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EVERY SATURDAY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1947.

WOMANSENSE

In spite of austere conditions it should be possible to unify and revivify, British fashions from top to bottom

but-

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Where are our new British fashions?

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LONDON.

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self- แ

"Do her

by PATRICIA . LENNARD

clothes are

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TRAIN YOUR BREATHING

APPARATUS

By Prunella Stack

the

As with all other automatic touching the floor. Put one hand on actions of the body, we are in the "tummy" and the other on

ribs. Breathe in through the nose,- elined to take breathing for allowing the tummy to relax and ribs. Breathe out through the pubilelsing their clothes as "the best granted, unless something goes getting a maximum expansion of the British fashiona." This, however, wrong with it. Rut the distress mouth, drawing the tummy in. This

will require

Arst. practice at

To is not always true. Since the war-enused if it is momentarily

Kain control of the Abdominal tline austerity ban was fified (and

drawing them in und muscles try relaxing them several times. Then breathing exercise. return to the

In its negative way, it did more for put out of action--as when we British fashion than anything posi-, swallow something the wrong worthy of the tive), some manufacturers have turn- Society's high subscription. How far is this true? drapes, embroidery, italion fur and During the past year or so many bits and pieces on their clothes which young or new designers have achiev- do our fashions no good. Attending

standards--and high ed out a spate of sequins, feathers, Way-shows how essential it is stand again before the mirror, plate

addressed memo in my turter, itching to prove that his or notebook which

says,. British fashion 7" It has been there for a year, and I am thinking it should now run, "Do for British fashion."

for health and happiness that it should function efficiently.

ed publielly, for one reason or an- their shows, 1 have heard more than To get the maximum force of out-topmost part of your lungs ather, at their Arg) clicctions. But one spectator remark: "Well, thank juglog

tiem by international goodness our worst fashions saw

Roding export

for standards--as they must be judged when international markets' are in- I sincerely hope these fashions volved apart from two or three who nut resent the future really show promise, I am disheart- British fashion,

ened,

results

deSURIPTS

Chris group

trend

your hands on the top of your chest, Just below the collar bone, breathe in, and concentrate on filing the under where your hands fre placed. bellows Breathe out gently and slowly. Du toward How from a pair of

you must open them to the maxi-this several tlines, and then breathe

The same a true ofin with # short sniffs through thei domum degree. of the hunts. A deep breath in must be nose and out with one long breath.

the forerunner of a deep breath out. This maximum Inspiration and ex- piration brings movement to the which, whole breathing apparatus,

accustomed only to constantly

It is about me the British fashion industry, particularly the end which calls del creative, stopped potting itself on the bark at organised howa and farbion ball, and gralled there is very little that is creative in Hr- Ush fashiona

When I last crieised British These budding Couturier fashion, for example, in-

mourdly mla tive group*,

Is with all this in mind that I stead of merely reporting them, as definitely creative, but the clothes sugest the Band of Trade give a couturier Digby Merton wecke me a

are not wearable. They have ideas, letter in which he sakt; "The differ- but til

The constructive lead to British fashion, ugly.

about ence between the Landou and the

effel here is not beatiful, and all friend of handy words

skirt Ist rter that printarlly it Paris couturier b

the puftul undiscipline of ideas can longer skirt. The longer is the bases of one to sell clothes been in every seam and cufare, merely one symptom in a bit fashion and the other to sell fandelon," This

elge, the first in a deeatte. was true and applicable in the past, But if air aim is world-wide export against world-wide comprtition "aud

alt that result. I a

a silly wrangle about one facet of•.

of fashikon, kan langer

kirt, and publicised fachaton show, that do not always represent the best spatial fashion--then it no longer applits If we must expont, where are o new fashions, new designer one unity of purpose and design in the Fashion industry, and between the industry and the liard of Trade?

nika.

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frankly, are cheating. Their clothes are feautiful, doubly beautiful beruse they are wearable. But: not only are they Paris inspired; I would go c for in some cases as to say they are downright expres of the clashe's I saw at Paris collections two months previously:

Moving along the scale, we find many more distinct freshion groups among wholesale model houses, eich competing with th other, cach

An Appraisal Of Women

Pertinent comment for the Bus of Trule cues from the sume de- sigme: "If we as a nation are serk- ing to lead or to take our place in the world of fashion designers, we cannot tagnate nor fly in the face of what is obviously the irresistible dictate of fashion, nor must we allow ourselves as a nation to lag behind or be en- rely cut off from the rest of the fashion world,“

If Britabe in nut to remain a world on its own, therefore, it must stare in world Lashion. This applies to home as well as export fashions: good designers, scrupalous manufacturers) and women themselves will eventu-1 ally provide all the modification of

Fur fashion

home necessary market.

