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EVERY SATURDAY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1948.

WOMANSENSE FULL-PAGE FEATURE

FASHION PARADE

7HICH of the new fashions of that rises in front well nove the 1047 In Bikely to be most sue- ankle and just clears the floor at cessful in 19487 Reviewing the back. The wathed brasslere this season's styles. I give my vote bodice is of silver lame, piped with to the dress with closely-fitted green petersham. bodice. tight waist, and extremely full skirt that endis just above the ankle: it can be worn from 0 p.m. to the smallest passible hour.

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dance

At first sight, this type of firess might seem another variation of the tren-age ballerina

frock, but The #reater lengh and

make feminine detail more sultalde for

nge that ea

show a lively ankle.

it

Left, for example. ix Frederick

SPRING HATS Why, look it's...

"BEWILDERING":

"By SARA YOKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

New York.

successful Centre, is the most frock from a recent show of wool evening dresses.

Proof By Joy Ricardo,

that women's, spring hata bewildering to males the the material is deceptively unsophia- ; will Heated--a duster check In grey, warld over showed up at the flest mauve and, white. But it is stream International batshow ever held. It ined into this century with elaborately fitted bodice littering with -metal beads and a frilled potticoat of shocking pink taffeta.

an was

Night, is a useful as well as pretly evening two-plece by Nettle Vogues.

staged here by the Merrimac at Corporation which selis felt to milliners of the United Staten, Bri- |tain orel France.

Whether

the label reads Paris, London or New York, the trends are the same and probably the price

Starke's back inoss crepe dress. The scarlet satin stripes on henvy tags. There are delicate face fram- with the lovely dipping hemline

PATRICIA

? LENNARD

white moss crepe are used all waya ing hals to wear with the new short to give a brussiere top to the shoul-hair-dos, romantic creations drip- der-strapped trock azet

deep ping with posies and bold sweeping flounce on the skirt. The separate : Infero entis well above the waist, models with a spring-time lilt.

and can be worn open, na In sketch, or elorell,

SKETCHED BY SIGRID

Renovation of a Housewife

ENOVATION is a familiar

From the Parla workrooms of the Maud et Nuno domes a dramatic hut

Regular use of a hand cream every help [41 herp bands

Rword to the house wire it will

Most days she uses it, in conneg- tion with something or another. until it becomes an old friend or an old enemy, whichever wa

care to look at it.

y

Sinnoth,

1. muuks are ritile, unplat amel kovanog with

tire. Complexion

them white

of pale blue felt with a wide, wide brins, slit of the centre to nerammo- date crisp bows of navy inflets. Equally bold Is Reboux' big inven- der felt with an off-lace brim that juts straight Toward the sky. Redd and purple silk ribbon mark a blaz- It on the left side of the bran,

FORWARD MOTION

French milliners like small hats too, with a look of forward motion. Perre Balmain has a pink sailor hat which juts forward slightly, fore and aft, and is veiled in navy blue, Balenciaga odds a big pouf of test-

coloured felt on the left side of 1.

two-tiered green London faneles

Dorothy Carlton

the three way hat so popular 11 this country last spring. She tops

tailored

pink felt hat with a wide. floppy brim of binck luce, touched

arisited wetli pastel nosegay. The

pink felt bare can be worn with sults, while the lace brim makes a romantic cocktall hat.

moss

Aage Thorup, the Queen's mil- Ber and designer of Princess Eliza- beth's troussent hats green felt for a small profile bat. with a brom entirely of roses.

"DARING"

Uses

But the most during hats of all are By American designers,

Lilly

Pastel

is

Dache, who could teach them tricks of the trade in my country, has two whopping hats guaranteed to stop traffic. One of lavender felt

like

oval a gigantic

ment platter and is worn at a swooping ongle.

palo and nowerg

pale green ribbon are massed on the crown. A straw-coloured ' felt Bache resembles a slanting turban much as it does anything else. The fell is draped and twisted like abte pretzel on the right side and in trimmed with cream coloured i roses.

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NOT FOR THE TIMID

1.

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of

John Frederies, who never designs for the timid, shoots the works on a broad-brimmed sailor of flesh- coloured felt, trimmed with a black veil stale, which falls almest to the kueen. Strangers also will stop and

his big brimmed hat light blur felt, edged with bands of. Hack chantilly brilliant red hat-band is covered war it is greasy, enurme, rough, and with matching lace and a cluster of lis Idackheads, she says,

estrich plumes drops Boulder.

