1927-10-15 — Page 17

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1927.

FRESH

ARRIVALS

ON SALE EVERYWHERE

SNAKE TRIMMED.

A dark green umbrella em- ploys an an effective trimming the use of anakeskin, which has now become almost a staple material in the creation of nur costumes.

MOTLEY MUSINGS,

THE TRIUMPH OF EVE.

A PARIS SHOP.

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST.

I was interested to read of a new shop which has been opened. in Shanghai by two or three Chinese girls.". It is in many ways a typic- ally western woman's shop where Lempting dresses, shoes and acces- sories are displayed in an artistic fashion, but the clients are Chinese ladies who realise the beauty of their traditional costume.

Chinese clothes have charmed the west, and fashionable ladies in Paris and London, and the wealthy stars of Hollywood, ure wearing them as negligee, and, to a certain extent modifying western fashions to their design. How long this Oriental influence will last or how far 1 will go, it is impossible to decide, nor can not tell whether the East will be westernised before the women of Europe and America But take to oriental garments. this new venture opens up a differ- ent avenue, and for the East, we, 'think, a,better one.

Foreign dens of chic are being combined with the traditional Chin- ese dress, by these Chinese girls who have studied dress making and designing in Paris. The "ad- vanced Chinese girl will find in their showrooms clothes which are becoming to her social beauty. which in the majority European dress is not, and yet be freed from the burden of tradition.

The eye of the dress designer has been wandering round the Zoo. Some years ago rabbila werd seized upon, dyed, clipped, curled and otherwise transformed into leopards, seals and ermine. el and early last winter, the worship of the calf was revived in the temples of dress. Probably though the humble coney pro- vided most of the caff ́skin which | world. was made into jumpers, hata and coats.

of cases

Silk undies, transparent sleeves and shorter skirts, with French fabrics, shoes and stockings, can in skilful hands be used to arrive at a very charming. compromise, style which may well sweep the

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I wonder if we shall see a similar shop in Regret street in the near future where English women can have Chinese dresses made for them slightly modified to suit their type. It would probably

Besides the showroom, there are Now the serpent has tempted fitting and work rooms, and there Eve anew, and this time must some talk of opening a beauty pay for his transgression with his parlour. skin. Shoes, bags, and belts are made of snake skin, embroidery imitates it. and woven material and cunningly arranged sequins seek to give effect. Round her slender hips Eve now wears a be a great success as there is no that Chinese garments, serpent belt, with jewelled heas doubt and flexible body and often ae- materials and embroidery are en- companies this by a snake neck-joying a great vogne at present,

Ince.

"Look Pleasant."

Photography is not what it was, thank Goodness! The Victorian Family album, once. a source of pride to be displayed on the draw- ing room table with the family Bible, is now-a-days dragged out from its hiding place to provide Irreverent laughs for the young er set. What frights and frump our respected relations were in the heyday of their youth; what

memories of interviews, even more painful than those with the den- tist are called up by our own. early photographs!

Personality!

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GOLDEN LOCKS.

"WOMAN'S CROWNING

GLORY."

More Femininity?

the

WOMAN'S

WORLD

AUTUMN STYLES FROM AMERICA.

THE NEW BELTED JUMPER

SUIT.

The long jumper worn with e belt at the natural waistline is a popular feature at the

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OVER THE

TEA CUPS.

(SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BY "JOAN")

CHARMING FROCK.

COLOUR IN THE HOME.

THE CHOICE OF A SCHEME.

In deciding the colour scheme of of room several points must be taken into consideration. First and foremost, what is the purpose of the room? That the boudoir, the dining-room, the bed-room and the nursery, serve different purposes is obvious, and it is scarcely less obvious that they need in conse- quent different decorative schemes, yet this fact is often overlooked.

Freedom Or Slavery?

Unless you are prepared to be the slave of your house, and to subject your children and your husband to the same slavery you must arrange for your decorative schemes to be comfortable and labour saving. White paint, for instance, seems very appropriate for a nursery: it suggests youth and innocence. Yet let us face the fact that a healthy happy child is more often grubby. than fresh and clean, and the paint reflects the child! Red used to be considered correct for dining-room, but its dark and enclosing effect seems more in keeping with the over eating of the Victorians than with the dainty meals on which we pride ourselves to-day.

Modern women are revolting not so much against the slavery of the house as against the slavery of its decorations. Paint and brass which need constant cleaning, or fault finding, ornaments which entail dusting and conventional colour and furnishing schemes which suit neither health, taste por exchequer, are becoming happily a thing of the past.

Situation.

As much depends on the situation as on the purpose of the room. The windows will generally give the clue to what is needed in the colour scheme. Do they look out on a lovely scene they must be emphasis- cd so that one's eye is led to look out of them. The badly situ- ated room, and there are many, must be self contained, and à sense of space and freedom suggested in the room itself; so that the window is merely an ingress for air and not an important factor in the decorative scheme. There are again dark and light rooms where the entering.sun must be either cnccur- aged or artificially simulated or toned to prevent a glare.

