T
EVERY SATURDAY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1947.
WOMANSENSE
THE NEW WOMAN'
(who looked like this at the turn of the century)
THE New Woman! The
girls of 1900 were firmly. convinced that they repre- sented that mythical entity. They had read their Ibsen and talked a great deal about living. their own life. They lund even begun to listen to the charmer's file of a red-bearded gentleman called George Bernard Shaw. They were frightfully dashing on bicycles and rollerskates, and they believed they were inaugurating a
cra-15, Indeed, they were.
new
Nearly fifty years later it is pos-" sible to look back and see what has happened to women in that time. And quite a lot has happened,
We have women In Parliament and women at the Bar. We have women in the factories and women In the Services. Superficially, least, it looks like an advance all along the line.
ut
THE
THEY have got rid of their light
waists and their trailing skirts.. They no longer "ask mamma" be- fore going out with their boy friends, , and they are allowed to use make- up in the strent-which only ladies 1900. of very doubtful virtue did in
The changes in fashion have really been most extraordinary."
The all- hourite is entirely different; the. very shape of the female body rerin to have altered as if evolution Ind. been suddenly speeded up, and In
less than half a century had pro- duced new creature.
Where are thosd massive bosoms and those exuberant hips? Where are those little deet and.tiny waists? Where, too, are the ploture hats and the cascades of lace, the rustling petticoats and the delicate gloved hands?
has certainly had
50 glorious years
by JAMES LAVER
who has
Throughout the thirties there was # tug-of-war. The waist was in its right place, for the first time for a decade, and when that happens tight lacing is usually not very far nway. It would probably have hap- pened by 1940.If another war had tot broken out in 1939,
Now fashion Is In a chaotic state. Anything goes. For nobody knows which way the cat of destiny
is going to jump.
Meanwhile, since 1000, men have gone on in their old rut. Their clothes, in essentials, have hardly changed at all.
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are emancipated, those few, are able to engage in all kinds of fascinating pursuits. But when all women are emancipated, all women find them-
back in the selves
kitchen or queueing up at the serving hatch in the factory canteen.
JEWELS AWAIT
MY LADY
BY SALLY SWING,
PARIS.
A diamond necklaco now showing at Cartier's summer jewel display is reportedly sʊ valuable it would have seitled the recent railrond strike.
This is only one of the ornaments worth well over one million dollars which jewellers are showing along the Rue de la Palk Frenchmen, "how- ever, aren't having any.
"No fortune in Franco la large enough to purchase our, diamond necklace," one of Cartier's salcamen Bald. The necklace, which makes the English crown Jewels look like trinkets, is five inches across and is made of diamond flowers, and square cut diamond paving.
"It's a collector's item, ha said,
But he did not explain who might want to
to collect it,
Almost all of Cartier's diamond collection: if mounted on platinum, and according to law, a purchaser must reimburse the stone with the same weight of metal, gold or platinum, which is found in the
.
Prices Are High
But then men have witnessed no Ilonal woman has less chance of
Jewellery. TT is the sad truth that the excep- Atriking alteration in thele position in Foclety,
They have merely pursuing her career now than she Since this law shoots the price of watched chelr privileges being had 30 years ago. Unless, of course,
a Jewel even higher than the ul gradually. whittled"
Woman she is willing to sacrifice everything ready exorbitant price of the gems away
as sextess, as has been "emancipated," and that for it; to become
themselves, the French jewellery mar- makes all the difference.
workerbee, to deny herself the an-ket has almost ground to a standst!!!; The modern girt is emancipated cestral satisfaction of bringing chil- uil right. She is the privilege of dren into the world, and to give up earning her own living and even all idea of having a home of her
own."
(crowning triump) of being con-
scritted in her country's, service.
She can show her independence by standing in the bus when all the men are sitting down. And even want to show her if she doesn't Independence she still stands.
For in post-crisis epochs it is the emancipated young woman who calls the tune, for it is she money to spend.
Oddly enough, she spends it on THE has shaken off the shackles of of marital making herself look as unfeminine parental and even
She slims her figure, control. She is her own mistress as possible.. she flattens her bosom, she cuts off mistress, as some cynic has said, of her hair. She pays man the com- a latch-key and a gasring. pliment of trying to look as much
We are only just beginning to understand that the "home" is in compatible with female emancipa- tion.
The Married Women's Property Act was the first nail in its coffin, and it has bien mouldering away ever since.
after the
In the first two
Foers liberation, heavy gold and platinum Jewellery sales boomed. Many buyers had made large fortunes during the war and wanted to unload savings in Jewellery;
Cocktail rings the size of pullets' rags blossomed on the hands of black-marketeers. After two years, however, most of these fortunes were gobbled up by government taxes, the high cos
cost of living, "und the cut down in black market trading.
