1946-12-07 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1946.

WOMEN'S INTERESTS Any Woman Can Be

My

Hat!!

By 'QUIZ'

ALTHOUGH I am a woman, I

can't help seeing the funny

gide of our hats.

I am grateful for the atmusing diversion they create; and takej my own (perhaps funny?) - list] off to my fellow women when I observe with what skill they support these quaint, creations at precarious, bụt doubtless ex- tremely chle, angles,

Maybe I am envious of their dexterity, because my own "Paris models" just won't stay, put and swing round to angles obviously not so chic,' or even attempt a form of millinery suicide by Jeaping from my head.

And yet I am no hat-hater, Far from it!

.

Instead,

I think of the

poetry of hats-hats that re-

semble birds'' neata,

gateaux,

gardens, flower-pots, chimneys, etc.

No-the real enemy of the woman's hat is Man,

THINK how many marriages are disrupted by the male comment on an exquisite urcation: "Where on earth did you get that thing?"

So disheartening-

Or after having

worn a well- Chosen favourite for much too long, such frritating words an" "1 like your new hat, dear,"

Even if our stockings Brus dorom

Qu

Maybe this male feud on women's hats started with the bills present ed with rame. Most married men but not of "hatting" their wives.

MIDNIGHT BALL OF FASHION-Under the auspices

of the Guild of British Creative Designers, 150 of Britain's 'most beautiful mannequins paraded the latest creations

of famous London fashion houses at a midnight ball, held in the Royal Albert Hall,

Picture shows a tweed dress and jacket ensemble at the show.

MORE ELECTRICAL

HOME MARVELS

By F. Crowley

THE DREAM HOME" of most generated in

a water jucket sur- three

women is almost here to-day rounding the element and is directed thanks to the expert planning of a on to the work through selected panel of architects employ- | grooved steam ways,

ed by the British Electrical Deve lopment Association, who have de- shined four electric kitchen, plans for low cast homes.

Nut the least interesting of the de-

for serving.

Other Facilities DOILING RINGS, somo

combined toast racks, are being produced in a variety of designs and

with

colours from about 155, upwards.

heaters, whereby

to

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Beautiful, But-

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By CLAIRE COX United Press Correspondent

HERBERT A. RATNER of Chleago said recently that any woman can be beautiful. The ugly ones have only themselves to blame, he said.

"Nature never creates an ugly Woman," he said. “ለ Few make themselves ugly, but if they scraped

600 YEARS OF FASHION DESIGN

London is getting extremely dress. conscious. Following on the parade of fashion in the wildly popular "Britain Can Make It" exhibition In the Victoria and Albert Museum, the some museum authorities have now organised an exhibition of "Six Hundred Years Of Fashion Design" which should attract almost as much

attention from the womenfolk.

The display begins ingeniously With

a remarkable series of brass rubbings, photographed sons to appear In positive,

instend negative. These form remarkable of gallery of English costume of the 15th century. (Incidentally, birth of the brimmed hat seems the indicated in one of these).

After that, the story is compressed Into drawings, including portraits, plc- prints and tures of social occasions, carlentures and fashion plates. It is well told, for the visitor, can see one fasilon fading out and another taking its place

three

rooms of

off a few layers of painis, they too would be beautiful."

Ratner, Professor of Preventive Medicine at Loyola University, and that fat or skinny, short or tall, every female should be able to qualify to be somebody's pin-up queen-lt she. really wants to,

"Somewhere in the world there's a man to admire every woman" he sald. "All the ladies have to do in And them and then catch them.".

Road A Book

"BUT FIRST, maybe they'd bet

ter wash their faces and read a Kood book so they'll have something to talk about."

He explained that he wasn't re- ferring to "akin deep beauties" when he talked about attractive women.

"I mean the entire woman,, mind, body and sout," he said. The part that's still there after the paint fades and cracks."

"Of course, women inve to USC their faces and figures as bait to catch men. But once they get them, they've go to have something else to hang on to them with.

Ratner said that a lot of men let but-dumb women. themselves be fooled by beautiful-

"They fall in love with cosmetic beauty and never look for anything cise," he explained.

· No Hold

A WOMAN, who gets a man have only a superficial hold on him. by such superficial means will If cosmetics can get a man, cosmetics

away." arc

Д most

Only six actual costumes ar

but these are among the Museum's best. One is exquisite pink flowered, panniered brocade dress of about 1750, recently given by a lady in whose family it has been preserved as an helicom, Looking at it, the visitor has a faint feeling of regret that, with the advent of more functional and, per- haps, more commonsense clothes for women, a great deal of charm hos been irretrievably lost.

HAT FASHIONS FROM BRITAIN

ONE of the results of six years

of war has been that women in Britain got out of the habit of wearing hats.

