1937-04-16 — Page 2

Personality Frocks

CHOOSE COLOURS TO

SUIT YOURSELF

AND YOUR HOME

HE first spring fashions have arrived, and already X have been asked to advise about new suits, coats and frocks.

But to-day I am not going to talk about design, but about colour.

I've seen too many disappointments which have been due to wrong colour choice and that alone.

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lovellest frock will pass unnoticed if the wearer has not sumciently considered her own colouring and that of her background. The latter, I'm afraid, is most often for- gotten. Yet it is very important.

Thint frock looked simply lovely in the chop, but I was bought without thought being given to the surroundings hi which it would be worn

Pastel Shades or Vivid Hues

Some colours look better than others under artificial light, and It is in the afternoons and evenings, when you are enjoying a well- earned leisure after a busy day, that you want particularly to look your best.

For instance, if I go into a grey room with fuchsia or magenta colourings, I wilt Immediately, because these shades are not for me, although they suit a number of other women. For the golden blonde or white-haired woman there are more lovely colourings, Let us take the blonde first who has probably a delicate clear skin.

Clear blues, cluder grey, delicate greens all help to give her an ethereal air, and her colouring is enhanced and thrown into strong relief by the dark oak of the dining room, or the soft tapestry furnishings of the lounge.

If, however, a fair-haired giri has brown eyes her skin is probably on the creamy side and will quickly deepen to a yellowish hue 1f certain colours are worn. She must choose warm bluey greens, venetian red, or chestnut browns that have a hint of red. The sketch on the top left shows a fur-trimunica

Make Your Figure ATTRACTIVE

It is unwanted, wastes that make you awkward · and slow on your 2015, it is there, warios that make you tire nelly and look older than you are. You can get rid of them the Bionicera Way, BorKorn helps you to bekijk and feimnote; by Tumulat- ing body sation, mettiam eld of un-

A gracious frock for the white- haired woman- embossed velvet. in a soft whic shade.

frock with one of the new tulip collars

This made in cert Jean blue, is my choice for the bille eyed blonde against rose. coloured furnishings. while brown eyes and fair hair call for red wallower hues against beige and

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warm

brown background.

Then comes the brunette, with either a fnir or durk com- plexion. The former is probably grey-eyed, and should select colours that enhance the creamy pallor of her ski

Brunettes

Bright, rich, intense shades will enhance

the glowing duskiness

of the brown - eyed brunette.

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A blue-eyed blonde wears a cerulean blue frock with tulip collar. For the brunelle we chose a slim style in pastel pink cloque crêpc.

pink cloque crêpe, For the woman with mousey-coloured hair there is n wide variety of colourful shades that she can choose with safety.

Then there is the woman with white or greying hair. How gracious ale looks in the third sketch: "She made a wise choice in selecting an embossed velvet frock in a wine shindo.........

TO-DAY'S

RECIPE

Creole prawns

AVE ready.3 cups of cooked rice,

press into a border mould, and

Lovely Legs

By Frances Day

1

NOW is the time to over-

haut your legs before

of

the warm sheer-silk stockingless days come

along.

FTER altting in front

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of fires during the cold months your legs may he marked by the heat. This unsightliness simply means that the pores have become inflamed from excessive

heat.

MASSAGE is the answer to this problem-and any good skin food, vitamin cream of plain olive oil Alis the bill. Always massa ZE the legs from the ankles up -every night for one week should show a real improve- ment.

IF any fine hairs have

appeared on the legs. there is an excellent wx treatment which works wonders and it is put up in a compact home outfit,

Have a

star dish

of

year own

LL the best cooks have pet dishes.

The reputations of great restaurants have been built up on one or two specialities. The idea is worth con- sidering.

A busy housewife cannot devote her entire existence to the keep hot over a saucepan of hot study of cookery. There are bound to be gaps in her knowledge Fashion is particu- water. Fru 2 sliced onions and a of the subject. But if she learns to make only one dish perfectly,

cup of diced celery in 2 tablespoons her reputation as a cook will be assured.

"larly" kind to her this

sennon, ILR magentu shades. rich blues, greens, red and copper brown are so popular.

of fat, zift in a tablespoon of flour,

Q cup of

water, cook for 15 minutes, then add

and scason well. Add

Brunettes can. af

ours.

