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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 22, 1939.
PARIS SHOW-DOWN
This is one of the more dresy afternoon frocks. The top and Hoeves are in cinnamon coloured fame. The bodice is slightly draped from the shoulders and crosses in front. From under the arma two panels arg set in and run down to the waist. They are of hottie preen marocain. The swathed waist- band-very light-and the full gathered skiri are in dark brown marocain.
Seam trimming is one of the details of faazion, Ilustrated here. by while, celion braid on dark bine inom to emphasize the gores stkich fit and Baro the to frook from Piquet. The laller also designed the poke bonnet of -OBATIO | HAVY straw with ́ ́ grow-
10 Black silk jersey afternoon
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frock, with panels of shir- ring on the shoulders and again low down on the hips. From the hips spring two sets of clus- ter pleats, matching those on the bodies. Another clump of pleats was set in like a tall at the back of the skirt, Waist was swathed with a bandage of jersey. tied
in a knot in front. Note these
new deep tight waists on frocks.
11 Two-coloured suit in black
and caramel brown, (Black and brown are often toins this year.) Jacket was black except for a panel of brown which ran down the front, another down each side, another. inside each sleeve. High roll collar was brown, tipped with black, and the jacket, fust be low two hip pockets, had an edge of beaver fur, Skirt was brown, with two unpressed ftares of ful neas in front. Hat, an of the face scoop, is black with a brown bow.
12 Topcoat in dark smoke-
grey broadcloth, telth a double shawl collar of cloth, and' over it mole: It buttoned with four eliver butions, double- breasted, and at the walet.look a dipping line to the back; at the back it was pleated from hip to swing out with a flourish. Note how low the two fur-edged pockets are set. Tricorne .hat - was trimmed with a touch of ...fur, too..
Do Women Dress To Please Men?
WHAT motive drives normal
WH
woman to dress uttractively? What Designers and Leaders
There are three possible answers:
she has a flair for fashion artistry:
the wishes to go one better than her
De
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of Fashion Think
pression of artistic tendencies.
So she dresses to please herself, but, incidentally, she, plenes thou sands of designers, dressmakers, newspaper photographers ----
and
next-door neighbour; or slin is set but I worn people to have white or millions of men. ting out deliberately to captivate some bright shade at the neck.". male admiration.
Spending time on beauty culture Paul Pulret, fashion expert, thinks and on dress is not, the monopoly of Modern women resent that last that sloppy women who believe they highly civilised women. A dazzling- reason, They will deny it until they can wear badly fiting tweeds simply ly beautiful 16-year-old girl on
under their cosmetică, because they go to business and earn South Sea island for days watched Slime their emancipation women are a living are making men offemin. the start growing less willing to admit that ate.
society women coming they consider the male reaction.
Bahore from a steamer. Those car The motive of fashion 10-day is a mined lips and pale rose, com- The late Lilyan Tashrman, noted quest for artistry and a desire to plexions Al star and
fascinated her. Sho the only woman in please the opposite sox, declares Journoyed miles into the Woods Hollywood ever to be universally Polrol Often these motives are to gather certain berries which Iruve neelalmed the best-dressed actress, subconscious. There is a well-known a red julce. These she rubbed on. was one of the few women to admit type of young girl who before she her lips and cheeks. Expectant-eyed dressing to attract men.
murries spends half her salary en she returned to the docks hoping to "Average men don't understand a clothes and cosmetics. She will capture the admiring glances of the. woman's clothes, but they know how dash homo frantically after work, tourists. "Frankly, I try to please men la my upstairs to don
amart gown.
to appreciate them sho sald, help to cook the dinner, and run Essence of Chic
| An Aesthetic Value
"Womanly beauty
WAR
다.
dress. I want them to like re-to Breathless, pink-checked, she sp feel that I'm not hard to look at." pears Just in time to welcome her to show she thinks of her appear- The essence of chic in a woman is hance to dinner. Naturally he is ance, Jean Patou, the famous French dazzled by this well-groomed girl. designer contends, After marriage, she is sure of his
Elegance not trick clothes-con- always affection and not afraid to let her stitutes good taste. A gown shouk meant to be appreciated by men. husband see her in a kitchen apron, be a frame for feminine charm. If The objects of clothes are (1) to make a woman more beautiful; and An Artist in Many Sphores
must be perfectly balanced. (2), lesa important, to keep, her
Hattle Carnegie, the prominent warm."
Mra. Harrison Williams, acclaimed American designer, believes In sim- Gabrielle Chunal, well-known the best-dressed woman in The plicity. She adapts the Paris trend dress desig, has for years accen- world, knows all the answers. It to the American temper. tuated sex appeal in her creations, you ask her why she dresses well,
Captain H. E. Molyneux belleves
A few years ago she journeyed all she replies imply: "I just dress to well-dressed women do not consider the way from Paris to Hollywood please myself."Undoubtedly this for whom they dress. "I like to seO with this object.
is true of Mrs. Willams. She is on a woman In long skirts," he saYB "There is nothing shameful or de- artist In other spheres as well, par- "There Isn't a woman in the world grading about a young woman ticularly in house decoration. She who doesn't look more beautiful dressing to attract men" she says, was the first to introduce white walls with long skirts." "In my designs I strive for feminine to America, lure. I try to give them sex appeal.
