1938-01-04 — Page 2

GAY COLOUR

2 Part

NOTES

By Mary

Grace

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1937.

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A musical motif is

striking on bodice

and pockol of o

simply cul dress.

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who is

O the woman handy with her needle embroidery is a fascinat- A plain 1 recreation. piece of material turned into a lovely piece of work admired by friends gives a great feeling of personal satisfaction.

And now we have a chance to give fashionable clothes that indi- vidun touch which we all like to attain. For Paris is showing not only biquses and lingerie." but dresses trimmed with attractive handwork,

Our artist has sketched four typical versions of the new embroidery vojne, all of which are being shown this season in Paris,

What do you think of the blouse with its musien trimming? The bars are worked in outline stel. Start from the right hand side and hold your work so that you embroider upwards.

Bring the needle through from the wrong side keep your needle facing down when taking each stitch, and re- member to keep the thread to the lef of the needle.

Do the nest strh from above, nau bear in mind that the bottom of each stitch must come what close to the top. of the prreeding one.

This same stitch is wed for the en- tire piece of embruldeny, but the notes are Allect in with satin stitchThis is simply a series of even utrolig matchen very close together so that none of the material shown.

The tile blouse with its pleated pie frill neck has a tiny pony of flowers outilaing Its pinafore front. Both This and the Hungarian design on the coatee can be carried out in wools in Jazy daisy siflch, satin stitch, and stem. Mitch. The first-named is an extremely popular form of embroidery.

Tiny houses, garden rakes, flower in

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pot, and single blooms are sept- tered round the buttonholed edgo of the conice with the Peter Pan collar. With a little ingenuity you can make an extremely colourful and decorative jacket.

Lazy daisy is a very quickly worked sultch. It is used largely, as its name implies, for small daisy-like flowers. It is also used for tiny leaves. One stitch c- counts for a small petal or lenf.

Blart at the centre of flower or slem of leaf. Bring the needle through from the wrong side. Hold down the thread and insert needle again at the same place, bringing it out at top of petal

Keeping thread over needle, pall it up to cover outline of petal, Breure the loop with a small bar stitch, whicle inkes your needle to the back again to start the next 'petal.

Thin stitch can be employed with good effect on lingerie collars and rafa ns well as on clothes for baby Embroktery cotton or silk can be used for the finer materials and wools for Heavier fabrica.

A rand effect can be obtained nu belis, Jumpers or rups by massing satell dable together so that you ran liordiy are the backgīnumai.

The secret is to keep the stitches simple, for in this way a may. bold design is oɛbleved, `especially if you eltonse your colourings with care. The 1tle houses for distance, could be all corrled it in outline stilen.

A large variety of embroidery trans fers are always available in the shiojas. and are easy to iron on to your work. If, however, you have drawn or traced your own design It is a simple matter to transfer it to material by means of an embroidery carbon,

Use a white one for dark materials and a dark one for light. Place your carbon between your fabric and the design, and trace over the outline with

stelte or knitting needle.

The fourth blouse shown, has dicc- shaped buttons as a Anish. These are inade from J-inch squares of flannel in two different colours. The n- bered dots are embroidered in a con- trast shade. The squares are tightly packed with colon wool so that they do not lose their shape,

Parks has also given us a labelllog craze. Initials or names are added 10 bankies and small articles intenden for Christmas presents.

The upright strokes, of the letters are formed of ribbon tape or arrow plot-edged string of material, such as georgette or crêpe.

The rest of the letter is embroidered with a small running stitch with another strand of silk threaded over to give a rope stitch effect.

SMILE PLEASE

GROUP of us were discuss-

ing a man who Was well known for his pubile work and eminent gifts. Everyone had something to say about his vary- ing contributions, his oratory, his philanthropy, his self-sacrifice.

Ono woman remained rather allent. Afterwards she told me why.

"I know it seems childish of me." she confessed, and I realise that all you were anying was quite true.

I

don't for a moment want to deny all the great things which this man has done, but I have never forgotten an incident that happened nearly twenty years ago.

"I was very young, nud had mily just begun my office work. I had to meet ils man one day, show him the way to a committee, take his hat and generally look after him.

Important Detail

"I remember that he handed me his lint without a smile, hardly looked at me. In fact treated me as if I had been a piece of furniture. I expect 1 was unduly sensitive, but I felt that if he had just smiled it would have made all the differenca."

When people are preoccupied they are apt to rules these small points, or course, they don't do it on purpose: In fact, they would be surprised if they

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knew that They hat hurt anyone, but it is amazing how much these count.