TRY

it on your friends. Make a special study of one type

of cooking, and serve the result as the masterpiece of 2 cups of cooked or tinned tomatoes, an otherwise very easily prepared meal.

course, successfully wear the lighter col- 3 cups of drained tinned peas, and 2 The guests will go away saying, "Doesn't she make a perfect souffle The second cups of prawns. Season with some (or soup, or salad, or sweet, or omelette, or curry, or savoury, or what- sketch shows a wide, paprika, add a teaspoon of sugar and not)?"

time they came; they will be hoping for the same treat again. The next stare shoulder style about a tablespoon of vinegar, cook that enhances the slenderness at tho

for about 15 minutes more, and serve If you are wise, you will not disappoint them. It will simplify matters

enormously for the future.

While It waistline. This frock in and round the rice mould, gar- is carried out in pastel nished with small sprigs of parsley.

Bits To Cut Out

Brushing Up Bristles

will

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taken for of cayenne, a saltspoonful of black granted that there is nothing in pepper, and a pinch of salt. Sil the culinary line of which you are until, creamy. Add more cream if incapable, you will never be called necessary. Serve on hot buttered upon to prove it. You will have toast, and serve at once. created your legend.

You can limit your public per

your formances to variations on

PART from the recipe, her success is due to her knowl-

BROOMS should never be stood on their bristles when they single turn, and the applause will, edge that a Welsh, rabbit must (n)

are put away in the cupboard for it crushes the bristles and spoils them for sweeping.

If that has happened to your brooms and brushes this is how you can restore them. Half fill a kettle with water and bring it to the boll When the steam is pouring steadily from the spout, hold the crushed bristles to it.

Then rub your hand smarily over the brush, taking care not, to let the steam scald you, and you will find you have In future keep your what seems to be like a new brush. brushes in a rack, off the ground, or standing on their handle ends with the bristles facing upwards.

Washing Chamois Gloves

WASH doeskin or chamels gloves in warm soapy water, Wand let them dry thoroughly.

Pull out each finger, and press each one with a fairly cool iron. Then press the palm of the glove, and finish off with the back of the hand. The gloves will look like new.

NEW REX RECORDS.

8993 (Sing Something in the Morning. F.T.

IA Nice Cup of Tea. F.T.

-8994 (On Your Toes. F.T.

(At the Balalaika. F.T.

BILLY COTTON & HIS ORCHESTRA.

F.T.

8986 (May I Have the Next Romance.

(Core. FT.

Wanted poisonous waste matter, 8995 (Harbour Lights,

Start the Bonkers triatment. Feel yourse ating and attrac Motive, Ha "yourssit becoming

ilya, and cutting „YBARB oft- your tiguro.

BONKORA

Sold and recommended by All: Druggists.

COUNT THE TELEGRAPHS

EVERYWHERE

(Timber.

JOHNNY JOHNSON & HIS ORCHESTRA,

8996 (Six Hits of the Day. No. 9.

PRIMO SCALA'S ACCORDION BAND: 9001 (SANDY WINS THE GRAND NATIONAL, SANDY POWELL.

8987 (There's Something In the Air,

(Where the Lazy River Goes By.

FT,

F.T.

CHICK BULLOCK'S ORCHESTRA,

and

CHARLIE KUNZ PIANO MEDLEYS: NO. 23 & 24;

also.

NEW PARLOPHONE RECORDS.

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY. Marina House, 19 Queen's' Road C. Tel. 24648,

an

not be overcooked for a second, (b) kept waiting for a second in the. Hot buttered toast is in front of each guest on a hot plate, and the on to it Welsh rabbit is poured straight from the pan,

be deafening every time.

KNOW one

whose cold. woman spurious fame as a cook Welsh upon her depends solely rabbit.

Her recipe Is this:-Heat

Give this same woman a kidney ounce of butter in a pan, and put to grill or an egg to fry, and she 4 shrieks for help. She is strictly a into it b. Cheshire and Double Gloucester shredded. Add onc-dish woman.

of

two a. tablespoonful tablespoonfuls of old beer, à salt-

Home Page Cook spoonful of made mustard, a dash

cream.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1937.

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