It's not necessary for any woman With a delicate touch she arranges to be a wall-flower-it is selfish,
I stress simplicity, beauty, of fabric, a bowl of lilles correctly. She has Every woman should be as attractive of design and of workmanship, rhythm in her walk, and her valce as she
Clothes can. Good taste is my byword. For in- is musteni. Everything alo does, mental lonle. stance, black is a fashionable colour, every.Insigniflennt gesture, is an ex-
Summer Suppers
O evenings It seems too sultry, to eat a big, hot meal and the family is tired of cold foot, try one of these light supper dishes, ASPARAGUS EGGS, for instance. Put the contents of a tin of asparagus at the bottom of a buttered, freproof dish and break over the top the required number of eggi, Sprinkle well with prated cheese and bake in a moderale oven until thoroughly heated.
Or SCRAMBLED EGGS and. SAUSAGES are popular. Skin some cold cooked sausages and, cut them in three slicer. Egg and breadcrumb them and fry in boiling fat. Scramble as many eggs as you need, put in a dish and surround with saligos.
are a great
Clifford Lewis
FOR CIGARETTES
TF you smoke, you can now keep your cigarettes in all kinds of fascinating cases that are both novel and decorative,
One case is disguised as an en- velope, with your own name and address written on it in bold black or white lottering.
13 A three-plece mult in a
violent check-strawberry, green and pellow on black. The topcoat had a tuxedo front-that is, a narrow roll collar which turned back in reveri right down to the hem. These revera had a panel of opossum fur (one of the season's star skins) running right the scop down. Jacket under- neath ous tong, high-cut, and plain, in the same check. Skirt under that was plain black, straight. Cuff cop was made of „OPOSSIAM,
The slim frock worn by Kate O'Brien, New York sociallie, ai recent first night is purple crese, with pink and yellow rose- bude embroidered at the hipline, and real pink rosebuds fucked· wader the chin. Conírast ́·la added in emerald 'green satin "mandals and halt-ribbon, and the
ilitia relente is white and silver' mequim. The lynx bolero is one
•of the many fur boleron worn.
Other cases, mado in sliver, are These cases are made in gold, engraved with a map of the world. [silver, black enamel, and white Cigarette cases, engraved in one chanel. They bear diso a realistic=|corner with an anti-aircraft gun, looking "London" postmark, over a [have been seen in London, facsimile of a stamp,
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The
Hongkong Telegraph
NINTHE ANNUAL
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
June-September, 1939 CASH
$250 $250
PRIZES
(Donated by "Hongkong Telograph")
TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250- (Donated by ILFORD, Ltd., London)
SEND YOUR ENTRIES IN NOWAD
CLOSING DATE & TIME:
29th SEPT, AT 5 P.M.
THE ILFORD-TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.
Prizes will be allotted as follows: SECTION ONE:
For Story-Telling Pictures. 1st, $30. 2nd, $15, 3rd, $10,
SECTION TWO:
General Pictorial Section: Landscapes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street
Scenes, etc, į ist. $30. End. $15. Ard, $10,
SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studies,
ist. 330 Znd. $15. ärd. $10 SECTION FOUR:
Still Life and Table-Top Studies. Ist. 30. End. $15.' 2rd. (10. SECTION FIVE: Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years, 1st. $15. End. $10, / 3rd. $5, 1.
RULES
The fallowing Rules will govern the Competition!
-The Competition is confined ex-
chudyaty: tommateur
photo graphery.
2-No employee or member: of, any 2. fnm in the photographlo trade is ;
"permitted to” compată.. 3.–The prizes will be awarded to the
competitors sending in what-are- adjudged to be the best photo- Explain each Section," Kach entry must be accompanied by a form which will be publised during the partod 'of the -Cory. petition, and, which – must be parted off back of entry. The right to publish any, or ali of the entries "'la sumarvið tạ the Hongkong" Telegraph,
U photographs entered 'miest haya "beers, taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been already entered in other Competitions are ineligible. B-No responsibility will be socepted for- non-delivery of, loss of, or damage to entries. Y—All entries - to- be either black, sepia, or toned pictures, and must
USE THIS FORM
AND PASTE IT
ON THE
BACK OF EACH ENTRY
photo-
mounted. Coloured be graphs are ineligible, -Pictures submitted in sepia tones Ahould be accompanied by a nailer print in black and white. -Ne picture to entered in more
than one Bection.
20-Mounts to be only while OT STERI and except in thi Children's Beation, must be of one of the following sim?-19XCEL, 18x20. IL-No correspondence will be entered.
into in connection with the Comer petition.
-12-Bitries in the Children's Baction must bear the entrant's BAZAR, KEN Krid. address or the entry forma, counter-signed by a parent. 12--Members of the Blaff of the Hongkong Telegraph and the Bouth China Morning Port are not permitted to compete.
16-The declaions of the Judges khali,
18-At the conclusion of the Com- petition, entries will be returned to competitors on application at the Telegraph offices within seve days.
ENTLY FORM
SECTION
NAME ADDRESS
DATE
Pisase use block letters and parle thie on back of each zustry. If andered in Children's Beclios, parent plase cou tersign baru.