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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1933

Charming Summer Hats MODES of the MOMENT

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DOLLY VARDENS HAT SHOP

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Ten Dollars Each- Just a few at $5,00 during the Sale.

Gordon's Ltd.

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For Shoes of Quality

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SUMMER SHOES

At less than Cost Price

PARIS CHOOSES WHITE FOR SUMMER

BY A FRENCH CORRESPONDENT Chapel would have us dresa in white this summer and, if it were not that the ice saints have been making the world cold and uncom fortable, we should all say bravo, since the clothes she has made for midsummer are very fresh and de- lightful.

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She has made pf organdi and piqué dress and trimmings for tailor-mades of such whiteness and clean appearance that, as some one put it. girls look as if they were dressed in sugar.

Oapes and Waistcoats. Not only are the dress trimmings white, but the hats also. Every king of peaky cap, and soft brim med hut with squash crown is made in organdi and piqué.

Then there are capes of all kinds to cover the shoulders for after- noon and evening, and for morning there are collars, frills, and is of piqué.

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woollen coat over a simple dress, is what the young woman likes best for rugning about town with a dog at her heels on a lead..

Luxury in Simplicity. She has a hat of auch pleasant drollery, a complexion of such su- "preme artificiality, and hands so highly manicured that, for all her simplicity, the young woman who is dressed right up-to-date is the most luxuriously turned out young woman in the world..

Frenchmen Prefer Blondes. Blondes are still in fashion. They scintillate in pale grey and scarlet, inga blue, in black and white. Their hair is dressed attract attention under a hat so pertly perthed the it cannot be passed by without a glance either of appreciation or of disapproval.

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There were dozens of blondes at Longchamp Int week, and you could not forget them. There they Not were, challenging attention, Waistcoats are legion, and go with the brunettes, who make to the plainest of coats and hires no challenge. They wear brown, just the right fresh lonk they with orange and green; beige; or black and white, with a great deal of colour on their cheeks and beau- tiful furs.

Ask to see the selected Shoes need.

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$5.00 A Pair

In

Linen Kid, Silk and Leather

ORDONS, Ltd.

Footwear

for Milady

Kayamally Building.

STOCK-TAKING SALE

AT

PIONEER SILK STORE

CHINA BUILDING

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

TREMENDOUS REDUCTIONS ON SILK PIECE GOODS MANY OF WHICH ARE UNDER "DOLLAR BARGAINS"

"RICKSHAW BRAND

CELEBRATED

CEYLON

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SOLD BY ALL COMPRADORES

AWARDED IO GOLD MEDALS' FOR PURITY, STRENGTH

AND FLAVOUR.

Sole Distributors →→→

DAVIE, BOAG & Co., Ltd,

LAST DAY of the SALE

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The Ladies' Salon Lovely Luxite Stockings

All. Reduced.

Dainty Frocks

For Little Girls

(Complete with Knickers to Match)

Great Reductions

for

LAST DAY of the SALE

Lane Crawford's, Ltd.

washing There are detachable sleeves like those the cook, the doc-

The silver fox furs which are tor, and the nurse wear at their worn are quite magnificent. They work. There are bows at the breastwist and turn about the shoulders, and on the shoulder; there are curl around the arms and trail gloves and bags, and there are down the back nearly to the feet. white flowers. Blue and white and A woman may wear two or three red and white spotted foulards are used for dresses which have attle at a time. There is no limit to the

coats to go with them.

wearing of fox fura. Hong Kong will wear them in the

Autumn.

The Chanel tailor-made skirts are rather long, slim, and traight

The dark ones tipped with silver in line; some have fullness in the back or sides set below the hip are the aristocrats, but you still see line. The coats, usually with saslight foxes, evan red ones, but ques, fit very well, and have eacai- there are no white ones during the ders which, though well squared, day. These are kept for evening, are not padded to look aggrew and even then, are not such good style as ermine, either of white or ly wide

of male beige.

