1948-11-06 — Page 6

THE "EMMS" DRESS VEST

MORE THAN A CUMMERBUND...

LESS THAN A WAISTCOATI

Fashioned so that when worn it looks like an ordinary dress vest but there are no lapels to bulge or crease; it gives freedom and support combined perfect fit.

SINGLE OR DOUBLE BREASTED

STYLES IN WHITE MARCELLA.

with

MACKINTOSH'S

DES VOEUX ROAD

DEPI

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6 1948.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

ALEXANDRA BUILDING

'78

The age of the cloche hat

SINCERES

STORE

WINTER STYLE SUGGESTION FOR MEN

HATS: STETSON'S

WOOLLEN

WEAR: MCGREGOR

TIES: PULITZER ALL-SILK

SHOES: FLORSHEIM

A GREAT VARIETY AWAITING YOUR SELECTION AT

THE SINCERE CO., LTD.

We Present with Pride

Gold and Platinum

Diamond Watches

TODAY'S MOVE TOWARDS

VICKI'S HUSBAND NOW

KNOWS HER SECRET

FOUR pretty girls bamboozled

German troops and civilians during the war by talking and singing from a radio station which was supposed to be in Germany, but Was actually located in a Buckinghamshire village, says Elizabeth P. Mac- Donald in "Undercover Girl," published in New York.

The station was so hush-hush that the broadcasters and tech- nicians were not allowed to post letters. All their mail was specially collected and delivered by car.

Newton Longville, near Bletchley, was the village, but the Germans knew the station Kurzwellen- Deustcher

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sender.

From it they heard cleverly- and commenta, slanted news with music and jokes.

Recruited From Shows

The four girl stars, all speaking German fluently, were recruited from London shows.

One was Trudy Binar, the former Miss Czecho-Slovakia, who sang German songs with a Czech accent which the German listeners liked.

Sultry-voiced "Lisel, the Moon- light Madonna,". was an Austrian actress, Elisabeth Carroca.

Hildy Palmer, who married one of the Americans on the staff, was a comedienne found in the chorus of the London musical show, Something for the Boys.

Then there was Vicki, "the girl with the pin-up voice."

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REMEMBRANCE DAY

Remembrance Day is dedicated, to those in the Barvices who

• faught so gallantly and endured so much between 1914/10 and 1939/45. It is also an occasion when Britons in distant parts of the Empire and foreign landa turn thòir thoughts to the Mother Country And feel that they share that groat tradition which she has created and, so splendidly maintained throughout the centuries.

It is now mora necessary than ever before to secure your gene- rous support for Earl Haig's Fund for the Disabled of the two World Wars. Their need is great, and the Committes of the British Leglor fool that you would wish to be prominantly Identified in the endea

band of physicat sufferers. vour to alleviate the distress of so nobla

Remembrance Day will bo colobrated-

on 7th November. Poppies will be sold on Saturday. 6th Novembor.

Choques may be made payable to Percy Smith & Co.

Windsor House, Hongkong.

The other day I discovered Vicki

is London. She

23-year-old Agnes Bernelle, daughter of the Hungarian producer Rudo! Bernauer.

Slim, dark, attractive, she lives in a St John's Wood flat with her one-year-old baby Shaun.

Her husband is former RAF pilot, Desmond Lealle, son of the Irish author, Sir Shane Leslie.

Agnes was leaving for Amsterdam when I saw her. She is making u resistance film there, But Not in Vain.

London theatre audiences saw her in the leading part in the Forty-Eight Theatre's production of The Un- known Woman of ArtAS.

Pledged To Secrecy

Agnes was unwilling to talk about her broadcasts to Germany. All taking part were pledged to strictest secrecy.

But she corroborated the story in "Undercover Girl" that she caused the surrender of a German U-boar announcing captain by "casually" that his fiancee bad married another

mont.