The Edwardian tollet is almost as remote from us as the Elizabethan, It belongs to another world.
50 do the styles of 1010 and 1911, Those hobble-skiris, those cant-wheel hals surely the women who wore like him os possible, but except, in the early feminists chained them-1900 14 nothing less than the col-heavy demand for gems and bettings
rare (and not altogether attractive) cases, she only succeeds in looking like a boy.
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Buch things were very different from
girls of to-day? It
not unlik the early twenties that the firet really "eman- cipated" fashions began to appear: the "little girl" styles which always course there was a reaction in follow a great social upheaval; 1030 when seemed, for a mo- alyles which seemed designed to do ment, as if the party was over, and as indeed the world was beginning to settle down the older woman.
down again. (subconsciously) they were.
Frozen Sweets Are Destined To Please
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By DIXIE TAYLOR
AKING. frozen
sweets
1 cup min
2 teaspoons gelatine
isn't the easiest of house--1/3 cup sugar
hold tasks. Conversation
often drifts
around to this subject over bridge, mahjong and dea tables.
in the Colony, and much advice is exchanged.
The blame for
1 teaspoon flour
egg, separated
1 cup whipped cream or whipped
evaporated milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Scald milk, add gelatine, and stir
Mix sugar, flour gerator, an unsatisfactory re- and salt and add to milk. Place the cipe, or use of a poor commer-ms in the top of a double boiler, clal mixture.
failure may fall on the refri- until dissolved.
then
stir until thickened,
cover and Lack of ex- cook 10 minutes. Boat cgg yolke slightly, add to thickened milk, and perience is another faclor.
Strain into re- Unless your mechanical refrigera- cook one minute, tor is thoroughly reliable, it is a trigerator troy, chill, then beat unthi waste of time and materials to at light. Fold in the whipped creant tempt ice creams, fees, or sherbets. and beaten egg white, Freeze,
maintains But if your refrigerator
and is cold an oven temperature enough, you should not have undue trouble.
GRAPE ICE
1 cup Water
+
lian
Ices have less nourishment ice cream, but they are good for The most common complaint about slimming diet or after a heavy sum- is that the mer meal. Your family will enjoy refrigerator ice creams product tends to be icy rather than this Grape Ice:
to come This can be overcome extent by taking the mixture out of the refrigerator and beating
at least twice during the stirrring
Give it the first freezing process.
creamy.
or
stir when the sweet la beginning to freeze around the edges; the second
when it has become a musi
A
or rotary bealer may be used.
11⁄2 cup sugar
Few grains
calt
11⁄2 tablespoons lemon juice
#teaspoons gelatine, soaked
tablespoon cold water
1 cup grape juice
1 egg white
Boil water, sugar, lemon juice, and salt about five minutes,
Dis-
spconeguitor should be act at it solve, soaked gelatine, in the hot mix-
coldest when the ice cream or bet is placed in
the fee
comport-
#
to serve in three to four hours.
Y
Every advance in what is.eslled the freedom of women means that Now the show-rooms of Van Clef marriage is more difficult and less and Arpels, Cartiers, and Bry are likely to last.
almost empty save for a few who. Even yet people do not realise come for the spectacle. This is the glorious age for which that what has thicen place since
In an attempt to lure back the selves to railings, smashed the win lapse of the patriarchal system under large stores are now launching a cows of Selfridge's and horsewhipped which a man at Inew what new fashion-light airy, jewels, with Mr Asquith.
property was h-and-which chl-much flagree work. dren were his owa.
Quite a lot of women are getting, a little doubtful about it. Some are even beginning 10 wonder if it is not, after all, a mistake.
Certainly female emancipation, as understood by its ploneers, is an illu- slon. So long as only a few women
Anne Edwards wrlies' about a child's tricyclo (above) with two first-rate new ideas. There's a bool at the back (Ilke the boot on a car) which opens to carry your
shopping. The other new, feature
Ꮮ handle to push the cycle like a pram when the child is tired. The handle telescopes, up
to
fil Into a holder at the back.
MOVIE
STYLE TIPS
Hollywood
ture. Cool. Add grape julee. Freeze. to a mush, then fold in the beaten and that temperaturo should ment, an
When it is frozen the sweet in egg white. bo maintained
bit around edges, remove from retri- frozen. Then it can be made warmer for ice creams and frozen Kerator and slir. The ice is ready A Hollywood designer says you can
allowed to tortes, which improve it
hand.
ices. mellow. On the other
ORANGE SHERBET should be served soon after they are
rozen. As they may crystallise. The Milk sherbets have more nourish usual freezing time fa three to four ment than ices and are especially hours.-
good for children. Here is a style way of making a delicious orange sherbet.
