1933-05-19 — Page 2

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1933

Feminine Fashions MODES of the

and

Mannish Modes

at

DOLLY VARDEN HAT SHOP.

NOTICE",

AS FROM 2ND MAY, WE HAVE MOVED TO THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE NATIONAL BANK BUILD- ING, CORNER OF ICE HOUSE STREET.

THE RED ROSE BARBER & BEAUTY SHOP.

Miss Naylor Importer of Dresses

has

Delightful Frocks

for

Daytime & Evening

and

Parisian Hats & Novelties

At Gordons Kayamally Building.

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Dear Sirs,

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Name...

Address

HATS for

every

TYPE

at the

LADIES' SALON

Lovely Models

Lincoln - Bennet

Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

MOMENT

DIAGONAL LINES AND THE MAGYAR

Bows, Berthes And Draperies

Looking round a room full of smartly-dressed women these days, it is amusing to notice how few of the gowns are cut on straight lines, I do not mean that silhouettes are hot straight-they often are. But materials seldom are.

Sometimes a jersey-cloth suit has the skirt cut in straight panels, and of course the orthodox tailor mide costume has both skirt and jackat on the straight." Apart from these, we have panele, kes insets, godets, sleeves, cuffs, cape lets, baleros, all on the slant, cross or diagonal.

Sporta frocks are produced in fine check or diabonal material cut in many cross panels that are art- fully arranged to form very peri fect jigsaw puzzle designs. A dress like this baffles the inexperi enced dress-maker more than an

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elaborate evening gown, so don't try to make one for yourself!

A frock that can be worn mòrn. ing or afternoon is developed in fine brown, and beige ribbed silk, trimmed with flat gold and brown, enamel buttons.. The Magyar, bo dice is quite on the bias, and the very long gauntlet eufs aro cht the reverse way of the ribbing. The gauntlets reach from, above the olbows to the wrists, the pointed lines where they are joined to the

GOOD TASTE

·By H. PEARL ADAM.

"About thirty years ago we were ali pattern-ridden. Patterns came off our walls at us, glared through the food on our plates at us, lurk- ed in furniture, made every lock and handle a twisted and writhing mass, and did so many things un- der our feet that after a single look at the carpet one could not see anything else for "quite a long

time.

Form was almost as stirring as design. No line that started out peaceably to go from one place to another was ever allowed to get there without looping itself, or, solving a problem of Euclid on the

way.

And the things we wore! A har- vest festival on our hats, and a textile exhibition all over our frocks in pafts and frills and bob- bles and bows.

Coming back to England after a

Gordon's, Ltd.

An endless variety of dainty Sandals of every kind and colour is the great attraction at Cordons this week...

They start with a low-heeled kandal priced at 5/75 in coloured leathers, such as white and red, or deep green. Then comes & charm- ing sandal of plaited kid in har monizing shades such as beige and "Fawn, with a moccasin sole coating 12/50. Yet another is made. of fac canvas bound with bright colours which is priced at 14/50 and has a high heel. Most amusing of alt as the new "Striped-Awning San- dal, in Navy-blue with orange or with grean which is a novelty and most attractive,

Miss Naylor, Importor of Dresses,

While at Gordons I went up- stairs to the Mezzaning-door to see the dresses imported by Miss Nay. lor. Some come from England and some from America, and it is in teresting to contrast the difference in style between these two coun- tries.

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Magyar top being emphasised by The dress with the high pointed rows of small buttons. A olever panel front, meeting a little berthe hip yoke is formed by one rather yoke which also comes down in broad diabonal panel, cut in one i points, is pretty and becoming for with a panel that runs down one women who want to look slimmer side; and the flared godets of the than they are. Sometimes the ends skirt are set into this Y-shaped of the berthe are gathered on to panel. A belt at the rather high the sides of the panel point, some- waistline fastens with two large times they are set flat on the up- buttons to matel the small ones on dice.. the sleeves.

As an illustration of the vogue Last season we became utterly for bows, take the evening gown tired of loose draperies in front of that has a diagonal bustle drapery bodices. We still have draped across the back of the skirt finish- lines, but with the difference that ed off with a long bow; while n they are not allowed to flap! On smaller bow adorns the opposite charming crepe de chine model has shoulder. Another, in soft Batin, the draped front arranged in three hus & bodice front something like a apron, drawu severely tiers, each held in place by a little nurse's enamel clip, and the three clips, round the figure, and tied at the back with a fairly small bow that are arranged in a slanting line..

is stiffened with fine muslin to look Magyar sleeves seem made to go as if it were starched. Then there with the draped bodice. I saw an is the bib frock which has the plain excellent model in olive-green bodice and the frilled bib-shaped erinkled crepe and marocain. The berthe attached at the neckline in marocain frock had a plain bodie front, graduated over the should out on the bias, with a pretty liters, and tied at the back of the tle looss neck-line so well arranged neck in a flat bow. The bow holds that it looked more like a neck the back strape in position. lace. The bodice was cut away un- der the arms and over the shoulders | in deep diamond points, and the plain Magyar-topped crepe sleeves were inserted. The skirt was cut in cross-way panels cleverly ming led with flared godets,

