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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1931.
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MODERN FASHION--.
WHITHER AWAY?
TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT.
Both the daytimo and the evening things which have been designed for our adorament and protection this nutumn deem to bear the same allegiance to two different schools of thought.
This is the schoot I have already mentioned, which, insists upon the importance of the shoulders and chost and the "alenderness of out- line from the waist to the foo6; and: there is the school which is quito as auch concerned with the import. ance of the back of the skirt or coat below the waist.
There are occasions. when both school pool their ideas in one en- Bumble; normally, however, it only requires one glance to discover to which the dress or coat before you belongs.
Curiously enough, but quite logically, both schools produce one. effect in common, and this is the trin waistline.
The logic lies in the fact that whether you emphasise breadth of shoulder and are generous with the material used for the sleeves and the bodice in general; or whether you add frills, a basque, some re lation of a bustle, huge pockets, or even plain fulness to the skirt below the waist, the size of the waist itself is automatically reduced in appear
Lace.
Small and Noaf,. ·
This sort of thing has often hap pened before in the history of dress It will probably happen again, and so long as we can be content with R waist which looks small and neat. and do not force the poor thing to diminish beyond the normal in netval fact, all is well.
For years we trained our eyes to believe that waists did not exist. Now we have trained our eyes to look for the waistline at every hour of the day, and night. We should be truly grateful to designers who help us to produce the lines we have learnt to admire without asking us
endure torture
in order
to achieve them.
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the past, only mercifully unboned. These should naturally not be chosen by people with short necks. They can be quite interesting on a long slender throat, and kind to an indifferent one, but that are, not for everybody!!
Skirt Problems.
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No one naka you to wear skirts of any but a perfectly reasonable | length until you change for dinner. If you want to wear a frock in the late afternoon which is luxurious and ankle-length, there is no reason why you should apt. Indead, a dress of this order as a decided ac
If we leave line for a moment and consider its important ally, colour,quisition to the wardrobe because
we find that there is one very mark
it also serves for informal dinners
ed difference between last summer and will escort you to the cinema
and this winter'a colour combina tins. This also is logical.
In the summer we vary frequently displayed our newly acquired con tempt for the matching or obviously related ensembles, which had ruled for so long, by wearing light coats over darker dresses. Any number of them were white and short, some whre white and long, and pale or vividly coloured coats in all lengths appeared in company with frocks of mach deeper and often contrast- ing tones.
Colder days lead us to show the same preference for contrasting colours in the opposite direction."
Winter coats are in black or very dark brown, in deep green or very deep blue, in brownish purple and sometimes in a red which is almost black. The pale tones look cold
and unfriendly out of door in
the winter, except when the sun shines in a manner which is most unusual in England.
The dresses beneath these coats, on the other hand, are very often Fight and bright in colour.
If you wear a dark blue coat you may choose a pale blue for one of the dresses you wear with it, or possibly an odd faint yellow, or beige.
quite happily with a small hat and an agreeable coat. Otherwise! good walking length is universal.
Cross-over lines are very defiite- hy to the fore in all kinds of clothes. for the morning, the afternoon, and the evening; and very naturally, be
huse they also help to emphasise the width of shoulder and trimness of waist.
Hats and the hair beneath them deserve an article themselves. The chief thing to remember is that a neut head is as desirable as a neat waist.
·
QUEER THINGS ABOUT
* COLOURS.
Did you know this.? thun red ones.
Greenish atars shine more brightly
hanging than they do lying flar.
Blue things look a better colour
Yellow shows up mast in sharp. cornered shapes.
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Rod is used as a colour on over two-thirds of the world's Hags. colour, because not only is it the Brown is known theearth colour of the ground, but it is ace tually made of earth. It is the cheapest of all, the colours.
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the mother of invention.
I used a patty tin (half-dozentity of poached eggs by simply using size), put water in a frying pan just large enough for the tin to rest on, and used a plain sandwich tin for a lid.
Now, when extra numbers, arrive,
THE CHILDREN'S CORNER.
The winter slouds are grey and low, The air is filled with flying snow And mother says that we may play At keeping house for her to-day.
