ON WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY AND
FRIDAY NEXT.
We offer 150 pairs of LADIES
"K"
SHOES
AT
$25.00
A PAIR
They comprise oddments, broken ranges and discontinued numbers and were originally $50.00 to $60.00 a pair.
A representative selection will be on show in one of our main windows from Tuesday morning.
MACKINTOSH'S
Alexandra Building
Des Voeux Road.
YING TAI CO. of Shanghai
MANUFACTURERS and EXPORTERS
of Embroidered Goods
LINGERIE, PADDED GOWNS, HOUSE-COATS, NIGHT GOWNS, MEN'S ROBES, PYJAMAS, MANDARIN COATS, LOUNGING PYJAMAS, EMBROIDERED BLOUSES, CHINESE ARTS, ETC.
BOLT SILK, SOOCHOW BROCADES,
TRIBUTE SILKS and
Various Kinds of Puro Silks and Crepes
OPEN ON SUNDAYS
Tel. 59640
27 Chung King Arcade, Nathan Road, Kowloon HONG. KONG
There's food
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,__` SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1949.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Holiday Clothes Are More Covered Up
A
By Rose Rolland
GREAT change in com- ing over beach and holl- day fashions. It is becom- ing the vogue to wear moro clothes instead of less. At- trnetive little dresses are suggested for the gardener, who, incidentally, Onds them cooler, and quite as prac-
models, would be an excellent choice for a country or sensido holiday. It will be noted that Ane checks, stripes, or 0 combination of dots and stripes
are popular in Uicso model which all have fairly full-skirted youthful lines and provide no traps for the one who launders them.
FROM LONDONUS OF LONDON comes this Ught-hearted coolle Jacket. in red and yellow etched in black on a whlic of London has ground (left), Roccliffe and Chapman's designed the cotton beach dress pictured on the right. printed in a kaleidoscope of colours-red, yellow, green and maroon.
tical as slacks or the pic- turesque off-shoulder sun- bathing outfits in which the wearer invited sunburn.
Perhaps it is a fact that for very serious work one would and hardly wear the sandals
in the at- petticoat suggested
but Dorville mariel, fractive
Percy Trilnick these and the
Treatment
Enlarged Pores
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BRENNER SPORTS
at
Paquerette
GOWNS
SHOES
074
Ltd
& ACCESSORIES Gloucester Bldg. 16 Des Voeux Rd., C.
By HELEN FOLLLETT
dresses
Much the same may be said of the now beach suits and dresses. Some of the show one bare shoulder like Roccliffe and Chapman's model illustrated here, but usually this
VERTRESKRETAULETZTIZÆLESMOTIŻMPEN & INK COMMENTARY by CUMMINGS URDUÇÀ
Anne Edwards!
from:
PARIS
Fath shows his
new styles at
midnight
La Haute Couture
PARIS.
"ACQUES FATH, one of two men in Paris who can launch a world-wide fashion in one day, gave a midnight show of his new clothes.
Nearly 600 colebrated and elegant women streamed into his floodlit garden in Paris. They walked along a 30-yard ramp for mannequins, which gave them the opportunity to show off their own lavish gowns.
A trellis screen of scarlet SHORT SWAGGER conts of geraniuma provided
back- four noparate pieces-two in ground for Bashing emeralds and front and two at the back- Fables, and Riviera-brown skins. joined on the shoulders.
In an atmosphere of excite- A BLACK-AND - WHITE ment 20 times more tense than STRIPED BLOUSE which had at the biggest film first-night in all the white stripes covered London, Jacques Fath himself with silver beads, received the celebrities.
A TOPLESS PINK SEQUIN
He was dressed in a white RODICE, with a short Buffy dinner jacket. A black chiffon
skirt, large hot and ennine handkerchief streammed from his pocket. His hair was freshly blonded.
stoic.
HEELS, thai tapered to A
He kissed the hands of his all spike. distinguished clients, or both their cheeks. ·
Mrs Biddle, wife of the American Ambassador. arrived
In a Fath model. She shim- mered from head to foot silver beada.
HATS pulled into one large elephant-ear over the right cheek.
In. *
1949
DITTO
THE parcel I took to
Paris from. London' in
Maria Montez was there. And 1940 contained: chocolate, coup. Annabcila, Madeleine Carroll, tex, sugar. and the Princess Troubelskoy Belty Hutton, the Woolworth helress.
off-
10 woman wore an shoulder, street-length frock in black satin, with an enormous coffee-coloured hat covered with ospreys.
to The parcel I am taking London from Paris in 1940 con- lains chocolate, soup, tea, sugar,
IT'S JUST DONE
THE chic set in Paris have their characteris- tles, too. This is how you can
in a
Mme. Fath, considered one of tell them: the most beautiful women in Paris, camo dressed in white.
hair They do their satla and diamonds, British ragged thingle that looks like dahlias (the girls cut it them- scives)....
is part of the effect, achievedcover-girl Barbara Goalen was In pink blouse and white with the stole which is part of
muslin skirt. of many
these frocks; the shoulder can be covered if the sun gets too hot, or the stole may be used as a protection on the head.
is
Another popular garment the very short Chinese coolic cont which, worn over a bathing suit, shows a vast expanse of bare leg. This looks boyish and becoming on the right per- Gon. But much more useful for the average woman are the short jeans worn with a sort of shirt pulled outside them. This outfit helps to hide a good many figure faults and is also com-
The 'tube' again
They wear men's white cot- ton shirts with the
CHORE
City of Love and Romance
Parisian men are SO gallant
for
kid belts....Cashmere sweaters with
necklines.... plunging wire baskets
shaking lettuce...telescople 1umblers for plenies,..., white gloves in Swiss eyelet embroidery.... nylon elastic bathing suits that look and act like corsets.
THEY SAY
DANCE DRESS-
SWIM SUIT
This midnight bathing suit and dance dress from Parla is made by tying ground-touching skirt fa waterproof nylon over □ matching two-piece bathing suit, embroidered with waterproof gold requins.
and for MEN
The 'coffin front?
By John Ware.
IT won't be long before the well-dressed man thinks in terms of his entire ensemble, instead of buying a shirt here and a haphazard tie there and a suit only when his wife insiris that the last one is too shabby. Men are buying shirts and socks in quiet, neat patterns to match their sultings. Socks aro of the ribbed variety in plain The bizarre patterns shodes.
are out.
without his coat. ÉCHOES Overheard in
the
*
crowded cafes:-- ERICII collars
VON STROHEIMT, looking Prussian and talking American at a ḍirces opening............
turned up and the sleeves rolled above the elbow.....
Pink champagne and orange
Break their holiday in the juice were handed round. Then the
with the South of France to be present show began
frock at a fashion opening although Her customary bride. was typical of the other 100 they cannot order anything for models designed by Jacques another month.... Fath. He called his new line the
"gushing" silhouette.
the "tube look It amounts of last year, with the addition of full panels on
one or both Induced sides a style which
the imannequins to walk with a pecullor hula motion of the
Patronise any restaurants in tiny whitewashed cellars under the pavement....
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SOMETHING NEW
NEW in the shops since the last time I saw -Paris.... .... tullo -.......... nylons............ snails...
Clear Blues with shades of rust High spots that received ap- to wear as scatterpins....plati- are excellent colour schemes.
plausa were:-
ENLARGED...pores, that marfortable, practical and colourful.-hips.---
the loveliness of the com-
common trouble plexion, are a They may be the penalty one keeping pays for negicel, not the skin scrupulously clean, ne by n diet that is too rich in fats, loo well supplied with proteins. The woman who loves fruits and vegetables, who has always taken orange or tomato juice at breakfast, is not likely to be among thos who are amleted good-looks grief. Every year, we learn mare and more about the effects of food upon the complexion. The balanced diet is nf wonderful cosmetic value.
with this.
Harsh soaps may be respon sible for some chata. Solled wash cloths may be a factor. A
clean wash cloth a day may keep blackheads away. Suaps that agree perfectly with
do so well
one
for
skin may not another. One must experiment.