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At the races women are wearing coats and skirts with fox furs, or long coats, made of soft woollen materials, which are more suited; to travelling than for formal after-

noon wear.

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It is not often that you see a girl or young woman dressed in the old- fashioned formal style in the after, noon. The comfortable tailor-made with a pretty blouse, or the long

Lane, Crawford:

The slim skirt, either longish or quite short, is commonly worn. With a loose three-quarter coat or a short jacket, and one of the tall crowned hats after the style of the Schiaparell cock's comb, or the little picture shape of Bruyère. many a woman feels comfortable and looks nice.

Checks are still worn, the little black and white, blue and white,

Round

the Cown

Sen this Week in

Local Shops

in Paris.

small checked jacket is popular with a dark skirt. The hat may match the jacket or the skirt.

Brown with beige grows in po- pularity. Green is fast coming back to fashion. Pastel shades will be worn in the country, at the sea and during the Semaine in Paris if the weather is warm. Figured crêpe dresses with lottle conts to match, and plain black hats with wide brims, ara ready waiting for fine days in every woman's wardrobe.

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WHY MEN LOSE THEIR HANDKERCHIEFS

Advice to Girls.

If you have a husband, a brother or even a boy-friend with a lively taste in handkerchiefs, now is the time to put it to good us. Having once obtained possession of one or two of these you can easily con- a Sun-Frock, and of all your envy vert them into friends. Some of the amartest become the French models are made of these "hankies" nieced together-one being sufficient for the brief bras- siere bodice.

These little backless bodices are a big feature of the new beach fashions. Separate ones made in fine wool are designed to be worn with beach trousers for sunbathing, while the most fashionable bathing

little

costumes have these same for a strap that fits snugly round "tops "bare to the waist but for a strap that fits round the back of the neck.

Many of the new models, have double brassiere sections woven in the top, and a few have detachable little wrap around skirts that may also be used as capelets to cover the shoulders if desired.

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Plain dark colours are test; brown, blue and green, while black, of course, is always good. less geometric designs There are than last season, which is just as well, seeing that plain colours are generally more becoming!

Bright colours are introduced by the shorts, trousers, or sun-frock which is invariably worn fir loung ing.

black belt. A dress of tangerine | weeds, and, all sorts of bright fan- colour had a capucine collar of tastic fishes which hang suspended To-day is the last day of Lane rich white silk and a smart little from the coloured "water bubbles" Crawfords Sale and there are bar-conter which fastened at the waist. which float on the surface. A few gains of every kind in the Ladies One lovely evening gown had long of these quaint creatures should be Salon. First and foremost are the Luxite Silk Stockings which sleeves of silk lace, the dress itself carefully chosen with the bowl, and was of pure white satin and was it will prove to be a brilliant and are all reduced. Those which were cut on elegant line with a shoulder original addition to the usual out- formally $8.75 can "now be got at cape effect. There are some de glass and silver of the dinner table, $4.76 while those at 87.75 are re-lightful white hats at The Felix If a living goldfish and strand of duced to 83.75. There ате воде fine lisle-thread stockings which are this week and they are in varied i reat weed is put in the bowl too, a only $2.30 and which are as fine as styles, from the trim American most realistic effect is obtained, and silk. In the Children's Dept: there Sailor had to the dropping picture the bowl seems like quaint fantas- are the sweetest little frocks (and bat with for sole trimming two tic fairyland, peopled by the vivid each has a pair of knickers to shaded camelias. I saw one love denizens of a dream. In August, match, while some of them have hat of this type in pale blue when real flowers die so quickly, little bags to match too). There which looked as if it had come this table-ornament (which com are some in printed cotton all straight from the Rue de la Paix, hines charm and utility) seems to

fill a long-felt want. - sorts of pretty colours which are only 84.76 and are just the thing

Whiteaway Laidlaw

Miss Naylor Importer of Dresses for school-wear, while other more Cushions are a festure at White-

