1939-09-25 — Page 18

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 25, 1939.

What in

to insist on

your new

ПO-DAY we give you this season's

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Paris suit lines, and show por how to choose a suit that will be not only in the fashion but becoming to your own particular figure.

CORSET WAIST, FULL SKIRT, FOR THE 'VERY SLIM.

BUSTLE PLEATED SKIRT AND JACKET FOR THE TALL WOMAN,

LONG JACKET STRAIGHT NARROW SKIRT, FOR A FULL

FIGURE.

CHOOSING a sult that has goi

a season 19 to some people nearly as hazardous an enterprise ins choosing a husband to lost a Hetime. You've got to be sure of your material.

In other words, you have not only got lo judge your suit on its face value, but on is weuralility for a number of differ. ent occasions. (unless you've got unlimited enpital, in which case proetically none of these preliminary renorks applies) and on whether or not it is a good fell to you and your personality.

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A SMART and fashionable suit

ceases to have any point if

It is

is worn by on unsultable person. like putting an essentially modern picture in the most exuberant type of Victorian sliting-room. It cancels out.

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So we must Best of all go over the Ines that are most likely to affect your wardrobe this winter, and apply them one by one to you who are able to wear them. Variations on suits and jackets many, but the principal Haes to look out

slim, for are the longt

single-breasted jacket with the straight skirt, the tight- ning round-the-waist jacket which comes down Gin. below the hip line; a Jacke! which comea down to a point in the front and up at the back-Falconer has sketched one the five-olgliths boxy jacket (these jackets are being worn solo for evening:

A sports suit in caramel tweed. with the new pleats-at-the-back skirt line. The coal this girl-is holding over her arm is of khaki corduroy. It is loose and five- eighths length, and is trimmed with large buttons on a double- breasted front and patch pockets.

Mainbocher favours them); a jacket which has a flared basque, temetimes trimmed with fur, at the back, and, of course, the sports Jucket which lives in a world of ita wn, but still follows the characteristic line to the extent that it to long, slightly waisted, and worn over a slightly flared skirt.

Those who have been deploring the shortness of skirts can put on those extra inches and know they are on safe ground. Skirts 14 inches from the ground can be worn by anyone but the shortest.

Skirt lines vary from Marvel Rochas's very full ones, that carry the fullness all round, to those with sleek trout line with fullness at the buck.

Schiaparell does a straight, tight- Biting skirt as a contrast to most of the collections, and they are a boon to the rather full gure, on whlet an elaborate skirt looks toji-heavy.

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you are slim, but with a rather I'

heavy waist, adopt the Schin- pareti line, which does not accentuate it. if you are slim with a small waist in pro- portion, you can curset it so that your hips stand it, and wear the full, draped, or slightly flared line, though the last would hide your contours, which this would be a pity, as good ones are supposed to be accentuated.

SCHLOTI

If you are broad on the hips, with good seating accomodation, but all with It, you can wear a skirt or jacket with a istle that will be nipped in at the waist. But you must be tall to carry this off. If you are not tall, go in for a five-eighths length loose box jacket, and wear it with a slightly flared skirt.. not a too full

one.

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JACKETS to the autumo sulis

the main, accentuate

the waist-and filp-fine, but there are those loose Juckets, too, which should be a boon to the fuller Agure. Remember to buy one which gives you a straight line at the back. Your derriere should not bump it out,

Skirts, with the exception of thinse produed by Schiaparelli and Chanel, re- main the same length, and I think you can rely on them doing so for some tinie. But the fact that some designers have put on an inch or two indicates that some time in the not so far future we shall be back to covering our legs.

An entirely different line, with a straight-in-front skirt pleated in the back, a long jacket and buttons down the front. This is trimmed with Astrakhan and the bootees have Astrakhan tops to match. Note the hat with the curly brim. It's a new line. Good for almost anyone because it can. be so adapted.

