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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 19883

Half

way

back

to crinolines!

SUMMARY OF PARIS

SPRING FASHION

SHOWS BY ROBB · & LUCY MILNER ENDS WITH EVENING

FROCKS

SPREADING, billowy, skirts that

take us half way back to the crinoline... rainbow colours... sugarstick stripes-those are the impressions that stay after seeing the hundreds of new evening frocks in the Paris shows this year.

There's a new line in these wide skirts; they rise panelled, pleated. sometimes even with miniature paniers, from simple, fitted bodices.

Trimmnig is carried below the hipline. Flowers, for instance, trail from waist to knee; a bunch of lilies of the valley catches up the

skirt of a white satla

dress; hc:na are edged

with

lace,

Urended with rib- bons or ruched with taffeta.

LITTERING metal

materials like lame have been dropped; Instead designers are using soft, feminine, transparent

and

and

pulling

stuffs.

them

over underskirts of stiff taffeta. The effect when you walk is swaying and graceful; shoes don't show, and are often heelless sandals.

Newest material is cotton course

net, samelimes candy- striped, worn over taffeta slips.

If you want some- thing more sophisti- cated than these ro- mantic frocks, you have another choice

in the low-waisted,

tunic top silhou-

ettes. Smooth and fitting as a stock- ing down to the hips, from there they suddenly burst out "Into a full frill of contrasting colour material.

and

Dinner dresses of jersey or crepe, with long sleeves or little boleros. are still in every show, and there's

new version of the hostess gown made in chiffon, with short trans- parent puff sleeves and high round neck. (Robb has drawn one for you here).

い

OVER

VER your frock you can wear a cont or a cape- both are equally popular. They are made in two distinct types; elther heavy and formal, in taffeta, or Blmsy and transparent, In chiTon and Ince.

and

Evening hats

headdresses, which never gained much ground over here, have nearly all gone, but some designers show chiffon scarves like Indian suris (most becoming) and cowl collars which make hoods,

Short, pull-on satin gloves looked so elegant that you'll probably be seeing a lot of them.

Summing up the trends:

NECKLINES are low and plain on

are more than ever. Flower shades, too, pink, mauve, hyacinth blue, all it in with the trend towards roman- tic and feminine fashions. Black and dark blue, lightened, by trans- parent necks and sleeves, still in for dinner dresses.

TRIMMINGS: Big trailing

sprays

of flowers, like carnations, sweet peas, lilies of the valley; bands of lace and stitching or bows of ribbon;. pleating and panelling-ull_carried" well down on the skirt. Fantasles like one white satin frock which had rows of tiny pockets round the skirt, with tle birds' hands peeping out of them.

Lucy Milner

New version of the dinner dress. black organza over a tight uniterdress of black

satin.

buttoned

The organza.

full evening fracks; no more hulter front, had

necks, but a lot of shoulder straps und square bodices. Dinner dresses have simple round collars and short puffed transparent sleeves.

WAISTS move up and down: they are high on the full-skirted, billowy

down the

a high round collar and short

puff sleeves. Two bands of - stitched

frocios, very low on the tunic dresses. pleats ran across it,

LENGTH: To the ground all round

In almost every case: trains Are exceptions.

MATERIALS: Flimsy and trans- Jace, net, parent-chiffon, tulle, organza; or silfr and rustling- taffeto, grosgrain, corded salin.

COLOURS: Spring always brings out white frocks, and this year there

$1 TIFFINS

at

Also China Bldg., Hongk

one as a yoke, the

other round the hips,

and from below the hips it flared out in a full open skirt.

Jimmy's

Carte

Hankow Rd., Kowloon,

Pictures by Robb

-wbo televised spring fashions in the "Picture Page" 'programme from the Alexandra Palace recently. Lookers-in-mw him make quick charcoal sketches Blu- trating the fashion trends he saw in Paris. To emphasise the new lincs nnid details ke chose some of the more extravagant

frocks; the ones you will be wear- the ing yourselves will follow same ideas, but probably in a modliled form.

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It's Safer

to be born a Female

THE human male is weaker

than the human female, more prone on account of his re |lative constitutional weakness to developmental anomalies, to con- gental debility, and to death from disease of all kinds.

