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EVERY SATURDAY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1948.

WOMANSENSE

PARTY FOR POOR CHILDREN

SPC treats 1,000

to Cinema

AST Tuesday and Wednes- day, over 1,000 of the Colony's children were smiling as they hugged new toys.

At its first party for under- privileged children, the Women's Auxiliary of the Society for the Protection of Children treated small children and their mothers ton Mickey Mouse Cinema. Afterwards, the child- ren were given sweets and toys, collected by the local school children. Mothers re- ceived a tin of milk, Wash cloths and babies' clothes,

On Tuesday morning, The Central Theatre presented the movie to all the children from the SPCA Western Welfare Centre, who streamed into the thentre for what was for many their first moving picture. »

TOYS AND SWEETS

Members of the Women's Auxiliary of the Society for the Protection of Children hand out bags of sweets and toys to the underprivileged children of Hongkong's Western District as they leave the Central Theatre with smiling frees after being treated to a Mickey Mouse movie. The party was given Inst Tuesday. On Wednesday, h second party was given for the children in Eastern District. (Photo: Golden Studio).

great success and hoped to give athers in the future.

Tickets for the show were

Em-

Children from the Tai Hung Centre crowded the Lee Theatre donated by the Local Printing *11 Wednesday morning for Press Lidl, The Chinn their party, which alw included porium, Wing On, The Sin- Mickey Mouse, toys und sweets. cert Co., the Sun Co. And After the performances the Shui Iling Co. donated part children rushed out of the of the 1.500 toys. The theatres showing their now remainder was collected by toys to their friends and smiling school children attending the with delight.

Kennedy Road, Quarry Bay. Members of the Women's Anglo-French Convent, Kowloon Auxiliary who were

Girls' present Junior and Diocesan

felt that the parties had been a Schools.

Boots now fashion in Paris

From Maric de Segur

PARIS. ATEST in footwear is the "bot-

Lonar low boot.

Attractive, enmfortable little boots are made of leather, suede or felt. Sometimes they are bound with reptile skin Ughtly strapped about the instep and reaching I wo OR three ches above the ankle,

are

For indoor occasions bunts mado of velvet, entbrokdered in lame and paillettes, ur of corduroy er satin, lined with fur.

Mantila style

black

The Spanish mantilla of lace has been revived by Christian

Dior for evening wear.

It gracefully frames the face und Ja tied in a loose bow at the skle of

a porsuke.

Wasps of diamonds are worn on the shoulder or very low neckline,

A large spider, with body of one Berge Baroque pearl and strong legs with fine seed pearls, looks charming on the lapel of a severely-cut black tailleur.

Pearls are also worn in "wire- netting" design, tightly clasping the throat.

On Lok Yuen Co. sent 100 ibs of biscuits to the party,

Members and friends of the SPC contributed clothes, toys, money and cakes.

FULL-PAGE FEATURE

SCHIAPARELLI PRESCRIBES A CRISIS TONIC

Paris fashion show almost purely surrealistic

WHAT could

From PATRICIA LENNARD

are

PARIS. Surrealist. Ints alone be more from a world we do not know heartening to a world in in London. a crisis than a face vell all

If you find a nice English tumbled over with roses.

lawn and trowel up for your- or a hat of thatched straw with golf a chunk of turf dotted with | a sweet william blooming on its winter flowers, placing it care- brim?" asks Schiaparelli, des- fully on a slab of straw, you cribing her new spring fashion will have a new spring hat a la collection here.

Schlap the "flower-bed hat."

The Schiaparelli show is not only stimulating to the point of at times it is purely

shock:

SCHIPARELLI 'S SURREALISM

18.INCH WAIST OF MLLE CLAVEL

PATRICIA LENNARD ON THE PARIS LOOK

VERY

PARIS.

E seems

Paris dress house to agree that the ultra-feminine silhouette can- not be over-emphasised. designer bluntly declared uses "all the possible elements of seduction."

