1938-08-06 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY AUGUST

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FASHIONS AND THE CHINESE WOMAN

By T. PAUL

GREGORY

F

fall, with the sleeves in proportion, The idea of smugness and form ft- ting WAS considered undesirable,! largely on account of the fact, that

it

Sketched by Cav. F. R. Monti

MR. PEPYS in

my Counc

office.

the

the

HONGKONG

ASHION has been aptly defined as that mysterious power which rules over the lives of women. This, however, whilst it may be perhaps true of those of the West, is certainly not nearly as prominent a factor in the Orient, where, on the other hand, it is tradition that is body of the garment on the other hand was cut exceedingly wide and still largely the arbiter of society in determining the vogue of milady's dress.

Dress styles of the Chinese the ladlen tailor was then an un- heard of Institution. Even hel woman have, of course, under- were in existence, convention would precluded The possiblity of gone considerable transition dur- have

gentlewomen seeking his services;; ing the passing of the centuries, for the grandmothers and great- but unlike the ever-changing andmothers of the present genera-]

July 28-Up betimes this day but doe confess that I had never been fashions of the Occident, they ton of Chinese women would have

regarded it the height of indelicacy there is longe and showers of heavy within the house before during these have become greatly stereo if they had permitted their persons rain, and so I am somewhat into at many years I had been here but it

But Lord I would we).

a pleasant one and mighty cool, raine

it did

continue though below the level of all possible typed, so much so that during to be touched by the tailor's measur

ing tape. Consequently, there was steady, but it fails in shoures only forge. Home with Mr. Mack by his The decision of the Chinese the course of a generation, the

evolved through necessity fixed and so doth full much in passing into motor couch, though wee ald arst in the drive to the Queen Mary Hospitall, reservoira Reading authorities to print or re-issue prevalling mode may remain size for all the items of women's up-

I doc sce that

Ue and so it is a half after one of the foule night, when I doe $50,000,000 worth of Canton much the same.

Thus, during parel, and no matter whether cor-ews-sheete

Commons doe go into recess until clock, and pulent ог otherwise. the Chinese November the Brst. And seeing that arrive home and doc find my Child- bank notes was somewhat dis-the long period of

years from

wonian of that day had to be con- there is so much weighty business toren doe also keep up a late festivity. receive But I doc not join them but to my and that they concerting at first glance. It the beginning of the Ta'ing or tent with garments which would have bee done

emolument from the State, the holy-Chamber where writing in my Diary had all the car-marks of

seem to re unduly long. and so to bed. day doth Manchu cra, circa A.D. 1644 fitted either type equally as well.

30th. As is my custom in that inflationary move and seemed to through the reigns of nearly ten

in seeing young Mr. A. Eden is

longer in power, to set us at at

viber one of the clock where, tho' Mr. invite suspicion as to the sol- monarchs-until the fall of the however, ushered in a new ern

feminine styles. No longer were the

the drawn with daggers

Caldbeck and his Lady be gone South,

I doc find Mr. Tom and vency of the Government. The dynasty in 1911, feminine styles costumes of the days of the Empre nations. Took my nuncheon at the

To the Clubbe Jater explanation given to the with scarcely perceptible altera- in vogue, and in the sudden tran- Clubbe, where much talke of the others.

tions, remained strikingly uni- sition from the old to the new, gar- Refugee Camps. But of them I am and so home. A dull day.

not yet suficiently informed.

31st (Lord's Day). This day Telegraph yesterday by compe-

ments which nowadays would be form.

20th-This day i doe spend much dawns most foule with thick fogge and greatly treasured

appreciated tent financial men, however, re-

time which I could spare

but no rain at all to compensate. Early Features were unceremoniously packed off to search of a friend who I doe hear to Wrote my mayle and thereafter did moves much of the doubt which

the t'ai-i-po or "second-hand cloth-bec in the Colony but cannot locate.

on my garments, though in these days

all arc

clammy all was bound to follow this move.

Chinese women affected the stock ing shop." Here, the majority were Sa 1 am somewhat late in doing they

of Ceremony, But would that wee did have more dry- gurments marvellous emmy and trousers for every day wear, stripped of their It appears that the Canton

Lord! it mattered little as it seems and reserved the richly brocaded

broideries to the order of the foreign two of the guests did fail to find our WAH more popular in

of wine with us, and much pleasant kw'an or skirt for occasions of cerc exporter, who sold them In western host's residence, which is just above his Lady and Paul to take a glosse

And indeed I Kwangtung than the new Na- mony, and whilst this continues to be lands under the prosale and mean- the Botanic Gardens.

talk. Later to the Peake Clubbe to change my books and co home to tional currency and that it had still de rigeur for the masses of the ingless designation of "Chinese table.

read. And I do feel so melancho- appreciated in terms of the

que with the weather that I doe

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people,

the

Vogue

plicated than now.

was known

the

on a

The Inauguration of the Republic, But it may be the Empire is no Saturday, to Mr. Caldbeck's office at

in muteria according

дат-

to

Individunt

in

the

and

rooms. Comes Mr. Bishop and

garments themselves mats." The first decade of the new have been considerably simplified regime saw Chinese women of all thence was speedily introduced into not only in design but also. In pattern classes of society clad in smock and every elty and town in the country refuse my dinner though my she-.