Texture of Skin
To reduce enlarged pores menns that the texture of the skin must be changed and re- flaed and that is no easy task. Conditions can be helped. how- ever, if one la persistent. Treat- ment consists of the
nightly face washing. followed by
શ cold water rinsing and the ap- plication of an astringent, instead of the creamy cosmetic that is the general rule.
In the morning 150 cold water freely, apply the astrin- gent again. Witch hazel serves 1.the purpose.
skin
all
One reason why coarse should be fought tooth and nail ts, that is the pores expand, they attract atmospheric dust and then one is up against that meanest, stubbornest of complexion is, a display of black points on the flesh.
'It is
necessary, also, to culti vate hygienic habits. Thero should be
warm, soapy, scrubby bath every day to help the skin to function all over the body as an organ of elimina-
tion. The results will react on the complexion. Deep breathing exercise recommended, and
blood
in the open air, so that streams will hasten on thelr
nourish of providing
work
ment to evory, cell, and carry- ing away wastes.
Robb's London
num hair tinted pink....gold
MADAME ROCHAS ot her husband's premiere with all her hair brushed' into a bun over the right ear and one long ear-
ring in the left ear....slitting opposite an American with a left ear bun and n right enr looked like carring-30 they weird Siamese twins....
JEANNE LAFAURIE, who designs fabulous gold and jewelled dresas, turning up herself in a cheap white cotton "blouse "and navy skirt
London Express Servicej
MRS. TYRONE POWER SELECTS HER MATERNITY WARDROBE
L
INDA CHRISTIAN, wife of Tyrone Power, her. But first the definite lim
self.
nounces that she is expecting a baby.
Her maternity wardrobe is being designed petal-edged
by the man who also designed maternity clothes for Princess Elizabeth.
Although Mrs Power's wardrobe is far from being
in the accepted tradition, cach item incorporates advice on well-thought-out-lines.
straight
hangs fortable-It down from the shoulder, the
WAMINYONG
The most striking change is In shirt designs. All the best- sellers are of the tunic variety because there is one American habit that the Englishman has,
to sit taken
over. He likes
Shirt and Trousers ¿ "The habit of sitting in shirt and trousers has become socially acceptable this summer." sakk West End tailor, "Our coat cut- ters have been busy perfecting a shirt which will not cockla when the cost is taken off.
"We are still experimenting to take away the fullness from the front. The design is known as the coffin front, because it is Not a happy straight down. description perhaps." Collar attached lesing favour because
4
shirts
of tho for extra laundering, but Collar-attached shirt with a extre collar is selling well. The eride of the extra-collar-are-left. jolns the neck- open where it
it can easily be band and stitched on when the original collar trays. Insertion cuffs aro also being sold.
The emphasis in underwear is towards
mesh.
and
"Cleanliness
neatness," as one haber- dasher explained it. The most striking change is in underwear shorts,
button which have‘a front and elastic gusseis af the side,
Vanishing Cord ¦ "This tusset idea has started us after the solution of the everlasting pyjama problem," shld a specialist. "I mean the vanishing cord trick-lost in the tunnel. Elastic. tops have been as too hot and un- fortable in bed, and ave cried out for years
have
some practical substitute the pyjama cord.
"K
men
for
for
think we have it in the button front and gusset
sido,
but the model is not yet ready for retailing. It should be per- fected by the autumn."
-{London Express Service)
tachable, so that they can bo used on other garments-and also leave her with a sovorely. Plain dress for other › se« antions.
står touch. A daring idea carried out in black velvet
armholes out in one line with and' stiffened | fallle.
The
the seams. It's smart-fashion turn-over Resenor bodleo
wasnote the Linds's o w n⠀ suggestion, collar. It's clever-one button
discreet 4 adapted from Hartnell'a
fastening allowing' a high original design with a'
wrap-byer. neokilno.
2
A black woollen-afternoon → drem which has, me main Casual cape in black and
trimmed white shepherd's
features, large gilt plata, “black --- braided.
· DOM3=. · pockets and collar, both do-
Thie in the ordinary ploturn-dress-li_grey and cyclamen net. But it features a larger than usual Bye-catching - andere distracting in its crystal embroidery.
London Krpress Service)