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O-DAY I Want to talk about little women's fashions. Not young girls with slender willowy figures, but the woman of forty-five or so, five foot tall or thereabouts, who has retained the slim lines of youth, or is inclined to be very thin. Your Arst dim- culty is what to look for in a frock to suit your particular type.
Women with Ideas
Now stand in front of your mirror and soo what lines of your figure you wish to om- phasise. Where does your figure need fuliness or a soft touch? If your neck and
No
NOTHING can stand in the way smoke because her emotionni life
of a woman, with an idea. Hers has misfired!
saw
is the driving force that gets things if Miss Understanding marries done.
she will understand her husband so Long before the national en to, well that he will become a complex health, women
the value of and a repression. And she will pro- physical fitness and had the idea vide all his food out of a tin, of leading themselves to health and
Service, Ad Nauseam beauty.
Women are also standing behind Mrs. Lovisall's one iden is service the drive to improve social condi- to her family. No sacrifice is too tions. They have an idea that great for them. She will give up something must be done and some her social activities for their wel- fare. She will go without a new thing is being done.
But what about the woman with fur coat that Jack may have the ideas who has no public field in extras he does not want when he which to plant them, whose activi- goes to college. ties must be confined to her own circle 7
When she is young and a hungry husband thinks about his dinner, she imagines he has ceased to care Food Fads
for her later, when the children She may be more than a nuisance, go away for the week-end and dis- Mrs. F. Addy Food can talk all day play natural excitement she thinks en food values and talk in such a they are tired of home. She mea- way that after ten minutes you sures everything in terms of love, know all normal foods are poison. and is consequently a burden to the
She is a wonderful dietician, but family.
her husband cannot always find a To-day, there are women every-| mended pair of socks, and the chil- where who are slaves to an idea. dren often go off to school on a wet One will make her family uncom day without their waterproof coats. fortable because she cannot think of Miss Understanding sees life in anything but social success. An- terms of the subconscious. She has other will deprive her family of a read a few books on psychology home because she worships the and you can't tell her anything she house.
And so on. does not know about human nature. A woman with an idea may be You may think that girl over there come like a cat with a mouse. She is having cigarette because she will be unable to think of anything has ten minutes to wait. Miss else.. Understanding knows she has to
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shoulders are firm you can wear an open hollows should neckline, but "salt cellar be discreetly hidden, and the present high to throat fashions are of material help in this respect.
Wearing Shorts
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1938.
YOU RUN NO RISK
when you choose a
In Public: MORRISON PIANO Pro & Con
wear
SHOULD women
A shorts in public? walk round any beach or
Then again, Jabots are most becoming, golf course in Hongkong
ruffles and all the attractive fripperles you find at the lace counter; but watch care- fully, that you do not cut ur height or give a wide effect to the" ngure.
Floral Prints
You can go happily into print floral or otherwise, knowing that as you are slim you have a wide choice among the different patternings.
But you do not want to look elderly or to resemble your daughter, so I have chosen styles cut with small godets in the skirt on neat fitting lines. The lingerie vest and loop trimming gives just that rght note of interest to the bodice. without being fussy.
Many of the new Spring styles' have dainty white collars as well as cuffs in pique or organ-. die, so keep this in mind when finishing off your
flrcss.
You will quickly appreciate the perennial qualities of the second frock I have selected. With two or three different collars and jabols you will be able to ring the changes on this style and give it an entirely different look.
The particular shaped jubot shown gives an important look to the top part of the figure. while hips are nicely slimaned by comparison.
I take off my hat to
MODERN
FATHERS
says Elizabeth Ewing
during the summer months will provide ample evidence that for 50 per cent. of the women who do appear in public wearing shorts, the answer to the above ques- tion should be an uncom- promising "No."
About 20 per cent. of us look utterly delectable in well cut! shorts and are a joy to behold, and the remaining 30 per cent.
arc
permissible. Incidentally, when speaking of shorts I mean only the pleated or flared kind, as no woman can successfully wear shorts cut like a man's. Our pelvic bones simply are not built for them, although some of us do not seem to realise it.
YOU will sometimes And a woman
You
who has quite good taste over her other clothes going berserk when it comes to shorts, and entirely losing her judgment, to say nothing of her sence of humour. She will consider
that she herself looks presentable,
and with her
next breath
will
friend for wearing criticize some shorts, quite oblivious of the fact that the friend's figure faults are very
slmitar
tar to her own.
Up to the
wear shorts,
of 21 anyone can every figure not diat
below that age comes into the 20 per cent. utterly delectable
because the guy simply
souciance of youth
with
anything short
class,
in-
ean get away
of murder.
After that age, what are the types which should or should
shorts in publle?
not wear
The most obvious ones to rule out leg im- first are those with any perfections-knock knees, varicose veins, podgy knees. or legs which are fat above the knee.
