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SATURDAY FEATURE

Womansense

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Na Paris that scintillates with. n brittle post-war galoty, women are enlivening their dark, soft dresses with those accessories-witty if not whe-that always mean much more than money to a chic Frenchwoman.

Feathers nod on their heads with all, the charming inconsequence of circus, ponies' plumes.

Paradise birds, in breath-taking colours, sweep from diminutive pill boxes of binck velvet to frame their

faces.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1947.

LITTLE

THINGS

OUR

WOMEN HAVE FORGOTTEN

by

CAROLINE FOX

A

drawings bo KENDRICK

High heels, always flattering, have outmoded wedge styles, but there are

some platform soles.

Black antelope xtees, with plat-

form soles and turn-back, aniste- hugging cuffs of fur, are chic and

comforting.

And many WONEN # wenring amusing overshoes of gally coloured rafla with turn-over cuffs-smart. cousins to our sober rubber over. sitoes,

Gloves are highly decorative, mostly in black, but lavish with own, embroideries, flowers or fellis. Tiny pastel flowers are embroider- ed on the back of black suede gloves Ostrich tips, black or pastel colour filled taffeta cullar

short, plain gloves have a sequins tre scattered, star-like, un the back of evening gloves.

ed, swirl around their curls.

Ospreys point bravely skywards; tiny birds nestle in feather pom- pons belge and speckled coq feathers curve from head to shoulder.

And all these enchanting extrava- gances are clapped right ois the back of the head, and worn with plain, dark clothes... a droped frock of crepe or Jersey; a "dressmatter suit" of fine black wool; a loose, straight- swinging coat of black Perslan lamb, which now tops mink for elegance.

For pretty ankles CHOES climb up the back of the heel, to strap around the ankle -Very pretty if the ankle is sim enough.

Most Frenchwomen weur binek suede in town, and there are few coloured shoes.

Mina Finleye 4 GABRIELLE

A quiex Minute-A-Day applien- tion of hand lotion will insure soft, mooth hands. Hold the handia UP while insenging on your lotion. Take que minute before."lights out” at night to massage your cuticle with vaseline. Take the same care of your feet. Massage the back of the heels to protect your sheer hosiery,

It's a good thing

Jewellery ideas

Ist

OSTUME jewellery in Paris

gold. rather than diamonds or (where purse takes place of pocket- book) gift rather than paste. Broad gold chain bracelels Jingle at the wrist; gold clips high-light Inpels: gold enr-rings curve upwards from the lobe of the car,

And fobs are worn in scores of" Amusing Allded designu-daycing #gures, absurd animals, a lamp, a vase, a violin, a pearl-studded drum --what you will,

are

Bewitching for evening "fascinators" of black or white lace or net, with frilled or plented edges,, spattered with velvet cut-out flower and sequins.

They dress up a simple frock, they disgulie A wavering hair-set-and what are they, after nil, but a

of net plus one evening's **

hund-work?

of

Fun for daytime are little Jackets corduroy velvet, belted, pocketed.. and with detachable hoods buttoned on at the bark.

Mostly in pastels, lined with black,

black skirts.

Carried for both day and evening are umbrellas! Utility ix trans- formed to frivolity, and they have frilled slip-on covers of tuiteta in brifiant plaids, checks. stripes, flower patterns, often wöm with gloves that have a matching felll around the wrist.

Her fuel troubles AND the chi Frenchwoman keps

Chis characteristle quiety in spite

of the fact that her table lamps may suddenly switch out in the | middle of dinner... her electric fire may go off before the room is warm, her tonster before the toast is browned, her hair-drier while her hair is still wet, and the radiogram in the middle of

white

record

lift that sweeps her upwards in fr favourite shop today may, be sullenly grounded all day tomorrow. For fuel shortage is so acute in Faris

that the city is rationed in zanes-one section will be fuelless on certain hours une

another section the next day.

day

she's wearing WOOL

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1. A triangle of black net scattered with velvet flowers and aglitter with sequins-a "fascinator" for Paris-und London-evenings,

2. A trail of gardenias, an upright egret, a black velvet pillbox-a witty hut from Paris.

3. A fringed stockinette bag, like horse's nosebag—a hatful of Parisian mugenuity.

4. Utility-into-frivolity

... Parisian umbrellas have gay slip covers of plaid tafferá, matched with befrilled gloves. 5. Paris shoes climb smartly up to clasp the ankle-this pair in black suede for formal wear.

