THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH
FASCINATINGNEW
BLOUSES
1921.
White Blouse with Vestee and Cuffs of Coritrast ing Hue
MODES OF THE MOMENT.
Many of the French bleusen for! spring have the Ligh neckline.j This is combined with saucy.. short sleeves and gives 1921: blouses quito a different and piquant look.
The high, close
Tailored Blouse of Fine' Linen with Tucks and Tiny
Pleated Frills
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A Graceful Tie-Back Model of Soft Silk.
and Georgette
solvos again, with their curly forehead pieces and chignone, and ribbons and tortoiseshell ornaments superadded.
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cheaper than silver, and one can well imagine those who possess silver brushes envying tho girl with aluminium ones when clean- ing time comes round. They
would be ideal for Hongkong where silver tarnishes so quickly,
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MODERN PORTRAIT
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Blouse of Cream Venise Lace
on Ecru Chiffon,
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Формир
For the girl who has to think twice before she adds to her wardrobe there could be ao more kindly
invention than the feminine "dinner jacket." They are slipped on over even the most frivolous dance frock and trans-. form it into a dignified dinner. dress. They can be made of brocade, embroidered or brocaded ninoc velvet or georgetto, and aro often trimmed with tiny borders of fur, or possibly marabout. Most of them are just little magyar coats which require only the slightest of skill to mani- pulate.
WEDDING RINGS..
The Latest Designs.
collar combined with an elbow blouse is accompanied by a sash, sloovo is distinctly now, and has of ile own thaterial, as this white that special smartnces that any crepe de chine model is, so much Every now and different mode the better for lines of graco. The
Evening slippers decorated with always has at the beginning of a white blouse is worn with a skirt feathers instead of buckles: season. A Fréhelfie-back blouse of white linen, tucked all the way represent one of the newest ideas in gantian blue silk crepe has ajup in three inch tucks and opening in the shoe world, and the latest Some kind person has produced tall stock collar finished at the down the front under a wide fold use to which feathers are being hair-brushes- with aluminium top with a narrow pleated frill of TEE-AROUND MODELS OF SOFT put. All sorts of wee plumage backs treated in such a way that white not. Theebow sleeves (net
SILK.
can be utilised,, and the nimible they cannot tarbish. These into armholes), have pleated frille Paris may try to bring in high fingered girl can renovate old brushes are, of course, inuch of the crepe and under them collars and down-the-back faston shoes at a very little expense. pleated net frills-a very soft and jings, but woman is not going to dainty effect. The blouse and the give up the comfortable, graceful tall collar button at the back with tie-around blouse until she has to.. round crochet buttons and tiny! One of the most attractive tie.!
One-sided effects are extra- cord loops.
around blouses of the season is ordinarily popular just now. Linen blouses" are made in the pictured-just a kimono blause Every possible one-sided idea has same way, with elbow sleeve and made of soft silk and with a row been introduced into frocks, and tail stock collar and fastening of small buttons on a rather oddly now the hair ornainent even is down the back. One of these shaped vest. But there is a great affected. A very smart society The narrow foundation of the hlouses, made entirely by hand, loal of style in the simple woman was recently seen wearing bandeau was covered with flame- ling hand-pintucks across back arrangement of vest, buttons and a simple bandeau of this descrip-coloured velvet to match the and front and Hemstitched collar contrast. The blouse is of tion, which could very easily be frock, the front being shaped very
Present-day Tendencies.
Ten years from now if you epaulets extond down over the rose mauve and grey printed silk made at home.
slightly in the Russian style Artists have given their ap-happen to wear a plain gold band shoulders, between the tucked of very soft quality and the vest,
Rows of brilliants were attached proval to "bobbed hair as a around your wedding sections at back and front. A cuff and sash are of grey Georgette,
finger to the left half only of the standard fashion. Although everybody will know you are not panel, outlined with hemstitching with a line of rosy mauve, glass Experts in coiffure are respon-bandeau, extending from the bobbing" is now considered by as young as you look and that separates the groups of tucking buttons down the vest. The pro sible for the rumour that in 1921 centre point to the middle of the the hairdressers to be out of your nuptials date back to the on the front of the blouse, and at nounced widening of the veet bobbed hair will be seen on the back. A single strand of horse- date, its esthetic points were day when plain gold bands were the back there are hemstitched toward the waistline would not be heads of real children only, and hair aigrette separated each row made patent to any visitor at the edges which fasten with small becoming to a full figure but one that the women of divers ages of brilliants and softened the private view at the National buttons and loops. These buttons slender woman the effect is smart round and about 50 who have severity of the stiff bandeau con- Portrait Society's Exhibition at and loops continue all the way up and graceful, the vest extending been imitating the styles of the siderably. The other side was left tho tall collar which in tucked backward at the sides to form a -vertically, the tucks being left soft eash. The cuffs are straight nursery will be their real dignified completely without decoration.
loose to form a tiny frill along the bands of the Georgette picot edged; top. This is a very smart blogse; and allowed to droop in longer its simplicity, the beautiful hand longth at the back. The Georgette sewing and the sheer, fine line is just sheer enough to show the material making it distinguished.jpattern of the silk under the vest COLLAR TIED TOGETHER WITH and the blouse droops down over the skirt in graceful drapery at Sometimes Paris compromises the front. with the high neckline by putting
RIBBON.
