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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER

1931.

Amazing Blouses Make Their

Appearance as the Winter Opens.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

[which has been accepind for appreciated by women. It sarm

centuries.

them from a steady diet which is The large majority of women brought about when one must [wear banda that do not extend wear the same costume every above the waist line. They have day--and this is what most elastics by which to hold up the women have been compelled to stockings. And theso alaation do sinos the ars of high prices.

Two Mouses to ons skiri tokles Fashion sets its heart upon liancy to the addition of bright are omitted from the front of the

blouses this winter and colour. The white blouse trimmed several new modes that are bound with black is very good. Narrow, and two stout ones are the fancy of a woman more than placed at the back so that this two pairs of shoes or two hats.] to be interesting and important strips of black velvet, taffats or band will not slip upward. She is permitted four blouses to They put the white shirtwaist grosgrain ribbon are used. Tharej "There could be no more revolużjone „kirt this winter, so sha dafinitely in the shadow, reducing is wool embroidery also, and #ptionary reversal of established should be sostatically happy. 11 it to the type of thing that one plications of back velvet in strike fashion than this very thing, but is not necessary for her to choose buys for service and for the hours ing designs.

when one is not arrayed for the

public eye. Eva in sports there]

is a different kind of blouse worn

Smart little white flannel sport Mousa trimmed with block eyelet embroidery and Neck tie,

after two years of struggling, the a black skirt as a foundation for corsat people have won the publia|these guy and festive blouses; abe to their side. Naturally the com- may choose gray, manro, baige, fort of such corseta has much to rusi, Havana brown, Fresch blue, do with their adoption.

jand deep Burgundy. There is When this fashion became thor falso an entirely new tendency to- aughty entrenched among women, ward myrtle green.

it was useless to ask them to It in the best kind of colour to Iwear blouses that tucked in under choose for a separate skirt if af the skirt. Only the women who woman is weary of black and continued to wear boned corsets blue. There is no doubt of the above the waist time continued fact that the latter colour is a to go along the old path. The make-shift this season; it is not rest took to the overblouse and a determining factor in fashion as to a skirt attached to a straight jit has been,

bodice with the happy assurance WHITE AND BLACK SATIN that at isst they could be

{ fashionable and comfortable.

There is no doubt in the minds

ARE USED.

With a cloth skirt it is no

anyone

of those who make blouses that longer poor judgment to wear an the rubber corset accenuated the ornamental blouse of satin that popularity of the new type of over-covers the hips. If blouse, which is tightened at the glances over the new tunics which hips in order to give an imitation are offered to the public they will find that black and while satin bot of the wide hip belts. BLOUSES AS PART OF COSTUMES, only play a leading role, but they

The accent laid upon the tuafe. blouse by the dressmakers is too strong to be ignored. This gar- ment was the feature of the col lections during the early antumu.]

White satin blouse) Sleeves embroidered in jet and rhinestones. Bett a roll of satin embroidered in jet and rhinestones,

from what has been considered correct. The English wear the tailored shirt of silk, muslio, or flannel. They tuck under the skirt ard demand a bolt. They are still worn,! still liked, but they are not in the! list of things called new.

It is not easy to get the favour- ed sport blouse, but it soon will be for so misy women have admired the heavy silk trico: sport blouse. These blouses slip over the head, but they departi from the oblong neck line and they do not present the overly wide, ftened expanse ofl material across the chest. Only! the slender woman could standi such a trying experiment with! material. If she had undus' curves of the bust, if she was! large in the diaphragm, if she' wore corsets with a middle bone that insisted upon standing aWAY from the figure she appeared at ber worst in the type of bodice that was fashioned after the Dancer of a chest protector.

These new silk tricot blouses are arranged in a far more gra- cious line. They open in front in & V-shaped line sad the upper side goes across the figure, giving & modified surplice effect. The belt which goes about the hips) line is part of the blouse, but heavily woren in alternating stripes which gives it Bolid appearance. The tightness of the the wearing keeps it from stretch- ing and losingits snug appearance about the body.

Such blouses are preferred above all others for sports and for tailored suits. Women choose them in grey, beige, white,| and wear them with whatever

18.13.

Below, green crepe de Chine Mouse embroidered with silver thread. There is a silver belt with green snake head. On right, black satin blouse trimmed with black

estrechan.

Consursow

SUIT NOW.

You may think you

will

Bleeting glimpse of the tight PUT AWAY THE BATHING fjaskets worn by thosę Austrian romantics who once sang and danced through the Strauss opera. So sedate a blouse a this, made of black satin and black fur, would serve with positively get a new bathing sui mor skirts than black, for the next year but perhaps when the fas_ion is set for black hats and time comes you may change your slippers as accessories to, all mind. At any rate it pays to put away this summer's bathing re- and- tako Bo

costumes.

A black blouse, hat, and low galis carefully shoes are worn with a grey skirt, chances. Be very sure that every a green skirt, & Burgundy skirt article that has been immersed and stockings that are siways the in salt water is thoroughly rinsed A good colour of sunburnt legs. This before it is laid away. particular kind of stocking has rubber bathing cap and alastio not gone out of fashion, and it is garters will often go through a accepted as the one colour to wear second season if put away proper at all hours of the day and even-y-gaver, if one bit of salt olinga ing

to them.

