THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1923.
SPORTS
SHOES
with
Crepe Rubber
17
Sotes.
White Canvas, without heels for Tennis.
812.50
White Leather, no heels,' Plain or Brogan Styles.
Tan
$13.50 819.50
no heols.
$13,50
Tan Calf, with heels, for.
Golf or walking,
$22.50 828.50
Mackintosh & Co. Ltd..
Men's Wear Specialists, Alexandra Building
Des Voeux Road.
A LATE CONSIGNMENT
DAINTY
14
OF
SUMMER DRESSES
JUST ARRIVED.
FOR
WILL BE SACRIFICED AT EXCEEDINGLY
LOW PRICES TO ́ MAKE ROOM
OTHER GOODS
MADELEINE PEARSON
ICE HOUSE STREET.
Next Door to Cafe "Wiseman
THE RE-OPENING
of
REPULSE BAY HOTEL
BALL ROOM
will be celebrated by a
GRAND CARNIVAL
ון
DINNER ĮDANSANT
to be held there--on-
SATURDAY, September, 8th.
A DINNER DANSANT
will be held each
WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY THEREAFTER.
WEEK DAYS
During the Summer Season an Orchestra will be in attendance from 8 p.m. until Midnight.
SUNDAYS
An Orchestra will in attendance during Tito & Tea Tables may be reserved at the Hongkong Hotel (Telephone C. 32)
THE HONGKONG® HOTEL CO., LTD.,
WOMEN'S INTERESTS
There's something irresistible about the cloche brim. It may. not-bo-entirely new or it may not look particularly exciting, but it is smart. You can put it on in the dark, or without a mirror. or under ..any adverse circumstance, and know what you look like.
It comes as near being the universally becoming model as there is. In Paris the brim bas become so small it is scarcely
hair.
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Stiff little ornamënla of feathers | that closely resemble a shaving "brush, are a favourite trimming: So are ribbor cockades or the conventional flower, flatly applied.
FEATHERS.
On the all-white hat one frequently finds a band of cloudy white feathers trailing the brim, Cor long feathers fastened to the
ILLUMINATED FLOWERS.
A favourite form of decoration just now is that of the illuminated flower. Large columbines or foxgloves, an electrio bulb in each blossom, beautify;"the ball of. many a fashionable houso, and the pretty idea is frequently carried out in miniature, 80 that the flowers may stand on the dinner table or even the dressing table. Fairy-like illuminatione, glowing in her favourite colour, are a whim of the beauty-loving woman of to-day.
Not only flowers, but fruita, especially big bun- obes of purple, green, or gold-coloured grapes, are lit up to adorn ball rooms or concert halls, and some=" times the vines, growing over rustic woodwork, are Klso represented;
SCARF FASHIONS.
tip of the crown with the ande Scarves are coming into their dangling below the brim, some-own again, both for day and even- visible. One gets the impression to extend out in front like line. This letter style is at its newest idea is to place a tulle times wall below the shoulder ing wear. For the latter the of a little black straw or feltdome visor. Others are shaved quite as having been erected over a pretty short in the front as in the back best, however, only on the girl scarf on the left side of the waist, face, practically concealing the and a little width parmitted at the with the awan-like neck, for where it is attached by a bouquet to subtract of pale coloured silk blossoms that side a great concession to the has a tendency SLIGHT BRIMP,
inches. broad faco. Others show
have their fragile petals frosted However, unless you have the favouritism and maintain equal of the small cloche is the very of the sash is arranged so that it Practically the only alternative with eliver marcasite. One side perfect features of a cameo or width at all points.
large an artist's dream, you will flud ́a
picture hat with little can be thrown across the front of slight brim more becoming and Black veils are used on soide of trimming, worn only with the the bodice in the form of a trini- quite as smart.
the most severe models and they rather elaborate frock.
ming, and wrapped carelessly Some of the brime are cut to may be draped to suit the features But the mastest women are round the nook-a new type of nothing in the back and allowed and soften the general effect, appearing in the smallest hats- adornment that seems particular
“SLASH_GATHERS."..
no
WHEN WASHING COLOURED FABRICS"
Remember --
THIS WEEK'S RECIPE
Jelly Cake.
Required: Halb, of caster sugar. doz of butter or margarine, Lilb of flour, 4 eggs, about a gil of milk, teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs one by one, beating each in wall, stir in the flour and milk alternately. Spread the mixture smoothly on a Swiss roll tin lined with greased paper and bake in a moderate oven from 10 to 15 minutes: When cold, cut in half. and spread a fruit puree over one- half, pr as the other on the top, and cost with jelly icing.
