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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1949.

WOMANSENSE

WAISTCOAT & BRAID

This Clive Duncan tailor-

ed dress in navy blue-it goes with a "lez" hat--has a walstcoat effect, is heavily braided in mustard yellow.

HOLIDAY LACE

Holiday design'... top- ltas cotton frock in one of

over 1

the new lace prints, cob. webbed in while

Bodler dark background. and skirt hem are finished with broderie anglaise.

-[London Express Services

Interesting New Felt Ornaments

By ELEANOR-ROSS BEAUTIFUL addition to the store fabrics department is the lovely colours used

A

for

Fashionable Fabrics For Coming Months

A

London.

LARGE part of the Earls Court section of the British Industries Fair in May will be devoted

Vincent

two-fold St

yarns mas scattered on a muted ground; printed mainly in dark another may take the leaves of are

and form n shades and in patterns of the mustard and cress West African type with dark reds close net geometric pattern; all the ring spot, and navy blues predominating. variations of Occasionally, such clothes are the small cross and the noughts

to the display of textiles shown with the large, romantic and crosses symbols are equally

flower spray design (for even- popular. ng wear) or with n wide Regency stripe in two colour effect, or toning salin.

a display in which rayon and cotton piece goods will be well represented.

attitude 10~ prints will not last in- in the top end of

The introduction of delicate tracings of floral sprays in black Fine cotton lawns which are on a tinutely chequered neutral The greatest style change will be noted in the up-grading of being taken up keenly by leading ground is taken as a sign that the rayon in the higher-styled end couturiers in all paris of the cold-shouldering of the trade. A small section world are thoas with a black wards

оп print

a muted definitely been foliage of manufacturers have concentrating on these better ground-black on spice brown, the trade...

оп Border Print Revival class goods alce 1945. Ranges black on dimmed violet,

blue, midnight full the

gardenia for 1040 show to the

The results of their previous ex-gren, and on sall red. perimental work.

same foliage design is shown in colour on white grounds for

-are

Crease-resisting

southern markets.

or

ton

own

Neat Look Important in Hairdo

you

THERE is also a noted revival of border prints.. Mass pro- ducing houses are going ahead with plans for 1950, in which

print will play a THE most notable contributions

The whole question of prints. the border

Individual dress the largo part. with handling must be reviewed

Courtry M. Loals, N. Y. the fuli poults, uni-ottomans, Jacquard greatest possible care for the houses are ordering their

definite prints to At border

Typical of the neat, close-to-the-head hairdo, la this trim coiffure. De Iridescent buying season of 1049-50. patterned salins,

which colnckies

algned by a New York hairdresser, it is charming with small hats. Deults and taffetas and ribbon the top end of the trade there specificntion

the pattern lay of the typo taffetas with chenille de is more than a slight tendency with

By HELEN FOLLETT to obviate waste in coration. All such fabrics have to sponsor the discreet, snull garment

Sometimes these

and on

nape line or ar a similar appeal

the aether at the to pure silk, patterned print in drab colour- the cutting.

OUT of date

fashion shelf is the heirlo range a soft chignon. If but on a competitive price basis. ings. It is a great swing of the prints are concentrated on one

the Last season's feeling for stiff- pendulum from multi selvedge of a plain dyed cloth;

other in

cares there is n that is bushy. Be it high, low feel that you must sticks to the handling fashion cloths is coloured prints of former years.

all-over

betwixt-and-between, print in or

it upsweep, because it is especially gradually receding in favour of The accent is on polka dots in scattered

fabrics, pos- most unusual similar-looking

colourings addition to the border. Manu- must be so. cut and arranged becoming, do take care of the The rear portion. One single whisp sing a full, but soft handle. cyclamen on a ground, a facturers in all textile areas are that the head is shapely.

whether the flat-top continues when locks hanging down at the back puts is This change prompted by butcher blue on

picture. brick,

orange speculating as to the need for making such fabrics on navy,

tle silk border prints revival will be are shorn, and even the uppity a woman out of the The normal tie stik

115 sweeping in

effect is not as exaggerated as Stray locks can be controlled by effect crease-resisting.

really design is extremely popular and With

1924, it was. Ringlets and rolls are the application of incquer stiff handle, the fabric is almost shown un a wide variety of on fashion as it was in

rather than light liquid dressings. crease, but with the fabrics

from ranging

cotton when the border motif was the over the forehead

on the

One crown.

