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SINGAPORE SUMMER STYLES
An attractive beach ensemble is this one, worn by the Eagle-Lion star, Miss Moira Lintor,
Pleats the thing again
By Ingrid Etter ....
There must be millions of yards of pleated material in the world-and milliona of women who wear pleats with- out giving the matter a second thought. But not
SO Ameri- can-born Mary Hamilton Henley-on-Thames.
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As a society beauty before the war Mrs. Hamilton wore a number of pleated dresses whenever fashion dictated, and started wondering how pleating was done,
Renomméë
resses
By JANET MARTIN,
Writing from Singapore
A couple of days in Singaporè recently gave me the opportunity of seeing some of the hot weather fashions we shall be wearing in Hong Kong before so very long.
Women.in Singapore are more smartly dressed, more up-to-date and far more fashion-cons- cious than at any time since the war. They ore becoming specialists in the selection of the warm weather clothes which they are ob. liged to wear all the year round....and it fakes some ingenuity to plan a continuous summer wardrobe without too many monoton- ous répetitions.
Fashions for the summer season Prehaps the most outstanding this year are helpful, too, in their is a formal gown in irridescent wide variety and cholce of style. | flame tastela, cut very simply, on There are no startling changes, princess lines in full-length, flared rather a
a melange of the best ideas panels, with a design of gold of the past few seasons, such as arabesques around the top of the the full skirt and the, assymetri- strapless bodice and around the cal line, plus the new tapering her. With this is worn a long skirt and narrowed silhouetta, chiffon scarf--about three yards which distinguish the highest of it, caught over one shoulder, fashions of year.
the ends wound around the wrists.
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For soft cottons, the full- skirted styles are undoubtedly the And lastly, I must mention my best-cut narrow, they look limp first sight of that amazing new and skimpy. A new idea with nylon net, soft and matt, quite the full skirt is to leave a plain, uncrushable, which can be washed ungathered panel over the left and dried in half an hip, the rest folded, gathered or comes up exactly as new with- out ironing-an Iron, in fact, can pleated from the waist,
only spoil it! As far as I know,
hour and
Fine linens, sharkskins, piques it has appeared in Hong Kong and the femer cotton rayons, are only in the form of panties...so more suitable for tailored styles we have a treat in store!
with the straight line and narrow skirt-and in a long summer: season, we can make good use of all varieties.
Favourite choice
For morning wear, there is no doubt about the Singapore ladies' favourite choice-fine stripes in every suitable material, At home, in town, shopping, visiting, taking coffee, a crisp striped frock, well cut but simply styled, is the thing. And with stripes there
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many interesting things to do-- button-through styles with huge patch pockets, trimmings in stark white pique or clear colour, full skirts with inserted baqda her: horizontal or diagonal stripes. Pleating is done only by large machines,
Her
dressmaker told
of
RECIPES
Gnocchi
cup corn meal,
2 cups milk or water.
1 egg, unbeaten.
1⁄2 cup grated Parmesan cheese.
131⁄2 tsp. salt.
tsp pepper.
14 cup salad oll
2 peeled cloves garlic.
14 cup minced onion.
16-oz. can tomato paste.
1 No. 2 can tomatoes (24
cups)
1 tsp. salt.
1⁄4 tsp. pepper,
1⁄2 cup grated Parmesan cheese.
White is always a favourite be- So Mrs. Hamilton settled down cause it has such a cool look and to invent an electric pleating iron looks so well against a tanned for use in the home.
skin, I noted several very fresh, very low heat, stirring constantly,
Place cornmeal in saucepan ; gradually stir in milk. Cook over
It took her two years. She charming frocks in white pique until mixture thickens and comes moulded her first models in plas- and sharkskin. One had a badlee to boil ticine, to show the engineer who like a shirt-waist blouse, with
Boil 3 min., stirring often. was helping her; experimented, rows of stitched tucks: another corrected, tore her hair and went had the new pleated skirt with Remove from heat, add egg, beat well Add 1⁄2 cup cheese, salt, through all the usual torments ntting yoke and all-round pleats pepper, 1⁄4 cup salad oil. Spread which seem to be part and parcel from just below the hipline. Jn 144-qt. square casserole.
Cool chill until firm,
then into 2" squares.
of an inventive spirit.
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Her husband, Colonel Gilbert Afternoon tea at Ruffles brings Hamilton, who commanded the a collection of charming prints- Grenadier Guards in World War small foulard designs or bold, Arrange in 10" x 6"x2" baking! I watched-with-a-smile.
colourful ones-with a sprinkling dish, Heat-cup-salad-oli-in. of smart plain colours. Two-piece skillet; saute garlic in it 3 min,
from frocks are favourite for coolness Remove
discard, heat; and comfort a little Jacket over garlic. Stir in remaining ingredi➡ But the iron came to life, 60 a nun-top frock which usually has ents except cheese. perfected that it could achieve shoulder
because the different types of pleating or be strapless ones need a boned brus- turned round and used as a nor-siere-rather hot and confining. mal flat-iron.
Besides qualifying as an inven- tor, Mrs, Hamilton, now a widow, can also claim to be an expect-- perhaps the only expert on pleat-
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Delightful frock
I noted a delightful trock in
a smal
the
ing in the world. She has even pale turquoise with written a short history on her honeycomb weave, strapless, with
folded band ground hobby.
The first examples of pleat-shoulders, and underneath little ing. she told me, date back to sleeves of fine broderie anglaise, 2850 B.C. Ancient Egyptians dip capping the shoulders above the ped their linens In stiffening band and peeping out beneath it. liquid and stretched them tight!
At the Tanglin Club, one sens when drying so that tho..surface! became multiple tiny vertical en increasing number of the new
short evening frocks which admirable for warm evenings, and which I think will become striking even more popular. One
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At the cinema restaurants which are so much a feature of avary Singapore life. I noted fabric from chiffon to lame and brocade, with the sole exception of velvet. Another short evening rown, with the 1920' line, has a sheath of gold lame with a flurry skirt of fulle from thigh to ankle.
Pour around squares. Sprinkle with 1⁄2 cup grated cheese. Bake in moderately hot oven of 400" F. hr. Makes 6 servings. A nice luncheon dish.
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