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EVERY SATURDAY

RUSSIANS

DON'T NEED

GIRDLES

By Barbara Bundschu

New York. THE women of Leningrad THE

and clothes Worl wear hand-me-downs, few of them own huts or lipsticks, "but you ran't take the feeling fashion out of women's hearts.'

for

That's the report brought back by fur designer Esther Dorothy from the Drst post-war Hussion fur nuctions.

You should have seen them pour- fashion over my American magazines", Miss Dorothy sald of the young women assistants at the auction. They asked her opinion of Russian-manufactured fur coats, she sure they anid. First she made would not be offended, then she told them "your coats will keep you only worm. but our coats will not keep you wari, they'll make you beautiful"

Mins

Style Is Lacking

said Dorothy

scarce apparently very

Itussin's stocks of women's clothes were five to 10 years behind American styles. Most of the women she saw wore "Jersey dresses", she ur "old cotton tubes" sald.

"IL you suw A woman.

in a

tailored sult, it looked as if it had

been seni her from

country", she said,

zeme olher

Shoes, she said, were the Russian

woman's most evident need. Girdles i

on sale in their shops, she said, had button closings, "but most

Women

don't need pirates, haven't anything to hold in."

Lipstick Scarce

Tussion

tlicy

the meagre Miss Dorothy sald slocks of clothea In the shups had to be ordered specially, with delivery anywhere from a weeks after order.

month to

cix

Only the upper class and the artist class women wore hats, Miss Dorothy naid. Even they had so little lipstick that they use only n Bitle bit around the edge of the lips.

Mim

The only evening dress Dorothy saw was on an entertainer in her hotel, presumably required professional rentons,,

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1947.

WOMANSENSE

IN BATULZAHUSISTIRAMIZ ANTHER.

BEACH WEAR

N choosing, beach wear, it's best to concentrate on a basic subdued colour, preferably a pastel. and search for. cool informality in the fabric and Edesign of the clothes,

The outfit on the left can be worn on a hot day in town as well as on the bench, It is a two- picco dress in natural canvas-weave rayon, the cap- sleeved bodice buttoning with mother-of-pearl buttons to a collarless neckline in front, and slashed

Over this goes from neck to waist at the back. plented divided skirt..

weave

Д

scarlet-canvas- With this two-piece are worn

and a huge matching wedge sandals Hahoulder bag-it is a French bag, but can easily be made at home. Material is canvas-weave rayon lined oil silk, which ties in a drawstring under the flap.

The hat is a classic in fine straw with all-over stitching in scarlet and a side silk tassel to match.

Right is an unusual one-piece play-swim suit from America in natural linen, buttoning-through with outsize, pearl buttons. Note the lingerie bodice. The shoulder-line and cuff edge to the crownless coarse straw hat is slotted with a bright silk square.

Accent on youth

Belets from the bench ... the child on the right wears → callon dress with draw-strings at bodlee and waist, making it easy to fren,

Companion

wears fully- gathered pants, with aldes si lo form pockets, and any

'deck chair bolero, both in striped colian.

-Jottings-

SYDNEY In

the

shortage

of

The Importance of clothes to the faundry soup has been so neule

woman was illustrated by that housewives Nussion

were using wilet Dorothy in one shop, Miss prices

the weekly soap for

washing. It said. A small fox cape was on sale cost five times as much, but there for HK $1,200; a piece of priceless cos

be had for was no choice since neither bar soap The antique bronze could

nur soap powder was available. HK$100.

Sydney was peculiar to shortage. and did not prevail in other sections Miss

of Australia.....

AMERICA has had 1 soap

too. One American

has sent "made in America" brands to her people in

"There's lots of caviar", Dorothy said, "but very few green vegetables"United Press,

New Materials

Will Not Burn

will

ongkong

in

drinks

the land of plenty."....... 50 modern woman more her grandmother? Don't tre says an Americun be too sure.. scientist. Prof. E. Jellinek of Yale University has found that chronie alcoholism among American women has decreased markedly since

1010

Virginier

FULL-PAGE FEATURE

Try These Recipes For

An Aussie Meal

By DIXIE TAYLOR

you

F you had dinner in an Australian home, would have English-type cooking and a menu that em- phasised meat and vegetables,

That is the report from Aus. irallans residing In the Colony and from wives who spent the war years there.

.

