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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1946.

• THE WORLD OF WOMEN-

The Night-Short"

DRAWN

by ROBB

This new "campus" fashion.... the short-nightle-to the latest from America, where It is already A craze among college girls. Long-sleeved, high-necked, It's n calf-length copy of n Victorian man's night-shirt. Started as Jabric-saving iden, the night-

WOMAN'S PART IN BRITISH INDUSTRY

DESPITE the fact that a large number of British women have been giving up,their war. 'time jobs, there are still haff aj million more women working in industry and public services in the United Kingdom now than in 1989.

Latest Ministry of Labour figures, show that Britain's total working population at the end of July (ex- cluding indoor private domestic ser- vlee) was 20,115.000. Just under aix million of these were women. At the peak period of the war there

seven and a quarter millions.

How are they employed?

The greatest-number- arc-in-

were

the

distributive trades, which claim 877-

away

"

short in reported to be just as warm as an ordin- ору length nightdress. Above is a winter version in pale blue woollen,

Mint Maksige

GRORIOLLO

Are you rushed for Ume! Want

500 of them. There has been a drift to look your pretticat? Try this from the textile and clothing Spread on some light, fluffy cleans Industries. 415,900 are employed in, the former, though this number ising cream. Dampen a cloth in war 180,000 less than in 1939. Clothing water and gently remove the eroam, absorbs 320.200 where once 446.000 Now dash cold, cold water on face worked.

and throat. Now apply foundation cream, face powder, a bit of rouge, an accent of lipstick, if you need it. You will look radiant! Next-Painting the Lily!

The hotel and catering trade em- ploys 207,000 and the food, tobacco and. drink industries 230,300.

On the other hand, there are far more women working in the metal and chemical Industries than before the war.

There are 237,000 in en working and glass works all show gineering+more than two and А A increases Loo, There are 40,000 half times the pre-war figure. The "Clippies" in the tram and bus ser- number of women employed in the vices, a four-fold increase on 1939. construction and repair of vehicles Lastly, there were still 120,000 in the has more than doubled, the metal Auxillary Services-a decrease of goods industries have absorbed an 317,000 in the past year-and 4,000 extra 80,000, while metal manufac in Civil Defence, the NFS. und the ture, the chemical industry, wood-Civil Police.

"Good Pals Get Together"

In the house of another a woman of elegance always wears a correct hat to complete her ensemble.

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PATRICIA LENNARD'S FASHION PARADE

TOP SECRET

Grooming means

more than money

DURING the last few years.

Angele Delanghe has mum- bered many well-dressed women, including the Duchess of Kent, among her customers.

of

Amiable, outspoken, she designs complete, collections women's clothes, works in a tiny house in Kensington crammed with model gowns, lengths of material and, Fibbons and 25 employees.

She loves making evening dresses, slick-as-paint cocktail frocks, hates extremes of fashion."I can't stand habble skirts; no sane woman would wear one"--and prefers to

make clothes sult the individual, not the current fashion plate.

Personal grooming, she says, has lot te du with being well dressed. "It isn't a question of money-I j.you buy beautifully cut. good quailty clothes that avoid extreme ideas, take care of them and keep them spotless, they will last for years."

She uses English tweeds, woollens and crepes, but inds she must turn to France for the richer materials- brocades, lames and satins and pre- war quality silk velvets.

In the last two months, she made 80 designs for the collection she is now showing, but as she can get so little material, repents designs only two or three times. Models usually repented anything up to half a dozen times, but she prefers to keep the Agure as low as possible, especially for evening dresses.

arc

She never copies a design, de- plores the often false cachet of a Parls label.

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Show

pieces

YOU CAN ADAPT FOR YOURSELF

by Potricio Longard & Virginip

1-Fur" comes

to the fore In bonnets wom high and tiny, lying under the chin with brown velvet ribbons.

2-The hood

on a winter Topcoat. In thrown back to show the lining of curly whito lambskin.

NEW VERSIONS OF THE

TYROLEAN. BONNET 1

B-in black

velvet, for formal wear, embroidered in slik fics and Rold thread Black ribbon bows add back Interest.

5-Petersham ribbon. gathered on a ΠΕΤΡΟΥ ribbon head band. makas this evening "hat," worn with an evo-veli.

4-in white string, for sports wear, or country week-

ends,

·am·

broidered with multi-coloured wool flowers.

PARIS DESIGNERS

WHEN the

RULE AGAIN

famous and candy striped ribbons are all

introduced their new fashions it proved beyond a shadow, of a doubt that Paris is once more enjoying the piping days of

peace.

QUEENS OF THE ICE

RINK

LIFE of a leading ice skater is

.

not all the fun it appears to be on

the surface. Lissome figures in beautiful skating ercations, skimming gracefully and light as a feather over the glenming ice with the spotlight focusing them for thousands of delighted spectators, makes them the envy of the would be stars.

But behind the scenes a lot of hard work has to be accomplished before the top cina is reached. Cecilia Colledge, who has recently made her debut in an ice show in London as a profesalonal, worked assiduously for years under the eye of her mother.. Megan Taylor, now a professional in America, did the same with her father Phil Taylor looking on, and it was always A bitter point with Megan that Cecilia regularly, finished first and sho second in the championships.

