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EVERY SATURDAY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1948.

WOMANSENSE

U.S. FASHION BATTLE ENDS IN VICTORY FOR SHORTER SKIRT NEW LOOK IS OLD ALREADY

In New York hemlines now 13 inches from

the ground-

From

From EVELYN WEBBER

NEW YORK.

The "Bntile of thu Two Lonka" has ended in Amerien with victory for the shorter skirt.

skirts Bin. from the floor, newest "Unlike London, our fashion busi- hemtines here have jumped back lo nes here is genred to work an officially, sinbilised 13in.-not for months in advanca,

many from the Old Look.

"Thus, In 1947 at the moment the

Heavy buying by department New Look appeared in the

shops stores when the New Look was first and women rushed to buy it, smart, shown is now showing unhappy re-

of

sults in the Increasing number New Look dresses being placed on Bule. Even at greatly reduced prices (and no coupons) nobody is buying them.

"It always happens," said the buyer at one Fifth-avenue shop today. "As soon as the 271065 manufacturers begin copying new style, everybody rushes to buy it.

NO LONGER. FASHION

"Soon it isn't high fashion any more: Just something people get tirett of seeing

In the use of the New Look the en enme quicker than we expected. London I suppose it was because it was so that some designers have introduced revoltimery.

Topite the news from

FASHION TREKKERS TROOP OFF TO PARIS

Scaffolding

FOR THE NEW LOOK

By ANNE EDWARDS:

THE PARIS SPRING SHOWS opened recently,

The international glamour squad of hugsa and professional clothes-observers" has from London.

uver br

However much Parts tries to be different one thing, it seems, will be cominion to both capital: you might rail it "the scaffolding for the New Lok."

Both in Paris and London they will som

be selling "etrefera sets" which munsterquel25 wearing at the shows.

itre

Robb has drawn them for

300 On top of No. 1 gest

No. 2. Hips: Thickening murie' of enttonwooł

Is worn over each hip. Each pleve

1 Bal

separately and sewn to a band which ties round the waist.

No. 3. Waist:

Narrow

Made of plastic fabric, it's lister and Worn over erset 4gins, deep

an ordinary girdle

No. 4. Flared peltienat In

tatleta-plicial

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atten. Ha falls pleated or gathered in the hezzz. Some have a frill sen uside at the wound

to emphasize the hip-line,

Ideas for a

HERE she " padded, honed, und hilled The New Lonk Girl

Wedding Buffet

By GEORGIE RODGERS

wiches will keep fresh jwovided paper, then

Principal. Good Housekeeping you wrap them in greaseproof

Schoot of Cookery,

THE entertaining of friends after the ceremony can be big headache.

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and keep them place.

for

a damp teacloth in a

evol Fillings

sandwiches. bridge rolls and savoury toasts. Here are some ideas for anYou can buy a attractive buffet that will serve sandwich spreads, ment

number of equally well for a birthday

and other party. All the items

Or can be prepared well in advance. but if you have any help in the kitchen some of the savouries. could be

hot. served

Sand-

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or fish pastes ready

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make up any of the following:

Shredded lettuce, grated

nd mayonnaise;

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Grated cheese and chutney; Died beefrost and celery and mayonnaise;

Mushrooms finely chopped

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and

Prawns and shrimps mixed with n little white sauce:

Sliced salami or liver sausage: Cream cheese and chopped walnots or expers;

Serambird and anchovy e

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If there are to be any children at the party they usually prefer, sweet #llings such as jam, jelly, chocolate spreads or chopped dates,

ANCHOVY TWIRLS Scrape of pastry, I tin anchovy Allets.

CHRISTIAN DIOR

He started all designers were showing: 1848 clothes, that were entirely Old Look,

"Now at the end of a couple of months of wearing her New Look clothes, the ordinary woman-in- thestreet is Buding herself loaded with a wardrobe which ludly pectotras almost the exact dut it was bought."

Already the fashion magazines are pointing to the prediction made by Christian Dior, New Look originator. that it "will undergo a vast change when the spring comes.”

DOLL out the pastry thinly into a Ro

strip about 2 inches wide, and! cut into finger about 4 inch wide, Drain the anchovies well, then lay a fillet along each strip of pastry and twist the two together, nipping

well together at the ends. Place on a greased baking sheet and brusl ever with beaten egg or milk, Bake for 10 minutes in a lot oven. Reg.

0 or 400 deg. F. Remove carefully, as the twirls are very fragile when hot, and serve garnished with creas. GAME FLAN

0

402, pastry, 4 pint aspic jelly. remains of chicken or white meat of rabbit, 2 cooked mushroome, INE o flan ring or sandwich tin

with pastry and bake in moderate oven for 20 minutes. Fill with the minced remains of poultry and garnish with alices of cooked mushroom. Glaze with naple jelly and stand in cool farder

any

until roquired. Serve the flan cut through into portions.

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FULL-PAGE FEATURE

London drops Lower London drops hemlines

. fashions

for Spring unveiled

drawn by ROBB

111

ONDON has started the line. Alost of the dresses were boree with

Annual spring fashion jam- inches from the ground-worn with

a week of dress fine black or smoke stockings. shows. Robb and 1 bring you

Main outline of all the clothes is today first reports of the Look that London is putting over for shoulders, small waists, large

it modified New Look-unpaddled - the spring.

