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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1950.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Germans are getting dollars for
Paris fashions
THEY WILL BE AT SPRING SHOWS
GE
ERMAN buyers will Leading Paris dress houseN attend Paris spring are already making reservations fashion shows, opening on for buyern representing German stores, exclusive February 1, for the first department
time since the liberation of shops and manufacturers. Paris.
tion
In Hamburg the Dior collec-
guarded by
1
uniformed and a pintr-clothes policeman.
An spending money, they will 100,000 Unliced Staten have
dollars (535,700), relcused specifically for the buying of Parts-designed clother,
be asked to put They will down the same entrance money as buyers from any other coun- try.
German Interest tr Paris fashens has been stimulated over The last two months by visits o! the representatives from
Syndicale de- la Chambre Contur Parisienne, which exists to watch the Paris hauses in- tents, and by collections sent ave by several Paris designers.
Te NOWN were gantse by bastanze, a women's paper with the largest circulation in Genny.
Dim's collection al HONCH
presented in W03 Bunt in the British Zone by Maskotans, who were necor mined by Dior's commer- madh do bylor, the heart of la salon. chef the enbine (who Is resp mutale for making sure make-a dress and necessories e impetrable), publie rein- times officer and three dressers
Seen here is a button-through dress in dark grey Jersey
with deep rounded collar, from Dorville,
Cultivating A Perfume Sense
UVE used to bear a lot of more W serise about perfumes. With your yellow freek you
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strowali
glove boxes. She carries one m her cont pocket. Sometimes pins or each of her huts.
There
fade
WHY
A
Areasures don't do use jonqull or mimosa, with the
They pastel it should be must-
delicate Kiten nonelle. If your evening formal odours last for a long time.
Bath was red velvet then nothing but
sults she cannot Get would do
without. They not only Oc. \! улла alonk didn't match perfume to colours make the daily securing 11 you should use them to match
It is a laugh! moods, Your
The wise woman follows
the dictates of her use. If she finds
floretted odour that has
pleasure, but they soften the water so soup lathers quickly.
Perfume is wonderful prop. It boosts morale. To be
Bure, 11 Is mure expensive than ever, appeal, lifts her soul, makes her but so is everything else.
forget that she works like
E1/1
ひい
old dray horse, she sticks to it
time. She knows, also, that
•
phone rings?
Do you
for months, maybe years, at Do you jump when the tele- get changing perfumes frequently up in the morning, think of the tasks of the day und a strain on the good looks various
live budget.
te yourself you'll never
You are tired: through them?
the mutter, and that's what's CHE follows, a plan that works
to relax or pay You've go like a charm. She gets per price. Did
you
we hear you say fume, tollet water, bath salts, you can't relax? Well, that's sachets--bud soap too, it she not an unusual state of affairs. can find
I carrying the The delirious times in which we same scent, In courge of time live are not conducive to quiet- her wardrobe becomes impreg- ness and calm nerves, nated with her favourite aroma.
Some women find colaxation
You
1
One of the ment photographed Parls models shows a Dlor
Kown lo (erman women.
Women members of the party were met with bouqueta Duch aðsmider sprays of orchida,
Several people who saw the lets, which was show at one afternoon and two gala
evening presentations, tried to IMAN ress or routs, I und stand, but were refund,
The idea was to bring Ger Many up to date with Paris fashions, not to sell
EVELYN WEBBER
takes over today from
ARNE
EDWARDS
Just as
Glamorous!
HE' American working girl is
THE
window there, priced at about
ten times as much.
every blt ns glamorous The opening lines are nl-
She. as her favourite film star. dresses as fashionably as any debutante--and often with far better results.
FOT
ways the same: *"I'm not saying this just because I'm the child's mother."
"I'm not Interested in the money, just my
"'s carent," a
And another
The Hollywood mother tries to get
Even
her child on the screen.
Daily they line up outside the ngents oflees, Fifteen years ago their miracle youngster was always "twice as good ng Shirley Temple." Now it's "Twice as good as Margaret O'Brien."
here. is caky stores meet her more than half way. They stay open until nine p.m. once a week, so she can shop after work. On Saturdays they are open until six. on Sundays, while she reads their advertisements in the Sunday papers, people are al their switchboards to take her telephoned order, though the have not diminished-or chan- shop itself le closed.
ged. Sometimes frustrated act- Mass production manti- resses themselves, they teach
But in 15 yearn the mothera
facturers copy high fashion their muppets
clothes and
Iria- accessories mediately they appear-and sell them for n fraction of the originals The girls themselves are not nfmid to try new ideas.
