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EVERY SATURDAY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1947.
WOMANSENSE
Nothing expensive here
ROBB
**
attends
a new
kind of dress show
wrave rayon.
in heavy linen- OBB here reports the scene 1 Tailored suit
Jacket in navy at what he called "The blue edged with white; white skirt most unusual dress show I with centre plenting. (51s. Bel).. have seen." What was unusual Also in linen-weave rayon, navy about it? Chiefly the fact, that'· 2
and white stripes, this frock has no dress cost over £5-and most white cuffs and pocket edging, and cost less than £3.
ties with soft bow. (205, 4d.).
Materials were chiefly rayons: 3 Stone coloured crepe frock has marocain, nen-weave and crepe in wide flat tucks on bodice and specially designed prints. The four round hips. Also in other colours: frocks drawn here are typical of the dusty pink or blue, reseda green, good restrained designs,
(45).
black.
When does a teen-ager become a Junior Miss?
DING
a
She doesn't sprawl about so much dress designer's daughter certainly makes a on the floor, or gallop madly up the rond just for the sheer fun of clothes conscious. teen-ager
it, But you needn't think it guaran- tecs a lot of extra clothes.
And she has some extra disadvan- tages. That's what 10-year-old Anne, daughter of designer Donald Graham, fnds.
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teen-agers go through. n period of being sloppy about their appearance. And their parents, knowing that this is something they'll outgrow, often let them get away with .
The Junior Miss is suddenly aware of the word "elegant." She is con- scious that she can be decorative as well as active, and her clothes hove to malch this new feeling in her.
The clothes that Donald Graham has designed for daughter Anne so far have had gathered skirts, soft bodices, a casual collar and often a bow at the neck
But from now on, they're chang ing. Anne is growing up. She's But It wasn't-and isn't-like that more self-assured than she was six for Anne,
months ago, prefers her dresses lo be alimmer-fitting and neater.
From her early teens, she has had to wear clothes that suit her shape. And it was her father who pointed out to her that, in a teen-ager's life, there are two stares.
Between 13 and 10, she is a teen- ager in outlook and activities as well as in actual years..
From alxteen awards she is a Junior Miss--and that's a very differ- ent thing. She has lost a lot of her puppy fat and can wear clothes that are primarily designed to hide her rather awkward shape,
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* Instead of gathers, she must have soft pleats, father says. She wear three-quarter length sleeves but they must be wide. If they were tight, she'd look as though she'd out- grown them. She can even have a few of the Intest fashion points-like pockels on the hipline,
Anne can't go wrong on clother- with father at her elbow. And father has the fun of seemg his teen-age designs come to life on a flesh-and- blood mudel.
Good looking suit in rayon crepe
4 has very long jacket, basque
frills. Design of 18th century dane- ing girls is, in white on navy ground. (775, Gd.).
Footnote: What sort of fashions do the fashion experts wear when they Flows? Hobbins go to fashion drawn five of them here to show you:
KEEP THEM
HAPPY
VIILDREN, from about two onwards love to scribble-- preferably, on walls. Give them a blackboard and some coloured chalks, and they'll be happy for hours-with no damage done,
And since blackboards are in very short supply, and very ex- pensive, it's a good iden to make one yourself.
Uso a remnant of linoleum, or a discarded plywood black- out shutter, or an odd bit af asbestos and composition sheet- ing,
Cut your material to the re- quired size, and give it two thin coats of dead black," which dries almost while you put it
on.
Be sure it really is "dead" black, or you'll get a shiny sur- face.
Then either fix the black- board to the wall with screws or frame it in a large plain plcture frame.
Or, for a really professional Anish. put a ßllet of wood or a moulding round it on the wall. A shelf for chalks, made from ridged moulding, can go under- neath.
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A. Ostrich feather toque, tipped so that feathers fringe on lo fore head.
I. Beaver hat and coat worn over
volle crepe frock.
