THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1937:
T
New afternoon dresses have too many frilly bits
--but you'll
ZOE
like their silhouette
& ROBB
FARMAR
SEND
THEIR FOURTH REPORT ON THE PARIS SPRING DRESS SHOWS
HE more dressy day clothes (that
from habit We អច on calling "afternoon," although in practice we do not buy them for a special time, but for a certain type, of day—when we want to look up to an occasion) are mainly messy, over-trimmed.
To soften this brutal comment I'll admit there are still some designers of important re- pute who have not yet shown their collections
so there is still hope:
But meantime I can only tell you of what I've seen-about eight famed collections--and all, when they get away from the main tailored day-time line, let the trend towards embroidery, stitching, and fancy horders litter up and obscure the main outline of the dress.
Feminine Fripperics
H
ERE are some examples of the sort of thing I mean, which I do not believe you will like any more than I do.
Bead embroidery, baskets of flowers, okl world and all that, covering (in more than one dress) the front of a bodice; flamboyant bouquels worked above a pocket that is made" of a composition stuff intended to look like "real basket-work:
Flower cut-outs stitched one by one (al least this fashion must make for overtime. in the workrooms) on to a dress that is already buzzing with intricacies.
Funcy borders, to hem-lines and sleeves; bands of embroidered net edging silk dresses; scrolled outlines of lacquered piping; bands of different colours but in the same fabric: trellis- ings of piping.
Once admitting then that the main trend in the more dressed-up day clothes is hardly likely to be taken up by the many of us, we can pick around for the more restrained, less typical, but at least wearable details.
Sleeveless jackets with close fitting arm- holes and cut so that, while close on the shoul- ders, the jacket springs out back and front, to high waist length, will be useful in lale spring. Some are in fur, others hand-tufted wool (widely meshed, between the tufts; here's a craft I'll have to teach you), or silk.
Draped sleeve lines-especially for short ones. Neat new sleeve "that parts
Pocket- Profession
or Patient
? ? ? WHICH
COMES
FIRST
? ? Seek the Answer.
in
"A DOCTOR'S DIARY"
SHOWING TO-MORROW at the ALHAMBRA
on the
shoulder to show folded bands of contrasting colour between front and back of bodice. Freak Patterned Silks
S
TUFFS: Wool and cotton lace used in good strong colours; stout alpacas for. dressy overcoats; the usual summer floral silks, but this time in more vivid and smaller flowerings; a new so far unnamed weave of silk that is coarse, rather like linen. duil glazed; to-be-expected freak patterned silks; coils of bright yellow rope on black; tiny prancing white stags on blue; in fact, all kinds of animals, vegetables (including radishes), street scenes, and churches (quite a spate of tourist pictures).
Consoling comment: As most of us are more concerned with all-day clothes, it doesn't much matter that the more formal frivolities are disappointing in design. The silhouette is becoming, the materials good. We can for- get the trimmings.
H.M.V. RECORDS YOU WILL LOVE TO HEAR|
B2203-EVENSONG.
IDYLLE.
B2108-INDIAN LOVE CALL
UNTIL
B3855-BALLET EGYPTIEN. B3056-BALLET EGYPTIEN.
! H2855—MUSICAL SWITCH,
B3153-WORLD WEARY,
ZIGEUNER.
.HERBERT DAWSON. GRAND ORGAN. HERBERT DAWSON. GRAND ORGAN. DE GROOT & PICCADILLY ORCH. .DE GROOT & PICCADILLY ORCH. .MAREK WEBER ORCHESTRA. MAREK WEBER ORCHESTRA. .H. M. COLDSTREAM GUARDS BAND.
B0021 WITH A RUSSIAN GYPSY ORCH.
TWO GUITARS.
B8105 GLORY OF THE MOTHERLAND.
ENGLAND.
B0200-PIANO MEDLEY, •.
B0310-MAY DAY OVERTURE.
B0372 SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT.
I'M ON MA JOURNEY.
B0482--SLEEPY RIVER.
SONG OF FREEDOM.
...NOEL COWARD. ..NOEL COWARD. .ALFREDO & ORCH ,ALFREDO & ORCH
.PETER DAWSON.
PETER DAWSON,
RONALD GOURLEY.
.LIGHT SYMPHONY ORCH
.PAUL ROBESON.
.PAUL ROBESON,
.PAUL ROBESON. .PAUL ROBESON, {
C2733-NATION'S LOYALTY. „ALDERSHOT TATTOO MASSED BANDS.
| C2734—JOYOUSNESS.
HOMAGE MARCH."
.LIGHT SYMPHONY ORCH. LIGHT SYMPHONY ORCH.
TSANG FOOK PIANO CO., LTD. MARINA HOUSE, 19, QUEEN'S ROAD, C.
TEL. 24048..“
"Whin's YOUR BIRTHDAY?
I
To
Silk frock, corn- flower blue.
in four panels, two back and two front, also one band on each sleeve. Pleats sewn to below hip. Tongues of pleating also hang from below severe collar. Plain tailored buttons. On each hip, folds looking like (but not) pocket flaps.
Afternoon suit of cinnamon corded silk. JACKET: Draped, short sleeves, folds down front of jucket, stitched to waist, then stiff backward flare. DRESS: Quite plain cut. Bodice embroidered white cotton (coarse, like wool) on chest and round neck. Folds on jacket repeated back of skirt hem.
SOMETHING
Sweet for Supper
By "HOUSEWIFE"
NUNDAY supper is sure to see all
SUN
the family at home, and you will want to give them something rather special for a sweet, I know.
