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Cotton Takes the Stage
Organdie And Muslin Are Smart To-day
By ELEANOR GUNN
NEW YORK.The style story for summer is cotton -for play clothes, daytime frocks and evening gowns. This all-American fabric is coming into its own this season in a big way, with organdies, piques and other cotton fabrics a "must" in every girl's wardrobe.
A glance at the night neene in New York tells the cotton story. At smart night club, even though “no two alike" was a positive impression, It was easy to pick out several types
Beauty Tips
To keep hips in trim, sit on the
of dresses which are the young neor, legs crossed in front of you like
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crowd's pet. Cottons are one, if thy a Buddha. Keep your armi cut- are definitely formal such aj stretched at the side and parallel "romantic" pink muslin with eyelet with shoulders. Roll body from side banding laced through with velvet 40 side, rocking on the fleshy part of ribbons and worn with a binck lace the hips. Repeat ten times, rest und
ds another ten times,
Here's another, done with
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Marta Eggert, the lovely actress, favours the draped oft- the-shoulder line in tits gown of crinkled Swiss organdie. It is Rewered In shades of yellow, gold and leaves.
orango with green
June 22, 1940.
Renovate Your Old Outfit
IN THESE DAYS when dress allowances are, 80 small as to be almost in- visible, we all keep our eyes that will bring an old outfit open for any little detail up to date.
If you look your best in tur- bans, buy a length of printed slik instead of a new hat, and sce that you have enough over to make a floppy flower to wear in your buttonhole.
A plain black "edge-to-edge" coat can be given a completo tonic if you make one of the new fastenings com- posed of a garland of flowers with gay ribbons at each side.
Narrow furnishing fringe in white is used on a white satin jumper with fancy great effect, and if you use taffeta ribbons instead of shoelaces in your best shoes, you can look fes- tive at the cost of a few cents.
MAKE sumelent potato
Pastry tae a flan tin, using 4oz. flour, 8oz. cooked potato (mashed with a little margarine), 30%, faj and salt to taste.
to
Fry 30s, minced pork for a few minutes, also one sliced onion, and spread over the pastry. Mix together ene well-beaten cxa, one teacup milk, one tablespoon chopped parsley or mixed herbs, and 8oz, mached potato, salt and pepper. Cover the meat and bake for three-quarters of an hour.
New Apron Dress Gives That Ultra-Smart Look
By ELEANOR GUNN
NEW YORK--The apron rangement of pleats or trimming dress is one of the best liked that suggests an apron. of the new-old fashions. In is usually given
Credit for the return of the apron to peasants of whatever country happens to be in
the long ago the dressiest the limelight at the moment. Pea- Wear altractive native kind of aprons were worn by sants do ladies when receiving at home, costumes and designers copy parts or all of the style. Many of our love- They were detachable and by no est dresses spring from such means workmanlike. To-day humble sources. they are more workmanlike, but are not detachable. An apron dress is one that has either 'an apron-like over-dress or an ar-
An Easy to Make Hold-all
NOW THAT we all save our letters, envelopes, paper bags, &c., the problem arises of where to put the daily hoard. Here is an idea I saw in à friends' house the other day, and thought it well worth copying,
She had made a cretonne bag to maten her kitchen curtains -over a wooden coat hanger.
At the top there was a wide slot like a letter box, and the button opened with a lightening fastener.
mantilla; or a droned off-the-shoulder gown of flowero organdle,
broom. Hold in front of you with Another of the cotton gowns the both hands. Then lift it over your
Old pieces of waste paper were younger set ikkes for evening is a head and rest across the shoulders snug-waisted, gouffant glazed chintz in back. This is an excellent exer-dropped through the slot, and cise for straighttuing the shoulders printed boldly with roses on a blue-and improving the posture. It helps when the duetman called the bag green ground, this decollete and the bustline, too.
was quickly emptied through shoulder-strapped in blue-green
aottom opening.
velvet,
Smart women are wearing steeved
evening fashions, too, in sentimental] rather than casual versions.
dec-
One contrasted a strapless olletage with long tight sleeves. Rows and rows of white Ince ruffles made. the snug bodice and the full skirt was of grey blue net. More typical of alcoved lace dresses seen, however, :was round-necked, long-sleeved blue cotton Ince with Hitle pointed basque, or a lent green short-sleeved lace with a chiffon skirt and big pockets.
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The shops are playing up day-time cotton, too, with bold coloured prints for play and town alternating with dark sheera splashed with white, All- white fashiona are good for days in town er for a day's outing.
Active sports clothes are coming into the spotlight. You'll bright in style with a bloomer dress for tennis, Blacks, a cotton' bathing suit or a play suit, in pique,
'Hoods
are another fashion ap- proved, particularly for the pert, lively youngster, in dresses of shirl waist.character. One of the cutest seen recently was in rayon Jeracy, red and white candy stripes for the fong- sleeved shirtwaist top, while for the alist (Jersey is n fabric favourite and they're choosing It now incinta.) Another, in similar styling, was white and black-and-white-cheeked taffeta,
Still another areas which the deba lila is a tackat costume, either dry alted, in taffeta, on end these looked noworin two or the tonesy of - crepel. Typical was one in light and royal blue' crepe with a séárlöf cum- merbund. Another ludivas viciet (of pleated floral-striped crepe and in Jacket of violet with emerald revers ́and, esimmerbund.