Agnes's programmes of records which the introduced with delicately- barbed

In comments

German, using names of soldiers and news about them picked up from prisoners- of-war, German papers and other sources, were as popular with enemy troops as Vera Lynn's here.

But when after the war she asked the BBC for a job she was told: carling Jun

- VICRI”. She was "Undercover Girl."

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“As a star-of-Black-Radio--Agnes- tell her husband-- could not even then her flance-why she appeared at her home in London only at week- ends and disappeared to an un- known destination during the week.

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FEMININITY DA

By JOAN ERSKINE

LONDON.

HERE is nothing new about today's fashions. Far from it. We have seen them all before.

Remember the years follow ing the first World War-the steady progress through the twenties to the age of the cloche hat? Well, here we are ugain.

But the transitional period between the complica- tions of the hobble skirt and the simplicity of the cloche, has been much shorter for the 1948 "New Woman." The whole elaborate process WILE speeded up.

It is the same cloche, but a casual observer glancing at #1 fashion magazine of the 'twenties would think the style of today quito different. Art itself has changed. The drawings then were stylised, stiff and formal. The 1928 cloche has been introduced to a different age-not of ragtime and glad mad parties in mewsy little flats, but one of deep and serious thought, of food ration- ing, and a hundred and one other restrictions. And fashion is, without question, affected by such conditions.

Fashion Defies

"But," say the cynics, "the the more serious the times,

crazier and more irrational fushion becomes." They are right, of course. The uplifting effect of a new fashion trend upon an entire feminine popu- lation is usually ignored by those who consider it slightly beneath them to evince any in- terest in a subject at feminine and frivolous.

once

nhapeless, walatless and almost skirt- loss. To really go into this subject, one would have to study the history of costume, to

and buttons, did not apply to models for export. So British women sighed as they knw. lovely models - going aversens to help sell British designed creations to the world.

One good thing, however, camo of the rationing scheme. Working with a minimum of material, there WOB DO room for mistakes. The cut had to be perfect. So the cut of a British tallor-made. sult, al- ready world-famous, became, ir such thing were soo how from the days

possible, even' of the Greeks and, the Romans, ono more superlative. Designern used all trend influenced another right up to their ingenully to produce a work the present day. It is an absorbing.

of art with a minimum of wastage. And the fact that they have been complex and fascinating story,

successful is clearly shown by the over-increasing orders coming from abroad.

move

towards

But today'a femininity is not an absolute sign of the times. It is directly due to the fact that we have just come through a major war, and after any great crisin such as this all the feminine - Irilla- and furbelows come forth in great abundance. It is a mental revolt against uniformity and en-

"The twenties

rudest

of an

forced form.

Fashion today ranges for and wide, It gives all women tha opportunity of wearing what suits their Individual personalities. As long as hair is sleek. It can be short- with a fringe, or long in cells; it can be swathed or it can be platted,

Back to the dipping hemline —

with a difference

its But fashion deles.

draboess, taking practical critics by the Introduction

in Britain designing for the home even more impossible hat, an even longer skirt, an even smaller waist- market brought with it many prob- line.

particular era

lems. And each

The biggest headache, of brings its

course, was the rationing own peculiar fashion

scheme which officially limited the amount problema.

of material used for each garment. Designers tried various methods of getting round this, but it still re- mained a very real difficulty, not helped by shortage of labour and a limited range of materials. Slowly more textiles have appeared, and supplies seem at last to be gradu- ally Improving for the home mar- ket.

com- the

Today there is a sharp swing to puro femininity. There is marelal war in progress at moment between the defenders of the New Look, and the advanco guard of the Tube Look (only too reminiscent of the twenties). Fashion can never be utterly new. It can only be a repeat of the styles of a bygone age, but with difference. The basic styles arc experimented with, adapted, and altered to suit a particular set of clrcumstances.

this

Therefore the cloche is paying us another visit, but not with its former companion, the straight short dress,

The Forties

Coats can be enormously full or

Shoes trimly Atting.

