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Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 20,
1939.
ACCENT ON W
Wear a Wide
Belt & be Fashionable
Latest
KOLYNOS
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from
Paris
IS ECONOMICAL
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Black silk jersey. blouse patterned with pink rosebuds, full skirt and wide- green gather belt encrusted with stones. to match-- Barbara Stanwyck's choice for informal evenings.
PARIS has given waists the top line in the Fashion story this season. Practically every frock is belted to emphasize this vogue. The new wide belts especially give effect to the present feminine and girlish look of the top of dresses, and enhance the grace of a slender waist, without the restrictions of tight lacing.
So Important has this accessory not become that a fashion- able belt bar has opened London where the bells are so varied that you are sure of finding one to give the right touch of originality to your dress,
Belts merge into the style, they are not merely a violent con- trast this season. The white tulle dress from Chanel, sketched Jere, with its navy spots of varying size, has an air of pristine freshness, Beneath the tile jacket the white tulle blouse is belted with a soft silk belt.
In the second model of printed silk the belt follows the but- toned line of the bodice, while black velvet encircles the waist of the frilled skirted dress and ties in a bow at the back.
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LIKED a deep corselet belt of soft suede that was laced at the front. Another in Amèrican patent leather cloth had a stiff buckram front six inches deep which narrowed off to the side and had a concealed zipp fastening.
Tiny leaves in different coloured suede of soft tonings faced another style, while other designs, quite narrow, are to be had in their hundreds so that every frock can be complemented by the right belt.
For gay multi-coloured dresses choose the embroidered ones, or those trimmed with five or six narrow lines of American cloth in different colours stitched on to a net- background. For self- coloured playtime frocks the accompanying belt is usually of plaited string or webbing.
And now a word on the style that will sult you. The small or average figure can wear belts of bootlace thickness or as wide as you pleasel
Maybe, however, you are on the plump side, then if you have a flared skirt and slightly padded shoulders and want to convey the impression of a narrow waist, start your belt from either side, but never wear an all-round belt,
Useful To Know
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If you have a large waist this fa- shion of colour merging will sult you, because you don't want to accent your waist,
Perhaps, however, the luffy baby type is lucklest, as she can wear as hows on her belt as she wishes! her important accessory note the fashion for touches of white on dark dresses.
WHEN a rubber hot water bottle is
Another punctured it is usually thrown away, but it can be converted into an excellent kneeling pad by filing it with sawdust or bron. The hole should, of course, be patched with the help of a cycle repale outfit if
The clearness of white is nice Against the skin and is so young look- Outline your bolero with a spot
it la large enough to allow the saw-embroidered muslin edging or, for
escape.
dust, to
Potatoes in the
that ten
Improv Cookin
tend to turn black can be considerably colour by adding a tea spoon of vinegar to the water when they Bre about half-cooked.
Articles of clothing that have be- come stained with lodine should be washed with carbolle soap. Nothing else is quite so effective in removing 'this particular stain.
The clrcular swing "aktet - is -featured in a printed cotton -bathing&ault. Note the rathered - grplikt" section, and the-maiching
terry-lined smock coat,
everyday wear, choose broderie an- glaise.
their
Business girls look upon everyday frocks rather as bread and butter dresses, but think how smart they will be with collar and cuffs of pique or lawn,
MARY GRACE
CHANEL
Bolero dress of
white tullo spotted with blue.
The wide silk belt, -
also blue, enhan-
ces a slim waist.
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MARCEL ROCHAS
Pleats all the way on this attractive frack in wine, white and green silk. The full kilted skirt is confined at waist by a button-up belt on corselet lines. A velvet sash is just⚫ right on a flowered silk dress with wide flounced hem,
New Gadgets for The Home Colour Blending In *****
Now that summer is here house- Aluminium sieves and colandórs
of us falling to
Make-Up
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work and cooking are for most are in vogue. They are light and WHEN colour became all-important
A slice of bread placed at the minimum. It is a easily manageable. They don't chip, in the fashion world, it was sound plan, therefore, to seize the and they are remarkably easy to keep inevitable that it should also appear cut end of cake, and held in place prezent chance of doing some general clean. They match up attractively, in beauty preparations.
by means of toothpicks, will keep Thus, the
overhauling of hong and needless and pans, frying pans, egg-poachers
too, with modern aluminium pots leading salons now produce shades the cake fresh. A quite appalling amount of time and patience is chip baskets, double-bollers, and the of powder, lipstick, and rouge to tone wasted in most houses by household like.
with all the varied ranges of dress tools which have out-lived their day
colours.
have
thouse the "once-out.
everyday needs 68 butter-
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tono
Use adhesive plaster for hold. ing protruding · corset steels in * place. It is also: excellent for and mending hot-water bags raincoats,
and linger on merely because they Are you properly provided with
become a habit.
