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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY,

NOVEMBER 7.

1938.

Dance With Your Head

This week CECILE LAVIGNE reports on four London Dress Shows, and describes points that go to make your

Beaver trimmed oatmeal coat, over skirtwaist dress in gren plum and oatuical striped wool.

Tis not always the women with the i

steps at their

ch

Kreatest variety of complicated corymand who make the best partners. Sucevss in danc- mg is a matter of persamality

technical perfection. I needs headwork as well as footwork. First of all, you should be able to talk easily and charmingly while dancing, yet without chattering loo 519 <ti- is nothing much. There heartening to a man as a woman who accepts him as a partner and then will scarcely open her mouth while they are on the floor. He begins to wonder if there is something serius. ly wrong with him! On the other hand. the loo-talkative dancer is t positive nuisance.

sance. Dancing is sinely pleasure in itself, and it is ruined by a girl whose tongue is never still, particularly if she saves up her best j witticisms for her partier wei shaking with gundes the whole time

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I know it in difficult to dance well when you and your partner are very unequal in height, but du try to get uver it as gracefully as you can. you are tall, don't gaze over his head with a solemn stare, and il you are petite, don't look up into his face all ihe time with eyes either mischievous or soulful, whichever happens to be your speciality.

If you use your observation next time you are in a ballroom, you will see that such a descriptiun is not a caricature. And if there is a mirror in the hall, you will do well to entel |

a glimpse of yourself as you pass to! make sure that the description does not apply to you.

You know all about the correct bold, or if you don't, you cannot call, yourself an accomplished dancer.. But you should remember that, just as to the man's privilege to choose " the steps, so, too, he has the right to hold you as he prefers. If you tend i 1 close up too near, to your partner and he drops an unmistakable. hint that he does not like it, take the hint and keep the distance he indicates.

The best dancer is the one who can read her partner's movements almos! before he makes them and who takes a pleasure in doing so.

oking Your Best

Of course, we all like to look tur!

best at a dance, and a touch of some-

thing pleturesque or mildly startling'

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if you want to be popular, avoid any.

Fucked

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crèpre, torso fitting, pleated skirt

pick gloves.

PERSONALITY CLOTHES

Black woollen suit

and muff to match

trimmed

chenille bobbles

Red lau

crinoline, Tropshouldered trimmer cabricions matchung, fan?

sketches by SIGRID

"No - Interest” Mothers

IT is the custom of London designers to give a clean-

cut version of the new lines, colours, ideas originated in Paris, modifying them into what the well- dressed Englishwoman wants.

This year they seem to underline, even sometimes to ex- aggerate, the trends and tendencies of Paris, always remember- ing, however, to stamp their clothes with the impress of their own personalities.

EVA LUTYENS

DOUBLE-BREASTED suits have high revers, and come well down over the hip bone. Skirts have front pleats, blouses are beautifully tailored in the silk and crepe.

There are vivid impeccably tailored suits which turn out. surprisingly, to be hand-knitted.

Day dresses are in striped woollens (as in sketch) plain Ane woullens. sating and crepes, with fronti fullness coming from double or single plents.

Black cloth coats are fur trimmed with persian lamb, fitting, belted, with a slight fare.

Plain cloth copts have narrow fur collars, in mink, marten, fitch, end- ing with talls like old-style fur pieces.

Embroidery and braid work ending in tiny tassels trhn evening dresses and evening cưats,

HIGH LIGHT.

elt-

Dr's red મા ret evening dress, with gold broidery all over the bodice, at front kem.

Trichy short matching

Warn

jacket, gold embroidered on sleeves and edges.

VICTOR STIEBEL

HERE there are three silhouettes, the long torso fitting jacket, skin tight, zipping from neck to mid thigh

over pleated skirt; the short boxy or slightly daring three-quarter coat over a slim dress; the Tiltle short tting Jacket over a very wide skirt. - Country sails we aim tweeds, tant and blue green, red and blue, Town and/or country muits are brilliantly checked wollen, contrasting with plains.

