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.
the
Both Ath on chow window, whilet inside our bright medern store you will find a full range of "K" shota for
Everyday ust.
MACKINTOSHS
13, CHATER ROAD
(Hetween entrier and Kelly & Walsh'}
WHIPPING
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FRUIT-NUT TOPFING: Whip 15 cup Avoset. Fold in cup chopped nuts, siivon, pronge or lemon peel, candied fruit, Serve on lap
of hot gingerbread, spice or plain cake.
Also y AVOSET Table Orede jor coffre, zarcals, fruits.
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THAT KEEPS
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UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND LADY GRANTHAM,
AND ORGANISED BY THE WOMEN'S AUXILIARY OF
1.
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 Dinner) 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 Thoso Hours.
TAI HANG JEWELLERY
Wholesalers of CUT-DIAMONDS
and
8ole Agents for
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1950.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSETM
BEAUTY ARMED
By HELEN FOLLETT
~LEEVELESS frocks are
not for those whose
Spring hats are
gay-and
made in straw
NEW hat is one of the symbols of spring, daffodils... and the along with the lambs,
the cleaning.
لله
purnes.
Sirav t top favourite-
arms are too fat or too thin More than unsightly are the over-developed flabby upper-
London Shops are gay with inrms of the older
woman bright spring hafs. They run who has not minded
her the gamut of shapen and colours eating habits and has taken and there are prices to sull on weight. Sharp elbows, also are no beauty bargain. French sailors, English cloches- The plump woman can get and even the American "New down to normal weight if Yorker" is made in straw,
The cartwheel hat is never she will make the effort really out of fashion for garden Miss Skinny, if
in good parties and social functions.
can now You health, can put on curves by
buy the hew enting hot cereals for break-fashion low-heeled court shoes
in while and other colours. fast, drinking a quart of rich milk a day, cutting down on activitien, getting to bed at a respectable hour. Arms seldom get beauty allen- tions and they are subject to good-looks defcets, the same as the complexion, the hands unt the figure. Guose flesh is one af-
fletion: to overcome use a heavy
brush when bathing, dry well, upply a semi-liquid hand fotlon that will prove soothing,
Reducing Arma
Elbows that are a dingy grey can spull the picture of the weur. er of the formal. They, too, need the stimulating effect of a strong- bristied bath brush, after which the art hinges should be mus- with toilet lanoline or caped cocoa-butler. A simple bleach made by combining equal parts
of peroxide and strained lemon jalce should be applied twice a week, allowed to dry on.
To 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 lifting of the arms has a favourable effect upon an over-
eveloped bust
I think this is where fashions writers admit they were wrong when they foresaw the end of the peep-toe silng-back shoe,
Ignoring ail reporis, mRNA- facturers went on making them and the shops sold as many as they could get.
Tilli
Salt for carpets
E housewife's headache-—. spring-cleaning time - 15 here. Beating removes the dust from earpets, but does not get rid of the grime, Damp fea- leaves which many women use for carpet cleaning, absorb the dust, lut do not cleanse,
Solt Is a better cleaner than
SUSAN DEACON.......
Duster
Check Tweed
Abora: Black cartwheel straw showing the return. of the crinoline edging.
Left: The American "uppte hat" in navy blue and pink stram. Below: White, strom Dutch bon net with leather plumes,
1
have seen
some ordinary garden vegetable baskala with bright painted bases. The smaller size looks attractive.
Another idea is to paint an ordinary garden wheelbarrow white,. It with mould and grow geraniums in IL. It looks attractive standing 111 a large hall and, in the summer, in u big open fireplace.
From New York I hear that men'a pyjamas are being made with short sleeves and long legs-shurt sleeves and short les man can buy the 'bot- copy water. Wipe finally, with tons only-or tops only. warm salt water.
