AVOS
Kishoes
Our recent shipment of these famous British 'shoes includes two styles specially suitable for summer wear. The more dressy one is lightly built and has perforated suede forepart and leather soles: the other is more of a sports shoe with crepe rubber soles and interlaced calf uppers,
Doth aro
show on
in the window, whilst inekdo our bright medorn clore you will find a full range of "K" choce for everyday use.
MACKINTOSHS
13. CHATER ROAD
(Between Moutricks ind Kelly & Walsh'ng
Wonderful, NEW TYPE
WHIPPING CREAM
adds glamour to desserts!
Everything about AVOSET is new-exciting! It keeps until you need it. It whips easily surely. And stays firmly whipped for hours. AVOSET is pure dairy cream -thick, luscious, healthful. Gives glamour to pics, cakes, puddings
FRUIT-HÚT TOPPING: Whip 13 svp AVOSITA", Fold in a cup chopped mulk, vitron, wrange
or lemon pret, vandied fruit. Serve on top
of hot gingsbrand, spite or plain cake.
Also try AVOSET Table Grode for coffee, cercals, fruitio
AVOSET
STERILIZED CREAM
Whipping
BOTTLED CREAM
Sole Agents: H. CORRA LTD.
THAT KIPI
FOR MONTHS
DINNER DANCE
UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND LADY GRANTHAM,
AND ORGANISED BY THE WOMEN'S AUXILIARY OF
The Hong Kong Society For The Protection Of Children,
AT THE
SKY ROOM LUNA PARK
FRIDAY, APRIL 28
At 8 p.m. To 1 a.m..
NOVEL FLOOR SHOW Tickets $25 (Including Dinnor) On Sale Each Day in The Hongkong Hotel Lobby, Between The Hours Of
11.30 A.M.
1.30 P.M.
Book Your Table From The Floor Plan Which Will Be Available During These Hours.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1950.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
BEAUTY Spring hats are
ARMED
By HELEN FOLLETT
gay-and
made în straw
the
NEW hat is one of the symbols of spring, along with the lambs, daffodils... and the
cleaning.
London Shops nro gay with bright spring hals. They run the gamut of shapes and colours
all purses.
and there are prices to suit. Straw la top favourite- French sallors, English cloches and even the American "New Yorker" is made in straw.
LEEVELESS frocks are .not for those whose arms are too fat or too thin More than unsightly are the over-doveloped flabby upper arms of the older woman who has not minded her cating habits and has taken on weight, Sharp elbows, also are no beauty bargain. The plump woman can get down to normal weight if he will make the effort Miss Skinny, if in good health, can put on curves by eating hot cereals for break- fust, drinking a quart of
1 think this is where fashion rich milk a day, cutting writers admit, they were wrong down on activities, getting when they foresaw the end of to bed'nt a respectable hour.the peep-toe aling-back shoe.
Ignoring all reports, madu- facturers went on making them and the shops sold as many s they could get.
Amur seldom get beauty atton- tons and they are subject to good-looks defects, the same as the complexion, the hands and the Agure, Goose flesh is one of- Aletion; to overcome use a heavy brush when bathing, dry well, npply a semi-ilquid hand Jotion that will prove soothing.
The cartwheel
hat is never
really out of fashion for garden parties and social functions.
You can now buy the rew fashion low-heeled court shoes In white and other colours.
Salt for carpets
THE housewife's headache- springt-cleaning time — in here. Beating removes the dust from carpets, but does not got rid of the grime. Damp ten- leaves which many women use for carpet cleaning, absorb the
do not cleanse, dusi, but
SUSAN DEACON.......
Above: Black 'cartwheel straw showing the return of the crinolina "edging:
Left: The American "applé hatˆ in navy blue and pink straw. : Below: White straw, Dutch" bom- net with leather plumes.
baskets with
I have seen some ordinary garden vegetable bright painted bases. The smaller size looks attractive,
Another idea is to paint an ordinary garden wheelbarrow white, All it with mould and
grow geraniums in it. It looks attruc.ive standing In large hall and, in the summer, in u big open fireplace.
From New York I hear that; men's 'pyjamas are being mado short sleeves and long and short, leg-short sleeves
with
Reducing Arma
Elbows that are a dingy rey can spall the picture of the wear-tea-leaves, and it also freshens soapy water. Wipe finally, with le man can buy the bot
er of the formal. They, too, need the stimulating effect of a strong- bristled bath brush, ofter which the arm binges should be mas saged with toilet lanoline Dr rocon-butter.
