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HONG KONG DAILY

SUMMER

PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1935.

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NEW COLOUR CHART SMART WOMEN

Study By Beauty Specialists.

The

autumn fashion colour palette, with its attractive groups of dress shades and colourings, is responsible for a new and in- teresting technique in beauty secrets concerning the complexion, writes a correspondent Beauty specialists have brought their sclentißc knowledge of colour to a fine urt in their latest idea of creating an "adapted" complexion... which makes it possible for woman to wear any colour she likes with complete success, al- though hitherto certain colours may not have been considered becoming to her type of beauty and colouring.

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COMPLEXIONS TO TONE

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· Adapted complexions are achie- ved by much the same technique in colour that an artist uses to "compose" the colour tones in a

portrait. Flesh woman's and complexion colours may be." enhanced, cheeks and lips brigh- tened or softed in tint and tone To ensure complete harmony in the finished picture in which the frock usually plays an im- portant part also. True the pain- ter is allowed to exercise an artis- le discretion in Interpreting the colour of the dress not permit.ed to the beauty specialist when creating a complexion which shall be in harmony with the colouring er à particular frock worn, while still retaining an individual beauty of type and colouring. The artis- tie triumph is all the greater for the beauty specialist.

The complementary colour guide. is a safe rule in choosing make- up when wearing shades of green. For the rich, soft Vagabond and Rifle Green with their comple- mentary yellows, or for the new Pinegrove Green a tinge of or- ange, or flame may be introduced in rouge and lipstick. The pow- dering may also be warmer tone, while still keeping its delic ate complexion tints. In this way complexion can be toned up to пеш colours which some women And difficult to wear.

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This autumn will see some fas- cinating and rather unusual sha- des of purple. There * Berry Boom, ike the lovely purplish white bloom seer on hedgerow sloes, and two other interesting shades, a soft egg plant hue and

a new Spanish purple. To wear these co.ours successfully, com- plexions with the sightest ten- dency to sallowness should be allowed an accented t.np of rose, a complementary colour in pur- pie, in the rouge and lipstick, while the powder used should be slightly punker than is, usually chosen.

Snow shadow aptly describes a wonderful new ice-like blue, which will prove highly becoming to some types, and in others need same artistic help in make-up. There is a new viola shade in lipstick and rouge in which a faint tinge of softening blue is blended with the roscate hue. The result is excellent with blue or grey dress tanes, and makes a subtle difference in the skin tints when required.

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Many dress colours are easier to wear when a harmoniously thought-out make-up is achieved. There is a vivid new rowanberry scarlet which requires a dashing tint of orange for lipstick and rouge. Here the chosen 'comple- xion powder, can, be gipsy'sh, or a more sophisticated tint of deep Ivory, Coraline, ano.her dress colour needs much the same

ype of complexion.

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A WATTEAU TYPE

The pastel group of dress col- ours, either for day or evening wear, requires alightly accent

uated make-up, whether worn by dark or fair women. There is an. exquisite new colour, Pink Lilac, which needs a peach-bloom skin. Pink Ash is the type of pink Usually associated with the beaut- ies of the Watteau period with their delicate cream and roses complexions.

Browns demand the richer col- ouring found among brunettes with clear creamy looking skina and deep, carmine 11ps. Brown is mainly an easy colour for the distinct blonde or brunette: but no: so easy for the "betwixt and betweens" the "medium blondes and brunettes-to wear.

This is where the beauty expert steps in with suble touches from her beauty palette. There is a chariot rouge and lipstick which. used with a dark rachel comple- xion powder, will certainly place the rich dark browns which are to be worn th's autumn among the most becoming colours of the

new season.

EYES FOR BEAUTY...

You wouldn't dream of going out with a dirty face, but do you remember to wash your eyes?

They should be bathed in luke- warm water at least once a day, to remove the grit and dust which are often responsible for cloudy. dull-looking eyes.

Then, if you want to make the most of them, don't rub your eyes. This is bad for the sight; bad, too, because the rubbing stretches the soft skin of the lids and pro-. duces wrinkles.

If you already have those spid- ery laughter lines round your eyes, you can prevent them be- coming deep wrinkles by dabbing the skin dry after washing, then patting in some almond oil or skin food.

