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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY.

JANUARY 21, 1920.

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FURS AND VELVETS COMBINED.

FOR THE LAZY HOUR..

GCAMERA CRAFT

In the centre of the illustration is #f'short a rip arhich combines many good features of the season. It is made of a combina- tim of the ton most prqiulur Furs- grey squirrel and monkey fur. The gray squirrel forms the wrap itself, with muff, sleures and inner line of the cultar tringed with" "wonkey Jur. The wrop is cut on dolman lines.

Just above is a surry and cuff of that more and liartiful fur, silver fox. With a hami-nude hat of marron vetret, trim- med with ostrich lips, a rich costume is prsside. Silver for, in oblition to being rare and beautiful, is very rostly, but is one of the warmest furs & hich can be bought. 2

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At her end of the illustratiu is an nonsud suit of green velours jusisoned usu on opleve dress with an overjacket trineneed with black lyur. Hinion, by tla nec rjocket, the barline is simply movie with Mauore neck and tong sleeves. The jucket sleeves are half-length, with deep trimming of fur.

Completing the parture is a fashionlar, cikit designed for vvening weer over filmy youns. It is unle of tan velvet, with spaksuun trimming. Muff-lite.cuffs amt a dop suitor collar are of opossim. Sleeves are cut in kimona design, and the full- gathered back is held in at the waist line with starret cetvet. Above the original line of shirring isu curced piove of shirring in the back only, which gives a shurtwaisted effect.

Designs of the Moment.

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has cither a plain Formier crown or a draped one of soft velvet. Suzanne Talbot, who is one of the best and most expensive hat designers in Paris, is making a model of a "petit breton" of very

Even though many If last year one could affirm draping. that every woman in Paris was clever women can make their supple white doe-skin. Its small. at regular intervals with black wearing almost the same sort of own, there is an inimitable cherry round, upturned brim is stitched

be in the simple beret that

silk lines, while the edge of the hat the reproach cannct

the expert and mude this season, for there are so chionn by many various and varied types of nimble angers of a smart modiste. brim is bound round with narrow All berets are untrimmed, the bright green ribbon. A small far fashions of headgear that almost

same narrow ribbon is placed any shape is now in fashion. only adornment being the head bow with its ends made of the However, there are one or two of the jewelled pin which secures above the right eyebrow of the distinctive principles about them it to the head. Very rich women

brim almost conceals. all. All must be drawn down low use baroque pearls for these, set wearer, which the drawe-down over the brows, and the trimming, in diamonds, while the small whatever it may be, must not jewelled arrows, so popular last dart forth exuberantly, making a season, are still in favour,

Besides the beret toque, the

LATEST TEATIME FAD. "panache" on the hat. It must

China is quite superseded by keep in line with the lines of the Russian is still largely in vogue. hat itself, and conform to these Two wide folds in front rise one!

right thing you exactly. No rising or waving above the other in high points, glass nowadays, and if you want!

Aand are widely draped from ear to have the plumes are now allowed.

At the back the toque is must place glass plates and dishes. favourite method of using them to ear. is to place a whole bunch set in set close to the head, and the before your guests. I saw a charm- its own natural curve under the ends of the front draperies are ing dinner service lately in pink brim at the back, allowing only brought round and neatly crossed glass, and what was still more the curved tips to appear hang-one over the other in inimitable attractive, a very dainty set of ing downwards into the neck cffolds. And that is all.

the wearer, just behind the left)

car. There are also the uncuried

"BERITS."

coffee cups for after lunch and dianer coffee, made of glass, in a delicate shade of saxe blue. It We are not all wearing black was not transparent glass, but

BRIGHT COLOURS.

or glycerined ostrich feathers, or very dark bats like last year. had a cloud-effect, so that the that came in last year, and are Many tones of blue, of bright blue colour remained intact when still as popular as ever.

(green, of rust red and of lemon the coffee was in the cups.

yellow.ere popular for the top THE QUAINTNESS OF FASHION. A lady who was becomingly. There are any amount of velvet part of, toques, encircled with tamx-oz berets-worn this broad bands of fur. It is rare dressed in most up-to-date clothes winter in Paris, either as very that a Parisienne allows a very seemed to be very reminiscent large toques or else as the crowns bright colour to come into contact of the Middle Ages. Her black When with her face as such are often velvet cap had a round, bulging| of large-brimmed hats. worn as a toque the beret is very trying for any but a really fresh brim, over which at regular in- full, and drawn out in width from complexion. But a band of dark tervals were drawn skeins of floss Paisley ear to ear, and is left short from fur admits any colour shove it. silk in all colours-cerise, purple,

reserved yellow, blue, green. back. Indeed, all The quieter, more front to millinery this winter has the Parisienne, however, bas the tops material formed the upper part of same character, being short in of ber fur-bound toques made of her coat-frock, the lower part the front and back and wide from velvet or duvetyn or panne to being of black velvet. Her scarf side to side. In many cases the match the tones of the fur itself of black velvet, lined with yellow width at the sides is slightly bent Thus she gains added dignity and and terminating in pompoms, was pinned about her throat in a down so as to form a sort of "good style."

A type of hat that suits the peculiar way. Even her bair, frame to the top part of the face. It is a graceful and becoming pert features of certain young coiled over her ears, heightened style. The large velvet toquee girls or young women of the 18th the resemblance. With breeches find their own special distinction Century type is the small breton, and host, she would have been a vykonic in the manner of bairl which is turned up all pound and ready for any fancy dress ball,

When hours of relaxation come. fevery woman enjoys them the more in the silken holds of a dainty boudoir costiene. Soft colours in [cogbination make the astmosphere of comfort complete,

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In the sketèh. one of the nast restful and at the same fine chic, boudoir gurns is shown.