If you need to buy carpets or curtaining, remember that black
For children
think that chlidzon should be free to read what they like? I do, provided they are offered D well-prepared choice.
ten leaves, and it also freshens you sweep the colours. When your carpet dip the brush first in warm sall waler,
Makers
carpels is becoming fashionable for the Do you of Persian often use potato water to bring houe
again. Black printed up the
colours. Scrape
raw linen with a colourful floral de- Anc. Pour hot potatoes very when, and wash the carpet, a yard. water over them, let it stand sign on it sells for ds. Ild. a small plece at a time, with the Don't make too wet, water.
Tapestry curtains and ip- holstery also brighten up con- siderably with a little salt and tay fabric water. Brush well, flat, and over it lay a damp sheet, then beat with a cant..
Go over the material
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I have just been an excellent Similar black stale carpet, little volume called "Four to- with a floral pattern, is also in Fourteen," which given particu the shops. Black patterned Jars of 1,200 books suitable for
those
nges. carpets are most children between curtains and
Kathleen Lines, effective if you have off-white compiled by walls and paintwork.
under such headings as Nursery Rhymes, Fairy Tales, Famous Plants are being used again People, History, Science, Things Arat for home decoration well,
to Do, Pony Books, Art, Music, they last with a duster well wrung out in as cut flowers-and
much longer. Be original in Natural History, etc. cold, salt water. Then with t duster
your choice of containers.
wrung
out
Warm, in
-London Exprem Service,
WHEN MR. AND MRS. GO SHOPPING ..
A pretty face wins
1 Black Jacket with tight waist and long, light sleeves, worn over a very lull tartan skirt. 2 The classic "man-tailored" sult, with a straight, not-too- tight skirt that is fairly long.
his approval
by ANNE EDWARDS
with sketches by ROBB
SK a woman to pick "ilke No. 3 because it's the wonder if out a suit from a latest Dior fine. I parade and she will. they've got it in my size and
colour?" always name it by colour:
If she finds they have it in the "I like the pale blue" she'll
her - because
first right size-she will, after much нау
thought, pass up her first colour thought in choosing clothes favourite for a second choice. is the colour.
If you ask a man to pick out which one ho likes best The usually replies: "Oh, the
little blonde" That's be
cause a man always looks
But nothing will. make her buy I in the wrong colour.
Her mind definite- ly made
up, she hunts around for practical reasons to bolster her choice.
moro
3 The Tales Paris line is a straight, hip-length jacket worn over very tight, short skirt. 4 New length swagger jacket oker a straight skirt with pleats to allow proper strides
"Of course, pale blue takes a 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 suit like No. 2. But it way. And it will
definitely
need a new hat to go with it but then it is high time I had one-my old one is out of date,"
must be well tailored, because that's something I know Bil about.
It must not have too many If she's a little older or fatter bi and pieces around, and. if
really curvaceous, or a tiny bit more practical the she's
the may self herself No. 4 Instead, 'plainness of the sult makes her But it's only a rather less-start- look even mare femininc.
version of This is what he calls deciding ling, less-extreme
the problem by the procoto of No, 3.
logical argument. But the whole like thing falls to pieces if you once let him hear the price. “Fifteen guineas?" he says. "Let's get out of here quick."
A this:
would man
argue
I like No. 1 because it shows of a girl's Ngure. In that Jacket тоц KNOW she's got small waist--but in those loose conte she
might be any size underneath all that material.
~Lotion Erptez, -Service.
FREDERICK STANKE, 'Wholesale designer, here illustrates * typical London Inc. The jacket-dress with bloused top in black and plik duster check crepe tweed has a tight- filling skirt in black,
A NECKTIE FOR
YOU, MADAME!