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This is a typical shape jacket made of striped Donegal tweed, in such mixtures as green and pink, and blue and grey wide stripes. This one is trimmed with a velvet collar and is worn with a black skirt and black hat. Note the bootecs, made of black suede. You need a slim waist to wear this.

Count the "TELEGRAPHS" everywhere

suit

This tartan jacket is in wine, purple, and white. It shows the down-at-the-front, up-at-the- back line, and the lavish Astrak- hau trimming round the hem, collar, cuffs, and the muf. It is worn with a black wool skirt with fullness at the back. Boo- teen again.

CREED

(Famous Designer)

Says:

"SPORTS suits are deally suited to the typical Englishwoman. Wuar them when you can and look for wide shouldera and slim wulsts. These set of your limbs, which are generally longer than those of the Frenchwoman.

"For town wear, wear clothes that are not exaggerated. A good tweed sult (no divilled skirts) or a woollen ault can be worn in town:

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nind when you are about to deal with summery frocks and blouses in the wash-tub. Their light colours and delicate fabrics need treating very considerately if}. they are to keep their new looks, so never start washing them in a hurry if you can possibly help it, and don't dump several frocks of different colour and materials in the tub to- gether if you want to get the best results.

If you are washing a frock that has never been washed before, soak it well beforehand in cold water to get rid of the "dress" that is in the material. To neglect this precaution, or to wash o new frock together with an older one, Is to court fallure, for the "ircus" spoils your lather and makes a scum that settles on the

"For afternoon I do not like velvet on the Englishwoman. She does not carry it off so, well, as the French woman. I prefer a black wool suit-fabric. which you can wear with a sweater in the morning, and change in the afternoon with a blouse and change of accessories. This is economical ag well as good.

Dry. Quickly

warm

To be on the safe side, cool your hot soapy lather before you dip your frock or blouse into it. It should "Colour is a question of personal not feel hot to your hands, only taste; but I adore black for town

Uso good soap, or Soup- wear. With black suits like bright | fakes to make your lather, and don't louches introduced by blouses and atint it. If the water is hard, soften scarves. In the choice of colour to It by adding a little borax. Don't touch up a black outfit, you can rub a delicate fabric, unless it is on show as much individuality as you

a specially soiled part, just squeeze like.

it in the lather till it looks fresh and clean. Then rinse it in three waters, and again, if it is a delicate fabric, out Instead of squeeze the water

woven wringing. You may Indder silk by wringing. Dry any coloured frock or blouse as quickly as you can. but never in the sun, or you will get faded patches.

"I'd like to point out that the Englishwoman is taller than the Frenchwoman, has longer limbs, and sutte are specially kind to her. I design for women who have very good figures, wide shoulders, and long limbe."

Ways With Old Stockings

Every new frock or blouse ling a crisp look that you will want to re- gain. Thin hot starch will give the necessary stiffness to ginghams and the slouter tub-cotions, and if you have put a little borax In the last rinsing water you will find you get LOVES to wear while doing

a better finish with the iron. If you household and garden jobs that like, dip linens also in very thin hot stain the hands can be cut from the starch, but a well-ironed linen looks tops of old stockings. Lie your well without artificial stiffening. To hands in turn on a piece of news- give back "body" to silka you can Paper, and penell round them for add a few lumps of sugar to the rins- the patterns. Sew up the glove with Ing water. the machine or with short back stitches.

Mittens for cold weather can be made in the same way by using old woollen stockings or men's socks (not killed ones.)

Poluta About Pressing

The good looks of a home-washed frock depend a lot upon its treat- Shake ment on the ironing-board. the garment into shinpe, when nearly dry enough to press, and roll it up By allting a pair of woollen stock tightly in a towel. It the frock has Ings down the back seams, cutting been torched, press it with a hot off the feet, and joining the legs to iron, while still very damp, and on gether an excellent hot-water bottle the right olde. If the material in cover can be made. Run cord organdle muslin, press it very damp; through the top and sew up the bot- first under a cloth, and then directly. tom, leaving a gap in the middle on its surface, and it will regain its for the hanging-up slip at the bot- original delightful crispness.

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