IF LUCKY
THEN there are plne s like Kleins. Here on lucky day at this huge, ferming warehouse store (where yon chuck cont and parcels mitering so your hands are free to rifle through the racka) there are costly sample KownIN from exclusive uptown shops,
I saw one girl buy a blek- ribbed silk Bown which came straight from Fifth Avenue She paid fifteen shillings for 11. Another bought t cual f:r twenty dollars (27) I find Dever neen Fifth Avenue, was identical with vor in Es
There Is A Touch Of
White Somewhere
--By Joan Erskine
LONDON. strapless cution LWAYS in the spring really hot weather
collections there aro touches of white 411 the clothes, at neek, wrists, or waist, and the 1950 pre- views show an even greater use of white collon pique as trimming.
But oily enough, the winter enflections of 1949 were just as spriglike in this respost Aow! why not Illustrated Is, a Dor- ville model button-through dress in dark grey Jersey. will #1 rounded while collar Then there in 11 atractiv, Tavy dress with slum
MIME THEAY
dropped shoulder, from Hireturt Sportspring collection, 1950
dresses for
uny
It wan
15
5+1 Waki, Lord embroidery and frisges, an rocktail dressen. Sulltang is being tentatively offered by most designer, and Bertmer shurwerk
21 Masual Vermitt A short straight jae- ket. in wide. blue
Krey checks, waK quilled and Woti over a light skirt,
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The mud sensational nuteriai uscel in the show won GLAZED CHINTZ formerly sidered as a fureshing fabric Que dress was in yellow, grey. white and black whitetz. strapless, and there was a three- རྩྭYittl"རྨཱ*།
t wenn The shiny look cover-up the faterte closely reserabled Et mosteir walked on two at # waterproof as the madel time, to show these off to their
be a sourfer! suspiciously best advantage, and then follow, like a razkazosh! We teamm ed a sension of jacket and coat That wha wasted. Bie glaze changing. disapprated but when ironed, it Troppard
We liked the unusual match-
checks. of ing of different
The
Laur-effect tabries are enjoy -
ing a great wave of popularity Another dress was posk auztel In some cases real Ince is used whate glazed Ch
with fuzil
over a contrasting backing, but bered skarl The traght pink equally effective is the material struples top was sentiered with printed to look like lace.
hat the circled by
wirde
Shoulde
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perching # 20 Dow amet tuzla f
Andere large
fre by
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sequins in dresseri saj uppestratee.
Pleased s we were somethin really new at
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lf white collar on the otheı
THEN TOO, ON
Whale, doo, in used on tailored Al verol show I SHIW
with white
qu 4 y 7:
through cycled-hole Showing mbroidery on the lapels, There were chalk white jackets wi Hark shirts, and vice versa We notice ale a mumber of white fuffled felt hals, and 1ny round While cotton gloves were worn by many women through- ouf autumn and well to win- ter somethihast new In this country. Reversib
usually in a dark colour,
have
chalk-white huings, which give
starting effect,
But
The idea of brightening
entire your
wardrobe with paper-stiff white cotton pique, broderie
or taffeta, up- anglaise, or puts to you, let me once again inct so often remind you of a ignored
These accessories must be washed after each wearing. time If you have neither the nor the inclination to ellp them again olf, and sew them on after each washing, why not at- tach them with press studs?
FABRIC NOTE
BCC-
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n
the Shrews we could not help edins Dowardly comparing soine of theMU !「t*I་ ちい shelf paper, CHE American cloth'
TTANTLY
A DISCOVERY
we
Before we left the shaw dexovered ani Interesting for! Have you ever wondered
huw jackels managed to fi tightly in front, and yet hang buosely at De back" The answer in a hit-
beneath the tink back.
loose
There were a gent crocheted pokes und knitted in- folds.
trick strange who digged her the one daughter out as Veronies Lake, peek-a-boo hair-do as well.
They ravy Mrs Eleanor Per- who has put her three Children on the Acreen -the eldest of them only eight,
Bal Deanna Durbin gave D hint "Parvals," she said, "should use caution before pushing their children into theatrical careers. The desire should come from the chtig
Deanna's tragedy
(success at 14, two divorces, out of work at
27) duen not stop the mothers. Nor does the example of Shirley Temple Despite the broken mar- ringes of Judy Garland, Micker Rooney, and Jackie Coogan and Elizabeth
Jat their others were
Taylor's two broken they are still avid to children where these
And when someone mentions Peggy Ann Gerner, who went to court a 17 to be free of her mother, they change the subject. Commentert Deunna about Il ali “Baikosa the children enrust- ly want and enjoy the appinus and attention, they'll be bowild- ered utat unhappy."
Deanna should know.
IT'S NEW
NYLON crepe stockinga, which the manufacturer elverisent, "at, feel, and like with t
look
Alve
Turnabout curtains, to elenade the wean. The bottom bents are made kist Ülke the tops, they can be hung from either end.