And if the Board of Trade und ver- taln mañufacturers declare that Imager skirts need more cloth. I short and shallow breaths, tends ges they think again, Christan Dior. become ineffelent. When the lungs Co-called

instigator of the longer skirt,

maximum

the

re-

One Exercise

to

with

breathe in

Society of London Fashion De- sigpeng ten couturiers who bander

themselves together in wartime to keep British factor alive. They al produce good quality clothes; ne produce exceedingly well-te: Janest clothes; some 1 feel, rely on their

An appeal by the editor of stated he could cut a longer-skirted at expanded the

intake of oxygen is secured, name to pull them through.

the US Army's Pacific Stars dress from the 3 yards per track benefit to the whole physique.

our manufacturers, Th Now for

4714 of These established

and Stripes for an appraisal of allowed to our

Molel House Group. there is at

Many people never "because a

i would call

the fully, using every part of the lungs, self-dubbed cu women by a man

write about better

f what wat Woman cannot

better end of our wholesale model for properly utilise the chest. But

Suy women" brought

hearty manufacturers, it

their members knowledge of how to do this can be response from N. Amowa, who keep abreast of fashion on the nequired and, once gained and prac- wrote: "A woman, like Gaul, is-yard allation, with skirts in, ilsed, it will bring a reward in in-

or even less, from the ground.

proved health. poise and grace. divided into three parts--the One-man tailors and dremmakers

Stand in front of a full-length mir body, the soul and a vacuum say the same: it may demand more vor, with the chest bure. Put your

hands un the

aldes, ribs at the above the eves."

breathe in through the nose and ex- pand the ribs sideways to the fullest through the (shape it as though you were

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Amowa said plenty of other un- kind things about women

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Amowa also

said that

which

alt

| skilled cufting, but it can be done.

HOWEVER, if the Beard of Tradejouth Breathe aut

to

caused eller Hausam H. Hathaway is in the mood for banning, whistling) and let the ribs close in

the Who gave promener to Faisal in a Sunday column, to call wish they would reinuse a modified wears the centre, like a concertina This, without using on itself, but do not allow the Schonen- form of terity. "combination of

I hope, de chest-core to collapse. Practise this hauer, fluxley and Havelock Ellis." lifting fengths, would,

away with the earl of bits ad

exercise-which aims at sideways pieces, beads and bows, that some manufacturers

Eshteable expansion of the rib-five times, "woman might even save material. Above, alt.

Next, slide your hands round should remain a mystery" a pledd like to see more co-operation the back so that they touch the ribs

and Was unity within the fashion trade just below the shoulder-blades, le of unheeded advice when it

itself, and between trade, Press and revealed

any- that N. Amown--an

peat the breathing in and out, trying e- to mobilise this part of the body listening to radio enmmercials Government departments concern- should know was "woman" spelted with fashion. In spite of austere

mere cafe. backwards. In this

was conditions, and because of the export

Now lie on your back on the floor, Waltraud goal which has been set, it should worker pretty rivilian

revivity with the knees bent up, and the poles Dietsele, of Barath Falls, Oregon be possible to unify and

the whole spine Miss Dietsthe said she wrote the British fashion froți top to bottom of the feet and column "to show up Hathaway's ne

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case it

reasoning."

11e Hathaway.

loan from Washington Times-llerald and win- Howard ner of the Newspaper Guild fr one of the best stories of 1948. stoully maintained he knew it was a woman all along.

Miss Amewa---sorry Miss Dietsche --who wrote "Woman's Heart thei Toughest Alusele in the Animal Are Kingdom" and "All Wonen

mea Hyperites," said she did not

In he nasty but just told the truth- United Press.

The new skirt is long and

Almost a hobble

chest-

By now you will begin to feel an increased use of the chest-cage, and the capacity to mobilise it more anrl more will develop with practice.

Finally, try the exercise pictured, Start from the relaxed drop to the skle. Breathe in slowly, raising the

overhead, arm

trl ឍ shown. stretching the ribs and waist. Then breathe out, dropping down into the relaxed position. Five mes each side.

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Ideal for colder weather In the but. In the main, London designers

a new double-breasted have avoided extremne innovations, trend to The sult howatte, generally, has fastening that continues parallel to. and within an inch or two of, the

a rounded shoulderline-still pad sldo seat below the waist. Centre

dod, but eupped. The Jacket Ats- fly down to a low waist, where it is nipped but not excessively, so;

then flares out over the hips,

Is Hardy Amies' wrop-over line on a red, white and grey tweed mult. Chales Creed's plainly-cut classic black Jacket (right) buttoned on far The Jacket is, perhaps, an inchan the waist to a wirite piquo gllet. or two longer than last year. The blouse, is worn with a slim straight skirt is also an inch or two longer.akdirt of grey striped black.

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Eyes of mermaid green-skin smooth as porcelain-that's Patricia.....

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