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Little Women

Women with

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O-DAY I want to talk about little women's fashions. Not young girls with slender willowy figures, but the woman of forty-five or so, five feet tall or thereabouts, who has retained the slim lines of youth, or is inclined to be very thin. Your first dim- culty is what to look for in a frock to suit your particular type.

Now stand in front of your mirror and see what lines of your figure you wish to cm- phasiac. Where docs your figure need fullness or a soft touch? If your neck and

Ideas

NOTHING can stand in the way smoke because her emotional life

of a woman with an idea. Hers has misfired?

in the driving force that gets things.

done.

If Miss Understanding marries

she will understand her husband su Long before the national call to well that he will become a complex health, women saw the value of and a repression. And she will pro physical fitness and had the iden vide all his food out of a tin. of leading themselves to health and

Service, Ad Nauseam beauty.

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shoulders arc firm you can wear an open

neckline, but "sait coliar" hollows should be discreetly hidden, and the present high to throat fashions are of material help in this respect.

Then again,.jabots are most becoming. rumes and all the attractive fripperics you And at the lace counter; but watch care- fully that you do not cut your height or give a wide effect to the figure,

Floral Prints

You can go happily into. print, floral or otherwise, knowing that as you are sth you have a wide choice among the different patternings,

But you do not want to look elderly or to resemble your daughter, so I have chosen styles cut with small godeis in the skirt on neat fitting lines. The lingerie vest and loop trimming gives just that rght note of interest to the bodice without being fussy.

Many of the new Spring styles have dainty white collars as well as cuffs in plque or organ- die, so keep this in mind when finishing off your dress.

You will quickly appreciate the perennial qualities of the second frock I have selected. With two or three different collars and jabots you will be able to ring the changes on this style and give it an entirely different look.

The particular shaped jabot shown gives an important look to the top part of the figure, while hips are nicely slimmed by comparison.

I take off my hat to

MODERN FATHERS

says Elizabeth Ewing

there.

►

Wearing Shorts

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1938.

YOU RUN NO RISK

when you choose a

In Public: MORRISON Pro & Con

SHOULD women

wear

A shorts in public? walk round any beach or golf course in Hongkong during the summer months will provide ample evidence that for 50 per cent. of the women who do appear in public wearing shorts, the answer to the above ques- tion should be an uncom- promising "No."

About 20 per cent. of us look utterly delectable in well cut shorts and are a joy to behold. and the remaining 30 per cent. are permissible. Incidentally, when speaking of shorts I mean only the pleated or flared kind, as no woman can successfully wear shorts cut like a man's. Our pelvic bones simply are not built for them, although some of us do not eccm to realise it.

You will sometimes find a womana who has quite good tuste over her other clothes going berserk when It comes to shorts, and entirely losing her judgment, to say nothing of her sense of humour. She will consider that she herself looks presentable. and with her

next breath

crilicize some friend for wearing oblivious of the fact shorts, quite that the friend's figure faults are very similar to her own.

Up to the age of 21 anyone can wear, shorts, not that every figure wear below that age comes into the 20 delectable class, per cent. utterly

but simply because the gay In- souciance of youth can get away with anything

cf short

murder. After that age, what are the types which should or should not wear shorts in public?

The most obvious ones to rule out first are those with any leg im

knees, varicose perfections-knock velus, podgy knees, or legs which are fat above the knee.

I ought not to be necessary to mention these defects at all, as one think that their owners would would be only too anxious to shroud them in the kindly disguise of a skirt.

"Yet within the last month I have seen every one of these imperfections unashamedly flaunting Itself beneath pair of shorts, on a certain golt course not five hundred miles from

here.

the

PRAM-PUSHING papas were fathers who like taking out a side-splitting joke a gen- prams and playing at trains; who can mix a pretty bottle if need be, cration ago.

Now, on Sunday morning, Daddy, and who make quite a good job of

Quile apart from legs, however, wearing of a garment which as likely as not, fills his pipe, calls minding the baby when a crisis grips the dog wheels out the pram and the household; who, rushing home sets off briskly for a stroll with the early from the office for nursery tea- ends above the knees has a fore- youngest crowing at him for joy and parties, make themselves so useful shortening effect and makes other a heavy bust much more apparent. big sister or brother dancing along that even Nannie likes them being figure. faults such as Jurge hips or Very tall women should never went side.

shed in a Modern fathers have It lets mother and the servants get on with things at home. It lightens generation all that adult pomposity shorts, as a tall thin woman merely ever, and a tall heftily built woman their routine if father lends a hand, which, on the masculine side, usually looks a longer streak of misery than only succeeds in making herself Besides, he likes these expedi- meant a lordliness ni home, a scorn

of "women's work," and a leverish look for more massive than she real- He looks forward to them. tions.

