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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY

1930

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

A

1920-WITH Colours In The Spring Parade

difference

By Poppy Richard

to see the latest styles-devastat- ing sideway tilts have not made the grade.

INTEREST

-is always centred round accessories in the be-

The HESTNUT buds are tween-the-shows period.

popping all along the best have the same simple (and Paris avenues. In the gur- expensive locking)

clothes. dens the olcanders and Among attractive novelties is natural leather horsecrop rhododendrons are in full a

bloom.

There is a tremendous bustle

of cleaning and painting, but the real sign that spring has come→→→ more significant than the June- like temperature-is that women are all out in their new clothes.

And they show that fashion has changed completely. Under winter overcoals, curves have disappeared. The straight up- and-down "20's" line has caught really ex- on (which nobody pected in

Paris-but with n

difference.

The new version is not a re

eliminate Sinart

lenties attempt to every feminine effect. women

on bulld p

n spare foundation... but contrive all manner of feminine adornments, including a longer and curlier hair-do in place of the slicked- buck gigolo crop.

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MK

THERE is more grey dannel

on the streets that a boys

school ...and a jaunty

canotter is

דינס

white

the

chic

Claude St. Cyda cocktali barns in thed with beority

Chenille sautta

waistbelt the thong slipping through a bamboo fastening- matched up to a pochette hand- ban.

*

*

gets harder and harder to

and on attractive new name

favourite hat. "Dressmaker" for seant, Nina Rieel is good at

style suits lead.

the game. After Coeur Jole,

The loose box jacket-hip. She is giving a cocktail party to Jaunch her new perfume, length and straight--is the one that a smartest out of the welter called Fille d'Eve, and lumber of middy, battle types, worn with an absolutely one of straight skirt-without those extravagant back vents

bowever, which make a few steps look like an act Folles Bergere.

In the

#lim actral Morio Aster wears this Houd Roger coshtalt het in fine block 1row with bright red wings.

And women are wearing skirts longer than shown la the haute couture....cul clear of the calf, but firmly covering the knees.

They intend to be prepared in future whichever way the wind blows.

nows.

Pique hals are smart at the moment--lots of pudding-basis cloches, too (1920's again). But the way a chapeau is worn is really more important than the shape, so long as it is small.

-(London Express Service)

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sheerest

NEW YORK-The woollen ever made-transparent wool-chiffon-bing been intre

duced in New York.

The

French new

dress in fine

Seen here is a Frederick Starke afternoon black wool. Large draped Beli material bows offset the sleek line of the skirt. Leopard-skin accessories are worn with It.

H

LONDON.

OW is the "little black

"Discreet" as British couturier Digby Morton calls this elegant evening dress, made of black silk faille. A fan effect

at the neckline emphasises the plain skirt,

By

Joan

Erskine

time-honoured way employed by craftsmen. They have limited equipment, so, ure restricted to producing three-yard lengths. to cut their They are taught Ap-

un straigh designs

seldom Bnoleum-very

to the

dress" surviving? This women who still prefer to wear It was the sailor hats that

A typical London street really made us wonder. standby of fashion- black, writers has been pushed dress from Frederick Starke) parently the way to wear them

the one illustrated on in 1950 is dead straight on the drawing used. By this method into the background Intely is

It sounds simple, but they come face to face with

look

manages

A London Vogue

fabric yanka wool out of the snuggies by glowing references to this page in fine black woul. Any head.

it in the seductive navy and white, lemon and of coal or short full jacket frequently

can be successfully worn over ridiculous. Again we wondered the practicalities of their art. class. puts

is that Paris numunequins how it category.

Jacques Parisian

Lesur, grey, honey and tangerine,

can wear pillboxes and sailors novelty tycoon.

plain black Bald Perhaps the woollen

Aguin following the

Fame on the tops of their heads and sheet wool (labelled dress is no longer so ob-

sophisticated line is the evening still look glamorous, when the a new

looks "Mitsa")

"sub- more

an ordinary person antial than silk chiffon. But vious, but it is still there, dress also pictured here. There is effect on

dropable, see filling a vital place in a well- no real need to peep coyly over would be ludicrous.

the top of the fan shaped ruff, it's just

dressed woman's wardrobe.

but we have been reliably in- throughable, and dressy.

The saly difference." Lesur

temptation Is wool "is that maintains, warmer than silk.

39

In London and Paris recently, formed that the in

en the boulevards and In the irresistible. "In wool-chiffon a lady caneales, morning shopping, expedi- a bear-thoughtlons and evening cocktail pag- ties, we noticed the number of

Wurm

Judging from those seen In the Ritz Bar-the place you go bare."

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NCE in R while a fashion catches on which has universal popularity. Its origin. is doubtful-but it has overnight popu- larity and is seen in main towns and suburbs all over the world.

It has happened in the past with:-

The straw

sallor with its chin-strap of velling everybody worc with the New Louk.

2 Pearl chokers.

Ankle

strap

shocs.

4 Dirndl

skirts.. Here are

я от

fashion

fa'vourites

for tho future:--

1 Small white berets in velvet,

felt, or pique.

not

by SUSAN DEACON

dipped, to "Bondpige Med Slor." This is made of apple puree, browned crumbs, and raspberry jam.

"As Cooks Go" costs 10s, Od. (Faber and Faber).

Very dull

FTER reading the mouth- watering recipes In this Cherry-cloe wristlet.

book, I found the new Ministry on cooking, The latest Idea for evening is of Food booklet to wear on your wrist a small very dul). purse concealed by a bunch of

Cooks everything

2 Circular cotton print skirts. ripe cherries.

with dresses Evening

skirts and velvet bodices.

