THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1947.
WOMANSENSE FOR NEW YEAR
IDEAS FOR THE
The
NEW YEAR
You're half-way to being well-dressed if you're--
Dressed for drinks
carecrist's ouldt, basically a classic grey suit, but unobtrusively up-to- the-minute through its detall and accessories: notice the long revers and single-button fastening, the OW do you dress for early- longer jacket, the longer slim skirt:
Hmorning tea 7-afternoon notice the fur stole, the new big hat
coffee? — evening cock- which softens the severity of the tails? A point women some suit.
times forget is that your clothes Accessories are important. Choose, should tie up with what you are drinking.
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a big bag to hold all those notes as well
cosmetics, always with DS handles--like the bronze crocodile
bag sketched. Shoes are classic- plain bronze crocodile court shoc with a medium to high heel this tine and well-polished, like bag.
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Newtility' Look
In a world crisis there is still
HOW
by PATRICIA LENNARD
TOW for has the New Look spread through the fashion
trade?
Higher-priced clothes are acquiring touches of fairly authentic detall, but you will not be seeing the main results until about February. Look out then for tortoiseshell buttons and smoked pearl studs that. (Dior-Inspired, from Paris) unscrew
for
cleaning, on your spring dresses. Look out for fine woollens and crepes in pastels (the Noyal South African tour was a direct Inspiration); the lightest
possible grey, dusty rose, dusly blue, and "food" shades
of yellow-butter, honey, banana, melon. Look out for false hips of buckram, canvas frills sown under the waistline, boned hip scams and padded pockets for hip fullness.
But, so far, utility spring clothes are only slightly affected by the Great Change: Hems have been let down a couple of inches, “spiy" shoulder pads replaced by now plastic spongs pads for a rounder shoulder line and hip emphasis given by stiffened bastrues or peg-top drapery. But they all look like the casual dirndl or shirtwaistor styles wo have been wearing in the past and will continue to wear in the future: clasale styles entirely outsido fashion, with an American flavour.
has
Sigrid
sketched a Harella utility coat (above left), which makes concessions to the New Look with a rounded shoulder yoke and wide skirt springing from a slim waistline. And right, are two examples of the middle course utility styling must lake. The utility oyster salin blouse by Hart, incorporates a rounded shoulder line because of its capsleeve. and back-fastening high-necked blouses have been a firm favourite across the Atlantic. The Windsmoor uillity skirt- is a practical version of the hobble skirt with · peg-top" fullness below the waist. It buttons all the way through, Invisibly, under the front placket.
SOMETHING NEW FOR WOMEN
UT of the fog of contradic. tions and confusions, out of the storm of raised voices and raised eyebrows has
emerged the now
the "NEW LOOK." And it is charming.
With rounded shoulders and curved hips and skirts estab- lished reasonably around the calf, comes a com- plete change of accessories-all terved, black crepe jacket, button-smaller, neater, more covered- ing up to the neck, is worn over a up, more feminine. brief strapless frock of the same material.
Take the average housewife, enjoying her morning cup of ten. Now a cup of tea is informal and pleasant-so is the simple navy button-through
A cocktail is short and potent- frock, easy to move in, pretty so is the outfit that goes with the enough to emerge from behind ass. Black is easily star colour an apron and face tradesmen for this hour, and the two-piece and friends.
sketched is most effective in black. Styled for
For the shy or chilly, leather shoes are low-heeled and brond-toed (please no sloppy slippers outside the bedrooms even though you are alone with the housework) and she keeps her hair nest and dust-free in a vivid headsquare.
the home, her solt
-Business lunches wind up with coffee and cigarettes. Coffee is brisk and stimulating, and so is the
STILLMAN'S
Freckle Cream
FOR CLEAR SKIN
Stillman's Freckle Cream contains certain ingredients which act as a temporary "black-out" against the formation of pigment. Next it favors the retention of at glob. ules in the skin which helps to smooth out lines and creepiness. It's easy to use just smooth on at night before retiring and let it work while you sleep. After using just one regular sized jar you will find your complexion so improved that you will need no urging to continue using Stillman's Freckle Cream,
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When the jacket is not
worn it reveals the heart-shaped
neckline of the dress.
The dress is lightly beaded and sequinned to just below the waist, and this trimming, is repeated the Jacket.
on
somewhere
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THE NEW HAIR.... is short, swept-up, swept-round, and elegant, calling for a well-polsed head.
No mora will wild manes sweep the shoulders, no Heels rise their highest by night. longer will women and now is the time to wear may try to look like slender-heeled sandals: wedges are
Diana in a wind. on the wann for this type of shoe and only succeed Accessories are dramatic-tiny gold in looking like evening bug, more for decoration seaweed in д than use, and long black gloves in suede or hand-made in satin.
tempest.
