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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1987.
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10 the woman who is handy with her needle embroidery is a fascinat- ing recreation. A plain plece of material turned into n lovely place of work admired by friends gives a great feeling of personal satisfaction.
And now we have a chance to give fashionable clothes that indi- vidual touch which we all like to attain. For Parla is showing not only blousca and lingerie, but dresses trimined with attractive handwork.
Our atlet bas sketched four typical versloits of the new embroidery vogur, all of which are being shown this season in
in Paris.
What do you think of the blouse with its musical trimming? The bars are worked in outline stitch. Blart from the right hand side and hold your work so that you embroider upwards.
Bring the needle through from the wrong side, keep your needle facing down when taking each stitch, and re inember to keep the thread to the left of the needle.
Do the next sillchi from above, and bear in mind that the bottom of ench alltch must come out else to the top of the preceding one.
This Eamo stitcha is used for the ch tire plece of embroidery: but the notes ara illed in-with-salin stitch This simply a series of even stroke stitches very close together so that none of the material Biowa.
The little blouse with its pleated ple frill neck ins n tiny pusy of flowers outlining a pinafore front. Both this and the Hungarian design on the coalce can be carried out in wools in lazy daisy stitch, satin stitch, and stem stitch. The first-named is an extremely popular form of embroidery,
Tiny houses, garden rakes, flower in
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pot, and single blooms are seat- iered round the buttonholed edge
of the contee with the Peter Pan collar. With a little ingenuity you can make an extremely colourful and decorative jacket.
Lazy daisy is a very quickly worked stitch. It is used largely, ns its name imples, for small daisy-like flowers. It is also used for tiny leaves. One stitch no- counts for a small petal or leaf.
Start at the centre of flower or stem. of leaf. Bring the needle through from the wrong side. Hold down the thread and insert needie again at the same place, bringing it out at top of petal.
-Keeping thread over needle, pull it up to cover outline of petal, Secure the loop with a small bar stitch, which takes your needle to the back again to start the next petal.
This stitch can be employed with good effect on lingerie collura and cuffs na well as on clothes for baby. Embroidery cottun ar silk can be used for je ner materials and wools for heavier fabrim.
A good effect can be obtained on belts, jumpers or cnps by massing small daisies together so that you can hardly sce the untkground.
The secret keep the stitches simple, for in this way a gay, hold design is achieved, especially it you choose your colourings with care. The little houses, for instance, could be all carried out in outline stitch.
A large variety of embroidery trans- fers are always available in the shops," and are easy to iron on to your work. If, however, you have drawn or traced your own design It is a simple matter to transfer it to material by means of un embroidery carbon.
Use a white one for dark materials
and a dark one for light. Place your carbon between your fabric and the design, and iraco over the outline with a stiletto ar knitting needle.
The fourth blouse shown has dice shaped bultons as a finish. These are made from j-inch squares of finnnel in two different colours. The num. bered dots are embroidered in a con. trast shade. The squares are tightly packed with cotton wool so that they do nat lose their shape.
Paris has also given us a labelling craze. Initials or names are added to hankles and small arlictes intended for Christmas presents,
The upright strokes of the letters are formed of ribbon tape or narrow pleot-edged strips of material, such as georgette or crêpe.
The rest of the letter is entbroidered with a small running stitch with another strand of silk threaded over to give a rope stitch effect.
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SMILE PLEASE .
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ing a man who was well known for his pubite work and eminent gifts. Everyone had something to say about his vary- ing contributions, his oratory, his philanthropy, his self-sacrifice.
One woman remained rather silent. Afterwards she told me why.
"i know it seems childish of me." she confessed, and I realize that all you were saying was gulie true.
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don't for moment want to deny all the great things which this man has done, but I have never forgotten ant incident that happened 1arly twenty years ago.
had only Just begun my offer wo.. I had to meet this inan one day, show him the way to a committee, take his hat and Kenerally look after hin.
"I was very young.
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"I remember that he handed me his hat without a smile, hardly looked at me, in fact treated me as if I had been a piece of furniture. I expect I was unduly sensitive, but I felt that if he had just smiled It would have mado all the difference."
When people are preaccupied they are npt to miss these small points. OI course. they don't do it on pursued: In fact, they would be surprised if they
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knew that they had hurt anyone, but It is amazing how much these count.
