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Shorten your skirt and add to your charm

THERE'S no Getung away from the fact that the new short skirt fashion is full of plitalle. 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 soo al for the very tall girl, we suggest a very wido swirling skirt. That's because her figure will stand 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.

The plump short girl doesn't usually took her best in a very short skirt; it "culs

her up" too much and tukes

away her precious inches.

So for her, we suggest a skiri that's not too violently ftored, made of some opaque stuff such as crepe-or faffeta with one of the smart new dropped hems of transparent pleated chiffon or georgelle below it.

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Let me explain the full beauty of this notion. You get the effect of n short skirt, because the opaque part stops just below the knee, but the transparent hem adds a few extra inches without looking too obtru- sive

And of course you know that petticoat effects are the

latest thing. very

Only I don't advise contrusting petticoat affect for the short find plump; it breaks the

too much.

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But I do advise very strongly rallier daric, thought fine-gauge stockings and shoes that mateli the dress. Both help to make you look taller and simmer.

For the shori, plump girl.

The third problém ́giri, the one in detracting from the too solid look whose legs are rather straight and of the legs, heavy instead of being curved and Another point in favour of pleats slender, gave us a lot of trouble.

We decided against cutting her hem

In scallops (a good trick for the girl who has slim ankies but rather pro- minent calves) because it you put

Friday,

The tall, silm gick.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Fashion Notes

in the front on either side of a straight panel,

The fullness of the two insets is

Her legs are straight and heavy

you look slimmer. Take heart, even if you ARE a tile broad in the beam, because this flared year's slightly

skiria are much kinder to your figure than the straight kind that re veal every unwanted and "hug" you the cruelly at

back after you've sat them a few ilmes

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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 fláres

other way of giving an effect of extra length and camouflaging your legs.

May 5, 1939.

A Look Through The Telegraph”

50 YEARS AGO

May 5, 1889. The ship canal to connset Mogekoster with Liverpool is being rapidly can- structed, 10,000 men and a great num. ber of steam excavators being engaged upon it. The canal will be 15 miles tong. 20 feat deep, and 120 feet wide at the bottom.

'25 YEARS AGO

May 5, 1014. The German war levy is new expected ito yield £60,000,000 sterling, which

20 per cent. more than was anticipated. This apparently due to the provision guaranteeing immunity for former fr- regularities to sit sending Innreprato connection with the nsscssments in lery, which disclosed the existence of large nuns which had hitherto escaped taxation.

10 YEARS AGO

May 6, 1920. The high tension resulting from the May ny disturbances in giving rise to anxiety, and the polich are now apply- ing the curfow, as during the war, to the Weddin and Noukoeln districts of Berlin.

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Mr. T. A. Elle, second oficer, Sut. yang, in on reserve, Mr. F. 8. Darran, from reserve, has gone second officer, Suiyang

Mr. G. Forster, necond enginoor, Ninghai, is on reserve. Mr. F. Gurry, from reserve, has gone second officer Ninghai.

Me. A. T. McLellan, from shore em- ployment, has gone extra third angl neer ofleer, Hain Peking. Mr. H. 8. Luscombo, extra thin engineer officer, aln Pekin, has gene tiled engineer officer, Bunning. Mr. D. Watson, third engineer afleor, Bunning, is un reaTYO, Mr. J. R. Greig, chief ongineer ofcor, Chinking. has gone extra chief engi neer officer, lisin Poking. Mr. R. II. Pork, chief engineer offcor, Kluklang, has gone chief engineer ofear, Chin ktong Me. W. P. Barclay, chief engle neer officer, Shangking, has gone chief engincar ofeer, Kluklang. Mr. J. Me- Arthur, chief engineer officer, Taming, has gone chief engineer officer, Sheng- king.

5 YEARS AGO

May 5, 1934. Below is given the draw for tho bridge tournament being held under the patronage of the ilon. Mr. I. E. Lind- Kell:

Table No. 1-Mesura, A. D. Aavedo and A. i. Cartoll v. Maj. Duclos and Mrs. Muzznil,

Table No.Com. I. Leggo and Capt. T. Rigan v. Meners, P. N. du Silva and I. Barros.

Table No. 3.-Messrs. Danenberg and J. A. Ozarlo v. Dr. and Mrs. D. J. Valentino.

Table No. 4.-Mr. and Mrs. Ho Ki v. Mrs. E. Warren and Mr. Al. A. John-

Table No. G-Mrs. Keaty and Mr.

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was their nice swinging movement held flat over the hips with vertical But don't worry if short skirts withington v. Cal. Fordham and De. when you walk and the way they tucks; your skirt has all the fashion- don't suit you and never will. Have Smalley. make a skirt fall with graceful fall- able swirling movement, but not your hem as high as your legs and ness when you sit down.

