MORE COOL
than the average, these MANHATTAN SHIRTS
are delightful to wear these hot sticky days. They have rigld
collars, are made from a fine 'cotton
fabric with woven stripes and are
stocked in white, buff, blue, grey
or green.
ON SHOW IN THE WINDOW
at
MACKINTOSH'S
Alexandra Building
Des Voeux Rond.
Silver for the Connoisseur
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY JULY 2, 1949.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
All-Purpose Cooler Tailored clothes
for the Autumn By EILEEN ASCROFT
ENGLISH tailored
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Now colours for haly will be clothes at their best blush rose and opera, which is blue-auburn shado Now were featured in the London features are the "ruffle cut" and Model House Group nutumn the "urchin fringe." shown. There were 12 mem- bera of this wholesale model group, most of whom have already staged their autumn Beauty on holiday and winter shows. Here are some of the highlights.
from those shows:
New styles Include "angel,”`
a face-framing which fringo and tiny wings of hair,
Sunshine and fresh air are fine beautifers it
pack for your
Matching dress and cost in you protect your skin, hair and barathea in deep carnation eyes.
When you red tailored euening ensemble In para violet whipcord holidays remember to take a dinner dress and three- blindy hat or silk scarf to pro- quarter coat, and a beautiful leet your hair,, a good brillian- new shade called Petrol (from tine and some alive all to rub Marcus),
into the scalp to counteract A bottle preen sergeault-dryness. with
tnteresting jacket an featuring battledress front and patched back with "at" from Dorville.
Now materials in the Freder ick Starke collection Include Duchesse Dogan (n setin of venetian splendour with chameleon look achieved by a contrast coloured back. Benga- line fallle: moire changeant, nylon organza, and a soft," zup- plo wool called Nigrela in a range of anemone colours,
Invest in a good pair of sun glances to protect your eyes and give them a soothing eye bath at night.
OKO
For your skin there creams, to prevent tanning or lotions to encourage It without burning. And take really good nourishing skin food to use at night.
Also important waterproof make-up: & deodorant: depila tory and make-up for the legs. Hands will need nourishing cream at night and cuticle cream to counteract sea stir.
und
Black for parties
* Actress Gertrude Law- rence has turned shoe designer. For herself she has
created a new pump in black patent leather with a squarish
As Fickle As
The Neckline
By BARBARA BUNSCHU
NEW YORK.
manufac hosiery
toe and medium heel, finished turers are doing their with a large grosgrain bow❘ beat to remove US women's exactly like the old-fashioned latest excuse for not wear- man's evening shoe.
Ing stockings..
Tho big knower is tho "plunging neckline" stocking reinforced on the edge of the foot only to match the low-cut 5h00.
comu
This year's stockings with reinforcemento barely covering the 10c-nalls and with as much variation in shape a the neckline of a dress.
Back To Natura
+
Colours" have run bock to ̈à) "natural" look too vying with runtan in most instances with a few variations in shades, of light fog.
Also now
in the Blocking counter is a new typu the manu- of nylon-twisted, facturer claims. liko old- fushioned Filk crepe. It's sup-
summer
posed to have less shine and
than moro stretch
the usual straight throad nylon.
too
Ons manufacturer weaves lus
reinforcement into
鼗 V neckline that matches A V weave in the top of the lock- ing which is supposed to give better thigh it. Another hás woven an arrow info the front of the stocking at the top co the woman can tell if her scam is straight without peering around her knee.
Two-Tono. Hoso
One manufacturer has dream- ed up a shaded dye process, which makes the back of the stocking darker than the front and is thereby suppored to make a leg look alimmer,
B
There are also plenty of pretty "gimmicku" to point up pretty ankle-lace-ingots, clocks, embroidered initialo, and
even ankle-bracelet см- biidories Bro shown оп д
number of special occasion hose.
George Falconer & Co. (HK) Ltd.
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UNION BUILDING, PEDDER STREET, HONGKONG: TEL.22143
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Scarves & stoles
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By PRUNELLA WOOD
Sigmund Crane
WERY current love in casual fashion is included in this cotton wash frock cardigan fastening, full skirt which lies flat over the hips, brief sleeves. The fabric is a fine cheek gingham of tangerine and black; the square-buttons-are-simulated-jet, the belt... black patent.
