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THE PERFECT

BERET

Hat That Must Be

"Broken In"

By "Thilty"

I do like your beret," my friend said enviously. She spends any- thing you like an her clothes.

"It is rather a good one." I agreed modestly, and, to tell you the truth. It is the standby of my wardrobe.

"I suppose you wouldn't be a perfect angel and tell me, where you go it. I'd never breathe a word..

I thought a moment, and then said truthfully: "I think it was on the way to Bath in some village. shop. I was going to a dog show and I though; it was going to rain. I know. it cost is 3d."

Her silence was eloquent, but

I was telling the truth, and that

is one way to buy a good beret,

and even then unless you happen

to be in luck it may turn out to be no good.

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Always Looks Right

I could write reams on the buy- ing and "making" of berets. Some the people produce books on breeding of dogs, others on the schooling of polo-panies, but I expert. Remember am a beret

you may buy half a dozen beret's and none of them may be any good, and tben, suddenly. You find the perfect one.. The one which always looks chic and just "right" whether you wear it out riding or with a natty town suiting and your best coat,

You are almost sure to buy the right one in a village shop," and it will have a leather band in-

side. You tear out the band and proceed to stretch the beret by pulling it vigorously all 'ways, Then you wear it for half an hour, and if you are motoring you take it off and stuff it in your pocket. By next morning it is it to wear for a rather longer period. "After repeated showers of rain and giving it to the dogs as an article by which they may learn to retrieve, it will have assumed in a month or so that gallant and debonair air which is the hall-mark of the good beret.

A Beautiful "Patine" It will have that beautiful "patine" which connoisseura ad- mire so much in old furniture.

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The particular beret, which my friend envied so much had achie- ved 'it's ultimate beauty by being, ground into a muddy field when I gracefully, but inadvertently, left the horse's back during a mom- ing hack. This added the Anish- Ing touch to an already admirable head-covering, and it fi now pere. fect, ready to take the restrained note of an ivory and sliver' clip, or to scintillate with the brilliance of a diamond ornament.

All this has taken months to achieve, and you can imagine my despair when last week the beret could not be found. I was reduced to tears of exasperation when my husband said, "Surely you can buy another one"! Everybody searched for it, until it was found at last under the cushion of the car seas

This lovely creation is brown, but I have just seen the most beautiful blue one on the head of another woman, and absolutely in

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1935.

SPRING Style

Shoes And Gloves

Street clothes for the spring will be to a great extent dark blue trimmed with white. Accessories will take up these colours, and navy blue shoes will be trimmed with white stitchings of pipings or be of chamols colour and chamois leather. A tailored suit of navy- blue may be worn with a felt hat, scarf, handbag, and slip-on gloves. of chamois colour. Another set of accessories of chamois colour con- sists of a stitched beret, gauntlet gloves, and a wide crushable belt. White and chamois will also be seen with black and dark brown,

Shoes will harmonize with gowns. The soft dressmaker suit will be worn with a tie shoe of suede of the same colour; printed' crepe-de-Chine dresses and two- plece suita will have pump shoes of Eld matching the print.

Formal afternoon, or reception gowns will be worn with high- heeled sandala of Bätin or crepe- de-Chine, matching the gown er accentuating the colour of the bat. In the evening sandals are still frequent, especially of gold · and silver kid. Batin sandals may be in strong colour, contrast to á dress, and where they match they show a touch of gold or silver kid trimming. In the summer white shoer will be trimmed with brown or in half-and-half exfects of dark and white leather. Roughly woven linen in natural and string col ours makes plain court shoes; others are of leather: brightly trimmed.

For lighter summer clothes, ac cessories will be often dark. There will be hats, shoes, and bags of dark blue with white; "wine with dusty pink, tobacco brown with pastel blue, and a dark brown with grey Gloves of chamois, pigskin, and thick undressed, lea- thers are stitched. In town gloves will have wide flaring gauntlets covering a full-length or rape sleeves there will be long mousquentaire gloves of smooth and suede-finished leathers. Whe suede gloves are stitched in black, brown, or dark blue, and there are suede and kid gloves of many 601- ours, Gloves, lite shoes, will har- monize with dress generally,

VANITY BAGS OF

THE EAST

Ancient Chinese Art

Kensington

AL the South Museum are now on view the first articles of the Eumoriopoulos -collection, now in process of pur-

chase.