You won't want to bother with anything too elaborate after cooking the mid-day dinner, so it can be something which is quickly prepared,
or else à cold'sweel you have made the day before, like a special trife or fruit cream.
Here are last week's winning cake recipes:
"
THE
JOHN O' CROATS CAKE
THIS cake is made in two separate
portions. For the bottom layer; | 3 oz. self-raising flour, pinch salt, 2
ez augar, 3 oz, butter. Cream sugar and butter, add flour and salt. Mould it to at a tin 7 in. In diometer. Spread
a layer of jam over.
Now take 3 oz. rolled oats, 3 oz. butter and 3 oz. sugar. Rub butter Into the outs with the finger tips, mix in the sugar and place this on top of the jam. Bake in 'n slow oven one hour.
CINNAMON COOKIES NGREDIENTS: 1 breakfastcupful flour, 3 oz. butler, 3 oz. sugar, 1 Cg6, 1⁄2 teaspoonful blcarbonate, of soda, 1 level teaspoonful powdered elnamon, 14 teacupful sour milk.
Dissolve the soda in the sour milk. Beat the sugar and butter to a cream, add the beaten egg and flour alter- add the cinnamon nately. Lastly
milk.
and soda dissolved, in the Place on a floured board and roll out thinly, cul into 'rounds. Put on a Areased tin and bake for 15 minutes j, a hot oven. Sprinkle with caster sugar before serving.
There is a Difference!
You can "chuck" the dress that does not please ----
You cannot forget a permanent wave that is not satisfactory.
Be sure,
In
not sorry.
Get the BEST.
BOODLES CAKE, FROM KENT
INGREDIENTS: 10 oz. flour, 10 oz. butter, lb, sugar, 5 eggs, 2 oz. Raisley flour, pinch of salt. Cream butter and sugar, add CGAS, well beaten, gradually, add flour and salt, mix well together. Buke in a moder- ate oven for 2 hours,
CHOCOLATE ICING-Bring to boil 2 dessertspoonfuls water and 2 oz. grated chocolate. Stir in 4 oz. icing sugar. Allow cake to cool, cover with chocolate Icing, make a in' oven. nest of coconut browned Drop in a few small birds' eggs, de- corate the top of cake with 2 or 3 and small chichts. A delightful nourishing cake for the Will keep molst if kept in tin for 1 momh.
ECONOMY CAKE
pur into a saucepan 1
children.
cupful
brown sugar, 1 cupful water, 1 cupful stoned raisins, dates or cure rants, 1/3 cupfal lard, dripping or margarine, few nutmeg gratings, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1⁄2 teaspoonful allspice, pinch of salt.
Doll together for 3 minutes, when cold add 1 teaspoonful carbonate of soda, dissolved in warm water, teaspoonful baking powder, sifted in 2 cups of flour. Bake in modernte ovent
OZ.
EASTER LILY CAKE [NGREDIENTS: 6 oz. butter, 1⁄2 lb. castor self-raising flour, sugar, 1 oz. ground almonds, 2 oz. condfed orange peel, lb. glace cherries cut
sul- In balves, lb. tanas, 3 eggs.
Cream butter and sugar together, well beat the eggs and add, then all
and flour and all fruit
ground oven almonds. Bake in moderate
about 1 hour. When cold put a layer of almond paste on top' and ice all over with yellow icing made with yolk of egg instead of whiles. De- corate with blanched almonds halved and stuck in to look like petals of a lily, with pieces of angellea for cen- tre of flowers and leaves. This is a very spring-like looking cake and nlee eating.
Tell me,
doctor..
. You know
what children are - always falling and cutting
their knees and grazing their hands. I don't regard such things as trifles: I had a young brother who died of blood-poisoning. Tell me, is there no efficient antiseptic I can apply at once with per- fect confidence?"
Dettol is such an antiseptic-dangerous only to germs. It is
a clean, pleasant fluid-non-poisonous and non-staining- highly efficient as a germ-killer. You can apply it freely (there are directions on every bottle). Remember, the smallest break in the skin is a wide-open gateway for the gernis of septic infection. Disinfect cuts and
Use 'Dettal' promptly scratches at once with Dettol. The
le time of accident way to prevent blood-poisoning
Your Chemist has it. Is to kill the germs that cause it.
DETTOL
TRADE MAKK
'THE MODERN ANTISEPTIC
RECKITI & SONS LTD. (PHARMACEUTICAL DEFT.), LONDON & HULL, ENGLAND- Agents: Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd., Hong Kong.
See the New Swim Styles
AT OUR
BATHING SUIT DEPT.
A VARIETY
OF JANTZEN'S.
LATEST MODELS
ON SHOW.
Ladies' swimming suits of unusual beauty with perfect body-molding fit.
Men's Trunks with the brand new idea of "Zip-Hitch"
PRICES VERY REASONABLE
THE SINCERE CO., LTD.
Facts about Nutrition
Ordinary foods are frequently deficient in nutritive values. 'KEPLER'COD Liver Oil with MALT Extract makes good this deficiency, supplying fortifying food properties as. well as Vitamins A, B and D.
KEPLER
COD LIVER OIL
HALT EXTRACT
+3
KEPLER
KEPLER
PERMANENT WAVES
MARIE'S BEAUTY SHOPPE
EXCHANGE BUILDING PHONE 32508
Boister of two sinss
from all
Pharmacies and Stores
THADE
KEPLER'
COD
WARK
Liver Oil MALT Extract
* with
BURROUGHS
WELLCOME
Pharmereka The Wellcome Foundation L1o.. Londom, Engi
LONDON AND SHANGHAI
1st FLOOR
Co