What They Wear

New York--For spor.s-for town-in all colours, including the new popular lac and dubonet Ünen has become the fabric head- per. Smar; women are wearing dressy as well as active sports creations of this crisp. attractive material; and they do it with Do misgivings because modern linens won't wrinkle like the old-time goods and are fade and shrink- proof, tou

There are uncrushable linens that hold pleats and look as fresh at five in the afternoon as they did at nine in the morning. Most of them are in rough, nubby wea- ves thai c'osely resemble interest- !ng woolens and tweeds. They lend themselves particularly to active sports frocks and to tailor- ed sults for business.

Two styles predominate among alts: Single breasted models mo'd the figure and lend them- selves well to blouses with soft Iril's ar the throat, The double- breasted designs are to be worn with strictly tailored blouses, fat- heeled oxfords and hats with sports brims.

RLACK ACCESSORIES

If you want to be especially chic on fo days, select a pink linen sult, white blouse, black and walte shoes, white gloves, pins nen hat with black band and either. a plain white or black purse. Another nice combinaçion uses a dubonet linen suit or dress as a nucleus, turquoise blouse or ascot, turquoise hat with dubonet band, white shoes and gloves. Touches of lime green are nice with the new tones of lac. So are yellow, brown with white polka dots and deep purple.

WHAT THE STARS LONDON NOTES

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Fashion Favourite

The latest thing in sophisticated lounging ensembles is worn by Katharine Hepburn in her latest RKO Radio Picture; "Break of Hearts. It is a two piece model of dull gold metallic woolen with trimmings of rust velvet. The full-length coat, fashioned like a gentleman's. smoking jacket, has deep nared cuffs and wide reveres of rust velvet. diagonally quited. The lounging pajamas -have wide trouser lepe and a simply tailored top. A scarf, cowled at the throat. and a carelessly knotted girdle at the waist, are of the gold metal fabric.

SPRING COSTUME

A jacket frock whien is ideal for early Spring Wear under a coat and very smart for street wear when the coat is discarded is the one chosen by Maxine Jennings, beautiful

model worn in RKO Radio Pictures' "Roberta." Deep blue novelty weave silk is used to create the skirt and hip-length jacket and a gay blue and white print

makes the short-sleeved bodice, which has an attractive ruching-edged shawl collar. This shawl collar is worn outside the jacket, which fastens with several' small self-covered buttons.

THREE PIECE CAPE SUIT

A clever three-piece suit worn by Lola Lane, recently featured in RKO Radio Picture". "Murder on a Honeymoon is one of this sex- son's fashion favourites. Brown and white plaid wool is used for the seven-eights length cape which features a wide notched collar. The tailored skirt and collarless hip-length jacket are made of brown shetland wool. A white felt hat, white silk ascot cart, and brown, and white sport operas add

a distinctive note to the outit.

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UNUSUAL COCTAIL ENSEMBLE

„Hat-straw for R cocktail cout and to trim a gown-that is the unusual fabric selected by Bernard Newman, world-famous designer for one of the ensembles worn by Ginger Rogers in RKO Radio's "Star of Midnight." The black. double-breasted coat, cut in the Directoire style, fastens with Jet buttons. The frock of black novelty weave crepe has short sleeves trimmed with rules of the hat straw, extending from the sleeve edge to the shoulders and edging the neck. This neck ruffle is worn outside the coat, forming a charming frame for Miss Rogers face. The same fabric forms the brimless turban which is trimmed with a cocky bow of self-material."

DELIGHTFUL PARTY FROCK

Now that Spring is upon us, the younger generation is just as ex- elted as their mothers and big sisters about that new wardrobe. June Preston, RKO Radio Pictures? cheruble child" contract, player, is delighted

with her new Spring party frock of French blue dotted organdle. White and red smock- ing high on the tiodice supply the fullness necessary for the all- around pleating of the frock. which features little white or- gandle ruffles covering. the should- ers and a white organdte ruffle edged Peter Pan collar,

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REGAL EVENING GOWN Frocks of linen come in all the White metallic satin that looks popular styles, including plan like Trosted silver is used in the shiri waist, buttoned-down-the-creation of the regal evening gown front an simple two-pieces with blouses to be worn over the hips or tucked into, the skirt. They have all the exquisite tucked and -pleated details usually found in slk dresses of the better varieties. They are as well tailored as your favourite spring or fall suit, yet can be washed and ironed as eusly as a kitchen apron. They save dry cleaning bills and they make you look fresh and crisped tiara of diamonds and rubies is

as a field flower, dripping with morning dew. This summer, no wardrobe 18.. complete without at least one linen ensemble,

worn by lovely Irene Dunne when she sings the haunting "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" in RKO Radio Pictures "Roberta." A daring treatment in design fashions the bodice which is formed by two shirred bands of the material crossing front and back. The skirt is straight in front and has an in- serted panel in back ending in a graceful, sweeping train. A jewel-

British Woollen Materials

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New Woollen materials for the autumn afe in colourful designs and show pleasing changes those of previous years. There is distinct.on in the design, and while colours are rich they are not raw. Selge is being replaced, In a number of enlour blendings by banana, which is mellow arid rich looking.

