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Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 31, 1939.
Crinolines I want a hat
Webster defines the word
Crinoline thus: 1. [F. Ir. crin, hair. L., crints] 1, "A kind of silf cloth. 2. A woman's
skirt of any stiff material; atco, a boop skirt.
THE example the Queen has set In wearing a crinoline makes women think,"
During the last few months we have olien toyed with the Idea of
the
crinoline,
liked to sco it hung on mannequina,
but were not
a uk t e
cert a in whether we dared to Intro- duce
Our
Relves.
it
Who begon wearin ft the cri-
noline, 1810-1938 anyway? Mme Pompadour in the 18 century, Queen Victoria revived the fashion in England in 1840.
The style survived for ninny years. Women went shopping in crinolines, clhnbod into hansoms In them.
of indepen- First declaration dence apparently came from the Bree Brife. Elen, Edith, and Annie Beeman Hanhes in
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when they discarded their hoops walked Inck-
and
down ney-road.
"This," they in reported
1917, "was
most during thing to
Crinolines "out" and
went
then.
my times since they've threatened to come back.
In 1911 M. Polret, a Paris dress designer, 1914
created in ven- sation by reintroducing them in hls winter collection. They came as a direct contrast to the notori- aus harem-skirts"
which had a rather deeting vogue. But M. Poiret couldn't quite Ret the Oriental blas out of his mind; his crinoline was of an Oriental style.
In 1914 they said, "The urinaline
is not only threatened, it has
arrived," and
the high light
was a model
trade of taffe-
Las
with
a
skirt "describ-
ink
a series of
corded
puffed circles with a line between each puff."
No
undue exaggeration
of width, of
course, und don't know how they had temerity the
to call it a crinoline, be- cause hoops
absent.
the
were
1921
In 1921 they "Crino- Enca have
women can wear come at last them with the full balloon effect beloved of their grandmothers, having due regard to the con- tingeneles of modem life."
In 1923 it was crinolines again; in 1925 demand for bustles and, supposedly, an end to masculine fashions.
It was just But It wasn't so. a reaction, in the same way us our return to crinolines now is n reaction. Having become eman- clputed, presumably we want the best of two bargains, and hope to be considered ultra-feminine too. As a concession to the narrow doorways ut modern flats and cars the NEW crinoline hoops are pilable,
GRACE HERBERT.
with a
FELT ie a small girl with a shy finger in her mouth when I told the people here that I wanted a hat with a feather.
Between you and me thought they would laugh at me and say, "Go on, don't be silly."
But they didn't. They pursed up their lips, looked me over and said, "Well, why don't you have a hat with a feather in it?" and then I told them why.
The reason why is a and story, I don't want to bore you, but you ought to hear this story because loto of women I know are alt sigh- Ing for hats with feathers in them.
They could buy such #hut, t course! So could 1 i raw one the other day.
The miner was breaking her heart because she had to mark it down almost to half-price. She tried to sell it to me, and I tried it on and could have erted because when I came out of the shop the hat was still sitting on the stand walting for a woman of leisure to come along and buy it.
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· UT I didn't buy the hat because what's the use of having a lovely hat if you know it will never be worn, but Junt languish in the bag in a ward- robe, a constant source of discon- tent to the owner.
Mch laugh at the hats with fea- thers in them that some women are wearing. A friend looked shocked when I mentioned such a thing.
"Have a cup of coffee and forget it," he urged me, looking quite up- sol. "Don't ever buy that kind of hat because if you do something is lable to happen to it.
"The other day I walked down the
HELPFUL HINTS
MOTHER
be of pearl should cleaned by washing with pow- dered whiting and cold water. Warm water and soap should never be used as it destroys the brilliant surface of the shell.
Shabby gaiters or spats can be eleaned very successfully by being rubbed with a rag dipped into tur pentine. Keep changing the rap as it ges soiled,
Budly discoloured pewter should be washed in hot, soapy water then dried. While it is still warm spread a paste of soft soap to which a tile pumice stone powder has been added over the article. Leave for an hour, then wash off, afterwards polishing up in the usual way.
A new roasting tin should be well rubbed over with lard then put into wurm oven for a while; atter washing It will be ready for use and will not rust conily,
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Old steel knives that have got badly rusted should have the blades well rubbed with a raw onion, and the Juice left on for a while. Later wash, then polls up with knife powder applied on a raw polato.
When balling rice, In order to get if white and flaky put one teaspoonful of lemon juice to die boiling water,
D. F.
a feather
by MARY FERGUSON
street behlid auch n hat. It had n long, thin fenther about three foot long trailing down the back and I had a wicked thought.
I thought to myself that if some crazy 1001 started slashing hats with such feathers in them I would be able to understand why he did it. I have never wanted to slash a hat in my life, but I would have enjoyed wrecking that one."
A married man who was stand- ing besite us chipped in.
"I
That's 100 bad." he said. was out with my wife the other day and she said to me. 'Just look at that, dear. almost every hat has a fenther in it. It seems to me I'm nowhere, because I haven't got one in my hat."
His wife was quite upset about it. So let's get down to caces.
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THY can't I have a hat with a feather In It, see- ing that I want one and they are being sold at a price I ean niford to pay? It's simple.