Churmense satin, of wafter. delicate lavendar verging on a pirk, is combined with hazÿ blue satin bindings at neck and rug and streamers tying ut the throat, Deep Ipatch pockets, which "gires the Luppeurawe of holding" "drach in shape the lose tunic-like blouse. are ewwered with embroidery, in merying shades. Each picket is topped with a pert boir of buc sutia. A soull colher of the same embroidery finishes the neck.

Suggesting the Turkish outline, the skirt is dawn into a karrier bawi of shirring at the bottom, French-heeled sandals are made of lavender charnweise satin, trimmeil with shirring and small blæs vorer- led buckles.

SLEEVES AND $5 RTS ABBREVIATED.

Orientals understand the appeal of soft fabrics and harmonious colours, and they are one of the chief sources of inspiration when it eames to boatloir ani hostess gorus.

TOOLED GAUNTLETS. Gloves are such an expensive Sleeves are getting shorter and item these days that they make shorter while skirts become fuller particularly acceptable presents. and fulle. Of course as the skirts I was shown one pair which were become wider they too shorten, made of pearl grey suede, ex- because a long buffant skirt is a quisitely stitched and with a firm stupid looking affair.

THE VIZOR TOQUE. The vizor effect is responsible for much intriguing headgear just now. By means of three or! four rows of metal galon, connect-

gauntlet on which was a tooled design so beautifully done that one felt it was worthy of a more lasting niche in the world! BLACK FOR BRIDES A FASHION WHICH DEFIES SUPERSTITION,

The up-to-date bride evidently ed at a point at the side, but has no.regard for old superstitious the newest bridal diverging gradually at the centre beliefs, as

of the hat. the look of an open bouquets have small sprays of vizor to a helmet is produced. black berries mixed in with the Sometimes a splash of bright white or coloured flowers. The colour is provided in between the effect is very striking, particular- stripes, but more often it is aly with bouquets of very pale strip of fur that forms the back-pink blooms, and these, just now

are first favourites. ground

NOVELTIES OF TO-DAY,

This novel collar is of and gray chinchilla fur dasps tightly around the neck, suggesting somewhat.. the once popular "chinchin". collar

A large sailor hat like this de- xign illustrates well the popular use of monkey fur and Mongolie on a large proportion of hats.

This veil is of castor lace, tied in a large knot high on the turban hat.

Just, at the moment there is a demand for breakfast jarkets, They are smart in changeant satins ur tafetas, and the fad is for stume- what deep on dark colours, rather than for flesh and baby due Coral, mauve and coque de roche are all colours that are used for house gowns. Black is used, too, und Poiret, Buket and other interior decorators who go in fur

·lates of colour rather bolilly assembled. hare created a demand for house gowns that are very daring, and often very bright in colour. but relieved by black generously pplicui.

There are many lovely negligees- made these days of silk duvetyn and of velvet. These are to be found in such gloriously deep shades,

There are really quite as many types of negligees us there are of gras. There are the light, dainty coloured, wispy things so ulorable to slip on in bed or to wear around one's room, and there are the less intimate things to wear about the house and ecen to receive one's near friends in, also the distinctly dressy rose d'interieur and the decidedly atilitarian bathrobe.

THE LADY WITH THE

MUNOCLE.

A FASHION THAT WE ALL CANNOT FOLLOW.

In the hands of a skilful woman, a monocle is invaluable. It enables' her to subdue pleasantly, to snub gracefully, and to wither a rival most effectively. It is also a great aid to conversation. Indeed, a woman can convey as much, if not more, by the way she uses her monocle as with a fan. A

air, monocle gives a decided

but a very big "but "-it must

woman: the woman who is tall

worn by the right type of

and dignified, and possessed of

inexhaustible self-assurance. One such a woman was recently seen with one. She was, of course, most fashionably dressed, but it was jowing to the distinction given her by hermonocle-she also were two beauty spots, one the size of a pin's head on ber cirin, the other, rather larger. under her left eye- that she attracted the attention of all present.

. THOSE IT DOESN'T SUIT.

The petite, "fluffy," frivolous woman cannot wear a monocle, at least not for effect. She would look ridiculous. Because it can be successfully worn only by very few is probably the reason why the monocle will never really be fashionable among

women.

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Many women, however, as well monocle 28 men. now use occasionally because they need the assistance of a glass with a focus.

In a restaurant or at a theatre it is so much easier and smarter. to put a monocle in one's eye. in order to read the menu or the programme than to take out a pair of spectacles.

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A lady's monocle is smaller than a man's, and when the right size is selected no difficulty is, a rule, experienced in keeping it fixed in the eye. The rims are generally gold or tortoise- shell, and some are made with a "rail" The "rail" may be fixed at a certain distance from the rim so that the lashes shall not prevent seeing properly through the glass..

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VARIOUS SHAPES. Monocles are 'not always quite round. A man attracted a good deal of attention when dining in a smart restaurant by reason of the unusual shape of his eyeglass, It was oval, and certainly looked very quaint in its dark tortoise- shell rim. A mutual friend told me that the glass is extremely old- "centuries old," was ber ex pression. The present owner iss shortsighted, so wears it for use, and pot, as might be imagined, for effect,

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