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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1948..
WOMANSENSE
PARIS, DESIGNER declared DEATH SENTENCE on DIOR'S 'New "'LOOK' in a recent Paris Midnight Fashion Show
And Now Enters
Na setting like the back- drop of a Coward musical. -In the 1920's. -1,000 men and women in evening dress sat
THE TUBE LOOK
By Anne Edwards all stood in a second-door window and played Schubert's "Ave Maria"
while mannequin› ̈ dressed
ав и
No
that they were witnessing the dealb of a phrase. THE NEW LOOK L Onlched the TUBE LOOK is in. basque jackets. Instead, we were more ballerina ekiris, and
skirts, sloping shoulders, small wasts and mid-call hemlines."
nt terraced tables in à Paris gar bride walked up the ramp with fold. shown plain' frocks with narrow
den recently and saw the NEW LOOK KILLED stone dend,
Jacques Fath, always the most
startling of Paris designers, put
on a sensational midnight show of 130 dresses, nearly all of them dead straight, skin tight, and fitting the figure from neck to hem.
Celebrated for the excellent stage management of his dress shows, M. Fath gave this display in the garden, of his Champs-Elysees salon.
The audience--elegant Parision clients, fashion buyers, and reporters from all over the world-sat and drank his champagne, admired his floodlit trees hung with scarlet ger- aniuma still in their pots, and watch- ed his mannequins walk down a ramp that ran the length of the gar- den.
The show opened with the ap- pearance of a four-piece orchestra, cello, violin. harp, and singer, who
At Home
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE WHITE · GLAZED chiniz is used
WHE
for crisp housecoat that has a peppermint-cool look about it. Etched circles in green give a touch
ed hands
·
The bridal dress itself, as phisticated as its background, was in white corded' silk with a turquoiso jewelled cap and turquoise gloves.
With Dress No. 2 the show, started In carnest,
After so much introductory fanfaro
It was surprisingly simple and quiet a plain, straight skirt, 13 inches from tho
ground, with high waisille, and buttoning on to a grey and black striped bodice.
П
As dress followed dress, each one simpler and plainer than the lost, the experienced audience realized
Outstanding day fashion from the night show was a close-fitting groy jersoy fruck patterned with "clumps of embroidery (a rose of diamonds with three drop pearls) every four Inches.
Favourite new colours are mola. grez, parma violet, soft yellow, champagne, ginger brown, scarab green and carnation pink.
Hals are pudding-bowl shaped, worn on the back, with crowns that are pointed and high. They look like Giles children's bonnets, and give the wearer the same unfortunate pixie look.
WOMEN at the Olympics
WHY DO MEN RUN FASTER?
By SIR ADOLPHE ABRAHAMS Medical Adviser to the Brillah Olympju team
MME. BLANKERS-KOEN, of Holland, won the Olympic 100
metres in 11.9 sec.; an English girl, Miss Manley, was second in a little outside 12sec.
a formances which would on occasion
have won AAA championships.
Women's records complied some 45 years ago make a startling con- trast-100 yards; 13.2sec.; high jump,
These figures compare with min's 10.3 seconds; but to adopt ́u different comparison--the exceptional woman against the average man-it is fair to say that 11 seconds for hundred yards is pretty fast run-
ning.
Very Plain Hairdo is the Latest Style This Season
Contiary Tins
A real-hair braid, carefully matched to your own hair, can transform
khort hairdo fata a glamorous evening coliture,
FEW women
are so
By HELEN FOLLETT
pulchritude that they can wear a perfectly plain, sleeked back hair- do. It is smart as all got out if one can get away with it. All right for those beauteous charmers who pose for fashion pictures, but a bit trying on the average girl.
One needs a
-
blessed with the right side, with one or two wide wave lines, and the. ends tucked in. Or, the forelock is brushed straight back with wave lines from crown to rear, and ends turned under, page. boy fashion. One style shows a sido parting extending to the nape line, with the hair brought forward form- ing muffs over the ears.