Biggest news from the London shown is the longer-than-ever hem-

She is fully feminine

IF ...

SHE risks her life "jump-

10%

a bus, but worries far

more about the effert on her last pair of avions

SHE comes up from the country to buy a hot to go with her new sports sult, and fall for a piece of nonsense.

SHE never knows now to dress for und weather--either firesses for a ne day and boks bedraggled, or for the Jorth Pole and looks like a

taxi-driver.

SHE congratulates ner- self on saving two shillings 'on a pair of gloves in the calen, though she's ruined her clothes in the scramble.

The best retain the original elegance,

tips.

Paris

UGHSPOTS; Pleated, skirts using 12 yards of material....with sleeves with a smaller sleeve insite....hage drop-pearl earrings....side panels hanging from waist hem, jet buttons on wool suits matched with jet slive buckles....nuslin petti- evats threaded with black velvet.... head chokers Ued with big -moire bown,

1 SHORT nipped-waist

Jacket

...full skirt padded round the hips.sti taffeta petticoat....col- tar and cults of frilled musiin.

2 ANKLE-LENGTH coat... tight waist. and very full skirt.... layered pockets bulge out the hip- Jinn....gabardine hoots.

3 LONG 1910 Jacket....diagonal fastenings and sloped shoulders ...light straight skirt nearly ankles....pearl-button suede boots.

to

ANNE EDWARDS

UN AGENCY SYMBOLISES RISING STATUS OF WOMEN

By HOMER METZ

Correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor

Lake Success. It has, for example, been pointed One of the lesser-publicised out that the Economic and Social agencies of the United Nations solutions passed by the Commission Council approved nearly all the re- has been working-here-quietly-on-the-Status of Wonen in 1947. It efficiently.

Some persons, recently declared Airs Bodil Bestrup of Denmark, last It is the Commission on the year's Chainman, have been im- Status of Women, a subsidiary patient, thinking the Commission has of the Economic and Social terstands these feelings," she add- not done enough. The Commission Council, and it has the high ed. "we, too, are impatient." aim of showing the work that Nevertheless, said Mrs Bestrup, the growing influence of women millions of women have been grant- in matern life is an influence ed new political and economic rights because of the stimulus provided by for peace and individual and in the Commission. ternational virtue.

One of the Commission's im- The current session of the mediate objectives is to become Status of Women Commission the different organs of the

policy-making agency in assisting all UN.

is its second, and its crowded whenever a question concerning the agenda includes such items as status of women is raised the legal status and treatment their competence.

within

of women, political rights of 15 NATIONS REPRESENTED women, educational opportuni-

Fifteen nations are represented on ties, economic rights, human the Commission Australia, Byelo- rights and the prevention of Russia. Chinu, Costa Rica, Denmark, discrimination on grounds of India, Mexico, Syria, Turkey, Russia. sex, problems relating to con- Guatemala, and Venezuela.

Britain. United States, France,

flicts of law in fields of nationa- lity, domicile, marriage, and divorce.

LAUGHS AND DISDAIN

Was

At its Brst session in 1946, the Commission on the Status of Women adopted the following sel of prin-

of

It also has included Increased ciples: participation of qualified women in 1. Freedom and equality Bre overnment both at the national essential to human development and level and in international organisa- whereas woman is as much a human tions and conferences, influence of being as man and, therefore, entitled world public opinion on equality be- to rare with him.

2. Well-being and progress tween men and women; anch" p-

depend pointment of regional commitices for Society

on the extent to the investigation of social and legal which both men and women uro disabilities of women.

able to develop their full personality and are cognizant of their respon- sibilities to themselves and to cach other. When the Commission on the "3. Woman has thus a definite Status of Women

set up in role to play in the building of a tree, February, 1946, it was greeted In healthy, prosperous, and moral many quarters either with laughter society and that she can full this or cold disdain.

obligation only as a free and respon- There is still an hiclination among

sible member. many delegates and observers to "4. Wonten shall take as netive |regard it with something less than part in the fight for the full elimina- seriousness, but the carnest efforts tion of, the fascist ideology and for of its members have silenced the international laughter and curbed the disdain.

co-operation directed to the establishment of a democratic Whatever the Commission may peace among the peoples of the world lack in support, it at least has earn and for the prevention of a new ag- ed the respect of other branches of gression. the UN and of the world organisa. 5. In order to achieve Uils goal, tion as a whole.

Because of the nature of its alms raise the status of women, irrespec- the purpose of the Commission is to. and

differing widely

customs live of their nationality, race, lart- throughout the world, the Commis guage, or religion, to equality with slou may not be able to achieve men in all fields of human enter- much in the way of concrete results prise, and to eliminate all discrimi- for some time to come, but that it nation against women in provisions is helping to focus attention on the of statutory law and under maxims increased Importance of women in er rules, or interpretations of cus- the political and economic worlds tomary law," cannot be gainsald.

In spite of

It in,

сп

discouragement and moreover, clearing away lark of support, the Commission much of the tangled underbrush that the Status of Women has not falter- has linndleopped women everywhere ed in its adherence to these prin- in their efforts to better, themselves. clples.

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