I can't have the hat I want be- cause I couldn't wear it to work. I'm talking for thousands of other Women 10W. We are all feeling annoyed because for the first time in twenty years the fashion dicta- tors have put us in our places.
For twenty years you couldn't
tell a dish-washer from a Duchess. They wore the same style of hat, the same length of skirt, the same cut of coat, but somebody has gong and changed all that. Take a walk along a fashionable street in Glasgow, Manchester, Birming- ham. Belfast, Dublin, or Cardiff and you will ace for yourself that the fashions have changed and they've made us class-conscious.
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TOW you can tell the girl who is rushing to the omee, the girl who works In a shop, the one who waits in n ten-room, the reporter and the dressinaker.
We all wear hats that sit tight on the head and keep our hair in place.
In the fashionable parts of the Lown you will see women with tricky tle hats the size of a powder puff tied on their upswept hair with a whiff of fine velling or decorated on top with a jaunty fenther.
They don't have to worry about getting knocked about in the bus and Tube scramble.
They don't have to worry about a shine on their nona-nose shine looks comic under one of the fancy new ints-and they don't have ta worry about the state of their colf- fure.
But girls rushing to work do have to worry, so they can't wear hats the new-but-oh-so-pretty that make a woman look coy and pretty in the Edwardian manner.
✦ IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
By Minnie Pallister
OMEONE sold once that we only pass this way once, so we should not miss an opportunity of doing good. Isn't it equally true that we should make the most of every opportunity for happiness. every chance to gain useful experience. for how do we know whether any of them will come again?
are on- Only provident people tirely unheedful of the future, but how olten we lose the flavour of present happiness because we are thinking too much of what may come another day, We are going to do things "when we come next time," but there may not be a next tine.
We meet someone interesting, per-- naps from a foreign country, but we are thinking of something which hap- pened in the kitchen this morning, or of something we are going to do to. morrow morning.
nover having any luck, could see piled up before us the chances we had, the opportunities we might have seized, we should be uppulled.
As it is we have often had to say: If I'd known that I should never go again, I would have made more of my time when I was there."
We sometimes smlie at the old- look fashioned women who used to upon their minutes as golden and
But be grudge wasting one of them cause they ad fewer Journeya, fever chances of social fe, fewer books, they drew from what they had every bit of flavour.
Time is Golden
School, college, youth, friendship.. holidays, leisure, pass. and a turn of fortune's wheel may rob us of any or all of them; some of them must in the nature of things flash past us
It is well, then, to gather rosebuda wile they are there, for at least in the future we shall have the memory of their sweetness.
The bleakness of winter has an
So we don't pay very much atten- tion and we shall probably never have the chance of meeting that person and getting that bit of knowledge again.
Well mught the post say that the added pang if we remember only that Baddest words in the language are: "It when the red roses binomed for us might have been"! If some of us who we
too preoccupied or too grumble about having had no chance, careless to pluck then.
were
Mrs. Robert I. Ste- vens. centre, appears at the Metropolitan Opera premiere in a gorgeous ermine wrap over her
white crepe gown.
Perhaps she is right-?-
One of our news editors came to me the other day and asked me to write a story, saying that the Ed- wardian style of hair was going out of fashion, and, because of that, hundreds of hats to suit the style were being sold at bargain prices.
He had the wrong end of the story. The right story is the one I have just told you,
I've seen girls walking arm-in- arm on a Saturday afternoon sigh- Ing wistfully about the silly hats I'm talking about and wishing they were more suliable for wearing to work.
Nobody is to blame, of course.
"YES, it was nice of the fashion experts to think up a really delicate and dainty style for once. But it's hard huck that thousands of girls can't take advantage of the fact.
Ten years ago i went to a garden party in the North of England. A cncbbish woman was giving the party and a certain countess was expected.
The countess was a newlywed. She had come North with her bridegroom and this was to be her first meeting with the local folks, When her picture appeared in the paper I worked on they showed me the page and said, Who is she like?"
She's like me." I said.
Well, I turned up at this garden party in my working clothes to get a report of who was there, and so on, and the hostess, all smiles and pleasant greetings, rushed for- ward with outstretched hand to meet me.
She mistook me for the countess. You
That Ree what I mean? couldn't happen now.
When the countess did turn ap at the party her hat was some- thing like mine. and her summer frock looked much the same, only I had imitation pearls round my throat and hers were real. Don't think we all want to look like countesses. That's not the idea at ali. But we do want to be allowed to stay in fashion with the others. I never thought it would happen here I never thought that fashion could give the women who support. It such unfair treatment.
STILL want a hat with a feather in it even if Dougins Walters doen threaten it with a knife-but I just can't see how to get round the problem of wearing it on weekdays, Maybe we shall be forced to go back to dressing-up for Sundays. Do you remember the old days when we all had Sunday best? It won't be nice to play at being a fashionable lady-only on Sundays -but that la one way out.
Of course, we girls could put our heads together and kill the fashion, but that wouldn't be play- ing the game.
What I object to is that come- where hidden in this fashion busi- ness jurka a symptom of the times -what it is I leave you to work out. I think Mr. Hitler and his gentle- man friend, Mr. Mussolini," might know what I mean.
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