EVERY SATURDAY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1947.
WOMANSENSE
SUIT YOURSELF!
is for caster telling a woman what she...; should not wear than felling her how to dress well,
Too many ideas and last-minute blis and pieces in one outfit are often the major fault. And the font touch that lifts one woman," out of two in identical clothea, Into the well-dressed brackets in her own individuality.
So first, fast and all along, dress to please yourself. Rank heresy It may be, but don't- follow fashion. Don compete in the race to wear all the current ideas, all the fathionable colours, all the Intest' fuda,
WHY, for example, wear hobble skirts (3)
unless you lend the life of inaction that goes with thein? Even for evening wear, they can cramp your style-amongst other things.
WHY wear dropped. shoulders (4) If you feel they give you a willing look from the neck down? A little padding at the shoulder- line lends a brisker look to the Agure, what- ever anyone rays to the contrary. WHY pad your hips (2), although fashion dic- fates ultra-femining curves? Most women are sufficiently ultra round the hips without calling in reinforcements.
WHY wear longer sklus (3) if you felt they add ten years to your age? If you have lovely legs or a permanent source of nylons, think of others braides yourself. WHY try to achieve a wasp-waist (2) at the expense of your health or gure? Tight lacing is fun in small doses, but not as a habit. Emphasise your waist by. detail above and below.
When
Dainlines
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Important
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ato perspiration
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n of fabrics,
WHY wear spike heels (3) and
nyriad of flimsy strap on your feet if you are used to solid and comfortable shoes? Compromise by wearing sandals in which you do not tecter like on Infant.
WHY rush to the marest hair- dresser for a false plait (1) when you see the corneted upswept hairstyles? WH that particular style sult your face?
Can you keep your own hair tidy, as well as another's? Think on these 1110e ching.
WHY wear hats at the current back- of-the-head angle 45) if it makes your face look like an egg? Dip a brim over your eyes If you feel naked without one, certainly so it your eyes tire easily. WHY feel you must add pleated buttons, drapes, feathers, sequins and elaborate embroideries, to your clores because they are signs of the times?
skins,
In fact, why be a clothes-horse? Suit yourself and be comfortable,
Child's Posture Needs Attention
By Prunella Stack
(Lady David Douglas-Hamilton, Director of the Women's League of Health and Beauty)
In spe of the good intentions of it on the same
side.
The wise their parents, one still sees many mother sees that lie varies the children with bad posture, evident in shoulder over which it is slung, or round shoulders, poking chins, and the hand in which he holds it, flat feet.
An exerelse which will help โท
counteract round shoulders 15 "Listen, listen, fall,
fall."
which should be practised each morning.
Silling cross-legged, the child puls his right ear on the right knee, (Listen, listen). Then he sits up as straight as possible (Tall, tall). Repeat on the left side. Then he leans forward, laying the forchend
In many cases these symptoms are Bole Agents-Ed, A Keller & Co. Ltd the result of daily habits of wrong posture which lead in the end to physical disabilities.
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Round shoulders can lend to a narrowing of the chest and then to restriction of full breathing capacity. To help counteract the tendency, see that your child site straight at meals, in a high chair his feet are supported and the litle cable in front is the right height for him to eat off. When he leaves the high
high chair, the best, sitting arrangement is a small chair and a table of his own. Later on, when he sits at the family table, sec that the seating arrangement is the! right height for him.
If the child carries a heavy satchel!
to school, he should not always carry
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on the floor (Tell the floor a secret). Sit up straight again (Tali, tall). Repeat.
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LONG OR SHORT FOR EVENING ?
by Patricia Lennard.
LTHOUGHhe hemlive of day dresses is going down, even- ing dresses art meeting them half-way.
Ultra-fashionable length for the "skirt" of your new ball dress is
onkle-length
it is tight or hobbled, and two or three Inches above the ankle if It is very full.
But many women these days will prefer the classic length for an evening skirt |—just · cienring the floor.
FULL-PAGE FEATURE
Shangri-la Ball Shows New Styles
RIGHT: Mrs. Alison Owen models
a now-length dress in silk print. With tucked cap-sleeven, tight bodice and a full skirt, this new creation one style of the "New Look", BELOW: A drape skirt and a shorter skirt lino for evening wear is another example of the
"NOW
Look", Modelled by Mrs Nan Cowle, this dress exemplific, the modemired version of the classic Greek design, The now dresses, many of which were down out from Paris and New York especially for the occasion, were shown to Hongkong for the first time at the Shangri-la Bali at the Crippa last Monday,
Wandering bem-lino
Leia Ath
RUSSIANS SAY
Capitalistic Love Is Just Nonsense
Misunderstood Latin American husbands and wives can blame their troubles on the capitalistic system,
Soviet
propaganda 13 to belleved.
bo
A Spanish-language article in the information bulletin distributed by the Russian Embassy in Mexico City tells about it.
The latest isaue sandwiches 4 meaty dose of love interest in be- tween the usual photographs and statistics on turbines, dynamos and skylarking Russian peasants.