Salt is a better cleaner than
the colours, When you sweep your carpet dip the brush arst in warm salt water.
warm salt water.
If you need to buy carpets or curtaining, remember that black Makers of Persinn carpets is becoming fashionable, for the often use potato water to bring
house agalm Black printed up the colours. Scrape raw
Hinen with a colourful floral de Anc. Pour hot potatoes very A simple blench
yard. made by combining equal parts water over them, let it stay on it sells for 8s, lid. a of peroxide and strained lemon train, and wash the carpet, a
mall plece at a a time. juice should be applied twice waler. Don't make it too wet in week, allowed to dry on.
Too stout arms can be reduced
by means of exercise. Swinging Indian clubs is one way to turn the trick. This practice not only brings the arms to normal, but the Bfting of the arms has a favourable effect upon an over- developed bust.
with the
toms only-or tops only.
For children
think that children DO YOU
should be free to read what I do, provided they they like?
offered ♫ well-prepared
are
choice,
I have just seen an excellent called "Four to Similar black stair carpet, little volume with a floral pattern, is also in Fourteen, which gives particu the shops. Black patterned larg, of 1,200 books sultable for those ages, carpets are most children between curtains and
Kathleen Lines, effective if you have off-white compiled by
under such headings as Nursery. walls and paintwork.
Tales, Famous Iymes, Fairy
Tapestry curtains and up- holstery also brighten up con- siderably with a little salt and water. Brush well, lay fabric Bat, and over it lay damp
a dam
Plants are being used again sheet, then beat with a cane.
Go over the material first for home decoration as well they last as cut flowers-and with a duster well wrung out in
Jonger. Be origiani. In Then with a much cold, salt water. duster wrung out in warm, your choice of containers,
1o Do, Pony Booits, Ari, Musle, People. History. Selence, Things Natural History, etc.
-London Express Servico,
WHEN MR. AND MRS. GO SHOPPING ..
A pretty face wins
1 Black Jacket with tight waist and long, tight sleeves, worn aver a very full tartan skirt. 2 The classic "man-tallored" suit, with a straight, not-too- tight skirt that is fairly long.
his approval
by ANNE EDWARDS
with sketches by ROBB
2
colour?"
SK a woman to pick "I like No. 3 because it's the latest Dior Inc. I wonder if out a suit from parade and she will they've got it in my size and always name it by colour: "I like the pale blue" she'll because her first Bay thought in choosing clothes is the colour. {
If you ask a man to pick out which one he likes best he usually replies: "Oh, tho
cause a man always looks
TAI HANG JEWELLERY little blonde." That's be
Wholesalers of CUT-DIAMONDS
If she finds they have it in the right size-she will, after much fliought, pass up her first colour favourite for a second choico.
But nothing will make her buy it in the wrong colour.
Her mind definite-
made ly
un, cho hunta around for practical reasons to bolster her choice. first at the girl and secondly she conducts a hopeless battle at What she's wearing. with herself along these ines:
"It IS much
mare
than
3 The latest Paris line is a straight, hip-length jacket worn over very tight, short skirt. 4 New length swagger jacket a straight skirt with pleats to allow proner strides
"Of course, pale blue takes i If she's a bit older I like to lot of cleaning-but cleaning is see a woman in a good plain so much easier these days any tailored sult like No. 2. But it And it will definitely must be well tailored, because need a new hat to go with that's something I know all but then it is high time I had about. one-my old one is out of date,"
way,
It must not have too many
Duster Check Tweed
FREDERICK STARKE, wholesale designer, here illustraten s typical London. Inc. The Jacket-dress with bloused top in black and pink duster check crepe tweed has a tight- Alting skirt in black.
A NECKTIE FOR
YOU, MADAME!
By Elizabeth Toomey NEW YORK, Fu sleepy-eyed husband pocket lighter.
enamelled
&de Bf
another The rame 'de-
compacts for women.
"Women are very willing to pick up ideas signers,"
from male do
for A
necktie sprinkled with plush this spring wearing a gold violets, he must have reach ed for the wrong tie rack.
With all the female adapta.. it the other way around and
· Men just won't tlors of male neckties on scarf it won't work.
chango their Ideas, They'll counters, his wife can have
tie rack of her own this spring.
a epokesman shirt company said. "But try
never
copy the comfortable
One scarf, designed by Irma collars and cool materials worn
Kigere, is a four-in-hand of gold by women" sille falle with a spray of plush caught diagonally acroM the front.
"They have to look strictly femlaine, even though they're tied like a man's necktie," Miss Kigere explained.
