1938-09-02 — Page 2

MEN started this stocking story

by fashion editor

1936

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1938

1932.

HAS it ever occurred to what their fun stockings cut thick, white-but they were always

you, girls of to-day,

proportions.

tells

shorter

seventeenth centuries.

lowever

were

Shopping Points

Buy three pairs of silk stockings

at a time, of the same shade and quality. This

economical. provca Stockings can be interchanged as thep ladder.

Pay the extra if you can, remem- bering that two good pairs of stock- ings will outlive three cheaper pairs. This makes for real economy.

Never buy stockings too small, as this source of vanity is extremely costly, and the stockings almost in- mediately ladder.

Stockings, whenever possible, should be bought with an eye to the sccasion on which they are to be used. For instance, two-thread for evening; three thread for afternoon, and four-thread for all day long. For hard, country wear, six, seven and eight-thread stockings are avull- able to-day in all good-class skops at cheap prices,

The term "fully fashioned" is worth learning about. It means that the stockings are made on special machinery so that they will always retain a good shape, which prevents wrinkling at the ankles,

Never forget to rinse stockings through luke warm water before wearing. This helps the elasticity and also the wear of the stockings.

Always wash your stockings cach night, but if by day chance you have to wear them two days, change over the left stocking to the right foot the second day. This will prevent rub in the same place.

When you wash your stockings, do so alwație in warm (not hot) suaru water. Melted flakes, of course, are best for making the water soapy.

Openwork lace effects up the front or at the sides were another conceit on the bias in order to make them TN the nineteenth century their of this period. Some stockings were how lucky you are to have molts war, it is said, a lacing-up at and the 30's and the 70's were pro- cloth.

more shapely; and the origin of

character begin to change, gossamer fine and others thick as such elegant, sheer silk the ankle, which was another device

bably the most glamorous stockingt In Mr. C. Willett Cunnington's stockings? And, moreover, used to insure slim-fitting and good periods. Silk and coltos of extreme fascinating book on English Women's Be very careful to follow the wash- at a cost of but a few shill-

Aneness, Shakespeare's Malvolio was proud times clocked, made the stockings of he tells us that silk stockings were inga; be particularly careful never to sometimes plain and some- Clothing in die Nineteenth Centurying instructions given on good stock- ings the pair.

of his yellow stockings which he the belles of those days. Young elaborately embroidered up the front rub soap into the stockings, as this Ever since Queen Elizabeth Samuel Pepys had silk stockings of It seemed to be a matter for com- others of ribbed cash

us Olivia commended; and girls, however, usually wore white. In the 80's, and that there

has a deleterious effect on the fine had a pair of black knit silk which he was mighty proud,

mest when coloured stockings were

cashmere, and he silken fibres, otes, "but. Men wore long stockings in those worn in the evening, and indicated limb or elegant the stocking, they frequent cause of laddering is sus stockings "which pleased her

quotes.

shapely the Investigation shows that the most so well that she would never days, but women always had the bad taste or that the lady

moved wear-any--cloth-hose after--knee; so you see the attempt to in- "Sketches by Boz" recou

ones gartered below the rather fast

Dickens, the

in-And this

are better cd."

pender strain. There are many good.. prevailed really stockings on the market to-day, with wards" these coverings for the troduce This shorter length

recounting the for ball at Schor Billsmethi's Dancing of the

right to a few

up to n years ago. In spite suspender ladder protection. It is lower limb have found a special women a few years ago was only Academy.

black sprigged werth paying an extra shilling for exquisite at which Mr. Augustus stocking on the line which place in history.

a barging back to the sixteenth and Cooper began and ended his social product of about 1900.

was a these. career, tells us: "In short, nothing

A typical after the war stocking SILK stockings were a standarıl PROBABLY the earliest femin- could exceed the arrangements ex is seen in the next model on the line,

ine stockings in preservation pt

the

company. Such ladies! guide to social category according to-day are those on the free Such pink silk stockings! Such art of thick black silk, which shows the to their colour and the flamboyancy Duchess of Richmond in Westminster

felat ilowers!"

rings that were all too common in of the embroidery. And some even Abbey (1702). This lady has a

those A very elaborate example of

days; flesh and beige and tan go so far he to say that they played green silk pair and a pale blue wool stocking of this period is

second or sunburn shades were news In the

1920's, the open mesh a bit part in the emancipation of pair of the shape of those of the from the left in the sketch. This is

stocking next women, for like many of women's early eighteenth century

was on innovation of 1932, and the our one in the collection at the Victoria fashion fancies. they were first the clothes line.

and Albert Museum, and is of thick big news a few years later was the pride and joy of men. With the The first function of stockings was pale blue silk, with immensely wide below-the-knee stocking, which, as shortening of

akirts stockings grew undoubtedly to give wannih; later glocks at the sides in white em I've already mentioned, was really a more and more important. Or was their function was, as well, to con- broidered in pale gold and

revival dating back to the earliest It is seldom advisable to start any it the increasing interest in ankles ceal the leg, and very thoroughly stockings were usually black,

silk stocking days.

reforms in the diet by drastic re- that had its effect upon skirts? they did this job. They might be of Day

duction in quantity unless a complete Anyway we owe something to the almost any colour-rese, green, grey, thread or silk.