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The sandal shoe is the most Im portant of all the evening models. The heels are slender, the toes pointed, and the straps as thin as possible. Some sandals have toes and skies of silk net or punched fine leather.

long absence an exiled Englishman "casional tables." would wonder if he had really! As an architect put it the other struck the right country. The level day," an effect of space is pro- of taste has risen unbelievably. A duced by the proper balancing of sense of harmony seems to have viods and solids." It sounds much come to the Englishwoman. She like the feeling caused when a lift does not wear her clothes as well starts swiftly downwards, but one as the Frenchwoman-but she knows what it means. chooses them with a sure feeling for colour, whether in blending or in contrast.

A point which is particularly striking is that her social class has nothing to do with this., Duchess and errand-girl show the same kind, of discrimination, though it may be expressed in Aner materials and better cut.

Of course, some woman dress badly still-was there ever a coun try or a period when, they did not 7 In the English hame the same change i isible. Patterns have gone west.

The smallest flat is given an airy spacioumess by the plain, walls, the hidden ceiling lighting, the unbroken lines of furniture, and the absence of small ornaments, and what used to be known as "oc

Round

the Cown

Seen this Week in

Local Shops

Dolly Vardon Hai Shop.

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Not only are the rooms less Lussy and overcrowded, but pinte, lineu, and china are simpler and better.

As for the kitchen, it has such ar

array of shining cooking-pots that do not have to be polished, of gaily striped enamel pans and kettles, of glass cooking-vessels that look like malted pearls, and of atoves and refrigerators, all white and silver, that one wonders that the dining-room is not forsaken.

What with the war that took our money from us, and the peace that took our jobs, we have had to learn to make the most of a little; and the result is a perfectly adorable, Wendyish affair that gives domes. tie drugery a face like a primrose and dresses the drudge Jike the heroine of a love-story.

are English-made and guaranteed fadeless and are in all the lovely shades to match or to harmonize with the bedspreads.

The latest Hollywood fashion can seem at Dolly Vardens this week. I mean the "mannish suit," a-la Mariein. Dietrich, which con- | At Lane, Orawford's, Ltd. sists of a narrow pique skirt worn with a smart little waistcoat of the eame fabric which has two flat pockets. As a morning dress for the slim girl with a boyish figuro it in indescribably "chic" and is also a complete contrast, to the ultra-feminine gowns with gay lit the puffed sleaves of transparent organdie and demure collars of the same.

There is a big display of hats a Lane Crawfords this woek in all eorts of up-to-date styles and flat- tering colours.

The 'mannish suit is sure, to catch-on, and Delly Varden has only a limited number so an early inspection is advisable.

At Whiteaway Laidlaw's.

My fancy was caught at once by cute little hat of peaf green for which the price was 8/75 and by another at the same price in orange straw with a dainty tilted brim.

But most bewitching of all are the lovely models from Lincoln and Benneta The name alone is a

hallmark of excellence and the woman who buys Lincoln and Bennet hat feels and knows that she looks just right. There was There are plenty of pretty one delicious hat in fine black straw Spring furnishings at Whiteaways, trimmed with small camelias in Now that the last blanket has been palest pink. Anether in white stowed away it is time to begin edged with patterned silk in pow making bedrooms cool and dainty der-blue, but one carinot capture the charm of these histo in cold for the hot weather. Pretty cream- coloured bedspreads with coloured print, they must be seen, nad to. borders and big central sprays of see is to try, and to try is to buy, I saw some smart little Sports flowers to tone are charming and At the Glove counter. I w Frocks in white pique at 14/50 up ever so cheap being only 82.75 something I had read about int wards, and some in a new material for single beds. For the double fashion papers but had not yet called Elephant Crepe, which don't bed there is a most attractive seen in Hong Kong, the white fa crush and hardly need ironing, "Spread" in a new material, called bric glove with elbow length: top of and any number of frocks in pret- Granit-Jaspie in pale stone-colour lace or silk mesh. They are per ty flowered and striped cottons, patterned with Howers in various fectly delightful and surprisingly ilks and ginghams Miss Naylor colours. Another bargain this cheap since they start at only 5/05. sino has a few Travel-Frocks for week is hamstitched pillow-slip in In the tropics where white kid these going up North who want a firm long-cloth at 1/50. aa elbow-length "gloves are so costly slightly warmer dress for the voy. To complete the rejuvenation of and so perishable they fill a long age. There are also quaint neck | the bedroom I recommend filth | felt want and are certain to be- Inces and other Parisian novelties curtains of glossy milk, not at the | come indespensible to the well- to go with every dress.

bargain, price ofgr/95;ja yard. They dressed woman, w

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Queen's Building, 2nd Floor,

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Have charming Sandals at exceptionally low prices, in every style and colour.

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