With practically no accessories it is the perfect lazy day dress; add a shady black hat, cotton gloves, city summer shoes, and it is a goodlooking go-to-town. costume for the dogdays. Tho popular plunging neckline adds much to the cooling effect.
Now that's what I call a hat'
➡say THE MEN
London studio
men
wett
seven faced with a big prob- lem (and no Come→ back if they put their fect in 1): What kind of a bat do you srally like to see on the girl 'by your side?
They pleked one, sketched here. by ROBD.
The suven
men:
Lord Amulrec, M.D.
Norman Doddir, So-
cialist, MP. for Dart-
Chatk-white felt with navy dalled veiling:
ford.. Kenneth Horne, Note the contrasting feather brushes fone radio sinr...Joceline while one navy), sei at an angla. Durand, airways com-
pany manager...Frank Lawton, film actor...Bill John- son, American actor.... Keith Edwards, bank clerk...
Dior is in the
"Blues" THERE is a great deal of blue THE
running through the collec
in
The Judges archty surveyed a parade of "some basic shapes in women's hats." These included.
luscious cartwheel style with double brim and bouquet of roses perched over one eye...! that's the stuff.......
. But the seven thought almost
London Express Service.
In
WEDDING GOWN champagne slipper solin, specially designed by Frederick Storke, so that it may be converted into on evening frock, Note the high "envelopa tlap" tapelt,
GA
TWEED DRESS and jacket by Marcus-Scots tweed with #nusual boipe and pranga check The dress has farge flopped pocket buttoning at the side with knite pleats falling from the buttons.
Beauty Without
Blemish-
Anne
Edwards
haircut,
London. "quiet restrained elegance") HORTER and shorter a tight white Jersey grows the fintrout. In dress, silt to chow black stock-
blown roses.
men and prophecies from Hair dressers more and more wo- mon are cutting of more and more hair.
The wearer-Slm star Jenni-
is
BROMIDE, PLEASE
THE KIND of so-called women
* writing for
Latest, smartest, and most- Ukely-to-be-copied of the new ahort shorts is the poet's-length-which-still-lingers-on.riz
"One of the most popular of head of hair pictured here.
"ile our young marrieds."
of course, 'Chips to his frienda."
"Mr and Mrs Blank with their very social young son." "Who has just returned looking bronzed and BL"
"She was with her tall daughter and her pretty daugh
"They were busy ..."Enjoying a joke "MIS
TINE, natural complexions, un ing, protruding from the peep-
ostentation, good taste, and toed sandal
are make-up moderation
The legs aplodged with theter Jones, who is expected to in English characteristics.
remains of tan-lotion; others They are worth
preserving, bare, rcorched, and goose-plm- but, as Englishwomen have a pled, craving the decency of
to keep up, there stockings, repulation
obvious faults in are certain make-up that must be avoided.
Over-decorated
NOTE, in a train or bus, some
of those examples:- Over-decorated mouths shap: ed sulkily beyond the natural lpline: feverishly rouco d checks, aging to all faces; the coldness of chalky-white pow der; thin, plucked eyebrows and over-mascared lashes,
Small mouths are as nitrac- tive as large ones; the die Linguishing feature is chape lines, not size. So outline boldly with a lipstick brush using bright, ruther than pastel,
shades.
Many women make the mis- take of using a powder rougo on top of powder. That is very difficult to apply successfully, but n'cream rouge or lipstick, smoothed on over your founda-
tion cream and then powdered over gives a shit glow to tha skin.
..
'Floury' look
The false "beauty" spot among a crop of blemishes, A flawless skin might get away with it, but even then It Is in doubtful tasto.
The perfume of last summer Hone siale becaure it was scat- tered on clothes not applied to the skin, where It belongs.
The Loo-exotic tancy hair- ornament studded with poste diamonds, which may be effec tive for evening wear, but has no justification in daytime,
The lipstick on teeth which destroys the most charming smile.
Bath 'bouquet'
Jennifer Jonas wears it.
backwards
marry producer David Selznick TIERE are some ways to avoid this summer-will bring her Blylc-zetting "Poet's Ctif” to hot weather faligue:—
England this month, ́ ́ To soothe heal-rashes, dis-
Not more than one inch long solve two
boracic ounces of
all over her head, she brushes crystals' or powder In a jug her hair sideways across the with hot water and pour into back to avoid the hard shingled the bath.
looks,
It brushes from her face, Likes it because cool, young-looking, and no trouble.
