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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

Mayo's

HONG KONG TOPPE

New Sheers

in

Navy & White.

Gloucester Arcade.

Showing now

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Smart Organza Evening Dresses

with jackets to match

;

also in

Dotted Swiss

Excella

188, Nathan Road.

Tel. 50811.

CONFIDE IN

FAITH PRIOR

WOMEN'S - INTERESTS

Fashion

→PRE-VIEW

Round The Shops

Listen, my ladies, and you will hear that our sales are going over fast.. Unless you make it snappy all the bargains will be gone and

you will be kicking yourselves for

your.. slow motion.

20 Percent For You

In Smart Lounging In

Splendour

We all go in for that sport called “Lounging."

Whether the spirit dastends upon us from too many dinners a week, a hangover, a " a.m. closing hour, a friendly, chatty evening or a good book, everyoue succumbs several afternoons or evenings a month.

Now, some of you may like that anciënt robe and the dog-eared slippers. But say not so!" You can still lounge in mari splendour and be comfortable.

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VARIED SELECTION

When lolling in grande dame Very high style is white crepe or fashion, and the "Snats-Smats" sharkskin pants with a tuck-in A large and exclusive emporium may be dropping in for tea or a blouse. The blouse has chartreuse drink, glamour and sophistication silk sleeves, large at the shoulder is giving you guls a yearly break can be expressed by a hostess gown and narrowing into a tight" wrist. before the new season commences of greylah chiffon, a colour datter

Twenty percent discount on aping to any skin tone and softens It is just plain lounging, after- parel, seen and unseen, gadgets the athletic build. accessories and necessities.

noon or evening; you would hate Full sleeves, small round neck to see anyone but your best friend, The bonnets and shoes are outwith shirring and hand appliqued and then only maybe. "You want standing values, and there is still face, strategically applied, camou-to cogitate, build castles in the air, a good selection.

fages a small bosom.. A train read or write letters. Then you gives n'coquettish romantic dignity. have quite a choice of garments

Another gown, a bit more youth to skid yourself into. ful and used for the same situa- tion, has double rules around

Gloves-you never can have enough of them are really on sale!

Lastex panty girdles at and $3.95 are investments.

Go take a look

$3.00

at

Be smart! the values offered here.

Sheer-Navy

Sharkskin, plainly tailored, solid

tr neck of a pale point d'esprit of combination of colours to two hostess costume. This will soften blouse or a porter's coat.

piece pyjamas with tuck-in

scrawny shoulders and flatter the upper arm. Spilling down the front, caught here and there

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Black wool jersey slacks, with a canary yellow.cotton knit sweater

You all know perfectly well that with satin knots, they emphasise and a black kerchief printed in clothes do have a lot to do with the voluminous skirt which softens purple, worn at the neck or in a

your success.

A small specialty shop offers the new navy sheers with white trims and white embroidery-they wont let you down.

long-leggedness. 5.

narrow band around the hair.

Grey slacks in duck with a white Still another knock-out hostess cotton peasant sweater and a gown is a purplish-blue, chiffon green belt.

very full blas cut skirt and gather-

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A white" rayon overall with a ed blouse effect with deep V-neck blue denim blouse. STAUNCH, I married woman; speak, and the deadly moods of Short and elbow length sleeves.in front. The final breath is a

The very latest-a striped silk with a child. has found her bus-dejection, are illustrations of your pleated and flared skirts, tailored wide and long chiffon sash of jersey blazer over slippery ink-blue band most difficult in the physical condition. · A change of scene and dressy lines, are all points In-cherry red...

rayon slacks deliberately cut too adjustment of marriage

sometimes helps in such cases, corporated in this group.

All of these costumes require one short. The delicate matter of physical which are not due to any kind of All the frocks in this particular piece of jewellery, no more. Azi Stop embarrassing yourself. Give adjustment is profoundly impor-physical weakness. To retire into stock of

sheers have

their own interesting pair of earings, a brace- a little thought to your lounging tant in marriage, and powerful in lonely corners is an expression of navy taffeta slips. And again we let or ring.

equipment. It pays to be always creating harmony or the opposite.it, and a danger. To force your-say. "Dark backgrounds are de- Your husband is unable to carry self into bright company, go, to finitely '".

Beware, do not let your im-smart in your clothes before friend on with things as they are and the theatre, read interesting books,

shop has a ship-agination run away with you when for foe. vou, because you love

him and and try to enjoy life is part of a ment of new hats--straws and felt it comes to slippers for these Not being able to make de- combinations mainly, with viels, mules with a back-strap or a very know his conflict, just suffer your-cure.

gowns Sandles, self by giving him his social and cisions is also a sign of the trou-

personal freedom if you can. In ble which, now

that you are

soft heel-less ballet slipper. Silk every way he says you are a won-making an effort to understand it,

solid shades are most suitable. Cerful wife and mother, but the is already in the first stage of cure. lack of adjustment is wrecking Do not regard the trouble as an everything. It would be better | illness, but as an evidence of wrong perhaps for you to give him a thinking and some malajustment' chance to discipline himself while to the everyday.

you take, the rest you suggest with

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a relation. But when a man mår- Dear Faith Prior: I am in trou- rles a good wife, he has under-ble. I hope that there is a way taken

worse."

J bargain for better or you can help

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me out. Several

months ago I introduced my best Įgirl friend to my boy friend....... They UNTIDY confesses with some seem to get along" perfectly, and humour to her hideous household as a result he never comes to see muddles, her husband's intensify me but res to her house quite ing dislike of it all and her own often.

