THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1926.
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THE ART OF CORSETRY.
Theoretically few women wear Corsets nowadays; no one weare the corsets, of oven 10 years ago. And yot the whole art of making corsets, buying corsots, and sell- ing corsets has boon glovated to a science, especially the art of; selling them!"
At frequent intervals a well known firm of corset manufac- turors holds a course in the art of 'selling. fitting, and teaching women how to wour the corset of to-duy, First they attend a lecture or two by one of the cleverest corset buyers in Lon- don then they are shown all the different types of women likely to be customers the woman with small hips and big busts, the. flat-chested women with expan-1 sive diaphragms. the woman with a naturally small waist, but who lacks the flat, boyish back now fashionable. The pupils are given all sorts and conditions of corapts, corsolottes, and bras- sieres, and shown the typo for each style of figure.
VARIOUS BRANCHES,
Aftor tliat comes another lecturo on the different corsets for various diseases, for, there are special corsets for woar after operations, and, most important of all, the maternity corset.
This branch alone takes a good deal of study. The maternity corset of to-day aims at support;. It prevents the over-straining of muscles and keeps the hips and all the parts of the body in order. Then there are special corsets for wear after child-birth, and the
A practical cape-coat for street wear is shown in brown and tan fweed check at extreme left.
The fuddish tuxedo dinner suit is seen next.
The bride wears the modish circular se vloped skirt. The bouffant afternoon" deb frock" shows the use of taffeta, and the young lady in print tells
students are taught, how to take set of written questions and in measurements while the patient Atting, judging at a glance the best is still in bed, so that sho need type of corset to offer each; not, endure the discomfort of client, so that thore shall not be corsets that do not fit when she a lot of tiresome trying-on, and first gets up.
on showing women exactly how At the end of the course the to put on a corset a thing many students are examined, both by a women do not know,
CONTRASTS IN COIFFEURS.
The American Master Hair Dressers Association smiles: with intense satisfaction on the way Edna Purviance wears her hair in the upper picture, and likewise on the style lustrated at the left below. But the bob at the lower right?"
INTERESTING ITEMS.
what prints will do this susun.
THE NEW SLEEVES.
THE FLYING SCARF.
DRAUGHTS BOABD`SWEATER.
Tho draughts board sweater is: among the noveltion featured among the new sports clothes for women, the Inspiration having aame, apparently, from an or- clusive little shop which supplies golf and tennis attire to most well-known society women.
One such sleeveless pullover caused considérable interest among those who saw it recently. It was a perfectly plain knitted jumpor, except for the centre of the front, which had obviously been inspired by a draughts or chess board. There, in bald de- sign, was a patch of such. a. gamas bord, as if somebody had takon a dozen of the black and white squaros, pulled them slight- ly out of shape and stuck them Jon to the middle of m'lady's
sweater.
The sleeveless sweater now le an essential item in the well- dressed woman's wardrobe, but the garment is by no means so- now as up-to date women im- agine. Some of the models. bat distinot, if distant, resemblances to to jerkins and hug-me-tights of other days, & dress designer. said recently that he had found a lazitimate woslion hug-mo-tight, of about th Jane Austen period, of great assistance in Oreating new and entirely modern sleeve- less swepters and undor coats."
THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.
GOLDEN TART,
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pretty, for a pair of hose to open in a run. For the best of friends are parted, when a bloomin' run-buttered dish or mould (a shallow Man are carrying vanity The new sleeves are all alike
The flying scarf is the latest to girls is quickly done.
ner's started, as thoir usefulness es in public, dainty little in one thing they bohave very invention of the dance girl for the
ounges grated broad vanity cases in filigreed gold and quietly down to the olbow. But annoyance of her partner,
crumbs, 1 teacupful of golden Course it's tough on girls who stup. Roll the pastry rather barnished metals i
after chat, there's no holding It appears on about four out of nors tear 'em, and I offer up my Mix some of the golden syrup wear 'em, when the little run thin, and line the dish or, mould. Stockings continue greyish and frocks they even bugin there, and the other night at a dance two sides to the story, and I re- spread it over the pastry about them at all. On some evening five of the now evening frocks, sympathy-but still, there are with the bread crumbs, and nudish. Shades known as grey-with an interval of bare arm cluba well-known Society woman ally feel more sorry for the half-inch thick boige, apricot-tan, field mouse and between elbow and shoulder. was holding a jewelled bag, husband or the dad who pays the moderate oven, adding more sunset are popular,
Singularly ugly, of course, but vanity case, and, with the same bill.
