1936-08-18 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1936.

Zoe Farmar shows you the lazy way to a LOVELY

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FIGURE

HIS is for those who want to slim or improve their figures without taking exercise. One way or another there seems to be an effortless way of doing evory- thing.

To corrept your figure faults all you have to do is to go to almost any store and ask for the corsetting department. You can go in looking like the fat lady and come out if not a Joan Crawford, at least a really good figure of a woman.

But Arat let us get straight what is wrong. Do not Judge your figure by weight alone. Proportions mutler.

If you are heavy-boned you may look too thin beside a

"Do not judge your figure by weight alone. Proportions matter."

Another bit

of information

woman a stone lighter than yourself. In fact, it seems bumped up against was that you can to work out that the tiny-boned collect fat more ren get a bathing suit with a really good dily than those big bold frånig..

bust bodice inset at the top.

Trying to become a physical type which you are not

is na silly as a bus body on a motor-cycle.

You

aзn't see it, but the difference it makes....

They are also making bench Lop

silk handkerchiefs Hutle

cleverly

Let us take some of the figures we run to and see fangled to hold you just where they, what we can make of them. We'll begin small,

Just this week I found the perfect underall for almost any one who is below 40 inches round chest and hips.

should. I think you are almost boundl

to buy one of these for the summer,

But to get on to bigger Bgures.

It had been tested 'out. Some one wore it for eight hours at a stretch and it did not-jurt would not-pull They are the ones that should truly out of shape. The shoulder straps were adjustable- benefit by this colossal industry. My not to one position only, but to four. The most remark investigations able: halter fashion for a completely backless dress,

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anfeeling)

All manoeuvred by buttons (flat that fixed on in the girdle (although you don't nec sarily have to buy a new giedle, as the loops go separately, for Attching on to whatever you have).

the

convinced

that there is not a woman who, by studying her figure, and dressing urefully (not only underneath, of course), canot look well made.

There is one illusion she

Still, the girdle was guoti, too. Triple threads of elastic stuff woven so that it holds you by the hips st overcome-the idea that by flattening the body she is relentless but kind.

You know how those girdles sometimes roll over at making herself look slimmer. doing this she simply the top when you sit down. This one didn't, berpuar By there were two tiny bones, they come out before the makes her body shapeless, laundry gets a chance) that held it up in position. vairuely shapeit. Helps you to sit up straight, ten,

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The figure which is largé around the chest and hips can only be controlled if the bust is held up in its natural position. If bound down it spoils the wals-line. and encourages a roll of fat, gives a thickened silhouet

Some of the "foundatim" garments I saw for birer women are truly exercises in themselves, They hold the figure to its rightful shape, and in doing so not only "Improve-the-look-of-you, they give your inside a better

chance of health.

Great achievement of these things is that they are not boned. Light and washable, they are designed to put you into shape and they do. Some of them look quite flip and gay in flowered voiles. I prefer the plain hobycoloured ones in faille and elasticity.

In this department the meaning of mass production has changed. It now defers to individual idiosyncrasies. in a big way. Of the garments I've been talking about different alone there are something like five hundred combinations of measurements;

The way they discover what is good for you is (hut then it is fascinating. To me incomprehensible mathematical, and I am still unable to do long division). You give your hip, bust, and waist measurements, and the sales girl dials them on n cardboard chart and gets

It never fails. through to the number that will fit you.

You may be top-heavy or four inches larger round the hips; they will straighten you up,

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That is the beginning.... If you want to do well by yourself you must plan with equal care your general style of dressing. There is not room here to go into that, but remember always that ornamentation calls attention to, does not detract from, an over-full outline.

Over-dressing is responsible for more spoiled figurer than over-eating.

SALESMAN SAM

MY LAWYER HAS ARRANGED WITH) SWELL! WHAT

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Russet, the lipstick for tanned skins

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THE skin which has acquired a needs a really lovely tan very special make-up, and, as a

must general rule, the make-up contain something of an orange shade in rouge and lipstick, with one of the auntan powders to complete It

The Intest addition to the list russel of sun-tan cosmetics, in

paulck which harmonises bentt- fully with the brown, healthy skin, and yet doen not look out of place oven on the tengle court.

It is packed in a lack ease with gold and russet bands, and ents only half a crown.

A

Housewife's Scrapbook.

this

READER recommends tation for hands discoloured

by stains:

One teanpoonful of white vine- par, added to two of lemon juice. Ten drops of camphor must be added, and the preparation pluh into a bottle.

Very Httle in nccessary.

Dab

on witth a small piece of cotton wool and leave on to dry. After

it has dried apply plenty of olive oil, which can be wiped off after

a few minutes, Then the hands should be washed.

A

NEW kid plover will not split, when first put on, if they cre placed between the folds of dump towel for an hour or two. Wid The dampures softens the

Mort to stretch and allows it rrudity.

DINNER

MENU

Chaidfraid of Lemon Sole. Cold Beef Olires. Broad Beans Meniere.. Polato & Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream Dressing.

THE

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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ACROSS

1 Drake, and this race, made the

Spanish By.

Ex cathedra.

9 The genial old poet who has

call for the nation.

11 He takes a piece of elastic at

the back of the foot.

12 Drill that is popular in the

tropies.

13 Cinderella's other name

115

Stop

used by sailors.

17 Mediterranean port.

19 Means to take care in this.

21 When this is owing, it means

trouble in waves.

23

river reference.

with the first-class

24 Even a double one won't make

one right.

cold steamed fillets are coat-25 Look for this on the mup of

Peru. ed with white sauce stiffened with gelatine and well flavoured. Garnish with pleces of tomato and

a few capers,

For the olives cut pieces of lean, underdone roast beef, spread thinly with horseradish sauce, put-a piece of piekle or gherkin in each and roll up. The broad beans should be cooked and pected; and served cold with French dressing and chopped parsley. The salad is made by mixing aliced cold potatoes with half the quantity of xliced cucumber.

Make the dressing with two hard- boiled egg yolks mashed with salt and a pinch of sugar, add a table- spoon of white vinegar and then a gill of sour cream.

Stew 1ib. red currants in water until tender, rub through a sleve, add Goz. castor nugar and allow a table- spoon of ground rice for each pint Mix the rice with a lttlo of the juice, heat the rest, and when bolling stir into the rice and boil until quite thick. Turn into a mould and serve with custard or cream. It is best made the day before.

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28 Eleven cels far from home, and

very upset,

29 Do without; as the chemist

does.

30 She is the second at birth; first and second after her first ccre- mony.

DOWN

1 A good number offer accom-

modation for valuables. 2 Notch.

certain sense. 3 Exercising a 4 Returned empty.

5 The horse that shares a stall

with a lion.

6 Ship's cut to die (anag.).

7 In being restored to former

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14 Trees appealing to the aluman, 15 Seize this, or it may shoot.

18 Where they disturb the heather

in Scotland.

20 This ace is never in the middle

of the pack.

21 The bird for rejoicings.

22

Foreign gentleman who scens

to demand your name on the dotted line, with a threat.

20 Unless he had private means. the counsel who wasn't wouldn't be able to.

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