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MORE THAN EVER

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Maizees

St. George's Bldg.

Chater Road,

Semi-Annual

- SALE

ALL SUMMER DRESSES AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.

Hats, Girdles,

Bags, Brassieres.

1⁄2 PRICE

You can't go wrong at a Maizee's Sale.

No Exchanges

July 8, 9, 10th.

New Shipment

cf

Very Smart Dresses

for

Afternoon & Evening

SALE

of

Evening & Day Dresses

from $10.

at

RIVELLE

Gloucester Arcade.

GOLF SHOES

For Few Days ONLY!

Tel. 93186.

That will survive the

roughest

wear.

New models now to be

seen at Gordon's Ltd.

Prices from $10.50 pr.

Gordon's Ltd. Hong Kong's Ladies' Shoe Specialists:

SALE

Women's Shoes!

Entire Stock to be cleared.

Drastic Reductions!

Evening Shoes Sandals Day Shoes Golf Shoes

and hundreds of pairs in all sizes

Ladies Department

LANE ORAWFORD, LTD.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1935.

Fashion

PRE-VIEW

THE VELVET HAND

In The Modern Glove

It will be a hand-to-hand fight as to who will wear the gayest"

Puritans this gloves

season. considered collars as strips of lace, plain

deploring lines. whether pointed or plain, as a at Prevost of "Oriel" once said dinner, after announcing badgers as his subject, that he "depicred their disrepute."

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Much later than Cavalier col- lars there came 'a time (quite healthy people now alive still re- member it). when gloves were hand coverings, and 'hand-cover- ings only. They were not epig. галіз, от flirtations, or part of the trimmings of the dress, or arabesques traced upon the air. They were as severely what they were as a Lifeguardsman's un- Kotm is what it in.

They went by button lengths (ranging from two or three for day-time wear, and from twelve. to twenty for evening, as sleeves shortened); and they were of kid --suede was long viewed" askance white for evening: black, brown, er mush room for afternoon, the mushrouin permitted for wear with light summer frocks: and tan for hard morning work. like going shopping after the rain had stopped.

GLACE-KID AGE

Nothing else, ladies. That age. cot of ice, was the age of glacé -kid, and it allowed no fan- tasy at all. From that age dated the dictum that a gentlewoman in known by her gloves and her shoes. Her shoes but that is too attractive a by-path. Ary- how, they were as comfortable, to dri as her gloves. Moreover, they also were of sizes four to six and a balf. Nobody of the class to be known by her hand. and foot wear ever took a size seven then-nor alvt two-foot stride or a back-hander efther.

Their feet and hands smaller in proportion to ours than present sizes seem to gug- If we only take sixes where they tuck fives, let us reż

here they member much preferably, let us us forget the knightly action of the boot and glove trades, which first fell into syncope when the result of open-air occupations upon feminine measurments be- came apparent, and on corning to, decided, in the most chival rous manner, that all sizes were to slide backwards,

The

hitherto seven was hence forbr S KİX,,

From the tyranny of glacé, kid

were

i.

are

of

they were maurish, Now, Heaven

us, they look down-upon

lady-like-made positively lace, or organdi, or waxed mus- lin, by my halldom! A voice from the back of the hall says: Then why the gauntlet?". Let this purblind survival of the days et armoured protection be with the answer: Its shape accords with the present outline of wo- We men's shoulder and sleeves. shall hear no more of him, poor old boy.

REQUIRED

For there is no answer to that. If the line is required, that line we will have. And we are · al- ready lucky li It has even so much as the answering to a re- dan, a salient, a redoubt, or bastion, pushed forward by the shoulder. Quite often there is no such logical basis for the wild- running glove..

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Save for evening wear, where, tradition decrees the sheath of white kid, "it can be made everything or anything, from straw to silk. from velvet to chiffon. It can be embroidered. Inlet with net. gauntleted, slee- ved, braceleted, mittened. It can be of any colour frem raven- black to rose-mushroom. It can have round or plain buttons, or fancy buttons, jewelled.

It can be of kid, or suede, or the fabrics which imitate them. It can cost sixpence per glove or sixteen shillings a pair, or some- thing more unattainable still.

Very often, for Allah is great, it is washable. The undying ad- vantage of washing over clean- ing is that soap has, a nice smell that doesn't last and benzine has a hateful one that does. Besides, for some reason, it is more gene-* rally respected to have washable things and wash them to have cleanable things and not wear new ones instead. A guest in, a' brand-new.costume, on her way to Windsor Castle garden-party, turned back and went to bed for

a week sooner than face the august occasion in a perfect organdi on which careless garB- gist had allowed a spray of pet- ral to fall. However clean, we do not wish to seem clean.

Too Bad

My husband has taken all the cash out of baby's money-box-s

"My dear!"

we are now delivered into a free-eyes

Just when there was

dom strongly resembling licence, nearly enough for the new hat 1. There used to be gauntlets, but wanted."

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ROUND THE

SHOPS

Lane Crawford's sale is still go- ing strong... This week they are selling of a big lot of Corsets, in every style and make, even the intest Laslex Girdles are included. In this lat and also the famous Gossard Garments. The Gossard Garments are designed to meet" the needs of every type of figure. There are the front lacing corsets, Hookarounds, and Clasparounds. with a wide selection of Brassiers, Combinations and Missimplicities; Two-way stretch garments, the essential foundations for attalalag and retaining perfect posture and beauty of figure lines. All these are well below cost price.

