TRE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1988.
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, plented, 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 satin
dreas; bems
are
edged with lace,
threaded
with rib-
bons or ruched with taffeta,
LITTERING
metal
materials like lame
have been dropped; instend designers are using soft,
Teminine,
transparent stuffs,
and
aver
stif
putting them underskirts of taffeta. The
effect when you walk is swaying and graceful; shoes don't show, and are often heelless sandals.
Newest material is course cotton net, sometimes candy- striped, worn over taffeta alipa.
If you want some- thing more sophisti- cated than these ro- mantic frocks,
you have another choice In the low-walsted, tunic
Lop aliliou
ettes. Smooth and fitting as a stock- ing down to the hips, from there they suddenly burst out into a full friti of contrasting colour and material,
Dinner dresses of jersey or crepe, with long sleeves or little boleros, are still in every show, and there's a 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).
OVER
VER your frock you can wear a coat or a cape...... both are equally popular. They are made in two distinct types; either heavy, and form, in taffeln, or flimsy and transparent, In chiffon and Ince.
Evening huts and headdresses, which never gained, much ground over here, have nearly all gone, but some designers show chiffon scarves like Indian saris (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 an full evening frocks, no more halter necks, but a lot of shoulder straps and square bodices, Dinner dresses have simple round collars and shori puffed transparent sleeves.
WAISTS move up and down: they are high on the full-skirted, billowy
are more than ever. Flower shades,
tic
too, pink, mauve, hyacinth blue, all At in with the trend towards roman- 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 pens, Hiles of the valley; bands of lace and stitching or bows of ribbon; pleating and punelling all carrled well down on the skirt. Fantasies like one white satin frock which had rows of tiny pockets round the skirt, with little birds' heads peeping out of them.
Lucy Milner
New version of the dinner dress . black organza over a tight undertress of black satin.
The organza buttoned down the
front, had a high
"round collar and short
sleeves. Two
of stitched
puff bands
frocks, very low on the tunte dresses. pleats ran across it,
LENGTII: To the ground all round
In almost every case; trains это exceptions,
MATERIALS: Flimsy and trans- parent-chiffon, tulle, lace, net,
ktig organza; or
and rustling- taffeta, grosgrain, corded satin.
COLOURS: Spring always brings
out white frocks, and this year there
$1 TIFFINS
at-
one as a yoke, the
other round the hips,
and from below the hips it flared out in a full open skirt.
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Also A la Carte
China Bldg., Hongkong.
Hankow Rd., Kowloon,
Pictures by Robb
Help Kidneys
--who televised spring fashions In the "Picture Page" programme from the Alexandra Palace
recently. Lookers-in SOW. make quick charcoal sketches illus- trating the fashion trends ho saw in Paris. To
emphasise the new lincs and details ho chose some of the more extravagant trocks; the ones you will be wear- ing yourselves will follow the same ideas, but probably in modified form.
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It's" Safer
to be born a Female
THE human male is weaker
than the human female, more prono on account of his re lative constitutional weakness to developmental anomalies, to cont genial debllity, and to death from dlsense 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- iment of Science.
"The true recipe for longevity is to be born a girl," said Dr. Crew, "to be born is Th more dangerous adventure for the male."
As far as they go. Dr. Crew went on, the Sgures about domestle animals suggest that the males share with a man a relative frailty ond endure a selective elimination. Yet, In birds the female is the more fragile. Among insects, on the other hand, the average mule does not live as long as the female.
Dr. Crew arged that the move- ments of the sex ratio can be used as a measure. A high ratio of male births goes with a high standard of living, and also with declining
Colour, line, material-population. all make this one of the
R
Smelling Colours
A colour-blind teacher was always
most romantic and grace-putting red ink where black should
ful evening frocka design- cd for spring.
Colour was pale pink:
・
be, and vice-versa, till he found that
he could distinguish them by smell.
This was one of the dodges of the colour-blind mentioned by Dr. Mary Collins in presidential address to
ber
the Psychology section.
Only eighty cases of complete colour-blindness have been described to date, The Common form of colour-blindness is in the red-green. blue-yellow blindness, in which
The
the ability to see blue and yellow is
affected, is much rarer.
for
a clear true pink without any yellow or blue tones in it. Line ran from a simple, softly pleated bodice. into (L narrow waist, and out into a wide, billowing skirt. Material skylards. The average length of the
Examining 380 candidates acceptance as apprentice printers, Dr. Collins found that 7.5 per cent, were colour-blind to red and green.
at
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.
Timing The Lark
With a ship-watch Mr. Rollin, u North of England observer, timed 500
song was 2.22 minutes. He found
that the larks which sang longest kept together in the same field.
This experiment was mentioned by Professor Ritchie in his presidential
address to the delegates from corres-
ponding societies. Professor Richle told how he was basking in his gar-
read at intervals. He found that as
den with three newspapers, which he
Д
be read the "Scotsman" cloud of winter midges hovered over It at a
height of four fect.
When he took up the old green "Westminster Gazette" the cloud de- scended very
He then tested
markedly. the midges with "Country Life" 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.
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[AVE a wooden pelmet which
HAVE
can be painted in tone with
the curtains or stained.
DRAPED
effects аго very popular, and this style is rullable for a Regency
room.
I
of
HAVE веси в very dainty window with curtains flowered net and a pleat- ed net pel- mel.
By Gloria
A HIGH
win- dow with a pelmet of thick printed material Or brocade, and plain velvet cur- tains.
MARTI
A narrow strip of wood hiding the runner-
covered in the BCL223 material 器 the curtains.
Which will
you
Have-
OR have a deep
design
wooden pel- met with a sten- cilled bordering it. With long. plain curtains this is very effective.
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--
From Friday, April 15th to Monday, April 18th
QUEEN'S
Friday, 15th & Saturday 10th
Selected Programine
of
"POPEYE VARIETIES"
*
"BETTY BOOP CARTOONS"
ALHAMBRA
Friday, 15th & Saturday 18th Selected Programme
of
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Interchango of Programmes on Sunday 17th