the eyes yourself that you are, more self and secured by a specially design- possessed than nine-tenths of theed bandeau, will be found to be very restful. It should be used for women there.

ten minutes before dressing for dinner if the eyes fool tired."

You find yourself acutely con- scious of your clothes, and unless they are perfect in every detail you are miserable.

Bows are going to be an import ant feature in the near future, but they must be useful and not mere- ly ornamental. An effective dress for dancing or dinner parties is being made in cyclamen erinkled crepe, trimmed with hyacinth blue velvet. The crepe itself looks as if it had been ironed so that the crinkles are flattened into the merest suspicion of a raised sur face. The velvet is used for the wide bands on the short sleeves of the jacket..

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Cream should be applied to the eye-lids and beneath the eyes with the greatest care. The cream should be spread lightly on the lids from, the inside to the outer. corners. Close the eyes and stroke in the cream with a very gentls upward movement.

The cream should be br un der the eyes from the de to wards, the nose with the lightest possible tapping movement. All trace of cream should be carefully removed after ten minutes and the lids gently patted with a pad of cotton wool soaked in a mild skin

better.

Make-up judiciously applied can be a great improvement. A good cosmetic for darkening the lashes! is made in light brown, dark brown, black and blue. The dark brown' is the best choice for most people for day or evening use.

A Touch of Grease

for

Below the eyes a hint of grease the light cream you use cleaning will be best will give brilliance, but it must be the mer est suspicion.....

Bjcrows can be darkened by the use of a pencil, but this should be avoided unless the brows are ac- tually light coloured as the pencil gives a dull appearance.

Eye shadow is effective at night, especially if one of the new scin tillating or silvered shadows is us ed. It should be applied very lightly to the upper lids. Bistre is the best choice for the very fair, blue-eyed types: Grey-blue goes with blue eyes, and brown hair, Good lashes and brows add tre- blue for gray eyes and black hair, mendously to the charin of ap- or for very dark people, and green pearance and their growth and for green or hazel eyes.

Fur shoulder capes Or tiny, tonic. ermine jackets, have hidden bare backs and shoulders all through the winter, and it looks we are going to continue to be equally modest, at any rate dur ing the spring and early summer, for almost all the sizeveless even-1 ing dresses are provided with little jackets so match. Oftea these could easily be mistaken for long sleeved bodices.

Round The Town

PRETTY THINGS IN LOCAL-SHOPS

We are still hoping for the arrival of Spring and the shops are well prepared for that rush which will come when the sun really begins to shine. There are the most delightful silk dresses and light weight suits, with smart little hata and the new eboos to go with them.

Lans, Orawfords are showing some delightful blouses to wear with knitted, light tweed, or silk suits. The hand knitted woollen blouses are particularly fascinating.

need no recommendation except the very reasonable price, everybody knows how reliable they are.

You should look at the frocks. Evening dresses in excellent style and cut are marked at $100, there are a number in the $50 range still good but naturally of less expensive material, and a few simple little frocks of printed silk, which would be quite suitable for a young girl, at 812. Very nice afternoon dresses are marked in the region of $50, these are mostly of heavy quality Most crepe and are well tailored and in of them have Lacy yokes of a very good style. big bold pattern, and short puffed Another strong print in favour of sleeves. Quite new, but not quito; a visit to Paul Bennett et Cie is so pretty in my opinion, are jumper that the some shop houses C. H. blouses of knitted lisle thread or silk lisle on similar lines. Though cooler and of course destinctively 1933 the cotton lisle has not the softness of wool or silk; still one has to sacrifice something to be up to the minute! Then there are the silk blouses, among which there all some very pretty examples of the soft dressy blouse of georgetter or erepe de chine and some very smart tailored waistcoat blouses in satin, piqué, and crepe. These always look well with a tailor made while the woollen jumper looks its best with a knitted suit.

Bernard and Sons where you will find British goods for your men folk at equally low prices.