It features A three-page spread of pictures of the idyllle home-life In the USSR with the text by a Russian Dorothy Dix named Via- tinevski. Imagining himself in the shoes of unfortunate Invelorn for- eigners. Vistinovski oska Himself their questions. He or she-also answers them. The bulletin does not mention whether Vistinevski is
n mun or women.
Plunging into the subject with the statement that "the majority of Soviet familles are happy," Vis- tinevski wants to know why.
Simple Russian Answer
-The -- answer is simple
"Genuine and natural equality between husband and wife."
That means equal contributions to the family
Lill
It Is just, he continues, since 42 percent of Soviet workers with higher educa- Ulon are
women and many earn more than their husbands. In one Left, a dramatically formal evening respect, however, he concedes that
capitalist and communist come these two formal dresses which gown by Worth. keep their conservative length, but
relations may be alike. Right is Digby Morion's slim black show the trend towards more velvet dinner dress, the bodice "In many families the principal feminine, more elegant fashions, awathed in pink satin.
weight of the bills falla on tho husband."
From the Brilish
fashion show's
DINING-OUT with
Googie Withers
By Marjorie Baron Russell
100GIE is a woman who knows garine; salt and pepper; chopped
good food, and who, even after chives or parsley.
a hard day at the film studio, is still Beat eggs and milk together, as ready to cook.
for omelette; season with salt and The Inst time I dined with her pepper. Googie said: "I've got o new coup Mix grated
polnices and
marital
There is no such animal in Rus- sit ав # misunderstood spouse, Vistinevski says, "because each is interested in the other's hobbies." He explains that "this does not mean the wife has to be as inter- ested in football as her husband le, but In the spiritual world”
Wives have a Ray time in the Soviet domestic paradise, it Vis- nevski is 10 be believed. When not attending "lectures polities, science and art." they participate in "frequent theatres, social noivitles and study at in- leaving sti'utes and universities,
hey
art
the children behind in an "exten- sive chain of cradle homes and kindergartens." over
eges, for you to try--made with leeks and make margarine hot in a fry pan, potatoes, but it's different.”
pour in egg mixture and cook 6-7 I certainly was so and an excel- minutes (covered with Hd) lent introduction to the, menu she moderate heat. had prepared!--
POTAGE CHAMPENOIS CRIQUE-GREEN SALAD...
BRUSSELS SPROUTS COMPOTE OF PEARS... BUTTERSCOTCH BISCUITS
Turn like a pancake, and cook other side.
Husband's Don't Mind THE PEARS:
If they romolimes
carry their The compole of pears tasted un-hobbies a bit too far by Mexican usually good because the thinly and American standards, Vistinev- peeled fruit had been poached in all hints, good, Stalinist husband the strained-off jules-from a bottle doesn't mind.
The soup is made like this: 1% of plums, with two tablespoons of
"The cause of the majority of pinta, water: 1. potatoes; 1⁄2 oz. sugar dissolved in it, and tea-
spoon of almond essence added, matrimonial failure in the USSR. macaront: 3 lecits; oz, margurine When soft, they were lifted out, and is not deviation from general ae- 10. grated cheese; bread; salt; pep the juice was thickened with 3 capted moral principles," is the
per.
Cut up white part of the leeks in teaspoon of arrowroot (to pint of way he puts it. thin slices, “melt" them in the Juice).
margarine and cook them gently for
..
stir in
tol
that an
THE BISCUITS,
The Embassy's counsellor on mari-
concedes Ave minutes; add the potatoes, cut loz. margarine,
problems 1 dessertspoon occasional counter-revolutionary in dico.
dried egg to 1 tablespoon water, husband is still to be found, even Pour over the water, bolling, and teaspoon vanilla, pinch of salt, 40% in Russia. He dies the case of an leave to simmer for three-quarters. brown sugar, loz. flour, 1 tablespoon engineer, a good provider in any of an hour, Then add the macaroni, chopped nuts.
Imperi- land cook another 20 minutes.
country but "brusque and then Melt margarine,
ous," who resented the fact that Toast a slice of bread for each sugar and, while melting that in his wife was hardly ever at home. person, sprinkle with grated cheese take extra care. When ready, cool; and brown under a red-hot grill, a little, then beat into it egg and
observes Vistinovaki, Put a slice at the bottom of each vanilla.
"the engineer realised it was bet- Sift flour, and restit with pinch of ter that way." soup plate and pour the boiling soug over.
salt and flat teaspoon baking powder,
THE CRIQUE
"Later,"
One of the "principal causes of Stir to egg and sugar mixture, numerous family tragedies in ter- For two-3 eggs, or 3 tablespoons add chopped nuts, and put out battain countries,” says Viatinovalct, dried egg reconstituted with 3 table ter, on greased baking-sheet, at is marriage for money or social spoons water; 2 medium-sized pota- least 2 Inches apart.
position. Since the revolution,.
ho toes, thinly peeled and grated; 3. Bake for 30 minutes (330 dege, or maintains, that it impossible in dessert-spoons milk; -1ox. mar. Regulo 4).
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