more capable of revealing the lithewhat opiniomstre on the paint. and material. The style which was trousers, which, of course, varied in In fact, no other mode is apparently child doth express herselfe some- mostly in

some beauty of figure which is

many of 1st August. This day is a holyday the Cantonese vernacular us the taste and means. The general natural heritage of so

of China's girls and women. If Pierre but I must needs to my office and taal-seung slu-kw'an, or "large band style approached nearly that

the Loti, that eminent French novelist of indeed, so foule is the fogge on the and small border." because there the Chinese mald-servant of

the last

and incidentally Peake that I doe believe I am better was a piece of cloth of a contrasting present day, Although

Connoisseur of feminine there, especially as it seems to grow as a rule

a notable colour appliqued to neel-band the shaam or smock was cut slightly beauty, were now living, he would less damp on the low levels by noon. and Ordering my papers, and later I across the bodice down the longer than is now customary. be enraptured with the grace and

charm of Miss Young China, and like read in the newos-sheete that my old front like a soldier's bandoller. This

Carl Crow he would have extolled friend Mr. Fincher is dead, and I is clearly shown in pictures of the The Ch'eung-Shaam

the simplicity of the long gown, per- am grieved at it. But Lord! how period, and the old heirloom

it was not until about the year milting as it does a glimpse of "the they whom I knew in my youth doe pass on, it is a solemn thought. Took my nuncheon late at the ments of forty or more years ago in 1925, that the Chinese women adopted most beautiful legs in the world." the possession of Chinese families the wearing apparel which is so pre Unfortunately, however, the Clubbe and after did drive in Mr. are mute reminders of the past when eminently suited to the slender per- Chinese gown is now undergoing a A. Juy's Motor coach to the Valley. ladies dress was much more com- fection of her form and the exotic modification which suggests a definite where I attend the funerall at which

largo

Thereafter gathering. Oriental charm of her personality. retrogression. This is the Introduc-is a One feature of the old Manchu This was the so-called ch'eung-shaam tion of a fashion obviously based on back to the Peake with Mr. A. Jay an Oriental version of the London but Lord! how it doth lie across mee all. Talk- style was that although the collar or "long gown"that sensible and model, and has been in vogue in the to return to the Peake at

buttoning Colony since two months past. In ing in his fiat and hec doth have his was very low (somewhat like the chostely designed dress

than servant light a fire which is very neck-band of a man's shirt) 'It fitted down the side-which is now as this style, the collor is lower

the pleasant for I had rather bee hot. sitiet has been shortened to knee than maist. Talked of the Ameri- as the kimono is that of the Nipponese length. Whatever the rest is beyond which I due learn much ugly around the neck, whilst the much the badge of Chinese femininity that of previous years, whilst

aration of Independence of for the can Declaration

newc from woman. Perhaps, no style of dress innovation of the mode, it has met with more instantaneous re- the perception of a mere man, but Mr. Woodward, his booke. mean the starving of some types ception and approval; for no sooner it may mark the end of traditional though hee bee an American her

East, and initiate the Western idea of than I had supposed

it to bee. of industry or lowering the had it made its debut amongst the influences in this portion of the Fer doth put the case less well for them But: ing notes or printing more of standard of living or abandon-belles of Shanghai, than it appeared Dame Fashion and its inevitable con- Lord! had the Dominion status been In Canton via Hongkong, and from sequence-seasonal changes. discovered, what might the world them. That, in effect, is part of ing certain luxury trades. Ger-

have been this day? Though, ng a friend of his did say, the capital the financial system in this many's amazing post-war financ-

of the Empire might not bee in London, Colony. The question of metal ing will be recalled in this con- reserves is not always material nection when the mark was providing a nation has a sound | deliberately driven, or allowed to trade balance and does not re- collapse, to ridiculous levels-to quire to import heavily. Like an infinitesimal fraction of its wise, if she obtains large credits former value. The positions of

as any Government can regulate

a controlled currency by recall

appeara

overseas, she does not have to Germany and China are by no call upon her metal resources. means parallel, of course. Although it

to be China's currency is relatively against all economic theories, strong, But the example mere- it seems to matter very little ly goes to show that, within its how much paper currency own borders, a nation can do a Government printa so long pretty well what it Jites with as the paper is circulated paper money if it does not have wholly internally. A Gow to buy nbrand or if it has ernment

de- friends who can arbitrarily

belleve in its in- cide on the value of its money-tegrity and are willing to wait unit without affecting the for payment, or take payment| international credit structure in kind. In this light the 350,- providing it is prepared to cut | 000,000 note issue in Kwangtung down on its imports, which may la a trifling affair,

Sketched-by-Cav. F. . Monti

And

2nd. Much talk of the clash upon the Manchukwo frontier und I doe- perceive that, contrary to all Europe, the popular opinion here doth favour It hath little war, in so much as

danger of repercussions and much

final hope of n

sce. This day I pence. doc feel mighty unwell, the weather being too hard for mec. At the Clubbe Creed bids mes dine upon: calomel and breakfast upon Epsom. salts, and I doe verlly believe he hath the right of it.

3rd-In very poor spirits to my Mac- office and here read Mr. Whirter's article upon the players of And.

games who, doo grow old. Lord! it is so damnably true hee

not have writ it, for already

I should solique I doe nigh burst into

meline

teurs,

and nought but a nuncheon. with Mr. A. Jay doth comfort, mea. But there hee gives me a glasse of Bristol milk and after some grilled

For trout that I find comforting. the pleasures of the table dos. out- jast those of the tented field. Later home with him and the Captalu and eitting before n fire with them and after with my Children who doo niso seek to dry, the house if it bee but one room. Drank. a cup of Bovril unil no to bed.