The hipyoke is of growing im portance, alded by Faria éndorso- ment. ....... Here it is paired wilh full-authored skirt ti's dress of rayon. printed · with': blue and .brown dots on white.
Recipe For SHORT CUTS
Nut Bread
HERE is a very satisfying lonf for hungry children and most nourishing:
NUT BREAD
Box, wholemeal flour, 2 teaspoonfuls
IF you marinate flaked crab meat with giyeerine before making up t molded salad, the glycerine will aid In keeping the fish from turning dark.
In the absence of the real thing, an electric light bulb is Chandy as a stocklar durner.
After olling a sewing machine, sew
beking powder, 2oz. sugar, i cag, through a plece of blotting paper to tablespoonfuls treacle, 4oz. margarine,
I tablespoonful vinegar, 2cz. chopped prevent any surplus oil from solling
· walnuts, *2oz, chopped raisins
material.
or
sultanus, & little salt and milk. for mixing.
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takes the place of an additional egg. Mix together the dry ingredients Pour into a greased tin and bake in and rub in the fat. Add the fruit a moderate oven. More syrup can be und sugar. Melt the treacle in the used in place of sugar it necessary. milk, slightly warmed, and stir into One tablespoonful is as sweetening is the mixture, with the vinegar, which 2oz. sugar.
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In the all but endless variety of blouses being worn, there are those with peasant details and there are as many, if not more,, that are feminine in fabric and principle but masculine in cut.
With 50 much classician and tailoring in the fashion air, it is natural this year's lingerie blouses should neglect frills and fluffiness for cleaner cuts and trimming. This true even of georgette, lace-trimmed blouses and la particularly so for those of handkerchief linen. Yokes and plastrons are indicated by band- ings and tuckings, or if frills appear they are decorously inld in straight lines; and the favourite collar Unish is the little stand-up band which Anishes in ends which make a baw
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THE fashion for white froth collars, some of them very large and frou frou, In white pique or eyale! embroidery, was sponsored in a big way and is as much a'feature of very smart and expensive looking coats ns the lesser lights of fashion..
THE white hats are so numerous
AISLE AND FAREWELL
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The
Hongkong Telegraph Tenth Annual
Amateur Photographic
June
Competition
September, 1940.
Two Silver Trophies Awarded
by ILFORD LTD.
For the bost and second-best entries,
Four Silver Trophies Awarded
by EASTMAN KODAK CO.
First Prizes in oach of the four Sections.
$250 CASH PRIZES $250
SECTION ONE General Pictorial: Land and Seascapes: Architecture: Street Scenes, etc. 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50. SECTION TWO
Portraits: Informal Close-ups: Human Studies. and so good looking, they make you 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30, 3rd. $20. 4th, $12.50.
dizzy, trying to see all their preity complement to starched white trimmings. Postillons
most Important in this white fashion, but sailors and bretons follow closely.
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Tucked bosoms Kro much favoured this, summer. •TILIN drom Introduces an individual: ons with bullons down the mide of it and stripes'iu mauvo, and while to contrast with the yellow. chambray, Stitched plesis ́for, the skiria
SECTION THREE
Still Life and Table Top Studies.
1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50.
SECTION FOUR
(Craftsmen's Section)
The whole of the work entalled in the production of every entry must have been done by the competitors who Each will be required to make a declaration to this effect. entry must have pasted on the back a special entry form obtainable on application from The Hongkong Telegraph or from the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Photographic Society. Subjects at the discretion of competitors.
1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50.
RULES
The following Rules will govern tha Competition:
1-The Competition is confined ex-
clusively to Amateur photo
graphers.
2-No employee or member of any firm in the photographie trade is permitted to compete,
The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- Each grapho in each section. entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period of the Com petition,
and which must be pasted on back of entry The right to publish any or of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph,
All photographs entered must have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have faen already entered in other Competitions are ineligible No reponalblity will be accepted for non-delivery of loss of, or
· damago to entries.
SECTION
NAME
ADDRESS
-All entries to be either black, sepin, or toned pictures, and must be mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are ineligiblo, -Pictures submitted tri sepia tones should be accompanied by a smaller, print in black and white, 9-No picture to entered in more
than one section.
10-Mounts to be only white or cream, must be at one of the following sizes:-10X22 10×20,
11-No correspondence will be entered into in connection with the Com- * polition.
· 12.—Members" of the Blaffs, of the
Hongkong Telegraph
and the South China Morning Post are not
* permitted' to compete.. 13-The decision of the Judges she
be final.
14-At the conclusion of the Com
petition, entries will be returned to competitors on application the Telegraph offices within sevED days...
ENTRY FORM
Please use black lettera and paste this on back of each. Entry in Sections 1, 2 and 3