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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1934.

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WOMEN DRESS BEST

By Using Instinct

Instinct is a woman's best guide. in buying clothes, according - to Kay Francis. admittedly, the best dressed' actress on the screen.

"Never buy anything unless you are positive It Ats your type" is her advice to women who would be smartly dressed "D have lew rules about what I wear and what

THE STRAW BOATER

The quaint boater-family are wonderfully useful shapes to com-"" plete the more practical suits, and look especially well worn with the 'cloth capes.

A couple of bands of 'ribbor round a straw boater finishing with a gay pasy of field flowers is an easy-to-wear trimming. The slightly higher-crowned 18th. century models. inished with a brimi in contrasting colour and a spray of flowers or ribbon-work, can be most becoming. Some- times a double brim is good for a medium-sized shape, many of which place the front part sight- ly higher. putting small flowers between the two brims. and so just suggesting the halo ment.

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I will not wear, but as soon as I put on a dress, I know Instinctive- ly whether it is my dress or not.

She adds a note of caution to

women whose instinct" may be for bizarre raiment.

"Never attempt the exotic," she says. "Fantastic, extreme effects may attract attention, but if you wish to be called truly smart, it isn't the kind of attention you want."

Miss Francis personally super- vised the selection and making of the striking costumes she wears in her latest First National plc- ture "Wonder Bar."

Thin women (says Kay Francis) should never wear anything which exposes neck and arms or anything with horizontal stripes, Their clothes should hang loose und not conform to the figure. They must scrupulously avoid clothes which cling to them.

On the other hand their stou- ter sisters should not by any means wear circular patterns though the stripped patterns for- bidden to the thin girls are very desirable for-" the

more heavily. avoirdupoised Ruffles are DS undesirable for this type of woman as bathing sults in the snow. And further- more, you who wish to appear syiphlike, don't ever wear high necked gowns which, call atten- tion to the size of your face.

'Any woman of any size can dress attractively if she dresses according to her figure." Miss Francis says, "I have always stu- died my figure and always and, time to design my own clothes."

In "Wonder Bar" she wears a white beaded evening gown creat- ed by Orry-Keily, and acclaimed as one of his most beautiful creations.

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In Paris

Proportion In Dress

London, May 8. In the belief that women like to look womanly; Worth cuts for skirts the daytime short, slim with no flare at the hem; his waistline is marked by a belt... above which may be seen the top Ime of the skirt. giving the effect of a double belt. Blouses and bodices fit easily and have smooth shoulder lines whether the sleeves are set in or cut in one piece. Sleeves when short are full or wide about the elbow. Collars, softly draped, fall on dresses to Jabots ar frills in front: on coats they may be draped to a hood be- hind. Frills of white or coloured

FOR THE LADIES organdle trim many dresses.

Since fabric shoes have been Fashions And Figures

growing fashionable all sorts of materials have been specially woven and "adapted for them. Crepe de Chine is still the favourite for evening wear, with a piping of gold or silver kid. For day, shoes, kid is still the favourite skin, but toad, frog and baby ostrich skin are all used, as well as antelope in bright colours. There is, too, rrinted kid, that looks well with printed frocks of the same hues.

Court shoes are reappearing with the old-fashioned steel buckle and there are toeléss sandals. The very open strapped sandal, however, has had its day, for women have discovered that the lack of support causes the foot to spread.

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"The question of maintaining a weight that is proportionate

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that height and build concerns health as well as good Jooks The fashion that decreed." a gure like a yard of pump water is mercifully a thing of the past. Dress designers are concentrating on feminine frocks and frills, and have apparently lost the desire to turn every woman into the sem

blance of a boy..

But although curves are per- missible and, indeed, necessary to do Justice to the Edwardian trend of fashion, flesh that is too, too solid must be rolled. rubbed, mas- saged, exercised, dleted and for- cibly, persuaded to depart. Any tendency. Indeed, to embonpoint must at once be statiped on...

Overweight is usually caused by one of three things. The first and most general reason for "it is purely and simply a matter of too large a number of calories

In other words, too much food is eaten for the body's needs, and the "over-matter" is transtormed into fat rather after the manner of the camel's hump.

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Most people over the age of twenty-five eat too much. Then one day they, And that they can. no longer get Into ready-to-wear clothes, and forthwith. they start to diet and usually starve them- selves in so doing.

It seems difficult to strike a happy medium. The result of a starvation diet is that weight is last suddenly and invariably in the wrong place.