FRESH ARRIVALS

SƯ LỚP ĐI THÌ TIN AS

Cailler's

Rajah

CHOCOLA

PREPARED HE HITZINARO

ON SALE EVERYWHERE

GREEN CREPE.

A distinctively new hat is of green crepe with an allover upplique of felt dota in the same colour. The rim is faced in darker crepe.

MEN AND MATCHES.

Women. have learnt to smoke without affectation, and to add shagreen cigarette-cases, amber holders and "rings, gauds, trifles connected with and conceita" smoking to the list of little luxuries which so soon become necessities, but they have not learnt to steal matches. That remains a culine prerogative.

mas-

Men begin to steal matches from the time they are old enough to want to play with fire. School- boys pick them up automatically, for the homely boxes slip so easily into a jacket pocket, and would soon make an unsightly bulge in the pocket of the most practical coatee. Women tailored suede buy their own matches, in flat cases of an appropriately smaller size, or sport a silver lighter, or get a light from, a friend.

One girl takes the precaution of going round her flat on an evening. when a mixed party is expected, and storing the matches in a safe one box out for place, leaving

near the courtesy's sweet sake, biggest ashtray.

The explanation lies, perhaps, in a subconscious primitive fear of being without the means of making Your Own Needs.

fire which man (not woman) stole Your own personal taste und pre- from the gods. Woman tended 4-3 ti t 4 tཨ; } }མམ#འི}}•1+}}{}e#k={མ་་་སf f«q«lj=]}} Judices with regard to colour and the fires in the Stone Age caves your cherished possessions are the when once they were lit, but the Considerable changes in coiffure

If perogative. of jand where if you look closely. The to baskets of flowers--things next two factors to consider.

creating what are announced for the winter sea

London, Sept. 8.

called "royal on in Paris, which it is well to

Stephanie sends us સ banana flowers are large and flat and made against which it would be sacrilege you personally like white paint the Rupert Brooke note, for dresses are very definitely yellow lace and georgette frock for of velvet in ravishing colours and to lean your head, even though it work it entails will be worth while flames" belongs to than and ho has to you; if you find grey depressing no intention of abandoning it. designed these days for the afternoons, a beautiful paste buckle shades to suit your individual taste.

may not bear a trice of violet oil.the most artistic of the modern That is why, if you do not give fashionable style of hair- being part of the general scheme.

The designs given here, however, French colour schemes can never matches to men, they will steal 'IL is dressing. Perhaps

Whether banana yellow is the

are not quite so impracticable, al, really please you. Then there are them, even going to the trouble of other way

the colour of the fruit with its skin on, about and

or afterwards, I do not pretend, to coiffures follow the dressmakers,

though they will, if adapted, prob your possessions, they may be beau- untying the string which attaches buf the principle is the same.

know; but I don't think it is very

ably be whisked deftly aside before tiful, antique or merely familiar them to the ash tray! vital, because this is the kind of

any member of the family puts his well loved relics of a former home. frock which would look lovely carri

If you love them and need them, But being photographed by our

or her feet up! The top heart-build your new room round them, ed out in your own favourite modern camera artist is n very Hair will play an important part and must-becoming colour. Here

shaped one is of taffetas-shot don't let them stand like homeless different affair. It is no longer this winter: the Eton crop is cer-I pause to raise the point: Is one's

silver and mauve in the model Ighosts in unsympathetic surround- uninteresting, but is flattering to tainly going out and hair will be favourite colour the one which be-

had copied, and completed with aings. your self-respect. The

bedside worn longer, waved and curled, comes one most Strictly speak-

silver bow, I had almost said manner of a successful doctor is framing rather than revealing the ing there is no reason why it should brusque compared with the man face. White hair is also predicted be, but if you collect a few statis-

"true-lovers' knot," but upon hand- of the new photographer.as a new fashion. Not powdered ties (only don't call them that, even The injunction to "look pleasant," hair but our own locks specially to yourself, or it will become op- which generally resulted in bleached and dyed to a snowy white-pressive) you will find that most fixed stare of abject misery ja a

Dean. Everyone knows how charm-women have a soft corner for the thing of the past. He discusses ing white hair looks with a young colour which suits them best. Just with the utmost sympathy your face, and with the prominence of a case of cause and effect I suppose. type and personality. Personali the robe de style this fashion may But to return to Stephanie's dress ty, he explains, is more important very well become a popular one, there is very little to be said than beauty, and never does heIt takes a certain amount of about it, because you can see its tell you to "look natural." On courage, although if the snowy charms for yourselves. The scarf the contrary, if you have a secret looks do not suit you the hair would collar draping the shoulders is yet vanity he will discover it, foatersoon grow again. 'it, and on it will build his picture..

