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COATS are LONGER WAISTS
are
HIGHER
WEN shirt wearing formal clothes
Min the dayume witen they can:
but there is at least one occasion in his life when the average young muun is anxious that such cluthes should be correct in every detall; mud that is at his wedding.
It
would be a poor compliment lo the bride in her lovely gown, to say nothing of her picturesque retinue of bridesmaids, If her bridegroom were not dressed in appropriate manner to fit in with the picture.
Sucht were the sentiments ex- pressed in a letter from a realer who has found my articles helpful, He is hoping to fend his bride to the altar this spring.
Correct Outfit
My correspondent included in his
Jelter Some up-to-state notes abuut tise outfit of a well-dressed bridegroom. given to him by his tailor.
Qur bridegroom must Weir il black morning coat, of course with atriped trousers in greys, or black and white (the tones of the grey will get lighter as spring advances); pale grey or buff walsteout; winged coller and light tie of the broad Ascot type, or a turn-down collar with long points, and an ordinary scarf tie of neat design; black sill: socks and black Oxford shoes; bluck silk topper.
The morning coal should he single breasted with double breasted lapels and a single button fastening.
1939 Fashion Points
AILS OF morning coats are getting
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longer and waists higher and
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:
What the Tailor
ALLAN
well-deaned, so our bridegroom must women who wish their dressmakers
be careful to have his morning coat could do the same for them!
up-to-date cut.
of
"If a man hasn't a wuist, tecine
got to make him
#1236"," sald the
Eminent Authority, endorsing the dictum of my bridegroom-to-be's tallor.
Maybe there are some not-so-slim
SHORT CUTS
of
To prevent scratching Linoleum or floor, cut pads from An old feit hat and glue these to the bottoms of chair and table legs.
Broad Shoulders
calyx of a carnation.
The buttons
on the coat should be bone ones.
The cost, as I have said before, should be black, though some bride- grooms have chosen a dark Oxford HOULDERS of morning coats are grey.
slightly broader, and the button- Waistcoat should be double hole in the left lapel of the coat breasted, but should be large enough to take the is permissible.
a single breasted one
Sago And Rice Jelly Lemons And
WASH1⁄2oz rice, 1⁄2 oz large sago.
andoz pearl barley, and put
Vinegar
pan A FEW drops of vinegar
all intubasin with suffelent water just to cuver. Leave to soak over- night. Then put them into a
Or uf with pint milk and 4 pint wälern which they are boiled will whiten lemon Julee added to the water
Wash oz semolina and add fold potatoes, and a few drops of to the pan with the other ingredients. lemon juice in the water in which rice is bolled will separate as well
Bring to the boil and simmer untas whiten the grains. A teaspoonful When piring- garments outdoors in windy weather use two coat hangers
reduced to half of the quantity of lemon juice in the water will dnstead of one,, reversing them sostirring occasionally to prevent stlek-prevent balled meat from being
that the hooks form a circle, and ing.
lough. they won't blow off the line,
Lemon Julee may be sub- atituted for vinegar in French dressing.
Add 2 oz sugar and the juice of Lemon juice may be used as a sub- stitute for vinegar when making mint
into
half a lemon, and then strain all sauce. Sprinkled over sliced fruit or through muslin and pour wetted mould. Serve with crean.
B. M.
UFS
The sunbonnet line makes a hat for cocktails or dinner. It is of black felt with Chantilly lace. The clips are shaded pink enamel with gold metal leaves.
over fruit in salad, lemon Julee will prevent fruit from turning dark.
The juice, of a lemon taken with-i out sugar before breakfast will often! cure a billous headache.
Lemon Juice and glycerine mixed together are excellent for removing stains from the hands. A piece of femon peel put Into the basin when |washing up will soften the water, whiten the hands, and remove ati trace of smell of fish and onions.
If new shoes will not polish, rub over with half a lemon and leave until thoroughly dry. Repeat necessary.
it
For linen scorched in ironing, rub the part with lemon juice and lay where bright sunshine will fall directly on it. The mark will dis- appear, leaving the scorched part as white as before.
Cut lemon and sali eleans copper. More juice can be extracted from n lemon by warming it before using.
A little vinegar added to the water wlien washing out cupboards not only keeps them sweet and clean, it also keeps moths at bay. Rusty curtain rings or hooks soaked in hot vinegar before being polished in the usual way will look like new.
Chamols leather dipped in vinegar and water will remove grease and grime from fumiture. Polish after- wards with usual furniture cream. Fur is easily removed from the in- side of decanters by rinsing them with warm vinegar.
When washing coloured garments, a little vinegar added to the water, will make the colours look like new. Vinegar and water will also clean a slimy sponge. Soak over-night,
H. E.
Mink Coat In Church Collection
April 4, 1939.
has to say about WELL-DRESSED
BRIDEGROOMS SHUI HING
wide, with
pleats at the waist. No turn-ups at the hems.
And no upats! Gloves should
be of chamois type.
the light
Pay your bride the compliment of acting
The same kinit ***
of outfit
15,
upon this article
Others have the Napoleonic, the Empire and the Directoire touch.
