1921-03-16 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1921.

A GLIMPSE AT THE

SPRING HATS

A New Spring

Sailor with

the Bow in Front

Smart Hit Trimmed w

Tiny Springlike

Buds

These Little Straw Hats with Fruit and Flowers will be Popular

MODES OF THE MOMENT.

Evidently straw hats are goingį to be much more fashionable than fabric hats this year. There ar interesting new straws in addition to the milans and leghorns and hemps with which one is familiar. Some of the straw braids are interwoven with metal threads. indeed all the spring hats glister! in one way or another. If there! is no metal woven through the straw, the straw itself is 했다 brilliant you can almost are youri face in it

PROFUSE USE OF MAINE RIBBON.

The Paris hats have quantities: of moira ribban mada inti! eccentric, un bows that shot -out sideways and di enward Fenj wall hats and imo fluted ruffs! that stand up behind hat crowns.j From Villatard comes à small turban of tobacco brown milan with a flexible roll edge that fits! down over the eyebrows and oars,

A long-looped bow of Intracenjlunds are ever sa much smarter

brown more ribbon slants from now than full blown blossomnus.

the left side of the crown almost | A shady hat trimmed with a

to the shoulder, the ribbon wired (wh de woeath of buds, made of

FASHION NOTES.

Quite the newest thing is a veil

so that it slants smartly and dois soft little feathers, is pictured.j of embroidered pot, that is word not droop. Another turban from The closely massed buds are over a toque. It is gathored to- | Lewis has a low crown and white, with palo green slems and gether at the back of the crowni narrow upturned brim. Moire some palo green leaves. The hat and finished off with a stifly wired¦ ribbon is tied around the crown, is of white straw bruid and is soj bow. inside the brim and a huge fay of lexible that you could crush it pleated, than rises at the bark, without spoiling it. mawe of bright and: SPORT RATS HAVE BOWS IN

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The sport sailors aro on view

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Ostrich fathers are very popa. Jar. Not only are the gorgeous ostrich fans so much in demand, but handbags of ostrich feathers)

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For women with weak nervas it should be "lavender, lavender

Between Season Hats Are of Silk with a Bit of, Embroidery

NEW SPRING GOWNS.

BEAUTIFUL BRUSHES.

For the Toilet Table.

A Very Soft and Flexible New Straw Shape"

FASHION NOTES.

Straps have certainly dis- appeared from the newest styles The woman who likos dainty lof walking shoes, and the shoe and uncommon toilet brushes and which seems to mould itself to mirrors on her drossing-table will the foot as unobtrusively as be interested in some of the possible holds the filoid. The only beautiful new Indian woods which survival of the straps of yesterday are being used for ornamental is a narrow circlot of leather to work of this kind.

match the shoe, and worn just Wooden-backed brushes are, above the ankle generally speaking, more satis-: factory to use than silver ones,

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LACK PROFESELY USED. Lace softens the chsten and ton. Some are of white milan, in all colours for evening wear are gleam of many of the spring hatslothors of black milan. And some very much in evidence.

Now!

for the latter require such clean-that is now considerably Heon-in The very bright shade of blus made of celoplane or milan, and are of heavy straw braits blocked | comos a fashionable designer who

ing to keep them in good condi- women's hats figures more than if lace is not introduced in the to severo trimness. Thero scems is showing evening wraps made

tion; certainly, too, they are loss any other shade in advance spring trimming of a hat it is usually little difference between these up entirely of ostrich feathers. added in a veil arrangement of sailors and the high crowned,

expensive than tortoise-shell or model milliney. Women should enamel. Beautiful as these two be chary of buying too blue hats, some kind. Lewis starts the sea-jstraight brimmed models of last

As sashes are more than ever: all the way" instead of roses.

are, yet such exquisite colourings however, for there are few women son with a Continental that has year. They are worn far down

and fine figure have some of the whom this vivid shade suite, and made a decided hit. It is a small, on the head, quite eclipsing the dish now, the girl who knows "She should scent the hair and

tropical timbers from India's im- it may easily appear bizarre. saucy little hat covered with eire eyebrows, as they were last sum-of one of those beautiful Indian the skin with lavender-water," a

Every woman is consumed with mense forests that nothing could Scarves or Italian satin and straw braid with en-mer.

that older doctor advised, and should spiff curiosity about the new spring be more attractive for such de- But this year's sailor must crustations of Chantilly lace here have its ribbon bow directly at women cherish should use her the parfums as much as possible fashions, After all, it is only corative purposes.

Some of the newest evening and there. A strip of the Chantilly the front-or it has no style at all. powers of persuasion in view of a ho lavender salts bottle is one of natural, when one

shoes have quaint wings-they ronembers One of the prettiest is Indian can scarcely be called bows useful articles the that much of one's happiness in tulip-wood, which has a very made of what appears to be fine drops over the brim at one side The sailor pictured is of black borrowing transaction. One way the

most

A Few Notes.