BEJEWELLED COIFFURE.
This headdress of platinum 'and parts is not, as you might suspect, a device to cover up an uneven, ly suited to dinner dresses design part, but is the very latest "accces ed for summertime wear.
sory to wear with your even-
A NOTEBOOK.
Scarves of high-coloured printed ing frock. cropo-marocain and crape-de- Chine are used with groat effect to finish off tailor-made coat frocks. These are sometimes ar arranged in collar form fastening
large loop set through a jewelled or gold filigree buckle, and allow ed to hang as a trimming down the front or the back of the gown. Sports coats and woollen gowns are also finished off with match ing scaryos of the stole variety, made of brushed wool.
The water should not be war-one side of the neck with mer than now milk.
All the lathering should be done before the article is put into the tub.
The article should be wished
as quickly as possible.
A teaspoonful of vinegar put into each lot of water enables
The newest and most effective form of trimming, both for cotton and crepe de Chine gowns, showe yokes, belts, and side panels made" entirely of the material, band-fag- got stitched in a very bold manner which gives the appearance of:a mixture between applique and drawnthread work.
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Even newer still are bouclette wool or silk dresses, trimmed with black lace gauntlets, are one of Black kid gloves, trimmed with you to make the rinsing more suede, and finished with dyed the latest freaks of fashion deliberate. Vinegar helps to fix suede scarves that are as soft and launched by Parisian elegantes. colours and brightens them. pliable.as velvet and lined with The materials should not be crepe de Chine of a contrasting
colour. White wool dresses with Costume fuita reveal äztistic allowed to remain damp longer black suede scarf trimmings are blouse tops of craps of contrasting than is absolutely necessary.
particularly chic-these often colour. Short box coats or jackets: The iron used should not be being accompanied by pull-on sariched with embroidery are too hot. Even a moderately hot bats of white duvetyn or suede, made of twill, and worn over iron will often bring about their underbrims lined with black pleated skirts of heavy orepo change of colour, but in this case suede to match.
the alteration will be merely temporary,
fabrics.
ANY KIND OF BOW.
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These dresses show how the slash gathers are used.
After the material-is stashed, a thread should gather the full part.. The other half should have a strip of facing one and one-half inches wide sewn to the upper edge of the slash on the right side of the ma- terial as it is in Figure 1
Then the lower edge of the slash is gathered on the seam line and drawn up to fit the straight end on the slush. The facing is then turned the wrong side and the edge of the facing sewn over the gathers as in Figure 2.
HAND PAINTED CHAIR COVERS.
covers of the same vivid colour. ing.and design have been hand. painted to matob, and envelop the A charming new idea has lately chairs and cottees alike the grown up in hand-painted chair whole scheme suggesting a b'aze and settee fabrice and loose of sunshine and warmth cavern, dacorated with hand-that completely transforme an painted replicas of old Chiness otherwise dreary room with a panels and Persian designs. north aspect.
of
An interesting experiment of Even more original are chair- this kind, which has evoked a coverings made of coarse-grained great deal of admiration, is brown or black milk painted to be Beed in London with exact reproductions drawing room at the pressat early Victorian wool needle-work, time. This shows ourtains of while other chairs treated in the rich Chinees yellow silk hand- same way have their sents painted, in a flowing Chinese covered with hand-painted silk desigu, representing erotic birds that has all the appearance of perobed on the branches of elaborate Tudor or Quson Anne tropical flowering shrubs Loose embroidery..
BEAUTIFUL BLOUSES.
The latest blouses are of the over-blouse type made of georgette with three- quarter sleeves, and collars which, fitting high to the neck Babing, open in front over waistcoat trimmings carried out in self-coloured braiding, which is con- tinued all round the out- sido basque,
Other models that carry out this same waistcoat effect are made of fine white washing silk, with long revere waistcoat- fronts and an overbelt of boldly striped pyjama silk. Crepe de Chine and crepe-georgette blouses made with pin-tuoked fronts, and finished with little Peter Pon" collars odged with real lace, aro very new and youthful looking."...
Jumper blouses of hand- painted faille silk, which show Chinese designs on a parchment coloured back- ground, are also counted exceedingly ernart and new copies of these most expensive models being sometimes made in fine silk braiding or coloured Chinese silk embroidery,
Little bonis at the neck, batterfly bows on the arm; bustle bois, liity ribbon bows flecking the skirt-bows of all sorts and sizes are used as trimming.
The only rule the fashionable bow adheres to is the first principles of amurtness.
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