There is so very much to do " She lots me help, and brother too, At making beds, and brushing up, and washing every plate and cup,
And when the busy day is past. And five o'clock is come at last, I take the dishes from the shelf Plolet and blue have been used in And serve our supper by myself,
Yellow is also excellent with black, any many people love to com-famous pictures as shadows for more bine it with brown, though per- Bonally I think this is a combina often than ne real colours... tion which rarely escapes the banal;' Blue is the official colour of and that, although either brown or England, for uniforms, ***Bitc alone or in combination with a cou official colour of Spain, green of traat, might become the wearer Italy, yellow of France, and white very well, the two together are apt to rab her of charm, and demand of Germany.. exceedingly carsful make-up.
Gayer Greans,
Coral and several other rods are very good in woollens of the crêpe and georgette type,
The gayer greens ard lovely winter colours, for the right person; and both go very well with the very dark brown which in so good for top coats and accessories, and with the inevitable black.
Books," and so on but red is the
DO YOU KNOW?
DOMESTIC HINTS FROM, READERS.
Boiled beetroot is delicious fried. in thick slices, after rubbing with seasoned Bour.
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Distempered walls which Bre
THE SMILE OF THE SEA PRINCESS.
CHAPTER IV.
(Vuntinued.)
Then the young Wizard kaew. what his mother had done. She had
cast a spell upon the fishermen so that they should sweep their nee down in the very spot where the twelve yang mermen were: and, at the same moment, she had changed them into john-dories, go. that they should be caught, drawn up into the Upper World, and sold in the Fish Market for food.
She had been too curning to let the fishermen entch twelve royal mermen, so she had changed the princes into fish that could be enten
a patty tin to hold a dozen, not forgotting to butter sach hollow, whether to be filled by an egg er nőt.
HEIGH HO, IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO COME TO THE FAIR!
Coconut fly,
by the people of the Upper World.Sly, shy!
What clever sea-witch. my mother is!" said the ly young Wizard to himself, and his shining. sides shook with laughter.
"What
But had a good try, Missed it the first time
Whuck, crack,
See the bits fly,
a clever way to make sure that these princes will all be eaten! Oh, tha is "plan made by the old
Ride, slide, Gnome of the Cave, I know. No Glide on the mat, one else could ever have thought of Whizz goes the whirligig,-
Off goes the hat,
Three for a penny the coconut shy!
such a way to get rid of the royal merinen."
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But there was one thing the Wizard had not seen, though he had watched very carefully! It had
s happened that as the net swept
up again to the top of the sea, the weight of the fish broke it
A hole came, just where the young prince, who was now ash, was crammed in which were a heap of other fish of all shapes and sizes.
Hr, seeing the hole, slipped
All our day things are very pro-stained with grease can be cleaned WHAT DOES YOUR NAME through; for although the wicked tective this winter
with a paste of fuller's earth and
Sports dresses and jerseya and water. those invaluable little leather coats have a pronounced affection for lastenings which go right up to the throat; sometimes with a zip and sometimes with buttons,
Iodine stains cua be removed from white or coloured materials if the affected part is laid in a saucer of milk.
i.
Coats with fur collars which; do not fasten right over in front prefer Badly dincoloured aluminium that you should wear a scarf inside pane can be restored by boiling them, tied like a stock, or wound apple parings in them for a short closely round your throat,
time.
Some evening wraps show the same tendency for close to the chin Before bottling pieklos or chutney fastenings, and there are just a few the corks should be boiled and dinner dresses like the black one I pressed into the bottles while hot described that finish with a lace they will then seal the bottles tight collar, which is almost like those of ly when cöld.
MEAN?
MARGERY.
witch had been able to change his body into that of Ash, she had not been able to alter his mind: so he was able to think. This is a varied spelling of Mare) Thus, in a moment, he found him- joric, and both are really the same sclt free. Then he thought it nume as Margaret, a beautiful nume from the Persian which means better not to go back to his royal "pearl," or child of light. The home, for fear the old witch should adfcient Persians believed that know him, even in the form of u oysters rose to the surface of the sea at night to worship the moon, john-dory.
and that he they opened their shells drops of dew congealed and fell is being transformed by the moon's rays into pearle.
Thump, bump,
On the ground flat,
A copper à time for a ride on the
mat!
Swing, eling,
Holding on tight, Rushing swing boats At a bright yellow hei Spotted, dotted,,
Crimson and white, Away go the horses in zoundabou
flight. Never so many
Things for a penny, Pockets and hearts now, mako em
botli light!
every one whom he had ever known; and to live the life of a simple fish,
So that was how the old witch same to think that, all the young. princes had been fished up into the far away from home, and from and eaten.
So he made up his mind to swimworld above, and sold in the market,
(Continued at foot of next column.)
(To be Continued)