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and continues in a long scarf-straw with a white grosgrain/with the sash is to drape it loosely nervous woman ever carried. It this life depends upon the kind of smooth and glossy surface cross-glove leather, A black satin slip- streamer to twist around the ribbon band tied in a flat tailored round the waist and fasten it at is worth its weight in gold, in the figure one cuts in the world.ed by faint rippling lines; it is of per will have two upstanding throat and across the lower half bow across the front. And by thene side. Another way is to let matter of reviving drooping spirits. Despite any assurances

the ends hang down in front in and in the provention of contagious of the face. A smart black milan bye, white ribbon bands are hat pictured is partially veiled smarter on black sailors than the Fatima fashion.

disones it is beyond praise."

with black laco, the scallops of black bands are. the lace overlapping the brim. If you are "hard to suit" with a edge and making a many-pointed hat, try one of these round,, ster pattern on the crown. A narrow brimmed hats pictured. vivid orange rose with some black They are going to be very fashion. leaves and hard; shiny black bude lable and no Biapo is

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is trailed along the inner curve of generally becoming. The lines the brim toward the back of the of this model are made particu- bat. At the front, the brim rolls larly soft and pleasing by the up to reveal the face..

garland of massed velvet flowers,

In another pictured hat a veil buds and leaves. It is an excell- has been added to give the lace ent hat to wear a veil with and is touch. This lace veil is part of easy to put on-no painstaking the trimming and cannot be re-adjustment of angles to one's face. moved from the hat,

This is one of the new tricorns

or Continental shapes of the

spring season and the supple straw is bent and twisted to give

WOMEN'S HANDS.

How is it that a woman is able

the sharp outstanding points at to tie a ribbon bow and a man is either side and the bulging curvo not? (aska E. M. W. in the Daily above the face. A flat garland of Mail) He can make a bow out flowers outlines the edge of the of ribbon, to be sure, but it is an brim and holds the lace veil in altogether different article, a place. The hat is of black milan, product essentially masculine, the veil is taupe and the flower In justice, I may add, that the garland shows mauve and pansy kind of bow B man ties is

equally purple tones.

4 mystery to BUTTONS ON SPRING TURHANS. woman. She cannot for the life The hat-fad of the hour is the of her imitate it satisfactorily, small bilk and straw turban with and occasionally, for the or- ́a rolled back brim trimmed with|namentation of her own dress, embroidery-and buttone! A hat she will persuade one of her men of the sort is pictured, but this friends to make such a ribbon model is all sik; no straw has knot for her. A woman may almost been used in its make-up. The be said to see with har hands. Tol roll brim is smartly elongated at the draper's assistant she says, either side and the whole brim is "Let me see that piece of silk, embroidered, in a diagonal effect will you?" But when it is placed with silver coloured floss; small before her she examines it with cut steel buttons emphasizing the her fingers, hurdly looking at it. meeting of the diagonal lines of She puts up her back hair silver embroidery. There are smoothly and beautifully without three dozen of there sparkling seeing it at all, though when it is little buttons around the hat.. finished she contemplates the result in a looking-glass. To an Flowers seem to be extra-incredible extent, indeed, a woman ordinarily fashionable for hats can see horselt from top to tosi or rather, bude, for half blown without looking in the glass,

FLOWER HATS.

MISS GLADYS COOPER.

A new portrait of Miss Gladys Cooper, who in private life is Mrs. Buckmaster, daughter-in-law of Lord Buckmaster:

A GORGEOUS WRAP.

contrary, people still judge by with mauve or purple. Sisso is leather, kept in place by a tiny or- to the a delicate rose-pink shade tinged wings of dull red or rust red appearances so that to keep a another; this is a deep golden nament. They are not suitable to watchful eye on the changes of with darker coloured markings dance purposes, though. the mode is sheer common sense, and is a favourite wood in India Almost all the new models for all kinds of fancy work. Some' show a slim outline; side trains particularly handsome brushes are still in vogue, and the low were recently made of Indian waistline, achieved by a clover laurel-wood. "This is a rich and arrangement of the material, and lustrous greyish-brown with not with a waistband or girdle, is stroaks and patches of deep umber. a feature upon which special The surface, with ite wavy emphasis is laid.

undulating figure, showe a bright Many delightful results are metallic sheen when polished. achieved by using black and, Haldu has a pale amber tint, white materials in one and the (and somewhat resembles eatin same gown. For instance, Peron wood. Another light wood is has a dinner frock of black Indian yellow-heart, which is & charmeuse, white georgette, and bright orange-yellow with some black lace that illustrates, among darker shades, and which has a other things, the new waistline, distinctive opalescent appearance to which reference has already which is not to be found in any been made. The satin is draped other wood. That effective silver over the georgette, which is veiled grain or, as the Americans terms with black cobweb face, the it, "flash," which ja to be seen in material being drawn round the our English wainscot oak has a figure and held at one side with counterpart in Indian red oak, a motif of shimmering black though here the colour is a finer pailletes. In another black and and deeper reddish-brown; the white evening dress white figure shows in mottled silvery georgette is veiled with black patches.

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lace, and the corsage is plentifully Ebony and rosewood and decorated with jet. Draped figured teak from the Godaveri panels of black charmeuse break district are also used in India for out at either side of the skirt, brushes, but these three are with tassels of silvery pailletten. already known in Europe to some Just to show that coloured extent, and they have not the gowns present no difficulty, Peron novel charm and beauty of colour- shows, among others, a jade greening of the newer woods, which charmeuse dinner frock covered appear to have a great future with Chantilly lace of the same before them. shado, with a wreath of lacquer flowers for a girdle.

The really smart woman is wearing with her evening toilette

A very smart model evening shoes that are rather long and gown soen recently in one of the pointed Instead of the rounded big shops bad two trains, one at toes that have found favour up to each side! The skirt itself was now. She avoida very high heels, quite short, but the trains trailed and totally disapproves quite a yard on the ground. They elaborate strappings, with their were weighted with heavy jet.. slightly theatrical air.

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The cloak pictured above is of suede velvet. Added to it, is the gorgeous embroidery of silk and jewels all done in an applique design, und in such a carefully calculated

colour scheme that the whole thing is Like the exquisite changeable- ness of light and shade playing

in a bit of fine crystal.