Experts in ancient Chinese art approach these objects in a spirit of hellgated awe: Bue has a cale for them. But they have interest for even the outer heathen, who does not know the exact pronun- ciation of the Chou Dynasty (and it seems you might just as well drop your "h's" and have done with it as blunder in this matter), and even the ordinary woman who in regard to these kings, Nike Mr Musgrove in regard to Bermuda and Bahama caanat "accuse her self of ever having called them anything in the whole course of her life."

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The mirrors are among the treasures which the initiate prize. very highly; naturally they appeal to a woman who looks upon this article of the "tollet-table *** symbol of her own striving afer .beauty.

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the right condition. You know, how saddles require "breaking mi? "and". how”, tiresome the process: can be."-- Well, this blue beret has been "broken in" by another was man and I. coret it, he is quite mit to wear for khe has large nose and the wrong mouth

and I want a blue beret båt

There are about a dozen of them in the collection, the smallest not much larger than half-a-crown, and the largest about the size of s tea-plate. They are mostly round in shape and devold of handles- but a small silken cord and tassel. looped through a little hook of the metal at the back, admirably takes the place of a handle. It can be caught through the fingers. thus holding the mirror securely in the hand at any required angle, and when the mirror is put down the cord takes no extra space; A point to be considered by mirror manufacturers.

ORNATE CARVING

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Ornate carving decorates the back of these metal mirrors of ancient days. One has a design of grapes around the outer edge, and, lying in the centre, guarding the

several cord-handle, strange monkey-like dragons. 'An- other plece, very rare indeed, is of silver-gilt.

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Time has no dulled the reflecting surfaces that even the crimson lips and mascaraed eyelashes of the modern girl would reflection; but it has also tinted the substance of them and added to their beauty. This is par- of the ticularly so in the case bronze specimens, which have lost their own hue and taken on “coats of many colours"-opal-like

CO- lourings of green, blue, orange, and violet.

Make-up boxes to-day form a very important part of a pretty terd women's equipment. They

to be fat, to open wide, to contain shallow wide-mouthed pots and to concentrate much too closely upon the train of ideas which as sociates enamelled silver with toffet-tables. In China, during

the three thousand years' covered by this exhibit, ladles used little bronze barrels, about atx inches high, to hold their cosmetics and brushes. At least, that is the pur pose provisionally assigned to a couple of beautiful recipients, one of them exquisitely ornamented on the inside with coloured paints, and made of gilt bronze, engrav

ed." The mere sight of it brings to mind Donn Byrne's "exquisite lady-Golden Bells wasn't she?— in his even more exquisite "Messet marco Polo. Did some Chinese Pope write a "Rape of the Lock" about its owner?

HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES

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Articles of household use rouse similar speculations. There is a bronze wine-jar: what did the wine taste like, and who drank it? It is now a lovely green. If s erstwhile owner, could catch glimpse of it in her journey upon the Wheel of Things would she like that or would she yearn for coustic soda and remember what- ever she once know about ptoma-. ine poisoning? Martha must be careful and troubled about many things, wherever she is: and any- thing belonging to the verdigris family is even more likely to trouble her than is that, alm. politely called patina, dron Buhi clocks and cabinets, or known as exidisation upon metals, . which she herself calls dirt.

The range of this small; easily seen, and entrancing exhibition provides a point of contact with almost every department of, at competent

housewife's mind.

There is a little useful pottery: some of it of good, un-tumble- overable shapes, and some whose loveliness of glase and colour is all needed to counteract its abomin- able top-heaviness. There are pletures; one of them shows how formidable cattle apparently hav- ing a high "old time capering to the piping of a little herd-boy. If he blew a horn instead of con- centrating on making his pipe work (probably trying to produce an even shriller and more intoler able note than ever before), he would be our own Little Boy Blue.

FROM THE TOMBS

There is a figure of a lady in pottery, with two muffins of hair on her head and her feet turned well and truly up, a Priscilla fichu on her shoulders, and "Asting sleeves to her wrists, of the cut and finish which distinguish for most of us the dressmakers we can't afford from those we have to use. She came out of one of the tombs which have been turned up, not by archaeologists, but by the people. who make rallways.