The Dolly Vardon Hat Shop have some more charming summer frocks. Among the latest shipmuent are a number of semi tailored silk dresses. One of these in real primrose yellow patterned) silk is cut with a deep wrap over shirt and opens. right down for washing. Another yellow groen silk with black polka dots has a tiny cape to accompany is. Chronium buttons are used to trim many of these silk dresses and lingerie touch at the neck, is often found, ...

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The cotton prints are gay and fussy in pretty. Not quite so design as last years prints, they are easier to wear and really more stylish. Flower patterns have pru tem given place to small geometric designs, checks, plaids and stripes, I particularly liked a couple of very well cut white cotton frocks with a Au Petit Louvre I saw some ex-pin stripe--one pink, the other blue, ceedingly nice afternoon frocks for Both have white vests and are A dress like this present wear, I think that this shop smartly tailored. must have a particularly clever would be, admirable for office or buyer fort! have never seen a single street wear in the early warn 'dress there that was not in admir- weather, and a little later in the able style. Fairly heavy crepes and season when its first freshness had marocaines are good this spring gone through frequent visits to the usually with a semi tailored appear wheh tub, it would do for beach

Strong colour is being used picnic wear.... ance.. by all the good houses often as a note of emphasis in a dress of some more or less neutral shade. Navy blue, wine and dark green are still live at the very top of the Peak you staged a most triumphant come Paul Rennett de die. Even if you much used Printed chiffons have really should make the journey own back and subde lace is perfect for. and over to Kowloon to visit Paul, both afternoon and evening wear. Rennett. This shop at the corner I do like the new bags to be of Austin and Nathan Roads found Au Petit Louvre, though I (opposito a bus stop) is really worth can't recall the proper name of the visiting. The goods are all British celuloid stuff of which they are -in itself recommendation in Eng-made. You can get them in white, lish oyes and the prices quite black, black and white, and nearly You will be all strong clear colours either used extraordinary low. wunting lots of washing frocks in a alone, or with black or white. A very short while, and you can find delightful conceit is the new fashion them here marked from $10 up. of lining and fitting them in a Lalley and Skinner's-shoes-are-matching colour schemo. A black known to be good in cut and materi and white bag for instance has a l the prices ran from about $0.80 lining half white and half black. for anndals and $10 for walking Even the little purse inside and the thics Zatubrene-weatherproofs back of the mirror are half and halt.

These tempting cotton and silk frocks make one long for the sun- shine, but most women are not wait. buying them, and they are leaving the shop almost as fast as they are ing for the sun to come before

unpacked...

Some new Spring and Summer shoes have just arrived at Gordon's The use of linen for footwear is n destinctive note for 1933 and will certainly be a welcome innovation in our climato.

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linen affairs. Very pretty indeed are some court shoes, of green, blue Each of the and natural linen. three colours is lightly trimmed with short strappings of kid in white and

contrasting-tone.

Plaited leather shoes in two colours promise to be very popular this summer, and they are certainly fight and easy in wear. Gordon's have just got in a collection of these plaited shoes, mostly in white and a colour, White and brɛest in purti- cularly smart.

For Spring wear there are low

You will be interested in some healed one strap shoes of coloured leather with insets of linen with charming bugs in. Gordon's. Most roman stripes. This sort of shoe would look well with a jumper suit of them have chromium fittings. light tweede or a heavy silk tailored Some are in linen others in hand dress, but would, I think, be a little knitted wool. One white linen bag heavy looking with cotton frocks. unless the latter were rather simple has spots out from red and blue (Continued at foot of next Uolumn) patent leather gummed on it.

Baby

The danger of Improper Feeding.

B

ABIES are frequently over

fed. Their capacity for food is very small-at birth 1 oz and at 2 months 3 oz. Remember also it in the amount of food digested that nourishao, ng m ↑ Baby fast because be Do not food E ariaprobably the reason is Indi gation from overfeeding, not hungat, It is important to get the nature of the food right as wall so the quantity.

Doctors

And Nurses througham the world recommend

Allenburys

Fods

The best alterative to hunain i

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