Hairdressers and homo perm manufacturers, . "who · foresee business losses in this too-short for-a-perm. hair-length, are an→ xlously asking: "When will hair get longer?"
For a refreshingly perfumed bath, make a "bququel" of one ounce dried rose-petals, half an ounes of orris-root or. dried lavender, and the grated rind of a lemon.
For sore feet You cannot disguise the use of powder by wearing a very light shqde, The result is in- TV
TWO eunces of bicarbonate of Landa dissolved in two quoris variably "floury" and obvious. of water is excellent for sore Powder must be a shade darker
and swollen 'feet and expessive than the skin.
perspigation. After applying freely, pat, the. Another good face with a slightly damp towd' to remove surplus,
PASSING · FANCIES. Keep eyebrows naturai, plucking only, the strugglers,
FANCY THIS Depart and darken, by brushing lightly
ment. Brilleh born and with mascara (don't use a pon Vee sufficient in your foot-schooled Marquis of Milford bath to turn the water a deep flaven talking to his American pink. Too much will stain, the brunetio dinner partner feet brown,
broad American accent. Anna
Answor-Tire short-cut crazo is bowling women over as fast as the New Look did. It won't get longer till it's got a lot recipe is
shorter. a solution of one tablespoon of permanganate of potash cry- stals dissolved in one pint of water and-corked up in bottle.
car
In
e) no further than the natural tion of the fashion recently held
growth. Paris
A dirty mascara brush will Dlot, hos launched out his own as one about the WHITE TOWN Individual colours..
BREEDERS FELT. - Everyodeï agreed it was.
clog the eyelashes. A good tip A-stood deodorant powder is Esmeralda, axoile. Gypsy dan
main pas-2- Rich-midnight blue
to help them to curl is to damp made by mixing one tablespoon car, ( În (worta] (1), unostentatious;· "(2)". mart;
of finely-powdered' starch with stonauing her the brush will n setting lotion two teaspoon of boracid pow Worth, comedy actress, wearing jumpers......”. «Irens with black and with white enough to wear anywhere; (3) There is a new Vivid saxe blus made a pretty face look prettier.
Instead of water,
des de tablespoon of tal- and a lot of turquoise. Sapphire
While we are on the object
a hat given to the Queen (but
on faults, here are some minor cum powder to perfume, it.
only tried
once) by Eva Cherry Marshall Péron Flerte Balmain (who Lold me recently that he de- W: The "onco-varnished big toe- ---|London-Express Servlos) :-) nail, sadly in need of- repaint-
intLondon Lepeses Zerotes) signed only for women 05
blue is worn with emerald green,
Bix of them voted for it, one
of
and all the blues and greens against. [óf buttorfier' wings are worked togather,
fer."
chatting."...
with
the secretary" So-and-So who
WAS, of coured, before her marriage....
The gathering was marked by a happy informality." ・This happy group includes..." "Our prelest debulante, who is studying domestle economy." ..."Her wide circle of friends will learn with regret...' "Stil! wearing dark glass's after her recent operation..." COMPOSER'S GUESTS
The Earl of Harewood, *
28-year-old son of the Princess Royal, and dark-hair- ed Mian Marlon Steln, 22-year-
old pianist, attended, a festival ervice in the 10th century parish church at Aldeburgh. Suffolk. They were guests at
House, home of Mr:Ben! Jamin Britten, 35-year-old composer, during the town's music festival.
The vicar, the Rev. Rupert Godficy, arranged a. special service which included a num- ber of solos.
The soloists' voices attracted á host of little birds to the porch way and their thrill twittering all but ruined the singing for the congregation at the back,
“JUST IMAGINE
COOKERY QUOTES from "Anne Batchel- dor's Cook Book," just publish ,ed in New York,
To the ingredients given in every receipt, add, always, at least one full cup of imaging- tion
with an egg+ do not produce scrambled, committee on omelette you're thinking, bl A tump in a dish of, mashed - potato Is like 'a·button; in the contribution plate, Not negd- tiable, itablemedalijas
"
Eggs bosten Beater
- London Keprise Berdinu).