There are many Summer Frocks elaborate frocks of voile and organ-aways this week. There are ser at reduced prices at Miss Naylors die are suitable for Summer Party vicable verandah ‚cushions in Salon this week and I was shown frocks There are quantities of strong silks and brocades in vaquite a number of pretty printed shoes too in the Sale. I saw shoes rious gay colour priced at 83.95 cotton frocks priced at fifteen dol- of silver brocade silk shoes, and and some drawing room cushions lars each. I saw one in lavender, gold shoes all marked down. There and gathered silk of the "pouffe' another in wheat yellow, and sev were some rather unusual shoes of variety at 87.50. There are also era in shades of pink and blue. plaited straw, and numbers of kid some very nice luncheon and break- An organdie dress for evening had shoes in beige and fawn. These are fast sets which comprise a dainty a frilled skirt, and dainty shoul- only a few of the things in the sloth of Irisheen (a smooth and der caps. Every dress is reduced Ladies Salon which are to be clear glossy linen) which have coloured for the first week in August, and ed off to-day and I advise my borders in delightful shades of Miss Naylors stocks all sizes readers to go and see for them-green, blue and primrose with four

Gordons Ltd. selves. Y

little napkins to match. These sets

There is a window full of select: cost only $4.30. There are just a Dolly Varden Hal Shop

few lovely cretonnes being cleared ed Summer shoes all five dollars a There are still some of those de off at bargain prices this week in pair at Gordons this week. Among lightful, ten dollar bats at Dolly most artistic patterns. There are these are several pairs of silk even- Vardens. I saw one hat of black also several novelties. The most ing shoes: some well-cut shoes of lacquered panama, which looked noticable is the latest thing in pat kid and leather, and just a few worth thirty dollars, but it was terned damask tablecloths, & pure very pretty linen shoes. Such a marked down with the others white cloth with what looks like a price is only possible at the end of There are several of those charm- hand painted pattern of flowers the Summer and. I do advise my tints. readers to choose a few pairs be- ing dove-gray hats still left and I and leaves in delicate

fore it is too late. All the latest believe it would be possible to find

styles are represented but Gordons a bat to go with every dress. There But the greatest novelty of all is are quite a few which are suitable the Witch Bowl-these lovely gold at clear them, all off, to make for early Autumn wear, in navy fish bowls of tinted irredescent which will soon ba

Iway for the heavier Autumn goods"

be coming in. blue, black and white, and cherry gins are all the rage in England

«Madam - Garnett red,

now and are used as a table de coration instead of the usual flow. At Gloucester Arcade has some ers. They are filled with water, exquisite gowns with the lovely attractive dresses caught and in them is put the fascinating slender line so much sought after floating ornaments of blown glass by modern womanhood. She has which are supplied with The Witch in stock some dresses of a delicious BIL spraye of-0078); ; shade of pale lime-green which is

green, 184 very flattering and unusual,

Felix Hat Shop:

Witch Bowl.

BOVRIL

BOYRIL

The accompaniment

of perfect health

BOVRIL

Promotes that Singing Feeling

Miss Naylor Importer of Dresses

ANNOUNCES REDUCTIONS In all her Summer Stock

Charming Frocks

In Printed Cotton, Gingham

and Linen $15.00 Each

At

Gordon's," Kayamally Building,

New Shipment Just Arrived Character Cloth

(Formerly known as Korea Mission Cloth)

PRICES REMAIN AS THEY WERE BEFORE

THE FALL OF THE DOLLAR

Not to shrink

GUARANTEED Not to fade.

Seldom wear out

BIT & CO.

Queen's Building, 2nd Floor.

Whiteaways

LAIDLAW & CO LTD

GREAT

SUMMER

SALE

NOW ON

DO NOT MISS

THE WONDERFUL BARGAINS

IN

LADIES AN]) CHILDREN'S SHOES

COME BARLY, BEST SIZES GO FIRST.

WILTEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO. ITD.