Hostesses are making the most of their "dress as you please" evenings. For they will know few more in the months to come. Coronation year looms ahead, with all its conventional entertaining' responsibilities. Dress, even the less important social functions, will be anything but careless in the summer and autumn of 1997, when the grande toilette will return in all its glory.
The grande toilette has been for-soken by fashion during recent years, So much so that Mayfair has decided that a dress rehearsal is necessary, and during the Little Season women will try out some of those dross accreation Club will hold at Kiangwan to-night and again tomorrow night. 'The entertainment will carry out the Monte Carlo idea with games of chance. 'There also. will be. dancing and a buffet supper. Patrons for the event are Dr. F. C. Yen, Dr. 7, K. Sino, and Mr. C.'S, Mao. On the various' committees are:—
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