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MACKINTOSH'S STORE
IS NOW
AT
13, CHATER ROAD.
TELEPHONE REMAINS 20019,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1950.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
The New Silhouette Is Shaped Like A Wedge
LONDON.
ONDON'S "Couture Week" finished in a charming house in Mayfair, where Digby Mor- ton showed a small but com-
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Time For Serocalcin.......
as Hong Kong's chilly days approach, the common cold comes out to play with renewed vigour
thanks to Serocalcin its playtime of I infection is only short-lived.
Morton
By Joan Erskine
ness,
than ever before, A grey blue Unen suit had Insertions of Kuipure lace round the sleeves and in two narrow front panels.
A Surprise
A surprising number of edge- to-edge costs made their ap- pearance and loose coals with hardly any collar-worn Or
plain linen dresses, A crimson
prehensive collection. not in the startling or un- Primarily his is a tailoring wearable. Casual nuits were house, interested in line and particularly well represent- cut, material and detail, but ed. and the line this season in neat and controlled-no extreme skirt or hip full-
flying panels jutting collars. There is a definite tendency towards a wedge silhouette, with width at the upper
arm. This style is shown to ad- vartage in the intricately cut spiral cape sleeves on Reveral models, and the on short puffed sleeves on same of the dresses,
Stuart
Peter
Russell
Digby Morton has Introduced the cape sleeve, shown here on a check silk dress. He has used It on sulta, And coals, sometimes long and sometimes abert. From the back i hardly shows, as it la seamed into the sleeve. In the picture, too, are some typical examples of suits from 'eler Russell, showing double pockets, and back treatment.
PARIS
PARIS.
by JOAN HANNISON
just about to be expected.
In fact, he has become quite a legend. A Paris newspaper claims that he has introduced to the French repertoiro two new means of approach:
APPROACH NO. 1.: "I am a big sentimentalist because i am Anglo-Saxon.
APPROACH "NO. 2.: want to have a long, long talk writer, means that he wants to with you." (This, saya the have a long, long talk about
IMOSA flowers are just beginning to open along the French Riviera, and the lure of the sun should per- suade thousands. to leave their Paris apartments....
I say "should," But they don't. I know, I have been looking for a Paris apart ment for four months, and I know nobody is quitting.
Each morning in the Paris Where is he? estate agents one finds the ME. DE NARDONNE,
MME same band of wild-eyed MI wite of the French women. British and Ameri- flier
а усаг can mostly, trying to find disappeared just over
ago, has persuaded the French somewhere at something Ministry of Aviation to recon- less than £50 a month.
mis- con-
himself.)
Reac de Narbonne, who
struct her husband's last flight. What with the trade
She is trying to prove that the sions, and all the other
Ministry is wrong in supposing arelomeration of international or bim missing, believed killed.
Kanisations, all with short, sharp, Nothing will shake her belief
title,
flat-seeking that he, flying Alx Czech ico- foreigners have come to be a hockey players to Britain, Was wonderful source of income to Involved in an "Iron Curtain"
drama.. the prudent French.
At this time many thousands starting their prophylactic courachitilled Make sure of your supply by ordering Scrocnlcin now.
SEROCALCIN
FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF COLDS
Packed in tubes of 60 tablets,
Pharmacists are reminded that the sole selling agents for Seronalein in Hong Kong are Showan, Tomes & Co. Lid Chung Tin Building, Telephone 27781/3.
Now Arrivals of TIENTSIN CHEMICAL WASHED RUGS Large Selection PEKING ART RUG CO. 221A Nathan Road, Kowloon.
I have been offered gloomy, unheated Hats, for £45 a month,
un
artist's studio without toilet accommodation but with a ballet
0
No spinach?
CCORDING
French this 15 child
to food specialists,
danoer's practice rall for £50 what a four-to-nine month, and a no- sixth-floor thould eat for lunch in order to apartment (so full of objets be healthy: Soup, hors d'oeuvres, d'art that you could not see the a plate of meat or fish,
salad, walls) for a mere £80.
That "apartment in Paris" we have heard so much about-Just where is it?
Orson-legend
THERE stems to be hardly a night spot around Paris where cinema star Orson Wellca has not just been or is
and fruit..