This is the view suggested by Pro- fessor A. E. Crew in his presidential address to the Zoology section of the British Association for the Advance- ment of Science,

"The true recipe for longevity is 10 be born a girl," said Dr. Crew. "to be born is hmore dangerous adventure for the male."

As far as they go. Dr. Crew went on, the figures about domestic animals suggest that the males shore with a man a relative frailty and endure a selective elimination. Yet, in birds the female is the more frugile. Among insects, on the other hand, the average male does not live as long as the female.

Dr. Crew urged that the move- ments of the sex ratlo can be used as a measure. A high ratio of male births goes with a high standard of ilving, and also with a declining

Colour, line, material-population.

all make this one of the Smelling Colours most romantic and grace-putting red ink where black should

A colour-bilnd teacher was always

be, and vice-versa, till he found that

ful evening frocks design-he could distinguish them by smell.

ed for spring.

This was one of the dodges of the colour-blind mentioned by Dr. Mary Collins in her presidential address to the Psychology section.

Only eighty cases of complete

Colour was pale pink colour-blindness have been described

a clear trite pink without

any yellow or blue tones

to

to date. The common

form of colour-blindness is in the red-green. The blue-yellow blindness, in which the ability to see blue and yellow is affected, is much rarer.

in it. Line ran from a Examining 360 candidates

for

acceptance as apprentice printers, Dr. pleated Collins found that 2.5 per cent, were

narrow

colour-blind to red and green.

Timing The Lark

With a ship-watch Mr. Rollin, a North of England observer, timed 500

skylards. The average length of the song was 2.22 minutes.

He found

that the lurks which sang longest

kepi together in the same field. at professor Ritchie in his presidential This experiment was mentioned by

simple, softly bodice into a waist, and out into a wide, billowing skirt. Material was chiffon, pleated all round but more thickly the sides than front and back, standing out over an underskirt of stiff taffeta, Bands of stitching divided the dress into tiers, and a

spray of pink, blue and mauve sweet peas trailed across the right knee.

address to the delegates from corres-

ponding societies. Professor Ritchie told how he was basking in his gar- den with three newspapers, which he read at intervals. He found that as

he read the "Scotsman" a cloud of winter midges hovered over it at n

height of four feet.

When he took up the old green "Westminster Guzeite" the cloud de- scended very markedly. He then. tested the midges with "Country

Lite" and they went higher even

than for the "Scotsman,”

"Experiments showed that the in- sects reacted..not to the colour... or quality of the paper, but to the Inten- sity of reflected light.

New ways to dress

Your WINDOWS

HAVE

a wooden pelmet which

can be painted to tone with

the curtains or stained.

DRAPED

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effecta

viri popular, and this style Is suitable for a

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HAVE

soon A very dainty window with curtalus of flowered not and a pleat- ed net pel- mel.

pelmet

By Gloria

HIGH win-

dow with a

of thick

printed material

Jo

brocade, and plain velvet cur- laths.

MARTI

SA narrow

strip of wood -biding the runnerD covered in the same material

the curtains.

Which will wore hare

OR have a deep

wooden pel- met with a sten- cilled design bordering it. With long, plain curtains this very effective.

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ELIZABETH SCHUMANN FAVOURITE SONGS.

JULIA CULP FAVOURITE SONGS.

PETER WARLOCK SONGS.

SCHUMANN SONGS,

SCHUBERT SONGS,

MOUSSORGSKY SONGS.

RIMSKY KORSAKOV SONGS.

PARRY'S LYRICS.

ANTHOLOGY OF SONGS. ED. JOHN GOSS.

BRAHMS SONGS, WHISTLER EDIT.

DVORAK BIBLICAL SONGS,

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SPECIAL MORNING SHOWS AT 11:30 A.M. From Friday, April 15th to Monday, April 18th QUEEN'S

ALHAMBRA

Friday, 15th & Saturday 10th Selected Programme

of

"POPEYE VARIETIES"

ETTY BOOP CARTOONS"

Friday, 15th; & Baturday, 10th' Belected Programme

"MICKEY MOUSE”

“SILLY SYMPHONIES!!:

Interchange of Programmes on Sunday 178

NB. Monday 18th Barween Qu