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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1935.

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PAGEANT OF FASHION LONDON NOTES

AT DRESS DISPLAYS

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CLOTHES GOLD AND SILVER TAFFETA PETTICOATS

There is great richness of "tab- ric and trimmings employed in the frocks, trains and wraps for the Court and ceremonial parties for the Jubilee season. On all sides one realises that fashion has assumed more importance than has been the case for years.

At the Courts of other years it' was only a question of the frock itself and the train. The March, Courts will bring not only the lovely fabric, colours and etceter- as for the Court creation, but beautiful wraps, which in many cases will be of the most luxurious furs.

Ermine purely white, but sometimes dyed in the becoming new shades, will be first favourite. In order not to crush the glories they conceal popular shapes will be the cape, graceful kimono, and even a new rendering of the old- fashioned dolman.

Very lovely are some of the-dyed mole-skins. One example in an appie-green cape was designed

for a debutante who is to wear an apple-green satin dress with a train of silver shot green, the lining of the train being of the satin.

A Court dress of golden lame flecked with sliver has a train of silver cloth lined gold. The wrap is a three-quarter kimono made in beige ermine bordered with an edging of mink and lined with golden lame. Golden shoes and a bouquet of gölden roses accom- pany this. Yet all this magnific- ence is treated so subtly that one senises the cunning simplicity of a very exclusive designer-one who knows how to convey regal magnificence with perfect slm- plicity of cut and style.

Some of the new cloque crepes are' lovely for the Court; some of these will be made on crossway lines. Cloque designs are fatter- lag if the raised stripes, pots, or flecks are well manipulated.

There will be much white worn worked with silver and completed by trains of silver, The Court wrap is charming when composed of, the same fabric lined with a flesh-pink velvet and perhapa & trimming of fcx dyed pastel pink.

There is no doubt that the pale tints are the usual choice for the early Courts. There are many kinds of new brocades stiffened by metal weaves.

The

A blush-pink more worked in Ellver is designed by a famous~ house, and represents an ideal de- butante's gown copied from her great-grandmother's time. short corsage, with tiny epualettes has a full godet skirt sweeping the ground. The train is cut slimly, a clever note being a taffeta lin ing to the train with border of tiny pink and stiver roses that just shows as the wearer walks.

Lovely ethereal fabrics, includ- ing many marquisettes in white and pale tones, are plentifully studded with seed pearls, coloured sequins or cellophane. Lace de- signs and many cire nets with quantities of pleated and gauged frills of tulle also go to the pic- turesque phase of fashion.

Flowers and sparkling diamante are used for shoulder straps, sharing popularity with glass in the new ice colours. Bilver bugles and seed pearls are Hght and lovely when arranged Like & shower of petals on to tulle, Col- oured taffeta petticoats under white tulle are another fashion come-back

either the old rounded or square decolletage,, or with becoming ficha that can be tied hack or front.

In smooth-surface slks and satins, also in some. of the new lace-cire, there are the tailored evening, or demi-toilette, models.

Folonaises created much inter- est athong a collection of lovely clothes at one recent "dress dls- play. A satin-cire fitted to above the kness and then stood out in dignified godets, buttoning all the way up the front. It was in black lined Wedgwood.

The blue petticoat rustled as the wearer moved, and the lovely colour showed again in cuffs and a spray of chiffon roses near the throat-a very graceful demi-tal- lette fashioned in the quaint polo- naise way.

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WHAT TO WEAR FOR THE SPRING CRUISE

Just es a few years ago the South of France outfit provided the first thrills of spring, so does the cruising collection full the same office to-day,

pale grey and fawn, a pastel pink and blue,' a"faint rose tinge. and a faded river green Dots. stripes and checks will ring the changes for blouses, scarves Victorians,and hats.

