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Shorten your skirt and add to your charm
THERE'S no golling away from the fact that the new short skirt fashion is full of pitfalls. So I've been racking my brains to think up ways you can dodge those pitfalls and add to your charm as well as subtract from your skirt length.
First of all I worked out three possible solutions of three major problems; adapting the short skirt to the girl who's very tall; the one who's short and plump; and the one who, though well proportioned, has rather heavy legs.
You'll see that for the very tall girl, we suggest a very wide swirling skirt. That's because her figure will stand breaking up in a way that a short girl's won't, and the can stand the width at the hem which would make the short gir! Jock dumpy.
The plump short girl doesn't usually. look her best
in a vers short skirt; it cuts
her too much and takes
away her precious inches,
So for her, we suggest a skirt that's not too violently flared, made of some opaque stuff such as crepe or taffeta with one of the smart new dropped hems of transparent pleated chiffon or georgette below it.
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Let me explain the full beauty of this notion. You get the effect of a short skirt, because the opaque part stops just below the ince, but the transparent hem adds a few extra inches without looking too obtru-
sive.
that
And of course you know petticoat effects, are the very latest thing. Only I
don't advise a contrasting petilesat effect for the short and plump; it breaks the line too much.
But I do
advise very
strongly rather dark, though Anc-gauge stockings and
shots that match the dress,
Buth help to make you look taller.
and slimmer.
For the short, plump girl.
The third problem girl, the one in detracting from the ton solid look whose legs are rather straight and of the legs. keavy instead of being curved and slender, gave us a lot of trouble.
We decided against cutting her hem in scallops (a good trick for the girl who has slim ankles but rather pro- minent calves) because if you put curves against a straight line, they only emphasise straightness,
Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Fashion Notes
The tall, slim girl,
in the front on either side of straight panci.
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Her legs are straight And heavy
You
look slimmer. Take heart, even if you ARE a 16 broad in the beam, because this slightly flared year's skirts are much kinder
to your figure than the straight kind, that
re-
veal every unwanted curve, and "hug" you cruelly at the back after you'vo sat
them
in
a few times. It
you're short and plump, but well pro- it's often a portioned, good idea to have the back of your skirt fairly plain and to in- troduce the fashion- able fullness Et the hem in two inset fares
May 5, 1939.
SECOND MELODY BEE Few Hits, Many Misses In Bright Contest
With an Airman as mastér of cere- monies, Army and Navy teams niet last night in the second Melody Deo held by ZBW, The contest, which was better conducted than the fist Bee, all melody names being ann-unced distinctly, resulted in a win for the Navy, after a pour beginning, by 10% points to the half-point being a whimsical Army donation.
The scoring was sensibly arranged so that contestants were awarded a point for naming the pieces correctly, and a second point for naming the composers, in the case of classical items, and the screen or stage origin” in the case of jazz numbers.
Curious wild shots by the Navy were the transplanting "of "Sym- pathy" into "Alexander's Ragtime |Band," the placing of a "Samson and Delilah" excerpt as an Irish offering, the recognition of Offenbach's "Bar- enrollo" ng "The Blue Danubo Waltz," and the announcement of "Where My Caravan Hon Rested" as a country dance, "Ferdinand, the Bull" went unrecognised..
The Army shooting was often as wide of the mark, The "Cavalierla Rusticona" Intermezzo became "The Laut Chord" and "Madame Butterfly" เพลง chosen As the source of the "Lambeth Walk."
Every player was then asked to submit a score for three additional numbers and it was in this section that the Navy, polling heavily on Schubert's "Marchte Militaire,” mado good the points lost earlier. The other two numbers In this section were "Invitation to the Waltz" (Weber) and March (Cosse Nolsette Sulte) by Tschalkowsky.
The 10 numbers played in the mala portion of the Bee were. "Sym- pathy" waltz (almo "Firefly"), "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” (Alm "Roberta"), "Ferdinand, the Bull" (from the film), "Lambeth Walk" (from "Me and My Girl"), "Softly Awakes My Heart" "Samson and Delilah"-Saint-Saens). Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana" (Mas- cagni), "Love's Old Sweet Song" (Molloy), "Mighty Lak' A Rose" (Nevin), "Where My Caravan Has Rested" (Lohr), "Drink to Me only with Thine Eyes (traditional), "Bar
carolle" from "Tales Of (Ratrees?!
(Offenbach), "Destiny"
"Alice Blue Gown" (Tierney), "Music, Maestro, Please" (Alm "These Foolish Things"), "Moonlight and Roses" .(Lemare's
"Andantino"), Donkey's Serenado" (film "Firefly").
other way of giving an effect of extrahe fength and camonfiaging your legs.
