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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1920.

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THREE SMART MODELS.

Bon nyt po tured three drinty moulets, The centre quea is of snk, fee nordmured tulle that hints from reblogs over a rieninstonal silk with a plastron of dark brown sales and the buck held in arghh san do worth of egelewer ni se quia funding, a shouter of the serpins helling belive the hem of the fret, at the edge.

The lie fich of the tork le a bark Chantilly lace show? draged over p a bite satin te make an adorable di man fase The sheet copeis the dip all work, then a length of idørk satin is leid under the b

slovel der ved hip to gire an acrentecher conten

The third poobladrikens'n houtiful geen of down-yog aglin, sphpólend in silver with silver beat budding worried over the shredder to fall betee the hitrem skirt, both in front and herbs, A panel tror is farm from the shuilder and the benulous that fans thumpindulity tulle, wraps

Modes of the Moment.

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THIS SEASON'S DANCING.

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A New Tango.

you tango?

If you do not (says a writer in! a Home paper) you had better learn quickly, for the winter ahead of us is going to be a time of much dancing, and the tang is going to be the most popular dance of all.

If you do answer the question in the affirmative you will still be wise to pay some visits to a teacher of dancing for the 1920

JOTTINGS.

GOOD-BYE, JUMPER!

No well-dressed woman now wears a jumper with a tailored suit, either for morning or after back again decidedly, and in great noon occasions. Blouses are loveliness. Shirt blouses the cor mostly of striped silk, with bat rect thing for morning wear, are tons and sleeve-links namelled to match the stripa-if you are very up-to-date.

LATEST HAT NOVELTY. Fashionable women ́are wear-

tango is not the tango of those ing large jet cabochons dangling dear, bright, half-forgotten post-over each ear from smart roques war days, when tango teas were of shiny black straw, all the rage. It is a dance with a difference.

These are

known as "bat earrings.*`

AN ECONOMICAL LINING.

VARIED USES FOR LACE. Although jazz teas keep a var The present vogue for lace is tain amount of papularity, and widespread. Lace fans and lace are likely to retain is, the craze scarfs in great variety are used. for such amusement has passed. Stockings for evening wear have! Tango teas will certainly be insets of rare, old lace, and sex- popular, though some dareingjeral of the new evening slippers folk are inclined to think that are adorned with little bows of teas at which all guests dance lace. Even satin mules are shown will be superseded in general covered with ecru face. favour by teas with expert ex- hibition tangoists,

It is noticed that flowered voiles The 1920 targo has been de are being used a great deal as scribed as "progressive." but by linings to the loose wraps and no means all dancers agree upon capes-so-much-in-voguer -The the accuracy of that term. Anggreat advantage of this, materiall way, the dance which is leaping is that it no only costa a quarter into such Favour is much the price, of silk, but it pertuits smoother and more elegant than itself to be easily washed, so that the tango which we used to one may have one's lining fresh-- know, and it would be difficult ened up from time to time with for the greatest purist in such the minimam of trouble. matters to find anything in it

which could be called un- becoming or objectionable. The

FAMOUS CINEMA STARS.

VII: MISS ELSIE FERGUSON,

DOG DYED TO MATCH COSTUME.

When asked to give her views on the experiment, a well-known London degrearer expressed strong disapproval.,

tchets dance. in which some The fox-trot will assuredly teachers are giving instruction, maintain a good place in the is also ✡ form of tango esteem of the dancing public, and E dance of extreme but again it will be a not-quite- gracefulness. It is more suitable the-same dance. One man whol for exhibition than for general knows told me that it is not wise) dancing owing to its extremel for people to say that they can slowness and the fact that there fox-trot if their lessons in the art London Fashion Experiment.

Fashion is certainly tyranni“ are far more ATE than body are six months old. There is

ical, and demands a lot of pamper- movements. The tcheta is adapted truth in it. The new fox-trot "With dog dyed to match !**

jing to her whites and vagaries," from an Eastern native dance, lacks much of the boisterousness

"Such is the latest fashion ex-have kept her hands off her dog's he said, "but surely she could

cases London.

The next thing we will see will be the canary in a barem -

..

a rain-storm.

and a cat with a marcel ware to her cost to match her mistress's hair!"

Jorgandi.

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muslin

and is usually accompanied by of the old: it said. periment which is being tried in natural cost. mystic strains of Hindu music. indeed. that in some

Many people are now learning!

the for-tro: of the present is The originator of the idea! Spanish dances especially the 90 smooth and sedate alemerged from her suburban home old national dances of Spain.! dance that it is not rognisable clad in a pale amethyst-coloured skirt or searing a knitted jumper, and £1052 particularly the even in comparison with the fox- gown, and accompanied by Fido Pas d'Espagne, the dance! trat of the springtime.

dyed the same charming shade. which is native to Spain, All these points concerning in- Already the same dog has been 2 but which 15 danced at creased smoothness and slowness seen abroad in various shades of country weddings all over the and sedateness apply as much to rose, primrose, and forget-me-no: Continent, usually to the Jazz as to other dances. An in-

blue.

FOR THE NEEDLEWOMAN. This season there are fashions for black velvet insecurely fastened colour, others show the same soft a fiddle. Such Spanish dances to in one step dance, a measure his mistress's gown. Fide was should try her hand at making accompaniment of a cello and feresting item, too, is the new In fact, whatever the colour of The amateur embroiderer for all tastes, suitable for youth and tails of yellow-green crepe furry material arranged in stripes are and age alike.

..!de Chine writhing in yards of different colours, black and certain

véry popular in which is likely to find great dipped in dye of a corresponding collar and cuffs or a little vest to

higher The woman wie likes to look along the ground; or the same white, green and grey, or blues Society just now, and exclusive

reaches of popularity with so many people. hue.

wear with a low-cut blouse of tailor-made can

ti costumes sttenuated form will disguise its and pinks of different shades. teachers of much expansiveness steadily into favour, and is likely involves considerable trouble.