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MILLINERY MODE.

A picture hat in black and parchment coloured picot

Bleaching, of course, has been made use of for some years, but heretofore to change dark hair

whitening.

Some Possible Surprises.

one more Victorian note in this age of sophistication, and somehow or other suits the shingled head ad- mirably. The skirt is comparative-

to golden, or 1o, hasten nature plain and in keeping with the collar as to line. The cross-over needs deliberate Laura La Plante has bleach-effect round the waist is rather novel, and very "slimming," beyond ed hair, naturally she is a brunette and it was not until which I need say nothing to recom-

mend it. she bleached her hair to AL

Madeleine gives us a millinery pale gold tint that she attained suc-mode this week, and although Lon- cess on the screen.

doners are not getting the sort of weather which invites the wearing of large and picturesque hats-at If bleached hair becomes popular least not for many hours at a here, I wonder if it will spread to stretch-you will like to know the the Chinese. The shingle suits type of hat a fashionable woman móst Chinese girls so admirably keeps ready to don at a moment's that they may be tempted to follow notice when the sun peeps through. the latest whim of western hair The optimistic lady's face is hidden fashiony. There would be some-in the sketch, but that is merely so thing particularly piquant I should that we shall get full benefit of imagine about an oval face with the back view, which is the supreme skin the colour of old ivory, framed attraction in this case. In the days by white hair, but it would probably of my youth, I used to proceed on suit only very few and would al- the convenient principle that "a most certainly cause an uproar in Boldler never looks behind;" but the young lady's family. We may modern fashions induce us to pay as expect at all events a few indignant much attention to the back as the letters to the press and threats to front view-and quite a good thing harbers on the part of the fathers too, from every point of view; of English young ladies who imitate ethical, practical and artistic! The their great grandmother's white model in question is of Black picat the

An afternoon gown described by Joan,

Try This!

The Effect Of Colours.

ing the sketch round for verifica- The following list is not of course tion, I was amazed to find that not entirely comprehensive, the effects of my colleagues would of various colours is mitigated by conditions of situation and lighting, recognise that emblem of but it may perhaps prove useful in fidelity if they saw it; so deciding a colour scheme.

one

I will confiné myself to calling

Dark brown unless very highly polished is too dark and depressing for a living room.

Black can be used to give very lovely and unordinary effecta If it is highly varnished it reflecta very much in the same way as a mirror and thus gives a sense of space, small halls treated in. this way are often very successful. Again, a few strong notes of black are very useful in holding & some- Yellow or warm cream will give what ragged colour scheme to It a bow. To revert to the prac- an effect of sunlight, and used on gether. An all black room is an tical, this pillow can be, manufac- the walls makes an excellerit ground eccentricity of which one tured from seven-eights of a yard for pictures especially paintings.quickly tires, it became for a short of thirty-six inch wide material, It serves also to lighten the effect while a craze in London, but no one which doesn't run out too expensive, of dark furniture and this to give wanted to keep their black rooms

sense of space.

for more than a season. even allowing for a very exclusive material as you must, if you want

Blue, that is the clear sky grey

an exclusive-looking cushion.

lower

one

very

Grey if carefully used can be very

or mauve blues, can generally be charming, but the cold fluid greys The relied upon to give apace, but it should be avoided and a warmer сап be manufac-must not be forgotten that blue is note as of ecarlet or old gold Intro- tured from one and three-eighths a cold colour and especially when duced. yards of thirty-six-inch material. allied with dark wood, needs a fair-

The wider frill accounts for the ly strong note of yellow orange or

fairly substantial difference be

red to be really satisfying.

tween this and the heart-shape. Red on the other hand is warm ATTRACTIVE DESIGNS.

Shot

green

taffetos

was

The reason that the and enclosing. material chosen, and the appliques red wall paper became so popular for hotel dining-rooms at Home, is were of varying shades of brown that under its influence the diners and golden velvet and tissue, giving lose the sense of isolation in a big a slightly autumnal-though un-room, which often attacks one when orthodox-impression. I recom- dining in a half empty restuarant decorated with white paint and mend both these designs to mirrora. But red is far less entis- the skilful homeworker; also factory in a private house, and even 1 advocate дл attempt on pink is a difficult colour to manage. the part of the artistic scul Pinks may, however, it will chosen to evolve at quite a moderate and used with discretion, be very charming for a bedroom boudoir cost a lampshade of vellum stencill-or children's room where a pretty ed with attractive designe, slight effect is desired... sketched here. The plain vellum' shades can be obtained quite cheap

Everywhere there is a vogue for ly and offer infinite scope for the

excessively ornamental in ingenious."

The desirus even extend!

Brown again varies with the tone used. The warm string coloured belges are generally very satisfac tory and tabac can..be used with good effect fuva really large roomL

Here are three exceedingly pretty designs for your new cushions and lampshades: