In Long the curved and caftened outlines of thin year's crop of farmionn comers are creeping info deale, accentuating, in every case, the extrèsely feminino line.
In all the okatebọn (by Virginia), there lo tho name well-defined right angle nighlighting the
anymetry of design.
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PAGODA LOOK
EVERY SATURDAY
Memo:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1948.
WOMANSENSE
Right Angle on Fashion
stressed for instance in
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Replaces 'New Look'
By Gerry Hill
London, Jan. 28. Norman Hartnell unveiled
his "Pagoda Lonic" today, in a bid to overwhelm the "New Look" and lure dollars from the American fashion market.
Hartnell's Look is ultra- feminine, without à trace of the masculine line of the postwar fashion world.
Soft flares and whirls circle around suits with short Pagola juckets and
skirts.
umbrella-ulented
Six months ago, the Royal de- signer condenmed kong sklets To-
day, he is a willing victim to hen- lines eight and nine inches off ground,
the
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"But," ery Hartnell's girls, are ired of the New Look-ur look! is the Pagedin."
Foreign buyers from both sides of the Atlantie rubber shoulders Hartnell's tont-mirrored palun, where the designer sketched and traced Princers Elizabeth's wedding wn. They fingered a collection of woollens, rayons, the nest British cretes, pisin tuttes and
They l British slipper satins,
hand embroidery "xquisite adorning the evening gowns. They voluminous top- commented on the
ever!
silk.
coats which Hartnell gelmiited "look We unfolded Arab tents."
Alle black suit entitled "Para- pluie featured A Pagoda-shaped jacket with nipped waistline, worn over an umbrella plented full skirt. A blouse enthroidered with sequins underneath.-United
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Lelangin dipping planted peplum on a may,
wool drogo, the frọng “rovorn“, swinging back
again at right angina.
2. The back of a nem Parin neckline on day and evening tracks, The lo
anybetrical necklino ta hipped at a right angio fra shoulder to waist. This noexlino silnor barno ono atidulder or cont. Imunn straight across the Front Lurtle-lae.
3. A chiny black tran toque plaread at the a1de with a high broad plete, and nesly tilted to Cl nide a back
right glo.
4. Digby Hortonte tward tuxedo topcɔnt freed with
black and walta plaid.
The tuttanei facingn sen
convertibin to a wrapovar coat, the diagonal line of buttonn forming a PIKN Angle.
Each of these sketches is drawn
the ongle at which you
to illustrate
thi tread
towards more Pamu
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Your heat The w
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Fashion is Spinach
AMERICA FIGHTS "NEW LOOK"
By Virginia Stafford
A few years later skirts were abawn the knees and I had to hold them
bus. I'm from
NEW YORK.---If, as Eliza- them up when I got on a street car. beth Hawes entitled her book of a few years ago, "Fashion is Spinach”---meaning style is nonsense, a woman should wear clothes which fit her type.. then the current long-skirt, paddled-hip trend is hard tr swallow for militant American housewives and their budgeting husbands
stylists
down when I boardert a fed up with this foolishness New York and Parks."
Lease for Broke Husbands." unde in Valdosta, Georgia Speaks for the spatises
with hard-shelled wallets. According to its president, Curley Bowers, this in a vankin of married men organized to protest
troduction
restriction
the pretty legs of Georgia
"This w fashion hits un 145-
The death of a War rule conserving material and Paris are held resumable for the "New has pretty hard," has added "we want to "recris 30,000,000 Americans. lank" of Jonger skirt and hip
to help hold that hemline," drapery. Wheu th was fled.
plunged into Underscoring this idea are the co- California creative desigh up to their thimbles of the University of Angers and emerged with a revolt who officially ignore the trend with tionary silhouette.
Male students was immediate. Many the niversity Reaction
of Kentucky
have women have acepted the trenst eagerly, relale survey show the found forces and adapted a resolut
tom skins al velerans to refuse la new styles are selling rapidly. but tire majority of them have display longer dresses for their wives. proved. And this persistent discon- Single vets are requested to boycott
women wearing the new hemline.
tent has grown into organised pro- test as skirts continue to go onkin- ward,
OPPOSITION
park. laid the parade and
LIFE RESTORERS
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The morning treatment of the skin doesn't start with soap, or, water, or a cream, or a lotion. It starts with a mental attitude. Lillian Cooper, New York cas- metic manufacturer, says.
go-
The skin reflects what's it. It ing on underneath flects also what's going on in your mind.
If you are unhappy, discon- tented, discouraged, your skin will not have that lovely radiance and aliveness so neces- sary to a really beautiful skin.
When you open your eyes in the morning you know that the day, is going to bring with it little tiresome tasks, unexpected upsets, and maybe some real problems. It's going to "WHISTLES NOT BUSTLES"
bring these
to same things very Coods of Bergen Junior College,
everyone else. Teaneck, New Jersey held their
And you, like everyone else, can dio_ne volers with "The Society to Stop.
You of two things about it. Forerunner of the Opposition Sutting Hemlines" and have picket- 17TH undevided weather art few considerably brightened with a direle can go into a what's-the-use slump, Parties- more evidence of the ed the New York Dress Institute Wow, when, what chu a women of white flowers worn under the or you can look upon the day Americum habit of forming a club at with signs reading "The longer the do? Try brightening what you have brim, as in Sketch 3. Artificial bringing bne more chance to take a the slightest evenge -is the "Little skirt, the shorter our chaner". "We with white. The shops have plenty lowers are expensive these days, so step forward in the big scheme of Below the. Knee Chub" of Dallas, want whistles, not bustles!"
of white doeskin (which is wash ck them out with dark green things. Texas, founded by Mrs Warren. J.
or stif petersham ribbon, leaves, and choose smooth Woodward, attractive brunette wife "We, the People," radia mirror of alle) and white
flowers MAKE UP YOUR MIND of. combat war veteran. With her public opinion turned fashion judge. From these materials you can make flowers velvet or soft dilk
sketched by Vir. are able to become willed and have handled 1.300 determined Texas The presidents of the Little Below the "fresheners"
So make up
!pr elusty very quickly.
your mind to worden who don't feel like throw the Knee Club and the Leuse of vania.
charming-then hop out of bed and Broke
The detachable belt and cuff set ing away their entire wardrobe."
Doeskin
to used again (4) is
do the same thing to your face. frock. black this LBK Club. tress inthered before a microphone (1) refreshes an old want frack. It lighten a navy or
water An active group,
But, first, dash a little cold to discuss langer skirts. Result: ais easy to make and easy to lasin Choker necklaces and They held a spirited rally in a city tripartite agreement for the shorter der
dog-collars
2 groundwork for
are a popular accessory, and here is over your face, neek and arms, and later in the sea- hemline.
A couple of yards of 2-3in. banquet
wide a fringed white choker, easily made nat into them as generous amount of the texture cream. You will love Metropolitan papers, ton have white pelershain should be sufficient by stretching a strip of doeskin overex A guest speaker at their first
sofiness
gives to your skin. meeting, owner of loval dress shop, catered to survey on the
question for the ret, plus some buttons. Work a length of cord, of any thickness.
morning is your time to bathe muintained. think you Indies are and report discussion of sufragette buttonholes at din. intervals round
FRINGE
put texture creani on your face and The designers and the dress positionis, The New York Dally the whol cuffs and belt of the frock
Either machine the skin very close let it remain while you are in the white culis Industry are trying to get away with Newa condicted this experiment:
first. Then make the
under the shower. Your face clad in a high-style reler i reporter,
to to the cord, afterwards carefully tub belt.
Sewing the buttons murder.
water scrub-
half the world begging for material
or roll thehing in the morning if you went to the Buttonholes, allowing the the line of xilching, along
Avenue on 3 Sunday etersham to show
aber with it clean the night before. about 14in. leather round the cord, leaving to cover its naked bark. I can't see
for your
herbal Now, if's time Attention w justification that there's
was negligible, ether side of the bell and above the single thickness to be fringed and Dar
comments from ambling
stitching the choker by hand at the tonle. That very necessary aid these drastic fashions"
wire fow. For the
the return
back as neatly as possible. Said club member Mrs A. 11. Tage had the skirt shortened to
sin beauty. Use it generously, Lil-
· knee
Fasten with a book and eye, or linn Cooper avises, Jor, "During the first World War I
length and attracted enough atten-
Then foundation cream-lo protect wore hobble skirts and had to hotat ton for the paper In conclude fe felt bowler with a latband and two else with a strip of doeskin, tied
your skin from sun, wind and dust. long streamers of white Short Skirts Make The News.
petershamn a bow at the back.
basis for your of and to serve as arc also The gloves But she has added an in- Complaints against drooping hemis ribbon.
touch with wallets and dures, dividual.
her initials doeskin-again from any paper pat-make-up).
Finally, powder and rouge. Bp- what have you. And The band and budgeting work-worked at either end of the ribbon tern--but elastic run through wrist
and top enables the gauntlet to be stick..atd
You're ready ing girl wails, This means a new in the same colour as her hat.
1 the: wrist in abring on your day. pushed down
for it! doubled frill.
son.
right.
The new styles
and
strailed!
rven your couls obsolete, a with hemmed frock, acompanied by them at 3in. intervals to correspond fringing the double thickness close to won't need soap and
alert photographer.
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STREAMERS The girl at (2) has brightened her
wardrobe." The shorter
When the weather permits. ments, "I can't wear that long skirt large, plain black straw hat can be
---it'd Icok like was standing in a barrel." But stylats say there is no one length for all women. The in- diviual's height and build should determine whether she' sels bemling at midcalf or Jower,
.
her
SELLING FAST Experts take a drm stand for the "New Look." Mrs Virginia Collier, business economist in the Women's Apparel Division of the Department of Commerce and In a press inter- view, "Changes in women's clothes always go in cycles. The present
ems revolutionary because it
blic seems
war so long overdue,"
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Why must Drygoods Association, which repre- mn hour before I and held in
my This was their verdlet: sents 7,000 department and speelaity hands the five packages you see stores, the new fashions are selling the pleture on the right.
In we wait for this? Surely we could have in uncationed foods now? It so fast already. Enthusiasm abounds in the course meal for four people.
bands are "detained at the office."
I found this "Frood" as the new bigger cities, and the higher priced was our meat Tomato soup: chte frozen food is called-on show the dress is the better it selis.
fast that re-orders are coming in They reprezent n cooked three- is a blessing for wives whose hus-
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......a potato-peeling machine that years later the knee showed without a course or part of it. From pac- to stay fresh and keep its Bavour does 21 lb. in one and half minutes
afternoon frocks knge to Inble is completed in three for up to five years, It must be anelony. By 1934
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