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Shorten your skirt and add to your charm

THERE'S no getting 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,

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You'll see that for the very tall girl, we suggest a very wide swirling skiri, That's because her figure w sland breaking up in a way that a short girl's won't, and she can stand the width at the hem which would make the short girl look dumpy,

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The plump short girl doesn't usually look her best

a very short skirt; it "cuts

her up" too much and takes

nway her precious inches.

So for her, we suggest u akirt 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 chilton or georgette below it.!

Let me explain the fut beauty of this notion. You get the effect of R short skirt, because the opaque part

stops Just below the ince, but the transparent hem adds a few extra Inches without looking too obiru- sive.

that"

And of course you know petticoat effects are the very latest thing. Only 'I

don't advise-n contrasting petticoat effect for the short and plump; it breaks the line too much.

And

But I do advise very strongly rather ciark, though Ane-gaugs stockings and shoes that match the dress,

Both help to make you look taller and slimmer.

For the shori, plump girl.

Another point in favour of plenis was their nice swinging movement when you walk and the way they make a skirt fall with graceful full ness when you sit down.

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The third problem eiri. the one in detracting from the too solid look whose legs are rallier stratzhit and of the legs. heavy Instead of being curved and slender, gave us a lot of trouble,

We decided agakist cutting her hem in scallops (a good tricks for the girl who has slim ankles but rather pro- minent calves) because if you put curves against a straight line, they Nuw, of course, these three don't only emphasise the straightness, cover all possible pitfalls short

We decided against any

Bort

of skirt can create for its wearer. Apart petticoat trick because it focussed the from your legs, you've got to con 216.on the Jegs, just

Just where we (and sider your proportions. she!) didn't want it focussed.

It you've got heavy hips, for exam- Eventually we decided for pleats pte, you can't wear a pleated skirt. in the shirt, springing on each side Your best bet then in one cut in

of a fint centre panel. This broke several gores, widening gradually. up the skirt, mude it interesting to from waist to hem.

look at, and the play of light and These sraight vertical lines, laper- shade in their folds was a great help ing over the hips, help to make

YOUR PERSONALITY

A PROMINENT Writer recently

ald that modern women dissi-

Book Covers

pate their personalities in pale uni- NOTHING could be gayer or more practical than boolt covers of oil-

tations of populur flim stars" The cloth, or all silk, especially for very modish surface (dictated by cookery or household account books, fashion) which we present to the which so soon become soiled and world may seem at first to justify greasy. These can either be stitched the indictment.

to fit bladings strong enough to allow them to be slipped on and off or cut

exactly to size and pasted to paper coverings.

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Underneath the Edwardian colffure and below the intriguing vell of the moment, we still however remain ourselves. Or do we? How much Doth oil cloth and oil silk can of us is really our own personally,now be bought in so many attractive our contribution to life and living, designs and colourings that it is easy and how much is dictated, guided, to choose one to tone with the deco- directed by prevalling modes of rative scheme of any room. thought and expression?

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marks,

The first essential to having an in-

In the nursery, too, where small dividual persopality is to think for oneself. Before hearing the world's sticky fingers leave their comments let us molte up cur own covers may be made to preserve new minds; we can decide whether we books and repair to old ones easily like or dislike this or that hew idea and satisfactorily carried out,

A. M. 8. before we ate swayed by the re- actions of other people.

Then there is the vory vexed question of following fushion's gar- toriat decrees. Admittedly it is still,

for most women, more comfortable

Something New For Spring

to be out of the world than to be PRING is in the air, and the urge

out of the fashion, but no woman

with personality allows herself to

for something new in the heart

become a complote slave to exag- of every woman: gerated "nice"

So what about

sho chooses her turning things round about, and using clothes from tlie latest models which furnishing fabrics for dress acces- appeal to her and which expresssories, and dress materials for house- same Innate style of her, own.

In the choice of frienda It is örten

a second-hand mind. If we await

hold articles?...

Elaborate poeltets are fashionable

and on frockts.

coals; so wushing

the line of least resistance to possess frocks may be decorated with appli- the verdict of our district or our club que flowers cut out of cretonne and couched down with coloured wools.

on some new arrival and abide by These cretanne Bowers may also be

that decision we are revealing a men til weakness.

Our approach to books, to enter tainment in general, may expose our Inch of personality, if we allow our

applied to the neckline of the frock, knit the more these postes resembla the designs on pockets of seeds, the more fashionable they will be.

Dainty boleros and blouses may be

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Fashion Notes

Her legs are straight and heavy

you

Iook klimmer. Take heart, even if you ARE a to broad in the beam, because this year's slightly flared akiris are much kinder

your figure than the straight kind that re- veal every unwanted curve and "hug" you cruelly at the back after

sat in you've them a few times.

If you're short and plump, but well pro- portioned, it's often a good idea to have the back of your skirt fairly plain and to in- troduce the fashion- able fullness at the hem in two Inset flores

May 5, 1939.

SECOND MELODY 'BEE Few Hits, Many Misses In Bright Contest

With an Airman as master of cere. montes, Army and Navy tenia met inst night in the second Melody Dce held by ZBW. The contest, which was better conducted than the first Bee, all melody rames being non-unced distinctly, resulted in a win for the Nxy, after a poor beginning, by 104 pulats to B-the half-point being whimsleni 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 Novy 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- carollo" as "The Blue Danube Waltz," and the announcement of "Where My Caravan Has Rested" E a country dance.."Ferdinand, the Bull" went unrecognised.

The Army shooting was often as "Cavalleria wide of the mark, The Rusticaan" lntermezzo became "The Lost Chord" and "Madame Butterfly" of the was chosen as the source

Lambeth Walk."

Every player was then asked to submit a score for three additional numbers and it was in this scellon that the Navy, polling heavily on Schubert's "Marche Militaire," made good the points lost earlier. The other two numbers in this section "Invitation to the Waltz" and March (Casse Nolsette Suite) by Tschnikowsky,

were

(Weber)

The 10 numbers played in the main portion of the Bee were, "Sym- pathy" waltz

"Firefly"). (Alm "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Alm "Roberto"), "Ferdinand, the Bull" (from the film), "Lambeth Walk" (from "Me and My Girl"), "Softly Awakes My Heart" ("Samson and Intermezzo Delilah Saint-Suena).

(Maa- from "Cavalleria Rusticana" cagni), "Love's Old Sweet Song" A Rose" (Molloy), "Mighty Lak' (Nevin), "Where My Caravan Has Rested" (Lahr), "Drink to Me only with Thine Eyes (traditional), "Bar carolls" from "Tales of Hoft (Offenbach),

"Destiny" Alice Bluc Gown" (Tierney), "Music, Maestro, Please" (film "These Foolish Things"), "Moonlight and "Andantino"), Roses" (Lemare'a

The Donkey's Serenade" Calm "Firefly").

Listeners who wish, may, accord- Invitation extended last ing to an night, send in their names to ZBW with a request to be allowed to take part in the next Bee. A studio trial, Half the art of dressing well is to it is held, might be a sharp check 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,

The tall, alim ziri. in the front on either site of a straight panel.

other way of giving an effect of extra The fullness of the two insets is length and camouflaging your legs.

But don't worry. if short skirts held at over the hips with vertical tucks; your skirt has all the fashion don't sult you and never will. Have able swirling movement, but not your hem as high as your legs and being full all round it doesn't give your figure will stand It, but no that cottage loof effect of atoo bulky higher. skirt on a short figure,

This costume, in silk crepe, In black and pink, has its plnit Jacket lined in. the print. The jacket is quilted all over except for the lower sleeve sections.

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