There are others who deliberately ndopt a chilly attitude becaure, they Juve an idea that it adds to their dignity. They will say openly that "if you are too easy with people, they only despise you."

Bo they are haughty to the shop «ssistant, exacting to the people who serve them. It may be true that they Ret a certain amount of extra privi lego, since, If they don't, they make

Original Embroidery

Tiny flower posies give distinction to the little blouse with its doop ploated vostoo and pio frill collar. The smart bolero is trimmed with a gay garden design in bold Hungarian colours. Dice. shaped bullons of flannel with cm- broidered spots are a practical novelty.

THESE CLOTHES ROB WINTER

OF ITS STING

Warm Fashions For the New Year

One is al

out of an English winter. knee-length cape in thick,, soft, inus- turd-coloured tweed, woven by Welsh miners. The cape is attached to a waistcoat, and can be worn over skirts

It or woolly dresses. looks equally well with brown, navy-blue, copper, prune colour, or dark green.

A lapis-blue suit iri hand-woven tweed has a plain blue skirt and a bltre and black check Jacket. A dark green sult, in a curious

fat cloth rather like felt, has a divider? | skirt and very new V-shaped invert. ed plents at the back of the jacket, which has stand-out-pockets-

The belt of this suit is of leather, with a small white string ball bagi at one side in which you can tuck two or three golf balls. Jade-green sucde is used for a suit with a box jacket, slim-fitting skirt and suede hat to match.

IF you wish to continue this story

of warm fashions for cold houses

you have only to go on to the Echo de Paris and see the clothes designed by Princess Alfonse do Chimay, which

are worn in many of the chilliest ancestral homes,

The "Band Masler" suit sketched

is a typical example of her evening suits. It is in flame-coloured crepe with bands of gold-thread embrul- dery. The slim-fiting skirt, slit up the front, has bands of the embroi- dery down the side seams as well Another sult of much the same cut is in deep night-blue with squares of blue sequins on the front of the Jacket.

For hunt balls there is an evening dress in violet silk jersey, with the backless bodice cut to a deep V in the front and fuiness at the front of the skirt. Round the high waist- Ine is tied a narrow rose-pink velvet ribbon, the streamers of which hangj down the front of the skirt. A Iltile draped jacket turna e frock into a dinner gown.

Evening Clothes

SEQUINS are still in the front line

of fashion. The latest Iden is to have slender sequin trees growing from TWO examples of smart and cosp

hemline of an ankle-length Two

sults designed for cold country evening Cut, rearing elegant house wear. One is in flame- branches and blossoms in the region things unpleasant for everybody. But, coloured crepe with gold embroidery, and the second model is composed of of the shoulder bindes and helping

leaf-green corduroy trousers, velvet Jumper and short mess jacket,

to make the wearer look slim.

in the long run, they lose a great deal

of happiness, and often hurt those who are not able to retuliate.

zaki once that it did not matter what sort of manners you had, no long na you had the same for everybody.

One of the wittiest of our writers AM sure it is not the roast beet Shlpy, and is designed to wear after pedited in sequins on the front of the of Old England that has made us hunting. The short mess jacket is ined with wadding and the slit the hardy nation that we are, but pockets bound with braid. The long, the coldness of our country houses well-tailored trousers are delightfully and the disconfort of our pubile comfortable, and to ensure that the sult is draught-proof it is entire schools.

worn with a litle velvei jumper in If this supposition is correct, the a lighter shade of green. two models sketched here should be viewed with alarm,

The woman who in all smiles to her own set, and aloof to those who minia- er to her needs all day long may get emetent service of a kind, but she will Hover get anything deeper.

That lost smile may rankie for years and poizon memories which might have been sweel

COUNT THE “TELEGRAPH.S”. EVERYWHERE

Sometimes the tree design is re-

Coal. Another cold-weather idea for evening conta is red velvei lined with turquoise satin, suggesting warmth with a certain regal splendour,

Chiffon and fur as evening coats sound à contradictory combinailon, but they are used effectively when fox skins are mounted upright, When you consider that the mother leaving a space of about four inches for they infer of the girl who wears this garment between each skin. that the blood of English women is probably changed into a chiffon ten-

Cocoa and copper-dyed fox are running cold, and that such women gown after a hard day's hunting, and. are being mollycoddled by tushion, that she had never heard of central mounted on leaf-brown georgette or White skins are mounted heating, you realles how pampered chiffon. Examine the girl Wenling the lauf-"we"nre-in-these days. - green corduroy, trousers sult. This

on either black or white...

These now wraps make a The collection includes many more if the model of now house cilled models guaranteed to take the sting covering for winter nights.

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