There are others who deliberately adopt a chilly attitude because they have an idea that it adds to their dignity. They will say openty that "if you are too easy with people, they only despire you."
So they are haughty to the shop assistant. exacting to the people who serve them. It may be true that they ket a certain amount of extra privi- lege, since. they don't, they make things unpleasant for everybody. But, in the long run, they lose a great drai of happiness, and often hurt those who are not able to retaliate.
Original Embroidery
Tiny flower posios give distinction to the lille blouse with its deep pleated
The smarl vosteo and pio frill collar. bolero is trimmed with a gay gardon dosign in bold Hungarian colours. Dico. shaped bullons of flannel with em broidered spots are a practical novelly.
THESE CLOTHES ROB WINTER
OF ITS STING
Warm, Fashions For the New Year
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Two examples of smart and cosy suits designed for cold country
twear, One is In Rame coloured crepe with gold embroidery, and the second mudel is composed of leaf-orcen corduroy trousers, velvet jumper and short mess jacket,
out of an English winter. One is at knee-length cape it thick, soft, mus- tard-enloured tweed woven by Welsh miners. The cape is attached to a Waistcoat. and can be worn over skirta or woolly dresses. It looks equally well with brown, navy-blue, copper, prune colour, or dark green. A lapis-blue suit in hand-woven tweed has a plain blue skirt and a blue and black check jacket. dark green sull, in a curious cloth rather he felt, has a divided skirt and very new V-shaped invert- ed pleats at the back of the Jacket, which bus stand-out pockets.
A flat
The belt of this suit is of leather, with a small white string ball bag] at one side in which you can tuck) two or three golf balls. Jade-green suede is used for a suit with a box! Jacket, slim-fitting skirt and suedel hat to match.
If you wish to continue this story
of warm fashions for cold houses you have only to go on to the Echo de Paris and see the clothes designed Alfonse de Chimay, by Princess which are worn in many of the chilliest ancestral homes.
The "Band Master" sult sketched!
is a typical example of her evening, suits. It is in flame-coloured crepe: with bands of gold-thread embroi- dery. The alim-fitting skirt, lit up the front, has bands of the embroi- dery down the side seams as well. Another suit of much the same cut Is in deep night-blue with squares of
sequins
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on the front Jacket,
For hunt balls there is an evening dress in violet silk jersey, with the backless bodice cut to a deep V in the front and fulness at the front of the skirt. Round the high walet- line tied a narrow rose-pink velvet ribbon, the streamers of which hang down the front of the skirt. A lule droped jacket turns the frock into a dinner gown.
Evening Clothes
QEQUINS are still in the front line'
of fashion. The latest Idea is to have slender sequin trees Towing ankle-length from hemline of an
coat, rearing elegant evening branches and blossoms in the region of the shoulder bindes and helping to make the wearer look slim.
One of the wiltlest of our writern / § -AM sure it is not the roast beef Ships, and is designed to wear after pented in sequins on the front of the
cald once that it did not matter what sort of manners you had, so long as you had this same for everybody.
The woman who la all silles to her own sel and aloof to those who minia 1er to her needs all day long, may get Mclent service of a kind, but she will never get anything deeper.
That lost smile may rankle for years and polcon memories which might have
been sweet.
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Sometimes the tree design is re- oat. Another cold-weather idea for evening conts is red velvet lined with turquoise satin, "suggesting warmth with a certain regal splendour.
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of Old England that has made us hunting. The short mess jacket is lined with wedding and the slit the hardy nation that we are, but pockets bound with braid. The long, the coldness of our country houses well-tailored trousers are delightfully of our public comfortable, and to ensure that the and the discomfort
it is Chilton and fur na evening coata entire sult 19 drought-proof schools,
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upright, If this supposition is correct, then lighter shade of green, two models sketched here should be
When you consider that the mother leaving a space of about four inches viewed with alarm, for they inter of the girl who wears this garment between each skin. that the blood of English women is probably changed into a chiffon tea- running cold, and 'that such women gown after a hard day's hunting, and are being mollycoddled by fashion, that she had never heard of central hoating, you realise how pampered --Examine the girl wearing the leaf- we are in these days. green corduroy trousers suit. This
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