But don't wOITY
Another point in favour of pleats
The fullness of the two insets is was their nice swinging movement held at over the hips with vertical make a skirt fall with graceful full- able swirling movement, but not your hem as high as your legs and alght, send in their names to ZBW when you walk and the way, they tucks; your skirt has all the fashion- don't suit you and never will. Have
if short skirts Listeners who wish, may, accord- mess when you sit down.
ing to on invitation extended last) being full all round it doesn't give your figure will stand it, but that cottage loaf effect of atoo bulky higher," skirt on a short figure.
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Now, of course, these three don't cover all possible pitfalls a short of skirt can create for is wearer. Apart
We decided against any sort petticoat trick because focussed the from your legs, you've got to con
she
e on the legs, just
just where
we (and sider your proportions. for plents
didn't want it focussed. Eventually we decided
It you've got heavy hips, for exam-
in the skirt, springing on each side ple you can't wear a pleated skirt.
Your best bet then is one, cut in
if a flat centre panel. Tlls broke several gores, widening gradually up the skirt, made ft interesting to from waist to her.
look at, and the play of light and These sraight vertical lines, taper- nde in their folds was a great help lug over the hips, help to make
YOUR PERSONALITY.
A
PROMINENT writer recently
Book Covers
said that modern women diss!- NOTHING could be gayer or more pate their personalities in "pale impractical than book covers of oil- tations of popular fim stars." The cloth,
or oll silk, very modish surface (dictated by cokery or household account books, especially for Cashion) which we present to the which so soon become soiled and world may stem at rst to justify greasy. These con ellher be stitched the indictment.
to it bindings strong enough to allow them to be slipped on and off or cul exactly to size and pasted to paper
Underneath the Edwardian colffure nd below the intriguing veil of the moment, we still however remain urselves. Or do we? How much of us is really our own personality, our contribution to life and living, and how much is dictated, guided, directed by prevailing modes thought and expression?
of
coverings.
Both oil cloth and oli silk can be bought in so many attractive to choose one to tone with the deco- designs and colourings that it is ensy
Frative scheme of any roon.
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In the nursery, too, where small
The first essential to having an in- dividual personality is to think for oneself. Before hearing the world's sticky Angers Icave their marks,
comments let us make up our own beaks und repair to old ones chelly minda; we can decide whether we like or dislike this or that new idea and satisfactorily carried out.
before we are swayed by the re- actions of other people.
A. M. S.
no with a request to be allowed to take
part in the next Bec. A studio trini,! Half the art of dressing well is to it is held, might be a sharp cheek to A wide sash, with its points falling adapt the fashions to your own type thoughtless criticism. below the hem of the skirt, is an-of looks.
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Then there is the very vexed i Something New For
question of following fashion's sar-
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for inost women, more comfortable
Spring
to be out of the world than to be PRING is in the air, and the urge buz of the fashlen, but no woman with personality allows herself to for something now in the heart become a complete slave to exng of every woman. So what about gerated "Ilnes," she chooses her turning things round about, and using clothes from the latest models which furnishing fabrice for dress acces appeal to her and which express sories, and dress materials for house- some innate style of her own.
hold articles?
Elaborate pockets are fashionable 50 washing
In the choice of friends: It is often on frocks and coats; the line of least resistance to possess frocks may be decorated with appli a second-hand mind. If we waiti The verdict of our district or our club que nowers cut out of cretonne and couched down with coloured wools.
on some new arrival and abide by These cretonne flowers may also be that decision wo are revealing a men- applied to the neckline of the frock, tal weakness.
and the more these posies, resemble Our approach to books, to enter the designs ont pockets, of seeds, the tainment in general, may expose our more fashionable they will be, Incis of personality if we allow uur- salves to be guided in our choice of them by our friend's opinions or by prevailing fashions.
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Weather Curtails Reading
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Heavy slub rep or brocade will report.
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Now that we are going all Vic- stitch in brightly coloured wools. torian, dotted Swiss musila makes pursuit of a personality, is a
debaty, crisp curtains, dressing-table stimulating task; and it makes life for table mats and teacloths, but crepe-le-chine makes beautiful quilt- Organdle has long been popular covers, and bed-spreads. Janen and do much more Interesting to have wonder how many people rtalse how ed cushions, and the effect of Italian viewpoints and opinions coming from much more effective it when two quilting, done in vivid wools behind wiltin cathing than allowing them to colours are auper-imposed? Blue thin crepe-de-chine or georgrette, Is he the product of mass computation upon green is fascinating, and cool delicate and charming. \\C. R. MY [as the summer sen. Rose upon
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