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FINISHING TOUCHES
To Give That Smart
Look
There are many bewitching little bits of finery which, rightly used..can serve to make left-over clothes from last year look the smartest on parade for this sea- son, writes a correspondent.
They don't cost much. Grgandie trimmings, for instance. If you are fond of a little bit of dainty needlework, you can make any amount yourself for the price of a song.
Rumes are the prettiest. You buy them by the yard, and if you are very young, you take off the collar of your high-necked frock and sew a strip of foamy white- ness around your throat instead.
It has a dashing air which can Be accentuated with cuffs and pocket trimmings of the same.
When you reach the thirties, elegance must take the place of milkmaid demureness and cheeky .smartness.
The same frillings are laid fist- ter, chosen wider and brought -down to extend into a fabot at the front or to flow' into the front part of draped, short sleeves. Both ways are successful.
Cardigan suits and swagger coats, if not "of a too "¿weedy" material, can achieve a super smartness. A short, wide cravat -really wide--should be folded
over in the ordinary way, and the ends passed through a fancy ring, pinned down with a large brooch.
For material, choose a heavy georgette or a dead white pique. This is the perfect trimming for a taffeta tailor-made, and it has a Georgian aspect which is being accentuated on various styles of dresses in similar ways.
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BLOUSE FRONTS
Modesty vests are mainly frilled affairs these days--four or five Irills cascading down the front of the bodies in sheer, foamy exuber- ance False blouse fronts to wear. under sults are made in the same way.
White is not the invariable
choice, however. Printed mus- lines., Checked organdies, taxeta - ribbons, flowered cottons all. have.
4 chance to show themselves. Some of the nicest collars and cuffs are made up in red checked orgendle with a fluting of white -round-the-edger.........
Flowers are often lifesavers to a dress, and for the moment, at any rate, it is smarter that they should not be real. Put a neck- lace of camellias--white pique ones round your black satin dress. and pin two more on your bag- this extra touch for special occa slons only, please!
FLOWER GARLANDS Garlands of field flowers trim widebrimmed straw hats for the daytime, and can be taken off and worn a bandeau round the hair at summer dances.
Shoulder capes and wee coatees don't sound new, I admit, "but they never fall to have a cherring effect on an almost rejected frock from last year's wardrobe. Again I stress the importance of pique, tulle and organdié, p
Let it down to the hipline a the back and up to the waistline in front. and have. semi-revers and a turn-down collar. - It will prove a valuabe friend, costing a mere triae.
Belts. A new one can give.u frock an entirely different look.
Collect belts with fervour. There are
for plaited taffetas simple, dark frocks, pastel-colour- ed 'slik ropes with chromium but- tons, or brilliantly-coloured woo- den cubes joined with elastic. The weirder the shape the brigh- ter the colour, the smarter you'll be.
Don't neglect bizarre Jewellery if it suits you. The newest brace- lets are in rubber and çork, boas- ting brightly-painted designs. This idea rias been well exploited for bathing fabs. Choker neck- laces in rubber are being made to match swim suits, and very attractive they are too!
Now for the important hand- bag. An outât can be either ruin- ed or made by this accessory Don't be extravagant, though- choose carefully.
You might even try the notion of having two in one. I have seen a red kid bag which in a few seconds, can be transformed into. one of those new crocodile-calf afairs. The bag consista of two. flat compartments which turn on leather hinges.
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CROCODILE AND KID
Frameless handbags are coming popular. A new shape made entirely of blue morocco leather is amongst the best sel- lers."
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY AUGUST 10: 1934.
DRAPING THE
BERET
FROM PARIS
Black and White Popular
In Paris women are never tired of black or black and white.
They maintain that it always looks right, and how right they
An attractive example of the black and white outôt was shown recently.
The dress is cream satin, very neat and "tailored" looking.
The tunic is the thinnest black velvet, which, although It sounds an unsuitable material for sum- mer-weather, is actually, cooler than satin. or the thicker silky.
The hat of black velvet will appeal to the woman who likes large hats. It is trimmed with black paradise.
Many women do not care for
* Autumn Crowns Will large hats.
And this reminds me, overlook your initials.
"Have them at least once some- where on your person. In wood on the buckle of your dress in -brass or chromium on you hand-"
bag. in your hat or your brooch.
