THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1986.'
Outdoor
Girl
Ideal for girl who almost livas In sports clothes: has flippant Jabot and buttons. but is still workman- like. Cut-away jacket allows plenty of fros- dom for bending and stretching
Party Girl
Business Girl
Sarlous-minded type, eager to make good at her job, feels smart and com
fortable In strictly forma! tailor-made with
gay cravat In
contrasting
spots or stripes
Gleaming white
cloque gown for girl who is in her element at gilt- toring social' functions; jowel- studded bolt and bag: sapphiro tlore and ear-
rings, set in dia- monds dignity plus sparkle oquals social
success
IF YOUR NAME IS-
IRENE
Symbol:
A rainbow after the Storm.
This name signifles peace, serene calm, a refuge and a promise,
Monday brings you the luckiest influences, and they are strongest during the two hours before noon. The 20th of the month is significant and fortunate for all named Irene.
Blush pink and cau-de-nil are colours which renew your poise and balance when you are restless and dis- quieted.
The yellow irissie a flower closely linked with your name, and silver and platinum are more lucky than any special stone. Have your jewels set in these metals, and they will be harmonic with you personality.
Why Wear
WENTY
TWELVE
years ago a widow wore heavy crape
Mourning?
attached to her hat for six, lous, can their relations not remem- months, full mourning for a ber them in their hearts without year, and then half mourning parading heavy mourning in front
Bix another
months of their friends?
for
Mourning is expensive, when
still
slave
wears
Five-Minute Exercise-No. 3 THE
This is an exercise that is onsy and without age limits. It will strengthen the heart muscles, lessen the risk of strain, as well as making the waist more supple..
POSITION: Stand with heels together in normal upright position. EXERCISE: With Angers straight and thumb tucked in, draw the arm up, against the side of your body, until the angers are pressed in under the armpit. While doing this, bend over to the opposite side from the working arm. Done cor- rectly, this exercise looks rather like monkey business.
DON'T lenn forward as you bend to the side.
PRESCRIPTION: Ten times each alde, before breakfast.
Which Type
are
A
You?
GOOD cook makes it her business to dis- cover the kind of food the family and guests enjoy. The well-dressed woman should make it her business to discover the kind of clothes that are admired by men as well as women, As it is, most of us will listen quite seriously to any remarks that another woman may make about our dress, but we would treat a man's criticism with good-humoured contempt. It is quite a different matter when he com- pliments us on our appearance. Then we are not in the least inclined to feel contemptuous.
TOW the clothes that have been sketched for
NOW
you to-day are man-chosen for three differ- ent types of woman. The artist describes the suit on the left as "The perfect outfit for wind- blown fairways." The material is rough nubbly woollen in bottle green. Fancy buttons made of flame-coloured shiny leather strings, padded shoulders, patch pockets and a jabot all help to make the jackel interesting. Your own criticism will probably be that the sult is too elaborate, but, if you can take a hint, the fact that it was chosen by a man will mean a lot to you.
It will show you the kind of clothes a man likes to see about the club house, and the colour, dark green, will indicate that the tactful woman merges as much as possible into the background of the fairway. My own advice would be to keep the cost for the club house, get a dark green suede jacket for the game and play with woman friends only.
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HE tailor-made for the business woman is in black cloth, very severely cut. The jacket is double-breasted and the revers are not too wide. The white silk scarf with little red dots pro- duces the only feminine touch. A tailored blouse of black foulard or crepe patterned with red dots would be smart as well as practical.
This suit would look equally good in dark green, navy, or currant colour: Men's suiting with a pin stripe could be used, in which case a striped scarf and blouse would look best.
For the traveller or party-girl the cholee is a heavy cloque crêpe gathered into many folds at the neck and waist. It is in gleaming while. The belt is studded" "with"Jewels and the handbag-with-stars. Tiara and. earrings are of star sapphires in diamond settings. The evening cont that would look best with this is of deep midnight blue velvet with very full sleeves.
[OST nice men are really interested in women's clothes, but they MOST
know that they can easily be defeated in any technical argument
on the subject. As they do not like being snubbed any better than we do, they usually keep their opinions to themselves. II, however, you talk to them kindly you will discover quite a lot of useful information.
