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"We always use Lactogen....

our babies thrive on it

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Says the Superintendent of a Medical Mission

"In the Medical Mission whenever we have to substitute mother's milk we always use Lactogen and we find

bur babies thrive on it. Mother's milk is the best food for baby, but whenever a substitute is needed my experience has proved Lactogen is the nearest and best quited food for babies. are at liberty to use this letter,

You

M. F.

On Lactogen, Baby lays the foundation of a robust con stitution-bone grows densely, flesh is firm, nerves steady, development is healthy and sturdy.

Lactogen is pure, fresh, full-cream, modified dried milk with extra cream and natural milk sugar added, made in all important respects exactly like breast milk.

ACTOGEN

BETTER

MILK FOR BABIES

An Excelsior Model.

ACTOGEN

you'll

A Style wear and wear "and won't tire of."

Distinctive Black Suede Court with Neat Trim of Calf.

Gordon's Ltd.

HONG KONG'S LADIES' SHOE SPECIALISTS, -

Showing Now New Shipment

Smart Golfing

and

Walking Shoes

in

White and Brown

White and Blue

Buckskins

Gaunlet Gloves

in

Speckled Silks

for

Autumn Wear.

Ladies' Salon

Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 21,· 1936.

Fashion

PRE-VIEW

PARIS FASHIONS

Autumn And Winter Shows

The first collection of autumn and winter fashions have been shown. Marcel Rochas has made a very youthful collection, He re tains the fashion of putting dark and light colours together in one ensemble. He uses velvet to trim cloth and crêpe. The waistline is the raised in front, giving to dresses something of the Empire or Directoire grace. Red in sever- al shades- is used for morning and

afternoon dresses and coats, brown.

is more worn than black, green has a place in the collection, and for the evening a good deal of tamé is used, especially for simple diner dresses which "are short and straight. Long skirts are slit

almost in front

to the knee. Panels and paniers give some im- portance to the hips without in any way destroying the slender- ness of the silhouette, Shoulder yokes of velvet trim cloth dresses. Germaine Ballly shows an im- collection which portant

leans towards the picturesque. All, the materials are carefully chosen for Col- their decorative possibilities. our is used cleverly and in un- usual ways. There is a grey tweed coat, eut loose and of three-quar- ter length. with which 2063 short, slender skirt, a brown blo- use, a red bow at the neck, a red suède belt and a big gilt leaf clasp. Again, there is a cool green tweed skirt. worn with a blouse of red

green and

tartan in miniature and a long green cape lined to match the blouse, A pigskin belt. goes round the waist of the blo- use. For the afternoon there are turies in striking patterns and colours. They are worn over sien- der dark skirts with three-quarter length coats to match. A coat of this length may be loose Atting. All coat skirts are full at the back and

cut to flare in front. They should- rather have

square ers and sleeves that have enough, but not too much. fullness.

narrow bands, the former to run straight up and down back and front, the latter to go horizontally about the shoulders. The sleevės are of black velvet like mittens, reaching to green tops.

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Evening dresses are long and very much slit about the hem. They have tunles, long sleeves, low backs. and waistlines which are high in front. A very lovely brown velvet dress has the bodice and hips honeycombed, and long. tight, honeycombed sleeves, a very full yet clinging front to the skirt. and a straight back. With it goes 1 cap with scarf to wind about the shoulders or throat. The whole thing has the stately simplicity of dresses in medieval times.

AROUND THE SHOPS

LANE CRAWFORD'S

The latest arrivals this week.are the new white and blue, white and brown buckskin golfing shoes, with rubber soles and detachable lited tongues which are priced at the most attractive figure of $10.75.

The other item being Gloves in a new speckled silk gauntlet style, which should be just the thing for your Autumn outfit. These are stocked in all sizes.

MAYO'S

This is the time of the season to get out your old felts and have Mayo's clean and remodel them. "You will be startled at the amaz- ing results, and the comparatively small charge for the work.

RIVELLE'S

Sale is still on for a few more days and there are still quite a large number of useful and smart dresses at real bargain prices.

GORDON'S

Are showing a large assortment of very exclusive and original styles for the coming Autumn.

PARIS MILLINERS SPRING FRESH SURPRISES

afternoon dresses The simple are short, straight, and may have front and back panels indicated by ribbed seams. One or two have full backs. The neckline is high under the chin and lower at the back of the neck. Dress steeves are either cut as those

The whole collection is rich in called bishop, or they may be

colour. There is very little black, mildly leg of mutton. The waist-

and what there is has either line is raised in front. Dull-faced silk dresses

cellophane to brighten it or col- art trimmed with velvet in the same colour, cut to

our to give it life. There is no white at all. The usual colours strips in different sizes and up- plied in. patterns. A simply cut are yellow, orange, green, red, in brown dress is decorated in this different shades, and a lot of gold and silver. Here and there in way and has a big gilt clasp at the waist No other

of the collection is Introduced a more general wear touch brightness is used on the dress, cocktail party ensemble of a long A black dress of ottoman silk is skirt and sleeveless bodice to be worn with a jacket to match, cut worn with a loose three-quarter coat of black sealskin, and with away at the waist in front and It goes a ittle black hat which slanting to a long point behind. looks like 3 confusion of aero-

This is trimmed with fur and but-

It is plane propellers. An almond toned close to the throat.