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of Confucius and another sage. That seems a great deal of augustness to back up Belinda's preenings One can hardly ima- gine a mirror to-day with G."B.. 8. on its reverse side. And hệ, of course, would have to be alone.

Mayo's

HONG KONG TOPPE

Milady's Modern Milliner

Fascinating New Summer Hats

South Arcade.

Gloucester Building.

Eve

Opposite Hong Kong. Hotel China Building

Wash Dresses

from $3.75

Linen Coats

from $12,50

Summer Gloves

from $1.50

CHANGING STANDARDS IN BEAUTY'S CULT

A Shiny Face Is Now Fashionable

A few years ago no one would have believed that the matt.com- plexion could have any rivals to favour with the modern woman. But it is true that the slightly shiny face is now fashionable, and it is the smart young mar- ried women of Paris and New York society who have intro- duced this beauty culture revolu tion.

Artists ánd sculptors have more than a little to do with it, for both have complained of the "Satness" that the matt com- plexion gives to a woman's face, and

dow that good "bones" and purity of outline count for

more

in a face than "dimples ard rosy cheeks, a slightly shiny

make-up in public is now gene-. rally deplored, the shiny-surfac- ed skin is not going to need the same repowdering in crowded re- staurants ar hot ballrooms za the matt-surface skin,

One way of obtaining this new "surface" is to use foundation cream of a rich, feeding quality. which at the same time aquis- hes dry skins and heals rough ones-A specialist who makes up this cream advises her clients to absorb any moisture by light pressure with a face tissue before. powdering lightly. The clean- sing gloves that are used by the Duchess of Kent instead of tis sues are likely to become popular. for this and for taking cleansing

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soft, airticated powder in a shade FOR THE OLDER WOMAN that matches the forehead and the neck rather than the cheeks. (Mad

No doubt it is part and parcel: of the classical: rogue both in dress, decoration and beauty cul- the Greeks thought ture, for "more" of contour and line than of superficial, prettine. The time is, however, I am sure still There is a bowl of early crackle- far off when a shiny nose will ware. One cannot look at it with be fashionable, but it is worth out wondering at the way in noting that when a sightly, stliny which moralists try to stamp out surface is fashionable. for the Four quite different types of error and manufacturers (and "face the nose must not be over- cooks) are willing to see its good powdered. That is where such points. English looms now. in- a preparation as paste prevent- clude machines for producing"slub. ing nose-shine la useful, for it materials. At one time there were holds the minimum of powder machines for eliminating that "and" women, can have confidence pleasing little nubble. Ever so in it for at least six hours and did the Chinese potters labour to need not constantly repowder produce the crack-lies (dark

with dirt) which appear upon -- a - household crock just before the housewife decides it is fit for the 'dustbin." "The same iden as" in crazy-paving ia the gardert. "Crazy" seems the right word. But aren't we all?

They, were, too." One of the niirrors has on the back of it no less a representation than that

Two other reasons for this radical change in make-up may be adduced. Dry skins, from which most Englishwomen suzer and to which all women who diet and live in centrally-heated houses are prone to suffer too. are aggravated often by the

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nstringer nature. "matt" skin foundations. Blace

face powder are made up by one expert one for tropical condi tions and extreme sun heat. which absorbs perspiration and cools the skin; one which con- tains a skin food and is intended for the dry, sensitive skin and this will probably be a favourite one this spring-a third, which evolves oxygen when in contact with the skin and tones down a too high colour and the fourth, which was first made up 30 years agota

In the photograph a lipstick s hown being applled to the lower lip as well as to the upper in order to bring attention to the chin line. It is an old beauty maxim that the lower Up khould; not be ranged unless there is a reason for accentuating it, but the modern importance of face contour is a sufficient reason.

Women with large mouths will and that these look smaller 1. darker tone of lip stick is used, and the contrary is also true. An American specialist advises her clients not to extend the co- lour to the corners of the ps unless they want to make their mouths look larger. It is imy tant paiso not tố: fall into erroz so, graphically described by Rebecca West in a

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Nothing could be more becom ing to the older Woman than a really good tailored suit. In the current Paris Fashiong lasne, you can see Vogue's idea of a really smart costume of this sort. It has a brown white check wool- fen cape and diet, „silt discreet- ly at the hem. The plain brown Jacket has wide revers pockets: and a belt. It's chic, becoming, slimming. What more could our ast?