The newest ones are joined to- gether in fantastic shapes, and some wag has christened "Branding Irons."
them
Elizabethan Ruff
Returns
High collars, which are coming back into vogue for the autumn and winter, have made an ad-. . vance appearance In evening modes, These collars, reminis- cent of the Elizabethan ruff, are made in all kinds of richly de corative materials, including lame and gold and silver, gauze.' Often they are finished in front with a large jewelled clip.
The ruffed collar is made of plain gold lame. The upper and lower collar are stiffened, with a rude of the lame in. the centre. Another novel shape in evening collars is fashioned of silver gauze, the front in Jabot form being horizontally boxpleated This is worn very high under the Be taflor-made-looking in an chin, the flat bow at the top of accessory of this kind. It's un-the jabot reaching almost to the usual and unexpected. A wee
ears with a V-shaped chin open-
"sun-down" coat, as we now calling, and tying at the back with a
it, would like to be made with a pert little collar hugging the neck and double caped rather suit sleeves.
BELTS AND BRACELETS Ends can cross over in the front "and tie slickly at the bath.⠀ Make it in the gayest 'colour you can find, and wear it over, any of your more sombre dresses,
Swagger coats are very likeable, even for indoor occasions. Make one in spotted muslin, "with a short yoke that will do dufyas sleeves.
slender bow of the gauze.
The tricorne in fine millinery. velvet finished with a flat bow at the back of the hair is among the smart millinery models that will appeal to the woman who likes to be different. The tricorne is in two soft colour tones, a new red and a quiet brown, and hás a clever little pleat at the side of the turn-up brim which gives a very becoming line. This type of hat suits the curled coiffure ang the pleated neck ruffle collars of organdie which are being WOTTI with dressy autumn suits.
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Be Deeper
(Special Air-Mail Service)
London, July 25. Women will certainly rejoice in the fact that the new headgear will be easier to wear. The latest bérets are quite comfortable, 'though. fairly fiat in the CZÓWIŁ There is not that shallowness that makes them gilde in all direc- tions. The appeal of these pèreis lies chiefly, in the wonderful drapery. Some are very wide. worn well on the forehead; others narrower and showing a novel side movement, but the bead is securely fitted. All sorts of eaal- (y-draped materials are vised. Softest straws, taffeta, ribbon, cloth or duvetyne-even tweed... with lovely ponnes and velvets.
The milliners promise us great- er comfort in the new shapes. The wide-brimmed, shallow crowned hats of summer were Jlable to be disturbed by the slightest summer breeze, The draped bérets and newest pan-- cake shapes, tied on with a wide ribbon over the crown and under the bunched curls at the back, spell a compromise between Wat- teau and Bo-peep fashions.
Where there are plenty of curis.. "and back-trimming this is a pic 'turesque 'and happy style for the remainder of the immer, as wévét ribbon is looped over light cream-straw or open trellis work of fabric ciré; this will later on give place to panne and velvet.
The smartest afternative to these is a rather large beret, pul- led well forward in front.
Brilliant Prints
As an alternative to plain
materials, there are others prin- BRIGHTER HATS
ted in rainbow shades.
Bird patterned materials are. more fashionable than those with R dower design, but either Is i correct."
If a pain, material is chosen, an ultra-fashionable note can be introduced "in the form of a bird used as trimming.
It may be spread dat across the front of a dress, or stuffed and perched on one shoulder.
Vivid. coloured Howers look well against a black background.
With a dress made of black silk dotted with' scarlet nowers the owner wares large black picture hat with red flowers for trim.- ming..
Little coats, which will appeal to those women who want to smarten up summer dresses for the holidays, are made from gay printed crepe, embroidered organ- die, white pique and natural co- loured linen,
In two or three weeks fashion buyers from all over the world will journey to London and Paris to learn the secrets of autumn fashions.
Weeks ago, while women were planning the summer outfits. dress designers were thinking and scheming in terms of winter materials like fur and velvet. The "holiday" months are their busiest time.
London, like Paris, has its dress secrets. American buyers take London, Like Paris, has its dress that their information may be complete.
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***BLACK TULIP" SHADE FOR NAILS
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Pigeon blood red, so dark as to resemble a black tulip, if the shade of a new nail lacquer that lady Louis Mountbatten is almost the first smart woman to use.