A good many experiments are being made with new materials and more complicated line for - What would the afternoon and evening has de- have thought of the hectic mo- veloped. There are more tefi- dern rush for a cruise round the mings and ✡ more general world? Tt took them a week to ornatenesa. Even sports clothes pack boxes for a month's visit! are a little more trimmed: four "One wonders, too, how they pockets appear on cardigans would have grappled successfully where two were before, and here with the simple variety of swed- and there a cape has been add-ters, white wool autts. tles, shoes, ed.

and all the hundred-and-one detalls that go to complete the cruising trouseau.

The cape is four in nearly every phase of dress. It appears on travel clothes of rough tweed and in a shorter form on light spring woollen town outfits, and in the evening there is wrap of black silk buttoned with diamanté buttons on a towing black dress with а Jewelled strapping showing above aropped line of the

cape. For afternoons out-of-doors there are three-quarter length coats with matching frocks. The long

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The narrow tailored slim sult in flannel or tweed is required for the start from England; with this there a long

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and light pullovers for all weathers. day or two later the spun-silks. Hnen-tweeds, Angoras, shantung. sheer-lawry crêpes, crêpons and canvas will be in request. Co- lours. too, get lighter for the sun; there is a new sane shade,

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Spring

WOMEN TAKE TO HOMBURGS

The Two Feathers

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feather

The low clerical type of collar keen on many of the new day. time models, needs a softening feminine touch, particularly if the material happens to be one of the fashionable darker colours in woollen or taffeta.

Two

orchid-tinted. plumes, emalt

yet perfectly shaped, adorned the throat line of a simple afternoon dress in black laffeta, scen at a recent dress" show. This is a novel variation of the flat silken blossoms which have been worn under the chin.

Another notion is the winged jabat, or cravat, of pastel-colour ed lisse, finely pleated with twin dips, shell-shaped, in chromium ar coloured, stones, pinced about 4 inches apart.

Women's hats for 1935 will not view of women's fashions for to have a clear vision, Fronts are cently. Lord Derby, president of cover their eyes, but enable them 1935, held at the Dorchester re-

minch unger, acting as sunshades, the British Textiles Exhibition, and give unhampered view. They said he was not an expert on are extremely chic, especially the fashion and knew his

S place. Homburg type, made of felt.

Therefore he would not make any Speaking at a private"" Fress "

comment on the dresses

SKIN CREAM

Seeing the Bacing!

But there is one thing I am. glad to say," he added, “and that is that the 1935 ladies, hats for Ascot will enable them to see the racing, instead of having them over their eyes, as they generally

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coat is now no longer part of two pieces; a loose coat, usually with big sleeves, is worn over an afternoon dress of the same material, whether wool or 'slik. Costumes of fine woollen navy- blue repp have broderie anglaise cut outs and are, trimmed with. white piqué; there are others of De woollens with loose-backed coats. Later on silk "ensembles" with raised surfaces will appear. Companion silks make neat costumes: a two-piece with the. three-quarter coat in a dark blue fancy silk crêpe with a light woven spot has been worn over & track of a simiar sie in a ght shade with a dark spot. Revers ible cloqué is treated in the same way. In the afternoon a great deal of black cloqué is used; one outft has short coat of eloqué with a vast bow of taffeta at the

trims the frock, Large bows are back of the neck; taffeta also

also found in contrast or toning colours on day frocks.

The tailor-made

has acquired

a neater waistline and may have. a white waistcoat of fancy piqué. But there are also sutts with the waistline shirred" in, and sük shirt-waists with shirred fronts. Other tailored suits have little coats closely fitted with seams; the lower parts jut out many ke basques some of these are of taffeta or fine wool lined in taffeta.