Amust all day dresses omphasise the diaphragm line, are high necked with draped bodiers, Black, dahlla

percock red, blue, rust, and

stressed.

are

High-necked vampy dinner dresses have tight jumper toj, pleated skirts, short sleeves (a characteristic one is #ketched), and always long contrast cloves.

Edwardian, straplew OF drop shoulders dresses, with bodices boned to the hip, have fans, velvet throat Lands, carnens.

There are breathtaking crinolines

In stUT satins, velvets, with all the trappings of fun, fascinators, short gloves.

HIGH LIGHT.

A delphinium

blue crinoline, the best of the year, festooned with trailing navy lace, navy lace ploors, a navy velvet band round the thrust.

ISOBEL

PLAIN, fur-collared jac- kets go over checked tweed skirts. Loose hip-length jackets go over contrast skirts or dresses with the jacket lapels taking the dress colour..

Many kirts are pleated, some have bands of pleating every six inches.

Hip-length straight coats in velour velvet have upstanding fox collars and shirred chifon blouses worked up into circular velvet collar-bands.

Crepe wool and satin day frocks have skirts furing slightly below knee. bodlers eased or pouched in back with front and fastening

tiny buttons,

up

Sieves are long or elbow length with emphatic shoulders, padding: and fullness making them nearly leg of mutton.

Evening froelts in printed and shot tafleta, velvet, lame, lace, are lavish- ty trimmed with sequins, feathers. cabochons, and fur, are theatrical, vivid

They are mildly crinoline or fit to low hip, then flare, or are sieck with unobstrusive flare below knee. The picture type is frequently strap- connot spend whole week-ends paint-less or has almost invisible tesh int, as you did perhaps before your straps. marriage. But you can attend new

urt shows and exhibitions, keep in HIGH LIGHT touch with modern literature, and}

occasionally do a little sketching.

Black velvet

The great thing to avoid, is to give cuening dress with wide guipure lace fichu. Skirt full, from waist, gather- up your hobby entirely.

ing mure fullness half-way down

1 know it is difficult to perserve at from a heading. Worn with block In hobby, when young children are mittens and black bird on hair.

Bul elamouring all over the house.

If you have a young, growing they should be taught that they have WORTH in our dress is not out of place. But THE house is empty," Mrs. Jones

"I never imagined family, it does seem as though there no right entirely to monopolise their

walled.

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and left is little time left for anything else. mother's attention. Half an hour thing very bizarre or conspicuous url that when my three. anything which might prove a nuis-home, everything would be so quiet There is always something to do for each day should be allotted to what You have no time, even, 10 you want to do. It may be any sort --frankly I don't know what to do them. ance to yourself or your partner.

whik Don't wear a skirt so trailing or with myself. You see,

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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ACROSS

12

118

It is meant to carry, serrets to

the gods (two word--5, 7).

8 It's mostly rubbish, catches the eye (7).

but

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9.A disagreement was the end of

titis old rasad (7).

11 This old ruler was an artist al

heart (77).

12 Appropriate after dinner ud-

việc là a heli, (T).

12 Pigment (5).

14 A coursener of form in rarer

form (0).

18 Rock takes thus cooked might

deserve the numz (9).

19 it should support the boss (5). 21 Ape (7).

23 Uneasy, but equipped finally to

resist (7).

24 Dainty providim for its head

(7).

25 The kind of act Parliament

would not approve (7). 20 The King's Prize

Bisley (two word:-8, 4).

1 Little

DOWN

winner

at

thia re than ball

necessary to pa vegetable is round! (7).

2 Set in motion (7).

3 For this defence spades are

better than clubs. (9).

4 Dope (5).

5 Product of piplats (7).

Cooking Tips

WHEN stewing apples add

tea-

spoonful of golden syrup instead

of sugar, for I will make the juice both thicker and sweeter.