There are attractive novelties in the new Sweetinbürgh collec- tion of British woollens, many of which have been already choser by leading French and American as well as English houses for their autumn models. A cloth called "Bengal Lancer." striped "diagon- ally in effects suggested by the colours of the urban," is one of the successes. As the stripe is vivid there is a plain cloth which can be allied with and this cloth is not a solid colour but has

pleasant, haze on the surface owing to its contrast base; what appears to be a plain green, for instance, is backed in brown. Many striking effects in suits can be secured by the use of the gay striped cloths with the hazy col- oured, cloths. One of the most attractive groups of stripings is in French "brocade" blue allied .. with brick and brown. A naturai or "porridge" stripe is common, to all the staped cloths.

Another novelty is a fringed cloth which is woven.double and the top cut in terraces of fringe which do not lose their firmness.. This is a beautiful cloth woven from a very expensiva yarn, and is in two weights, the heavy coat- ing weight being designed so thai It requires no fur trimming; it is la terra-cotta myrtle-green, vandytk brown, wallfower-red, and prunus.

WINDÓW PANE DESIGN

A "window-pane" design is in a two-cour cloth for sulis, Ban-- ana is the seaud colour forming the pattern and is allied with cypress-green a lovely midnight- green that is a feature of the aut

colour range); brown; navy, marron, and black. This cloth has a plain companion cloth to match, so that a three-quarter coat of the window-pane design can have a skirt in the plain col

An amusing design called "The Thirty-nine Steps" has an effect of stairs and 1 in lovely rich colours-lavender and brown

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green and banana. brown and banana, sap-green and brown, brown and natural, and navy and lavender,

There is not as much design in new autumn dress cloths as in suitings and coatings Quieter effects make them easier to wear -with a variety of coats. One of the novelties in dress hta iz

a bark cloth with a crin wom by Mias Dunne with the face in a firm weare not a crepe gown, making her look every inch This is in all the leading the princess the portrays in the There are some film

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SHOPPE

Just received a large selection of Silk Felts

to be made up

also

New Stitched Fabric Hais

South Arcade.

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Opposite Hong Kong Hotel

China Building

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Bags to Match

Closing

Gloucester Building.

at End of the Month..

All goods sold at

your own price.

No reasonable offer

refused.

GRAND CHARITY SHOW

A Specially Selected Programme will be shown at the

KING'S THEATRE

ON

Sunday, August 18th

11.30 A.M.

The Programme will consist of :~-

Full Length GEORGE O'BRIEN Feature

(Courtest or Fox FILMS)

LATEST WALT DISNEY'S Mickey Mouse Cartoon LATEST WALT DISNEY'S Silly Symphony

In Technicolor (COURTESY OF UNITED ARTISTS)

Admissions

30 cents.

checks of nigger or black: these are specially good in coral, scarlet, and lavender on beige, and in coral, spring-green, and lavender on belge, and are among the rew cloths in which belge is used in proference to" banana, Another dress novelty has a des telephone arm in two traste such as Jy ent dark myrtle, gold, on cranberry,

white on black and

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EASY CLOTHES

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Easy clothes are chiefly made of wool, largely because this crushes least and

because it meets most kinds of weather, writes M. H in the "Manchester Guar- dian." Taffetas is, however, good accessory in that it is also uncrushable that it "stays in post- tion, and it provides the bow without which no dress is com- plete at the moment. The use of taffetas probably reaches its highest point in blouses, where it provides garment and bow all in one. "Blouses are made on tunic Bines to wear over the skirt, be- cause they then have an air of completion when worn" with g skirt in the house. Their really Important feature is the neck, which will show from under a coat, and with this right the rest does not matter much. Yoked blouses are frequent and they admit easily of turned-down collars, huge ties and bows, to- gether with the material in various contrasting directions," Instead of a yoke there may be a much-glorified Raglan effect, the radiating lines of which also plaids of the talletas Bometimes serve to cut up the checks "and

tucks or darts radiate from the neck, tapering of inter nothing. These are effective in increasing. the interest of the neck Euge revers also play a prominent role and the edges are often decorat- ed so that when they

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