ZOE FARMAR becomes a mannequin
she is learning-
I
(a) how to walk (b) how to sit
(e) how to
he
VE been b
a manneqi
I'm chang
wear
Mathes
sion, but it seemed to
that one of the things few women know is how to wear
their clothes....
In June
the training set off,
with three offer women, Forst we were
wrotn 1934
a brunette
each of us told what with our department.
There was Freda, 16, with lovely eggs; a rel entled Allee, who had aiready had a job as a man- nequly but had got the sack bekare her showing of clothes didn't sell #ell
them and she wented to w
freling alone it didn't; a whiley who, in the world and sorry for herself, had become so self-conselous that to enter a restaurant on her own terri- fed her, and hes dortar bad recon- mended these classes to help her get bark asurance; and me.
Enter.
.ashamed
Uit tralore asked Freda to go out
While she was gone we were told
tu watch carefully how she into the rumm again.
came
verdiet was We watched. The "You opened the door Just as though you expected it would break if you pushed it open more than half-way, your aboulders were hanched in you hurried across the rooman then as you sat down you slumped your back said a half-circle. into a
whole nanner our trainer, your
suggests that you are
afraid
yourself.
ahameri
uf any one noticing you all that has to be changed."
Alice, who consulered
pretty good beside
herself
us beginners.
went out next. The way she came
In was just the reverse
but somehow. irritating.
She
the
of Freda,
one hand on "her" "hip,"
Cothend middle finger
stimy
her cheat.
"No wonder you got the sack," remarked the tyrant, "you've about as much grace of movement as
figure. Muscle and exercises for you,
Wax
શ Anger
And you bounce up and down as you walk-a trait badly trained interins When I've made you stop showing off when you're showing clothes when you look like a natural buman being instead of what you imagine is a mannequin-you'll know your job....
I enne
next. and summaried- was made aware for the first time that I didn't know how to walk or sit down, that I had a habit of winding my legs around each other until they looked like the roots of a tree, that I held my head down and looked at the floor, that
looked
This is wrong:
She walks from the thigh instead
of the hip: her pose in awkward. and affected.
had-tempered and harned my toes
ut too much.
Hip-power B
now we were all thoroughly enjoying the show-up of each other's faults, and 1 felt sorry for the plump little widow.
12 DAYS EXHIBITION
OLD and NEW PRINTS KIMONOS and OBIS CULTURE PEARLS
BY
MR. T.. OKAMOTO
OPENING TUESDAY, NOV. 24th
OPEN from 9 am, to 7 p.m.
1st
FLOOR
GLOUCESTER BUILDING
Her shoulders swayed from side
to side as she walked-busting movement;' she edged her way on
to the chair as if it were very hot
be and the grating bud to
taiten gradually. Her fingers were clenen- rt1.
The trainer, kind and wise, made 10 comment. Instead she sald, walk. You
"We'll now learn
to
have to move from the lip insteari ofas all of you do--from the thigh."
She showed us how, if you move from the thigh, the fine of your dress in ereused across the front, yet if the forward spring starts from the hip the line of skirt from waist to hơi, is unbroken,
Practising this, we were made to walk round the room, up and down stalis with telephone books balanced on pur heads Bits to ensure that the balanes of weight was on the Spore,
Then, to sit down without either etmumpling up in a slump or sitting ungracefully to Mecattire naturally the habit of putting the right fool olatile behind the left (like beginning of a curtsy: before letting nur weight down into the chote (anul into the salinst spate", not ont edge ne half-way up the back of an Demelanie),"
They're casy
TH
the This is right:
THE excrelses we had to do every day were easy--calculated 11)
She walks from the hip so that the line of her free, in unbroken: her post is naboel wat balanced,
a
Che-
make the body supple and unself- disarranging our hate dressings, conscious without enlarging muscles, elever hittle sack of Jup suk
cause Bus fabric is light it doesn't For control of the leg and feet pull at hair strand, or smother you) muscles; to walk along with hare fect picking up pencils with QUIF
To hold our heads, propertys (1 had to do overtime on this), roll- ing of the broad like the exercise,
to cover hair ar faen.
