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Mayo's

HONGKONG

SPECIAL LOT OF WASHING

DRESSES AT HALF PRICE

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DEPE

NEW HATS

Gloucester Arcade.

EARLY. SUMMER SALE TO-DAY TO SATURDAY

MORNING AFTERNOON

AND

EVENING DRESSES

SLACKS AND BEACH WEAR. HATS AT $5.00

Tel. 33186

RIVELLE

Gloucester Arcade

YOUR HALL SHOULD LOOK

STYLISH

FIRST IMPRESSIONS are often lasting ones, so while you are fixing up your home, perhaps you should look at "your hall

ture or it will look even smaller. Use the minimum of furnishings perhaps a small console table with mirror above it and one 'chair alongside.

-WOMEN'S INTERESTS

WOMAN'S INTERESTS

Round The Shops

SUMMER SALES are now in full

swing and all the Colony's leading

season.

Hints For The Amateur Dressmaker

IMPORTANCE OF PROPER CUTTING

HERE is useful advice for amateur dressmakers from professional designers and millinery experts:

fashion houses are attracting a host of women and vie with each other in grand displays of summer wear. Colours for sports and day wear are much in demand this

Prepare Properly. Test your Let's take a look around- Cool & Attractive:

pattern and fake dny alterations now, not on the garment. Have a DELIGHTFULLY COOL for wear good supply of pins and really and certahly most attractive are sharp cutting-out scissors, Match the sports outfits which Lane, your material in sewing cotton; a Crawford's are showing this week.shade darker works in better than Turned out by Morley in Terry a shade lighter.

towelling are some of the smartest Cut Out Carefully.-A large sports shirts in a varied range of surface is essential. If your table colours of navy, saxe blue, yellow isn't big enough, purah two smaller and in plain white. These are real ones together. Or have a plece of bargains for summer wear and beaverboard, 3ft, by 21ft to lay there is a large assortment from across your ironing board, which which buyers can make their selec-is nicely high and saves stooping. tions.

The board can stand flat against Smart Styles:

a wall when not in use, RIVELLE. In the Arcade, starts Tack Thoroughly:-This "savest her Early Summer Sale from to-time in the end. Before removing NAVY POLKA DOTS ON A morrow. She has the daintiest the pattern pieces, go all round SNOWY WHITE BACKGROUND) and smartest models för morning, thêm on the double material with is the theme in Joan Blondell's afternoon and evening wear in a tailor-tacking, which marks both two-piece play suit pictured cholce selection of designs and surfaces at once. Just tack with above. The shorts are "topped by evening wear in a choice, selection double cotton, leaving every other a knee-length coat featuring an of designs and materials. In addi-stitch as a long loop on the sur- inset waist and a flared skirt, i tion Rivelle has some really dis-face. Gently pull the two thick- The hood can be thrown over the tinctive styles in stacks, and beach nesses apart and cut the thread head when the sun is strong to wear, which are sure to find ready between them. Mark all notches protect the hair. buyers. Picturesque summer hats and pleats, too. from $5 each-wonderful bargain. form another attractive line at Fuss over at to get zeal

larger than the armhole New Goods:

smartness, The lengthwise weave or the stuff must run straight slightly eased in. Remember this down centre-front

sleevehead making the and centre-

MAYO'S, in the Arcade, have pat

when

armhole.

and

Does it tell a casual visiter that the rest of the housë Is taste- If you have a large hall and a on a grand display of a new ship-back, and the crosswise weave go pleats and when fitting sleeve and Bind Beautifully. Most gar- fully furnished? Does it make a grandfather's clock by all means ment of summer goods which in-evenly round bust and hips. Fit guest welcome, or is it just a place use them together: The clock is clude, a wide range of hats for the at the shoulders first: the whole

season in really chic styles and frock hangs from here. All dresses ments are bound somewhere. so where you hang hats and coats? an ideal sentry to greet guests dressy models which set off the should t closely from the neck learn to do it really well. In flimsy

How much furniture to put in a upon entering.

materials, such as pinon, cut thế season's fashions "to such advan-to just above the bustline.. hall depends entirely, of course. If you have a large hall closet tage. Mayo's are also offering a Stitch Seams Securely-It is binding fin. wide and double it upon its size.

you might convert it into a pow-fine selection of washing day and usually best to work from the top lengthwise. Seam the double raw der room, which is found in so evening dresses at half price-all of a seam (judging by its position edge to the garment; then you'l If it is undersized it shouldn't many of the smartest homes to fashionably designed and cut and when worn) downwards. Tack be- and the fold so simple to slipstitch be overloaded with massive furni- day.

to suit all tastes.

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Use the Minimum

Don't let your work

disturb your sleep

more

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the

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fore stitching all seams except down pn: the wrong side. those in cotton, for otherwise Have help with hems, it possible woollens stretch and slik, wrigglet's so much easier. Put on the out of position...

dress, having pinned up a few th- Press Fromptly, It seems ches to the correct length. Your wasteful to heat your tron for helper holds a yardstick upright every little seam, but "press as on the floor and marks it where you go" should be your rule. You; it touches the pinned-up bit. Then can't press a front dart properly. she goes all round you, planing for instance, once the shoulder the hem to the same height. seam is stitched! Cottons may Flush

Over- Fastidiously." — themselves be damped.: Press other casting or binding of seam edges. fabrics under a damp cloth, except dress shields in armholes, lingerie some articles. which won't stand holders inside the shoulder seams wet heat.

to keep your undle straps from

Set in Sleeves Saggingly-The sipping down, a final careful sleeve should always be a trife'l pressing-remember all of these.