In addition to the one colour of Let all the bathing togs soak in stocking, there is also the one the bathtub in clear, cool water colour of slipper, which is black,for hours and hours. Then dry The fact that a woman does not everything thoroughly out in the Lave to worry about matching op sun. Do not press out the sile her shoes and stockings to her bathing dresses with a bot iron frocks is a comfort in these but smooth them out nicely_and frantic days.

CURIOUS SLEEVES APPEAR IN

BLOUSES.

| lay them away unpressed. Wool suits must, of course, be protected from moths through the months when they are shut away from Let no woman feel that she can the hight. Staff rubber swimming put demure sleeves in any of the caps with tissue paper so shey new blouses that she desires to may not wear along the folds, build to enliven har dark skirts. Black silk bathing dresses that Sleeves in blouses are as curious! are untorn but that bave changed as they are in frocks. They repres-colour or have become rusiy o eat the ingenuity of a hundred gray, may be redyed next year, designer, They are square, ru-Keats in jersey suite may be ning from armhole to waist line; mended with worsted of the saNG they are long, tight at the wrist, shade or with darning cotton if with width and fullness above the the suit is black.

For all the

elbow; they are half tight to the bathing clothes and sucessories elbow and finished with immense together, so that you can lay bell-shaped ruffles, upon which is) your hand on them when thenew placed trimming of a brilliant season comes around. character.

morning wait they possess. They If a gray or blue suit is to have It gives a woman a chance to vary attach to themselves fur, metal, catch the surplice neck with an such a blouse as an adjunct, the the upper part of her frock when-embroidery, and Italian cut-out ornamental pin and often they applications are in dark blue or ever the spirit moves her. What work.

Some of these blouses are. wear a narrow belt about the crimson or violet and white.she should bear in mind is that normal waistline which permits Two years ago it would have such tunics should be long, not strongly peasant in their sugges-¦ the soft trica to sag above it in s been considered crude not to say short. You can see for yourself tion. They are broad at the manner, which gives the new sensational to wear a white wool- how ungracious the line is when shoulders, sagging at the hips, silbouette.

len blouse.

the blouse ends at the hips and the tightened by a broad and garish skirt ends somewhat near the belt and full of skirt One. ankles.

wonders if it is necessary to pay

CORSETLESS FIGURES IN- FLANNEL BLOUSES APPEAR.

FLUENCE BLOUSES. The next choice after the silk) tricot blouse is one of white or The corsetleas fizare demands The dressmakers constantly much money for anything so beige flannel. This struck a new the blouses that run down to the avoid giving a woman such bad unimportant as an underskirt.. If note in the fashions of autumn. hips, and this in itself has been proportions as this by building the fashion for short skirts were The final blouse WLS well a factor against the sport blouse blouses that reach the knee. They still in existence, it would be easy known before this season, but which tucks under a skirt put on resemble Russian, tauics, and to add an extra band to one of it was fashioned on the line of a tight waist band. The modern from such garments they get their these tunics and call it a gown.

There are other kinds of tanics "man's shirt and was tucked woman wears her sport skirt name. They are distinctly orde under the stirt..

snapped or buttoned to the lower mental when the dressmakers than these voluminous, affairs The new blouse is worn over edge of a straight corset cover, bare anything to do with them which carry all the glory of the the skirt in order to tighten the with the weight swinging from The shop sell the simple ones frock. There are long, slim, hip line and lengthen the waist her shoulders.

which serve for the informal severe shapes that are worn line, for wib the incoming of There is no use for any woman hours, but the dressmakers con-with-long, full skirts. There long skirts is necessary to gird to hold up her hands in horror sider such garments as important is a black satin blouse trimmed astrachan. This type the figure in at the bips in order over the suggestion of corsetless parts of a costume and they ask with

docs not stand ta present harmonious propor-18gures. The fashion is accom-¦& sufficiently high price to make of blouse tions:

plished. Speaking in strict truth, womm believe that an entire alone in the fashions. It has many imitators. And they carry Those wie flannel blouses are there are a few figures on which costume should be included: thin or thick and they are made some type of corset is not placed, There was never a time when a band of fur up the middle, in any fashion one likes, but the bot the word corsetless refers to the separate blouse, considered as around the hem, and at the neck majority of them, owe their bril-the absence of the boned corset the best part of a frock, was not in a stiff manner that gives one

Blue crepe blouse embroidered in bright colours. Collar and

cuffs bound with black satin cire ribin

HERE AND THERE AMONG THE NEW FASHIONS.

Rose stems are used as long perdant ends from a bunch of three big crushed roses posed on the hip of an evening gown. The stems are long and tangled and quite interesting in effect,

Some of the new fans have painted sticks of amber. Bose and blue, gold and green are laid over the amber in the Knest tracery of flowers and leaves,

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Feathers for the hair mounted on combs. One striking.

} coiffure orasment of this sort is a bunch of sweeping, curving cook feathers in scarlet, mounted va dark tortoise-shell pronga.

Evening slippers of black satin have toes thickly embroidered. with silver threads.

Mercury wings are in for a great vogue...Small ones of rhinestones are made for the side of the slipper, and larger pass STO made of rhinestones or feathers. to be held on the hair at the sides, of the brows with a tight ribbon (or silk or jewelled not bandsin.