The warn with a feather toque. green woollen dress is trimmed with broad bands of black velvet silhouette is that of the early arranged in broad panels and nineties.

.

Apart from the "skyscraper" crowned hats. lasser heights for

are here

in

new Homburgs and Alpines with concertina pleats that run through the middle of five or so lach high crowns, Centre front and brims sometimes carry these pleats" in a alight spray outward,

back

These CTOWIS take on an elongated line easing up head at- Other types that may be tings. brimless slope up from the brow Into high-back puckish points,

Some shapes show this backward rising less pained, but just as high, fat-sided-and casquette-brimmed right on to the forehead in front.

Collapsible Homburgs and Al- pines have stimulated concertina. pleating for smart black toques, the pleats gradually rising up from either side to a given height at the back when set on the head

and collapsing when off it. The shape is brimless and its shorter front enhanced by a glistening black ostrich feather tuft

A new pill-box is higher than the ordinary and of military cast. with a contrasting band of match- ing gros-grain posed round its base and tabbed to hang in short tails down the back These are seen in the identical colours of the shaved lamb that trims a coat in one of the red or mauve tulp shades and black velveteen to be worn with black velveteen and broadcloth ensembles.

Flatter pill-box shapes of black velvet for afternoon suits are merely trimmed by stiffened fish net-mesh bows at the back.

Colours are becoming in the new tulip reds, soft eucalyptus greens, as well as those of darker hus, flag blue and all the rich wine shades leading up to soft dark. crusty browns,

Mavo's

HONG KONG PRE

Now is the time to get

Old Hats

cleaned & remodelled.

LI

Your

Orders for Hats taken.

Last few Days

Clearance

of our

SALE!

Evening Gowns, Dresses

-and

Suits Further reductions

RIVELLE

FLORAL TUNIC VOGUE

PRACTICAL AND BECOMING

For evening wear printed fabric is frequently used for tunics. These can be word with skirts or dé- colleté gowns in the same way as Jackets Three or four tunics in different fabrics will bring variety to one instep or ground length black skirt for all manner of in- formal dress occasions.

As part of these two-piece en- sembles floral chiffon and floral organza play their roles. Coloured effects distributing big blue and plik popples or bouquets of multi- coloured blooms on black grounds, make for interest because the out- line rising from a black shirt re- mains unbroken.

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Tunics can be regarded as ac-

VARIETY

Variety is everything this Fall...

In the new hats,

frocks & ensembles. We're matching this new freedom with coiffures to suit your personality and service to suit your tastes.

cessory garments with lace as an-The Cameo Beauty Salon

other summer evening medium.} Take navy blue, which one design- i er stresses for wear with a white chiffon gown, showing the coloured lace inserted at intervals round the corsage, This idea suggests other contrasts and rises to a full blown evening style. Tunics are the compromise between jacket and ground-length redingotes, both. of which can be worn with full- hemmed skirts,

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Now-low cost movies

Long redingotes in floral-pat with new hand size

terned chiffon or organza strike admirable informal-evening-wear pictures. Impetus is given to those of chiffon by simple "princesse" foundations of plain black and white or primitive coloured organ- die. On the other hand the quality of floral printed organza suggests a foundation that clings in Chine Or soft satin.

A Semi-Fitted tailored top with sleeves at elbow or full length is invariably given to tunics Sleeves nearly always convey leg of mut- ton importance at shoulders, but if a silhouette does not agree, they can be tailored on the ordinary "Jacket line. This even applies to chiffon If shoulders are broad, and when not leg o' mutton fulness is i easy to follow and looks admirable, no matter how densely gathered into armholes,

Sidrts vary in lengths which must be left to individual taxte, I longer than knee length, their character becomes absorbed in a half-and-half-tunic-redingote style- which neutralises the meaning of the modern tunic. According to most designers they hang between mid thigh and knee level pas- sibly just beneath but not longer for perfection, Those of chiffon with flat backs and gathered front are rivals for fashionable Lavour with organza, undulating at siden, or all rounding sit-rcular mood while some show lace tailored into flat lampshade effecta. A point to remember is that quaque fabrics are the summer urge, away from more formal taffetas and antinis

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