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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

AY, JANUARY

KNITTEDWEAR

COLD MONTHS.

APTOVEL SWEATER IN TA AKISETAT EITBROI

Sweaters, scarves and whole! Another interesting new stitch dresses of knitted worsted willis in the Tuxedo sweater in navy bid defiance to zero weather-blue and white. The white If it comes-wool embroidery threads appear to be en the an knitted fabric and colours wrong side, showing in little are blithe and ray-many tas openings between drop-stitch lines. and brown sweaters this year. Perhaps you can puzzle out how The chap who tried to discover this stitch is done by throwing perpetual motion should have over loops and dropping them on known about sweaters; nothing the wrong side undoubtedly, but equals the way they go pajonly a very clever knitter could and on-and

on. Acd pro-coin The pattern of collar and mise to continue going on for cuffs, of course, is easier to com- ever. Nothing seems to be able prebend; simply squares of plato to stop the progress of sweaters knitting introduced at even in- through successive seas003 of tervals in a knit-and-purl stitch. fashion. It is quite conceivable The Tuxedo revers are very

that fashion would like to banish broad and this gives the black sweaters. A whole lot of fashion's and white part the effect of a minions in the way of weavers of square white collar. Tuxedo fabric, makers of buttons, cutters sweaters ATE liked by some of garments-not to mention wearers better than the slipon. tailors galore-would be pleased For one thing. & Tuxedo displays to death if the knitted sweatera dainty blouse to advantage: would go out. But the swester and, of course, these models are refuses to budge. Women will easier to get on and off than a have it, you see: for there is slipon. They are a bit more nothing that seems quite able to dignified and not so jaunty and take its pisce.

įthey look very much batzet 'ou AND NOT ONLY SWEATERS-

women of matronly proportions. All the younger sisters of swea. They bare not the dash of the ters reage into line this season as slipons but they are very much favourite, the little kalited spec- better for some purposes; for cers that keep you so warm under wear over a dainty frock or a raincoat, the dainty surplice of blouse, for instance, when a house worsted that is so graceful and so is chilly late in the afternoon, or comfy in the house, mornings; for wear in a business office knitted scarves that give a dash-where the temperature changes log touch of colour to the street as one or another of the staff costume; knitted stockings that does what he thinks proper to the have the correct rough-and-ready windows. One cannot be forever suggestion with country togs; peeling off and struggling into a kuitted tsms, saucy and alluring lipon, whereas a Tuxedo and even whole Initted dresses always easy to put on and off ic and coats to bid defiance to Jack a twinkling. Frost, Clarer indeed are the CROSS-STITCH EMBROIDERY knitting machines that tura out these attractive garments. Ther As though sweaters were not bave many needles that fly with already bright coloured enough, amazing rapidity and that can in themselves, they have taken produce yards of knitted fabric to embroideries in order to be while your home knitting needles still more colourful and surely are producing inches.

out of doors in winter time, when INTERESTING NEW KNITTING there are so few colouria Nature, is the time to wear the bright-

STITCHES.

OX SPORT SWEATERS.

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A COMBINATION. GF NAVY BLUE AND WHITE THAT

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TWO OF ITS COLORS"

STATCHED BY A STARF

ÜTTLE. SUPPLICE SWEATER FOR MOLISE VREAP ON CHIL PRARNINGS

POPULAR SUPON M ZWO SHADES GETIN

|ed_up all around. They are ex-top and extending down to the cellent hats for outdoor sports, for waistline, it hacks distinction. rain will not injure them and There are marrower scarves but they may be folded flat and tuck- these are frankly Worn** 38 ed into a pocket or a suitcase. mufflers, and make no pretense More format sre the blocked of being abLWIK The oddly Failors of pressed beaver. Some patterned scarf has the effect of of these have brim-facings in con- trating, colour to match the scarf or swester. A black pressed beaver sailor with underbrim in deep blue looks well with a blue Angora scarf bordared and fringed with black. Another sailor has an underbrim in rage green and accompanies a sweater of sage green wool with a scarf of green and black Augors. The blocked sailors are worn with | riding suits and with long, belted

informal sport headgear, ärej

front Some of these housefing shape. Sometimes only the topcoats; saucy tams, the most sweaters have elbow sleeves but plain ribbon band forms the trim-reserved for the rougher sports; the longsleeved models have the ming and the bat is turned down and the little felt hat in gay col most style; and usually if you are all around in smart boyish cold enough to need a sweater fashion. Such hats are bail: for appear on the golf club: indoors, you want your forearms women and are larger in the head Neither the tam nor the little felt tennis court and club verandas. covered.