Directoire
So may not be out ol
place here to point cut that these
course, correct for the best man, the higher waists and longer tails of men's ushers, and, indeed, for all the male morning conta show a Directoire guests at a wedding.
one
It is right, too, for occasions like Ascot, when a light topper can be worn instead of a durk preferred,
Also (for Ascot), the entire suit may be made in a pole.1one of grey. Looking Back
trend.
Dues this mean that tallors are gradually aiming at getting a greater variety of design in men's formal clothes?
Let us acknowledge thint the well- cui 1030 formal clothes for masculine wear are excellent in every way. stressing it, give the Impression of They emphasse forinality without height, and nehleve t waistline where one does not actually exist,
are fond of tracing WE Women
back our fashions to different period Influences. This spring our clothes show several influences, the predominating ones being those of the Victorian and Empire periods. man wish?
What more could a well-dressed
An interesting story in contr asis is told in this picture of Edlik Kingdon Gould with her sister, Mrs. Charles Thompson. The hoop Ekirt not as generally wor i AN
Unc the straighter
but is nevertheless a favourite with the younger dinclnr set. Miss Gould's dress is white while her sister's gown with is intricate shoulder strap arrangement is in several shades of fuelsĒM.
What The Films Have
Done For Women
By TIM WHELAN. THE WELL KNOWN FILM DIRECTOR
and
TT is estimated that every week emulate' to the best of their ability. 250,000,000 people visit cinemas We have but to look round, even throughout the world, and women in quarter where drubness form the greater part of the audience. ugliness were once predominant in It is not surprising, therefore, that such things as dress, to find girls In moiting Alm, producers try to taking a pride in their appearance get a good angle of feminine appeal, and aiming at a new and much higher but, though women are in this respect standard.
Outdoor games and dancing have powerful, they in their turn come under the spell of finis.
been responsible for great improve- Women are, perhaps, more inclined ments in deportment-women walk to self-dramatising than men. Though infinitely better than they used to. the habit of mentally giving them but the film can also claim a share selves heroic or sentimental roles to of credit.
play may not be new amongst
gst The graceful movements of an women, the fim has stirred their accomplished actress cannot fall to Imaginations, as noliterature has charm, and even if the young woman ever done, and to-day many women who is watching her on the sercen model themselves and their lives is not actually making notes In her upon their favourite film stars. mind for her own guidance, she is Sometimes this can be carried to subconsciously taking in a lesson.
Undoubtedly
edly it in the screen that extremes, but apart from exceptional cases, the influence of the screen has has dealt one of the severest blows been to the good, for into thouɛbnds at Mrs. Grundy. It has widened the of homes the screen has introduced outlook and increased the knowledge higher standards of beauty, and in of whole nations, but it has some cases greater self-respect. swept away hide-bound, crabbed, and Influence on Dress
prudish ideas, stripping away false modesty," and tenching true- võlues. Through the medium of the screen, A Widening Outlook women have learned that it is possible to be attractive at all ages,
Those who possessed narrow minds and have been stirred Trom once elly sa result of their own widely-held idea that marringe ended environment, have had their eyes the necessity for, and the desirability ouened to what the rest of the world of, further effort.
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A pace has been set by the expert resulting from narrow-mindedness dressing and the grooming of the and "ingrained superstition" are sinrs. Though only a few women gradually being swept away through A MINK coat, said to have cost can possibly hope to achieve that the cleansing influence of the cinema,
the same time, through the Alm £100, has been given tu S1. Mat- high standard-since the studios can
producera direct appeal to While some may claim thai the feminine majority in their audiences, theur's Church, Worthing, as part of place at the disposal of players ex- example set by the stars causes woman is being taught her value in the offertory.
pert beauty artists, make-up men, copying to the point of absurdity. the world. The curate-in-charge, the Rey.hair-dressers, and dress designer others are equally positive that one Rowland Smith, advertised it for sale the efforts which women feel they of the good things tought by the at C100.
Through the commercial necessity | must make to be like other women "It I disclosed the name of the prevent them falling into this slough movies is the virtue of being natural. of mainly presenting women in a donor, he anld, "the cost probably of drabness and carelessness which once considered an essential part of given women a new pride, and though Airs and affectations which were favourable light, the producers have would not sell. Some women don't was onco one of the marks of
lke buying other people's clothes If approaching middle-age.
a woman's conduct, have given pince this may not be so noticeable In they know to whom they belong." The screen keeps women "gingered "Be yourself."
to the idea expressed in the words such countries As Britain and The gift was made in response ta up" to the idea of always looking
America, in more backward parts of The cinema An appeal for unwanted gold and their best, and provides those who reticences and by sweeping
hos broken down the world the dawn of this new jewellery; In, aid of Sussox church cannot go out into the world of false ideas has made the world a
away pride is driving into the shadows for | builders,
beautiful women, with examples to more, honest place for women.
ever the degraded conditions in At which women lived,
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