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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Make fashion fit YOU
N every fashion sketch or pleture published by the Hongkong Telegraph there are always style pointers and ideas for two, three, or more of the nine-out-of-ten women with non- mannequin figures.
In the past, some of the pointers may have been missed. In future, these silhouette references can help you to capture and remember the best of all that fashion offers..
ON THIS page are nine silhouettes, Study them carefully and decide which one most nearly represents YOUR figure, Be honest in your cholce and you will get most benefit from this Instion service.
If, say. No. 3 is your cholce, then remember that you are silhouette No. 3. If you tear out and keep this section, di will be useful in the future to you and to your friends.
FASHION news Blustrations in the Hongkong Telegraph
wl in future be, as far as possible, related to the silhouettes. Renders will be told how to adapt them to their own gure-- or when to reject them all together.
ALL WOMEN are divided into three figure groups, SHORT- up to 5ft 3ins, in height. MEDIUM HEIGHT from Oft. Alms, to Bt. Glus. TALL from 5ft, 7ins. tá 8ft. These three groups are divided again into three sizes-giving a total of nine igures to choose from. Here they are:-
(3) SHORT anch thin: (2) SHORT-model size; (3) SHORT and plump; (4) MEDIUM HEIGHT and large bust: (5) MEDIUM HEIGHT- model size; (6) MEDIUM HEIGHT and large ps; (7) TALL and thin; (8) TALL-model sizes; (9) TALL and plump.
The three large pictures are model sizes. The smaller ones show (** others in each group. So pick your model size first.
1
soft
SHORT. THIN: Wear clothes. not
sharply tailored
style. Beware of sweatern andl ellaging clothes. Accentuate your waist. Go for small hats, tiny pot- terns, and one-colour outsts
SHORT, MODEL: Choose fendinine, well-fitted clothes, nothing servere
or very sophistic- ated. Beware: high
covaller Dr collars, in Tops. long Jackets, large
bows,
SHORT, PLUMP: Wenn neatly failures, wool dresses, not classic Initored-mades. Beware! chokers, horizontal patterns, short, full inc kets, shiny, clinging fabric.
4 MEDIUM, LARGE BUST: Wear long, plainly tailored jackets with long revers. Deep armholes, V-necks.
square necks, shirt-neck; dark sults. Beware:
blatises with Plain, sweater bodices with high round neeks, frilly jabots, ornate button, fabs.
5
MEDIUM, MODEL: Wear well- inilored whist and shoulder fines, unkle-length skirts, skin-tight bolices. Beware:- All exaggerated elfeels such ពន big tapos, fur collars, large prints.
or
MEDIUM, LARGE HIPS: Wear
tent coats, slightly flared straight skirts with inverted pleats. Beware: Dirndles, tight Atting or apron-fronted skirts, Bouncy bal- Jerina suits, and bows.
TALL. THIN: Wear the new tent coats, belted or flowing, very full skirts, bishop sleeves. Chouse iwe-colour outfits, horizontol stripes, tartans. Beware: Skimpy tube, dresses, very high heels, short skirts, tight sweaters.
Wear
FULL skirt or straight? The London Shows tip both
Anne
Edwords
LONDON.
ATEST tip-off from the London fashion shows which opened recently is that full skirts will be slim- mer-and slim skirts fuller.
According to London designers. the outsize parachute skirt is ns dated as the narrow hobble skirt. Smart women will wear a little of ench.
Robb's drawings here reflect this latest trend, and show you how to ave a four-frock wardrobe with ove two dresses
One dress is full-skirted, the other is Tube Look, and both are made in two separate parts. Made in an interchangeable colour scheme and materials (wool and taffeta were used in the original) the tops and skirts of both are interchangeable as
wansic frack No. 1 is in black
taffeta, his a full skirt, low neckline framed with
a deep roll collar. Basic frock No. 2 is in plain black wool, revers and cuffs backed with black taffeta,
Alternative No. 1 is made by combining the bluck wool bodice
with the taffeln skirt.
Alternative No. 2 combines the taffeta bodice with the narrow wool skirt.
CHECK YOURSELF
drawings by ROBB
8
TALL, MODEL:
fashion
very small prints.
any that suits your per- Fussiness, and sonality. Beware:.
T
[DEAS THAT DATE YOU. If you
think a premium is something you pick up cheap think that to do with insurance... believe duffle coats are worn by ex-Service secondhand furniture is the kind
don't know that there is type
BASIC No. 1.
TALL, PLUMP:,
Wear
dark
ur
Cameo
colours, a good waist corset, long skirts, mediun with belt, deep cul fitted riecklines, long sleeves. Beware: Jerseys and shim- mering tight skirts,big bows flounces.
STYLE IN
CHILDREN'S
CLOTHES
UTFITTING
or
the youngsters for
Spring won't be any cheaper
for
this year, but at least you'll be get- ting the last word in styling your money,
The Empire waistline. dolmun sleeves and the stoles that ore high Fashion news among glamorous women will be equally fashionable for three-year-olds.