The idea of dreing one's dog organdi worked with Richelion The wallz is still creeping up sad dresses to suit ter

on The slimmess

thick blanket Linings are invariably gorgeous, put them high on their list: butaore than ever to consolidate its!

embroidery. Every needlewoman woman who lo her best in cloth coat trimmed with heavy and the embroideries on some it remains problematical whether position among the smooth, slow muss needs go in fear and trembroidery looks on linen, but it is

The owner of a coloured poodle knows how charming this loose, flowing garments has wide bushy fur in broad bands applied make them more imposing than they will attain general popular dances and mystic, gliding mea-bling of the elements, for there is a revelation of loveliness o choice; and the woman who still in circular lines, and so burying the cloak itself. clings to the short tigos mere-the head as to make the wearer with draped collar is a shape likely coming."

The round capety in the winter days that are sures which are to typify the dye which will remain last in material as nothing of a dress worn with a look like a bear.

to become popular, but the cape)

I dancing of the winter. long coat is equally well provided | BRILLIANCY IN COLOUR. with deep pointed sides is less for: The peculiar few are not; Colours are brilliant, especially easy to copy:- "forgotten either, and in a new in brocades and velvets, but black

THE NEW "CAT" DANCE. SLEEVES AND COLLARS. collection of models it he been velvet will be much worn in the possible to see how far peculiarity evening.

Wherever one gore this season. 23 will black lace sleeves are a feature of the new could go without overstepping. Where colour is worn at allfashions. The short sleeve is the line of Parisian good taste. there is no hesitation about it shorter than ever, but the long In line, in colour, in materials, but the shades are so wonderful sleeve is most important. It is this collection stands apart. The that they never look-gaudy or made in almost every known and skirts are just widths of material garish-they merely glow like unknown form, loog and tight, folded round the hips and fastened, flowers or precious stones. Cheap long and loose. bishop and Chinese. at the side, leaving the top, of imitations must be failures. Grey leg-of-mutton and slashed. It is the skirt loose and standing like and silver and white are also inset in on the shoulder, below the & collat, from when rises the favour and are beautifully com- shoulder, or well down the arm. loose, straight bodice with bined. Mustard yellow in blanket and it is also kimono. Everything long tight sleeves and low neck. cloth, in velvet and in silk jersey depends on the style of the dress This skirt is made in every kind is a shade beloved of the French which it completes. The full, long of material, and in the strangest woman, who knows how to wear skirt demands either no sleeve at of colours-olive-green, yellow-it. Terra-cotta is used everywhere, all, as in a dinner dress, or a long green, apple-green, red in many but with very different results, sleeve reaching over the band or --Bhades, corions browns, and dull in coats, cloaks, and in some falling away from the ario near greys. The mixture of materials coats and skirts it is successful.the wrist. The sleeve will in no

is quite as curious as the colours chiefly on account of the soft small measure secure or mar the and styles-tinsel trimmings on dull nature of the material: but success of the whole dress. morning blouses, yellow-brown in any bright tissue it is unbe lace. on beige blanket cloth coming to most women.. In trimmed with fur. jewelled belts velours de laine it is perhaps at on winter coats, mobair em-its best. broidered into net, cloth with applied designs of crepe de Chine,

CAPES FOR THE WINTER.

Collars are almost as important. The high

swathed throat is general, but the open throat, with a high collar behind, auits some women better, and which pink dress with a royal blue Paris, and will certainly be worn suggestion of bones or stiffness. The cape is already popular in fever way it is, there must be no forming a bustle on the left hip.this winter. In blanket cloth and There are also many curious There is nothing pretty about velvet it is being made scarves and stocks, which may it, but there is something rather to match the dress with which it te wound and unwound as the Tattractive. It is clever, dis- is worn. In far it goes with any occasion demands or the wearer tinguished, bold and a little thing. A dress in grey and green suggests. A scarf or stole worn worbid. Beauty has nothing to do blanket cloth showing a border of across the shoulders falls as a with it but charm and intelligeace stripes in different widths, has a stole, is knotted in front, carried of a certain "procious" kind may cape of the same material. As second time over the shoulder, flod it interesting. It goes well beige dress with some Arabian wound about the throat, or even with hair dressed with a studied design in red or black will have a shaped to a sash. These adjuncts Carelessness, and a complexion cape to match. A brocaded chiffon of the toilet are one with the Purposely arranged tosuzgestolive velvet evening dress has a cloak dress. They are made of the Cincs,and vivid lips of an unnatural like it with a splendid full collar same material and colour, and tr Carmine. Limp, thin figures of fur. Some evening capes are they are trimmed it is with fur,, Fail-round gracefully in draperise lined with marabout all of one fringe or embroidery to match.

No. 1-The duncé is started well a “brush”, step." The girl's left food is pointed out forward, brushing the flow, and the man's-right-foot backward.

No. 4--Then

comed the "click" step-both dancers ris- ing on their toes and clicking their heels. (Warning Aroid ull shoulder movement.)

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No, 3-The third figure is the "draw" step. The girl'a left foot and the man's right foot are stretched out to the side, toes touching the flour,“ and drawn back.

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comes

the

No. -Last puddle" stop, The, girl's right foot and the man's left foot are raised and the dancers pirot in a half circle.

The newest itance the Cat" will be the rage this winter, according to the Natizmal Masters Association. - H is also known as

the Camel Walk" and "El Gallo" It's a nice, quiet danca with no abuking or jerking. That's one reason it was adapted. The dun cing masters now disfavour on the" shimmy" dances. The four illustrations show how the Cat" is done;