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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1948.
EVERY SATURDAY
WOMANSENSE
EASTER BONNETS
employee,
Alvin Colby, San Mateo, Calif., hardware store
bonnets he has made shows Rosemary Idle (left) some caster from material in the store. Miss Idle wears a hat made from Ane meal wire, a glass bowl, gloss drawer pulls and a clothes brush. The bats he holds are made from baskets, pan cleaners, plastic straws and brushes, (APWIREPHOTO).
Put a flower in your hat for spring
•
•
by CAROLINE fox
EGUILING little straw bon- nets are coming for the
They spring.
perch light- heartedly on the head, are fes- tooned with flowers and birds, and the under the chin with
of tulle
velvet bows streamers.
or
With them will be worn dresses and suits with rounded shoulders, diminutive Wnists, emphasised hips, And longer than ever skirts.
Quite the prettlest skirt I saw at Adele's spring show looked like a with its gores half-open parachute billowing.
Alas, It is only likely to land over
seas..
But the new fulness is produced in other ways, notably by original use of pleating................
R
of
narrow pleats stitched down to the knee, then allowed to splay............unpressed. plents that only like futed gores start from the scalloped edge a very long bodice. groups of narrow pleats that are inset in the skirt side, Bat like godets narrow pleats at the back of the skirt only, its front quita plain.....little knife-edged pleats that reach from the walst to about 12 inches above the hem, and are then pressed out leaving a pretty hem fulness..
Clever design
suit......curved silver dog- gers on chains buttoning a grey hopsack two-plece.... black satin to bind the edges of a black town suit with long straight skirt, long jne- ket and long revers, its new- old look reminiscent of the
305. "failleur of the
checkerl and white navy tafeta blouse with matching winged pillbox worn with a lots of while suit embroidered lingerie" blouses such as mother used to wear with boaters..
navy.
a
FULL-PAGE FEATURE
"HUSBANDS MAKE THEM SPARTANS"-Emily Hahn
W
ITH
her
standing Englishwoman
Former Hongkong. Novelist says
the English wife works too hard
labour-saving, way they can. Men almost never They have been brought up to be
me like
sald, "That way, it's just America.
"I guess there just aren't enougu
men, in a certain manner af speak- ing; not as Spartan women, but Spar- tan men.
DON'T think Englishmen work hard enough. I think English- I think there spreading
coupon-saving clothes, her pay for women in England."
"But ara girls paid as much at habit of well-trained
their jobs as the men aro?” in
the queues,
"No, ghocked when I first came back to Eng-
men to go around. But the women women work too hard. land in 1946.
don't seem to mind, that's the funny should be some way of She looked overworked and dull, part; they're Independent as men. it out more evenly. You may retort women don't work with the boredom of fatigue-a bore- Terribly good sports. And the older that American
American men dom which is even deadlier than that women are terrifying-they'll talk to hard enough and
you by the hour about politics and never stop working, but it isn't quite of too much leisure.
Today she looks better to my eye. International relations and conditions as generally true as my
about England. I think the British Housewife is among factory workers.
ло изс Anyway, it is "And the way the men treat their Bmortening up, though I don't know quite how she does it. I suppose that wives! They never help them out what I say, because I could say it after seven years of this and that of cars, and they expect them to keep till the Doomsday and it wouldn't fast-oh, it's mako any difference. English- crisis, even the greatest bulk of work up when they walk
women would never stop overwork- down Into smaller awful. shakes itself
"An Englishman," I said, "treats ing just because of what I volume.
an- They've been too well brought up. As an opinionated American, I have his wife exactly as if she were
They're good sports. been
wondering if the English- other man.”
admirable as she is, hasn't
woman. brought a good deal of THAT was 20. years ago, remem-
ber. Since then, women in the trouble on her own head. This sug Restion derives, I suppose, from the States have learned to take a little itions 1 used to have about the interest in politics and international there are women here 20 years ago. It seem- relations. Since then ed to me then that Englishwomen lewer women per man in the United Kingdom, and fewer men per woman took a terrific lot of punishment.
in the United States. WENT home to the States after But still, looking around mo
sometimes my first transatlantic visit, and the queue these days, I told my girl friends, about it. "They think that English women find this might as well be men," I said. "Girls life a little harder than necessary, In England actually pay their own because they bear a double burden, Not only are they called on. to bo way on dates,"
women, which in these days means the a full-time Job 26 hours out of the
"No. Why do they do it?"