Here is in fee cream recipe which hos proved satisfactory for mechani- cal refrigerators.
VANILLA ICE CREAM
2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk
1⁄2 cup water
1 cup cream, whipped
•
1 eup fresh prange juice
1 cup sugar
one
but
The consequence of that collapse no one can, as yet, foresee,
The Bustrations are taken from English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century by C. Willett Cunnington (Faber and Faber).
MEN EXCEL
WOMEN IN
Bry, on the Rue de Paix, Ica- tures fancy gold dog collars with
not, edged in rubles. fastenings lied like a handkerchief
Want A Penguin? Cartiers. Itles to 4ppeal to the "lower priced field" by remaking the popular lapel pins of birds, and other novelties in precious stones,
Cartiers aviary includes penguins with coral breasts, ducks with opal stomachs, and dicky-birds which range in colour from inpls blue to
aquamarine.
Ducks are made of topaz and coral instead of rubles and diamonds: A lapis chested duck with coral feet and a moonstone head, with baby pearl
HAVING FUN eyes sells for only H.K.$2.000.
New York.
Do you wonder why men seem
́to get more fur out of life than
women?
In the middle-priced field, an Indian influence is strong in the use of many different jewels in the same pin or bracelet.
The economy drive, even at the thousands of dollars level, lens of is shown by the trick combinations used in Cartiers. There bracelet two to become can be unfastened
for cartings.
Pins can also be converted into pendants, and necklaces into brace- lets-United Press.
Dr Harry Moore, President clips, which in a pinch could double of Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, has some interesting answers to that question. He says:
"Men and women come at the! business of living in completely come different ways and men out better. In the first place men know they are going to have to earn their own living, so they try to choose a field of livelihood which they like and for which they have aptitude.
"Most women, on the other hand are likely to take what is offer- cd. "Hundreds of thousanda teeter between the idea of marriage and a career. They regard a job as a temporary expedient and do not get ready for it with the care men. do. So many fall to get the salis- faction from their work millions of men, do... If they fall to marry they ure doubly, unhappy, ··
MEMOTIONAL OUTLET
man
If you are short-legged in'n year of long-legged fathlonk, don't cry.
"In the second place, as soon 0.9 add inches to your limbs by smart
the day's work is finished, a ccstuming.
He is. Travilla, currently designing has some place he is anxious to go the wardrobe for long-legged Ann and he goes there to the club Sheridan in Warner Bros. "The rooms, the stamp album, the chess Unfaithful."
"Some years the length of a girl's table, the photographic dark room, place. In logs is strictly between her and the the golf llriks--or some
music, floor, he grinned, "but this year one of those places or in It's very important. Miss Sheridan perhaps he finds an emotional out- strain. has perfect propertions for clothes, let that releases him from
even If you haven't, you
can More women need more enfleis, like
this." Travilla worked out a few, do's create the illusion." and dont's for the many women .Moore niso feels women do not whese shortners is in their legs.
live their private lives as well as "Don't," he advised, "make jumps do men, but he says the woman In over-all pleture, mean, don't combine a red hut, and muss with maires, the best cillzen. Women, ise assorts, would be much happier in back dress, "Don't wear fancy shoes, slippers their private lives, "If, when they with anide straps and open toes,
are young, they prepared for both "Don't wear swing skirts de skirts homes and a job they liked and let with detailed trimming. Stay away the chips fall where they may." from peplums."
"Above "all"don't succumb to that He also suggests women take up yearning for luxurious furs!
such hobblestus dancing, tho bencrusted with frog. It's a good On the "do" side,Travilla, sold: theatro, drawing, painting, sculp
Sur in
Julee and grated kind of
icmon 2 cups milk. Strain the orange juice, add the teaspoons vanilla flavouring. Mix the condensed milk, water and lemon and grated sind, and disslove vanilla, Chill. Fold in the whipped the sugar in the mixture. cream, place in a refrigerator tray the milk, put in a refrigerator tray, and freeze, beating twice as explain and freeze, stirring at least once be
It is hard ed above,
The imilis, and fulces wit curdle, You may rubstitute whipped eva- porated milk for the cream, using but the curled look deppeurs. In the method given in last Saturday a frog. This is especially good cocking column. The recipe serves with sweet biscuit for the child's alx persons. **
Fruit loe creams may be made in the same way. Simply add one cup
of fruit pulp, crushed finely, and omit the flavouring.
GELATINE ICE CREAM Many homemakers prefar an see cream made with gelatine after this fashion!
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day before. If that isn't possible of colour. Add colour highlights at ture, pottery or woodwork, and and some ice has accumulated, allow the throat and with gloves.United | home
a longer Ume for freelot.
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