Mothers, arcording to the buyers at New York's Juvenile Style Mort, by for style and not for practieality. They will buy the dress with the extra ruffle if their daughters look more attractive in it, even though it means more frening.
One dress for girls from three to six was a navy blue print skirt with a lugh, Empire waist and a shirred top of white flotted Swiss. The elbow length sleeves were edged with a tiny white ruffle.
had
M
BASIC No. 2.
a black market in chickens al con- trolled price... expect veal and hum pie to be veal and ham say, "I had a most enjoyable
time instead of "blissful," or "out of thes world,"
ON YOUR LIST? MEN I hate, The Ageing Wolf.
When you meet him, he says, "I haven't slept since I saw you th your little check frock. (Oh, well, it may have been striped--I'm only nman.)"
When be knows you a little better he Lises the technique that was successful before his side-brushed hair had to be "arranged" on top. Except that now he says "To see my television" instead of "elchings," and for
#Run
out of substitutes "Left my
petrol"
coupons behind."
When you meet him at a dance he insists on doing all the rumbas to prove he's not as old as he really is. In business be le incapable of nat using his boyish Mayfair charm to get a good bargain from a woman. . But his real objective seldom changes: it is usually blonde--anıl about, 21.
NOTEBOOK
HEAR some qulck-off-the- markel firms are selling "Robert Mitchum" clxnrettes.
The newest over-50 cocktail fashion is for Queen Mary pearls-seven loops starting high round the throat.
Brushes You Need for Beauty
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Another miniature chambray print detachable, three-cornered stole draped with beguiling sophis- tiention, around the cap sleeves,
Even the youngsters' spring hats will be patterned closely after big
mother's. Tiny, open- brushes. Get the best and replace sister's or
the bristles crowned straw clocher and junior them imitations of the popular visor cap
woaken. This practice is particular- wero favourites on the Springly necessary, with toothbrushes,
buyers' market. Navy blac will be the best spring hat colour in felt, according to one authority, and natural shades will be favourites again in straws.
Navy blue also la expected to be the biggest-selling cant colour from lots to teens. A typlent coat made both for a tot and for her big sister ian navy blue.covert with an at- thebed shoulder cape edged in navy blue pin check.
as 50013 as
An association, of dentists recently made a survey. found that Inany brushes in day use were in, a sad state, not only worn out, but far from clean.
be fluffed up. The little black points will soon, bi discouraged.
Have a tiny brush for your eye- lasites and cyabraws. Better sill, have two, in case you use mascara, so they can be washed frequently,
Most important is a bath brush. The skin ali over the body Is in state of decay and renewal, dead scales shedding, new ones taking .their place. The baneful BO clings to dead scales; only coap suds and brisk friction will remove them.
♫
Smartest restaurant in London cautiously serving frogs legs for the irst time in its history last week enthusiastic reception-153 kol an
portions sold in iwo days.
I misinformed you about those Dutch macaroons; they are not off points-still ion points рег ib. Sorry.
TRANSLATION
WHAT
W they say.
they really mean when
"Please yourself" means Do what 1 want.
"I like to see your kalr"] don't like your hat.
"I couldn't let my wife work— I don't mind her telling at the house- work--without pay.
"Let's sit by the Arclight"-Let's
save the electricity bill.
זיי
don't approve of women smok- ing"-There won't be enough to go round.
I only ke dancing on обсле sions"-NetoT.
"I'm fond of my wife, but .. He's time for you as well.
"It's very striking, isn't it?"-Too many people are going to think so. "I don't like meals in restaurants" -You cook it.
SHORT STORY
YOUNG MOTHER 1 know lost her daughter at the cireus fun-. fair,
What she
remembers best about the ensuing 40 minutes is the efficiency of the Red Cross people warning all the doormen to look out for a little girl of three in a camel
n
coat, the kindness of their repeated "She'll turn up they always do" and "Don't distress yourself-we get 10
Or 50
every day." But above mental
blonde
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B
over-riding
all the pleture of a small dumb wandering on through a doorway
and turning up as
as a little girl's body bomb-site.
The thing that struck her most forcibly about the search was the high rating given by the broadcast system to the performers' nerve. "We can't broadcast a description," they explained to the distraught mother, "It upsets the animals,"
The young Indy turned right in the end.
up ali
She was at the darts stall, and none too pleased at being rescued. Coway," the said fiercely to her discoverer. It turned out she was getting her turns free.
GIRLS TOGETHER VERHEARD al the
fashion shows-
PASTEL
HAIR
By JUSTINE GLASS
PARIS says pastel hair. It
the big beauty now8 there, and women here are taking to it already.
You can go gunmetal, which isn't bluish, as you'd think, but the most dellcate shade of bronze, you can naging; or steel or sapphire to ghost blue-grey tones; or off-copper, which is like a pink gleam of copper in moonlight, or honey-blonde.
These are smoky, misty variations of pastel shades. Lending West End hairdressers tell me that only a few years ago this pastel hair idea would not have caught on here at all
In France yes, because they say French women would never have cared who knew their hair was dyed.