For instance, the majority of men do not like women's clothes to bear any resemblance, to their own in either style or material. The type of woman who likes herself in classic tailor-mades shows her wisdom when she wears a really feminine blouse with it. A great many men hate very shiny clothes. They cannot bear sequins, shiny metal materials or waxed satins. There are others who have a very real dislike of velvet,
Almost every man likes the romantic type of woman's clothes and soft sympathetic materials and trimmings rather than the euper-smari variety which are inclined to make even the most charming wearer slightly frighten- Ing.
Daughters wore full mourning clothes have to go wholesale Into for their parents for a year and the dye-pot, and the only alter would not have thought of ac- native is to adopt the dress cepting an invitation to dinner schemes of the average middle-class or out to the theatre for two Frenchwoman, or-three months. Children were to mourning ideas. She
black all the time, because there is put into black, clothes. Black-edged notepaper was com- nearly always a relation for whom pulsory for six months or so, and she is in whole or half mourning. pearls were the only jewels con- How drab and gloomy the ap
of a French Sunday 1 sidered suitable for mourning wear, At the death of King Edward VII. crowd! How sallow the checks of the women of the whole nation the women, how almost ludicrous
the appearance of black mackinto in n diury at some time In Interest, went into mourning.
shes, black-edged handkerchiefs!
our lives, but very seldom do we Cut them out very nently, In- find it interesting enough to keep cluding the description underneath, on with it after the first few weeks, and date them carefully on the
Hero, however, is an idea for a back in ponell. diary that will become more and
Girls' and Boys' Corner
How things have changed. To-
of
pearance
Make This Model Diary
OST of us have started keep that
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day a woman in full "widow's AM not suggesting that we weeds" is a rare alght indeed.
should all wear our brightest Voils are only worn by the ladies clothes for a funeral, but that the Royal Family at State dark brown or dark blue should be
Black-edged notepaper | considered quite 28 "official" more interesting as the days pass. You will then make a neat brown- funerala. has gone right out of date, and at mourning wear as black-and in-
paper cover for the outside of the To begin with, you will want a scrap-book; cut the lottering funerals the majority of the wo- deed that there should be an end mon wear dark brown as much as to this "officialdom" about an ea large scrap-book. You can buy Hongkong Telegraph and the date black, and beige stockings and sentially private and personal one with fifty-six large sheets of "1030" from the front page; and gloves, where once the grimmest affair. After the funeral I can see paper, each aixteen inches by make up the word "Diary".
no reason why women should not cleven (which means 112 pages of black would have been con-
These, when very neatly trim- sidered. essential. Children do not continue with their robes.
for sticking on) for less than a mod, you will stick on to the cover, wear mourning at all,
And why they should feel obliged | dollar,
as seen in the sketch. Even Court mourning periods to postpone visits to the theatre, This weak, for instance, you As soon as a really rainy day grow shorter and shorter out of dinner parties with friends, dances could get last Monday's and Tucs comes you can arrange and stick. consideration for the number of that have been arranged, unless day's Telegraphs and cut out the in the photographs according to charities which are adversely af- their own personal inclination is plotures of the King's funeral. the dates.
Sometimes you will and, that fected by the withdrawal of mem- that they do not "feel like" dining if you can get some of last months bera of the Royal Family from or dancing or going to a play, 1 Telegraph's so much the better, there are two or even three out- a wonderful record of the year public affairs, and attendance at do not know.
because they had the photos of the standing pictures on one day. Try, whon December 31 comes, if you
however, to Thord is still a lot of humbug- King's reign. Alm
koep the daily carry out this plan? first nights, matinees, and dinners in afd of charity is not gery about mourning. I shall cer Then boginning with this week's quota down as much as possible, cancelled.
tainly be one of those who specify Hongkong Telegraph and continu- otherwise you will find the task of Did You Know? "no mourning by request" in the ing every week-day throughout the sticking them-a jolly interesting WHY Indoed must women wear notice of my death-even though your, you will look carefully at all job, especially if two or three That the first English opera, a mourning at all? The majority there may not be anybody who
the photographs, and pick out one friends are keeping "rival" diaries and Eneas by Purcell, was first of deaths are those of old people, would wish to mourn my passing that you like more than all the will become so burdensome that played in the year 1089. Actually an who have lived thair ¡lves and come out of the world.
others, either because of the value you give it up before the year is opera ir a drama est to music, as dis-Ģ to the natural and not unexpected
of the subject, or because it. In- out.
tinct from plays where the muato da end of them. Without being cal
terests you or because you fool Don't you think you will have merely incidental.
Evelyn Taylor
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