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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1981.

Fall Frocks Have Loose Lines

A SIMPLE FROCK HITH

EMBROIDERED POCKETS AND SMART LONG PANEL FACINGS

With the beginning of Sept-neckline and on the sleeve, an ember lovely summer costumes embroidered diamond shaped have become a bit passe-to fem-motif ending the stitching in each inine imagination which begins instance, like a clasp or buckle. at this time to torn eagerly toward Do not overlook the grouped lines the incoming season Imagina-of gray silk stitching at the hip, tion, where fashion is concerned, under the swinging panels-n always outstrips the weather, detail that adds extra smartness frock and increases the One wants to know what is com-to

Black silk ing anyway. Anticipation is longwaisted effect. always more than half the stocks and platinum gray surdei pleasure in anything and it would strap slippers accompany this be a dull life if we were not black and gray frock, but the intr duced to next season's styles now fall hat has a vivid blue until the actual date of the feather in the new limp astrich season's beginning.

that looks like fringe.

THIS

SERGE

FROCK HAS THE NEW CUF HEM AND CUFF AND COLLAP

OFLICE

THIS BLACK BPOCAGED SILA FROCK HAS A FLAMERED SASH AND RED BEADS

ARE HYORIY AROUND THE DECA

QY THIS FROEN THE SASH AMY SEVERAL ENDS THAT ZURN

UP FROM THE SHIRT HEM TO

MEET THE WAISELINE

bats

A typical bonnet is pictured. sbeer and airy that they look as well as feel cool on & summer Note the oval top of the crowd, morning. Breakfast to the line of the crown itself and match them are of black lace and the graduated lace brim which net or of corded black orgaudie bas just the right slope over the and the black breakfast hat is forehead without sagging down more apt to have a white rose at the back. These dainty boa- than a coloured one.

nets look so easy to make; just a

To make a hat like the one handful of lace gather d sad pictured you usa straight lengths trimmed with a koos of ribbon! of material-nos circular pieces-But try your band at putting the and draw the straight strips into wisps of fabric together and see the required shape with cards how much trouble you have-- that are

run with fine hand unless you shape- your cap on a stitches. A shirred and corded carefully pre-arranged pattern. strip can be drawn up into almost 1 he cap pictured is of cream lace, apy shape, and the mare cords with narrow pink ribbons cover....

Wide: you put in, the better the shapeling the joining seams. will hold its lines. The hat pink ribbon makes the graceful. pictured has three groups of cord-streamers and the little pink ing on the crown; the upper edge roses at either side of the back of the silk strip being gathered bold the turned-up lace brim tightly to form the centre of the flatly to the cap to give a good crown. Sometimes & flat, cover-line. A lovely bonnet of this ed button is put over this gather-type has a crown of hand tacked ing at the top; and sometimes the cream net and a brio made of top is corded and attached to a tiny frills of picot-edged pink circular section of silk. A crown satin ribbon. A pink rose is set The softest silks are used to make lining is usually put in, and this at one side and loops and stream- these engaging breakfast hats may be of this Chinese silk in ers of the narrow pink ribbon fall and cording helps the soft fabric matching shade, or of georgette from the back. retain its hat shape. Wire (or wet. frames or stiff buckram or The new silk breakfast hat, 'crinoline have

ELABORATELY EMBROIDERED

MODEL OF BLACK SATIN

ABOUT EIDERDOWNS.

The French couturiers have Lines are the important thing in every feminine mind at the almost exhausted their resources, commencement of a new season. trying to banish the straight What are the new lines to be? chemise frock from favour, and Details of trimming, colour and have drawn from every sort of and from kind of material are of secondary historical costume account L nee, and lines-lone. every country and from every are of viral, absorbing interest. type of peasant's garb to find the Incidentally one wants to know arresting and irresistible new about the length of skirts which mode that will send the chemise have a way, nowadays, of scoot-rock to the background. But ing up and down with disconcert-they have no: succeeded yet! ing suddenuess. For agedera-Womankind absolutely refuses to tion skirts remained about the give up the straight lines that same length. But now one never are so becoming, and the com- knows when a hem will have to fortable sort of costume that can

ousted the no place in however, has not

It may sound rather incon- be taken up and for a long time be put on with least possible

! negligee headgear. Crowns lovely lace and ribbon cap from gruous to talk about winter bed no bems have been let down. fastenings. The chemise frock is!

