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EVERY SATURDAY

LONDON

Likes BUTTONS

LONDON

HARLES Creed, BritáfifN

20-year-old

fashion

house, launched a grand button and pocket drive in the autumn-spring sult show.

Chi-

Creed's exclusive city slicker sembles had button cuffs, two-row butioned Jackets with matching box- pleated button skirts.

Linea were Blim, in opposition to Captain Molyneux' hourglass silhouette. Skirts were longer, with varied une of plents.

Jackets had slightly padded shoulder lines with

velvet-

trimified breast pocked designer

Like lila brother

Digby Morton, Charler Creed

cut

sults in the finest of British woolk ant worsteds. Dove-grey twded find vertion pale-blue stripes. Ifenther-coloured combinationa kad mill-edged material buttons to

A cream shantung tailormade hnd nn inset panel in the back of the incket slightly shorter than

the other two. A pencil-slim skirt find a back hip-packet effect. The Jac- ket fastened low, with three gilt

buttons and half-clrcle shapeil

coats favoured highwayman COACH.

A swing-back cont In Hampton Red (bright red) had a highwayman collar,, rounded shoul- dern and wide cuffs. Three leather buttons

held

a high place on the back

of the cost and led into full un- pressed plents.

Pedal pushers in yellowy-brown hopsack had a grer-coat to match. -United Prert.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1947- ̧ ́

WOMANSENSE FULL-PAGE FEATURE

THIS -REFLECTS A WOMAN TRYING ON HATS:

MAGIC MIRROR

"The tenther would" drine me mad?! ··I'mm) · But not quite met

The off-guard expressions you see in the picture strip above were recorded as a London hat-buyer was go- ing through a high-tension moment In a woman's lifu. For selecting a new hat definitely is A CRISIS. .

A London paper devised a mirror on the lines of those used by the F.B.I. in America for discovering-es- pionage scorets during the war..

A woman looking into this glass sees the usual rellec- tion. But anyone in position behind it can see her-as through a window-without being scen. The cameraman was behind this "transparent" mirror when he took these pictures,

How is it made? With a sheet of ordinary glass back- ed with a very thin layer of silver. The cameraman remains unseen because a black screen, placed behind him, reflects no light back through the mirror.

Approve

Colony Men Longer Skirt Trend

L

ONGER skirts, the most important issue of the day in the fashion field, have the approval of the ma- lority of Hongkong men.

It's a bare majority, to be sure, but fully 55 percent of the Colony males questioned by Womonsense cast their vote In favour of frocks coming well below the knee.

"More becoming to most women" was the typical comment of long- skirt advocates, while those with the opposite view calked the idea "re- trogressive" and "act In keeping with modern times."

fashion

pages

and

As yet few signs of the drastic style change can be seen locally, but womch are discussing the subject eagerly over bridge and mah long Lables and magazines

pre studied thoroughly. Reports from Paris, Londen, and New York say the longer skirt 'l "In" and declare that many fashion axperts frocks should be worn halfway the leg to be in vogue,

"It's About Time"

Male reaction to the idea was de- elded and spontaneous.

"Longer skirts?"

exclaimed

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merchant, "It's about time! Too many women with bad-looking legs are running around with skirts up to their knees."

on

Several men were willing to have women with parfect pins continue to wear knee-length frocks, but,

they said, "There aren't many women in that class. Most of you beiter in longer skirts.".

look

coming to most women...I suppose a lot depends on the climate, though. Maybe short dresses are cooler."

Absurd-but rather funt

Ahi That's the prel

ROAST BEEF IS FEATURED ON ENGLISH DINNER MENU

By. DIXIE TAYLOR

LTHOUGH much of the 'derate and cook three hours-longer

world seems

to think if you like your joint well done. the English are the an hour, place

When the rossi has cooked about preted potatous world's worst cooks," I am around it. Baste and turn them fre-. among the minority who would quantly to obtain an even brown challenge that statement.

and to insure that the outer skin Nobody can equal them in the does not get tough and leathery,

The preparation of joints, for instance ding. Birs Sanh suya. Is to make it secret of Food Yorkshire.pud- and did you ever have decent York-

pudding made by anyone.cx mixes hers 12 hours ahead, and it shire

in advance and let it set. She often cept the English?

must be given at least two hours to mellow.

shire

(No, I'm not English-and I can't make good Yorkshire pudding!).

Beast beef, accompanied by York❤: To serve four persons, use foun pudding, is typically English tablespoons of four à piner of salt, ur should I say "was" before the one egg, and enough liquid to make long-lasting emergency? At dny a "runny" batter. Beat the CHE rate roast beef is available in the gradually add the flour which has Colony, and Mrs L. A. San, who been sifted with the salt, and stir. comes from Watford, Herts, is the until smooth. Add a mixture of half source of information on its prepara milk and half water-not all milk,

#ion.

She suggests the following menu for a typically English dinner:

Green pea soup

Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding

and horseradish sauce Roast potatoes Boiled cabbage

ין

Gooseberries with custard

Since pea soup requires long coolt-

the pudding will be heavy. Allow to net. Four into a baking pan in which a small amount of fat has been heated, Cook in a hot oven 30 minutes. Serve piping hot with the beef gravy, an

0 0 0

Roast beef calls for

horseradish

A member of the Services wanteding, a best to prepare enough for sauce, in the thinking of Hertford- to know what length was advocated.two or more meals while you're at shire residents. Perhaps you can is lost at the commercial product, but the "Halfway the leg?" he pondered it. None of the favour

freshly, made la better-end seriously, "Yes, I think that strikes through reheating.

horse- Purchase Lwo pounds of kam radish is available in the native the happy medium, It's more be-

Put the horseradish bones, wash, and cover with two markets.

