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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1935.

SPRING Style

Butterflies and Field Flowers FASHION NOTES

BRING A SUMMER AIR TO FABRICS

To be youthful, decorative and inexpensive are ideal qualifications for the debutante's dinner trocks. The full gored or godet skirts and picturesque, corsages are admir- ably suited to the varity of fancy crepes and muslins, The new spotted taffetas even if a little more dressy. are youthful looking.

Young people should make good use of all the latest Ideas in sum- mery fabrics. The plainer mater- fäls can be reserved for colder days and nights. The many re- vivais in fashions are best in fri- velous stuffs. There seem to be endless fascinating designs,

A Fight of butterfiles is a great favourite with a famous designer -sober. brown butterflies on a background of beige. Grey-green anemones decorate a black sur- face. Blue birds on a pale yellow crepe suggest Chinese induence

Buttercups and marguerites are. closely packed on a creamy ground, and sweet peas of many tender shades repose on a pale- green chiffon. White orchids, and green fern flaunt pleasantly on a black surface. Designs this sea- son are quite inspiring. A clever choice for the debutante is "Love- in-the-Mist"

on, a grey crepey curface. Posles of stiff popples and cornflowers are effective on black musila,

Wool georgette with a raised spot is sponsored by many prac- tical girls. A good mode] is in Jade green with shoulder straps of crystal flowers. Another in a cream wool spot has a slik plait- ed "girdle of scarlet, and a trull.of gerantums in the same tone.

Flowers are delightfully pre- seated this season. In silk, mus- Ja, feather, wax and velvet, every blossom is faithfully reproduced: Nothing in fashion has advanced more in excelence than artificial flowers. They are now a joy to Took at and add a pleasing Anish to dress,

The old-fashioned Victorian corsage: bouquet is a welcome ad- junct to the decolletage. So is the shoulder trail Flowers are,

used in every way, and are pro- ving one at the most successful "comeback" fashions,

The best artificial blossoms are not cheap, but neither are they very expensive. "Doly good flowers should be worn, and they must be fresh, for anything of this kind that looks "dashed" loses its at- traction.

This is one of the dangers of the picturesque old-world modes. "Fantasies" are charming when fresh and crisp but once any formi of finery gets "tired" It is entirely finished as a fashion. It is far better for the debutante on a Hin- Ited drese allowance to aim at a certain severity and simplicity of style than to be tempted to wan- der into the realm of, the picture- aque when carrying out a scheme to a successful Anish.

There was never, a time dress details occupied such an import ant place in the general scheme. They are a heavy item in the youthful budget. Gold, bracelets and all sorts of gold and fligree ornaments may accentuate the Victorian element in moire or taf- fets. plan and spotted. They look well with gold kid shoes and flo- wers. Crystal and coral beads and ornaments are pleasing addi- tions to fluffy frocks of chiffon and net

For the summer evening wrap taffeta and lace capes may, mo- mentarily usurp the place of erm- ine and silver fox, but anyone possessing either "of these furs will not fall to wear them. The popularity of the cape assists largely in the choice of the even- ing wrap.

There is a short cape that is part and parcel of the "extra" designed for a dress, with large balloon-like sleeves and cape fas- tening into the waist.

What London Is

Wearing

Many Summer hata continue to show a forward tilt. Fiat safor hats, with brims from Zin. to 4in. wide usually have squared crowns,

and

are simply trimmed with " gros grain or cire ribbon; some have small tight flower posies. The breton, large "or small,' may have an upstanding quill on the slightly pointed crown, or a wax- ed quill thrust through the front.

The coarser, straws suit these somewhat severe styles beat, and will be seen in white, natural, and dark shades;, there is a deep burnt straw, which looks well with black, navy blue, or brown. Taffetas and tie silks in checks or dots and pique plain and fan- cy, are also used for these shapes. and lend themselves also to scar- ves and buttonholes. A white pique sailor hat with a square crown dipping at the front is trimmed in front with a white pique Hower; the flower appears craval scarf and gloves are of the as a buttonhole, and the plain

quilted taffetas will be worn with same material. Stitched and

two pieces of printed crepe where the

coat lined with match- ing taffetas. There will be white hats of linen and stitched satin; blouses and ties worn with them will match. Light weight felts will continue.

fabric usually have small brims Sports hats of jersey and angora

rolled up at one side, but with the forward tilt. There are also tiny fiat bercts wih small feather mounts, same drawn forward and flattened into a vizor, and quilt- ed. woollen fabrics made like tweed capes.

On straw hata pos-- les of flowers and small feathers will take up the colour of print- ed silk dresses plain coats, and ali-printed two-piece suits.