She designed a white pique bow tie, sprinkled with rhine- stones, to wear with a suit or a dress. high. mund-n:cked Actually the tiny ancat is made just long enough to tie in a knot at the throat. But the rounded ends, sprinkled with rhinstones, are cut to resemble a bow tie.
MAN'S SHIRT Another white plque necktie b be lied in a four-in-hand- has a cuffed end and a design of rhinestones,
Lifting
klear
male from
to be n
wardrobes is getung
habit with women. Men's shirts ive been the inspiration for
have
many spring styles.
The collar
is usimily softened and medi- alceves aro cut ed, and the
but lightly fuller than a man's the shirts are still easily recog- nisable as a copy of hubby's.
The "little" boy look has been copicil for younger figures. Round white pique collars straight cut Jackets end flowing tirg the neck are favourites with
Fuch signers as Christian
de-
A tailor and shirtmaker in New York
London
and
summer
Paris,, succumbed to the trend.
introduced suiting fabric in women's suits "sacred up to now to the sum- Coll- iner wardrobes of men." ed Poplaire, the fabric is a lus- trous weave of Turkish muhair and wool,
HIS & HERS
Even accessory designers are making the most of the obvious feminine interest in men's np parel.
I she's a little older or fatter bit and pleces around, and if "Hi" and "hers" sets of
really curvaceous, the
FORWARD AND BACKWORD
By VERA WINSTON
A DOUBLE row of black but- tons parades down the back of this dress to give a fashionable and Important accent to a for- ward-looking frock. The fabric 19 royal blue crepe and there is a black bow at the front of the The buttons afort bigh neck.
or a tiny bit more practical she che's
cigarette lighters and compacts may sell herself No. 4 instead, pialaness of the sult makes her org
In one set, being made, But it's only a rather less-start- look even more feminine.
packet cigarette lighter is put version of
This is what he calls deciding on the end of man's key chain. at the flared painted collar and ling, Iess-extreme
the problem by the process of
lighter, continue A matching cigarette logical argument. But the whole
decorations, with jewened like thing falls to pieces if you once
hung on a bracelet chain for a let him hear the price. "Fifteen
woman to wear on her wrist. quincas?" he says, "Let's get
Strictly male designs, includ making for The sleeves out of here quick"
ing a bird dog's head and a
fishing fly, aro done on the cuffed.
No. 3.
A Il-
would argue man
I like No. 1 because it shows
off a girl's figure. In that Jacket
you KNOW sho's got a
nlt that
small waist-but in those loose coats she might be any size underneath material.
I'm just getting
Look--I like it be it's feminine.
London Express Service,
down either side of in the inserted, pleated fullness at The the centre of the skirt. pockets at the hips are Bapped a rounded hipline.
are winged
Add A Lock To Your Watch
used to this New A
I can't causa Beo why women want to give If a man and a woman were I meant to pay-but then I shall up just because some designer arkod to pick the best sult get two items and I'll be able to a Parla has thought up some-
thing new. Liberty Diamond Cutting Works (Pty) Ltd. from the four drawn above change them around with my
The tartan skirt I like be- they would each make different other sulis.
"It is rather short and per- causi It's gay, it's feminine, choices,
haps I haven't really the legs It's not too tight at the hips, and cover the A woman would argue like for It-but then it doem't need a long enough to this:-
backs of the knows. a wasp walet.
Sole Agents for
Johannesburg, South Africa, """Bank of East Asia Bldg..
7th Floor, Room 707,
Telephone 21388.
Hong Kong.
1
and
an expanding HUNDRED percent, safety For women, this firm has also manufactures device is the claim of a Lon- produced an adjustable interlock bracelet made in rolled gold, stainless steel, gilt or chrome. dori firm for a Vanguard lock for watch-straps in 16 gauge This is designed in a "scissors" which Is attached to watch metal, either brass or copper, in pattern. straps. The lock la constructed in gilt or chrome finish. It has either zuch a way that there to no risk pinch-on or loop-end fitlings. that the watch-strap will open
A hand riveled bracelet with
a thirty-second adjustment and
an original compact perfume or drop, thus preventing loss or Another of the firm's products sprayer in the shape of a lighter breakage. Furthermore, the lock is a flexible ladies' watch-strap or lipstick, are among the other is adjustable so that it can be made in hexagon squares, in gilt products to be shown by this fixed to any leather or metal and chrome. A similar pattern is firm in the Jewelkry Section, at strap and can fit any sim of avaliable in necklaces, bracelets Olympia, of the British Indus-
and car-rings. For men, the firm tries Fair in May. wrist.