Brink to quarts of cold water.

through a mincer, stir into It enough boil and add two cups of dried spilt milk to make a smooth sauce, add green peas (available in most shops), a drop of vinegar, and it's ready to pepper to taste, and a teaspoon of cat. Opponents Air Views

Anely shredded onion. No salt is

Bolied cabbage is the vegetable Residents against the now style needed since that comes from the recommended and cook it Ja had equally strong opinions on the bones. Simmer three hours, or un- small amount of water, please!

#thick. Top each bowl of soup

Fruit and custard is the perfect cubitel

with croutons before taking to the end to this typical English dinner. Labic.

Mrs Sanh suggests. tinned g0030- berries since the fresh ones are not to be had.

skirts?"

merchant navy officer.

"Longer

a exploded

"My wife Then be

#

will never wear them. added thoughtfully, "Or will she?"

"Cooking a Joint in "go"simple" It's Serve the tart-berries-with-a "Nothing, looks worse than a skirt hardly worth mentioning." according "pouring" custard prepared in the halfway. the leg," a government to Mrs Sanh. She gets a four-pound usual English way. That is to say, worker maintained. "It's an awk-beef roast when she wants to serve us a pint of milk, two level table- ward length. Wear them either to four persons and have game lett spoons of your favourite custard

powder, the knee or to the ground. Per-over for cold

and.

two ounces of sugar. meat. sonally I like them short for day

Wash the meat and rub into 16

To the custard

add enough powder and long for night.”

salt, pen I against the idea," merted an- for depper, and dripping ("plenty of the milk to make a thin cream. dripping" unless the meat is very Ball the remainder of the milk and fnt--and it usually isn't). Put on u add the sugar. While the milkc rack. In a roasting in and cook in still boiling, pour it on the powder hot oven 10 to 20 minutes, turning mixture, stirring continuously, Mey frequently until the ment is brown on be served hot or cold, but cold in all sides. Lower the heat to tao- better in Hongkong's weather..

"I'm

other man. It's retrogressive!" "Slaves To Fashion"

A ship's captain, volcing emphatic opposition to any downward - course of skirts, wanted to know If corsets Told that were coming back, too.

up.

"I much prefer longer dresses Inced whalebones were insisted upon another agreed. "Of course a lot.

by designers, ho declared re depends

knees....(But) signedly, the

"Oh well, I give longer frocks are more graceful-- Solo Agenta:-ED, A, KELLER & CO. LAG. and they surely hide leg deficiencies." Women are slaves to fashion. They don't pay any attention to what we males think. Why, look at some of your hats!"

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Several husbands not only dislik-TEEN-AGERS are lucky. Attractive dresses, designed to

ed longer skirts but thought the idea "Jest un excuse" for wives to get new drisses,

I'll bet my wife hasn't one frock she can make longer," groaned one, "I can see it coming now-a whole new wardrobe."!

Only one man disclaimed all in- terest in the subject.

is

flatter their figures and suit the majority of their pockets, have been seen at many of the recent fashion shows; some- are already in the shops.

Left, one of the new Dorville hour-glass frocks has a simply salloned bodice and waist-whittling crinoline skirt. The frock (of thin navy material, polita dofied in white) is worn Over a siiffened canvas pelilcoat. The sweet and

"I don't care what you wear," not-so-klipple-seventeen effecti in this cynic asserted. "Who wants to emphasised by white sharkin look at a woman's legs anyway?" bows at the neck and sleeves and

layers of fucks on the skirt..

Centre,

utility cotton frock by Flor- rotives (p,bout HK$40.00) is patterned with a coloured

More Babies

The world is producing more babies than before the war, it Is disclosed in statistics gather- ed by UNO,

Palestine has the highest birthrate with births avenging

ᏎᎢ . more than

per thousand population in recent years, Chile is second with 33 babies for every thousand residents. In the British Isles the

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has risen from Just over 15 in pre-war years to more than 20 now. And Australia's birth- rate has broken all records.

The Unked S'ates averaged less than 18 births per thousand residents before World. War I. Now the annual rate is up to 28. Holland's average

bas jumped from 20 to 30 and Canada's from 10 to 2000

UNO statiales indicated that India was the only country experiencing a decline in births, and the figures from that vast section, were not complate,

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shilling-plece spot on white. The two-way style od the bodice is made for the light figure: the bodice des in.'s bow at the front, baring the midriff or, on colder days, the sash ends are crossed in front and the of the back like any other Trocks.

Right, the

length

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is

a

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Usually mothers Jack, enthusiasin for this clothes that their teen- ago daughters would like to wear; but it is noteworthy, that this new teen-age evening fallons mort with the approval; of the mathera us well as of the girls who wear them.

A great many girls make themselves look unnecessarily old in their first dungs-frocks by trying ty look uncorrṇarily sophisticated. The now fashions avoid this. They are full-skirted and on the short side; dhey, look youthful as well as attractive,

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