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A younger style gives the of-the- face outline in bonnet or halo form, or in a brimmed shape which shows, the forehead and side hair. In ane felt with small vell the halo hat is for race meetings and the like. A bönnet to be worn with a suit should be of ribbed straw or linen and plainly trimmed with gros grain ribbon. The profile hat is of an easier line, and may be of straw or fabrics stitched and plain; it is trimmed with tiny Lowers or Alat feather pads. "Cockades of grus grain in contrasting colours are also wOFTHE

Some small hats, like those of the sixties, are trimmed with ost- rich feather tips; others have a Light paay

at the back, from which a small vell falls. Velik are of every shape, and may be. of ne mesh with large chenille dots or with patterned border. In colour they trim simple hats of fine white straw.

SIGNAL HAT FASHIONS

There are three main hat" types this summer, large hats, salior hats, and hats featuring a forward movement. Vogue describes them in the new London Fashions issue, and shows you some, grand ex- amples of each And there's a fourth hat, which does not be- long to any of the three types- but has a chic all its own. This is the "Two-Way" beret. It's the cleverest trick imaginable. One way its pluriges forward; turn it round and your acquire à saintly, and modish halo,

A TIME AND PLACE

For Every Fashionable Shade Of The Season

dusty pastel was looked at ask- Last summer anything but a

ed herself on knowing all about ance by the Parisienne who prid-

clothes. This summer's colour range includes both dusty and bright. This might make every-: thing seem easy and straightfor- ward to the person who has not much time to bother about the essentially right shade, but it is not so simple as all that

Pungent, bright pastel shades have been set aside for sports and country wear. Baby blues and pinks would somewhat vapid and Ineffectual on the links, but jonquil yellow, heather pink with a dash of mauve in 1. and a bright leaf green trans- form the wearer into a vision of

plied in touches and accessories spring. These colours are

to accompany a suit rather than for a whole outfit, but later on in the season they will appear in simple country or seaside frock

As predicted some months ago, the smartest and most effective spring ensembles combine

toro and even three colours-three being more sophisticated than two, demanding as they do more thought and deliberation achieve harmonious whole.

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Yellow, pink and blue, but in dull tones this time, are," the

bined with black, navy. leaders for daytime wear, com- green and brown. After that come

cely see an all-white dress or green and orchid. You will scar-

cult this 'summer, They lack chic. Instead, the women with clothes cense will wear with white flaming scarves, contrast- ing jackets in a vivid monotone. or equally bold printed fabric and a hot another colour.

Green, yellow and violet in one outit sounds terrible, but just visualise '8 clear green for the dress, the neckline Anished with La violetseart and a yellowish felt hat matched in the light chamois gloves, and you wil realise the effectiveness of the scheme..

For afternoon wear a dusty pink or cloudy blue dress topped by a black coat cut to reveal a

· génerous amount of the skirt in

front is an ensemble. idea which can never go wrong. Later on in the season the dress can be worn- alone with, bisek, navy, or brown accessories

Soft maize yellow, amber hues, light tortoiseshe, and misty blues with a lot of grey in them are new and attractive colours for evening wear, especially for a chiffon dresa, provided they supply the necessary touch

colour relief in the form of belt... sash, paillette embroidery, Boat- Ing panels, or sleeves. Lanvin shows a white crepe dress with full, gathered skirt longer than ground length all around, with sleeves in a lovely shade of amp- phire velvet embroidered in git tering paillettes.

Lelong places a bodice and elongated bip yoke amethyst vel- vet over a billowing skirt, of pale mauve organdie, topped by a waist length jacket of the vel- vet, with wide bel aleeves lined with the mauve organdle, and Luctie Paray combines dusty plnk linen and black crêpe in a novel caped jacket, with armholes just covering the shoulders and tying in a jaunty bow between the two the yoke of the evening gown. shoulders in the pink to match

In the

which continues

black crepe in a long, sinuous line. "Touches of white on navy,

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black and grey are always right, but this does not mean acquir Ing white blouse, vestee or jabot, and letting 16 go at that. Form as well as medium need study to achieve elegance. The collar and cuffs called upon to place their finishing touch on a suit should follow the line of the cloth collar and cuts a round Eton collar is wrong with "á tallozed jacket and vice versa. On the other hand, the continued fashion of high but collarless dresses and coata has brought. with a number of Lew ideas in neck finishes Chanel is a past master in the art of “dress-" ing up" a neckline. One of the most attractive is a collar and cuffs made of three fayers of organdie petals shaped in a little round collar with matching petalled cuffs peeping out of the turned back cuffs of a navy sult.

NAVY BLUE IS FASHIONABLE

Navy blue with white is one of the fashionable colour schemes fun Summer outfile.

Navy blue makes on excellent foundation colour and is a colour, which is becoming to so many types and all ages.

So popular is navy blue this season that even stockings are dyed this shade. Nary shoes, of course, ige hare And for some time, and this year, wurde and fine kid are most pojkar

White combines xery smartly for accessories with navy blue, while joft jubilee blue and thell pink are most attractive with dark navy..

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