Though Worth shows much black and navy-blue, there are also bright colours. Scarlet coats and hats are to be worn with and white black, navy-blue, dresses. A pale blue coat is put with a navy-blue taffetas "dress: a brightly striped linen coat, with a hat and blouse like it, is worn over a dark skirt.

Afternoon

coats of soft taffetas are made. with three full loose pleats on the hips, wide short sleeves, open fronts and belts. Another coat is of transparent, black velvet; 'It has no sleeves, is long to the up- per line of the hem of the skirt, bas a belt, and is to be worn over a dress of rose and white | checked silk crepe.

For the evening there are knee tight skirts which flow wide about the feet and have trains. One is of white taffetas with a small Chinese red design, another is of figure" crepe with bright flowers on black

With another of pale blue organdle a bunch of pansies" la worn at the waist, and with a white organdis dress is put a toque of many coloured pansies. A black taffetas dress shows an under dress or white fruled or- gandle and white frills about the neck and arm holes. This col lection is to be shown in London.) Bruyere also has made useful coats for cool days besides dresseg for, midsummer. A light grey coat and skirt with a black velvet collar are to be worn with, a fer- kin-shaped waistcoat of white pique fastened with pique

(Special Air Mail Service.) LATEST LINGERIE STYLES

"One Garment And A Frock"

London. May 8.

Among the fashionable · gar- ments many brides of to-day will include in their trousseau is the latest. "one-piece," which has just made its appearance...

This new lingerie model is in- dicative of the trend of the sten- derising way of summer dressing in one garment and a frock." The new "bras-nics" are woven in fine artificial silk, and have the narrowest of satin ribbon braces, inset with elastic. They are ideal garments for the backless vogue In summer sports and evening wear.

The "two-piece" nightdress is another lingerie fashion of the moment. This is a alghtdress made of sik georgette, shaped at the waist with "tiny tucks and

lace. The inset with

ather "piece" is a little coatee designed to match. This model is "made in this season's colour tones of pale pink, peach. and blue, and also in black.

Other extras that will be in- cluded in the present-day lingerie outfit are the skin-tight backless cami-knickers, designed for wear- ing beneath an evening frock. This new design is backless to the waist, beautifully cut in satin and lastex, with a lace top and the slenderset of shoulder · rib- bons.

Bruyere puts white; she also uses yellow and has a great many black and white dresses." Coat frocks have. fold-over skirts and bodices with slanting lines across the front, indicated by rows of padded buttons. The jackets t the hips closely and frequently button down the left side from shoulder to waistline. One bright button at the neck, with red in the belt, may be the only colour on a black, white, or grey dress. On long coats are fluted collars- and cutis. Long loose coats of speckled tweed are meant to go over tweed dresses. Again, long coats may it and have in front pleated panels flat and stitched over the hips but loose below. Fur sleeves and panels are put on long coats Bats after the tric orne and bicorne shape are worn well down on the head.

In all dress there are strong

In London

Hats For The Summer

London, May 8.

Hats this season should be easy to wear, so many are their shapes and sides. The really large hat bas at last been accepted.

Flat round "cartwheel" shapes" are of straw, dull or shiny, and are trimmed only with a narrow ribbon

straw. band. A black. banded with wide cire ribbon may be worn with a black coat opening over a black and white printed crepe dress. These large. flat shapes will "be worn with organdi and net dresses, the wide brims being of the same trans- parent materials stiffened, or "of fine crinolinë, straw. The shal~; lowness of the crowns is emphas ized by a twist of ribbon or scat- tered posles of field Dowers." "An enormous hat entirely of black crinoline lace is trimmed with a large velvet arum-lily; the twisted stems outline the base of "the crown. A black hat with a brim of wide stiffened net has a velvet crown with a wreath of black and white feather dowers.

The fat effect is also maintain- ed by a crown which tapers to a. low line in from. Brims may be straight, or slightly curved up all round. They may dip back and front or slightly over the right eye. Another shape is tipped down over the eyes and turned. up high at the back; this.may be of felt or taffetas and often has a knot of flowers on the brim to ** accentuate its forward dip.

Fabric hata often match some part of the costume with which they are worn. A saller hat of black stitched taffetas is worn with a black suit and has a posy of field flowers to match the bright" colours of a plaid taffetas blouse. A hat and handbag of plaid linen: brighten a navy tailored street dress Smooth shiny straws lend themselves well to the ballibunt al, and Bangkok straws will all be textures, seen Rough rustic lustrous and dull, always make good summer hats. A new light burnt straw shade la becoming when worn with black and navy. Trimmings are restrained and simple, but there is a liking for: velvet ribbon, natural flower sprays, and highly polished bran

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