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DRESS NOTES
WRISTS, SLEEVES AND HATS
Almost every woman is thinking at the moment, "Where shall my waistline bo Which of the mo?" hats will best suit "What sleeves' shall I have in my new frock."
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THIS MAKE-UP
BUSINESS
** Waisted-Lady abcretury, com- petent worker, for responsible parition Apply
That, was the advertisement that had met her eye us she glanced down the newspaper column. Nov she had been requested to call, and her interview was an hour ahead.
Sitting before her dressing table, she pondered, with cream, pow. dar, and lipstick before her. To what degree was it wise to make up?
Certainly, waists and eleven are difficult, became there are various ways of dealing with them and naturally, after she has chosen, a weman always wishes te had thought of something else. An for Lats, they are so really new, and -really like hats instead of ba ts, that they require much con- stderation and much trying on. The desiguars have let us 'that waiste can be just where we like to have them. That being so, til the more care must be taken to me that they suit the individual figure. The law waist docs not auit the short figure; it makes the legs look out of proportion. For his figure," the perfectly normal, inch-above-hip line is most becom
flat pulled over her right eye, ing. For the normal gure, the smart black coat. enlivened by a charming line where our grand-black and yellow check scarf, "im- mothers used to have their silver maculately gloved und aked, she set filigree belts and satin bands is forth.
Would she be interviewed by a "man of the world" who required a sophisticated private secretary 1.j Or an ordinary business muy who preferred a pretty-pretty typist Or a stern man-of-affairs who want ed a real hárd worker with good apeeds, and would re-sent lipstick
a sign of frivolity
sophistication.
porfect. The long-bodied woman
who has most length above the
She, decided on Twisting her curly hair behind har cars, he patted in foundation ream. rouged, powdered, applied lipstick generously in an alluring Cupid's bow, and brushed her brows and Inshes.
"Thank you for calling, undam
waist will find the high waistline}}er I am sorry. however, but just right, as this puts the legs hardly think you would be suit- into proportion. Of course this able for the vacancy in this office. chart is not to be blindly adhered We are
somewhat oldi
to, but it may be safely followed fashioned firm, and I had in mind general way. The very smaller-now that Miss Jones is lenn rounded waist can take helts of ing us to look after an aged mother "mado-waist--r-soncone perhaps not quite Atty width. The that is, the one which has to be so young as yourself-so-er- Ab marked by the corset or skirt band will, good morning." and has no natural curvo-needs a rory anrrow belt in order not to look clumsy.
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Well, that was a farce. She left wandering if employers should not be more explicit in their advertise Dress-designers have given back the long, tight sleeve--and dements-something like this, for in- rised a number of ways in which to disguise the fact that it is tight and plain. Puffs are used as one disguise. added below the shoulder line, and allowed to reach to just above the allows. Such sleeves are really, attrasive for frocks that are to be wart principally in the house.
stonen:
"Wanted, 1 secretary for a Must be fashionable dressmaker. very chic and well-made-up as well as a competent interviewer."
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1932.
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TO-DAY'S RECIPE
EGGS FOR A SALAD
DRESS DETAILS ARE SO IMPORTANT
Paris. Just what jewels shall be worn with this and that ensemble, just how to put on that'hat, wear the hair, what gloves and bag and sboes shall go together, what scarf, collar, colours shall be worn. How the veil shall be tied; these and many other small detail in dress fashions take up time and thought at the moment.
Rose gold in what a copper-tint ed metal is called, and with it bracelets, fint collarette necklaces, buttons, buckles, clasps of different patterns are made: These are put with little woollen frocks, with evats and skirts, with knitted wool- len ensembles, and a trimmings to sports and morning berets and hats.
Rhinestones imitate more pre- eious stones and are worked into very handsome broad bracelets, pendants, rings, earrings. Cem posite matter is also used for dress jewellery," and it is quite correct to wear two coloured bracelets as cuffs on a plain woollen frock with buitors, Collarette, bucklo And belt to match.
Orange and tomato shades have disappeared, and the fashion now is for pinks, reds, fuchsias, and purples, which mingle harmoni- ously.
Frenchwomen like and wear pur ale with "distinction. Their dark hair and eyes, their pale skins' and A hard-boiled egg to be used in crimson lips, rob it of all sugges a kulad sometimes develop an un- tion of gloom or ponderous digni- sightly black ring between the yolktr A little purple woollen frock я black broadcloth coat and the white which spoils the under
trimmed with dstrakhan, a little whose appearance of the salad. The reason for this defect is that hat to match can look very young the egg has been left to go cold in and amart.