reason: Women who are afflicted with efter, fuller handle this factor poplin to inyon surah, all types only one that counted.

the In the high-built arrangement hair that is dry and crisp should developments Further

with poults is eliminated.

and satins and the

thatches In the meant a long hunt for hals that

cod:lle From the fashion stondpoint, on

soft handily dress prints are seen

would conform. Too much speelal olls or creams that are ribbed silks are given prece cheaper type of

purpose. With a cap-like coff- compounded for the wide, rayon crepe. Since the interest intelligent use of warp-printed Some have 11

to form the soon likely to be

exhausted, the dress House

fancy will quality.

wave, but will make the silky Dingonal ribs of a

narrower converters

carrying are

this skirt on the correct hang of There must be a neat, smooth shafts softer, more pliant, more type, similar to

whipcord, are small motif, trend through to the material. In the same forme outline. Stylists are finding dif- agreeable to whatever orange-

there are new pat- also noted.

of disposing novelty patterns of the same printing

oment that is preferred. designed with the de-ferent ways

Buted some being size.

unes. Corrective ointments can upward in tapered wave One manufacturer may make a liberate Intention that the skirt rear locks,

some with ends turned under at used on the scalps when pattern of black and white com- of the dress should be pleated.

the back, and sides. as well. sebaceous glands are not func- Bangs lend themselves to many tloning normally. The beneficial designs. Wave lines must be effects of brushing should not be wide and fluid. The natural overlooked.

With coiffures Inclined to be look is paramount.

sure to

dence.

ΟΙ

D

bother.

Uheir

or

1 vertical rib, others a warp rlb. in Macclesfield tie design is bayadere stripes which permiure almost any hat that you They will not weaken the finger

Controversy of Colours IN fabrics such as these there is some controversy over colour. Certain sections of the making up trade are asking for dark muted shades, whilst others are beginning to ask for lighter colours particularly for

even-

terns

Questions Train A Child To Think

ing clothes. Manufacturers are therefore widening ranges ta The 1049 include both types. autumn

con- collections wil centrate largely on roiden browns muted, old rose shades.

By CARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, PH.D. various Regency yellows nnil

blue.

need to CHILD does not

Which is easier to bend, a softer tones of peacock Looking further ahead, stylists

walt til he goes to high toothpick or a nail ?

Where would you rather foresee a return to hard, clear

to get good school or college 1s but it

doubtful

Anyway walk barefoot, on the grassy shades, whether more than a sprinkling practice in thinking.

hegin to lawn or on the gravel walk?

In what ways are your hands of these will be shown at the he won't, for he may

take early

in thinking stepk Fair, as it is anticipated that the many months before he takes different from your feel? cycle of fashion wili got move his first step with his feet.

to this colour range forward until 1950.

felt, yards and yards of which are going over the counter into

by fancy woven poplins and some at himself. the home to be made up the ever-growing army of surface-weave crepes, plain and

of over-printed. home-sewers into all sorts useful and decorative items.

or

he arrived

Suitable Questions

What is the

Which is

.

be the

If you can't make up your plain, it is important that the to have your pistall tresses should be so clean that mind materini snipped away; they shine. Hence the need of then con the ends closely to the weekly shampoo.

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN {

Recipes Using Jams, Jellies

GLASS of milk, served with

Cream of Potato Scup

difference be- He observes, compares,

Do you sce with your home The Siyle, Design and Colour calls, imagines, classifies and tween a mitten and a glove?

.even be- arrives at conclusions that he or your eyes? Cotion Centre of Britain's

fore he talks,

How mony knees do you

Dinner Board in Manchester has been docs SQ by his actions. have?

with brend spread

Cream of Potato Soup active in encouraging the cotton

mere grunts. Just Do fish walk? manufacturers to turn

their estures ar

try to figure out what an array

darker, smoke or lam is especially welcomed by, Steak. Cubes with, Mushrooms

nicee our young visitors-my attention to novel, yarn-dyed of thinking processes, go on in steam?

on Toact and

little Fried Onions nephew and your

Parslied Turnips dress cloths with some form of his little head when he asks

They are

Steamed Jam Pudding fancy-wenvo...............2

The iridescent

When do we see more birds, granddaughter. questions imagine_the_harm

Lemon-Nutmeg Sauce always ready for an afternoon chambrays were the first on the you might do to his mental in summer or in winter?