jare ample in size for after all favour. There are plenty of these covers with the thermometer at Tacks and tuck and tucks we as conify as a nightgown or a

the chief requirement of a break-pretty affairs and they grow more its present beight. Nevertheless, -have-ali-been-running-in-pet negligee, and as easy to get into.

fast bar is to cover an unfinished elaborate and have indeed reach this is just the time when ticosts so that they would not and out of. Very intriguing will

coiffure and the soft, becoming ed the class of bonnets. More wise housekeepers attend to show below our skitt hems-have to be the new mode that

bat fits well down over the head work is put on them than was matters of this kind. So soon every woman knows all about' will displace it from favour! that! But it looks. ROW,

and frames the face with flatter-ever put on street boonets when as the weather gets even chilly, This season the straight, limp

skirt with a

HATS & CAPS FOR

ing effect.

the latter were in fashion. The the quilts will be in demand again though a few of these tucks chemise dresses are dropped orer straight. narrow

եր the chemise NEGLIGEE HOURS, *. rather snug-fixing underdresses cuff her, might be let oct.

The corded silk hat pictured is difference between the boudoir and unable to be spared. a typical model. Who would not cap-made of a circular piece of If the eiderdown has been in Skirts are really going to be which hold the figure in trimmer tunic is loose at the waistline:

At first glance, the new break-be glad to wear this enchanting silkdrawn up at the edge by an use some time it should be seat longer. In Paris they fall almost lines then have been the fashion and is drawn in under a sash

passes Awice around! to the ankles and some frocks for the past two years.

The that

fast caps seem to be natty little affair at breakfast? It is conde elastic and finistred with a frill to a proper cleaner's to be thor- figure and has ends have side draperies that trail on

hats, quite formal enough for of pale yellow chiffon taffeta and that tumbles over the face and ougbly treated before attempting with bead

exclusive breakfast cap to re-cover it. This will ensure usually a waistband, though some heavily weighted

outdoor wear, but

the rose is Nattier blue, posed an examining the floor.

Most of the dresses for autumn of these slips are cu: princess, fringe-a very graceful arrange these dainty bits of headgear against a careless looking bow approved by fashion, is a differ- the feathers being really classed

Another straight loose

•have irregular hems. This does style. The outer frock basament. not meat that the hem of the paneled or slashed skirt which frock of black brocaded satin re closely you note & softness of white picot edged ribbon. Offence of shape, workmanship, from the dust which always. and lightness about them-a course, the breakfast cap or hat material and price. Some of the accumulates. There will then be skirt is of uneven width. It reveals the underskirt: or it may has a sash of gorgeous Oriental flimsy quality that no bona fide must be very soft and flexible, so exclusive breakfast cape cost as no harm in fitting the new cover refers rather to the general line be in tonic length, with the under-silk in flame color with tassels hat ever has, no matter how soft that one may lean back against much, and more than outdoor over the old one, and this is much

Real laces, band easier than taking it to pieces. Two to match. This frock has short and crushable it is.

cushions or pillows; for hats beadgear. at the foot of the frack. Panels kirt showing

The material for the quite the embroidered nets and quantities aro and draperies descending below frocks of the type are pictured: sleeves: but it is intended for a

There are picture shapes, roll like

thing brim shapes, mushroom shapes proper the edge of a perfectly even skirt A black satin chemise model very youthful wearer.

for breakfast of beautiful ribbon go into their should be cut and joined to from produce the "irregular hem "embroidered with gray silk in a Oce of the new coat dresses and even jaunty little English in bed. It seems odd, does it making and the shape is very the required sized pieces to cover so does the wrapped Chinese willow pattern, and a for fall is pictured: a model is walking bat shapes and almost not the idea of breakfasting in (carefully considered. A bonnet the two sides. These should be shirt-a skirs slashed from bem navy tricotine frock with chemise black serge as simply made as a inevitable is the coquettish rose bed with a hat completing one's of this type has lines and chic seamed togther to form a bigshapa to belt and with one front lifted a tunic over a skirt that has the summer gingham-all but the posed against a twist" of ribbon, nightie and bed-jacket costums! something you cannot possibly with an opening at the top, into which the original quilt is fitted, bit above the other in draped new cuff bem, turned up on the pockets! You could not miss

effect:

as

underfrock is sleeveless and has the

beneath.

and piped

along those pockets which are a very effect. Sometimes circular outer side

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They are of skirt sags frankly down at both the top. The satin frock bangs elaborate detail

trimly pale gray cloth embroidered with sides sags far enough to let you in loose lines over a know the sag is intentional. fitting satin underslip and the black and white silk and are of Scallops also give the irregular embroidered skirt panels are peculiar shape-like an ace of hem idea. And an interesting slashed to the waist to reveal spales. They make the simple The skirt is little frock extremely individual frock pictured today has a brand this underslip.