Once a "retouch" was a dead secret in thin country. But now apparently English women don't care any more either,
The short-hair classic,
Dyed hair is almost more natural then natural hair. because they Bay:-
1. Bleaching is so much caster, quicker, and does not harm the hair,
2. Such tremendous strides have been made in developing rinses.
3. More people are going grey: younger than ever before.
Trichologists (hate doctors to you) say the average age for greying holr is 30. A generation ago it was 50.
Reasons, they tell me, are chiefly nerve strain (worry, anxiety, and so on), and particularly lack of right nutrition.
it
Apparently, we cannot eat what takes to keep the pigment- forming machinery going.
So women who are apt to get an inferiority complex from going prey soon are going gay Instead, Hence pastel. hair.
Lov
flattering and feminine.
It is romantic, it is subtle, it is
Everything for spring and summer is being keyed to the now trend.
A new material has been brought
or, London out from it. rather, grand-
mamma's favourite in new gulse- Alpaca. She would not recognise it it is printed with shadowed and faint dots Hats to no
"BY dear Anne Edwards, that
about piece of
fashion JOUTS editresses let the pigeon out among the cats,"
"I wonder why she thinks it necessary to tell everyone she made her hat herself?"
"What makes him think a woman like me would be interested in a man like him?"
TAILPIECE
Memo to Edith (Whitchall's famous cook) Butter is to marge What salmon is to zoek.
flowers in colours with tiny nes
with It arc Italian straw in pastel shades to tone with the hair do's.
ic
The straw is soft, and collapses like an opera hat when you take 00. pull it on and it stays
You half cloche,
Underneath
these hats we'll be wearing our front hair short, curled, or combed straight forward, but the back will be long enough to make a soft frame for face and neck.
New handbags Bigger but neater
In
THIS month in London and
Paris, spring fashions will get their first showing,
also be
by SUSAN DEACON
shoulder strap which can used as a short handle.
Although the shoulder strap is longer high fashion, its use for the housewife who needs her hands free to manage shopping and small children is invaluable.
New trends, new lines, and old colours with new names will appear, (Incidentally, could wa be spared this season
the doubtful meaning of such colour names as clouded chocolate pine, off black donkey?)
Accessories for
the Spring have already been given a preview and show that the best hand- bags, althougli bigger, are mostly nent with a smoother outline.
The pouched, dressy bags
Cocktail bags Increase in popu- larity. They are either black with
which were 30 popular with lust Spring's full skirts give way to squared or elongated shapes which are made with a fint bottom so Ing so easily. that the bag can stand up.
The under-the-arm bag is not in demand in spite of its promotion in Paris. English women want handica and a roomy Inside. –
git frames or made in taffeta and velvet in clear pinks, pale blues, and lilac shades.
for
I liked a new leather
Spring called "desert
Bight
hide,
eigo
coinu re feather.
It is
inexpensive-it really is, washable, and it complements other coloura an well as white does, without mark- Under the "Accessories" heading gloves, too, have a news interest.
I have seen black silk gloves or bluc net fore- inger, the colour continuing 'In д There is a minimum of gilt on the diagonal strip across the back of the new bags-clasps are mainly leather hand.
Verv covered. If gilt is used be sure that
long gloves, except for It has been given a lacquer finish, evening wear, are not so popular. otherwise it will tarnish In wet I saw more elbow-length gloves, weather.
and I was glad to see again the high black and navy calf with a snakeskin are washable white gloves usually Among the new bags I noticed fashion American "shorties." Theso
Iining and they were not as ex- hand stitched and worn very short. pensive as they sound,
Long victorian umbrellas continue Imitation crocodile made from to be. fashionable, and have seen plastic is selling cheaply. Most some delightful frilled umbrella of these bags have COL adjustable covers which add to their clogence.
Be fussy when seleeing a hair brush. A narrow one, with bristles set in groups, can be kept cleaner If you do your manicuring instend than the old-fashioned wide
of trol-trotting to the beauty shop
with a pinic опо with bristles packed close together.
to have the beauty operator over. Brush your precious wool, strand haul your tulons, you will need The Httle boys aren't forgotten in by strand, with a
scrubbing your rolling motion.
Ball brush. By claws with soapy
Arm water and the new styles. A two-overall ault Neglect this grooming and your hair in corduroy and washable gabor- | will lack lustre. Nothing like it to
bristles you will soften and loosen the cuticle around the nalis," so It ding la one of the new styles putput hair In form.
can be out by one manufacturer for boys
lifted by the orange wood A complexion brush is about the stick, and hangwalls will not tor from one to four. The suit includes
best present one con give a young ment you. one pair of navy blue gabardine Hirl whose skin is speckled with overalls and a second pair in malze blackheads. Passing a soaped wash A clothes brush is n "must" for corduroy, with a short, reversible cloth over the face is a casual per- good grooming. Give clothes, hals Jacket.
formance, especially for the feen.. a thoroughbrushing before each --Elizabeth Toomey. Ingar. With a brush live auda can wearing.