Lamb 1 Australia's favourite meat, although beef runs It a close second and rabbit is eatin a great deal. Fish and shellfish are plenti ful, and the continent produces a great variety of vegetables and fruits. As a usual thing two vegel ables are served with dinner. Fresh fruit with ice cream is a popular sweet.

WIE

Allow two Join lamb chops for ench person. Coolt them on a wire rack placed on n. chatty in which the fire has burned to coals. Turn

frequently and sail and pepper to taste. If you don't have a grill, it's easy to fashion one out of bits of wire shaped to fit over the chutty. And it's important to have a low fire--not a

blazing one.

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or

Serve the chops with a tomato purce made by cooking tinned fsh tomatoes with a bit of butter, straining, and thickening with flour,

Australians prepare splnach in the usual way, cuting off the stems, washing it several times, und steam- lag it in practically no water.

The carrols are diced, boiled, and

with seasoned

salt, pepper and Chopped margarine, butter or Mrs J. W. Cable, Hongkong re- sident whose

in Mel- parsley is irred in and sprinkled home

top just before serving, over the bourne, contributed today's menu for a typical Australian dinner. The making a colourful dish and giving suggestions are of particular interest the carrots a different flavour. since the Colony gets so much of its food from Australia,

Here is the menu:

Multon broth

Grilled lamb chops with tomato

purca -Spinach ---

Carrots with parsley

Peach Melba

Mutton broth as the Australians make it is a clear, thick soup, Place

O

For the prach melba, use two halves of canned peaches for each person. Fill with lee cream and top with red jam, preferably strawberry or raspberry.

4

Here is the ice cream recipe.used

in the Cable household:

tablespoons powdered mic tablespoons white sugar

4

2

I

small tin evaporated milk

MIX

the powdered milk With

In ENGLAND, twice as many New York-Dresses which

two pounds of neck or shank of Hitle water and work it to a paste not burn are being displayed in New

couples want to adopt children as

(Australian mutton, of with all lumps dissolved. Add the York at the International Textile there are children to be adopted. A mutton

alenilus situation prevails in

in the course!) in a-stock pot and cover sugar and the evaporated milk Exposition.

United Slates

Canada.'. and

with about two quarts of cold water, Varlaus fire-resisting Karments In the United States, land of con-

Add onions and have been on the market for years, tests, poultry raisers are vying to Bring to a boil.

carrots which have been chopped but they have been made of heavy produce the Chicken of Tomorrow." materials which had not attracted it will have outsize legs and a breast fine, and salt and pepper to taste.

women.

The now materials, however, are thin. The manufacturers claim that

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rge enough to cut into chicken steaks if the contest promoters

WHY Is it that

achieve their aim: British men wear they would also be useful as bed shorts gracefully while Americans, even those long resident in Hongkong, covers as most of the hazards of comchew always look a bit lil at case smoking in bed would be removed. and awkward in than?

Simmer three hours.

Remove the bones, strain the soup, and let it set until the fat has come

which has been thinned with an equal amount of water. Flavour as desired. Beat thoroughly with a in a refrigerator tray. After the rotary egg, beater or a spoon. Put mixture has been freezing about one hour, remove from the frig and beat again. Repeat the beating process

freeze.

to the top and can be, skimmed off, after another hour, then allow to Relicat the coup and serve. Barley may be added with the vegetables if desired

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The recipe makes one refrigerator tray of ice cream and serves six to eight persons when combined with

fruit.

Australians like open fire cooking Cable is the use of pumpkin as a Another cookery idea from Mrs -perhaps because they lead an vegetable, Baked pumpkin is at- active life and often prepare out- most always served with roasts in door meals. The Australian lamb Australia, she wald. The pumpidn chops for your Australian dinner is cleaned, peeled, cut into slices,

and baked must be anlled over an open fire to Austral ans also serve pumpkin boll. along with the meat. get the proper flavour, Mrs Cable ed and mashed and sometimes com- sald.

bine it with creamed potatoes.

Americans Will Wear Long Skirts

D

By Dorothy Roo

New York. ESPITE parades, placards und oratory condemning

the return of long skirts, American women "will wear 'em and like 'em" this autumn, un Associated Press survey of stores, stylists and customers indicated.

or-

Happily oblivious of such ganised resistance as the "Little Below The Knee Club" in Dallas

and

to

teen-age demonstrations in other parts of the country, storo executives from New Orleans Minneapol's and from Seattle New York reported almost unam- mously that the new longer-skirted autumn fashions are selling like hot-cakes. This, at a time when some informal polls indicate that women dislike them;

Opposition Expected

Dane T. Hahn, manager of the ready-to-wear group of the National Retall Dry Goods Association, sald: "Acceptance of longer skirts s good throughout the country. To

action there every

ศ reaction, and! the present objectors to long skirts

are merely emphasising the

portance of the trend.

