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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 22, 1939,
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PARIS SHOW-DOWN
This is one of the more dressy afternoon frocks. The tôp and sleeves are in cinnamon coloured lame. The bodice is slightly draped from the shoulders and crossen in front. From under the arms two panela are cel in and run down to the calf. They are of bottle green marocain. The swathed woolat- band-very tight and the full.
·wathered skirt are të dark brown marocain.
Hoard trimming is one of the defalis of funktion, Lustelted here Kay while ortion: Bella, del marc talne liden toʻetiphasab the gor which 'lí and fire, tho Liby Crock front Elgust. The· TAIGI also designed its poke bonnet
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10 Black silk jersey afternoon
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frock, with panels of shir- ring on the shoulders' and apain low down in the hips. Front the hips spring two sets of clus-- ter pleats, matching those on the bodice. Another clump of pleats was set in like a tail at the back'
of the skirt. Waist was stated with a bandage of jersey, tied in a 'knot in front. Note these. new_deep tight walsis on-frocks...--
11 Two-coloured suit in black
and caramel brown, (Black and brown are often Jacket was twina this year.) black, except for a panel of brown which ran down the front, another down each side, another inside rack sleeve. Iftph roll collar was brown, tipped with black, and the jacket,' just be- low two hip pockets, had an edge of braver jur. Skirt was brown, with two unpressed flares of jul- ness in front. Hat, an off the face scoop, is black with a brown bow
12 Topcoat in dark smoke-
grey broadcloth, with a double shawl collar of cloth, and over it mole. It buttoned with double- jour silver buttons, breasted, and at the waist took a dipping line to the back; at the back it was pleated from hip to swing out with a flourish. Note hour
Law the two fur-edged poekets aro Bet. Tricorne hat was trimmed with a touch of fur,too....
Do Women Dress To Please Men?
What Designers and Leaders of Fashion Think
pression of urilalle tendencies.
WIHAT motive drives a normal
woman to dress attractively? There are three possible answers: she has a fair for fashion artistry; she wishes to go one better than her next-door neighbour; or she is set but I warn people to have white or millions of men. ting out deliberately to captlyste some bright shade at the neck."
but, incidentally, she pleases thou
So she dresses to please herself, sands of designers, dressmakers, newspaper photographers — and
Spending time on beauty, culture mate admiration.
Paul Poiret, fashion expert, thinks and on dress is not the monopoly of Modern women resent that last that sloppy women who believe they highly civilised women. A dazzling- repson. They will deny it until they can wear badly Atting tweeds simply ly beautifut 16-year-old girl on a are blue xier thete
connelles, because they go to business and earn South Sen island for days watched Since their emancipation women are a living are making men offemin- the smart society women coming growing less willing to admit that nte,
ashore from a steamer. Those car- they consider the male reaction.
palc rose сот- The motive of fashion to-day is a mined 1ps and
fascinated her. She The late Lilyan Tushman, noted quest for artistry and a desire to plexions film star and
into the woods the only woman in please the opposite sex, declares Journeyed miles Hollywood ever to be universally Poiret. Often these motives are to gather certain berries which have accialmed the best-dressed actress, subconscious. There is a well-known a red juice. There she rubbed on was one of the few women to admit type of young girl who before she her lips and cheeks, Expectant-eyed dressing to attract men.
marries spends half her salary on she returned to the docks hoping to "Average men don't understand a clothes ond cosmetics. Sho will capture the admiring glances of the woman's clothes, but they know how dash home frantically after work, tourists. to appreciate them" sho said, help to cook the dinner, and run Essence of Chie "Frankly, I try to please men in my upstairs to don 6 smart gown. dress. I want them to like me to Breathless, pink-checked, she, ap-
The essence of chic in a woman is feel that I'm not hard to look at," pears just in time to welcome her to show she thinks of her appear- fiance 10 dinner. Naturally he is ance, Jean Patou, the famous French dazzled by this well-groomed girl. designer contends. After marriage, sko sure of "his
Elegance not trick clothes-con-
An Aesthelle Value
"Womanly beauty
Was always affection and not afraid to let her atitutes good inste. A gown should meant to be appreciated by men. husband see her in a kitchen apron, be a frame for feminine charm. It The objects of clothes are (1) to make a woman more beautiful; and An Artist in Many Spheres (2), less important, to keep her
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Gabrielle Chanol,
must be perfectly balanced.
Hattie Carnegie, the prominent Mrs. Harrison Williams, acclaimed American designer, belleves in sim. well-known the best-dressed woman in the plicity. She adapts the Paris trend dress designer, has for years accen- world, knows all the answers. If to the American "temper. tuated sox appeal in her creations, you ask her why she dresses well, Captain H. E. Molyneux belloves A few years ago she journeyed all she replies simply: "I just dress to well-dressed women do not consider this for whom they dress. I like to sea the way from Paris to Hollywood please myself." Undoubtedly. with this object.
is true of Mrs. Williams. She is an a woman in long skirts," he says There is nothing shameful or de- artist in other spheres as well, par "There isn't a woman in the world grading about n young woman ticularly in house decoration. She who doesn't look more beautiful dressing to attract inen," she says, was the first to introduce white walls with long skirts." "In my dealgns I strive for feminine to America.