Mother-mad-daughter dresses of irtentlcat design. Two-pleen and reversible, they are scaled to
all women member of
familly
And each can be worn
four ways.
The "Rip-n-Senm" gadget In- vented by a housewife to attach
It takes
to her sewing machine. out stitches in o Gash.
Hotlled "Meat Tenderisor." Sprinkled on tough, cheap cuts of meat, it makes them soft as sirloin ætenks.
IT'S PROVED
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AFTER Ove days three hours and twenty-three minutes of sitting silent in shop window to prove whether can keep quiet * WORDK1 The Intiger, housewife Mrs Ann Santander spoke first. Her op- t salesman, Fot the
¥ 1020 prize
Fils first words when the con. ES WHY OVER "You mean I
"
Express Service)
Paris Drew Inspiration From
A
English Hunting Fields
-By Eileen Ascroft
DVANCE spring news from Paris
predicts a new hat line, writes Betty Wilson from Paris. Slim tailleurs will be balanced by small hats, which, worn straight, bare the head and jut out in front like a bird's beak.
back-to-nature look Hat fubrics have a about them. Bird and flower trimmings are made out of pliable straw,
Light wicker is used, too, and string struw worked like braid; there is also a fine like Japanese matting.
Colours include corn-yellow, pale wheat und a belge, which Parls calls "New Potato."
Hunting on skis
ATEST Parisienne winter sports outfits are
inspired by the English hunting field. Jean Baillie shows bulky wrap-over ski jacket in hunting pink wool, buttoned with gold, called "Fox Hunter."
Franch ofter. *! clothes In spired by the English hunt-
ing field,
Brenner sports showed some Interesting fabrics for the new spring season. Their shirt walst cutton dresses were particularly attractive. They were either in light striped cotton, with tloned skirts, making clever use of the stripes or they were In เก the new dark Africon prints. These prints, as their name im- plies, have their origin in West Africa and the designs resemble
"Poon! "Is a gentlemanly out- closely the traditional Palsley
stove-pipe Jit of black wool patterns of Scotland. The deep pants, white pique shirt and flowing colours, with an un-mess Jacket in lemon-coloured usual use of crimson and orange wool, with black silk lopels.
Newcomer to 'the cotton Swiss organdies in white and range is an attractive collection navy are seen for charming new note.
123 American sizes 10 to 18, summer dance frocks. A floral Many of these shirt-waist
Carven is showing casual Tailored and precision-finished, design in pastel organdle is used, dresses have long sleeves-a
hand-knitted middy blouses in they include dark Paisley town for a drop-shoulder lined after- Of perfume she is sparing. In a warm bath. They close
boon
to the fair girl who sun-
natural wool, with bits of bright dresses, satin-striped cottons and noon frock, pretty and young, because that le most costly. She their eyes, soak for a time, try burns easily. The skirts wero
poplins, two-piece and ideal for Ascot or a gardan keeps it in an atomiser. closely
lo forget what should be forget- gracefully full again, the fullness colour Introduced on the Jackets Iridescent
in Fair Isle or Icelandic design, summer evening outfits and all- party, stoppered, placed in a dark ten m the
of pressing falling from unpressed pleats In way
with wool frigo odging collar day hot weather ensembles.
Beauty box cabinet, and sprays throat, chest duties. An amusing movie may most
Basket handbags CBes
and armholes
Good news for difcult foot NSWER to many maiden's and arms before getting into her pick one up, or a book that is were carried, with the gathered gland dry goods. After the bath, not excling. The idea, of tops made to match the dresses. London fashions fitings, top utility shoes now she has a brisk friction with course, is to get away from the One dress even had a large PRING overcoals are shower- made in American dizes and fit- tinted powder base which stays toilet water. Being less expen- routine. Many of us are bored brimmed hat made to match itproof, in fine gabardine ting up to size 12 (equivalent to matt for hours, can be
sive, she can make a splash with because one day lo much ke
it.
another. Boredom puts shadows Sachets are a grand buy. She puls them between the piles at on the face, lines that no co-
metic will eraso,
-By HELEN FOLLETT.
undles in the dresser drawer, tucks them in handkerchief and
together, strike a completely This is meant for
SENSATIONAL
chalet wear.
after-ski
prayer.... new
warm-
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powdered over without caking worsted tweed and alpaca, English size 10).
Worl severe Two-way sleeves can be
Three-way foot measurements and defeats a shiny noca,sans
WORLD COPYRIGHT full-length or buttoned up into achieve tailored fitting and as SERVED short cuffs; tuxedo fronts un- many as seven fittings exist to
--{London - Express Service) button to form wrapover fronts each size and half size.
There
were several black cotton shirts worn with
striped skiria; and Rally even greater number of
an
black