ца-

"In some quarters they may not te Immediately accepted, but in general the publie will go for longer dresses."

Collegians Buy Them

Tobe and Associates of New York, merchandising consultants to stores throughout the country, reported:

"Longer skirts already have been accepted. Even college girls are buying them. The mass acceptance, however, is not for extreme lengths, but for those approximately 14 to 15 inches from lie floor."

(Editor's Note: This is three to four inches longer than the "old" style now worn in the Colony.)

All Ages Like Trend Typical of retail store comment was that of Ralph Lech, buyer of women's dresses and misses' coats, suits and dresses for Saks Filth Avenue, New York, He said:

"We have found no customer resistance whatever to longer

Women dresses.

of all ages are crazy about them."

there

Boston Then

was the lady who wrote Associated Press Columnist Hal Boyle, commenting on his column on "Frantle Female Fashions." "Iust

ro WO

accepting fashion as an Act of God?"

asked. Associated Press.

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WANT TO KEEP COOL?

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Icast cooler in Hongkong's steaming weather.

PRICKLY HEAT: Sunbathing will help but take it easy at first, **CLOTHING! Wear loose clothing allowing only 10 minutes exposure in light colours. Silky fabrics, such to each side. - Use an antiseptic song as print rayon, are couler than linen. for your bath or shower. Dry"your- Change underwear and socks or self thoroughly, and be sure to 160 stockings dolly or twice A. day. plenty of talcum powder. When you Wear a minimum of JewelleryIt can avoid it, don't sit around in looks hot and feels hot.

aweat-soaked clothing.

FOOD: Eat less than normally. EXERCISE; Some exercise is all Cut down on bread and potatoes right, but don't overdo it. To play and eat more fruita and salade. Flah (ennis two hours in a blazing sun. la loss. heating than meal. Tako without a rest is asking for trouble plenty of water and cooling drinks, the more so if you follow up. but not too much ice.

immediately with iced drinks quantity The milder forms of SLEEP: Have a tepid bath' every exercise are better—and 'owimming, night before going to bed. Keep your of course. bedroom cool by closing - Windows and lowering blinds until sundown. - Above nil, KEEP CALM. Losing COSMETICS: Uso maller quan- your tempor makes you botter-and tilos of rouge, lipstick and powder, the physical heat teamed up by and chaigolt mores, frequently, mental heat lakes a long time to die Minimise the diacomfort of perspira down. Try to be relaxed and strive tion by liberal use of talcum pow for a detached viewpoint on your der, especially on the feet and bow worries.

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Won

Jomen's clothes on sale la Regent

strdel

which is colcbrating s coming of age, are very similar to these of 21 years ago.

It is the figure that has changed. In 1026, woman had the, boyish silhouette. Hair was cropped short, bobbed, shingled, even bingled, and pushed under the cloche hat, as enveloping and about as dattering as a coal, scuttle.

Apart from her figure, however, her clothes, as Virginia's sketches show, are very much like those seen at recent fashion shows."

There is, for example, a 1920 day frock which needs little, apart from to-day's figure, to bring it up to date,

It has sido plents, -pleated,

tunic skirt and detachable shoulder cape, current fashions right now,

Right Is the classic ault of 21 years back, depressingly lubular and paired off with the cloche hat Left is basically the sume sult, but is this year's style.

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MILLION TONS

OF SHIPPING

nationa} output of new merchant tonnage for the year will be nearer 1,000,000 tons gross than the 700,000 tons expected in some Government quarters,

by the end of the year the out- Tho. Clyde, will almost certainly put of Britain's shipyards will be maintain is one-third share of this greatly in excess of: Government production. It is launching on on The hip-hugging jacket straight Kkirt is almost identical with estimates....

average more " "than" ··45,000 'tons a that on its right, but a certain amount The supply position has proved month pass of, shoulder padding, longer skirt and less stringent than anticipated, the an oft-the-face adaptation of the shipyard stocks helping to midgate The output of the Tyne shipyards cloche makes the cutat unmistak- the effect of cul believe that the are Sunderland and Belfast.

followed the Clyde, but running close... ably 1047.

Shipbuilders now

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