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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1950.

Woman Today

LAST YEAR'S FASHIONS 1950 WILL NOT OUST

By Iris Ashley

We are beginning to feel Ukr the little bird who Bew back-

warda been use where he Wil wanted to sce

been.

he skin't eare

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where he had

All bremse We have been Lending about and seeing endless. pietures

quite painfully

ugly of the Tashions of the past 50 years

Being bil on the tracheal side, we thought we'd not Ro farther back than 1949 (tbal sile year!) and see what out of alt Live 40 fushions we think continue Into 1950,

1911

The short events

WILL

dress,

we belleve Is only just catching and will stay It can't be confused with the "balferino" dresses of the previous year, bes cause they were essentially "late day" dresser, they were Fore severe at the bodice, often hav- Tag long sleeves, and of darker at eavier materials.

JAMARY

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HATS-SHOES - SUITS

COATS DRESSES

HANDBAGS

If you've been waiting for After-Christmas BARGAINS in FINE FASHIONS....here they ore....price-slashed to their bone....marrow to bear the keenest comparative shopping.

MODE ELITE

Kayamally Buliding, ground Roor.

Hongkong,

22. Queen's Road. C..

Tel, 24052

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TOOTH BRUSHES

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INSISTS ON TEK IN THE PLASTIC CONTAINER

SISTER

IMPERIAL TRADING CO. LTD

GOWNS.

FUR COATS. EVENING DRESSES.

Mme DOBRY LTD.

221-222 Gloucester Bldg.

2nd Floor

Have You noticed how these new short evening dresses, gene- rally. speaking. get away fretu Black" At the most they are a black-and-colour elenation The glamo 25

the low de colletage the skirt which IN generally full below a light body e and flowe 4156 with the stove ༈ ་ ༢ ཐཱ༠11! of the wenzet The

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sheath of a dress under folds of thufion very feminine and

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a color which

AC expecting to see mucis of E the Sining collections

The stut bas the tight skit twith a small shi do allow Toy walking) of Paris, coutuma 49. which as sulk very much with on. The jacket has that bloused full. DESN which is

The kin to sigirre and extrves 12 andher than out around its bemline Thús stele if

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The lady on the right is wear- Aug 1950's variation on the theme of the bearh dress You are go- ing to mert this design in all

materinin, glamorous silks which, with the removal of the holeru, turn day into evening, and, we prediet. Tots ut them 10 light- enloured wool jersey, With more and more women leading The

kind of life which takes them Mirnight from the aflee dinner-date the advantages of

Beli a dress are obvious.

In the day-lime, with a scarf at the neck, it looks neat and Ildy: for evening with the sparf removed. attractive Jewellery. dressy good gloves, un small het--'s hey, presto!

The girls who are crystal- gazing are wondering whether they will follow America in cropping their laps shorter and shorter. Those two old gypsies Marshall and Ashley foretell the answer as "Yes-shorter hair l next autumn, anyway."

DRESSES

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CORRECTION

The Editor wishes to apologise Miss Janet Martin for In- advertently slipping the word "alcevca" into the second para- graph of her story last Sunday on The New Spring Suits. The sen- tence should read: "Jackels are a tle shorter, too...."

about Something new

in petticoats

Dior talks

talks about 1950 fashions

By Alix Lamotte

Christian Dior is now proparing his Spring colles- tion, which will be characterised by freedom, informality and a studied "sweet disorder." At the moment Christian has buried himself in the country. He needs silence and almost com- plete isolation to create the 200 models that will sweep the women of two continents off their feet when he presents them during the first week in February.

Hut he came up to Paris for two hours last week and told ne this about the "mode Dior" for 1950:

will allow them great facility of movement. Granted that possible to adapt some of the charms of the twenties, but it is childish to want to pul the clock back.

is

ne and

I'm not at all sure yet about the theme I shall take as inspira- tion, but t

wil! Kowne youthful, softly rounded free-and-ensy,

wothan

They will allow the modern to take part in modern There will be nothing of the early nineteen-twenties aboul them.

At that time most women looked like paintings of Byzn- fine statuelles with flat, angular bodies, and they covered them- selves with jewels (genuine) 12 call attention to their husband

business success and the wealth of the victorious nations of World War 1.

More developed

So far I have not mine up my mind whether this year's fa- shions will be very different from those I am now showing.

All I can say is that I have of- }

English ways admired the way men dress,

I like their carefully-studieri carelessness, their suits that hang so naturally, their snobbish anti- dressiness.

I don't like the woman WHO

she looks is though

ts wearlag time: she dress for the first must give the impression that it belongs to her that it is hers.

My 1950 woman will, above all, be herself. Skirts will be "full enough to be really com.

But now the victorious nations | fortable," he added. are poor, and jewellery is often imitation.

So I would hazzard

that irr

RECIPES

Fish salad

Dior's collection we may find » 1 cup cooked or tinned fish, touch of Chelsea casualness email lettuce lenges, 1 small and blended to perfection with May-ausumber, 2 hard-boiled eggs, 2

fair elegance.

They nearly all do some kind

busts of sport too, their hips are more developed, their Wolste thinner than their mothers'. My 1950 dress will take this into account.

Are more

Women nowadays active, they rush about those In future we shall make it a who have a car drive it them point to jook up our proof-selves insted of taking the back reader's sleeves before going to seat. press.

The gowns I ami designing

Josephine L

(Registered.)

308 HONG KONG HOTEL

have pleasure in announcing the arrival of a SELECT parcel of FURS

Consisting of

CAPES, JACKETS & SHORT COATS

FROM THE WELL KNOWN LONDON HOUSE.

HEWITT & VINCENT

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

ORDERS TAKEN

Not just luck

Lomatoes, 2 cooked potatoes, chopped parsley, salad dressing. parsley to garnish, I lemon.

Remove the skin and bones from the fish and fake finoly. Peel the Christian Dior, a modest per- cucumber and cut into dies. Altx son, did not mention know to be very true of him; salt,

with the dish and flavour well with he likes making

and lomon juice. dresses that Line a wooden platter with lettuce, have more in them than meets leaves, Place, the fish mixture in the eye.

the contro, piling high. :-

what

pepper.

Out the tomates, potatoes and At first glance it looks

as ogge into alicos, Arrange alter though they fall the way they donately from the top of the fish just by good luck. But it is mound down to the base. Sprinkle 'not "luck,"

the chopped parsley between the Like a Bavile Row suit, this large pieces of parsley and slices rows and gamisk the salad with appearance of distinguished ch-of-lomon. sualness is obtained only by the Chill thoroughly before sorving. most careful cut.

with salad dressing.

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