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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1935.

SPRING Style

The New Spring Outline

In spite of rumours there has been no attempt at a sartorial re- volution in Paris. The difference between slim morning clothes and fuller and softer afternoon dress is more marked, but in the evening both types will continue.

For tailored suits the essential outline is that of short Jackets, with slim skirts to which freedom of movement is given by pleats or slits. The swagger coat, full at the back, persists, and there are costumes like Eton jackets. Hip- length coats, may fit or hang loose. Other town costumes have short capes or loose anger-tip jackets over matching dresses. A black woollen Anger-tip length cape is fitted over the shoulders black and white printed crepe yoke, this material lines the cape and makes a hip-length "Jumper. For town on warmer days there.. are light woollen black and navy- blue frocks, intricately cut. but slim and finished with touches of lingerie at neck and waist Some of them suggest jumper sults or are worn, with short, square-cut jackets.

Printed Taffetas

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For the afternoon there are plain and printed taffetas dresses with slightly gored and smoothly fitting skirts. Fuliness may be concentrated in front by gathers kept flat by seeking; this keeps the hips slim and the bias cut

Frevents bulkiness. These tafelas dresses have leg-of-mutton sleeves. Crepe afternoon dress have wide sleeves gored in to fit below the elbow. Many have wide armholes and are cut in one with the top of the bodice to give a stoping shoulder.

Printed crepe-de-Chines in con- ventional and fower designs äre almost strictly tailored. The dress resembles a jumper sult with tal- .ored pockets; the full-length coat is plain. The neckline, is generally high by day, but there is a ten- dency towards a point and soft dra- pery to reveal the throat.

Low Necks

In the evening necks are low and often square. The narrow shoulder strap has reappeared. but small sleeves often cover the top of the arms. Though the blas cut gives slimness to heavy crepe materials, printed 'crepes and me- tal textures, chiffon and organdle gathered and shired give billowing fullness to long sweeping skirts. The bodices are inished with rows. of gauging at the neck and on the narrow shoulders. The same wide and sweeping effect is ob- tained in taffetas and stiffer ma- terials by gores which closely mould the hips, to a depth of six inches. The newest evening skirts

of taffetas and taille show the ankles in front and sweep to a train at the back.

FASHION NOTES

Colours For The Coming Months

Spring materials do not lack colbur, but it is subed rather than vivid. Besides navy blue there are other and lighter blues such as China and French bîle, and some of the old pottery blues; these are excellent shades for. spring and summer in street and Inore formal wear. Woollen sports materials will be in soft pastel colours. There are also tweeds in which two pastel col- ours are woven "together with a dark fleck, and boucle woollens of lighter weight with loose surface threads of contrasting colour. For coats and skirts there is a grey blue which looks well with navy with jue accessories. Tweeds ground neutral work have Decks of bright colour woven in and blouse and

which accessories match the flecks.

Sports Clothes

For sports clothes autumn col- ours are still shown, such as sha- des of cinnamon, copper and rust, combined, with capucine orange and bright green. Later on linens will again be seen in string and " natural shades and in off-white and soft pastel colours. Pastels are shown with accessories of white or dark contrasting shades such as pink with navy, natural with a red-brown, light bine with navy, and a burnt straw shade with lack Cinnamon and cop- per browns and a bright tanger- ine colour will be seen in beach and evening linens. There will also be a heavy black linen, and pink and rose and green and apri- cot will accompany navy and grey, With these bright colours.the pat- terned effect is achieved mainly by the texture. New wools and linens have crinkled or alub ef- fects; others have plaid, or strip- ed patterns woven in rellet.

Hand In Glove—

Gloves are things that cannot be trifled with. Most people be- gin well by putting them on the right way-fingers essed "in Arst and smoothed down gently, then the thumbs.

That Is when the gloves

are new. But when they get older the wearer grows careless and pulls them on like goxing gloves, and then they go completely shapeless:

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You may have wondered why "washable" gloves often do not look the same when washed. It was your fault for being too fond They need lake- of the hot tap. warm water, or they go pulpy and end up looking very queer..

There was a theory ones about Nowadays. leaving the soap In.

glove makers advocate rinsing the gloves out twice to make sure the soap has gone.

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Never" squeeze them out, nor put them by the fire. Hang them from the wrists and pull the fing- ers gently into shape as they dry.