By

putting mint through the min- cer when making mint saure, it will

much quicker. It scrups of mutton ment afterwards for aninced patties or rissoles, only salt und papper will be needed for flavouring. When a cake is burnt, scrape off the affected part, and brush lt over leather belled, bishop- with the beaten white of an egg. Then dust with caster sugar and place in a slow oven for a few trace of burning inutes when no will be detected.

the look into the future. The house hobby-dressnnking, embroidery.longish jackets, skirts pleated not only improve the Savour, but is voluminous that you have to hold it boys were at school and later at col- rings with childish voices and the or gardening, but whatevar 12 Is, atlck rither back or front. Dressy

are ulls are black, trimmed black fur up with one hand while you dance. lege they were always wanting my days when they will all be gone

If only you can do this while the fox, persian lamb, astraltham real, There is nothing so tiring. Don't help for something. And then there seems so remote!

Yet that day is bound to arrive, children are young, you will have nu metal were shopping expeditions and cook- wear jungling sequins or

The winter conta here live en- My whole life was bound up in and when it comes you don't want need to view those years ahead with Howers likely to catch in your part-ing.

to be left high and dry, with nothing alarm. They can be looked upon as armous fullness from a small belted

waist. tre ner's coat or in the clothes of passing my sons."

Most dance floors DOWN- couples.

And now the boys had jobs of their to do but think mournfully of the time in the future when you will

have sufficient leisure to accomplish sleeved. days are crowded, sn take the ques-

Black day frocks have restrained tion of practical convenience into own and lived in lodgings. One of Past.

them was shortly to be married. Many women, ut this stage, are all you want. And, as you have not

trimmings of gold benda, gold em- account when choosing your frock.

Their mother, because her life had content to "potter." They got let your brain or fingers "go rusty.

you can look forward with pleasure broidery, gold sequins, cherry belts. Finally, you should be a good

hnd had no time or inclination for a at the seaside. But they are neither bitions, and not dread the time as bodice is body tight, After a dance, when your partner

happy or content. You must do

Trims climb sleeves from cuff to has handed you to a chair and sits separate life of her own,

It was only now, when she was something, even if you are fly or being the emptiest and most bleak down beside you, he has a claim on

shoulders, or encircle n dolman line, djp. If you are a young married or are focused at the high neck. your society, so don't immediately thrown suddenly upon her own re- more; that is no drawback these days, period of your life. to sources, that she realised how lonely Keep Up Your Hobbies

wöfnun, get busy now. Don't spoil. begin to stare round

you life could be without friends, hob

Evening dresses in dark wines, partner catch the eye of the

The real remedy, of course, lies in your chances of happiness in the

being "no-interest" rusts and pinks are sleek to a low would like for your next number, bles, or any definite interest in life.

hip line or very full Indeed from the Give your ex-partner all Your atten-And, being over fifty years old, found not dropping your earlier interests, future by

that it was not so easy to begin to so that they are entirely superseded mothert

'waist. tion and your best smile.

by your children. Admittedly, you! M. B. learn new things.

silter-out as well as a good dancer. I been devoted to looking atter them, matinees, or bridge test, or for days the fulfilment of your own am-When there is skirt fullness,

the room

to

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the

, when making a large number of cakes, there are not suflicient wire trays for cooling them, make an emergency tray by stretching a plece of curtain net over a bowl and ex it with spring pegs.

If the odour of onions that have! been pealed clings to the hands, try rubbing a stick of celery well into the Angers to effect its removal.

G. G. T.

0 An abridgement comes finally to

me (7).

7 A student of 11 across and his

doings (12),

10 Strung up to. concert pitch?

(four words-3, 2, 1, 0).

15

Part of the body, In the finish, is very likeable (2).

17 May be a grave remark (7)..

1 Blunt that ends in trouble (7).

19 This vegetable is all heart (7). 20 He was the product of a grim

era (7),

22 Resinous part of enamel emis-

sion (5).

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