In
"Well, they want to go to movies, you see, and that's the only 24, but they must be men as well.
First Philippine Lady Cabinet Member Works For Social Welfare
NEW YORK. not only mean increased return for Increased woman enters form workers but the
Wpublic life especially a cole."
efficiency would beneilt the nation
pretty Filipina-things begin happening pretty fast.
Senora Perez who was first up- pointed to her post as Social Wel- President Commissioner by So when the first woman to be ad- fare
by mitted to the Philippine cabinet, Manuel Quezon and continued Senora, Asuncion Perez, returns to subsequent Philippine leaders, was a
She,
her Manila in May, she'll be brimming Japanese war prisoner.
husband and their four children were with ideas on social improvement.
of interned as political prisoners. They Perez, Commissioner Senora Social Welfare, has been studying were sent to Fort Santiago where the her husband was tortured and kill- social trends and practices in
the area. United States with an eye to incor- ed before American troops liberated
Senora Perez was formerly porating some in Philippine life.
the
Nicest outfit was a navy three-tier skirt, very slender,
worn with scarlet tle-silk tunic with wrapped
A longtime friend of the under- head of the Associated, Charllies of middle showing beneath a brief navy privileged for whom her charitable the Philippines. She has a son, a bolero faced with'scarlet slik
work has won her repeated recogni- graduate of the University of Call- expected to enter tion in the Philippines, Senora Perez fornin, who is Is In a sense on a twofold mission. George Washington University
prepare for the diplomatic service. Along with visiting various govern- OST theatricni was a three-ment and social agencies for ideas, she is also addressing women's and piece designed for air
other clubs on social and economic problems in the Philippines.
M
Highwayman coat
when that is possible again.
travel
There was a caped highwayman' coat of black and white check over a check skirt and what appeared to be a bright red wool blouse,
But
unbuttoned wait the skirt discreetly at the back and, removed, revealed a red dress which, lapped by a frivolous red hat in place a travel hat, would take its wearer out to dinner at whatever destino- tion she was lucky enough to reach?
1880 inspiration
of
FRIEND in Paris tells me that little or no straw is used in the
OUNDED shoulders-which make new smali dainty hats preparing for the old familiar square shoulder the spring. look like a guardsman on parade- were very cleverly designed, often being cut in one with a curved scalloped yoke.
And details was enlivening.... fastenings like dulled silver puzzles on a grey Bonnel
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Fashions in Paris, she says, are
or Inspired by the 1880 or "grande epoque" period. Hats will be short. or turned up in the back, leaving the nape uncovered.
They will be worn tilted forward and almost straight oh the head, the opposite to what we are wearing
ΠΟΥ,
be
Hair styles will have to altered
these to, accompany hats, and curls in the back will have to be shorter and the swept-up hair style will come back, also fringes.
ats will have big bows, large, wide' quills, and lols of vells and flowers-not the usual flowers.
The flowers are of the materials as the hats, often. flower- ed prints, silks and mousselines of the "Pompadour type. There will be lots of pastel shades for hats and a few plaid silks.
She recently outlined to alun- United Council cheon group of the Women
the of Church
a few of things she had seen during her tour. While her duties also include serving as delegate to the United Nations sho has spent considerable time at the Federal Security Agency and Do- partment of Agriculture.
"Of course the United States is so cater than the Philippines," much greater
it would be impossible she said, for the Philippines to adopt anything with as wide a scope. However there are three social ideas that have greatly impressed me and I would urge:
"1. A general overall relief pro-
gramme
2. Ald to dependent children "3. Widows pensions."
Another feature of American communal-life-which-impressed-her- has been the Community Chest |✰
is a system of programme. This
non-sectarian civic ald nationwide, for the underprivileged in which several charitable and social welfare groups participate.