AST comes an up-to-the- white

or grey, and of cotton, liste

fast and rest Is possible and moment Twi-Twist stocking, practical. Try eating less of the Queen Victoria's wedding stock- fection to the skin, for the function eggs, fish, starches and sugars und so sheer and lovely that it lends pur concentrated foods such да meat, ings, on view at the London Museum, of stockings to-day is not to conceal replace them with a similar quantity are in fine but not transparent while the limb but to beautify it. This is of fruit and vegetables. After two silk, with plain white slik embroider- erl clocks, and her initials surmount de by the great organisation of or three weeks cut out some of the ed by the crown in openwork at the

Wolsey, which supplies hosiery to meat and bread. the Royal Household. top.

of circumstance; sometimes

Why These Cliques

Tennis Clubs ?

at

on

rose

stockings stockings

HAY DIET HINTS

We think that perhaps we eat too

much; what foods should we elimi nate?

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the body?

Too much acid-forming food is the.

A two-thread evening stocking of OLOURED stockings and finest gauge is so fine that in the dis- What causes an excess of acid in

same with brightly coloured tance it is difficult to detect the circular stripes had a Tis a grim-reflection upon the average standard of manners at about the 60's. Third on the line thread for afternoon and four-thrend much of the concentrated foods, such

reat vogue stocking on the leg at all! Three- I lawn tentis clubs that a member, star or be that you see a stocking of the perfod from forend for

first cause and the partaking of too friendly spirit prevalent at her club, answered yes, she thought ringed round in rose, blue, and green The fascination of these modern the alkaline properties have been

the Victoria and Albert Museum day.

the order of things to-

as meat, eggs, Osh and bread. The it was unique!

use of processed foods from which shot with gold. And even at this particular club, the friendliness is very much on were another day-time vogue.

Plaid

may perhaps best the surface. In a few weeks' time the new member learns that Mis A.

Judged in money.

be taken away. Wrong combinations of Also at this muscum is much too good to play with any but a chosen four, that everyone has richest pink silk stockings, dated stockings. The British hosiery in- by nature,

saw the about £30,000,000 annually on silk

Women spend food and the retention of waste food a headache, or has to go home early, or would much rather sit out this about the

in the body longer than it is intended one when Miss B. wants to make up a set, because she is a beginner, three rows of black lace insertion up dustry in the country, and employs commend, for a cold?

70's.

ornamented with dustry is the third largest textile in- ardently but with no back-hand at all. Love of course accounts the front from the instep to above well over a hundred thousand people

What treatment does Dr. Hay re- for the desperate subterfuges of young Mr. C. whose beloved always the ankle; and there are too, some to make about 10,000,000 dozen pairs seems to be playing in a mixed double which finishes half way through white silk embroidered up the sides of artifletal and real silk stockings

As a cold is the body's way of his own set, so that he can never catch up with her. Then Mr. D., who in his own estimation is so much the best player that he

there is in silver.

cleaning house it should be helped in its work. A cold is an accumula- cannot bear to be beaten, refuses to call the score or pick up balls for

tion of poisons which the body has his partner, and generally behaves like a small boy working up for B

not had the resistance to throw off. spanking. And finally there are the Misses E. and F.. pretty, slim, and

This suggests that the state of 80 immaculately dressed in shorts, who only play in mixed doubles and regard

per cent, alkalinity and 20 per cent, acid the rest of their, sex us something

has not been maintained. The treat definitely obstructive.

ment should therefore be to bulld up that state by eating only alkaline- forming foods. Plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. Oranges, grape- fruit, grapes, lemons and passion- fruit are ideal,

HOW ABOUT

A SAMPLE VACATION

IN THE COOLEST

SPOT IN

TOWN?

CAMP KARE-FREE

where SINGER ROGERS TOUGLAS FAIRBANKS.JR.

