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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH :

July 19, 1941.

FASHIONS

BLITZ

BRINGS

CHANGES

By

Alison Settle

The blitz has brought changes to the world of feminine fashions Just as it has to every other phase of life in Britain to-day.

Even with the war raging around them, British women are still taking as much trouble over- their appearance as they have done. 'Fashions have changed to meet changed condi- tions, but London's women have- lost nothing of their chic.

ever

First of all, you have to realise that it is difficult to get A furnished flat in Mayfair. They are all taken. The streets are full of passengers, both foot and car. Londoners complain just as usual about the traflic blocks. If you do not book your table in advance at the Berkeley or Claridge's Hotel, you have to wait until two 'clock for the chance of one falling vacant. The Berkeley has three restaurants, Claridge's has two, but all are crowded,

Afternoon And Evening

Two kinds of clothes are not bought as they once were. They are the afternoon dress in which a woman formerly played bridge, and the grand evening dresses, exceedingly decollete. Bridge is now played in the eveninga since the days are occupied with worwork, and women wenr dinner gowns. The afternoon dress has disappeared: from the kind of clothes in which they can both work and lunch-women change for dinner or for a be- fore-dinner sherry party.

The famous tailoring housCS of London are always busy mak- ing the more elegant little suits: they are always crowded and have a list of appointments for fittings that begins in the early morning and lasts until the house closes. The material of the suits bas veered from the tweeds that women have always bought in England to very fine versions of men's suiting, exact-¦ ly the same as the wo mer chants supply to Savile Row for the men's suits but in half their weight and in feminine colour- ings. What colours? Grey, to lead with, often combined with a biscuit brown. Or grey with n fine everchecking of brilliant red, green and yellow.

Emphasised Pockets-

The line of the suits? They are for the most part single breasted with a rather longer opening, are closely fitted at the waist in accentuated curves,

Emphasised pockets help in that

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one.

THEN AND NOW

STORY OF THE

THORSE is a romantic

According to Perkian sources, the useful equine was. known to ancient Iran several millennia B. C. It was doubt- less a descendant of the wild steeds that roamed the plains of Contral Asia in the ages pre- ceding the dawn of history. The Persians were probably the world's first horsemien, and the cavalry regiments of their arm- ies were in ancient times con- sidered the finest assemblages of mounted men then known. The conquering hordes of the Irani- an kings galloped over the broad lands of the Middle East and swurned across the Bosphorus into Europe itself.

THE IN

Some idea of the way in which women's fashions have changed with the passing of the years can be judged by these striking comparison pictures, showing women during tho Iasi war and this. Pictures 1 and 2 show the difference in dress of women farmers then and the Women's Land Army now. Plelures 3 and 4 show milk girls in the last war and this,

HORSE CHINA

By T. Paul Gregory

The first animals were, of course, those belonging to the garrison. On horse-racing be- coming a popular sport in 1845-

enulation 446, in

of the gymkhanas of India, various cavalry horses of East Indian stock were raced in the first fix- tures. Later on, with the rapid growth of interest in racing at Happy Valley, many steeds of varying pedigrees were im- ported, one of which was Teloy," 21 reniarkable little Manila pony of barely. 13 hands 11⁄2 inches in height, but of such stamina and speed that it car- ríed off the Valley Stakes for nine years in succession (1847- 1855).

So successful was this steed

have not hech entirely success- The mythical Chinese Em- that the Hongkong racing public From the horses of their ful, their attempts have, never- peror Hwang Ti (B. C. 2698- became at once pony, en- cavalry sprang the various in theless, been highly encouraging, 2698) is said to have kept a thusiasts, and in the early 'fif- _digenous_breeds_of_Europe_and_On-one-live-stock-establishment, stable filled with splendid Mon. ties at number_of_China_ponies Asia, one of which was the cele- the Rancho San Fernando Rey golian ponies, and there is a re- were imported from Mongolia. brated strain of Arabia and the in Californin's pastoral Santa ference in Chinese annals to the

* Barbary Const.

Ynez Valley, are exhibited a prowess of Ma Sze-hwang, a

tiful animals.

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IN THE LATE 'SIXTIES,

English thoroughbreds |

was

It is interesting to note that trio of gorgeous "Golden Horses veterinary of supernatural abili- some scholars claim that the with fair manes and tails," ties. It is related that on one original colour of the horse was which are justly extolled by ad- occasion a dragon came to him were given a trial on the local

the climate skilled track, but accentuation of the feminine.

treatment. The small waist and the rounded the other shades of horseflesh,

a magnificent golden yellow, and mirers as the world's most beau- for

veterinary saw that the legen- generally found unsuitable for hipline. Skirts are slim, full- the various greys, bays, roans

dary creature was suffering European horseflesh, and the ex- ness lying rather to the front. and the like, were sports of na

from an ailment of the throat, periment was eventually given Pockets are slits for the fingers,ture which through sonte caprice ALTHOUGH THE and forthwith performed upon it up. During the last quarter of: no mure. Both jackets and were allowed to supplant the FINEST HORSES of The administration of a potion were imported and they have the operation of acupuncture. the century, Australian ponies skirts, feature yokes, which are basic hue. In proof of this con- the present day are generally of healing herbs completed the proved so successful that these put in with much fine, intricate tention, there have been recent, considered to be of Arabian cure, and the grateful beast few steeds and their Chinese rivals seaming and detail.

attempts in the great stock blood, it should not be forgotten The tallers, when they make ranches of California, Texas, that the sturdiest examples away with his benefactor into ure still favourites in Colony

Colorado, Oklahoma and other horseflesh are the stocky little Western states to reproduce the ponies from the broad Mongo- original golden-hued strain, re- lian plains. These animals are puted to have been lost for over the so-called "horses" of China, AS FAR AS HONGKONG that a creature of such ancient four hundred generations, and have been known to the

IS CONCERNED, the and honourable linenge should the course of her warwork, she horse-breeders in this direction B. C.

While the efforts of American Celestial Empire since 5,000 horse has only been known here he chosen to uphold local tradi-

since the occupation of 1841. tion of the "sport of kings."

suits in brilliant colours, whether the parrot blends of the 'sheer tweeds or the monotones of fine su'tings, usually add a topcont so that, when a woman has to go into blitzed areas in

may not feel conspicuous. These

conta are grand, swinging models; women drive their own little cars to remove victims of bombing, and a fitted coat is not suitable.

Colourful Blouses

Because sulls play such a big part in the Engilshwoman's life, whether for town or country, she always has a big wardrobe of blouses. Typical of the models of to-day are those with close-fitting necklines, tiny pleated fronts and

turnover really wide sleeves, full backs, and from the shoulders and held In by minute cult-bands. You and these in cottons, (striped os a rule) in which case the collars and cuffs will probably be stiffened. You And them in voiles with gleaming eroas- lines, in nets, and in tie-allks. And of all these, the tie-silks, of the very fabrics which make men's ties but in brilliant, gay colourings, are the foy of women's hearis.

The hats which are worn with theso elegantly cut suits have changed this year. They incorporate fabric in the making. If you see n woman in grey suit with a lime yellow tie-silk blouse you may ex to see her wearing a hat which peet is of grey fine felt and tie-slik mixed. If she is in a violet suit with colton Ditan Cred

Very

shirt

a pink and mauve,

(and coiton smart by Molyneux and the other great dress enakers), then she may be wearing a little. Bomburg hat. underlined with the violet but with the whole top made of the striped cotton shirting. Even the which adorn them are often shirt- ing quille instead of bird ones.

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