insistence that male dignity should

from ly is. is quite

und 'shut an be sheltered DADDY, who

average young Englishman nursery cries and nursery fun. with a profound horror of at: QMALL flats have helped that

ot

соли

sideration, too, and every Wo-

Women are also standing behind Mrs. Lovisall's one idea is service

tracting attention and a full shedding. So, much more. AGE needs to be taken into the drive to improve social condi- to her family. No sacrifice is too tions. They have

share of masculine self-consciousness idea that great for them. She will give up

over unorthodoxy, comes home boast has the spirit of companion-man whose age and hipline are ever and co-operation that 40 would be well advised to remem- something must be done and some her social activities for their wel-

ing gaily of the games they've all ship

successful modern ber Mr. Punch's thing is being done.

fure. She will go without a new

invented; the fun they've had feed- animates most

marriages. ing the ducks.

But what about the woman with fur coat that Jack may have the idean who has no public field in extras he does not want when he which to plant them, whose activi- gees to college. ties must be confined to her own circle?

Food Fada

When she is young and a hungry husband thinks about his dinner. she imaginea he has ceased to eare for her! Later, when the children She may be more than a nuisance, go away for the week-end and dis- Mrs. F. Addy Food can talk all day play natural excitement she thinks on food values and talk in such a they are tired of home. way that after ten minutes you sures everything in terms of love, know all normal fouds are poison. and is consequently a burden to the

She is a wonderful dietician, but family.

She men-

her husband cannot always And n To-day, there are women every an idea. mended pair of socks, and the chil- where who are slaves to dren often go off to school on a wet One will make her family uncom day without their waterproof coats. fortable because she cannot think of Miss Understanding sees life is anything but social success. An- terma of the subconscious. She has other will deprive her family of a read a few books on psychology home because she worships the and you can't tell her anything she house. And so on. does not know about human nature. A woman with an idea may be- You may think that girl over there come like a cat with a mouse. She is having a cigarette because she will be unable to think of anything has ten minutes to walt. MIss elsc. Understanding knows she has to

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But

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greater causes It just never crosses his mind that

than these for the different kinds of the idea of a man with a pram would have set his mother and her fathers current nowadays.

The modern small, planned family female relations tittering away

2 has done most of the trick, andi loudly together. That his father would sooner

have turned cart- interest in child psychology has com- wheels across the boardroom noor pleted the job.

From the very start the baby of than have been seen taking family out; would rather have been to-day is, more than ever before, un suspected of fraud in the City than individual being conditioned to life,

î personality with interests of minding the baby.

needs and rights and a place in the The fun father had playing with world just as definite as the adult's. the children's trains was another

the

and

advice to those contemplating matrimony-don't! Of course the petlle type with a young unlined face can go on wearing shorts until she is older than her carewornS sister with 11 wrinkled face, but even so, once over 40 be

enreful.

con-

Many women will maintain that they wear shorts for their own com- fort and convenience and do not members of the ostrich class men- care how they look, but they are tioned above who are quite vinced in their own minds that they look fairly well, for really we all Daddy care quite a lot how we look. heavy jest when we were young. THEREFORE when

If ever these good women could pushes the pram he's not a

some of the cruel comments hear

backs man ignominiously passed behind their

they BUT now Daddy is the first to

admit that he really bought grown-up

surely rush off home that steam engine for his own wheeling out an infant; who would amusement as much as young symbolises his servitude to napkins pack up their shorts straight away Jonathan's. That he's dying to fix and nights of pacing the nursery for distribution to the poor. up the new signal-box and see if it door. He's a person going out with

another person, down the train really senda

The small, engaging son or daugh- branch line to the nursery door.

more

than

the

mothers

men.

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ier among the pillows and rugs is THE above remarks have been Fathers have changed in the past an individual who is coon going to written mainly for the guidance These of my own sex, but in closing it 20 years for

be a companion and friend.

the should be pointed out that many have.

only present expedlilons are

are equally applicable to The hand that rocks the cradle start of other thrilling ones to catch of them may nowadays spend quite a lot of tiddlers or to bring down conkers

Actually the prizen for the very selling hats or holding the helm of the pair of them, to cricket matches

eat Logether; to BUT that revolution isn't half dawn town. There's no end to the fun that is going to follow from this Un astonishing as the far week-end partnership of Daddy and less limelit one represented by the pram.

the day tapping a typewriter or In a few years they'll be going. worst examples of those-who-

a business.

strawberry

Nothing better them

Panflavin

To prevent sore throat and infection.

go ices should-never-wear-shorts must

to the gentlemen with large pro- truding paunches. One can only as sume that they take real pride in the size of their waistlines, or they would never have the nerve to uc- in

contunte them by appearing shorts, that type of figure nearly always goes with ridiculously in- adequate tile lega.

R. W.

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