size than the masculine bak, bat is appropriate for town wear, The sleeveless sweater frocks which is, of course, worn over except by very young girls, but bave a clinging grace, like frocks closely clipped hair. Bat & canby the blocked sailor or well tailored of tricotine or jersey, that makes (woman can pick up s very good felt spart hat of mannish style. them becoming to most figures

and they promise to be very popular this winter. The one pictured is of gray worated with white showing in narrow lines between the gray riba, and white tassels trim the sash smartly. Obviously (if you are thinking of knitting one yourself) & purled and knitted stitch turned to show the parled side outward would be correct. One would say about six purled stitches in gray and two knitted stitches in white one Way RCTOSS, and all-keitting on the way back.

HEADGEAR AND SPORT SCARVES.

Fanciful sport hats went out with summer, the cold weather sports girl has no use at all for taffeta silk beadgear embroidered with French knots, .or picture bats draped with ostrich. These

There are scarces and caps whose pallerns and coloure suggest way Merican Blankets and potteries.

may be worn with the tailored [sport suit through city streets.

One of the soft felt hats so much fancied now is pictured. It accompanies & voluminoor Angors scarf and the wearer is evidently Even in town you see this all ready to go to the football (informal costume & mornings: game, for her aneppy outing togs smart suit and gloves; Angora are worn with tailored streek scarf and knockabout hat of sult and gloves are part of her braided fell.

costume. Kat and scarf match

in a rich shade of green, subdued an Indian blanket in its patiaro with gray. The brim of the hat iaj and colour. It combines adobe. laced with gray grosgrain ribbon, red, black, gray and a dash of the narrow ribbon going over and orange, and the Angora cap-la Over the brim-edge through embroidered to match with wool horizontal slashes. The green Farm. A second scarf, in gray scarf is splashed with big squares) and orange is shown in the saIDE in black and bas black fringe. picture. Not only the colour of this scarf, The delightful little has of but also its ample size give smart-

braided felt is matched by graceful shawl-scarf and this costume is correct for the school- girl on a cold morning, even in town. For the country it is ideal. The scarf is of brown Angora bordered in tan, and the hat is made of narrow strips of brown aud tan felt braided in basket fashion.

If you plan to knit a winter. scarf, select very heavy yarn and ass mediam needles for the stitch mait be even and close. Bome knitted scarves have lines of drogi stitch about five inches syart and the effsat is good if the dropstitch line is not too wide. And do not forget to supply enough worsted for fringe; for no scarf has style now unless deep fringe dangles from both ends. Cast on at least

a brundred stitches for a good wide scarf, and knit ten rows's day and your scarf will be finished within a month.

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Plzio koitting bas gone out of lest, warmest husa! One of these style; even the home koitte: embroidered slipons is pictured-model and the deep V of the neck engaging specimens of millinery| must accomplish something in all done by a clever kaitting opening is outlined in the con-looked very pretty with gaozy tricate and interesting if her machine, though there are very trasting colour Brown is a silk sweaters and crepe de chins sweater or tam or scarf is to have expensive band-knit sweaters especially smart colour in sweat-skirts: but the sterner, tailored any distinction. As for the koit-with the embroidery added alsofers this season and brown shadee sport wear of autumn and winter ting machines, no stitch seems to by hand with worsted threads in in sweaters look well with white calls for sterner, more tailored be too intricate for their clever. the cross-stitch pattern. The flannel skirts and with the dash headgear and the cold weather ness to master. Beveral new bold patterns and colours offing red sport hats and scarves.port hats are almost-moonish in looking bat in a man's hat shop, stitches are shown in the new Norway, Sweden and Czecho All these sweaters, you perceive, their simplicity of Hoe and in the selecting one of the larger sizes. knitted garments presented on Slovakia bave been borrowed and are of beary worsted in close fabrics that make theth.

