The main fashion note now is outsize -checks ín pastel shades, for jackets, with plain skirts. At the present time women wear coatees in silver fox, blue fox and guanaco.
Royal blue is one of the most fashionable colours at the present time. Hats are mainly small, and many are covered with huge clusters of flowers, of all kinds, and with such mixtures as daisies, crocuses, tulips. and roses. The fashion note for the week is provided by Ming, the baby Giant Panda, at the London Zoo. Little enamel brooches, depicting Ming, were being sold at the Zoo on Sunday by Keeper Gammon, who is in charge of her. Women bought them as hat ornaments, or had them strung on bracelets, while men wore them in neckties. The new Panda toys are now out in the shop windows and Teddy Bears will have a bad time in consequence. spring and summer wardrobe can be obtained at so little cost and with a complete degree of confidence.
Lun Chang fabrics have the "Laundryman" selvedge ticket on every two yards. This should be looked for, as it forms the guarantee for free replacement should the colours fade in washing or wear.
"Lun Chang" is the hong name of the China Printing & Finishing Ca., Lid, a British company operating its own cotton mill and print works in Shanghai All Lun Chang fabrics are manufactured from raw cotton to the finished article in the Lun Chang factories under the supervision of British experts brought specially from Lancashire. ud, will give a tea for Dr.
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Dr, Fearn also will be an honour Guest later on at the San Francisco Exposition.
Among other recent visitors in San Francisco were Mr. end Mrs B. Monteith-Webb who were guests of Mrs. W. D. K. Gibson. They are now in Los Angeles where there is another large Shanghai colony and On April 16 Mr. Monteith-Webb is Salling back to Shanghai for a short Hollywood Highlights One of the biggest social events th Hollywood will be the Cinema Ball this month and Mrs. Chester Fritz is a member ' of the International Committee for this affair.
Also in Hollywood, a guest of Miss Gloria Stuart, the cinema actress, is Mrs, James Smith, the former Mrs. Betty Keen of Shanghai, who was married in Tia Juana, Mexico, to Lieut. Smith of the U.S.N. shortly after her arrival from London, where she has been residing for the past year.
Miss Ruth Benedict and Miss Polly Markham are also among ex-Shang-hollanders now residing in Hollywood and they are settled at 2064% North Rodney Drive.
The woman who must at all costs be dressed in the latest fashion should be grateful to the bolero. It may Save her from the old, bad habit of tight-lacing, for, of course, her waist must appear wasp-like. There were ugly rumours of; tight-lacing when the new fashions were first shown, but fortunately (these were soon banished.
Dress designers have shown us how to give shoulders a wider look so that waists may be relatively small and corset manufacturers have done the rest The commentator at the Berlei corset show given recently held up a pair of salmon-pink "stays" laced up the back, heavily boned to give the wasp-waist of 40 years ago. "Don't worry, the new ones are not a bit like that," she said.
Then the mannequin appeared in the latest model. Made of taffeta— a new material for a corset—it was feather-light, But if your waist measures 27 inches in an ordinary corset H will be only 24 inches in this one, end you will get the "spool-waist" demand: d by the new dresses. It was laced up the back—but the lacing was concealed so that it could not show through the most diaphanous evening gown.
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