L
Advice on Beauty
TEXT
We were sent to a beanly
Walstonalfant (who made 10 charge
for giving advicey, Predda, with her The little widow had thick ank- bis eyes and bowed lips, was advised les which haut to be massaged and to give up using cheek; congy bondaged up every
night. They to wear her half in a band of curls have lost their fatness alrearly.
all start her head cheemure it roaste her look more sophisticated ghe Is melined to be school-girlish).
Undie rules
Alice learner that those dy- JUST like school again, we had to
ber wear spedally planned under whisker eyebrows marle fare clothes..
lot bald (I'd been wanting to tell her that). The widow, round faced Regulations were that If we wore with Sud--but brightly blue
fare course of
treat-
!
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1996.
Try these new
Banana Dishes
PART from bananas being excellent food, they make some very good dishes and garnishes, and if these were to be collected in a single book you
By
would be surprised how many different Ambrose Heath
ones there are, not only sweet, but savoury,
too.
Here are just a few. Banana Cream, jelly with slices of bananas floating attractively in it. Banana Fool, Hamann Fritters, these are familiar to us all, but what about Banana Turnovers?
HAV
Banana Turnovers
into
JAVE some postry and cut it
squares. Arrange some banana stiers on one half, sprinkle them with a little sugar and lemon juler or spread lightly with strawberry Hum, and fold the other half of the pastry over, dumping and pinching together the edges. Bake them until done.
Bananas and Cream
NOT long ag 7 had this excellent dish at a friend's, but it had no nane. You want shallow reproof dish, which you must butter lightly. Put into it your peêted and halved bananas. Sprinkle them with a fe rum (this is not essently, and the sweet is very good without it), and plenty of brown Barbados sugar.
Put the fish into the oven, and let It stay there untf) the gangur has quite melted, then serve at once, with wogy Leuld whipped dream piled on top.
MAKE
Banana Cream Pie
best
[AKE a fan case of you -pastry, and when it is cold M1 it with overlapping; stlees of bananas, Cover these with an ordinary belles custard, and duish with whipped Cream.
Coconut can be sprinkled over the cream, it Bled, and strawberry jam could be added to the banana flag.
pur
Baked Bammox
DUT the basenas with thele, skus en into a bakhur-dish, put son n lid and bade them, not too fast, until the sking are very dark. Then take the skins off and serve the fruit het,
prinkled with sugar.
VOJU
West budian Baked Bananas uus time
must peet the bermanas, but leave them whole Put them into a fire-proof dish with rome agar ant grated lemon rind,
PRETTY LOCAL
WEDDING
MR. J. A. KEMSLEY AND MISS BEEVER
At eight o'clock this morning, the
Cathedral between Miss Marjorie Beever and Mr. John Alan Kemsley, of Messrs. G. N. Haden and Sons, Ltd. The Rev. H. W. Baines officiated,
a woollen vest it must go under our eyes, had a elastic girdles so as not to ruck up. inent that did her more good than wedding was solemnised at St. John's Brassiere tops only [! necessary. a doctor's bill. Trunks-Hot logged-kulchers—that, cut on Bic cross, fitted close on the thigh,
Top more
whilst appropriate music was render- ed on the organ by Mr. Lindsay Tafford
The bride is the doughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Beever, of Green Royd,
#R 11
Fenary Bridge, Huddersield, whilst the
bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Theydon Bols, Essex.