The turban, made of a long strip of material which could, be twisted in any way, came into vogue and looked like staying there. Add to this that the prices of really well- styled bats in good materials shot up into figures which were more than the average girl could earn in

couple of weeks, and you have the

on another' woman will take film

He added that women. would do well to remember a warning lasted thousands of years ago by Hippo- crates, the father of medicine.

sicili

"He said. A fine parade of without judgment may be foolish and cause more damage than usual","

Minule Makeyo 4 GABRIELLE

your

Paste these Breviles in Beauty Notebook. Rose-coloured As a result new hats are going face powder gives a new colour tone

to snilow skins. Always spray bril- into the shops at prices which do not make the average woman shud- lantine on the hair for the best. der and in styles which owe a good effect. Deep Bronze sequin butler- deal to the best model hat designers flies look exciting in Auburn hair. in London and Paris. There

is Perfume behind the ears gives off a nothing exaggerated-for

eccentric worm fragrance. Pale. Beige face look well with the powder fatter the too-rosy skin, Pertume on the eyebrows is a Frog- that rationed Britain can

rant Gesturel attractive and new. at present--but the new hats

Nez-Pretty Is!

velopments in the Time Switch sys- tem whereby the housewife can now Convector net the complete meal in the oven stream of warm air is circulated are and set off with the children, or hus- available in a wide range of prices

reason for the gloom in the millinery trade. band, and return some little time for all pockets, while a new clothes BU

But the problem had to be solved Inter to find the meal almost ready drying cabinet is shortly expected on

somehow and the Millinery In- the market. Wall fires, too, made to formation Centre which hos just Then there is the automatic home fit into that fireplace in the bedroom

Dom been opened may do it. laundry, which can be set to sonic, are fixed permanently by a fin wash, triple rinse and dry hine tached the back. Even alarm pounds of clothes-within-58 minutes. clocks are being produced —with set the operation

Only six minutes are required to volume control-sweet and low to in motion, and extra loud-just as you want it for after that the machine goes by itself. the morning turn-out. So, Mary Jones can set the wash

For the garden, from ready for ironing.

And note! It is claimed that the

bers' clippers, welchs 5 be, has 18 inch handles and cuts your hedge method has the major advantages of

or lawn in a 74 inch swathe! cooker, in

Then we have a combined fire and drums which can be rotated in any direction giving in- Anite variety of £5. 12. The book-heat, to sell at Sire-cooker has the

America,

hnts do

can see the necessity of clothing over night and find it next morniuk \ comes the Hedgemaster-like bar simple type of clothes which is all

OF COURSE, both sexes disilke extended fabric life. It is said that

obscure etc.

the "bad hats" that views in theatres, cinemas, Disliked also are the vindictive hats fitted with long spear-like feathers that attempt to impale the eyes of the unfortunate behind the wearer's

back..

However, the majority of women just can't get on without their silly bats.

the life of garments is extended by 25 to 50 per centi

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top simply a operated dishwasher. This last Even the most hat-hating of ad-big enough to reserve washing up vanced doctors have realised this for once per day! fact, and prescribed a "new"hat" as There is another machine being the most potent remedy for woman-made in Britain at present which ly "blues."

is

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THINK, too, of the Model Hat's clot

war service! How It cheered, pre- clous wartime leave. Rare symbol be adapted soon for peeling potatoes. It is likely that this machine may of freedom! Blessedly uncouponed! This small useful item in the home- Thanks to the Model Hat, weclectrical. is now beginning to come could still hold our heads up even off the supply belt.

A new development in the house Iron is the Silex steam iron, con- Hats off to that silly, saucy, trolled by a calibrated knob, and naughty, exotic, surrealist bit of which can be used either os an or femininity-the Model Int.

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If our stockings did let us down.

"

THE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE.

Dally exposure of your hair-do in the merciless open air

turns your lovely hair prematurely gray.

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BEAUTY ARTS

By LOIS LEEDS

Your hat is a pin cushion! HEADLINE NEWS!

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rooms the highways and byways to find antiques, which become exciting with jewellery accessories.

When artists get together their ideas, a Headline Fashion is created. Charles Walker, a returned let of golden thimbles. That would He recently made a charm bracé- veteran, creates exquisite hatpins encourage a woman to new just to old places DI Jewellery. hear the tuneful thimbles Jingle! He Madam Germaine Jensen creates lakes little golden mesh purses (the kind your Grandmother had) and She designed a huge, soft, Black makes them into lapel ornamental velvet beret and Charica Walker did a There is a revival of interest in old hatpin of an old coral plece. A jewellery and

and this young man has famous New York model used coral- mado his post-war fob the creation tinted rouge and lipstick and a pair of Walker's antique earrings and completed the picture.

of charm jewellery from old things of all kinds. When he went away to the war he put his collection in a vault and now he creates things to brighten up your hat—or YOU 1

There's an idea here!

A berat, says Madam Germaine, Is a "pin cushion for any charming | pin!" "And... Charles: Walker that women cati have many different pina, made from old jewellery, Ho] Next--"Dear Lola Leeds”

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