Give such your
MAYIRévery shade and now, and see coolers, jelly-moulds, dredgers, a imaginably-is-wearable and catered If you are "making do" with the grater, a scoop, an Ogg slicer, for, so that no woman need be afraid wrong utensil, struggling with blunt measuring spoons, and a scoop, an of wearing the latest colours for fear kitchen scissors or knives, being egg slicer, measuring spoons, and a that they will not become her or that a piece of cotton wool, to which is irritated daily by u too-small slove set of cake and sandwich tins? All she will be unable to match them added cleansing cream. This forms or badly-niting saucepan lids.
of these are now seen in aluminium. in her make-up.
a kind of soap, and should be applied | Serving spoons, Indles, and knives a light-weight aluminium sandwich You will find a ready use, too, for Inre among the
The basis for a well-groomed face, in the same way as a face fannel, (examples. There i a large
box and a set of cake and biscuit however is to have a clean founda- so that the face feels as though it range of serving spoons, Indles, and boxes of the same metal to keep for The three main principles for is being washed. Rinse off with some
more
to astringent; this helps this must always remain cleansing, knives, with cream and green painted things fresh.
Invigorate the skin' and 'makea It toning, and nourishing.
feel fresh and cool..
most
common
handles, including a good assortment Breakfast Equipment of perforated "slices," flexible palette knives, and strainers of all sizes. It
jside of the cooker.
Store Jara
After such a thorough basic beauty
A well-icnown beauty specialist Even in the most energetic fomilica Usis these as the three foundations is a good idea to collect them one breakfast in bed may be conceded, is of beauty treatment. The skin should treatment, the face is ready for the by one and hang a set of them at the an occasional luxury, dr illness may be cleansed; toned, and nourished application of foundation cream or Introduce a regime of thedis on trays, every morning, before making up, lotion, powder, rouge, and lipstick of And It is wise, therefore, to include in the and every night before going to bed the most fashionable, shades. household equipment a folding bed. It takes only about five minutes and with such a clear skin beneath them, Another deficiency in the home is table from which the heartiest or leaves the skin feeling wonderfully these tones will attain a soft glow, blending easily with whatever shade that of really good store jars. Most most delicate Invalid can dine in refreshed.
is being worn. households would benefit by the gift comfort,
The routine consists of sprinkling
At night, apply the skin food to are useful mode of glass, which en- with collapsible legs, which enable
These are attractively-cellulosed, few drops of astringent lotion on
feed the skin during sleep, 'and to ables you to see at a glance the state them to be used as ordinary, trays
keep it clear, and empoth. In the, of supplies.
mornings any surplus should
of a set of such good-sized jars. They
be
Square-shaped ones save space, books-rest,
boolt-rest, and another stof Bee Upsets Blossom wil guard against the siin becoming
to
and they are best topped with air wicker and non-collapsible has Ught aluminium 1108 ensure letter and paper racks at each side cleanness and freshness. These cost of it..
less then a shilling each, and will
You
Parade
rld you forever of that musty clutter breakfast-in-bed set of china of the
complete these, can trave
LINDSAY, Cal. of little bags of coreals at the back kind which includes
Mounted riders" for an Orange toast-rack, of tho
store
cupboard,
covered dishes, and pepper and salts Blossom Festival parade simply do Aluminium is responsible, 100, for which pretty and gay in design. not mix. A hornet, attracted by the a handy fruit juice press. This. As a litile extra touch, there is now ormige blossoms stung the horse works by inserting the fruit and a handy electric heater which slips which Delmar Wolfers was mounting depresting a handle the filtered into a bedside plug.It takes only to take part in the parade, causing Julco down out Into the waiting 30 seconds to boll enough water for the horse to kick and sending Walters glass. This prest will save you early morning cups of tonto the hospital with a compound Imany struggles with pulp andi pipa.
KU, D. fracture of the leg,
|coarse,
Beauty Expert
THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.
ERAP ON NG) THERAP ON N02
RAPION:
Because
it lasts twice as long as ordinary toothpastes
KOLYNOS is a scientific, concentrated dentalercam. No water or other bulky ingredient has been added to make the tube larger. Only a half-inch of this
BRIGHTEN your SMILE with KOLYNOS
KOLYNOS
DENTAL CREAM
concentrated dentifrico on adry brush is needed to keep teeth clean and sparkling.
Try Kolynos-it cleans better-contains no grit and is more economical.
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