Hair stylists are now offering coiffure designs that have just enough wave lines to take the curse off the plain arrangement. They are cap Atting, will go under any kind of a hat, will stay in place through-. out the whole day. No ringlets, tu fuss stuff, but chic, youthful and becoming.
strong permanent 4ft. 24in; long jump, 14ft. 8in wave to give body and an appear Arguing from the remarkable im-hair is thin and alky, Tresses ance of abundance, especially if the
that enthusiasts have foreseen the day nape line and tumed under. A great provements
have occurred, are cut about five inches below the when woman will seriously challenge comfort to one, la that mode, since man.
one isn't bothering to put rear whisps up on curlers.
There may be a low side part, with the hair swept back on a slant at
:
•
...
But I think not. I believe she has retched the limit of her natural
A woman's musculature is favour able for speed. It has a relatively low viscosity (the term connected with internal friction). In a rued between Mme, Blankers-Koen and H. Dillard, they would probably capacity. dead-heat over three; yards. At 60 yards the man would lead by six. or seven yards, at 100: yards by per- hops 15.
Why? Anatomy has something to do with it: the length of the lower
limb and the relative proportion Its two parts. But if this were all, a tall woman should beat a short inan. Length of stride depends on other factors: the spring from the arch of the foot, the development of the calf muscles. I have seen. a man 6ft, 3in, high with a 6ft. stride, another of 511. with one of over 8ft.
...
With the front of the hair almost severely plain, one can have a roll that extends slightly outward at. either side and continues along at the back.
by every girl and woman during the Simple arrangements are welcomed summer season. Outdoor sports be- come more popular every year and one hates to bother to rebuild
a coiffure that is more or less cinborate. in perfect form with a fow swishes After a swim, one can put one's hair
three minutes' time. Fine and dandy of the comb and an expenditure of if you ask us, or even if you don't.
A good way to dress up a simple summer halido is to purchase a real-hair braid. With this, you can have a variety of new hairdos.
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
A Very Strange Bird, Indeed
-It Had a Very Little Head and Long Legs- By MAX TRELL
CHIRPIE Sparrow came to the window-sill for his breakfast bread-crumbs, and Knarf and Hanid, the shadow-chlidren with the turned- oround names went to Bзy good- morning to him. Chirple always had : a greater amount of available power, some news to tell, for he flew around
More Power
But weight for weight, man has
a quality which is constitutional and
of-cool-colour.... The snug.. bodice bound up with all badily_processes.. a bit and always kept his eyes
can be worn open at the neck, or
The champion woman sprinter al- ́closed, as sketched. The two over-
so holds the world's records for the size bellows-type pockets
aro not 80 only practical but provide the only jump (5ft 7in.). These are more metres hurdles, for the high trim to this practical cont. The remarkable indications of athleticism skirt is full and very fared,
than her sprinting. They are per-
AROUND THE TOWN
With Mercia Hillaly
"News" said Chirple after ho has swallowed half
Now let
bird yesterday," have a little news.
dozen crumbs. ... hmm, yes, I
mo
I met a strange
"What kind of a strange bird?" asked Hanid.
"Where did you meet It?" asked Knart.
Finally Answered
Chirpie ate several more crumbs before he finally answered. "It was an enormous bird, about a hundred times bigger than I am. I met it over at the Zoo. It comes from some far-
Chirple looked at the ostrich in the
100,
Riddles
This set of riddles deals- mostly with girls. But'orie is about boys. It you need help, turn to the cor- rect answers on this page.
1.Why is a red herring like girl's raincoat?
2. What is the difference between.
a girl and a postage stamp?
3. When does a boy cease to be- come a boy? ·
.4. What did the girl say when she failed to find Brown-eyed Susans?
“Shenandoah Cherries Credited to Robin
LURAY, Va.-According to legend, horse. He told me that everyone the birds in the Shenandoah Valley never starve and its fruit. admired his beautiful feathers, and ¦ will. that people would try to catch him growers will prosper because of a just to be able to steal his feathers." robin.
"Why did they want his feathers?"
do.
Didn't Know
From that stone, the legend goes,
a cherry tree grow. It was the first of all the many orchards of cherry trees in the valley.