One young woman did just this. to-day's page, and it will be an adapted for these sweaters and stitch-cold weather sweaters !} These boyish hats, however, She walked into a man's hat shop sxpert pair of home knitting the one pictured bas embroidery Openwork and drop-atitebare rakishly and jauntily posed and demanded & brown feit stat- asedles that cao copy all of them! ip two shades of red and two sweaters of Shetland and Iceland on the head- no masculine son. It was a good-looking model. The sweater with the stripesjebades of blue on &white ground, yarn are worn indoors with person between six and sixty bound at the edge with ribbon! made up of little vandyke pointe, It is a warm, closely knitted blouses and sport skirts, but for would dare wear a hat. Brime and trimmed with the ordinary for instance. Isn't it effective? sweater with long sleeves and outdoor wear in the cold season are caught back with dashing mannish band of grosgrain ribbon And it looks simple as simple high neckline and will be com- sweaters are of good, warm char-quills; pompons nestle back of with a fist bow at the side. The to do. But try it! This sweater fortable in the house mornings, actor and must look their part cars, and ribbon bows are placed shopkeeper watched with agony is orange with black trimming worn without a blouse under-even if a fur coat is donned over behind or at the side or any-her deft manipulation of that bit. bande ai edge and cuff and at the death; or for outdoor exercise them.

where that is becoming and Don't worry," she assured him. waistline; and the vandyke points worn over a blouse. These strip- LITTLE SPENCERS FOR THE

dashing. There are hate of I'm going to buy it anyway." are in black and white. Every led, embroidered sweaters must be

stitched tweed, of davetyn, of felt, She punched in the crown and proper sweater has its accom-worn without a belt-for that The waist-length surplice

of pressed beaver, of,hatters' then poked up Its middle, making penying scarf-it is a poor sort of would spoil the effect of the sweaters were not sporty enough plush, of knitted worsted, of the hat low-crowned and pers sweater now that cannot manage coloured stripe pattern so the to last more than a single season Angora and of leather-butfectly round. Then she ijusted a scur! as escort-and with this sweater must fit very trimly. Do for outdoor wear, but they remain ilk is barred from sport it on her head and pinched and orange and blick sweater goes a not overlook the delightful little as indoor sweeters Band very millinery. Little falt hats pulled the brim. "There!" anid scarf of black site with an orange sport hat of red corduros, with il-jdainty and graceful little parte enormously. fashionable. sbe, turning away from the, mir- horder and orange fringe. For melco crown and corded brim,aments they are, to be sure. The These little felt hats may be bent for. All it needs now is to have nees. A skimpy little scarf is this hold the fabric tant, the the rest of the costume; the skirt strip of the cording forming the one pictured is of coral pink worst and twisted, into all sorts of the ribbon bow brought around to warts than none at all and the wrong side to the watery is of pleated white flannel and the trimming band and cockade ed with ostrich wool trimming in graceful shapes. Sometimes the the front. blouse of white linen; with naETOW Another interesting new stitch, the same shade. The collar ex-brim is caught, back against the Tweed pleated frills. The bat is of dark s sort of welt or raised lump in teods into long ends that cross rowo with a long, quill. Syme with golf bits and arty felt with an orange quill every other row, is shown in the and go around to the back where times a breast of grobe encircles hats are extremely English six inches wide. Unlest the seat yourself exercise the thrust atdaring angle across the stipon of brown and tau worsted. they are joinert to sash ends that she hat which is pulled out fore and in style the crown tapering a hit can be wrapped and mused about care to see that the volts bilm,

This is another trialy fitting come around and tie at the ait to give the elongated "walk toward the top and the brim roll, the Sgure, turning over at the tight

HOUSE.

Unless a scarf is big enough to muffle ila wearer it has no style at all, and its enda musË be lengthened by fringe.

TO CLEAN VELVEZ When velvet is to be cleaned. remove any grease spots by the application of French chalk; and touch soy sticky spotslightly with clean cold water. Next fill a lagi. Jopen pan with boiling water and over the steam which arises from

new cold-weather scarves arohuge a friend whom you have prov worn affairs, at least two yeads long with a stiff whisk the com these and from twenty-seven to thirty brush up the nap while you