We

scorn of cooking and housework. On several occasions I went. to She was once a successful business her house and he was there. woman and sees no sense in work-have nothing much to talk about, ing at home.

and I noticed that my girl friend

When you married you under paid a lot of attention to him. I took one half of a contract, and think she is trying to take him If you loved enough to marry you away from me, but I am not, the must love enough to carry out the fool to let her get away with it. contract honestly. If your hus-Regarding the other party. I do band suddenly stopped his job. of not think he realises the situation. dally work because he did not like Please advise me what to do, and it, your home and life would be lit it turns out all right I shall be disrupted. The woman who 15 ever grateful—TROUBLED. worked

ΣΟΥ cared for. kept, Dear Troubled: In the Arst housed, and clothed is bound by place look directly at your altua- honour, "duty and justness to give tion. Sad" but true. your boy something solid and helpful in re-friend has evidently shipped away turn. Nor is housework and cook-from you.

Ing so mental as you say. It re- This is your fault. But take quires just as much concentration. heart. If you really want a re- skill. management, foresight and turn of his attention and devotion accuracy as work in an office. you can get it, though you must Adopt your business tactics and be amart. make them work in the home.

AFRAID 18

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young

Analyse what it is that draws hin to your girl friend. Study woman everything that pertains to her; driven to confide after suffering an mentally and physically, Use" ber Intolerable number of nerve-weapons with improvements; wracking scenes with a man she You must have changed in soma was once fond of, but whose morbid way. What is the "difference in ways, strange behavior and violent you now and when you first met angers drove her from him..

this man, - Go back to being that

Your distress might be absurd.girl again, Do not be obvious. as you say, but then it possibly is Invite this boy friend to see you not. The young man has for years and work on him. been steadily becoming more If all fails you Had better. forget fanatical, and cánínot speak with him and look for other fish in the out introducing texts to prove his ocean.

point. This emotional outlet is ap- J1 parently connected with his puri- tanical convictions and his solitary,

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DISAPPOINTED IN LUYE:. Your

brooding and intentionally hermit-second letter: Realise your boy like existance. I advise you as friend bas never met your father. his mother is also most concerned He must do so and be accepted by to see that she consulta a pay-your family... Therefore, Invite him, chiatrist, for the young man's to your home and for this reason. mind appears to be perilously dis- A refusal of your invitation, added to the fact that he has not attempted to see you for some. EMPTY is obviously suffering time, means only one things-all is from some form of neurasthenis, over on his part. which is not so much a disease as

ordered.

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This same

bows. fcwers and fruit trims. All dark shades, too.

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A fitting sheath for the exotic beauty of Galə Sondergaard,” M-G-M_player, is this crepe evening gown, the high bodice of which 1. gathered and carries interest in the arrange- ment of corded shoulder straps. The skirt is tos-length in front. but slightly longer at the back to suggest a train,'

Umph in Dresses

backless

dressy

PYJAMA FASHIONS

Informal lounging of an evening, bridge, talk, female chattering and the like, can take the good old stand-by and still much in use pyjama costume.

Pyjamaa arë pyjamas more or less when it comes to style. The long or short coat, the bolero, you need a blouse with this: the trousers never over 20 inches wide and a long or short sleeve,

However, it is not the style in this case, as the colours, which give this particular type of costume the smartness and"dash,

Mahogany crepe or satin with 3 lilac coat is very new.

A purplish crepe coat or bolero

with "orunge pants and a lac blouse is a bit gaudy but some- thing to rave about.

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are short in length and very love-

ly to wear and to see,

stif looking about this shop- Ah! Just what you have hankered for all summer. Heavy, natural linen and fine canvas bags with black, blue and luggage fan leather trims. The leather is used in the right places-handles, over the catch, outlines.-A few with all- over design.

Due to a delay in shipment these bags are "better late than never." Automatic Lipstick"

It jumps out of it's nobby metal container, smears itself across your ps at the right" angles, and returns to its case, practically in one motion. No cap pulling or rolling at the end. Just a slide of the jewel catch and finis. Coty put forth this new labour-saving gadget. There are shades to suit each of you and the base has enough cream to keep your lips smooth and velvety.

Another Item to gladden your heart again thanks to Coty. Tube brilliantine! Just the necessity for week-end excutalons or travel- ing. There are two sizes.

| Evening Crispness

Nights are still quite warm, es- pecially when it comes to dancing. and for several months to come Whoever said that "umph" was you will be in need of party or dance frocks which can stand up going out of clothes?

when the wilting hours rull 'round. Cocktail Then centre your thoughts on

and early

evening one of our specialty

A small exclusive shop in Kow- a state of mind that needs car- other people and activities about dresses in

loon can help you out," Their rection by different line of you

shops certainly give that the lie:

of starchy cottons and These 5 to 9 p.m. dresses of group pastel marquisettes and organzas oating organzas and marquisettes have appliqued tabeta designs are the outstanding numbers in sparingly scattered

on the full American fashions. skirta and tight-fitting tops. They

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thought. more knowledge of self

and mentality, and Interest In (Each week in this column, Fatth things generally...

[Priór answers questions of a per- The awful fatness of spirit, the sonal nature submitted by readers dialnterest in life of which you of the Daily Press.)

FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1938.-PAGE

Our

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Sale

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Sale

including

Proceeding

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