C. Taffeta-bowed hot, Victorion stole of Bich wom with plain black. D. Striking Patou list with huge ribbon bows at one side.
E. Flowerpot hope in pale grey felt worn with new short cut,
EYEBROWS ARE BACK
By LOIS LEEDS
American Angle
By
IRIS CARPENTER
WITH price control gone from
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everything but augar, rice and syrup, the woman shopper is still holding out against the steady price upcreep... So far, it's getting her little but sour looks from her mirror, her family and her storekeeper.
Lamb chops, choice cuts of park and beef, have gone down Go, a pound at the cheaper stores, but are still fetching anything from 34, 9d. to fir.
Fish costs as, a pound for frozen fillets, while the prawns which Americans call shrimps have gone Pup from 39. G. a pound to 75. Od.
Jam is 2s. 9d. a pound jar against I. f. a few weeks ago; peas and other tinned vegetables have gone up Gd. a tin, Fruits, juices and so on in like proportion.
Figura tea at 58. a pound, cheese at 3.
at 29. 30. and butter margarine double that price, and you can p preciate the feelings of the RAF officer's wife here. who sald wretchedly; "It's costing me £12 108. a week to when I came over fram Britain three months ago I thought I was going to be the happiest woman on earth. Intend I'm the most wor ried,
feed four
of us.
"Clothes are twice and three times
the price they are at home. And it is costing £ a week to send cach of my two boys to preparatory school jurt for the mornings,"
|INCH PLATFORMS
Shoes for day wear
are all planned for the "walking on air" Jook, Platforms run anything. from half an inch to an lạch high.
The side of the platform will be covered in snakeskin of a contrasting colour, in bright coloured kid or
or
plastic, or studded with gold silver nail
nallheads. There is a new
tendency towards the buckle around And bows, the ankle type of strap.
YOUR eyes need care, which you
can give them each and every to match the platform trim, arc
Rest tired eyes and
revive aften worn on only one foot.
com~ sparkle by applying
Dancing shoes twinkle dramatical- presses, made of absorbent cotton. ly as
day. their
matching gloves,
saturated with a chilled, good quality to the lgbts of Manhattan. So do witch hazel. Relax for at least five Smartest woman at New York's El minutes with the compresses
Inid Morocco last Saturday night wore a will white
gown with sapphire blue wedgie platform shoes and matching again elbow-length gloves.
over your closed eyes. This caol and refresh them.
was
Eyebrows are in fashion and we should be glad! Time
Shoes were shining with diamonds. when real eyebrows actually were
diamonds filed in finger-nails More not considered smart! A fine, penen her gloves. She was one of cilled-In-line took the place of eye- several women wearing these new brows, but today real eyebrows are nall-trimmed gloves, Others had un essential part of your makeup.
theirs glittering with sequins. All of the Important movie stars easy Idea there for copying. Would
wearing their eyebrows natur- ally shaped or, if too thin, they don't you think?
be lovely in seed pearls on black, pencilling them cleverly to give them a natural look. As the movies
are
and the movie stars have a decidedSHE'S PROUD effect upon our habits and fashions,
An
Proudest mother in the States
women are letting their eyebrows is Mrs Newburn, of Woolstock.
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Iowa.
her
grow. Husbands, please note!
Eyebrows are the
An Invitation from her son your eyes and good grooming for Roger brought British Ambassador them is 50 Important. Eyebrows Lord Inverchapel to stay on should be brushed every day. Use farm, help wash dishes and sample a-tiny-eyebrow brush.und a little her home-made cottage cheese and
frozen
strawberries. to eye cream encourage their growth
Broadest-minded is probably Mrs and make them gleam.
on
Always rest the eyes
by closing Garvin, of Washington, whose 13- them for a few minutes when you year-old son Jimmy hasn't had a are doing some delicate work or haircut since he tried the
scissors during hours of reading. Use rich himself when he was two. Of his lubricating creams for the delicate shoulder-length golden tresses she dry, tissue around the eyes, When says: "We're all for individualists applying creams or oils to this sen- in this family. You can't force your ative area, look way up, opening way of living on someone else, the eyes wide. This alds in exercis- Jimmy doesn't want his hair cut ing the eyes ond tightening the we're not going to argue him into tissue.