Then there was Bellta Jepson Turner, now known as Bellta, America's rival for popularity Sonya Henle.

remember

to her

Face

Made in England

Confidence

ICK

ONDER

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working for hours at a time InWholesale Distributors: THE ARGOSY, Gloucester Arcade

London when she was a tiny girl

and just starting. Now the Henics, Belitas, Colledges and Taylors have a payroll of thousands a year.

Hard work well rewarded.

Latest bid is being made by buxom Daphne Turner, who will start favourite for the British Amateur Championship at Wembley Pool on December 9 and 10. Daphne, one of the pleasantest tempered ice girls I have met-most of them have the temperaments of prļma donnas -Is

on the Wembley Ice every morning nt seven o'clock and puts In thirty hours solid practice every week. That is just about the most monotonous job I can imagine in a cold empty stadium.

Chanel, who flew to Switzerland, re- year, and I look to her to win the The only doubting dressmaker was She was runner up to Cecilia last fused to take part in the dress shows, title this year from the competition and intends to write her memoirs and continue to coln money with her of Bridget Shirley Adams, Aldrey Planty and the Scottish champion, Jane Gordon Gladys Jagger.---Archie Qulck.

These new death as well as utility, and swept the world of fashion into an era of luxury and elegance which has always been the natural reaction to any great war. Fur Again

perfumes. collections gave the blow to Busterity

Here аге some fashion news flashes:

Materials were sumptuous. They made even American fabrics look like poor relations. All restraint gave way to elegant lines.

After many freezing winters with only a muffer to keep them warm, the French are to be allowed a little fur round the neck of their new win- ter models. Fur collars will be seen for the first time this winter and bits of fur talls, or cars may be used for trimming.

Schiaparelli has the first British tweeds, not enough, but at least enough to give the stimulus needed to produce the type of suits and top coats which made her famous before the war,

Grace Moore, when she sang at the Deauville Casino, wore n dress Schiaparelli designed specially for her of white satin embroidered with gold bars of music from various operns.

Hats this winter will be wom tilted at an angle towards the back of the hend, not halo slyle. The brims are rolled back.

New Way With Felts

In Paris. they have a new way with felts. They take a "hood," place it on the back of the customer's head. snip round the brim and roll it up- wards and backwards.

Then the crown is angerpinched so that it is corrugated and fits the head. A quill or fesloon of cock feathers. is added and a swirl of velling. The chades are mustard and soft green. Velvets, corduroys, ribbed silks

Nylon Stockings

BEAUTY ARTS

'By LOIS LEEDS

Posed by Patti Brady for Lois Lerda

Start your Little Girl on the Beauty Path! SMALL BEAUTIES:

Explain to your youngster just how important it is to have a clean Little girls' must be taught the scalp and handsofhe hair. It is Beauty Arts-how to be neat, fresh really important because healthy as a daisy, how to have beautiful, scalps go right along with healthy healthy hair. It's never too early to skins.

begin lessons.

your ilttlo girl's beauty

good, firm-briatled brush. That gets out dirt and stimulates scalp circula- tion. Teaching children to brush their hair requires a "bit of doing"

The good, old fashioned routine of brushing, is. also essential for Young Patti Brady, appearing in hair health and beauty. Brush your Warner Brothers "Stallion Road," youngster's hair thoroughly with a NEWS that the British Govern- proud of her healthy, shining ment will enter the nylon hair and she combs it carefully after stocking business has brought her shampoo. joy to millions of English girls| A small child's hair should be but it is worth the effort.

most of them bare-legged.. soft, silken halo, whether straight The Ministry of Supply

or curly, dark or a mass of golden Brush the hair before the sham- an- ringlets! Like a child's petal-soft glass of water is just right. Wet nounced that it has signed an agree skin, It's charm Hes in its

poo. A teaspoonfal of shampoo to a ment to manufacture machinery for beauty and requires no

the hair before you start work. commercial producers of fully-alds. BUT it does need immacu-half of your shampoo solution, rub-,

WORK. Use fashioned stockings., Eight hun- dred workers will soon start on n not only now

fate cleanliness to keep it lovely,bing into the hair with fingertips £1,000,000 order for new machinery when

but in the future. with clear water and use the other. to create a light lather, then rinse to be turned out at an

the small girl becomics a ordnance

half of the solution. Work up a plant at Nottingham, says United grown-up young lady.

rich, sudsy Inther. Massage the ouds Press,

Since early in the war most Eng-washing to keep it shining clean. with warm water until all the foam A youngster's hair needs frequent briakly into the scalp. Now rinno Hish girls have preferred bare legs Four and Five-year-olds have to the rough stockings of cotton, natural affinity for dirt! Some of water and the

disappears. A final ringo In cool available in limited supply. Forelign their happiest moments are spent in with a lintless towel and put small Job la done! Dry visitors gasped at the sight of thou-making audules, alling way pails Susie out in the sun or by a sunny sands of ruddy, unsheathed legs in with and and generally getting na window. London's most frigid weather.

Businessmen in other

dirty as possible. As a result, their You will find the hair, soft and industries hair cannot help becoming dusty manageable after this Small Sham- were scrutinising the Labour Gov- and sticky. Therefore, the hair of poo and you can comb or curl or cmment's Jatest hostery manufacturers consider to be Inga with much, much dira a

move, which all children needs frequent wash braid it swiftly, a-stimulus to trade.-

healthy condition of the scalp.

As to the

Neat"Dear Lois Leeds"..

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