The robin, according to the old TRANGE, eerie noises haunt a St John's Cathedral is seeking away place, but it's staying at the
tale, flew over Massanutten Moun- room at a certain local institu- a new.organ. The organ fund stands Zoo. It's in a cage.”
tain with a cherry-stone in its brak.. tion, and it is shuttered up be- ot something like $27,000, but it is Knart and Hanld both wanted in cause no one agrees to live in it. anticipated that the fund will need
"He didn't know. But I guess I In 6 lonely gorge of the mountain, ced know
the strange bird's name.
I've seen hats with ostrich the bird dropped the stone, This is no myth, as the boys wlil to be augmented.
for the Its name was printed on a sign feathers stuck in them. There's testify and if you show any doubt type of organ that is required. on the bars of its cage," said. Chir- where his feathers go. While I was they will beg of you, with tears in The first organ Installed in ples "It was an Ostrich. I never saw inlking to him, I remembered some their eyca, to stay the night and find 1867 and was well-remembered for such a strango bird-in all my horn thing else about ostriches that an
giving constant trouble. cat was days. It had long, strong legs; a long Owl once told It
me. was 'about an The boys themselves didn't be- once called for to keep
the rats neck (quite skinny); a short little odd way that ostriches have of lleve it until they stayed in it: and from eating the leather of the head with black eyes, and a very hiding when someone is
chasing after now arrivals, ttheware of
About 80 years hard bill. The only ghostly knockings would be put up ago, the for the night-but They rush out, hair on end, to tell and had the personal attention the boys what they already know.
out for yourself."
:
The tree is still bearing fruit, A massive and grotesque tree, it has was his sand. They think that because they mer by the birds and curlo-seeking
tourists.
the organ bellows organ was installed handsome about Mr o..ing really. them. They, stick their heads in the been picked nearly clean this sum-
one night only, but it has been rebulit several times feathers. They were soft and them. At least, that's what that!
of
:
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can't see anyone, no one can ccé
wise old Owl fold me: So I men 'tioned it to Ostrich."
"And what did he say?" asked Honid.
"
Riddle Answer
of and grew all over his back and Blackett the late Mr William
I had quite a long talk with Mir Messra. Blackett and Sons, a re- Ostrich. He was eating his dinner at Christina is the name of a lucky pulable Arm of organists.
the time I visited him, and he in- two-year-old at the Fanling babies'
vited me to share it with him." Home whose clothes problems are:
"He said It wasn't true. He said "What did he havo la, sny?" asked The mother of actress Joan solved by the Ladies' Section of the Loring, Birs Fred Ellis, is in town. Hanld,
no ostrich would be that silly. But of
} sunt o, uoy - D Foreign Y.M.C.A. This group de She arrived last week by plain a cage much, even though the the last of the crumbs.
"He said that he didn't like being course." Chirple added as he finished | -qmu u. sauit a fair a se 300--- cided to look after one child in this from Los Angeles. Miss Loring is a
on the() - Institution, and
window-sill Christina's name Hongkong girl and has won her way food was good."
"maybe some estriches was drawn from a hat.
"I know," said Knarf. "He wanted" do hide their heads in the sand even to stardom in such pictures as "The
Three to dy away." Com Is GreenThe
though this ostrich didn't. Anyway, The Ladies' Section has over 400 Strangers" and "The Verdict. Her "No. He told me he couldn't dy at he was a very interesting bird, members - with Mrs A. W. Ingram latest picture, "Good Sam has fust all; He, bald he liked to run, and I do wish I had seen him do some as chairman and Mrs A. Bolton as been released and will come to
there wasn't enough room in the running. Ho had the strongest, secretary. Mrs Bolton will be shortly Hongkong in the near future. Miss cage to do any real running. He toughest, biggest legs I've ever seen leaving in the Carthage for a six- Loring, her mother says, is in New sold that when it came to running, on a bird. You ought to go around months' holiday in England.
York at the moment.
he could run faster than the fastest, and see him yourselves.”
RED RYDER
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Rupert & Ting-Ling-13
Rupere "need" not have" warried Ting-Ling. The Chinese boy does not get out of the way of › tha cricket ball. (He holds up one arm, there is a nick as the ball hits his jmcharide, and next minute it," in pinning at the end of his finger t | Otis will spinning when the others come running upang: This is Pong- Rupert, wie trying to expla Ber cricket la himer**** 1sty," "cifer 4-ol Billy.wharta, bowier, he would
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