so new, Moddam." It is a little hand, trying to capture the end Scarfs as gay as tropical but-like the Georgian effect of plain of her flying scarf to prevent it
gülden syrup when necessary. terflies take the place of evening upper sleeves ending in volu twisting round wraps at, Pulm
gome and minous frills from elbow to wrist, dancer's neck.. Beach Atlantic City's winter board-but being more freakish, it is not walk.
nearly so charming.
Strictly speaking, the flying Day-time sleeves can really do certainly "flies." either from the scarf is not a scarf at all, but it If you have furnished your flat whatever they like, from the shoulder or the centre of the with the cut glass and silver elbow onwards. They can be back of the neck of the dancer's collected from bridge parties long and tight, or long and wide dress,
you'll enjoy conning Raymond's at the cuff, or very full and
other
an evening dress from this house, in printed chiffon, had a round neck, from the bick of which floated or "flow" long) wide streamers.
Whys of Auction. Bridge. It caught into a little round band. An Englishman who is one of the not only says. "don't do this and Those on afternoon. or informal chief of Paris" dressmakers, is do that" but it explains why i evening frocks are very elaborate among the designore who are affairs; on sports and morning making use of the new idoo, and The neck, they tell us, of the frocks they are, of course, quite perfect woman should be just plain and tailored-looking. double the circumference of her wrist Two slave bracelets should make a choker. The slave bracelet will not die. It's! modern freeborn woman's hanker for a remnant of the past, no [doubt,
The girls who "just must wear" something different" may like the new musical dressOR." Deep borders of a musical scale pattern with sharps and flats) playing tog over the scale appear! on some of the new silks.
They keep right on talking about the kinetic skirt," tho ekirt that never stays still but is alive with the energy of ripplés | and flares and all the things that. make movemonts in skirt like! waves stirred by a gentle breeze.
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They're makingoxquisito, fairy- like evening gowns of mesh bag mail in Paris, Fine jeweller's mesh embroidered in crystal beads until the wearer looks, like a lady from the, Age of Chivalry times!'
Women will soon be bald and have whiskers on their chins un- lose they stop bobbing their hair, says a hair export who explains that constant cutting atrophies the scalp muscles and nerves and causes the hair to drop from the scalp and appear elsewhere on the body, especially on the face.
Taffeta is the spring bell-ringer fabric for dressy, year. Bouffant evening frocks in pastel and passionate shades; street taffeta frocks of black, and other sober. bues; and plaid taffetas for sport frooks. And print taffetas galore, of course
AS TO GARTERS,
Unique decorations milady'e dimpled knee, the The Paris studio of
KNOTTED AT THE BACK.. Another French dross of heavily embroideredailk, wita ona, of the new tiered skirts, hat a flying scarf fixed on the right shoulder:
Sometimes a scarf "flice" from each shoulder at the back, and if the wearer of the dress is kind- hearted, those two 'scarves ara knotted together somewhere naar the waist, so that thy cit flat to far away into the air.
The flying scarf, as shon on tho jovaning drass of the moment, is purely, ora mental, and is not meant to be used as a 893rf. Indoad, in most instances, it is so fixed that only by jerking hor dress out of position could a woman possibly twist her flying trimming round her neck.
SILKEN RUNS.
Is there no real way of block- ing posky runnors in a stocking? That's a question ovory girl would like to know. Oftentimes when first they wear 'em, fate just stops right out to toatam,. and a runner's very shortly on the go
Though they pay a pretty panny for their stockings, there's not any girl who feels she's absolutely anfo. and sound. For they no'er can tell what minute, little stairways will be in it just to work their merry way up from the ground.
MISS TYPICAL AMERICAN,”
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