Picasso relents
Fon
Pocket Points
The main points on suits und couts were the numbers of poc- kets, sometimes as many as six, and the very intricate pleating
OVET
the
dress made of
grosgrain fitted coat with spiral cape aleevo Wis worn over a chiffon two layers of chiffon, one black and the other crimson. An in- teresting effect was achieved by
mocking the two shades
of
Smocking, too, was used black and, boney striped dress. The smocking finished at the hips. Cape sleeves on black and pink check silk dress could be folded back to show Inter lining of a different clicck,
Side Line
A line followed on manr dresses was a side swept deep
of
on
on skirts. There were klited plest one side, with a row skirts with fat front and back buttons from neck to hem panels, sets of Inverted pleats the other. Other dresses gave a with knife pleats each side, sela coat effect.
of inverted pleats within pleats,
Splits box plents and fine knife pleats. Most of the suit jackets had
A navy satin short -nent-half-bells The blouses dress dipped severely to ankle-
were simple, und often matched length at the back, and
the hats,
evening
WAS buttoned of
the centre down
grosgrain tave back. A light black The spiral cope sleeves the
elbow dinner dress was split to the appearance of an cape,
sometimes double, with knees at ene side, had an up- the top layer thrown back over standing; ruft at one side of the the_shoulders.
Another on From the back neck, balanced
by And Acen This the hips. A navy dress was
hen spil{
right down the back show a pale green pleated panel, A combination of ince and net full skirted 1 jacket. A was used in
it could not
sleeve was used on a navy suit bound with black,
there were pocke's on the hips 10 match the
to
alin navy suil had four while evening dress of brown Ince and tabs on the pockets,
ened accordion-pleated net over a Lastened with gold buttons, like a mid- satin foundation.
shipman the Royal Navy. On Ane green/while striped suit, marrow flaps on
scams
were
matched on the skirt. Checks were treated in an interesting way. Sometimes they were in- set la narrow panels, with the checks going an opposite way. Jackets cut on the straight were teamed with skirts cut on the bias, which gave a fluted swing to the skirts.
Louse travel coats were worn
chalk over
white tailored sults-In fact, more white out- fits have been seen this season
NON-SLIP HALTERS
For women who are marvous About their strapless evening Kowns slipping Now
York jeweller has designed those
simulated pearl and diamond
halters. Complementary
rings go with the halters,
London Espress Steric.
エー
Hatpin Embargo Lifted
the firsi time in Inny years, Picasso has .... drawn a portrait with two eyes
The Municipal
Council
of
has
that
in the proper place and a recog- Colorado Springs, Colo., nisable nose,
just abolished ordinances limited the length of women's hatpins and prohibited women's pictures in cigarette advertise-
The portrait, of Russian writer lyn Ehrenburg, Is for the French translation of his new book,
-(London Express Service) ments.
If You Have A Problem Skin
comes
By HELEN follett on, the better the results, as
certain amount of absorption creaming is not enough. There takes place. should be brisk friction. A dry
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On the dry skin neither very cutaneous coating has t forvelous appetite for lubricants. hot nor very cold water should It laps them up, always wants be used. When washing the fare more. After the face is washed have
water just warm with
fluff up a
good
soap suds at bed time, enough rinsed and dried gently, a heavy father, cream should be applied, one that will not permit the fingers to slip and clido.
the
to
ISTEN to a group of women taiking about their com- plexiona and you are likely to come to the conclusion that the normal, healthy skin is a rarc blessing. They complain of ex- cessive oillness or dryness that
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Tho faking. trouble is, they seldom take the trouble to find out the causes of these conditions. Remove the cause and along comes the cur/.
It soup proves Irritating, sometimes happens when A diet low in fat will in-
skin is extra dry, Inclined fluence sebaceous
to giands
With on emollient of firm be sensitive, substituto send out less of their lubricating consistency, massage is
more cosmetic meal. Some are com- fluids. A-litle more fat in the effective than if a light cream
of finely ground meal. Tho starchy content diet will tend to incrence the is used. The fingers press niore activity of theso.oli gushers, and...deeply into the flesh, stimulat gives softness and smoothness to the dry
ing the under fibres, urging the the skin. To tise them, sprinkle skin will assumo
glands to become normal
a tablespoonful on moist more normal condition,
wash cloth, use the muot functioning. Even so, the arid skin have plenty of creams. Casual
The longer a cream remalus
in
soap.
D same
GIRL
WITH THE
SLANTING EYES.
Staics
European
Dior's
LLA liftchoun, girl with the modelled in the United A slanting eyes, aged 23, is as well as in many
Manchurian countries. Now she in the daughter of a father and a Russian mother top-flight mannequin. and is now modelling clothes at
Alla has the right to choose Dlor's shows. She was trained as a ballet dancer to she finds-pae Dior dress from each col- a gift from the the "Dior Glide" comparatively fection. This simple. Dlar insists that his house and I she wants any mannequins move quickly and other dresses she gets them at cut prices. Hobbles? She has no like 'dancers.
time for them. "I often stort work at 8 a.m.", says Alla, "and" do not finish till midnight."
