"TAILORED BY BONSOIR THE ACME OF PERFECTION.":
* LEISURE SHIRTS
for woar Inside or outside the trousers, In two qualities and a full range of smart soft colourings. They have short sleeves and two pockets and the neck can be worn open or closed as you wish,
Also known as Hawaiian Shirts
They will be on show in
our window next week.
MACKINTOSH'S
13. CHATER ROAD
Open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and air-conditioned for your confort. (Tailoring department closes from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.)
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,
$1950
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
WHITE
BARBARA GOALEN illustrates my firm theory that 'half as much means twice as effective
says ANNE EDWARDS
22
'Like drink, not easy to handle '
T
Short, white
cotton
gloves with a sleeveless-dress, and- 1925 touch-s-long white olgarette
older.
white carnations--worn the new way-nowhere near your buttonhole and very close to your chin.
3 Brilliantly white collar on an
ail-binck outfit. The solar looks whlier this way and the out01 Blackor. The collar shaped like two separate petals
E fashion for white them....they fill the shop hat and buttonhole of comes back with A windows.
It's in fashion that's easy to bang. White collars and cuffs of pique or copy-but hard to handle. The effect at white nccessories on muslin are on most of the most women is like the effect new Spring dresses. White of drink on most men, After
they want another hats, white pique gloves, one white roses or carnations. after two they don't care white chiffon handker- many they have..... chiefs, white shirts, and separate sets of white col- how that touch of white should navy dress and accessories, or
be used and not too often. lars and cuffs to add to
Remembering that the frocks.
that haven't got white you use the less
Barbara Coalen shows
and
how
you
tive you look. Barbara limits herself to one dazzling collar on an all-black dutЛlt, or a pair of short white gloves with A
a hat and a buttonhole on ពង mora outfit that is otherwise black to effects Ongertips.
Fashion
Flashes
CAPRING craze for pleats
has spread from Paris. to London. Brief straight dresses are pleated either horizontally or vertically, sometimes both waya in the same garment. Chiffon in a favourite for pleats and carries them well. Moro expensive models are tuck- ed in graduated sizes from: top to bottom.
Most eagerly awaited fashion. In London is American nylon chiffon with permanently pleat- ed finish so that dresses can be cleaned or washed at home. without having to be repleated.
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DEPARTMENT STORE
ALL HERE FOR YOUR SERVICE
FINE ENGLISH BONE CHINA
SHELLEY
WEDGWOOD
Tea Sets
Coffee Sots
Newest lovely de: signs and colours
Different
ments
Assort-
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DINNERWARE
TUSCAN
PARAGON
Earthonware TOILET SETS
comprising
1 Wash Basin
1 Water Jug
1 Chamber Pot
1 Mug
1 Soap Bowl
PICNIC CANTEENS
VACUUM FOOD JUGS
PORTABLE ICE CHESTS
THE SINCERE CO., LTD.
CHINAWARE DEPARTMENT
Hongkong's Popular Ceylon Toa RICKSHAW BRAND
SOOVILLA
GARDEN
JOHN FRENCH is the photographer.
Your Handbag Fashion Story
What to wear
by SUSAN DEACON
on the
beach this year
UR old friend Terry
towelling
the favourite material for holiday wear this year,
Towelling bench coats, wide sleeved, hip-length, and in bright colours.
An American idea is to wear vivid colour and white spotted beach suit and a chalk white Terry towel-
IN the established fashion of Inst summer and burlap ng finger-tip coat lined and faced
the other for handbag silhouettes, and linen are medium size and soft tailor- fashion contenders for sum- ing seem to be the chief mer. character. The basic shapes
in
Navy leads the colour parade
blond tones of the majority are: Softly followed by
modified dressy as well as casual bags. tailored boxes,
Chalk while is a "must have"
satchels. panier handle colour alded by the match of pouches, white suede twin white suede shoes, complement- bags, shirred and draped ing the white accessory theme. cradle shapes, and cobra chests.
Shell Trimming
13 Calf is
Tortoise shell an outstanding
trimming season frequently on call, faille, patent bag material this
leather and Madagascar straw. with patent leather staging Saddle leather trimming teams
important វ
comeback. with burlap and linen. Glove important and Reptile, especially cobra, pockets are an
feature. functional faille are runners-up. and
Contrast linings make a big Silk shantung is getting an
impression, red being especially "in preparation early start for a big summer.
Straw Family
stroncile openings are frequent
with navy and block.
due to the interest in capacious amall bags and the double bag is another evidence of the de-
For resort and summer the straw family, including mand for more room.
Seen illustrated below are the rafia, milan and Madagas-
Reneral styles current car, carries on the success America.
FLOWTRY
UPENDE XXX
Softly tailored box
Rickshaw Brand Ceylon Tea
ON SALE EVERYWHERE
TAI HANG JEWELLERY
Wholesalers of CUT-DIAMONDS
nut
Bola Agents for
Liberty Diamond Cutting Works (Pty) Ltd.
Shoulder bag
Paniers handle pouch
In
Modified Satchel
Twin bag.
Johannesburg, South Africa.
Bank of East Asla Bldg,
7th Floor, Room 707,
Telephona 21386.
Shirred Cradle Shape
Cobra Cheit
«Buny Bunj;
But
with matching spotted material.
the
coat
must be straight and made usually boxy, and they are with little stand-up Chinese colours. A two-piece swim sult in Terry cloth cells in London for £2 10s. The diminutive Bikini briefs laced at each side, and the brassiere has white cord shoulder straps. It is gay, In brilliant mixed colours white,
pre
G11
Plain or gay SWIM suits in clasticised satin in bright Jewel colours are expen- Elve, but are a good investment. They are obtainable in plain colours or in gay patterns.