WEIGHT & HEALTH;'

HOW TO ATTAIN THAT STREAMLINED FIGURE

SUMMER Is the time when women, suddenly bereft

of enveloping coats are often appalled by what has hap- pened to their figures and reminded, unhappily, of the "wrong" picture in a "right-wrong" corset advertisement.

Tailored frocks, which look so slick and smart on the dummies, reveal a distressing number of bumps, bulges and, worst of all, the familar hip spread.

A FRANTIC RUN on the beauty and in, which involves a good deal salons and gymnasiums is the of stretching in itself, she is asual result. But by the time coaxed to perform a series of alow treatments have had any effect. (and consequently discult) exer- It's too hot to exercise indoors and cises. Each one is designed to the whole idea has lost impetus. None Too Soon:

So, on the assumption that it takes at least, a month to get in fighting trim, today is none too soon to start a course of exercise. To start a course, that is, if the doctor

use a specific musdde. Each person presents an individual problem and exercises are planned ac- cordingly, The object in every case not muscular development but good "music tone" all over." Dieting':

and approves; weight

As for dieting, apparently the health are so closely tied together first week is the hardest. The that the family physician usually stomach, accustomed to bulk, com- likes to have his say before any plains bitterly at the loss of Alling alteration programme is under-foods, and it takes quite a fight taken.

to get started. (Here, again, the

The consensus of experts is that family physician would like to be a pound a week is plenty to lose. consulted on whether it's a good The next point generally agreed idea to get started). An experienc- upon by authorities, is that the ed dietitian recommends beginning best way to train down is to do a with a one-day liquid diet milk, of everything, with fruitfulces, coffee, tea, clear exercise and diet the two most soups, anything except alcohol, in small quantities and at frequent important factors.

intervals:

Little bit

Revolutionary Change:

Once the diet is started Indiyi-

Exercise has undergone one dual menus can be evolved, but a revolutionary change in the past simplifying rule is to pass by- few years, Briefly, the old, idea of everything for a spell except meat, the military drii, a good sweat green vegetables and raw fruit. and the remultant collapse, has It is now conceded that neither been abandoned. A carefully plan massage, nor the various "aweat- ned series of slow, non-taxing ; indúcera are effective reducing movements has been substituted.methods by themselves. But, In The principle is stretching the conjunction with dlet and kind done on waking from a sound exercise, they help. Good, deep sleep...

Swedish massage is held to be ex-

The first problem tackled is cellent for the circulation, for posture. After the patient has nervous and muscular tension, aghieved the correct stance, back and valuable in ironing out bumps. 4SCIS8 flat against the wall, stomach up of fat.

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FOR SPORTS

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SHIRT BLOUSE STYLE

Shirt Dress

DAYS "ARE HERË

AGAIN:

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THE SHIRT DRESS is here again, and usually with a turned- down collar and short sleeves. It is often in black and is word with a gay belt. Afternoon:

Afternoon dresses and others are some-times made of black silk' with brilliant stripes. These are gathered here and there, so that all the' colour is assembled to con- trast with the black.

For evenings there are many stripes of this, kind and some beautiful grey and yellow striped lames.

Evening:

Many evening dresses are made really low, and then become high.

A bold tricoloured plaid in crimped again" by means of "3" coat. Some acetate rayon is softly tailored for dinner-dresses are high and worn this shirt-blouse style dress. Two with à long flowing coat. handkerchief pockets are placed high on the blouse and the belt is finished with leather.

TRY THESE SUGGESTIONS

Washing Silk:

..WHEN WHITE

SILK

in

One model shows a dinner-dress beautiful black and white figured crepe, worn' with a long black coat with hand-embroider- ed collar and buttons.

It has a sash which matches the lining of the coat.

Evening dresses are subdued for the, moment, but they are made of much varied and rich, materials

It will do better work, and go GAR-twice as far as new soap.

MENTS are washed a little méthy-

fated spirits should be added to Straw Matting:

ed

STRAW

the rinsing-water. The garments should then be squeezed by hand,

MATTING"can"be wrapped in clean towels and iron- cleaned' by wiping it over with a while still damp. Shantung coarse cloth dipped in salt, and. silk garments should not be ironed water. Then wipe it dry. You until they are perfectly dry. I will find that the salt prevents any damp places are left they will the matting from turning yellow. give the silk a mottled appe4- rance.

Soap Economy:

Furniture:

ex-

THE FOLLOWING is an cellent mixture for removing scratches from furniture: Mix

HOW TO ECONOMIZE WITH equal parts of linseed of ture" SOAP, BLY, IL some time before pentine, dip a fannel into it and It is wanted for use, the longer rub well into the scratched parts. the better. Cut it up Into Polish with a soft duster and you suitable-sized pieces and store it will And the scratches will be al- in a dry place to harden and dry. most invisible.