Having

Wonderful

Time

COUNT THE

"TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE

THIS, however, is but a mild

manifestation of the clique spirit that reigns in two big tennis clubs I know, at one of which it is possible for a member to sit the whole of an afternoon and evening without getting a game, unless he or she is accompanied by a personal friend, und the other where sels ure only made up between players who know each other socially outside the club, who have called on each other, nud

therefore presumably пscer- talned that it is all right to know them."

re

WOMAN said to me cently that her reason for not joining a tennis club was that she did not want to know the mem- bers outside the club and that one had to play ofien with people whom one heartily dlaked. But does one refuse to go to a swimming pool because the other swimmers there have not been to tea with one, and the main function of a tennis club to play tennis, not to select new friends?

19.

not

Personally, I should not mind if I never saw the members of my tennis club in private life. I have no desire to probe into their histories. But it is, all the same, perfectly pos- sible to be very good friends and to enjoy rattling good tennis in the club with them.

Men, I am afraid to say, uro just, as prone to the clique spirit as

Materials

Look Rich

Hthe Paris designers which TERE is a list of points from

may help you in planning, pour wardrobe for the

coming months; jackets of

of suits are very much longer; necklines for day are high and usually finish- ed with a collar band or fold: there are cuff bands on dresses but no cuffs; the waist is gener- ally lower and most day dresses have a slim line; shoulders are hardly padded at all in dresses or suits; evening dressca are either pencil-slim or have a billowing crinoline silhouette; formal evening dresses are very 10w Ctr

cut, and most of them have shoulder straps. Materials are rich-looking, stipper

satins, moires, silk ruches, and a good deal of lace and tulle for evening. As for colours, black is as popular as there is a great deal of every kind of red, from sealing wax to

ako petunia, and

a. lovely smoke-blue shade:

110

Instead Of Moth Balls

every year.

When Sealing Bottles

THE method of sealing with fat the tops of bottles containing fruit may be old-fashioned but it is very dimeult to find a more satis- factory one.

The frult should be "bottled" in the usual manner, the tops of the bottles being left open during the process, and the fruit covered with the liquor.

Immediately the fruit is ready for covering two or three tablespoonfuls of melted fat should be poured on the top.

The fat is prepared thus: Shred mutton suet finely, place in a clean tin in a hot oven. Let it come to the boil and then leave for five min- utes. When the bottles have been sealed they should be left for 24 hours undisturbed.

M

Savoury

USHROOMS on toast may not, by any means, be a new dish, but perhaps the following is a new meiod of serving them,

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Grilled Sailsafes On pincapple sound

appetising: are they allowed?

frankfurters variety of sausages the If you use fresh pineapple and the mixture is quite permissible on Vie Hay Diet. Brush the sausages with butter Instead of sprinkling them with sugar as some recipes suggest.

QUICK CONVALESCENCE

AFTER FEVERS

Doctors will tell you that once your temperature falls it's all-important to rebuild your wasted nerve and. muscle tissues.

After the fever has gone, when the stomach, is too weak to digest ordinary foods, a nourishing and appetising food drink is most essen- tial and beneficial.

In Horlicks doctors have found a quid food that not only can be easily digested, but also stimulates your inded appetite and gives your exhausted body all the nourishment it needs. Horlicks helps you to put

Horlicks to-day. on weight, re-establish your strength and regain your full vitality. Get

women, as can be seen when tourna-F you do not like the odour of the stead of the more usual hot one. It is, by the way, a cold dish in- ments are being arranged and a

more usual anti-math prepara- The mushrooms should be cooked tremendous amount of shuffling goestions then you may prefer to try a on over partners,

In a very slow oven, in a covered more modern preparation,

In these dificult times of anxiety Good players seem all too apt to It is packed in a little cylindrical reproof dish with a little butter and worry, the task of carrying on forget that somebody could once container and has a ribbon attach- under them.

and doing work which must be done be bothered play with themed to the top, from which it is sus when they were learning, though pended from a coat hanger.

is a doubly difficult one which must They should also be seasoned well tend to exhaust one's nervous energy. they will not return the compli A mest for fear of spoiling their game. emanates

picasant

with salt and pepper. When done, """clean"**

perfume allow to get cold and chop very fine. and prevents that listlessness and from it, reminiscent of

Horlicks hullds up strength, vitality Pinying always with the same group cedar and lavender, but actually it of people spoils one's game, far more. has very strong moth-killing pro- spread thickly over pieces of cold strain. H. M. Hodges. 406-408, Asia Mix with rather thick cream and tiredness caused by constant nervous Evelyn Taylor perties,

buttered toast, cut into fancy shapes. Life Building, Hongkong.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938.

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