Or, Wanted-elderly, bespecta-
Pale pink for the evening, with eled woman to set as couidential the water in which it was boiled. inctotum to old-established City | As soon as the egg has been boiled
a Bash of pink and fuchsia-red firm. Must have forbidding an- it should be plunged into a basin and a fuchsin-red velvet wrap lin- pearance, otherwise clients will be of cold water and the water changed with pink, looks right.
ed several times. Next we see shaped famil flaun-candalised.
It is it necessary to crack the Blue, in certain shades, can also Plain, sensible also added just below the Or. Wanted slider line. This idea i parti-cretary, real slogger with a non-egg to prevent a black ring from be put with the fashionable ruds forming, but it an extra pre- and pinks. Briefly, the fashion of cularly good for frocks of fine sense."
caution, Egga should always be warm. Eastern colours has given haik
It would simplify life so much.
placed in cold water and brought pince to the color shades of the slowly to the boil, bocause if plac- | West. ed in boiling water they become indigestible.
The cape is inostly posed over plain sleeves which, with their per- fectly fitting shoulders, lend them-iuen, or lawn and hand-made lace, selves to the pretty line of the Cats have big pointed or funnel fashionable small cape. It is seen cuffs of stitched material, rolls or on jackets, coats, chat-frocks, and bands added well above the wrist indoor freeks. On Some evening line, funnels that have the wider gowns, a magyar fichu takes the ends opening over the hands, or place of aleaves, and gives the else rows of large buttons set from dressed" ok that some women the edges of the sleeves almost to prefer to the bare back and shoul. the elbows, der fushion.
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE'S
NOTEBOOK
Polished copper articles, such as stove ornaments, boxes, clocks and
so on, which have become tarnish- ed can be restored by. brushing the..
dipped in strong vinegar, The surface with a soft hair brush articles !should be washed thoroughly in water and tried with
sawdust.
Another method which ebviates the use of vinegar employs in its Place Buapy water in which ordin- ary washing soda has been dis- solved.
Stripes are still in fashion. For the evening there are handsome materials in silks and saties, with Alver and gold interwoves; there pretty shallow ovaj crowns, and de fare musling with satin stripes, and
Your Broken Umbrella. lightfully shapped brims tilted toere are manifold, striped velveta. shew the face at the most attrac
For the day, woollen stripes in
Should the handle' of an umbrel- tive nugle,
feraeva, crepes, hand-knitted mate- I am sure the hat which will having a sensational success. I There are jersey, blouses,
The small swathed toques aro rials are handled pretty roughly. I become detached, fill the hole and with sulphut, make the screw · red. find most favour with women who very glad of this, because they do jackets which have the stripes run- bot, and press it into the cavity But to go back to sleeves. Some have been wearing small caps for require art and skill to make them, ning helter-skelter in different When cold it will be quite hard times cuffs provide variety, instead, so long will be the modified boat and now is a chance for all the directions, and skirts where they and firm. of puffs or canes. Day frocks are pr. in very soft matarial. These elever little milliners who have form a broad herring-bone panel. seen with huge cuffs of starched real hata are most becoming, with een workless since we went in for down the front. They are also from the handles can be mended Knife tangs that have come away (Con'inud on next Column) (Continued on next Column)
knitted capa
many coloured, so that they look in the same maqner. the most cheerful and youthfully | sudacious things imaginable when made into ensembles, scarves, caps, and jumpers.tk
The Greatest SHOW on
Earth is
About to Open!
EVERYONE is go Ding-rich and poor, mighty and humble, the lame, the halt, the blind; the new-born babe and the octogenarian - all will celebrate on Decem. ber 25th.
Now is the time to tell this vast audience where they may prepare for the big show. Each has something he must buy; many have much choose.
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TO "SLIM "' OR NOT TO
SLIM?"
A cissors Hint.
Scissors that have become loose
can be tightened by pressing a red hot poker on either side of the ri- vet. This causes, the zivot to ex- prad, thus tightening the fecissora.
To keep aluminium pots and The word "slimming" must have pans spick and span use 'cleaner There is a been one of the hardest worked in and soap combined. the English language during the now gadget shaped rather like a last few years. The subject has large cocoon, and consists of extra been discussed in every home, and fine soft wool wrapped round advertised at every corner. But cylindrical piece of soap. the point which seems to be gen. eraily overlooked is that slim ming" methods cannot be practis ed with safety by everybody.
There is, of course, the woman whose health and figure would be considerably improved by special dieting and exercise; because over- eating and laziness are her fall- ings! But there is also the type- for whom a slimming" course could be neither good nor beauti- fying. In fact it might prove a positive danger to her physical- wallining. Nature pends into the world both thin and fat people. No amount of fattening food will greatly increase the weight of the former without upsetting the di gestive system, and no injudiciops.
These cleaners can be used over and over again for all aluminium and kitchen ware, and will last a a long time,
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