1936-11-24 — Page 14

ZOE FARMAR becomes a mannequin

she is learning-

I

(a) how to walk (b) how to sit

(e) how to

he

VE been b

a manneqi

I'm chang

wear

Mathes

sion, but it seemed to

that one of the things few women know is how to wear

their clothes....

In June

the training set off,

with three offer women, Forst we were

wrotn 1934

a brunette

each of us told what with our department.

There was Freda, 16, with lovely eggs; a rel entled Allee, who had aiready had a job as a man- nequly but had got the sack bekare her showing of clothes didn't sell #ell

them and she wented to w

freling alone it didn't; a whiley who, in the world and sorry for herself, had become so self-conselous that to enter a restaurant on her own terri- fed her, and hes dortar bad recon- mended these classes to help her get bark asurance; and me.

Enter.

.ashamed

Uit tralore asked Freda to go out

While she was gone we were told

tu watch carefully how she into the rumm again.

came

verdiet was We watched. The "You opened the door Just as though you expected it would break if you pushed it open more than half-way, your aboulders were hanched in you hurried across the rooman then as you sat down you slumped your back said a half-circle. into a

whole nanner our trainer, your

suggests that you are

afraid

yourself.

ahameri

uf any one noticing you all that has to be changed."

Alice, who consulered

pretty good beside

herself

us beginners.

went out next. The way she came

In was just the reverse

but somehow. irritating.

She

the

of Freda,

one hand on "her" "hip,"

Cothend middle finger

stimy

her cheat.

"No wonder you got the sack," remarked the tyrant, "you've about as much grace of movement as

figure. Muscle and exercises for you,

Wax

શ Anger

And you bounce up and down as you walk-a trait badly trained interins When I've made you stop showing off when you're showing clothes when you look like a natural buman being instead of what you imagine is a mannequin-you'll know your job....

I enne

next. and summaried- was made aware for the first time that I didn't know how to walk or sit down, that I had a habit of winding my legs around each other until they looked like the roots of a tree, that I held my head down and looked at the floor, that

looked

This is wrong:

She walks from the thigh instead

of the hip: her pose in awkward. and affected.

had-tempered and harned my toes

ut too much.

Hip-power B

now we were all thoroughly enjoying the show-up of each other's faults, and 1 felt sorry for the plump little widow.

12 DAYS EXHIBITION

OLD and NEW PRINTS KIMONOS and OBIS CULTURE PEARLS

BY

MR. T.. OKAMOTO

OPENING TUESDAY, NOV. 24th

OPEN from 9 am, to 7 p.m.

1st

FLOOR

GLOUCESTER BUILDING

Her shoulders swayed from side

to side as she walked-busting movement;' she edged her way on

to the chair as if it were very hot

be and the grating bud to

taiten gradually. Her fingers were clenen- rt1.

The trainer, kind and wise, made 10 comment. Instead she sald, walk. You

"We'll now learn

to

have to move from the lip insteari ofas all of you do--from the thigh."

She showed us how, if you move from the thigh, the fine of your dress in ereused across the front, yet if the forward spring starts from the hip the line of skirt from waist to hơi, is unbroken,

Practising this, we were made to walk round the room, up and down stalis with telephone books balanced on pur heads Bits to ensure that the balanes of weight was on the Spore,

Then, to sit down without either etmumpling up in a slump or sitting ungracefully to Mecattire naturally the habit of putting the right fool olatile behind the left (like beginning of a curtsy: before letting nur weight down into the chote (anul into the salinst spate", not ont edge ne half-way up the back of an Demelanie),"

They're casy

TH

the This is right:

THE excrelses we had to do every day were easy--calculated 11)

She walks from the hip so that the line of her free, in unbroken: her post is naboel wat balanced,

a

Che-

make the body supple and unself- disarranging our hate dressings, conscious without enlarging muscles, elever hittle sack of Jup suk

cause Bus fabric is light it doesn't For control of the leg and feet pull at hair strand, or smother you) muscles; to walk along with hare fect picking up pencils with QUIF

To hold our heads, propertys (1 had to do overtime on this), roll- ing of the broad like the exercise,

to cover hair ar faen.