By Elizabeth Toomey
another
The same de
NEW YORK. enometled side 02 IF a sleepy-eyed husband pocket igister.
compnets for women. This spring wearing a gold necktie sprinkled with plush "Women are very willing to from male de- violets, he must have rench- pick up ideas
signers," a spokesman ed for the wrong tie rack. shirt company said. But try
for n
With all the female adapta- it the other way around and tions of male neckties an scarf it won't work. Men Just won't
change
ideas. their
'They'll counters, his wife can have a
ropy the comfortablo
tie rack of her own this spring. Bever
One seart, designed by Iran collars, and cool materials worn Kigere, is a four-in-hand of old by women." silk faille with a spray of plush
caught
front.
diagonally across
the
"They have to look strictly feminine, even though they're tied like a man's necktie," Miss: Kigere explained,"
She designed 0 white pique bow tie, sprinkled with rhine- stones, to wear with a suil or a bigh. round-mcked dress, Actually the tiny ascot, is made just long enough to tie in a knot at the throat. But the rounded ends, sprinkled with rhinstunes. are eul to resemble a bow tie.
MAN'S SHIRT
Another whille pique necktie to be tied in a four-in-hand- has a cuffed end and a desigu of rhinestones.
Lifting
ideas from male wardrobes is getting to be a
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habit with women. Men's shirts have been the inspiration for many spring styles. The collar is usually softened and modiß- ed, and the sleeves are cui slightly fuller than a man's but The shirts are li easily recog- nisable as a copy of hubby's.
The "little" boy look has been empled for younger figures. Round white pique collars on and flowing cut Jackets ties at the neck are favourites with
de- Fich sophisticated signers as Christian Dior.
A tailor and shirtmaker in
in New York,
London Paris, zuccumbed to the trend and Introduced a summer sulting fabric in women's suits "sacred up to now to the sum- Call- mer wardrobes of men.
straight
Fuch
anu
ed Poplaire, the fabric is a lus- trous wenve of Turkish mohair and wool.
HIS & HERS
FORWARD AND BACKWORD
By VERA WINSTON
Even accessory designers are A DOUBLE row of black but- making the most of the obvious tons parades down the back of feminine interest in men's ap- this dress to give a fashionable parel.
and important accent to a for- "HE" and "hers" scla of ward-looking frock. The fabric cigarette lighters and compacts is royal blue crepe and there is are being made. In one set, aa black bow at the front of the.
The buttons stort pocket cigarette lighter is put high neck. on the end of man's key chain. at the flared pointed collar and down either aldo of matching cigarette lighter, continue with jewelled decorations, is the inserted, pleated fullness at
the centre. of Ulio skirt. hung on a bracelet chain for a women to wear on her wrist. pockets at the hips are flapped rounded hipline. Strictly male designs, inclurt-making for a
The sleeves ing bird dog's head and n
are winged done on the cuffed. fishing fy, ure
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I'm just getting · used to this New A Look I like it be- rat at the girl and secondly she conducts a hopeless battle
cause it's feminine. I can't it What she's wearing.. with herself along these lines:
than see why women want to give "It 18 much If a man and a woman were I meant to poy-but then I shall it up just because some designer asked to pick the best sult get two items and I'll be able to in Paris has thought up some- Liberty Diamond Cutting Works (Pty) Ltd. from the four drawn above change them around with my thing new.
The tartan skirt I like be they would each make different other suits,
"It is rather short and per- cause It's gay, it's feminine, cholces,
haps I haven't really the legs it's not too tight at the hips, and A woman would argue like for It-but then it doesn't need it's long enough to cover the this:----
backs of the knees, a wasp walet.
Johannesburg, Bouth Africa,
Bank of East Asia Bldg.,
7th Floor, Room 707,
Telephone 21380.
Hong. Kong.
manufactures
-
The
and
expanding bracelet made in rolled gold, stainless steel, gilt or chrome. This is designed in a "scissors" pattern.
A hand riveted bracelet with a thirty-second adjustment and on 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 ladice' watch-sirap or lipstick, are among the other a 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 pattern is firm in the Jewellery Section, at strap and can at any size of available in wrist.
́ond car-rings. For
r
bracelets Olympia, of the British Indus- men, the arm tries Fair in May.
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