Cotton swim suits in bright coloured prints are not so expensive. Sce
[in photo- the two-piece sult graph].
The linen playsuit in photo- graph has matching pantees, and is made in panels of the palest sky blue, cornflower blue, and navy.
The stripes will flatter your waist line, and the flared skirt will help to the plumpness over disguise any hips,
are
Your stacks this season should be more narrow and tapering.
martest The
shorts strictly tailored and cuffed. In Paris, women are buying Jeans cuffs and shorts with fringed und pocket flaps.
Not popular
has happened to all We shurt evening dresses
I saw in the London spring collections?
that
In spite of predictions they would sweep the country, the short evening dress is nearly so popular in London as in Paris,
A frm which res evening dresses to the public, says that short women never ask for a ovening dress. The demand is the strapless, Invariably for
with gown full-length
bouffant skirt.
Bewildering
戳
I find that the new colours of the year were pillar box red, onion skin yellow, carrol red, nutneg brown, and
Jettuce
Breen,
ΠΠΙΤΙΔΑ,
Not much glamorous perhaps, but there is no mistak- ing their meaning.
Have a new pelmet
buy IF you do not need to
now curtains have n new pelmet.
If you have chints or printed curtains, have the pelmet made from
furnishing velvet in the mos: predominant colour in the print. It is attractive draped in three deep scollops.
If your
curtains are plain, to it chintz make the pelmet
the loose covers-and match edge it with Iringe In the colour of the curtains.
An attractive Idea at a large window is
have heavy velvei
curtains and a pelmet in wide
striped satin to pick up the
colour.
Striped
linen2 playsuit
18 in three shades of blue
A plain wooden pelmel Strapless two-piece swim suit in
we need to have these makes small windows oppear
names for larger.
Dewildering
colours? I am shown
fabrics
fudge,
in elephant, donkey, lonst, and caramel-stockings in morning mist, whisper, and honeymoon, Men's shirts
were
to
in Sahara (this turned out be, a muddy belge colour) and Frama yellowy beige.
Down-to-earth cream distem- per is called sablo,
Danube, which I would have thought had to be a shade of blue, is a pale lenf green.
A trus, clear pink is called Cyklamen.
Looking through 1020 edlion of the Sunday Express,
Slimming
Car
patterned cotton.
London Express Service
The Ankle
Advance Ascot model features pleats in a white romaine button- through dress, worn with + matching sash and mandarin coat of pavy toffela (Roocliff and Chapman),
Now Colours:-Lime acces- sorica with navy blue; tan team- ed with black for sports of beach, and the latest British Colour Council shades for sum- mer cottons of Grapefruit, Sweet Lavender and 'Aprli Sky. Now Prints,-Floral and fruit designs on dark grounds, with floral large patterns, often a motif with just one large realis- tle flower or single flowers with ccatiered petals.-
New Jewellery. Si a ve bangles,
П staging comeback the twenties, are
from
made
in composition that can be tint-
ed
to match dresses Create
hoop earrings in gold
metal,
lovely with short hairstyles and medal- git chains with large
lons, which can be worn necklets or belts.
LET'S FACE IT
35
In the Facing Facts depart- ment, it's Ume we admitted that (1) strapless tops
nice on
died,
bulges
look
one Agure in a
hun-
the rest
have
ugly
(2)
coloured
suedo
don't
week:
gloves do get dirty and
clean well; (3) white felt hata
In B In town look dingy (4) chain-smoking in women is the ugliest habit of all, parti cularly in the street; and (5) that
women's chlet beauty problems today are big feet, large hips, dry skins, and cracked cuticles.
dandruff
OTHER PEOPLE'S CLOTHES
The Counless nt Lelcester has the made an early choice for May Royal Garden Porty. For her daughter, Lady Anne Coke, sho presenting, whom she is has chosen white Broderto Anglaise with a blue sosh, from Victor Stiebel, and for herself a fancy crepe dress and jacket on a blue ground.
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Daphne Barker, cabaret all artist, who usually designa her own evening dresses, has a dress for Wimbledon week by "lace-panties" Teddy Tinling. It ta of transparent material, with rackets un amusing border of and balls,
Christion Dior has used HI many Jacqmar fabrics la Paris collection, which he show- ed recently on behalf of the proposed Museum of Costume. bo The materials, which can bought in Landon, include a T. reduce the ankles walk heavier fabric that will add to
tippy toe. Do high kicking. the appearance of bulk. The typist exercise hers Shoes that carry decorations Krey allk taffeta patterned with shaded pink and white Bowers she works, lifting. tho that attract attention to the feet while heels, pushing hard with her should never be worn by the and brilliant green leaves,
or silver-shot metallle blue pure toes, then lowering the heels. woman who has fatted calves or silve This movement pulls hard on
Shoes with ankic
evening flexible models is made in pure silk delicate evergreen shadow
kicsons.
that exceed the
the proper silk and another in worm
malze narrowly striped in the muscles, strengthens them. traps have a slimming effect. white. Ono at his
dissolves fat cells.
They
should
have
The darker the colour of the leather soles to give support and volla in midnight blue with stockings, the more slender the freedom of movement,
check.
ankles will appear. Of course, Correct posture and graceful high grade nylons produce a movement depend to a large ex- toveller effect than stockings of tent on the ankles and instep.
By Eileen Ascroft...