L

Advice on Beauty

TEXT

We were sent to a beanly

Walstonalfant (who made 10 charge

for giving advicey, Predda, with her The little widow had thick ank- bis eyes and bowed lips, was advised les which haut to be massaged and to give up using cheek; congy bondaged up every

night. They to wear her half in a band of curls have lost their fatness alrearly.

all start her head cheemure it roaste her look more sophisticated ghe Is melined to be school-girlish).

Undie rules

Alice learner that those dy- JUST like school again, we had to

ber wear spedally planned under whisker eyebrows marle fare clothes..

lot bald (I'd been wanting to tell her that). The widow, round faced Regulations were that If we wore with Sud--but brightly blue

fare course of

treat-

!

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1996.

Try these new

Banana Dishes

PART from bananas being excellent food, they make some very good dishes and garnishes, and if these were to be collected in a single book you

By

would be surprised how many different Ambrose Heath

ones there are, not only sweet, but savoury,

too.

Here are just a few. Banana Cream, jelly with slices of bananas floating attractively in it. Banana Fool, Hamann Fritters, these are familiar to us all, but what about Banana Turnovers?

HAV

Banana Turnovers

into

JAVE some postry and cut it

squares. Arrange some banana stiers on one half, sprinkle them with a little sugar and lemon juler or spread lightly with strawberry Hum, and fold the other half of the pastry over, dumping and pinching together the edges. Bake them until done.

Bananas and Cream

NOT long ag 7 had this excellent dish at a friend's, but it had no nane. You want shallow reproof dish, which you must butter lightly. Put into it your peêted and halved bananas. Sprinkle them with a fe rum (this is not essently, and the sweet is very good without it), and plenty of brown Barbados sugar.

Put the fish into the oven, and let It stay there untf) the gangur has quite melted, then serve at once, with wogy Leuld whipped dream piled on top.

MAKE

Banana Cream Pie

best

[AKE a fan case of you -pastry, and when it is cold M1 it with overlapping; stlees of bananas, Cover these with an ordinary belles custard, and duish with whipped Cream.

Coconut can be sprinkled over the cream, it Bled, and strawberry jam could be added to the banana flag.

pur

Baked Bammox

DUT the basenas with thele, skus en into a bakhur-dish, put son n lid and bade them, not too fast, until the sking are very dark. Then take the skins off and serve the fruit het,

prinkled with sugar.

VOJU

West budian Baked Bananas uus time

must peet the bermanas, but leave them whole Put them into a fire-proof dish with rome agar ant grated lemon rind,

PRETTY LOCAL

WEDDING

MR. J. A. KEMSLEY AND MISS BEEVER

At eight o'clock this morning, the

Cathedral between Miss Marjorie Beever and Mr. John Alan Kemsley, of Messrs. G. N. Haden and Sons, Ltd. The Rev. H. W. Baines officiated,

a woollen vest it must go under our eyes, had a elastic girdles so as not to ruck up. inent that did her more good than wedding was solemnised at St. John's Brassiere tops only [! necessary. a doctor's bill. Trunks-Hot logged-kulchers—that, cut on Bic cross, fitted close on the thigh,

Top more

whilst appropriate music was render- ed on the organ by Mr. Lindsay Tafford

The bride is the doughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Beever, of Green Royd,

#R 11

Fenary Bridge, Huddersield, whilst the

bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Theydon Bols, Essex.

Hugh Kemsley, Thrifty Hill,

And I, taking my own advice: agreed that my worst fault was be- in too lazy to put on the best face The kind of suspenders that you I could manage. wist the stocking through--so tul there is absolutely no bulge. For As we worked ap mto" the under evening dresses; clustic punties forms, the lessons got a bit which combine trunks and support, technical, We learned how, in

flareri skirt, you want to walk with Two underslips of white or peach a wide, filing stride-to make the tallela (but not blue or green, be- most of the natural movement of the cuuse, over white or light colours, dress. That smaller, measured steps these colours will give a dirty tone, sult the

tailormades. Aravity of whereas at most peach only glows That an evening dress takes a slow through) cut on the blas; one short wall. for day. Ground-length;—for even- ing dresses.

