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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
November 17, 1939.
Clothes still count
Don't let yourself think that it doesn't matter
you wear now
THE war cut off the crop
bustics, muffs, and all the eller fancy autumn. Lashions before they had time to get out of the dress- makers' showrooms, (In England, that la; America is still hoping to be able to buy and wear all the Freneti clothes they can get over.)
But that doesn't mean that from now on we should decide to go around in nothing but plain, sensible couts and skirts. Look at the Queen; you probably saw pictures or news→ reels of her inspecting the A.R.I'. and Red Cross depots.
Did you nolice hunt on each ocention she wna wearing a different, autЛt?
And smart ouifts: flowered hats, vells, pastel-coloured embroidered dresses
almost garden-party clothes.
No doubt they helped her to look as bright and smiling us she did; and the people she was Inspecting
erd looking at them.
Put on your best kult to-anorrow, and your new hat, and you' and that without knowing why, your upirits will rise,
nice
This spirit-raising effect of clothes is Important to women-- everything is important which makes you feel more cheerful,
But naturally it's not going to be so euy or so cheap to get good clothes as it in now. When the pie- sent stocks have sold out and they are selling Inst-you won't find new unes ut the Rume price.
There's a big cry now for warm winter coats, for instance.
So it will pay you to start now and build up a winter wardrobe; a good sound basin of essentials to which you спи add as fushilona change. (Because, don't make any inistake, fashions will change, Just as they did in the last war, which How skirts go up four inches.)
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ME dress designers will help you; they have switched straight over to desliping practical good-looking clothes,
These seem to me to be the casen- tals of every woman's wardrobe.
A well-cu mult, weed or plain, but in neither cate 200 dated; two jerseys, two blouses to go with it.
The aforesatd good warm cont; something really warm, teind and weatherproof,
If you live in a town, a deri coat, possibly fur-trimmed.
One warm woollen dress
your favourite colour.
One slik dress, dark, but most necessarily black.
One evening dress (Robb, has drawn the kind here which would be most useful to you).
One pull-on and stay-on felt hat; one fashionable and if you like slightly crazy hat.
are:
This is only the groundwork of a wardrobe, of course; you probably have quite a few of the things al- ready, and you can add to them from time to Ume; make yourself spare. jerseys, scarves, and so on.
Things you should vold Startling checks which will bore you within six months and die on you within a year. Pleats and fussy de- tails which need time and money to keep good-looking. Anything too fragile or too dated.
Mnke a bid for bright coloura though; it is possible that dyes may bo limited later on.
Race Robot Shouts "Go"
ADELAIDE,~The Adelaide Racing Club is experimenting with a robot that shouls "Go" at the lastunt the barrier in lifted for the start of rece. It is the invention of E. T Booth of this city.
who Invented Nuffield Iron lung and the Beatl electro-cardiograph. The invention to synchronise the starter's volce and
the lifting of the gates.
you can be smart as well
MORNING
A suit to give a good start to any day. it has the new points-double-breasted, high- necked, longish Jackel-but there's nothing dating about it. MATERIAL: Closely woven tweed: COLOUR: Browny-green, red mixture; CUT: Six buttons fasten the double-breasted jacket which ha two breast. pockets, hoo hip pockets. Shirt is made with eight panels, easily full, won't sup. This is the sort of suit which every woman ቲቲ ካገ Wear anywhere: Town.
travelling,
Fruit Cocktail
When grapefruit is served in place) of fruit cocktail, cut fruit in half. loosen pulp from rind and partitions. Renovi centre, and all with mint jelly.
For Golf Fans
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NOW
Knitted mittens for clubs, with the number of stripes cörresponding to the number of the club, available in various colour combina-i tions. They protect the clubs from weather and scratching of irons, yeti make them easily identified.
$1 TIFFINS
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- AFTERNOON
If this dress toere one of a crowd in your cupboard it would be lovely to have it in velvet. But if it's an only child, have it
•made in jersey, which would dråpe itself · beautifully round that neckline. Choose a good rich colpur: Grape purple, wine red or chocolate brown. A most casual collar stands up round the neck. Bodice is draped into a zip up the centre. Shoulders are squared, sleeves long and tight, Seams up the front of the bodice are continued down into a seamed, slightly flaring skirt.
Beauty Tips
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IF YOU wish to learn how to walk smoothly, follow straight line, allowing the legs to swing freely in their sockets. Straighten each knee the foot touches the ground, and it possible, try to point your toes atraight ahead. Following a straight Une can be taxing at first, but practice it when you go shopping by trying to fallow the paving lines in the side- walk. When climbing stairs. try to spring up from the balls of the feet; do not drag your- aelf up from the knees.
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AND NIGHT
Here you have two evening dresses in one: A low cut evening dress for formal nights out; a little velvet jacket which buttons high on the threat, to turn it into a warm dinger suit. The dress is in crimson satin, tight- waisted with fulness in the skirt flaring out at the back (a Une that will last), The bodice is simply draped in front into two shoulder straps, cut to the waist at the back. The jacket, in dull green velvet, juts out below the waist at the back into a slight suggestion of a bustle..
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