One

Models have discarded ge- pieres in favour of longer corse lettes that not only emphasise the bust and lighten the waist, but hold a sang roll of padding around the front of each hip.

The HEMLINE is stabilised for daytime at un average of ten to eleven inches from the ground and every skirt is full with pleated or faring material, or drapery carried well forward in front.

bonnet in coarse natural straw, Hned tr bow of with black velvet with black velvet cord.

No var-rings are worn with huts.

P VEILS are important-either

and

he edged with petersham or sewn with multi-coloured threads. Some are heavily dotted with chenille worn to a depth of 10in all round over large

Bat straws

Some are babbled with lightweight pearls.

JEWELLERY is played down a good deal: by

single diny

string chokers and by night matching bracelets and necklaces of brilliants are worn. Piguet, however, puls tiny insect brooches on cuffs and lapels, and used an unusual neck- of cobnuls embedded face

with brilliants and slung on a gold chain. FASHION POINTS WORTH NOTING

absolutely plain. beautifully fitting court shoes re worn at the best houses. Boal- Smallest WAIST at the dress shaped necklines that profile the dimpled neck and shoulders are newer than shows belongs to pretty, Plerrette Clavel, blonde model, at strapless badices White guipure ordinary while string crochet is used n good deal on linen and special occasion dresses by day and night. Tiny black and white checks are most popular for Allk spring

shirt-waisted frocks. the head. Frettiest is a new spring tiers pleated or flounced-is draw- The tiered skirt from two to seven

ing ahead for afternoon_wear.

the Carven collection. It measures embroidery and 40 centimetres (181⁄2 inches).

HATS are pert and pretty, the straws as crisp as breakfast cereals. Nearly all tie under the chin or under a chignon bun at the back of

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daging,

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zkin all i

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Smallest waist in-

Paris shows

Her name in Pierrette "Miss Elegance") Clavel. Of all th models at the Parls dress shows, they say she has the mallest waht It measures 18 Inches.

GOOD MIXER

There is 24 green spotted i jockey cap in brown shantung. worn with one of the many. riding skirts that are out at the back and are all 7in, from! The ground.

Beach hat or hut?

There are face-framing sou’- | wester hats with a fluted brim 18in long at the back, peaked- brim berets with puffed crowns of muslin, and spoon-shaped straws and felts.

There is even a beach hat in dull red shaped like શ thatched native hut from the Congo.

Other Schiaparelli shocks in- clude pink nylon stockings, shoes made, of straps from toe to ankle, wired and strapless linen beach dresses (worn with pink nylons and straw slippers), buck-to-front jacket with but- tons and pocket at the back, crisp straw hats that look likej EL brenkinst cereal, linen evening jackets, and what I can only

аге affirm

falsc stomachs worn under flimsy summer printed silks.

Keeping up with the art and music fashion of the day, Schiaparelli has gone completely surrealistic. These hats with hanging red roses and horns made from green fea- thers are the latest of her creations. Paris fashion experts say that many of Schiaparelli's new spring hats have been inspired by the late Gertrude Stein's famous

"A Rose is a Rose is a Rose,”

BEAUTIFY NEGLECTED

ARMS, KNEES, SHOULDERS

ELBOWS, knees and shoul-

Wipe off all the cream and gently ders really need beauty eare sponge on skin freshener. and are too frequently neglected.

are

During summer your knees

on display when you wear swimsuits and shorts.

To smooth out imperfections make a lather of soap on your

Powder

Show the office staff that you're knees every time you have versatile by making ingenious use of bath or shower. the wear-with-everything weskit. It teams with skirts, matches with slacks off-duty nights, goes over, contrasting dresses. A hand- some one to prize is this belge wool worn by

by Judith Anderson, w it o plays an impor- tant role in RKO Radio's "Tycoon,"

co-starring John Wayne and Laraine Day and

some pumice stones und rub it on with the soup. With bath brush or nail-brush, scrub around and round. Finally, rinte the scap off and massage with hand-lation,

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