Coffee or Ten Milk (Children) market, followed by smail neat growth arid personality if you Do we cut cloth with a knife snack," said the Chet.

Alt Mecsurements are Lavel weaves of the tweed type, many ignored his questions, spurned or with scissors?

"And it is good for them," I

Recipes Serve Four original

checks, tartan copies them or made fun of them,

Does your mother sew with a

went on. "For Jam contains a and fancy stripes. There are you ridiculed him for some fork or a needle?

of sugar also more of the white-on-white of the conclusions

Why does the use a thimble? considerable amount

of all which is the quickest

to release energy. Feel, buil or pressure cook 3 Do we plant seeds in the foods

they medium-sized potatoen. (Save Children are so active winter garden in

or In sum | Ch

energy need this

plek-up in 1 c. of the liquid.) Put through mer?

However, 4's potato ricer. Meantime Genid For Overseas Market

Here are questions a parent

What would you use to drive the afternoonf.

mistalo to use jam or jelly 4 c. milk with 1 small, whole JONES WONG

Add the potato ESIGNERS

watching might ask a little child long be a nail into a board? re

or margarine peeled onion. There are all-wool felts, cot-

What would you use to peel instead of butter carefully the development of fore he is five or six.

Be a spread en bread at meals, liquid and the potatoes to the 'an apple?

together with AND COMPANY ton and wool fells and cotion

their scalded milk, mix felts available, in luscious

the latest heavy collon cloths in

because the sweet duils these

mother As you will recall,

mended a intended for

If your colours,

and often causes 111⁄2 tsp. salt and 1⁄2 tsp. pepper. dyeing summer

beach questions don't require book hole in your sweater, would appetites, colours, light and deep, the re- the 1

improved

Lailoring and

to eat their Cream together of

them to refuse

and mat and veraiables. Jam or or marga a little of the hot nothods. There are even

The weave is similar to learning or formal teaching she use hair, wire, or yarn? wear. Telephone 58430. wool felts with special dyes to

an alternate for flour. a repp: the yarn is Anest St They alm to cause the child to

out what he has in ils When you or an older child jelly is not

str falo smooth, The cloth a dig produce a fabric with maximum Vincent cotton.

margarine, it is left

from his asks a youngster from two to butter or

o soup; when to have head, well, to light, per-

the litle substitute."

and potato mixture. colour fastness

the milk He five these questions,

bubbles and

Cook and stir until spiration, sen water and com-

sume substance

there is everyday Experiences.

these experiences and tyke is amused. His mind is

"Would it not be all right to form around the edge. Remove petent dry cleaning.

every reason to suppose it will recalls

recalls he may set to working and there. is have a good reception in over from what he

on bread as the onion and serve the coup Older use jam or jelly derive, through "thinidng." pleasant companionship.

of the dusted with minced parsley or seas markets.

experiences and new children will enjoy making up dessert There is, on the other hand, new

notablo

of

fow such more such questions for a baby meal?" asked the Chef. revival

the ideas.

hrother or sister.

be "That would

a perfect of cottons

the questions; diaphanous

time," I answered. Not only for children, but for grown-ups

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Felt Ornaments

All

DES

found to tailor

items to make As for the with these colourful felts, well, there seems to be no end to

to mousseline, volle ond lawn them. Fingers don't have to be type. Cotton georgette, which very, very nimble to be able can be used equally well by the tu turn out charming little felt-

felt lingerie ornaments, nice for appliques as typical well as for suit lapel wear. And manufacture. Cotion voiles a youngster will just dote on again made from pretty half bonnat in colourful felt trimmed with felt flowers,

re-

Mention of felt flowers, minds us of an exquisite gray organza evening grown we ad- mired. It was trimmed with tiny flowers of white felt, tiny white violets, attached by petals here and there on the full skirt, and massed on the bodice at

or

dress this of

trades, present-day

is

the finest

Furniture Tips

HOME-MADE

furniture wash recipe is to add three tablespoons of linseed oil and one tublespoon of turpentine to

the capelet, cach flower quart of hot water.. Mix

centred with the finest rhinestone or pearl beads.

