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THE HONGKONG LEGRAPH SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1948.
WEEK-END
WOMANSENSE
WHEN A CHILD IS
AFRAID OF
OF DOGS
By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph.D.
ANY young children hav- restrained as not to jump against M
ing no dogs of their own the lud. Always let the boy keep himself at a distance from the dog sustain strong fear of dogs that will be comfortable to him. This fear may be increased Some of the boy's playmates who when the child begins to attend befriend this dog might help your school, since he may have to son feel more secure when with or pass several dogs on the way,
near the dog. Also his winning the friendship of several playmates should help to prepare your son for who will go to school with him security on the way to and from
"Dear Dr Myers: My little boy is about ready for school. Just recently we moved near people who have a dog. He is frightened to death of dogs and won't go out of the house to
Hat play. We have tried force,
The Evening Hat Comes Back
shame, bribes, spankings and everything we can think of but with no success. He is a ner vous type. We've talked to him till we are at our wit's end.
"We rent the house, so it is out of
because our landlord objects,"
school.
Owners Should Bo Thoughtful
Go with this boy to a home where
there is a very gentle dog, The mora of such experience he can -have with gentle dogs the better for him, as you can see. Read to him good stories about dogs from books of many pictures of dogs. If, as the boy enters school, he is likely to pass one or more frightening dogs on the way, devise for pro-
trouble you may have to go to.
By ROSE ROLLAND · OR years milliners in London have been try- Fing to popularise restaurant hats. Unfor- the question for us to have a dog feeling him, no matter how much tunately, women have always preferred to wear evening gowns rather than the type of short dinner dress with which hats or headdresses could be worn. But now social habits are chang. ing, and the evening hat is in a fair way to establish itself.
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Don't Shame Or Scold
I wish owners of dogs would be; thoughtful of young children. Of course, there Ore laws which re My personal reply was substantiel- quire the owner to keep a dog when ly this: I hope you never again outside on a leash or muzzled, shome, scold or spank any child though such laws rarely are en- because of his fear of anything forced. Parents who know of dogs. Tulle and lace, veils and sequins, colours that Quit talking about the matter to which frighten children on the way glow in candlelight or would, if there was any this child. If you are very gracious to school should report the owners and skilful you might win the of such dogs to the proper au- and a touch of drama are all used for the hats
neighbours to co-operate with you. thorities. While we want to be kind which milliners make for us to wear at dinner, Accordingly, they might be glad to to the dogs, any child is more pre- This touch of drama is easily achieved by the keep the dog Indoors or tie him dur clous then a dog. expert hand using extraor-ng certain periods you and they dinarily simple methods — a neutral band edging the curved Some older person should be with brim of a large hat bent back this child when he is outside while the dog is loose there. Gently In- to show the face and trimmed
duce the child to go near the dog or with ospreys; a mass of flowers
pet it while it is on a leash or so above shining hair; a froth of black lace gathered into a halo.
Here are three restaurant hats photographed by Harper's Bazaar, London. Starting with the model immediately above and reading neutral up and across:-First, an Adele black straw hat with a binding; a dramatic fine is achieved by edging the curved brim, glamour. and rare numidi feathers and large spotled vell adů Second, a froth of black silk tulle embroidered with a gleaming glace thread is gathered, in this Orla Mattli model, onto a velvet band and worn well back like a sophisticated halo. Lastly, this Rose Berlini model is little more than a bank of silk roses, velled, on a brim of deep-toned straw.
NEW YORK STYLES
FOR AUTUMN
By Sara Yokley
NEW YORK-If dresses get
A brown turquoise wool suit with
more luxurious or price a double-breasted Jacket has round-
With all this the hair must be very simply arranged, unlike that of the Edwardian beauty who con- sidered that she was hardly dressed unless her hair was bulit into a which sho mass of curls upon
Sho balanced a hat hidden in the ex- travaganza. But today, the dress
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the ac- gloves,
is too simple for a lavish display of hairdressing; anything but shin- Ing hair smoothly. brushed would put it out of countenance.
But Important, too, cessories. Simple pull-on just enough jewellery to focus im- portance on a pretty throat or a pink car-but no more. The heavy pieces are not suitable for occasions when the gaze must be directed, not to the full length figure, but
taga any. higher, women willed hips and shoulders and a pencil-solely to the head and shoulders. have to store their favourite slim skirt. The skirt is shot with frocks in bank vaults.
More than 100 fashion editors, visiting the big city for the New York Dress Institute's showings of autumn styles, saw closets full of sumpluous dresses recently- mouth-watering form of torture to women on budgets.
Herbert Sondheim uses-two-new types of metallic fabrics for cock- worsted tal suits and dresses-a Jersey
non-tarnishable knot with gold, silver or copper yarışı
and sheer wool woven with precious coloured metal fibres,
Fashionable. Footnotes
A new twist in straps.
By VERA WINSTON
glimmering gold threads.
A gray worsted jersey coat dress, shimmering with silver, is double breasted and has he dull
side pockets. Hammered satin
slipper satin with the look of beaten silver -shows up in n cocktail dress of delicate Wedgewood blue. The dress
PLANNING
THE MODERN
is slim through the waist and BATHROOM
hipline and has short dolman cope- effect sleeves,
Sondheim uses hammered salin for one of those simple but elegant skirtwaist frocks, in winter navy with a soft unpressed pleated skirt. This dress also comes in a whittled down Junior version for women under five feet five.
