THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1947.
WOMEN'S INTERESTS
Berlin idea of what's
smart.
braust
Nun attempt to put German fashion bouse's back on their fer Berlin is holding its first large-scale post- war dress shows,
Sketched here is one of the outstanding designs by a famous German fashion artist,
Chlet buyers of the new clothes are the wives of Soviet Army officers. They are paying as much as £125 to secure new models; as much as £50 to have a dress made up in their own material.
The main interest of these clothes from the fashion
JB the angle
way they repeat the new trends already re- ported from London and Paris.
Working in isolation, the German designers have arrived at the rounded hipline, softened sleeve, deep cut neck, narrow waistling, and back-of-the-hend hal, em- phasising that the new softened silhouette represents a world-wide change-over in fashion,“
The Perfect Figure
Zoe Mozert, whose job it is to design eye-appealing wall calendars featuring girls, has given her observation that the 'perfect face and the perfect figure have yet to be combined in one woman.
She adds: "The woman with a per- fect figure has a broad nose with a flat bridge and an uptilted tip, high cheek bones and a pointed chin."
As examples, she cites motion pic- ture actresses Marlene Dietrich, Clau- dette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins and Margo.
SEAWEED AND PEANUTS
From the benches of the Hebrides and the forests of Brazil comes the basis of much of modern dress,
not wear so well as wool, a mix-umetimes only ture of wool and urdil gives a highly satisfactory result, and the production is much cheaper.
Miss Mozert, herself a beauteous brunette, has gazed upon hundreds of feminine models in the inst six years, while painting four
figures each year as a calendar artist. Her calendae girls wear seanly attire or few discreet shadows. Sometimes, she uses her self as a model, with mirrors. high check bones and pointed chin A girl with a broad, upilted nose. can almost invariably be counted upon, she says, to have a high rib bux-that
is, the bony protuberance under the bosom-and for art pur-
tint poses is Good.
She will also have small waist, a high, im, uptilted bosom, small rounded thighs, and finely modelled knees. Also, for some reason, her feet have high arches and she is skil- A recent discovery is a wool fibre called ardil, made from comes in. Alginate rayon, the
That is where the seaweedful with her hands, as in cooking or
sewing. peanuts. A complicated chemi- seaweed fabric, acts ns
Miss Mozert Ands that Hedy cal process produces a cream-strengthener to the rayon with-Garbo, all of whom
Lamart, Norma Shearer and Greta coloured,
have thin, Woolly material.out coarsening it
formed superior to the natural article in weight.
or adding beautifully
noses From the mixture thickness of body." Betty Grable and rounded chins, are inclined Leing non-inflammable and emerges a cloth weighing one and Lana Turner lack rib boxes."- mothproof. Although it does and a half ounces a square yard. Associated Press.
Seaweed is the source of what is known as "alginate rayon". Latest research is devoted to a new plastic which is convertible into a fantastically fine and soft fibre.
covered in Leeds produced the A filament rayon yarn dis- finest worsted clothe the world had yet seen. It had one draw- back-it was soluble in an aikali solution, which meant having to have it specially processed every time it required washing.
After a hot game...
SL
Yellows and
greens are returning
to
These dyes of many colours which helped to protect the combat soldier by giving him camouflage in the jungle and helped to save the airman by giving him a bright yellow-easy- to-see rubber boat for his ros- cuers to find, at last are back in peacetime production. It is ob- vious that the ladies are pleased.
and
Varying shades of yellows greens are among the colours being used by the Dyers' and Finishers' Association for fabrics which will be used to make this year's smart clothes-party frocks and gay, sports outfits.
And the dark navy blue, no longer In prime demand for uniforms, again will give the smart English man and woman dressy suits in the shades they have wanted for so long.
The rubber boats, or dinghies? They are being sold as holiday gifts to give the children more sport at the seaside-Associated Press.
Should Married
Women Work
By LEE KERSH
Wife of Gerald Korsh, the novelist
LL about me I hear the There are three kinds of work flutter-headed poppets of in the world. The work that you a new generation talking sideration you've got to do: the feel-regardless of every other con- weighty nonsense about eman work you really have to do in order; cipation about women's right to earn a living; and every other to work; careers or marriage, sort of work. and so on.
And whenever I hear them I think
of Mme. Carle and Mr Jet.
a
THE first sort is beyond discussion, You'll do that onyway if you must, You'll do it ngainst your own in- terest, against the interests of your Aime. Curle did work which navvy would boggle at during hours dependants and the advice of your. which no trade union would sanc-friends. If you fall you will almost. tion, and at the same time was able certainly be called a fool. If lo provide her husband with com- succeed at It you may become panionship, physical care and spirituni genius-like Mme. Curie. Austenance in a way that few women may boast of equalling.
you
Nors there much to say con- cerning the second cort. It you and your dependants, cannot survive ex- cept as a result of your labour, then thal labour becomes no more than
end-ns in the case of Mrs Jet.
MRS Jet, on unknown and undis- an inevitable means to an essential
tinguished charwoman of my nequaintanco; managed through her slavery to the bucket to
support
It is, therefore, around the third
for nearly twenty years an Invalid sort of work-work which is husband and to launch four children probably not of the slightest impor- on to the world with n fair chance turally-that most
tance biologically, socially or cul- of the heart. searching controversies centre.
nt survival.
These two certainly demonstrate that a womun con work and at the same time be a good wife and good mother.
DUT-and here is the crux of the
matter why should any womanj who is neither a Mme, Curie nor a Mrs Jet want to work putside her home?
Minale Makaya
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tirely to marriage. It is completely And in this case my vote goes en-
beyond my comprehension why any woman who is happily married and has a home of her own should want to exchange the comparative free- dom and the complete authority of such a situation for the dimeultles and ambiguities of an outilde job.
In her home a woman is even if she is sole executive and does all her own work-the managing direc- tor. Even if her husband is of dimett temperament, she has at the very worst only one person to satisfy with her
stewardship--whereas in
an office, or a shop, or a factory, there is not only an immediate boss to plense, but very oflen a whole tribe of them,
AT
worst
T home she is secure from dis- missal; she is protected from the
savageries of
of climate, since she may adjust her shopping and outdoor work to her barometer. If she is very tired and wants a rest, or very happy and wants a holiday, she can take time off, making up for lost Lime on some other occasion.
Nor have I
I any sympathy with the argument that women should work so as to be financially independent, Any woman who feels that she must bring home a pay-packet in order to Justify her existence has no proper respect for herself or her functions as a wife and mother, as the maker of a home, as helpmate and com. panion to her husband.
Work is a means to an end; not an end in itself. If you can work to- wards the happiness of your home and your family-why not get on with that particular job and leave the rest to the less fortunate who have no cholce?
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