Practical Outfit

thoroughly and then let cool. Wring

cloth

out

soft

of the solution, and wash small area of tho

д

There's nothing like separate piece of furniture. Dry It Im skirt and blouse to add up to mediately

a practical outfit. Do up an old cloth.

skirt

with another solt Repeat until the entire Itub hard

one that is being cut-surface is cleaned. or down by giving it a wide belt with the gmin of the wood to

with produce a good shine. and suspenders trimmed

rlek-pack and brightened with

colourful felt appliques, Grand URNITURE upholsteroi

H

In

for a schoolgirl."

mohair can be shampooed

Dissolve one- For a really exciting gift, be-with dry sudis. bold exotle Persian slippers half cup of soap in one quart of tamtefully embellished with fet boiling water, and let cool until beads and simulated pearls, Jellied. Beat the jelly to a stiff while another pair of slippers lather with

rotary beater until Scrub and gold bullion and tiny sequinthere is no liquid hoft. trim.

the Inter over a small area of Feit is wonderful for a child's the upholstery with a soft brusli, FOUM. For a wee one, how being careful not to get the about felt animal cut-outs may-filling wet. When the lather in hap outlined with an edge of soiled, sorope off with a spatula luminous paint

of the so that they and remove all traces plow comfortingly in the dark. soap with sponge wrung out Корев, Fell animal ornaments on cur- of lukewarm water. Jula Ule-backs mako, a nice changing the rinse water as soon touch.

Tas solled."

there

Here are a

FASHION-POINTER ON A PLEAT

The Fashion-polater turns to Spring to the sun, highspots the drape of the nitra-new)

anpressed-arrow" skirt-pleats ..they call it "Windswept " į in. tweeds or worsteds.

London: Express, Servicu,

at the end

chives.

2 tbsp. butter

22 tbsp.

Steamed Cubes with Mushrooms

Order 1 lb. chuck or round

They are also good for dessert steak sliced with cinnamon hot biscuits

toast, crackers,

in scant half in.

or mutans, with thick. Cut in small dice. Dust Roll in with salt and pepper. coffee, tea or milk."

flour and slow-brown in 2 tbsp. fat. Add 1 tbsp. minced onion,

"In France We prize these 4 tsp.. marjoram and 1 c

confitures so highly

them with cream

we serve boiling water

containing

isp. cheese for bouillon cube or 1 scant dessert, the Chef commented. beet extract. Cover and simmer

most popular 15 "One of the

Bar-le-Due, a kind of preserve about 40 min, or until the steak Then add 1 (3 oz.) Is tender. which 18 mindo of fresh tin aliced mushroom,

caps and. their currants, and which we always stems

with

Iliquid. serve with cream cheese."

Serve Simmer 10 min. longer, on toast.

Plain Desserts

Steamed Jam Pudding Beat 1 good-sized egg in a qt-sized mixing bowl, Add 4 or mar- Small quantities of jams and tbsp. melted butter marmalades often accumulate, garine, C., flour. 14 fre but there are

1/3 tap. ilterally dozens dry bread crumbs, of ways to use them, espefully baking soda dissolved in 1 tsp. lp make plain desperts more hot water, 5 tbsp any fruit jam, interesting. For Instance. a and 1 tbsp. orange or grape bread pudding, sprend with fruit marmalade. Mix thorough

Л well to Transfer any Jam topped with meringue ly. becomes "Queert of Puddings" oiled gt-sized pudding mould. and atcum for Jam or marmalade sandwiches. Cover closely dipped in egg batter and 1% h Serve with lemon French fried, become an enticing Jam sauce.

dessert. A half cup of jam or

Jelly, added to water in cook-

equally delicious dessert hat

Lomon-Jam Sauco

Measure 2/3. e. Bugar,

114

ing flaky rice, turns it into an tbsp. cornstarch, 4 tsp. nutmeg.

o'small

Gradually stir in

or celd. Then there are surprise and 1⁄2 tsp. salt into Jam mullins, when the pans are sauce pan.

half

filed with plun batter, 14 bolling water; add topped with a teaspoon of jam, tbsp. butter or margarine and then with more batter, baked 2 tbsp. the same kind of Jam used in the pudding. Cook 5 and served piping hot.

min. stirring occasionally,

"I also favour the steamed - Trick of the Chof jam pudding" said the Chef. To keep turnips from toating shake them over the "It's a hurry-up'; to mix, so I watery, think

also heat after cooking to dry oft

homemakers will

like it."

moisture.

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