Hugh Kemsley, Thrifty Hill,
And I, taking my own advice: agreed that my worst fault was be- in too lazy to put on the best face The kind of suspenders that you I could manage. wist the stocking through--so tul there is absolutely no bulge. For As we worked ap mto" the under evening dresses; clustic punties forms, the lessons got a bit which combine trunks and support, technical, We learned how, in
flareri skirt, you want to walk with Two underslips of white or peach a wide, filing stride-to make the tallela (but not blue or green, be- most of the natural movement of the cuuse, over white or light colours, dress. That smaller, measured steps these colours will give a dirty tone, sult the
tailormades. Aravity of whereas at most peach only glows That an evening dress takes a slow through) cut on the blas; one short wall. for day. Ground-length;—for even- ing dresses.
Round the battun of these 1 band of frilling to keep the dress from falling in below the knees,
Final Warning
Parting lecture from our teacher was on the dangers of picking up For the widow, who needed a bit bad habit-like picking
nali of condensing, a special slip which varnish, fidgeting with your castle has an elastic panel across the back. girdle ( wouldn't, ruck up if you and a shaped elastic lace bodice for chose the right one), font jorging. evening dresses,
cumbing loose hairs on to your rollar (and leaving them there). For getting into dresses, without These habits, she said, ruin the smudging them with make-up or character of clothes.
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FESTIVITIES.
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With Vocal Refrains.
F2628
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F2629
F3679
Sir Roger de Coverley Memories of the Ball.
Paul Jones
R245
8629
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C2704
.New Empire Orch.
Ye Band of Rustics. Ye Band of Rustics. ..Waltz Medley, Ball Room Orchestra. Veleta, Barn Dance, Polka, Waltz. Ball Room Orch.
...Old Timer Singers.
After the Ball. Two Little Girls in Blue,
Daisy Bell
Drinking Songs
C2703 Fifty Years of Song
8441 Sing 'om Again
Mrs.
The bride was given away in mar- age by her uncle, Mr. A. Brearley, Manager of the Chartered Bunk. She wore a powder blue morocain ensoin- ble with navy blue accessories and carried a shower bouquet of pink rosts.
then sprinkle over
Today's Menu
SAUSAGES with BACON and BANANAS
MACARONI CHEESE
SALAD
THE sausage dish will be nicer if you grill T
both the sausages and the bacon, the latter very crisply, and serve them with halved ban- ams fried in butter. New potatoes, of course. The mucaroni cheese (or make it with spaghetti if you would rather have something a little more delicate) can be eaten with a plain letture salad, a habit which you will find rather "
wier.
sprinkle with a few drops of lime Juice (fresh if possible) and pour in
Beef with Bananaş ·
a ssful of sherry and Lorange Juice Ch
IT some beefsteak, runs or fillet,
(half and half).
Unise the baratas in a hot oven, busting them well with the bound. The huid be served cold.
Banangs Salad
IN Amories they make a banana mala by cutting the banana flech into cubes and letting them soak in an elinary French drenant (two olive oil, one part vinegar, salt Parta and pepper),
They are then either served in a green salad as they are or pit, back aste the barna skips (which must have been kept as whole possibles. and served up on the lettuce,
Sale Caprice
HIS is where bananas come in with
ah.
Have the soly, or lemon bee, Alleler, roll these in egg and then in brenderrumbs and then grill them if possible or fry them in a little Pastire
When they are served by a long strip of fried bannun upon rack. Helier sauce should bis hande-t separately,
into nicely-shaped picers und fry them in butter, Meanwhile peel some bananas, ut them
ball acres spain, e and breadcrumb the pleva and fry them golden in. deep fat.
Dish thei
with the beef fillets und serve, with sonte rich dark sauce like Robert poured round them.
Bammas with Cheese
My father always liked to eat raw
bananas with Cheddar cheese und here is much to be said for it,
though it is an acquired taste. Here is quite, n gund hot savoury of the
and sort,
Alell some butter in a shallow fire-proof dish and season it with saft and a little paprika pepper. Arrange on this your peeled bananas cut in halves lengthwise and sprinkle them with some fresh breadcrumbs and a mixture of grated Gruyere and I'LE, or even plain Cheddar would do.
Pour over a little melted butter, or dot with small pieces, and balte in a hottish oven until browned.
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