THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 19883
Half
way
back
to crinolines!
SUMMARY OF PARIS
SPRING FASHION
SHOWS BY ROBB · & LUCY MILNER ENDS WITH EVENING
FROCKS
SPREADING, billowy, skirts that
take us half way back to the crinoline... rainbow colours... sugarstick stripes-those are the impressions that stay after seeing the hundreds of new evening frocks in the Paris shows this year.
There's a new line in these wide skirts; they rise panelled, pleated. sometimes even with miniature paniers, from simple, fitted bodices.
Trimmnig is carried below the hipline. Flowers, for instance, trail from waist to knee; a bunch of lilies of the valley catches up the
skirt of a white satla
dress; hc:na are edged
with
lace,
Urended with rib- bons or ruched with taffeta.
LITTERING metal
materials like lame have been dropped; Instead designers are using soft, feminine, transparent
and
and
pulling
stuffs.
them
over underskirts of stiff taffeta. The effect when you walk is swaying and graceful; shoes don't show, and are often heelless sandals.
Newest material is cotton course
net, samelimes candy- striped, worn over taffeta slips.
If you want some- thing more sophisti- cated than these ro- mantic frocks, you have another choice
in the low-waisted,
tunic top silhou-
ettes. Smooth and fitting as a stock- ing down to the hips, from there they suddenly burst out "Into a full frill of contrasting colour material.
and
Dinner dresses of jersey or crepe, with long sleeves or little boleros. are still in every show, and there's
new version of the hostess gown made in chiffon, with short trans- parent puff sleeves and high round neck. (Robb has drawn one for you here).
い
OVER
VER your frock you can wear a cont or a cape- both are equally popular. They are made in two distinct types; elther heavy and formal, in taffeta, or Blmsy and transparent, In chiTon and Ince.
and
Evening hats
headdresses, which never gained much ground over here, have nearly all gone, but some designers show chiffon scarves like Indian suris (most becoming) and cowl collars which make hoods,
Short, pull-on satin gloves looked so elegant that you'll probably be seeing a lot of them.
Summing up the trends:
NECKLINES are low and plain on
are more than ever. Flower shades, too, pink, mauve, hyacinth blue, all it in with the trend towards roman- tic and feminine fashions. Black and dark blue, lightened, by trans- parent necks and sleeves, still in for dinner dresses.
TRIMMINGS: Big trailing
sprays
of flowers, like carnations, sweet peas, lilies of the valley; bands of lace and stitching or bows of ribbon;. pleating and panelling-ull_carried" well down on the skirt. Fantasles like one white satin frock which had rows of tiny pockets round the skirt, with tle birds' hands peeping out of them.
Lucy Milner
New version of the dinner dress. black organza over a tight uniterdress of black
satin.
buttoned
The organza.
full evening fracks; no more hulter front, had
necks, but a lot of shoulder straps und square bodices. Dinner dresses have simple round collars and short puffed transparent sleeves.
WAISTS move up and down: they are high on the full-skirted, billowy
down the
a high round collar and short
puff sleeves. Two bands of - stitched
frocios, very low on the tunic dresses. pleats ran across it,
LENGTH: To the ground all round
In almost every case: trains Are exceptions.
MATERIALS: Flimsy and trans- Jace, net, parent-chiffon, tulle, organza; or silfr and rustling- taffeto, grosgrain, corded salin.
COLOURS: Spring always brings out white frocks, and this year there
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at
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one as a yoke, the
other round the hips,
and from below the hips it flared out in a full open skirt.
Jimmy's
Carte
Hankow Rd., Kowloon,
Pictures by Robb
-wbo televised spring fashions in the "Picture Page" 'programme from the Alexandra Palace recently. Lookers-in-mw him make quick charcoal sketches Blu- trating the fashion trends he saw in Paris. To emphasise the new lincs nnid details ke chose some of the more extravagant
frocks; the ones you will be wear- the ing yourselves will follow same ideas, but probably in a modliled form.
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It's Safer
to be born a Female
THE human male is weaker
than the human female, more prone on account of his re |lative constitutional weakness to developmental anomalies, to con- gental debility, and to death from disease of all kinds.
This is the view suggested by Pro- fessor A. E. Crew in his presidential address to the Zoology section of the British Association for the Advance- ment of Science,
"The true recipe for longevity is 10 be born a girl," said Dr. Crew. "to be born is hmore dangerous adventure for the male."
As far as they go. Dr. Crew went on, the figures about domestic animals suggest that the males shore with a man a relative frailty and endure a selective elimination. Yet, in birds the female is the more frugile. Among insects, on the other hand, the average male does not live as long as the female.
Dr. Crew urged that the move- ments of the sex ratlo can be used as a measure. A high ratio of male births goes with a high standard of ilving, and also with a declining
Colour, line, material-population.
all make this one of the Smelling Colours most romantic and grace-putting red ink where black should
A colour-bilnd teacher was always
be, and vice-versa, till he found that
ful evening frocks design-he could distinguish them by smell.
ed for spring.
This was one of the dodges of the colour-blind mentioned by Dr. Mary Collins in her presidential address to the Psychology section.
Only eighty cases of complete
Colour was pale pink colour-blindness have been described
a clear trite pink without
any yellow or blue tones
to
to date. The common
form of colour-blindness is in the red-green. The blue-yellow blindness, in which the ability to see blue and yellow is affected, is much rarer.
in it. Line ran from a Examining 360 candidates
for
acceptance as apprentice printers, Dr. pleated Collins found that 2.5 per cent, were
narrow
colour-blind to red and green.
Timing The Lark
With a ship-watch Mr. Rollin, a North of England observer, timed 500
skylards. The average length of the song was 2.22 minutes.
He found
that the lurks which sang longest
kepi together in the same field. at professor Ritchie in his presidential This experiment was mentioned by
simple, softly bodice into a waist, and out into a wide, billowing skirt. Material was chiffon, pleated all round but more thickly the sides than front and back, standing out over an underskirt of stiff taffeta, Bands of stitching divided the dress into tiers, and a
spray of pink, blue and mauve sweet peas trailed across the right knee.
address to the delegates from corres-
ponding societies. Professor Ritchie told how he was basking in his gar- den with three newspapers, which he read at intervals. He found that as
he read the "Scotsman" a cloud of winter midges hovered over it at n
height of four feet.
When he took up the old green "Westminster Guzeite" the cloud de- scended very markedly. He then. tested the midges with "Country
Lite" and they went higher even
than for the "Scotsman,”
"Experiments showed that the in- sects reacted..not to the colour... or quality of the paper, but to the Inten- sity of reflected light.
New ways to dress
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can be painted to tone with
the curtains or stained.
DRAPED
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effecta
viri popular, and this style Is suitable for a
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soon A very dainty window with curtalus of flowered not and a pleat- ed net pel- mel.
pelmet
By Gloria
HIGH win-
dow with a
of thick
printed material
Jo
brocade, and plain velvet cur- laths.
MARTI
SA narrow
strip of wood -biding the runnerD covered in the same material
the curtains.
Which will wore hare
OR have a deep
wooden pel- met with a sten- cilled design bordering it. With long, plain curtains this very effective.
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