She is unmarried, lived with her mother in Paris. She has
THE 'MANNISH LOOK'
SHOWS UP
Anne Edwards
SUMS UP HER WEEK IN FRANCE
PARIS. HAT is the smartest look in Paris now? Summing up the around the dress
the way ordinary food is made to taste better,
and so long, of course, as you want to go at the right time.
Forlers now have a legal tariff, so it's safe to ask them what the correct tip is so long as you don't dare to give t them.
STRANGE!
ISN'T it sweet about the French? THE WAY their words for "Walt" and "Ceme In" sound almost exactly the same- so they come in anyway? THE WAY they always arrange for the same man to sit beside you throughout the journey if you travel alone? THE WAY they design the most expensive hats in the world for foreigners--and look smarter than
any other women Jn the world just wear- was ing bereds?
EXAMPLE: In one French train the meal Included 1wo staple dishes of British menur wsk
cooked cauliflower and mashed But the cauliflower rows, the shops, and the potatoes.
was crisp, dressed with oil and answer is lemon and night clubs-my
herbs, and served that the smartest look is very cold with hors d'oeuvres. the Mannish Look.
The potato was the colour of butter, and topped with thick, Take THE CLOTHES:
crust. 11 nutty, Holden Apart from
the bow ties, made, cald the chef, by boiling the high starched collars, potatoes in their skins, peeling and the
fronts them very hot, breaking them white
with a fork, and seasoning with. on black Buits-the latest salt, pepper, nutmeg, Then cut
wear men's in tle pieces of butter, put
thing is to
style clothes made elaborate fabrics.
THE MAN
There are
-(London Express Service)
It
3
Ways To
up in in a hot dish that has been lightly olled, cook in a very hot oven and turn out upside down.
It's only a suggestion-but why don't
WC
entice French
sweatshirts like a train chefs to Britain and send man's golf sweater made with some British ones for a course knitled ribbed neck, cuffe, and on the French trains? collars-but the shirt itself is in
brilliant, coloured satin,
There
lumber Are men's
and made in scarlet Jackets emerald velvet Dr Eatin,
The Intest evening blouses aro tailored exactly like shirt with his collar and cuffs. but the material is satin covered with black lace.
The newest with your
THE SAY
CAFE GOSSIP: Pleasso's design for new plastic play- Dior Ing curds....Christian man's designing the vestments for his parish priest and sewing the most coveted name tab in the world in the back... Mrs Tyrone Power wearing one of the now
Jacket to wear wide witch-doctor bracelets just sult is one copied below her elbow it is covered glittering peacock-blue exactly from a coldler's battle- with dress, with the waistband right thells.... down on the hips.
Men who come into the Tour
All the skirts are tapered as 'Argent restaurant not wearing
And a tie are loaned simly as a trouser leg.
a tie from
the most luxurious evening coats tray in the cloakroom, but they have to give it back after are in faffeta-but they are designed on the exact lines and dinner, colours of I man's slip-on "Passport to
raincont
Pimlico"
has queues after four months
In THE SHOPS, even perfume (the commissionaires outside the cinema are dressed like London bottles are shaped like a pipe or cing
Fath,
oki
of beautiful cellar cafe the applaud
an inkwell. Every model girl policemen)....Jacques has her hair short and some are fainting on a recent cropped to short that the cut was brought round by being
a length resembles a man's head when shown
chishe orchid silk.... It's in need of a haircut.
where patrons And the latest sensation in the cabaret by snapping their fingers newest night club is a brown- instead of clapping, "because theed, boyish-looking girl with there's a baby sleep upstairs." curly cropped hair, who sings in Suzy Voice deeper than Solldor's.
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ont-
That Harry Lime theme is being played all over Parls whenever Orson Welles enters a
man "le joueur nu cithare").......
POTATO SURPRISE resturant (they call the zither
MY FRENCH friends tell me that there is such a thing as bad cooking in France. But I've never met it
NO ARGUING
TIPS FOR TOURISTS: Taxis ате much better. What astonishes me aro not There is now a law that they the luxury dishes which, after must take you -- so long as you all entalt unlimited cream, want to go the way they are butter, eggs, and patience--but going for their lunch or dinner,
-Dinner
In this bronzo and silver French.brocado evening gown,
can' The cape is detachable, be worn as an overskirt; and the stole can be worn stisched to one arm, Bodien is strapless,
-(London Express Beruice)