It ought not to be necessary to mention these defects at all, as one would think that their would be only too anxious to shroud them in the kindly disguise of a
skirt.
owners
Yet within the last month I have seen every one of these Imperfections unashamedly flaunting itself beneath pair of shorts, on a certain golf course not five hundred miles from here.
DRAM-PUSHING papas were fathers who like taking out playing at trains; who a side-splitting joke a gen- prams and
can mix a pretty bottle if need be, eration ago.
Now, on Sunday morning. Daddy, and, who make quite a good job of as likely as not, fills his pipe, calls minding the baby when a crisis grips the dog, wheels out the pram and the household; who, rushing home the sets off briskly for a stroll with the early from the office for nursery tea- youngest crowing at him for joy and parties, make themselves so useful big sister or brother dancing along that even Nnnnie #kes then being
side.
DADDY, who is quite
share of masculine self-consciousness
there.
Modern fathers
most
are there
causes
Quite apart from legs, however, wearing of a garment which kences has a fore- ends above the shortening effect and makes other figure faults such as large hips or
a heavy bust much more apparent. Very tall women should never wear have shed in n
shorts, as a tall thin woman merely It lets mother and the servants get on with things at home. It lightens generation all that adult pomposity looks a longer streak of misery than their routine if father lends a hand. which, on the masculine side, usually
ever, and a tall heftly built woman succeeds in making herself Besides, he likes these expedi- meant a lordliness at home, a scorn
of "women's work," and a' leverish only tions. He looks forward to them.
insistence that male dimmity should look far more massive than she real- an be sheltered and shat off from ly is. average young Englishman nursery cries and nursery fun. with a profound horror of at- MALL flats have helped that
sideration, too, and every wo- tracting attention and a full shedding. So, much more. AGE needs to be taken into con- over unorthodoxy, comes home boast has the spirit of companion-man whose age and hipline are over
and
that 40 would be well advised to remem- co-operation
those ing gally of the games they've all ship
successful modern ber Mr. Punch's advice to invented; the fun they've had feed- animates
contemplating matrimony-don't! marriages. ing the ducks.
course the petite type with a young Bul
greater
unlined face can go on wearing It just never crosses his mind that
shorts until she is older than her. a pram than these for the different kinds of with the idea of a man
careworn sister with wrinkled would have set his mother and her fathers current nowadays.
The modern small, planned family relations tittering away
most
of the trick, and face, but even so, once over 10 be
careful, female
father has done together. That his loudly would sooner have turned cart. Interest in child psychology has com-
Many women will maintain that; wheels across the boardroom floor pleted the job.
From the very start the baby of they wear shorts for their own com- than have been seen taking the to-day is, more than ever before, an fori and convenience und family out; would rather have been individual being conditioned to life, care how they look, but they are suspected of fraud in the City than a personality with interests and inembers of the ostrich class men- vinced in their own minds that they of minding the baby,
The fun father had playing with needs and rights and a place in the tioned above who are quite
world just as definite as the adult's. the children's trains
look fairly well, for really we all was another
THEREFORE. when Daddy care quite a lot how we look.
If ever these good women could heavy jest when we were young.
pushes the pram he's not a
some of the cruel comments BUT now Daddy is the first to
admit that he really bought grown-up man ignominiously passed behind their bacits they off home and that steam engine for his own wheeling out an infant; who would surely rush amusement as much as young symbolises his servitude to napkins pack up their shorts straight away Jonathan's. That he's dying to fix and nights of pacing the nursery for distribution to the poor. up the new signal-box and see if it floor. He's a person going out with
unother person.
branch line to the nursery door.
hear
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Go not
con-
really sends the train down the The smail, engaging son or daugh-THE above remaries have been Fathers have changed in the past ter omong the pillows and rugs is written mainly for the guidance 20 years for more than mothers be a companion and friend. These of my own
have.
a business.
an individual who is soon going to
men.
Sex, bui in closing It that many The hand that rocks the cradle Present expeditions are only the should be pointed out
are equally applicable to start of other thrilling ones to catch of thein may nowadays spend quite a lot of tiddlers or to bring down conkers.
Actually the prizes for the very the day tapping a typewriter or In a few years they'll be going.
examplea of those-who- selling hats or holding the helm of the pair of them, to cricket matches worst
together; to eat strawberry ices should-never-wear-sliorts must BUT that revolution isn't half down town. There's no end to the to the gentlemen with large pro- in prido as astonishing as the far un that is going to follow from this truding paunches. One can only as
week-end partnership of Daddy and sume that they take real
the size of their waistlines, or they less limelit one represented by the pram.
would never have the nerve to ac- centuate them by appearing in shorts, as that type of figure nearly with ridiculously In- always goes adequate little legs.
R. W.
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