Shuntung,

are

IT is a usual thing these days

for a woman to take a Jo

never

It has the usual recipes for Eggless Xmas Cake, Ginger- bread with no fat and no eggs, and Boiled Fruit Cake with no eggo-frankly, I would rather go without.

Lomon Tops

(19

Crazy But Gay

"

There Is a vogue in London how for dark brilliant African prints, but we were anused to tee that the African students had produced

checked. sober weave, while English students brilliant on cotton. Just to remind us that he is had come forth withs

surrealistic designs Parisian, Robert Piguet presented

student concen- An Elyptian with

fult- Kashmir--a

trated on black and dark red, skirted dress in brilliant sarl used odd-shaped squares filled

all colours of the e Leman has taken precedence material,

animals. A with sea-shells and Just below the full

student over all other colours for spring, rainbow,

British

produced the well-known) Paris skirt we could see straight classical temples in white and couturier, Robert Piguet, pantaloons with fringed edges, deep grein-blue shudes, used black and lemon as the Tiny bows were scattered over clining "woinen gazing through use basic colours of his collection. A the whole outfit.

acid-lemor Archways, and emi-evenund full-skirted very

unusual classical figures yellow dress was made of

chiton sections,

black

Kay.

which

Seeing

Crazy--but

*

this profusion

of poses.

gave a flowing appearance to colours brought, home the ad_ the skirt. The skirt of a black fact to us that Britain is lugging grosgrain dress was

made liko

the petals of a huge tulip folding text in new an enterprising Beach Wear

round an ankle-length under- texile designs. This is not for want of designers, however, for skirt of yellow net.

bright

and n

a recent exhibition held at the A severe black evening dress Rayon Industry Design Centre had a wide stufe covered with In London, showed how inspired

yellow tassels, sheath-like black day dress had are British young students when

tho opportunity. a great fall of golder-yellow given

material down

the Central School of Arts grosgrain

back.

A Notable Feature

A feature of all the spring thows has been the fino pleat log. Robert Piguet uses this for a yellow silk ince dress with pleated skirt, immensely full halter neckline, and black vest. He made great use of sleeveless summer coats, often in n shade over a dark dress, made so that they appeared to have Instead of contrusting sleeves.

tight

the more usual polka-dotted fabrics, he showed dresses with

The and

Crafts is the only British School that has had on influence both on the Continent and through- out the world. It is interesting to reflect that all Arts and Crafte training in the USA, is based on the original programme of the Central School Students from all over the world study there. The fabrica on display were woven and hand-printed by the students themselves f the

enormous spots all over. Call It A Fancy

fangerine silk shantung dress hod a petal, skirt over a tight onc. Often the underneath skiri was slashed up high above the

nees.

Heel

Now NOW that nylons are plenti-

ful and comparatively inex. pensive, we can think not only of colour, but of style in sleek- ings.

W-1

ro-

By Vora Winston

Now nou expect the dustcoat idon a step further pair of opera pumps, or a

of black is LOTS And lots conservative strap pump.

the smart Southern heel styling, accentuated heels seen nt and seams and colour contrast in resorts this year as well as at

Springe and heels and scams are all in the fa- Folm

lion picture.

Typical of new resort fashions is

ault This bathing

of black wool with ribbed

It is a one-

Arizona.

In the lighter materials, there was a full skirt, below which could just be seen the edge of a lace scalloped peludoat A black and royal blue checked to come.

Sometimes a novelty style in to help pay for the children's ADIES, it had

chitton over-skirt lind a tight hosiery rejuvenates a tou-plain education, but

too Cocktail wear

before Strapless evening dresses are black one beneath. He carried have I heard of a woman taking in, and you could

to go

und showed one in cerle chiffon, NEATHERS as a hair-trimming a Job as a daily cook to pay the your naked shoulders FEA

over a matching dress, of a hat trimming wages of a charwoman at home unnoticed and unadorned. Instead

Elizabeth Jordan did this, and

Louis, a Paris hairdresser Jean a change for cocktail wear

now gives sequin- has written a delightful book and beauty expert,

Some of the hats were par- from

inevitable the

of clients a golden ticularly charming, many most full of sound common sense and his beautiful trimaned velvet .copy

There are many new before they them consisting simply of double recipes which

was finish (see above) women wear,

published recently.

dress for dancing.

circles of stiffened Kauze styles in hosiery, and the "Du- elasticland

lego. He gives them an application attached to a skull cap. Others piiquetto Heel" is one of the top and

With It is a tiny crocheted a zig-zag line

sweater that g book manner, Elizabeth Jordan of no gold dust over the face were like Uny straw pillboxes most flattering and wearable. piccer and is zipped in back. tells you how to cook overy. and neck which remains on all with wide silken parapola on top. This is simply

the evening

Mushroom shapes abounded-- woven just above the heel re-bright pink Escorts who complain of face and a scarlet silk pleated dress Inforcement, which accentuates buttoned at the neck and just powder on their dinner jackets was topped by a toadstool hat of the Uns and is dainty and incon- covers the top of the wearer. From Rope Geranium Jelly,

armholed scarlet with big white spots all spicuous enough to be in thor The push up sleeves have deep'

oughly good laste. which is apple jelly into which have had things easy so far.

over. geraalum leaves have beep

Shining black cock's fealiers would look attractive in blonde or red hair, and white or pastel coloured plumes for dark hair,

•

THE fashion for wearing truit is spreading, and cherries are especially popular.

good

In a pleasant, chatty story-

thing from rice to "Crepes fourrees aux fruits."

-(London Express Service)

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