And yet with all her experience of QR young horewate

it, she has to be jalled to applying

it to herself, take the young troute- wife, maried only a gear, who wrote to, un renndig,

Reds that

he skin is not at all what af

We have told her to prve at this treatment every other nught for

A trild told her that er nether week, and then about beer a loukel as young as the-did-spring-bali_it_has_umpfoved............

An honest person, she recensed the truth: that, artindly, she looked al-

most as old as her mother.

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week

Clean the fre thoroughly with cream! balls with hot water. Massage it well - always niving the the nose urad gning "I've been so busy learning how, fingers towards

Prish

water.

to be a housewife that Pre tol ny-" very gently near the eyes.

by bathing with end self go terribly. Please help me to renovate mezelf."

Because she lus recognised that this she's in need of "renovation." reader in half-way towards rolving her probleins. Listed, they are the more or less specialised one t eine the way of all housewives. Hands

FRUIT betting and vegetable pre

parlo; leaves them stained.

When punice-stone won't remove this stain, a solution of water sedia hlesching preparation thenk

tired.

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The hands should be well afterwards, are a crent rulded after drying.

Figure

l that t

47HERE'S a bulge where my skirt plackets shoni faster, and y I haven't urang knows no bounds.

helt ween slacktings or suspender dort the sumneg

de matters worse."

Exercises are the answer here,

For the Mamacht'14 on the floor. maire the fog, until they are at an paste of 45 derveen, hobď for 20

ment art then tower slowly.

Do His three

fair tires for en with, working up to 12 does

For the hips: Bodeling on to trimes Tot Ang uam leg baeltworts and Awards, getting it as high as po

ible both ways.

Do this 12 tim ofer butt

Reprat will the

The hat's

to the left

Beachcomber's Wickerwork Hat!

FOR

London,

nove

weeks many Reachcomber has writing four-line about "a little round wirker- work hat."

verses

Since then they have been turning up in all shapes and been sizes, from five feet across to

one incl across, from sombrerosi and sailor hats to coolic hats hats. and Japanese soldiers' Best of the actual ones sent in so far is the school-boy anilor.

It's round, it's wickerwork, "little"-too and it's certainly small, anyway,

A

to

The "little round wickerwork hat" is rapidly becoming

irresistible eatch-phrase, amateur poets. Every post now brings new readers, verses. And not only verses-but hats, tool

wear.

for a girl to, So it has been photo- graphed-and Robb has drawn the girl you see here wearing | it.

Longer hemlines responsible

for shorter Paris hairstyles

London-Longer

· seein

dresses to have been responsible for shorter hairstyles in Paris.

Since langer dresses eame in, women have been having their hair cuf, tapered, slicked, and laequered, until their heads' appear about the size of a sparrow.

PARIS TRIMMINGS:

of

Paris is natural source piquant accessory ideas. Virginio bas sketched a crop of bocuties. Below: Carven shows a yellow leather mushroom beret, sectioned like a football, and a circle of lour leather bags strapped together and worn on the arm, each the size and shape of a man's hairbrush case.

Above: Maggy Roult makes this blause of white sk routeaux faggoted 10- gether. Bermes Staches the

231 elisess-lengthy loves, Tudor-wise, to reveal another colour. Models at Crend wear

couple of

bracelets over long surdo gloves fleft.

What remains of the hair alter severe shearing is made into fringes, nigrettes, Sgure of eight curls, like pretzels, and, in fact, like anything. but natural hair curls.

Aluminium grey, crow black, unit corn blondle are the latest colour*, fashions in coiffures, though there is t tendency towards natural shades.

PATRICIA LENNARD'S- FASHION NOTEBOOK

Above: Practical, Fancies, Hermes makes this "charm" belt of call: from which dangle stream- lined silver chessment. These can be detached and

used for a game on the train. The gilded and colourful blazer crest, by Maggy Rouff, is on the bodice or upper arm of topcoats.

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FOOD COUNTRY RECIPES are HAZELNUT

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best for cooking the wild fruits baking Un with melled margarine. like blackberries, crab apples, does Bell some sugar and water (4 pint. ri nuts. Remember to look up to a 1b.). When done (a small piece in cold water should. be your favourite recipe book for Crau dropped Apple. Jelly, and Danson Cheese. brittle) pour on to the in and scatter. Try blackberry and elderberry jam prepared nula on top.

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and heat gently until the gelatina

your bottle

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