It's not necessary for any woman lure. I try to give them sex appeal. With a delicate touch she arranges to be, wall-flower-it Is selfiak. I stress simplicity, beauty of fabric, a bowl of lilles correctly. She has Every woman should be as attractive of design and
can. Clothes are a of workmanship. rhythm in her walk, and her voice na she Good taste is my byword. For in- is musical. Everything she does, mental tonic. stance, black is a fashionable colour, every insignificant gesture, is on ex-
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Summer Suppers.
N evenings it seems too sultry, to eat a big, hot meal and the family is tired of cold foot, try one of these light supper dishes, ASPARAGUS EGGS, for instance. Put the contents of a tin of asparagus at the bottom of a buttered, fireproof dish and break over the top the required number of eggs, sprinkle well with grated cheese and bake in a moderate oven until thoroughly heated.
Or SCRAMBLED EGGS and SAUSAGES ard popular. Skin some cold cooked sausages and cut them in three alices. Egg and; breadcruntb them and fry in bolling fat Scramble as many cour ba'you need, put in a duh and surround with sausager.
great
Clifford Lewis
FOR CIGARETTES IF you unoke, you can now keep
your cigarettes in all kinds of fascinating cases that are both novel and:decorative.
caso disguised as an en- One velope, with your own name ond address. written on it in bold black or while lettering.
and whito
13.4ree-piece sult in
a
violent check-strawberry, green and yellow on black. The topcoat had a tuxedo front-that is, a narrow roll collar which turned back in revers right down to the hem. These revers had a panel of opossum fur (one of the season's star skins) running right the way down, Jacket under- neath was long, high-cut, and plain, in the same check. Skirt under that
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plain black, straight. Cuff cap was made of opossumn.
The slim frock worn by Este O'Brien, New York socialite, at a recent first night is purple: crepe, with pink and yellow-rose-" bude embroidered at the hipline, and' real" pink rosebuds, tucked under the chin. · Contrast La added in emerald green salin sandals, and hair-ribbon, and the Ilitio`reticule, is white and eliver sequins. The lynx bolero is one of the many fur boleros' worn.
Other cases, made in alver, are These cases are mado in gold, engraved with a map of the world,
black oname), silver,
Cigarette cases, engraved in one gun, an anti-aircraft enamel. They bear also a realistic-corner with looking "London" postmark over a have been seen in London,
D. L facsimile of a stamp.
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SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, MANILA AND SINGAPORE Cable Address: Swanstock
The
Hongkong Telegraph
NINTH ANNUAL
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
June-September, 1939
CASH
$250 $250
PRIZES
(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph”)
TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250 (Donated by ILFORD, Ltd.,-London)- SEND YOUR ENTRIES IN NOW
CLOSING DATE & TIME:
29th SEPT. AT 5 P.M.
THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED. TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.
Prizes will be allotted as follows: SECTION ONE: “
For Story-Teiling Pictures. let. $30, 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10, SECTION TWO:
General Pictorial Section: Landscapes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street
Scenes, olc.-
1st. $30. 2nd. $15, 3rd, $10,
SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studica,
1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd: $29 SECTION FOUR:
Still Life and Table-Top Studies.
1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd, #10. -
SECTION FIVE: Snapshots taken by children under fourteen yours. ist. $15. End. $10. Ard. $5...
RULES
The following Rules will govern the Competition:
1-The Competition is confined ex-
to amateur clusively
photo- graphers 2-o employes or member of any firm in the photographic trade is permitted to compete.
-The prices will be awarded to the carpetitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- map in each Section. Each must be accompanied by a form which will be published"," during the period of the Com- petition, and which mat ba pasted on back of entry, The right to publish any or all. of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraphe
photographs, entered must.
Colony have been taken to
of Hongkong, -Photographs which *** have been sirendy altered to other Competitions are ineligible. 6. No resportbilly will be accepted for non-delivery of, Iows of, or damage to entries.
All entries to be either black, sepia, or toned pictures, and must
USE THIS FORM
AND PASTE IT
ON THE BACK OF EACH ENTRY
be
photo-
mounted. Coloured graphs are Ineligible, B-Pictures submitted in sepia tones should be accompanied by amalier print in black and white: B--No picture to entered in more
than one Nection. 10.-Mounis to be only white or.
cream.md; axcept in the Children's Section, must be of one of the following sizes:-10X13. 18x20.
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11-No correspondence will be entered
inte in connection with the Come. petition.
12-Entries In the Children's Beetion
must bear the entrance, FRIO, KES ared address on the entry form. countered by a paTRIKAZA 11-Members of the Blatta of the Hongkong Talebrudh and the South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete. 1K/W/The_destalons) of the Judges shall,
be Achi.
15,At 'the' conclusion of the Coca- petition, entries will be returned to-competitors on application at the Telegraph, offices within beven days."
SECTION
NAME
ADDRESS
DATE
ENTRY FORM
Pisasa ume_block letters and paste this on back of sach Entry, it entered in Children's Bection, parent planes coMEM - zerkign, here,
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