Round the battun of these 1 band of frilling to keep the dress from falling in below the knees,

Final Warning

Parting lecture from our teacher was on the dangers of picking up For the widow, who needed a bit bad habit-like picking

nali of condensing, a special slip which varnish, fidgeting with your castle has an elastic panel across the back. girdle ( wouldn't, ruck up if you and a shaped elastic lace bodice for chose the right one), font jorging. evening dresses,

cumbing loose hairs on to your rollar (and leaving them there). For getting into dresses, without These habits, she said, ruin the smudging them with make-up or character of clothes.

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FESTIVITIES.

F2017

Christmas Memories

With Vocal Refrains.

F2628

The Savoy Lancers

F2629

F3679

Sir Roger de Coverley Memories of the Ball.

Paul Jones

R245

8629

**** Take Your Partners

El 1076 Finck-a-Lincko Lancers B3966

C2704

.New Empire Orch.

Ye Band of Rustics. Ye Band of Rustics. ..Waltz Medley, Ball Room Orchestra. Veleta, Barn Dance, Polka, Waltz. Ball Room Orch.

...Old Timer Singers.

After the Ball. Two Little Girls in Blue,

Daisy Bell

Drinking Songs

C2703 Fifty Years of Song

8441 Sing 'om Again

Mrs.

The bride was given away in mar- age by her uncle, Mr. A. Brearley, Manager of the Chartered Bunk. She wore a powder blue morocain ensoin- ble with navy blue accessories and carried a shower bouquet of pink rosts.

then sprinkle over

Today's Menu

SAUSAGES with BACON and BANANAS

MACARONI CHEESE

SALAD

THE sausage dish will be nicer if you grill T

both the sausages and the bacon, the latter very crisply, and serve them with halved ban- ams fried in butter. New potatoes, of course. The mucaroni cheese (or make it with spaghetti if you would rather have something a little more delicate) can be eaten with a plain letture salad, a habit which you will find rather "

wier.

sprinkle with a few drops of lime Juice (fresh if possible) and pour in

Beef with Bananaş ·

a ssful of sherry and Lorange Juice Ch

IT some beefsteak, runs or fillet,

(half and half).

Unise the baratas in a hot oven, busting them well with the bound. The huid be served cold.

Banangs Salad

IN Amories they make a banana mala by cutting the banana flech into cubes and letting them soak in an elinary French drenant (two olive oil, one part vinegar, salt Parta and pepper),

They are then either served in a green salad as they are or pit, back aste the barna skips (which must have been kept as whole possibles. and served up on the lettuce,

Sale Caprice

HIS is where bananas come in with

ah.

Have the soly, or lemon bee, Alleler, roll these in egg and then in brenderrumbs and then grill them if possible or fry them in a little Pastire

When they are served by a long strip of fried bannun upon rack. Helier sauce should bis hande-t separately,

into nicely-shaped picers und fry them in butter, Meanwhile peel some bananas, ut them

ball acres spain, e and breadcrumb the pleva and fry them golden in. deep fat.

Dish thei

with the beef fillets und serve, with sonte rich dark sauce like Robert poured round them.

Bammas with Cheese

My father always liked to eat raw

bananas with Cheddar cheese und here is much to be said for it,

though it is an acquired taste. Here is quite, n gund hot savoury of the

and sort,

Alell some butter in a shallow fire-proof dish and season it with saft and a little paprika pepper. Arrange on this your peeled bananas cut in halves lengthwise and sprinkle them with some fresh breadcrumbs and a mixture of grated Gruyere and I'LE, or even plain Cheddar would do.

Pour over a little melted butter, or dot with small pieces, and balte in a hottish oven until browned.

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in

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the

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Mr. A... R. Butcher was best man.

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