LET'S GO TO THE SALE! Maizees will be having their famous semi-annual sale on Mon- day, and following two days and already every one is talking about it. Every dress in this sale is this year's new goods, so am sure there will be lot of nice things going. My advice is to be there early, and you will be sure to get what you want

BATHING SUITS

Eve is clearing out a big lot of Pure Woollen Bathing Suits at $1.50 each, which were formally seiling for $18 also Beach Pyjamas, two and three plece, from $1.95 only.

SMART HATS

Mayo's will be showing a new shipment of very smart Hats on Saturday, and from what I gather- ed, not only are they smart but very reasonable too.....

FOR ALL OCCASIONS Rivelle's have just unpacked a number of very smart afternoon dresses, and also the President Hoover has just brought in a big. shipment of really nice evening. and day dresses as well. I believe her evening dresses are going as cheap as $10.00,

COLOUR COME BACK

The wave of white which only a year or two ago rose and engulfed every smart house has now retreat- ed to the walls, ceiling and noorn- sories, making a framework fur" the strong colours we once more. love to use. Vogue, in its current ixat, maintains that deep colour ix smart again in furnishings and to illustrate the point shows some photographs of lovely interiors, where colour plays a big part. One bedroom is a white setting for many. blue accents-navy satin bed co- ver, and exquisite Spanish chairs of whitewood, sifted in nary, A drawing room has sofa and dicans covered in current red velvet, set off by white cushions and curtains. A white setting, and brillians co- four notes make one of the best: inspirations of modern decoratin

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MIDSUMMER FASHION

FANCIES

Evening Gowns Of Chintz And Ticking

Paris.

Midsummer. fancies! Beach costumes, tennis togs, garden party frocks," evening gowns for the country house party; for dinner on a roof garden, for the country club, each more desirable than the other. We have just. had an orgy of these in the latest oflections of the Fairs dressmak- ing houses.

All the lovely new cottons and. linens, the printed chiffons and crêpes, the crisp muslins, the diaphanous tulles what WOSTEN could resist them? You would never believe that the “tweedy" striped and herringbone patterns, the rough, knobby weaves. Some in plain colours and others in plaid or spotted designs, › afe. made entirely, of Buen A jac- ket and skirt of this material has exactly the appearance of a woolen costume, with the added advantage of being. much cooler, in fact it is an idea costume for the wraps of a very heavy, crink led silk of soft, peach-color in the form of the old Venetain cape.

The o-fashioned, golf · cape has been revived by Lucien Le- long and he also sponsors a long, plain, circular, cape in place of with a the swagger coat, worn. cottca frock. For example, there is a long navy blue wogen cape in his collection which is worn with a frock of. Eght blue pique In the same collection there are also afternoon ensembles which consist of a trock of printed crêpe and a long cape of a plain colour in the same material and, vice versa, a plain frock with a cape of the printed material Several of the 1-black afternoon frocks are worn with a three- quarter length cape of the same. material lined with a print.

FRILLY CAPES

in vogue for both day and even- ing wear.

A study or these summer collec→ tions shows the reign of the "printed chiffon very much on the wane. Its place being taken by plain materials in lovely, soft,. pastel colorings. The heavy, crinkled or blistered silk crepes. (which are really by no means as heavy as they appear) still re- main favorites for evening gowns and wraps. One of these, in the of Molyneaux, collection, is one the the outstanding successes of. the season. The frock is of a very "blistery" crepe which looks almost like matelasse, in an ex- quisite shell-pink shade. made with a very ful sweeping skirt and a perfectly plain, fitted bodice. cut square at the front and back and fastened up the front with

Frilly Hittle capes in white_or- gandie, pique or black tulle are Summer evening shown"; with frocks and longer ones of pleat- ed or gathered tulle are a feature of the

of, evening 'costumes Worth and other leading houses. Worth, "by the by, is showing a novetly in the form of a waist- length cape of white ostrich feä-Over this is worn the most entran-

thers on which is painted & de- sign matching that of the print- ed frock with it is worn.

Jean Patou has designed a new cape which is shown with street and afternoon frocks. Of the same materia as the frock, this is carried straight across the shoulders at the front and drap ed to fasten on one side, falling in a cong point at the back. This same designer is using any num- ber of long capes in place of the Jacker or three-quarter coat with frocks of inen, and tussore, cot ton and printed crepe-de-Chine.

SURPRISE OF THE SEASON

A surprise of the season is the number of all-black frocks which are being shown for both day and evening wear. Black georgette, which has been ignored for several seasons, has again come to the fore for day-time frocks and black organdie, organza, net, tulle and taffeta are favorites for the evening. The dead back of these evening gowns la usually relieved by a cluster of flowers. A huge bunch calls likes, sprays of manve wisteria, clusters of pale pink and blue bydrangeas, and

of bright red

Red much

a

row of round, coral buttons.

cing little jacket, with full basque and elbow sleeves, of deep rose-

GLAZED CHINTZ Glazed chintz is a material which has come very much to the fore for all sorts of summer cos- tumes. Evening gowns of this material in gay flower patterns are a popular, novelty of the sea- son. Beach costumes, 100, some- times in the form of a plain frock buttoned down the front and with little or no back, sore- times in the form of a wrap- around skit and a short, sleeveless or short-sleeved jacket, 'are very attractive in this shirley cambrie A beach track of beige chintz with a splashy design in tobacco brown worn over a plain brown jersey bathing suit, with wide- brimmed hat and sandals of brown canvas is decidedly smart

This same shiny material is, being extensively used for sum- mer evening wraps" and coats especially elective an af-blake evening. Veless waist-coats worn with the tailored mat of linen or broad-brimmed and tip-tilted berets,

over to

gow

hất

ses for the gally flower-