Raro Fabrics
Mildred O'Quinn, who has comb- ed the globe for fine rare fabrica, for the skirt of a short dinner dress. The moulded bodice is of white Alencon lace.
A cocktail dress with long sleeves and a jewel neck depends solely on fabric for its dressy look. The frock is gun-metal gray silk taffeta to the knees. The rest of the skirt is black silk velvet.
By ELEANOR ROSS.
MIXTURES in new
X
aro
colours, and Interesting new shower equip- Interest to bathroom mont nud planners.
Offered for home planners handsome fixtures in suntan, Ivory, blue.
red, pink, coral, light and dark green, brown and gray, which ought to take care of any yen for a por- ticular colour. In fact, there is such
itses o unique bright plaid velvet a colour- range that already it has
proved somew
somewhat confusing when you see the full range at one time.
In planning colour for a bathroom it is best to start with plumbing fix- tures in a pastel hue, then select the colours for the materials to be used for walls and floors; as a final step, towels, accessories and trim can be chosen In colours to balance the scheme as a whole. A simple Tops in that expensive look is an method of engy
enlivening a
colour evening costume of crystal pink af treatment is to add whatever satin with a curve-hugging bodice primary hue may be lacking. The cut to a daring low. A short bolero prima of matching satin has long tight principal pitfall.
**** alcoves cuffed with bands of mink. Designer Bruno likes to contrast rich fabric with simple line. A * short dinner dress of cream sulin brocade, tinted in shades of pink, blue and gold, has a scooped-out nack..
a tiny belt and two open pleats on the skirt front.
Hattie Carnegie gives an opulent. look to her trim autumn suits with pure silk taffeta blouses in subtle pastels. These blouses have over- sized collars which stand up above the sult collar to frame the face or can be crushed to form n jabot.
Oyster Satin
avold is the use of brilliant tones in small areas. Also it is best to avoid clashing of colours by placing bright shades adjacent to soft tones. The Like dark shades will add contrast and of light tints or pastels next to
colour interest to the bathroom.
Cleverly Handled Colour
The pleasing Ceffects of cleverly handled 'colour (the bathroom are the result of a definite plan, yet such an achievement is not dimoult nor does it require "sixth sense." A pleasing colour scheme requires that one hue be dominant and at least one Hue be subordinated.
A black taffeta dress has a wrap-As for the new shower equipment around skirt trimmed with bands it really is something to see.. Much of black velvet embroidered in uso has been made of glass which rhinestones to form lines of X's.
appears 13 whole compartments, Other. Carnegle cocktail and even- doors and In gings enclosures for ing dresses are made of oyster salin tubs. And it isn't just plein scattered with rhinestones, Persian for there aro all sorts of beautiful brocado embroidered In gold, and hand-carved monograms and de- red slik surah.
signs to add surface interest. Then Miss
Carnegie
niso Aivos Д there is a clover prefabricated luxuriant fabric in an afternoon metal shower cabinet. Cabinet coal of black velvet that would be a showers are now, available in a footnotes pickpocket's delight. The skirt is variety of sizes, the smallest being 32 frimmed behind with two pockets, Inches square and 70 Inches high. on fashion. Cocoa beige doeskin unreachable of course, but rather which should take care of a small is used for a snart shoo
cut o startling. The pockets are connect space nicely Cabinet showers are side-swept lines with
Pointed with wide swag drapes of black chipped knocked down so that they Jugging the outer side of the velvet.
small spaces. ankle. The scalloped vamp has a
They are leak-proof, and
and many are every rock this autumn with a flat.
ateinproof and non-slip.
One of the most interesting of the drapo that falls fullness behind, prefentane velvets for now developments ning bath aening wear. He shows them in ing equipment the nojustable a subtis black-brown colour called | shower, arm" which operates ¤, on 1 "Malaga"", a light coffee shade, ripe swivel joint so that the water ca plum and a deep green reminiscont be directed to any place, desired by of forest foliage.--United Proer,
the bather.
HERE ARE TWO DEW
cut-out too and the double eph Halpert, who trims can be assambled
have gold buckles. piped with gunmetal is the pleasing specification of a very amart. after noon shoe, an interlaced sandal. The interlaced strap over the Inset is elasticised. The back and toe ́are, open.
would agree upon.
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Let us remember, that the bante principle of reducing fears of any sort in a child is to protect him an for as possible from sources of fears which fend to increase his fears and to help him make very very gradunt adjustments.
After-Five Costume
BY PRUNELIN WOOD:
THE witching hour is no longer Cinderella's, at mid-
might, but that happy after-five time when duties pro- fessional or domestic take a rest. For that serene fime of leisure, Ann Sadowsky. Haa désigned á blue-black soft suit of jacquard satin weave, with narrow, sleek jacket: and narrow sleek skirt... but with a fashion fillip on the Jacket back which is a side swept postillon drape
It takes a competent and imaginative designer to skip. the symmetric handling of a silhouette drape here.auch „a one has done it, with this flanged and fattened bustle
toward the right alde, behind.