6. Smart cousins of sober English overshoes these French bootces of brilliantly coloured raffia, with turned aver cuffs.

What sort of men make

GIRLS, if you

NDS

THE BEST HUSBANDS?

-21 marry mechanic or It musician you've not half as much chance of living happily ever after as if you chose a minister or an athletic coach

grave-diggers, dog-catchers, and bill collectors, though none of those are in Lung's st at all.

By JOHN BRENNAN

from the locality in which he lives and thus is not under "community Falesmen again, fruit-pickers, No a high hoppiness rating. Bankers shearers, politicians._and_ nol are 17th, corporation oficials 20th, wurders.

owners of large businesses 24th. There is nothing like the ever- watchful eyes of the neighbours to Education does help apparently-- keep a man toeing the line.

with ministers second, college pro- The man who works Irregu- fessors third, high-school teachers Dr Ernest W. Burgess and Richard lar hours — policemen,

education administrators news- sixth, and 0. Lang, of the University of papermen (18th on Lang's list, and 11th-but not always. Doctors are Chicago, have Investigated the fairly high), railwayinen (48th), and 10th, dentists 31st, just half-way "happiness rating" of 17,533 couples, doctors (10th). The husbands were engaged in 60 different occupations.

survey." That hits at travelling MONEY does not necessarily bre

If you want a second-to-none chance of happiness forget that travelling salesman's baby blue eyes and lock around for a chemical en- gineer.

Lang compiled a list showing that wives were happiest with chemical- engineer husbands, unhappiest with labourer husbands,

Professor

The man whose income is irre- gular doctors again, Jawyers (25th), plumbers (55th, and so far down presumably because they for- get to come home), architects (21st), and freelance writers, who Con

In Pennsylvania, Dr Clifford hardly be said to have an income at Adums,

of Psychology, all and who aren't on Lang's list brought out a simplified list, based probably because not one could save on the Burgess-Lang observations, the cost of a marriage licence. of what he calls the great "even major Vocational trouble-makers" against whom a girls should be warned.

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down the scale.

There is a further mordant warn- ing against the pullers of teeth in the fact that they rank among the first three in the occupational groups most prone to suicide.

PUT no giri should look beyond an engineer. They are listed first (chemical engineers) seventh (en- The inati whose work is dirty pincers, plain), ninth (electrical en- -mechanics (58th), coalminers gineers), 14 (civil engineers). They be and farmers (47th). Dr Adams sug- have education and income, and nit gests that a girl should remember, "objective, practical, stable type of that dirt is an honourable mark of personality" in contrast to the "lem- SODIC

occupations, but that is not peramental, artistle type"--of which always

you easy when the nose

musicians are the worst example

is to be avolded like lot would love to kiss is spotted with which

grease.

These, in order of danger, are: The

man who travels travelling salesmen (59th in Lang's sixty), truck-drivers (52nd), pilots. entertainers (musicians

rated s Are 53rd), and the like.

II a girl must marry one of Bese people she is advised to travel with her man as much as possible.

The

nobody man

knows-

the person who earns his lying away

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But if you haven't been married that Job-and

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The man who is not proud of really happy-that's practically

Adams mentions Impossibility.

his

job

It's not waste of mind

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TF you wear nail varnish that ways be fought-narrow-minded-

matches pour lipstick, does this mess. mean that you can't think seriously Let this particular reader and any about politics?

others who condemn mything that, in their opinion, comes under the That question raises an old argu, heading of "useless frills" ponder on ment which, I thought was dead these points: killed by the thousands of women who, every day, prove its' stupidity.

1. Because £0 woman make-up and clothes that suit her, But it seema T ат

wrong. It 11 does not follow that she gives all seems that there are still people who ́her time and thought to her belleve that a woman cannot have appearancs,

wears

bath a good brain and an attractive - 2. A drab '! appearance con

appearance.

be the hall-marie of the stupid

It is a new-arrival render who has woman as much as the outward revived the old controversy. She sign of the intellectual,

doesn't approve of women being told - they use nali varnish-to make sure that it tones with their lip stick.

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She considers all this a waste of time, and a definite disservice" in. that it doesn't help to make women politically intelligent.

is

Such

attitude

·an); outmoded worth comment only because behind It lies, something that is the enemy of all progress, and which: must! al-

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3. Lack of make-up. Ja longer the symbol of virtue. often it shown a shortage of imagina- tion and a poor sense of values.

4. It is surely the duty of 'all of us to please by our looks as much ns to stimulate by our work and our brains. After all, trees” lining” a street add to its charm without mak ing it any the less useful..

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