The left-overs supply ideas for fresh dishes
GOOD household strategy in-
eludes making use of small quantities of left-over food.
with sliced tomato.
It the hair interest is at the back, well Bit forward. There is no rigid rute, as long ng
But neither will they look too formal, toe claborate for practical the hat may day-to-day living. shines, in not high-piled in curls, wearer.
The new short hair, brushed till it hair and hat are neat and sult their
enda Keep in the
that curve into neat, flat curls after sweeping from a side parting or across the back or from the forehead.
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THE NEW HAT
lo small and pretty, the perfect complement of the neat hafr.,
It may be a pill-box or a beret,
tricorne £1
or a
If the
arc
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THE NEW STOCKINGS
somewhat darker in tone, to
new discretion of
the emphasise skirt, and shoc.
Dark gunmetal, bronze, and black' have made their appearance in New York and Paris, but I have only bicorne,
seen one pair of them in London, hair is swept and they were embroidered with
coloured flowers. on small
I don't one side of the much want to see any more.
head-thic bat:
Into
Z
curls
be worn
on
the other
'side, to
reveal
*
*
the the hair
THE NEW BAG... is less like hair. if a portmanteau and more like a hand- is' bag. It is smaller, neater, often of that deltes worn in -ñ a_firm, boxy, shape fringe, the hat efforts to make it. bulge. Will
back
Al
on the head.
Caroline Fox
The sweater girl
changes her line
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THREE skirts and a sweater will make fashion news in the coming months by breaking completely from styles set in recent years.
neck
the pencil
or flared
By CHARMIAN MAYNARD
Most wormen havo Cooked Spinach.-Combine 1⁄2 cup worn at some time or
with 3 or 4 table- other the calussic swea- cooked spinach spoons' white sauce, 2 tablespoonster-ribbed Anely minced ham, 1 tablespoon and wals!-with Meat, vegetables, or stewed grated cheese, salt and pepper. Heat classic skirt: fruit,
other and spread over one half of a cook- slim, pleated combined with
and garnish from the waist fonds, can often provide dishes er omelet, fold over,
The three skirts for another meal.
Other Cooked Vegetables. Cut sketched (utility, about into dice, place in greased ovenware 335, by Remitrandi) dish. Cover with white sauce
are ahead in fashion flavoured with curry powder and a detail. squeeze of lemon juice or with First, the pencil silm grated cheese. cheat in moderate | skirt, as straight and oven, serve hot with triangles of dry simple as before, has a new peg- toast.
top line to the waist, perfect for pairing off with a plain sweater.
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Mashed Potato. Add equal quantity tinned fish or flaked cooked fish. Flavour with finely diced onion, chopped parsley, salt, and pepper. Moisten with beaten egg.
Shape into small balls or flat cakes. Mix balance of egg with a little milk. Dip cakes in, drain, toss in browned breadcrumbs. Deep fry golden brown
In fuming fat. Serve hot with gilled or baked tomatoes.
Season's
Greetings
from
Cambridge
Cold
Corned Beef. Cut Into The skirt buttons
tions on to the waist-
cubes, fold into white sauce flavour-band, forming useful tunnel pockets. ed with curry powder. Add cooked Centre, another straight skirt, but spaghetti (same quantity as meat). this time, deeply flounced to the Turn into greased ovenware dish, new long length with a band of plents top with bread-crumbs, place in from above the knee. Thi
This style is moderate oven to reheat and brown
perfect for the older woman, pairs crumbs.
off well with the newest type of sweater, by Spectator Sports. The sweater, severely plain, with pushed- up three-quarter sleeves, ends well the hips in a trouser hem, It gauged and drawn up over the left. hlp to give the current one-sided look.
Slewed Fruit.—-Drain syrup off and reserve. Place fruit in greased dish. Cover with sweetened scone dough rolled to in, thickness. Bake in hot oven 150 degroes 12 to 15 minutes.
is
Latin A
than its predecessors. Diagonal bal- tons on the wide waistband give' a nipwaist, and the buttons continue to the front-fastening hem inside a Extend syrup with orange and
loosely-swinging unpressed pleat. Jemon Juice and extra water. Right, is the young girl's skirt- This skirt will go to town and Thleken with blended arrowroot and dirndl without its bulk, an easy-at-country equally well with sweater serve as a sauce.
ting skirt with more fashion sense or shirt.
When Dairliness Is So Important
Use Amolin
Amolin cream deodorant
stops perspication
odors from forming."
Does not harm .kin or fabrics,
Amolin
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