Always lay your gloves out fiat. Their shape is the most import- ant thing and has to be preser- ved.

GREASE ON. SILK STOCKINGS

When silk stockings become spotted with grease they should be treated at once, as the longer the stains remain the more dimcult they become to remove." Soak the grease spots with tur- pentine. Leave for a time and then wash the stockings. If the spots are only alight and the again stockings must be worn

at once, rub a little French chalk over the marks and brush out well with cd soft brush. The absorb the French chalk will grease and make the splashes- hardly visible.

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Paper Patterns

With the new materials in the shops, the paper pattern again raises its head and devotes itself to the problem of spring clothes.

Though clothes have become more complicated of late and the blas cut presents greater dim culties than would at drst sight appear, the paper pattern in creased in popularity.

One thing that is taken for granted in making dresses from paper patterns is the use of the machine. Now the machine does not really work by itself..

It is an art to work a machine properly, to attend, above all, the tension and to do it so that there are no drags or puckers. and so that a pintuck is of a mar-velous evenness throughout its career,

The person who has not learnt to be really expert with the ma- chine would often find it easier and more satisfactory to make a dress by hand.

In any case, where a machine. is used, this should be primarily for long seams and for securing the sleeves when these have been well tacked Turning corners, doing complicated portions of the work, is done more safely by hand

Even with straightforward seams the tension must be exactly right if the dress is after- wards to hang sa it should. Paper patterns require a good deal of room

They should have a machine an one hand and an tròning board on the other And all work should be pressed as it pro ceeds and not long after.

Machines further, are suppos- ed to do the work more quickly. Most patterns are toolproof This is also not always the case, for setting the work, tacking it suficiently for machining usually takes far more time than any making

nowadays, but machining, › set-" ting, and pressing are matters which only the individual, can do properly. And it 13 upon these that success really depende

Some New Coiffures

fore having one's hair clipped for

a fringe.

The exposed

forehead is also likely to be drawn up obliquely to a tiaraor. curta. Sometimes this direct line is broken by a Very narrow "Allet, scarcely more than a thread.

Gay Patterns Prints, however, continue to be gally patterned, and there are many prints in large single flow- ers or big loose sprays. For day- time, most prints are two-toned, but besides the small conventional designs of white on black, brown ⠀ and navy, lilac pink and soft tur quoise bines are used on dark back- grounds. Printed crepe-de-chine and chifigns appear in a number of yellow and capicine shades, and line fuchals and purple are combined in nower design on light and dark grounds, Grey also

The neck, however, is swept give a shadow effect to "prints.

clean ofcuris, the movement: Failles and taretas will be seen belig swiftly upward Fringes

Partings, at the moment, fre- quently send the hair in two different directions, one straight back along the edge of the part Hairdressing this season is dising at its right, the other, on the tinctly different from anything that has been seen before in our time.

Its basis is no longer waves but at corkscrew curls arranged in bands, which may form a cornet- like line across the top of the head ear to ear; or a diagonal path from ear to naper or from a thickly massed caplike effect at the back of the head.

in the evening with many shot are modish, but are discourged effects;

pure allts, with

left, downward in a thickly curl- ad mass,

When the severity of the line can be wors" becomingly, a fat, uncurled unwaved plane over the temples is particularly smart.

However, what may be de- nominated as "curly individual- iem" is the slogan in beauty par "lours, writes a correspondent.

Individualiem

The authoritative gentlemen

who preside over colures stress us incividualism always. To

checks and wide stripes, will give for those whose good looks thes one of them I remarked a day or

these colour reflections.

persist, Evening

Pastels are still good for the evening; amethyst and lavender and many shades

low also often show new colour "com

sts: Pate grey or ivory in shown with fuch- sis, white is trimag rith ogra flower blue or geranium red, dark blues, and deep mauve have sott green as a contrast and a deep coral or cinnamon brown is seen z on ice bluck

do not enhance and these are. many

One coiffeur told me that "fringes detract from a look of tenpcence and artlesencas, giving a face au expressi of calcula ting wisdom.

One is

Over-Intense).

forced to tists"become!

well to consider the

so ago, wishing to seem informed. "The mode now is a fat planë over the ears, is it not Mon deur? To which he replied, dependa, Madame,

should Now for you softer Line,"

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