Similar models are offered in
a tall collar at the back, dropping batik work, the batik design show. a frill over it and down the fronting through a vest of plain chiffon. of the blouse, and tying the frill Some of the batik blouses are together at the throat with alrarely beautiful and they are narrow cravat. This effect is among the most expensive models. shown in one of the blouses) VEST EFFECTS A FEATURE, pictured. This is a new model Panels of one sort or another, that has special style and interest. giving the vost offect, are a not- The blouse is a slipon, with an able feature of new blouses. The opening far down the front. After one shown is of oeru chiffon with the blouse has boon slipped over a vast-panel of ecru Venise lace, the head by means of this deep the panel attached at the waist- slash at the front, the little vestee tine to a narrow belt of chiffon. is snapped into place at one sido.. The lace vest in slashed down The blouse is made of white crepe the front and turned back to form de chine and the vesteo and band part of a sailor collar, the back of on the sleeve are of strawborry the collar is a straight strip of the pink Georgette, used double solaco sowed along the turned-back that the colour is soft yet vivid. edges of the vest. Narrow Venise Bell sloevos, are set into armboles, trims the collar all around and and pleated frills at the flaring runs down the sides of the vest, and edge of the sldove, The blouse the sieevos are bordered with the has a tall collar at the back, narrow laco which outlinos a elash | hidden under the softly tumbling at the outer side of each sleeve. frill-of pleated crepe de chine, and BEADED TUNICS FOR LARGE the front edges of the collar are
FIGURES. held up firmly against the throat by a tiny cravat of picot ribbon.
The larger woman, sticks to the very becoming straight blouse in This blouse is very smartly chemise or tunic style and bus worn. with 4 graceful low this straight blouse of chiffon waistline effect. Most women weighted with bead embroidery.) wear the bolts of their skirte too The model pictured in of palo grey tight and raise the skirt too high chiffon embroidered with blue over the blouse, giving their fig-iridescent beads. The grape UTCH A chunky, short waisted clusters are done with darker effect. The skirt belt should be grey silk. This blouse has a very extremely loose and the waistline smart sleeve, slashed and draped dropped as low as possible. If the up to show a separate undersleeve.
FAMOUS CINEMA
STARS.
XI ¡ MİSS DOROTHY QISH,
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the fashion. All the new wed. ding rings are carved in beautiful and symbolic designs, the carving done by hand-the work of skilled Or by craftsmen in the art. women--for a great deal of the handsomest hand-carved jewellry is turned out by feminine hands.
the Grafton Galleries. It is no oxaggeration to say that at least seven out of ten of the portraits of women showed short-haired sitters-these were among the most charming of the portraits,
Few wedding rings of exclusive too. E. Barnard Lintott. Ambrose style are of shining yellow gold McEvoy, Louis Thomson, Harold now-all that belongs to the past Knight, Walter Russell, it seems. The modern wedding Gerald F. Kelly, Augustus John, ring is very often of platinum William Strang, Flora Lion, and becauso a really smart engage- John Collard are some of the ment ring now is of platinum;! artists who are distinct advocates and a gold wedding band spoils of the bair-bobbing fashion. the pure white gleam of the platinum engagement circlet. White gold looks very like the fashionable platinum and is much less expensive, and green-gold wedding bands also are fashion- able. The orange blossom design is naturally the favourite for wedding rings, but the fine cary- ing frequently shows wedding bells, lovers knots and even tiny cupids of love nestling among orange blossoms. A wedding ring of recent date is of green gold with raised carving repre- senting lily of the valley bells, The careless rather Bohemian and is a very beautiful specimen drese and modern poses of the of the craftsman's art. Bome subjects of most of the modern wedding rings of platinum portraits contreet strangely with are sot with sunken diamonds all the dignified and restrained dress-around the circlst, but most ing and coiffure shown in the brides prefer the band of gold or portraits of Queen Alexandra byplatinum, exquisitely carved and X. Winterhalter, which has been unset with jewels. lent by the Queen Mother from Marlborough House.
Another noticeable feature of the exhibition was the absence of evening dress in the portraits of women, Beads, amber and jade especially, are the only jewels permitted to the woman who sits for her portrait. Dark blue frocks, with a tiny suspicion of white frilling at the neck, scarlet and white jumpers, little fur trimmed coats, a simple striped voile frook, and a long plaid travelling cloak have repleted the convon tional white satin and black velvet of former days,
White is going to be the rage and many of the most expensive types of costume are expressed plentifully in white-always a sure sign. There are white silk
A USEFUL GOWN.
The dress pictured above 18'a soft lustreless satin with the skirt all in one piece, the two. : ends of the material conting together in a jabot at the contro back. At the sides, the satin is folded to half its length and
The new net veils are very large, large enough to swathe the bat and hang down the back. They are coarse and open. The sport suite, white silk sweaters, draped diagonally" across the
artost are the square mesh fillet white linen frocks, white sport front...
for octagon 'shaped fish-net velle with a border of chiffon. The favourite coloure are brown and tappe,
has of authoritative make, white) kid buttoned boots, white silk! wraps with white fringe and white parasols,
A few velvet flowers are tuck
into the ribbon bolt of plajri, kimono-like bodibesana ana
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