Rain and wind play havoc with the best of skins and many women

that will combat our' changeable find it difficult to obtain a cream

climate. Here is an inexpensive Referring to the display, which compound which can be made at was given in connection with the

Evening dresses exploit ROT- geous materials Glass sequins home with little trouble, BIF, Lord Derby said the Fair

closely massed or flowered Take three heads of lettuce and bad worked itself up to be one of pe make a plim evening the young tender leaves from the finest and biggest in the a youthful frock with a ruching KOWIL Of pale pink falle is three sticks of matured celery world. It was bringing empley fired in pale blue around the With the period-dressing ordin in boling water. Beat to a pulp Gibson hats, so I was told, are the gored skirt. A pina.ore of

and soak them for twenty minutes ment that was badly needed.

the Winterhalter neckline and ary evening dress can be made much more interesting. The glim

and strain to extract the fulce. coming back into fashion, but crisp black and gold lace pas princess line seems to be the real

To each three ounces of juice they are not the type that mother been arranged over a black silk foundation, which is the great 18, to added two ounces of used to wear.

ock, Spiral sour linen difference between the picture white wax two ounces of sper Instead they at close to the is used for evening dres dress, of the past and that of" macet, and six ounces of oil or head at the back. Most of the ther day. Over the perfect gure all sweet almonds, in the following new hats are all front

giving that "eager and

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manner of amusing fantasies can have full swing. There are some new shadowed and striped shot

silks that are charming for even Ing. A lot of these will take the place for summer evenings in the of the printed floral cre- pez now worn for the cruise. Many of them are made with

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Place far containing the wax and spermaceti in, hot water until the contents have

there appearance.

One of the most popular types Homburg,

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cream to use, and it quifelly tones The Duchess of Kent up the kin.

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Crystal and china battons are favoured for white and light fab- rics; the severity of black, brown or navy are given a frivolous touch by blobs of shining patent- leather. Belts are laced and platted to "match (or of several colours). neck-tle. Brightly coloured cords gloves gauntlets and

are used as well as leathers for belts and necklines.

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HONG KONG HOPPE Milady's Modern Milliner Fascinating

Spring Hats

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Fascinating Spring Prices.

Cleaning, Bleaching and Romodelling of Old Hats.

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studded jewels adorn afternoon Spun-glass and decorative

frocks. Lace insertions, borders," of fringe and feathers. Une seashells and coral lumps out- bateau necks and fas- trimmings that make clothes in- ten halter-collars. It is the

teresting this season. A couple o: beautifully made fowers are often tucked in the belt or sash of the afternoon frock.

When cruising all the hand- made flowers of feather, silk or wax must be kept in a tin box. Faded, limp towers are pressing.

so de-

snades and makes from those for Tweeds for sea are different in

the race and golf course. The various new watery, colours and weaves are less definite: The belge, pastel-blues, and misty- mixtures are easier to wear, and work in pleasingly with the changing atmospheres.

It is tiresome. not, to have en- embles cqually good for a day ashore. A soft grey mixture of "real flannel for the suit is good- when a lawn blouse or fight An- gora sweater and a straw fabric hat can suggest the fleck of colour that is woven in the suit. There are some faintly striped tweeds that can take bolder co- lours in stripes of silk or crêpe in blouses to correspond.

Attractive printed crêpes are good for evenings at sea.

These dresses neither crush nor welt in a wet atmosphere. Frocks of this type are particularly charm- ing for young people, and ex- cellent for river evenings in the fashioned with the new rounded late summer. They are simply

fairly high at the back. décolletage, lower in front and sleeves and a cape berche is one Short

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The parts

I was fortunate enough to see the of the flying trapeze." preview of this very excellent film, taken by the parrot and canary

a Metro Goldwyn-Mayer produc- were really marvellously executed. tion Joan Crawford plays comedy right through and does full justies

Carnation Distribution” All the ladies attending the 5

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The Cast incitides Clark Gable, ford's favourite flower.

We understand this is Joan Craw-

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Robert Montgomery, Bille Burke, Frances Drake and last but by no means least Charles Butterworth The story is that the Bride (Joan ZIPP FASTENERS Crawford) is deserted at the altar by Robert Montgomery who mar New developments in the light- ries instead the dark-haired siren ning or app fastener. Just an Frances Drake "The ffited Bride Hounced will make for its even to-he manages to laugh it off and greater popularity. The new fas- proceeds to steer her own course. teners are of a non-metnuíc cella- This goes on till practically the end lose materials, and are made. In of the film when. Joan discovers thirteen colourings, incinding

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