As for agriculture, Senora Perez the said she would propose that Philippines undertake a Farm Loan Programme whereby her country's agricultural resources will be more fully developed...
to
but
statement
resenting
Glamour gowns
It's Chinese coolle in stylo the material ---- cotion --- comes from West Africa.
Colour scheme is off-while on chocolate brown,
In the new. "halcyon blue;" and also from the Matilda Etches collection.
COUPONS-FOR-DOLLARS PLAN
DE
TO SELL CLOTHING
by
ETAILS of a scheme
which "hard currency" visitors from U.S.A., Canada and Argentina may buy special cloth- ing coupons here to make chases direct from shops are be- Ing considered by the Board of will Trade. An announcement
pur-
be made in Parliament soon,
It is proposed that booklets of six vouchers should be sold at
dol. (£25)
cach banks at 100 against dollar bills or travellers' cheques.
tourists who could go into a shop and order one, putting down one voucher in lieu of coupons.
Passports would have to be presented when purchases were made, to prevent black market dealings in dollars by Britons. The Treasury would gain dol- lars not only from the sale of each that booklet, but by the fact visitors who bought clothes hero would also pay purchase tax.
Britons abroad, too
If the scheme is approved the At present foreign visitors may first booklets will be ready in buy clothes without presenting time for overseas buyers to the coupons and without paying pur- British Industries Fair, which chase tax, provided that the gar- opens on May 3.
ments are delivered to their ship or airliner, or to their home abroad,
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'No limit'
There would be no limit to the number of vouchers which visitors from the U.S., Canada and Ar- gentina could buy.
our
British subjects who live in the U.S., Canada and Argentina would also be able to buy the proposed voucher booklets.
Savile-row suits, one of
A special issue of 12 coupons for Gamed most popular export "lines," visitors to the Olympla would become available to dollar is to be announced soon.
Princess' Necklace Starts. Vogue
ore
Бау.
And in this respect, she says, "I am a great believer in education.
and yellow gold net phins, mermaids and strange kinds of Therefore I hope we too will be able THE red same
brooch, with floral design set fish. to Instituto something like the
Lapel brooches, will be more popu diamonds and rubles, which
prominent. Very attrac- American. farm education extension with
the double-brooch programme. With a plan ko that, Princess Elizabeth chose as a wed- lar and
from the jewellery tlva the most modern farming methods ding present
chained to could be laid before the very people trade, has started a vogue for similar ornament with a linking chain, such
farms. This that work on.
would filigree sprays in gold, silver, plati as a jewelled.bird
glittering free, or asalling ship num and palladium.
attached to a diamond anchor,
Rings tend to be larger and more
design-clusters the important in
than ainglo many alones rather stones.
A new nylon nail varnish has ap peared in Paris. It is supposed to be unusually durable,
Typical Paris spring hat with
flowers at the back..
Hand ornaments
are
Д
of
becoming
At the Goldsmith's Hall, 470 do- signs have' been entered for national competition for new jewel- lory and allverware to be made for the British Industries Fair.
New trends rely on craftsmanship more fashionable. Companion brace- Gone is the lot-rings are linked with decorative and detailed design.
chains. One design shows a delicate large chunky costume plece.
for the first Most elegant designs are for, the Kold finger sheath composite
with finger, studded with blue stones and diamonds in
sots
Jeg and intricate brillants.` Another unusual design is
Winning designs will be executed and exhibited at the BIF exhibition for export buyers. Jewellery at the exhibition will be worth £1,000,000.
over
platinum settings. Bome ensembles for a wedding ring with a twin-
shanked. little finger ring attached. consist of taras, breaking up inte necklace. bracelet, brooch and ear- ellps; others are beautiful necklaces. composed of lapel brooch, two sets of dress clips, car-clips and bracelet. Cost will be roughly 20,000 n sot.
Other
now composite pieces
Best market for Britain's. clude double brooches (one worn on
with diamond jewellery at present Is South Africa, each lapel) linked
but scarcity of gold and a world chain, which separates as a brace shortage of good stones is hampering let
the trado. Costume Jewellery 'designs feature the
Eileen dol- motifs....alarah,
Been in the West End, Fore and ati bat in ostrich plumos given a· Roman gladiator 67601
many son
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