THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1086.
"Telegraph's" Women's Page
On with the
DANCE FROCK
TS surprising how many girls who never bother about making a day dress like to make their own dance frocks. Perhaps they like working on the rich and beautiful fabrics we wear on these occasions; perhaps they stitch romance in with their silk threads,
O what? Let's not bother our heads any more about the reason but get on with the business of making
ourselves beautiful and gay.
With a frock, for example, such as that made to the pattern, which Angrave has drawn for you in two different styles.
In either style it's got the swishing flares at the back that make you feel so grand and important as you come down the stair- case and enter the ballroom. You can see this back view of the skirt in one of the
It is! drawings. And is it smart?
L
ook at the first of the twes full-length front views in the drawing. This is a frock that should be rande of faille or taiteta, or one of those rayon sits that have a slight stiffness in the
texture
With such a fabric the frills at the shoulders will keep their delicate flower-prial curves mot effectively. And these shoulder frills are specially eleverly eat, quite apart from their graceful design Yor, if you will look carefully at the drawing, you will see that they are gathered into flat extensions of the bodice al taper to a point at the seams.
The Une Rives height and a soming-effect that a shot woman could wene surli a style must becomumiy, whereas mod types of frilly-stun.l- dered fucks would make her look dumpy.
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Breakfast Table
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a thin neck and sall-cellar collarbones.
Tho front of the skirt is quite plain -to emphasise the backward movement. It is gudied with a sash of self-fabric.
Tuck a single flower in your hair-n real one if possible and one that brings out the colour of your frock either by repetition or contrast-and you'll feel' us gay is you look.
The second version illustrated is aulted. to the young demure and pelite girl, the ultra-feminine type who looks as if she must have a great strong man, to protect her and decide everything for her. (They're often stubborn as mutes at heart, but that's by the way).
Make It of spotted net-but in a good definite colour or in black, not in baby- blue or pinks, please. And the a ribbon snood round your curls.
A few words about the making. This is an easy-to-make design so it's a good one to choose if this is your first attempt of dressmaking.
The skirt is in four sections the front, the centre back and the two are tracks. Good straightforward seams that can be stitched like lightning after you've lacked them.
In the first design the frills are cut in one with the bodice. They are faced, then slashed and re-gathered in position on the plain pointed sections. The idler fastens with a row of fabric-covered tiny buttons down the centre back.
In the second version the sleeves are fulled into pinin araiholes and the badles Fastens down the centre front.
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8 The Roads off Ryde make a
Jone little street.
1 She always follows Judges,
12 Lancaster or Luxembourg, for
example.
13 One may gather berries in this
little wood.
gloomy eye. It isn't that they get The flowers in the low bowls on. "My father advised me to try Dr.
out of bed the wrong way, but just the table-marguerites mixed with I had Willams Pink Tills because yous states Mr. C. A. Taylor, 1.| tools a new sister-in-law to get them site-had just started æ discussion- Edeall Street, Norwood, Sauth Aus- :st of it. Aller the fint sifent on gardening when someone realised Bob Crosby & Orch.tralia, often suffered acute head-
Caches which
ine feud feverish breakfast, broken only by the rust- the amazing apiness of the trium- and Irritable, and after a day's work | Jing of papers and a few painful phant cock on a breakfast-table de-
was very much fatigued. My skin was also very pimply, As I took Dr. syllables, she asked if she coration. "That," said my sister-in- (I'm An Old Cow Hand. F.T.
Willams Pink Pills I noticed a sure might set the breakfast table during "tow, dimplfrig, "is the ornament you
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health. my F.T.
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feet in a cardboard cone." appetite picked up and I slept better. F.T. (Poor Dinah,
The headaches anhed, my dinnerorded her permission.
Tinted Glasses
Since then we have hail a different Roy Smeck & Hawaiian Serenaders. became clearer, and felt greater) FG017 (Would You
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mare energetic, losing the fatigas, morning, the table was so changed morning. F.T. (Every Time! Look.
Dr. Williams Pink Pills did me a that before they knew what they convolvulus were once plaited into a anal on which was laid a wonderful amount of good, and were doing the family were chalter- centre
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strongly recommend them."
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front of We are given an attractive variety 23 Particular that takes time.
·Brian Lawrence & His Landsdowne House Sextet, enriching and blood-increasing and had disappeared, and la
have remarkable strengthening every, plate was a gally coloured nf goblets-the inexpensive simple 24 A real American push. ..Ambrose & His Orchestra. effect on the nerves, digestion and rush mat on which the breakfast type-from which
to drink our 25 Having a tankard, is very self-
satisfied. whole system. They are dead for A
and she is 28 Does in (anng.). orange-juice or milk, and the Novelty of the Year "KNOCK, KNOCK, WHO'S THERE?"
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TSANG FOOK
PIANO COMPANY
Marina House. 19. Queen's Road, Central.
Tel. 24648.
ADVERTISE
where there is
doubt about
no
CIRCULATION
everywhere.
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16 After this a Briton will want
port when abroad.
17 it might be the wife wh, if a little shorter, might beennie a parent. Tout, mostly with a material.
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woven
30 These include hors-d'oeuvre.
but not savouries.
DOWN
2 Hypnoenle pallative.
run-down, nervous, depressed condi- plate looked twice es attractive. tion of health in adults of both sexes,
Two tinted glasses were ranged in reful always that no floral decorn- 20 Simply pace in the city, love. and for builting up delicate boys ond girls.
Obtainable from chemists front for those who insisted that (a) tion shall interfere with the serious
there was nothing like orange juice business of enting and drinking. to begin with and (b) that milk was Occasionally, when she sees a res- the only possible breakfast drink, live gleam in the family The eggs were "blossoming," as it suddenly revert to plain table-cloths
table. But were, from a bush of heather--she and a flowerless had whipped off a cosy only just ideas will probably before we appeared. And each of visit.
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EVERYWHERE
SALESMAN SAM
IT'S A MOOSE I'LL LET IM HAVE it!
BANG
BANG
us was given a little butter Instead
YEAH KEEP FIRIN'! IF WE GIT_'IM, ITS”
ENOUGH FOOD FER
A MONTH!
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Elizabeth Carlisle.
Nice Shooting, Anyway
GOSH!HES STILL THERE! (F) YA MUSTA GOT IM)
WE DIDN'T HIT 'IM, HE WOULDA RUN AWAY!
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MEBBE WE'LL FIND JIM LEANIN' AGİNST
A TREE!
3 Only one Ash? Oh, lase it, if
you like.
No, I wouldn't deceive you, this is not the French for round- abouts.
Believe.
Some mediaeval houses do, but don't do it to a pheasant.
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9 How I get when I mean to stop
your little game.
10 Put this in for interpose.
14 Chick's advice to the old hen,
in this peninsula, .
15 This describes a piano worth a thousand dollars in the Ameri- can, underwork.
12. Lower this at any time. 20 Boat adaptable for entily, 21 The door of the river gruve, 22 Lower this, at any time, too. 20 A square one is just the thing
for a broken man.
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