During the two days that she wns in London Lady Louis had this applied by a Chinese expert, who is so much in demand that he files from one plage to another in August with his “point-box"
Panne, chiefly in black or a.. new red-plum shade, will herald the autumn. It is light and yet rich and becoming, Tomato, a flammingo-tone, will he
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the brighter colours. The dead Victorian shades will be favou- rites, especially with the wide draped berets made in @Anest cloths. Too bright colours would prove overpowering, and the dead-lear tones are flattering to most English complexions
The coolie shapes are no longer so smart, 'A few f' taffeta „to match the Kimona wraps are to be seen, but their day is over.
Although lightly and cunning- is introduced by means of fine handwork, hats will show plenty of trimming. Beautifully made wings and feather fantasies are placed right across the back of the remaining straws and on the. new felt shapes.
Flowers and bows of ribbon and fabric will in the back space of all these tilted-forward shapes. So many women prefer that straight-on-the-forehead style, though the smartest and newest. movement is that of the large draped beret, tipped right over to the right side. It is not hard. and is entirely different from former side effects. It is a revival, only the draped, bat of Victorian days was heavy, and rendered more so by being perched up on mountains of hair.
Decorative fabrics that look like embroidered taffeta, damasks, ar ratsed pluch effe will be chaser later on
What kind at a figure shall we be cutting when autumn, arrives? It is a question to which almost every woman would love to know the answer.
Ronald Morrel, the Britisa -dress-designer threw some inter-
esting light on the subject.
Women, it seem are tired of the "little girl" complex. Fills and favour of dignified simplicity. especially in evening gowns.
These will be moulded to the figure, and practically seamless a state of adairs made possible because manufacturers are now producing 60 and 70-inch wide materials, which allow the desig ner plenty of scope for producing cleverly draped "and" swathed effects.
...Ground length skirts with extra long trains are promised, with all silk velvet so fine as to be almost transparent as one of the amar- text materials for evening dresses. Some of these velvets are plain, others are interwoven with gold
or sliver thread.
Metal Velvet
A beautiful material known as metal velvet has
"corduroy stripes of velvet on a transparent background run with silver thread. It is exquisitely supple, is made in several colours, and looks especially well in oyster grey
Next to these velvets, lamne is “tipped” as the most sought-after material for evening gowns,
Some lames are interwoven with artificial silk and may show a small criss-cross design. Others have a damask smect.
VOGUE
Gay Velvet Models
The milliners are making use of some Victorian colours. They are rather bright, and many of the hats are composed of velvet. They form a charming contrast against the quieter black, white, and black-and-white crepes, mus-- Uns, and taxetas. Brown and da. hita are becoming tones for the yelvet beret, or the neater shady mushroom shape in straw.
Emerald, green and R vivid. Chinese, yellow are favourite sha- des for the new felts, which are of the soft, light, pull-on category A deep rose-pink felt was seen with a black organdi dress, and
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FASHIONS THAT SURPRISE
Autumn Novelties
This autumn it will not be quite enough for your little sult, your afternoon or evening frock to be beautiful in colour, become
with it a short cape of pink tea-ing in line. To be in the vogue
ther-cire. A black-and-white
frock had a beret of green velvet shaded with a feathered cape to match in colouring.”
There are still some quite large. black straw cire hats worn, and others with wide brims made of brightly coloured taffeta The brighter hat has given a new note: to summer dressing, for even in velvet they have a brillant look
the sun, which is helpfin to the more sombre styles of frocks. Coloured beadgear, in fact, is fas- hlon's latest craze.jp
Brown velvet gloves, with a be ret to match, can be extremely ef *fective worn with a brown-and-
belge muslin frock. A capelet - of velvet in belge-and-brown sug-: gests an ́autumnal: forecast. A lovely bright turquoise" velvet to- que, worn with a narrow feather neckist; and a fete frock of black- and-white atriped organde-etre was most strikding.