The long collar new sort of irregular hem. The embroidered on the front panel and arresting. sash in this instance seems to only, and the waist has elaborate and panels, and the cuffs and have been recklessly cut up into jembroidery on the back, but a vestee are of white broadcloth. & number of long, narrow strips plain front.

TO DRY WASHING GLOVES.

which are caught to the frock st Few of the fall frocks have After rinsing out the soap, fold the waistline and then looped sleeves chopped off to show the the gloves in a cloth and roll up under the edge of the skirt. elbow though here and there such tightly to remove most of the This frock shows loose panels a model appears. Most frocks moisture. Then shake them, put carried to the extreme of the idea sleeves

in three-quarter them on the hands, and carefully

RTO

Dear

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and it is one of the most striking length and flow outward toward draw them off-again; this is to models on to-day's page. Io the edge, the width in some cases keep the shape as colour it is rather gaiet than being exaggerated and the sleeve possible. otherwise, in spite of the contrast showing a deal of trimming. Now pin them on the clothes achieved by the Обе

of two Drooping lace ruffles and cuffs line by the middle finger, using a materials. The frock is built of are set ou tight andersleeves safety pin which should be free floe black twill serge and the which are attached to the fitted from rust. Each glove to be at- panels are faced with soft gray underslip of the frock. This tached to the rose separately. Autio-also the ends of the loose effect is shown in the costume of Hanging them in this way allows sleeves. Diamond shaped motifs nvay blue tricotine fast referred the moisture to dreindownand out of gray silk embroidery decoratto. The lace sleeve frill and the through the wrist end. Where the panels and up the centre of lace collar are attached to a fitted this precaption is not taken, the each panel runs a double line of underslip, and also the vestee of water settles in the finger-tips, gray silk stitching. This line of fios bandtucked handkerchief and the gloves dry discoloured,

aland that end is thickened. ching is repeated around thelling. The underslip has

The bonnet style is well liked because it cosers the hair so well. Pink ribbon and cream lace combine in this cap and littl roses add their dainty

louch.

this

But fashion has taken a notion to say for a round, ruffled cup drawn do it and there you are!

up on an elastic. A cunning bat of pink silk is in English walking shape, with high corded crown and narrow brim carling up at both sides. The inevitable 1080, matching the bat in shade, is set close to the brim at the centre front. Another pretty hat is of white taffeta with rows and rows of cording and a white gardenis with green leaves for trimming. These corded hate keep their] shape well and they are so soft) |that they may be folded flat and tucked in the trunk tray without Kinjury to their dainty style.

There are dashing black break- fast bata too-to go with filmy black negligees. This year black His so fashipbable that, of course,

it has invaded the realm of boudoir WEAT add summer negligees are apt to be of black chifon or georgette, or of thin black Chinese silk with picot edged ruffles There are negligees Almost formal enough to wear also of black organdle and of black to an afternoon offair in this

cap at

sharred dotted swise. All these camber breakfast toned negligees, however, are very taffel: pale yellow with coquettish In style and are so white ribbon and deep blue POSE.

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Cover

Its corners should be drawn down

to the corners of the new cavers and fixed in place with pics. Then, laying the quilt on the floor, follow out any stitching on the surface also with pins,and then with tack- ing threads. It will then be easy to go over the lines with the ma- chine, thus giving the quilted appearance. The opening at the top should be very neatly seamed along, and the quilt will be ready for use.

An old quilt can be very much improved sometimes without entire recovering by applying a patch in the shape of a bow centre or fresh stripe for the Borders. These are best put on by hand, and the join can be con- canled-under 'a, row Dr. two of |couching stitch. If carefully done, this looks almost like a piping of sük. A new border strip should be Bound right over the edge so that it folds down on both sides. This is a good idem for introducing fresh colouring into a room, provided it is chosen, to tone or contrast effectively. with the old cover.