Table No. Mrs. 11. Odell and Mrs. being full all round it doesn't give your figure wili atand it, but ΠΟ G. Farben v. Mrs. F. S. Coote and Mr. that cottage loaf effect of atoo bulky higher,

H. F. Phillips, skirt on a short figure.

Half the art of dressing well is to will be required to play on Tuesday The winning pairs of tables 1 to 5 A wide sash, with its points falling adapt the fashions to your own type 8th Instant, at 8.30 below the hern of the skirt, is an-of looks.

curves against a straight line, they Now, of course, these three don't enly emphasise the straightness. Lover

a short We decided against any

all possible pitfalls sort of skiri enn create for its wearer. Apart petticoat trick because it focussed the from your legs, you've got to con- eve on the legs, just where we (and sider your proportions. she!) didn't want it focussed,

Eventually we decided for pleats ple, you can't wear a pleated skirt, It you've got heavy hips, for exam- in the skirt, springing on cachTM olde Your best bet then is one cut in

of a flat centre panel. This broke severni gotes, widening gradually up the skirt, made it Interesting to from waist to hem.

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

YOUR

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PERSONALITY

PROMINENT writer recently

sold that modern women

Book Covers

JOTHING could be gayer or more

pate their personalities in pale imt-Nrnetical thun book covers of all-

tations of popular flm 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 lo justify greasy. These con either be stitched the indictinent.

to fit bindings strong enough to allow them to be slipped on and off or cut Underneath the Edwardian coiffure exactly to size and pasted to paper and below the Intriguing veil of the coverings. moment, we still however remain ourselves. Or do we? How much

Both oil cloth and oli silk can

of us is really our own personality, new be bought in so many attractive our contribution to life and lying, and how much is dictated, guided, designs and colourings that it is easy to choose one lo tone with the deco-

directed by prevailing modes of rative scheme of any room. thought and expression?

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The first essential to having an in- dividual personality is to think for In the nursery, too, where small oneself. Before heuring the world's sticky fingers leave their marks, comments ict us make up our own covers may be made to preserve new minds; we can decide whether we books and repair to old ones easily Kite or dislike this or that new idea and satisfactorily carried out. before we are swayed by the re- aclions of other people.

Then there is the vely vexed qucation of following tashlón'a sur- torial decrees, Admittedly it is still, for most women, more comfortable bo

.A. M. S.

Something New For Spring

to be out of the world than to be FRING 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 complete slave to exa:- of every woman. So what about gerated "inca," she chooses her turning things round about, and using : clothes from the luteat models which furnishing fabrics for dress acces- appeal to her, and which expresssories, and dress materials for house- some Innate style of her own.

hold brticles?

Elaborate pockets ure fushionable and conta BO Washing frocks they be decorated with appli-

In the choice of friends It is often an frocks the line of least resistance to possess naccond-hand mind. If we awalt

the verdict of our district or our club owers cut out of cretonne and

on some new arrival and abide by

These cratonhe flowers may also be coliched down with coloured wools.

that decision we 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-ihe designs on pockets of seeds, the tainment in general, may expode our more fashionable they will be.

luck of personality it we allow our- selves to be guided in our choice of them tour, friend's opinions or by prevailing, fashlóng.

How ofter we read a boolt becauso tour! nxt door neighbour 'asserted,

This costume, in silk crepe. in black and pink, has its pink jacket lined in the prini. The jacket is quilted all over except for the foster sleeve secilona. `·..

Weather Curtails Reading

made from a fine meshed curtain not, Dainty boleros and blouses may be

Toledo, O darned with angora, either in white book demand and severe trade con- Winter sports cut into the juvenile

ditions cut the circulation of adult

Jór colour.

| boolta, üecording to the public: library make an opulent waistcoat for a

Heavy slub rep or brocade will report. You must read so and so; averyone mort spring suit. Some

of the

very maize, rose, upon mauve, and vice-

is reading 15" A good book, pro furnishing linens also make bably, but a woman of personality stylish waistcoats, especially it deep-versa, are lovely demands word of a book them that rated with herring-bone or tacking Now that we are going all, Vid-1

everyone 4s reading.it.

stitch in brightly coloured wools. torkan, dotted Swiss muslin makes This pursuit of a personality is" ai

dainty, crisp curtains, dressing-table Organdle has long been popular erveis, and bed-sprends. laen and stimulating, thak; and it makes life for table mats and teacloths, but; Fjcpp-do-chine maltes besüliful qulit so much more Interesting to have worler how many people realise how jen

and the effect of Italian viewpoints and opinions coming from much more effective 11 is when two quilting, done in vivid wools belind within rather than allowing them to colours are super-funded? Blue thin crepe-de-chino, or georgrette, in bs the product of mese computation.

upon green-le-fascinating and cool, delicate and charming. ing" the summer nea ordupón

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