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HOT-POT LUCK
BY MARJORIE BARON RUSSELL
LONDON. Sa change from being guest I A played the role of host and in- vited Tommy Handley to dinner. And, because he is a Lancashire man, I thought we'd have hot-pot. Alto- gether the menu was:-
LANCASHIRE HOT-POT RED CABBAGE
JAM PUFFS
water. It was brought to the bail, taken out, squeezed well, and then cut in fine slices with a sharp knife. I then put it into an oven-proof casserole with salt and pepper and a dessertspoon
a table of sugar, spoon of vinegar and an
apple, peeled, cored, and chopped small. This cooked in the oven for an hour.
The pastry
I was in luck, for with the best-
The pastry for the jom puffs was end-of-neck my butcher sent me a made the day before in what I call kidney. which helped to make a my fool-proof way-for it is very good gravy. so casential to hot- dimeult not to make good light
pastry this way,
pot.
First, I cut the meat into cutlets, I used Cozs. of self-raising four cut off all the fat ends, and coated and 4ozs, of cooling fat—it hap- the meat lightly with flour, pre- pened to be lord. viously seasoned with salt and pep-
per.
I put it into an oven-proof dish and cooked it for 15 minutes in a hot oven (Regulo Mark 7 or 400 degs in an electric stove) to brown it.
Then I chopped two large onions and beaped them on top of the meat, and added the kidney, skinned, epred and cut in six pieces,
A little stock
I also poured in a little good stock minules to after boiling it for 20 reduce it.
For another half an hour the dish.
The method. I used is as follows:- Put the
the lard, a pinch of salt, and two good tablespoons of water Into a mixing boy
bowl. Soften the lard a illio with
spoon, then aft in the flour and
and cut in the lord with a kalfe, mixing as you cut.
Gather the paste up in a rough ball and put it away in the cool until it is qulie Arm.
Then knead if very lightly on a foured board and roll it out fairly thip.
Home-made jam Cut It in squares, put a spoonful was put back in the oven at moder- of fam (I used home-made plum ato heat (Regulo Mark 0, or 350 jam) in the middle of the square degs.), while I peeled and cut up and fold each one comerwise into 1/2
pounds of potatoes in fairly a triangle, pressing the edges care- The dish was then well basted, a
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Slow Progress
In Surgery
!
$3.00 $1,00
made nearly as much progress medicine.
AS
"In the fold of cancer, I am sorry to say that even with present * methods" cancer is not regressing.
Dr Jose Arce, Argentine de-If surgery made some advances in legate to the United Nations this field, it is because we can now operate quicker because of faster and internationally-known sur-medical diagnosis. On the other geon, says that surgery has not hand, tuberculosis now is practically progressed as rapidly as medi- always curable. There is no doubt that through new medical 'disco- veries, tuberculozis som will bo' cine in the last 10 years.
Dr Arce, a member of the French mastered."? Academy of Medicine and Surgery first said: "I don't belleve, the 1830-45
the
thick allees to put on top of the meat fully together.
Put these into the hot oven when
war gave surgery as much of a
'Dr Arco said he was making his statements general because he had not practised since 1045 and wa
11tle maro salt and pepper, added. the hot-pat goes in for its and allowed to cook for another cooking. three-quarters of an hour1 hours When the heat is reduced
pastry has had time to rise and set chance to improve its technique as presenting his opinions as “a former in all,
The red cabbage I trimmed, cored, in the 1014-18 war. In cut in quarters and put into cold done at a slightly lower heat,
gery in the past 10 years, has not question"-United Press.
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