are equally

heelk right with extremely high or no heels at all. For cocktails and dinner, the ballet-length dress; for evening the romantic styles. from crinoline to Empire.

become headline news. onco

over

either Sults are classics,

with pencil slim skirta or kilted ones, concentrated at the fullness being back. Sult-Eko jacket-dresses have Capes are more with us in a diverslty

For evening, of styles.

formal dress, can be worn ar elaborately embroidered Chinese coat, 'n frugile not stole scattered with brilliants, a short flared-back Jacket, Tweeds and fine,worsteds. velvets and taffetas, stiff poult and

being British rich brocades pro

Used Tweeds are combined with velvet; taffetas with worsted.

In export les the designer's great chance, and it has been grasped with both hands. To al- tract ОУСТБСАЯ buyers, designers have, for the past, two years or so, made an all-out effort. The restrictions as to number of pleats, amount of pockets, trimming

NEW SEASON'S TWEEDS & SUITINGS

By

· VICTORIA CHAPPELLE

season's tweeds and THE: new

sultings lend themselves as well as to traditional talloring as to the softer styling which many London designers favour in the autumn collections.

is

For example here (above left) is coat by M. and S.. Harr Inn heavyweight diagonal tweed tailored with a milltary look-wide collur,

in the new manner. The pockets soft- accentuated and the skirt is gathered tho on to the moulded waist and hips y emphasise the rounded hips,

the yoke. curved shaped bolt narrows

For country

Bame wear this waist, the pleats give the new back- ward swing when the we Frederick woven Shetland twood, turns up the wearer moves. designer takes grass green hand-

· On 'the other hand Starke has taken Liberties with the edge of the Jacket is a cuff, sweeps classic tailleur cut with equal all skirt fullness to the back and adds for good measure a fringed success (above right). Notice the clever way jacket and a sleeve are, shawl-scarf in a plaid to tone. Our cut In one, so that the stripes form mothers would hardly have called simplicity of cut and suitability for Its purpoes which they demanded In their costsirn.es.

"Your voice is unsuitable for broad- matching buttons, big pocket flaps, Alagonal pattem down the arm, it s tailor-made suit; yet it has the

"And because of the security ban It was impossible to mention my 'previous experience," she told me.

and unpressed "pients caught into a half belt behind. This has all the in this elegant town and country Ingredients of a conventionally suit. It is a fine brown and pink tailored coat, yet each is interpreted striped, worsted. The hiplina Is

And where do we go from here? Well, we wait to see what the now spring collections will bring forth. Will the Empire line.frmly establish itself? Will the Tube Look die a natural death? Will we bathe in even more abbreviated swimsuits, In or lounge in cotton crinolines?

know a few weeks' time we shall the worst-or the best.

HOUSEHOLD

THE

HINTS

HE home repairman should never attempt any but minor repairs to the electrical system and equipment of a home. Such tasks as replacing a blown-out fuse, or repairing broken applianco corde, are within a lay- man's scope, but he should never at- tempt to disturb the permanent Such wiring or make extensions.

an work should be done by experienced electrician in accordance with local regulations.

to

The best ironing board cover Is made of firmly woven, lint-free cot- ton, often in twill weave. The cover should fit smoothly, over the pad, and should bo washed - frequently, using a commercial chlorine bleach

move scorch stains, Good cleansing aides aro sponges which come put up in the form of tiny discs and which fuff up: when molatened with Iotion, cologne or plain water. Excellent on a trip when dust and grime must be kept at bay.

bath

Most foods that go into the refrt- gerator should be kept fightly Meat. that has not been covered. cooked is an exception to this rule. Cover it lightly, since light-covering promotes bacterial growth.

Good for plenies or macksure onionburgers. Put a slice of onion between two thin meat patties, prese the edges of tho patiles together around the

onion,

TOWER DOL To keep lingerie dainty and freslily scented, add few drape of your favourite cologne to the last fine water Koop anchét bags, Carrying the same "Boett" tucked in you lingerie drawer.