Coloured furs will be used on evening dresses. Do not be sur prised to see an elegant creation with a six-foot train and made in gold or silver lame or metal velvet with shoulder straps sleeves of blue or green moleskin
The low-down back, stay Necklines in front are preparing to sink very low. If they should cases, to be discreet tulle-or chison will be be used to make good the deficiency in dress mate-") and orange the darker brown and
⠀⠀⠀ The newest small hats in velvet show a distinct feeling for the higher tiara front, but this is on- -ly in, models of a dressy order. The practical pull-on berets in wool felt, and slik have a brim and if the head firmly.” BrowA is a colour that is becoming fan hlonable before Ita fime," "for- brown' always, suggests, autumn," but with the lavish use of yellow
„beige tones are a popular cholce
it must also possess the addi țional and intriguing element of the unexpected.
For too long fashion has been static. Revivals of period modes, new colours, new materials" and " variations of line are introduced by dress creators each season, and are duly acclaimed and worn by fashionably dressed women.
At one of the first of the aut umn and winter dress displays of 1934-35 in Davies-street, surprise was the keynote of a number of successful models, and, as in most clever ideas, the unexpected. was Introduced in the simplest manner. A sedate little guit, made in a new woollen material, blue with a red fleck, has all that becoming charm and distinction which appeals to women with, an exclusive taste in dress. The skirt is closely moulded to the figure, the caped coat fitting the hips
THE TIARA HAT
There are some very attractive summer bérets. One, made small like a tiny tám-o'shanter, is in all black of some sort of fancy straw or plait, mixed with chenille. This has a chenille spotted fly-away veil, making a double brim, and would be ideal for cinema or thea-· tre, ne it is light and airy..
Casino foguer in cobweb-crino live and cellophane, are moulded on the tiara tine.":
to perfection. Apparently a one material model, until with a slight movement of the band the cape is turned up around the threat to form a scarf collar. Then comes the surprise; a vivid note of scarlet is disclosed. This is arranged by lining the cleverly cut cape with the contrasting colour. One end of the cape has. a double fringe, which is blue on one side and scarlet on the other,
Mystery Blouse
In another, charming, 1934-35 model a suit in the new dárk blue, green, which is going to be one of the favoured colours for autumn, apparently had facings and a swathed waistbelt of richly, coloured hand-blocked woollen Paisley patterned. With the coat. slipped of, these facings proved to be a most becomingly cut blouse
An evening gown of velvet brown with a clever colour ar- rangement in two sha alovely Venetian bright fame is anothe of the fashion surprise,
ed draper which can shor
velvety £30,
Informal Dinner Gowns
"LINENS AND MUSLINS
With holidays before us, many of us will welcome the vogue for the
less stereotyped evening frock. The cape attached seeins an admirable way of completing a two-coloured scheme, which is so effective at night. From a practical point of view. muslina: may not be so easy to pack as the crepes, and georgettes, but... they provide the less formal note. There were —some"-attractive Ascot frocks in patterned cam- brics that can with a little ad- justment appear as the ideal country house dinner gown, to don after tennis and golf,
COUNTRY HOUSE DESIGNS.
Particularly charming are agme of the best-known designs from" exclusive artists such as the green and white stripe with a simple corsage and cape sleeves with s border of crossway bands of plain green and a green sash, the skirt. being cut full to the feet. An other is in a red and white spot, with a berthe of its own This, has a short coatee of plain white, lined red, Both the cape and coatee are admirable extras for the country dinner dress, when on warm nights one saunters in the garden after dinner.
An attractive summery mode is in a checked hair-card muslin “in two shades of yellow to be worn with a cape of the more formal yellow taffeta, fastening up the side with amber buttons.
Amusing results are achieved by various new methods in the -wearing of capes. A formal frock of white musiin showed a atted, frilled capelet of black falle, fas- tening on one side with small Ivory buttons. This was wor with a soft hat of black fallle and shoes of the same fabric, with white stockings. A delight ful informal frock can be in duster linen in navy and white A long cape of navy men, worked down from the neck-line on both- shoulders with large white peart buttons and braided buttonholes, went with it." It had a Victorian air, which was interesting, as this did not interfere with its chic, E
Distinctive materials for these simple styles are not. dificult to Ecquire in the July sales.
Tolle and feather are two fave ourite mediums for fashion tr volities of the moment Bleeves. as an extra, and not as part a frock, since they start at wrist and leave off at the elbo line, unattached collars, up under the chin over the
collar
both as the case immense variety of capes.4 little.com
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