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THE ACCENT THIS WEEK IS ON

SCARVES

For never before have wo

had such a large selection:

Pure Wool

Cashmere

Silk Foulard.

Artificial Silk

Or In Mixtures

Plain Colours

Printed Designs Polka Dots

or

Gorgeous Checks.

MACKINTOSH'S LTD.

Alexandra Building Des Voeux Road.

ET Artagat,

A. ROMARY & COMPANY, LIMITED

WATER BISCUITS

Manufacturers of the very highest quality biscuits, available in Hongkong In special air-tight soldered

fins.

A generous amount of butter, and slow thorough baking place these biscuits in a class by themselves for cheese and wine.

GINGER NUTS

Rich, crisp and crunchy;

They melt in the mouth.

HONEY BAKE

A delicious home bake, made from honey, oats and butter.

PARMESTIKS

A savoury biscuit flavoured with Parmesan cheese.

Available At:

LANE CRAWFORDS & THE DAIRY FARM

-Sole-Agents:-

SWIRE & MACLAINE LTD

1.CONNAUGHT RD., C. TEL. 30331.

DEPT

SINCERE'S

A.P.D.Z

STORE

Send This Year

X'MAS CARDS

SELECTED FROM US

AND

MONOGRAMMED

OR: IMPRINTED WITH YOUR NAME

RIGHT IN OUR STORE

We offer to make your cards more distinctive, and personal by our machine stamping sor- vice at a slight extra charge.

CHOICE OF 12 DIFFERENT NEW STYLES OF TYPE AND VARIOUS COLOURS INCLUD. ING GOLD & SILVER.

THE SINCERE CO., LTD.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1948.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE a

TWO HOLLYWOOD WOMEN DESIGNERS

By PATRICIA CLARY

LTHOUGH hor name won't

One of her most successful erca- appear on the designers tlons was her college graduation formal. She minde it from sugar annual Ilsts, the American sacks she had dyed and printed

woman who makes her own clothes can be the best-dressed In the country.

Movio fashion designer, Mary Wills says the world's most charm Ing ensembles are created, not in Paris salona, but, on the sewing machines of a million homes.

The dresses that American wo- men are making today," Miss Wills said, "are prettier, more practical and. In

better tosle than many of the expensive clothes a small coterie p1

stilted

stylists try to force them. Home-made now is a mark of smart distinction."

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Miss Wills, who is one of the fow fashion designers to hold a Master of Arts degree (from Yale) and who has turned down teaching offers at Stanford and Harvard, makes most of her own clothes and always has.

THE FULL-LENGTH SKIRT

FOR FORMAL OCCASIONS

By JOAN ERSKINE

LONDON,

HERE

of is more than a hint THE

Christmas In the air, and the feminine mind in reacting in a very normal way. One thought is upper- most a new dress. But what is it going to be? A great many women They are hesitating over the style. аге iorn between the youthful, charming ballet-length, the dipping hemline, and the more sophisticated, always graceful, full-length dress.

The wide choice only adds to their difficulty, but taking a quick glance at the fashions prevalling in Lon- don at the moment, it is clear the full-length bouffant-skirted, roman- tle ball dress, and the pencil-slim

have gown, sophistlented dinner come back to stay.

Ballet-length is now reserved for informal occasions, cocktails and theatre-going and after-seven dates. Hardy Amies shows (see above) a from six perfect outfit to wear o'clock today till any hour tomorrow heavy morning. The sult is in moire rayon faintly shot with red, this season's 'off-black', colour. The and jacket are hem of both suit decorated with valvot applique out-, lined with fine silk braid. When the Jacket is removed a strapless dinner dress is revealed.

Three lines predominate in of Molyneux's fabulous collection

dresses.

One: evening and dinner the flower-line dresses in satin, Taille and velvet-wide, dipping tunles worn over tight, sheathlike skirts-Two: glamorous dresses mous dimensions with skirts of enormous

Three:

in magnificent brocades. Lyons vel- vet, faconnec faille, rounded decal- letes and draped corsages. robes de ligne of jersey In tional colours with helghtened waist-line effect.

OFF-BLACKS

Bunso-

definitely

FF BLACKS, deep purples and subdued tints are taking the place of severe black this season. Hardy- Amics' formal dress in stiff rayon with tiny check and highly burnished surface, which reflects olive-green and bronze lights, is other typical example of the trend in colour

technique

a

right). It is strapless, and Lyons velvet outlining the

new

(at black corsage

is arranged in bows, to form a aught bustle at the back, from which the material falls in cascades. This back interest accentuates the Empire Lines of the front, which fall in an unbroken line to the knee.

Molyneux adds a charming touch to a graceful cocktail dress by lin- ing the full skirt with vivid pink taffeta, ond matching the outfit with of long pink taffeta gloves. Most his informal dresses, too, feature a deep plunging neckline with tiny sland-up collar, cut low at the back of the neck. Many of his cocktail dresses havo Victorian touch about them. Tufted pockets, for instance, or to be technical about it -Victorian bubble-brold. Remember grandmother's curtains?,

And with the informal after-seven ensemble, wear a small bat dressed

up with feathers or a single dower, Dollente ospreys, or rich shining -cocks-fenthers sweeping down ono side and outlining the profile.

Go gay for Christmas! Look de mure in a line lace stole, wistful in a draped fichu, or provocative in tight little. Victorian Jacket button, ed from neck to waist, Go dancing in a wide-skirted, full length roman tic ball-dress; dining in a severely- nowest classic folded gown in the

bronze tone; to a party in a delight fully informal Jacketed ensemble in one of this season's newest 'off- black colours, *·

news

They had

soon be choosing dresses to match their husbands' tiesi

fashion store large West End recently held a mannequin parade to launch their own fashion magazine on the public. saved their paper allocation for considerable period in order to pre- sent the pubile with a really good first issue. They have had, too, the bright idea of confining all their de- partments to one floor, which cases the general strain of shopping con- siderably. It is now simple mat ter to match up a new sult with its accessories.

hat. handbag, gloves, umbrella-and is a welcome change lift or пеко- from queueing for a tinting escalators in order to choose a new hat for a spring suit, or a spray of flowers for an evening dress.

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TRAVEL SET

IN Bond Street I saw the perfect trousseau travelling set, exactly right for a honeymoon. It consisted, of matching handbag; overnight bag' with all the necessary battles And jars, brush and comb; hat-box; largo suit-case, and hold-all. The beauty

of the set lay in its colouring-pale- blue calf lined with grey corded silk.

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Japanese influence seems to have pervaded America, where they are wearing tabbles for lounging, dance- classes, and playtime. These are close-fitting sock-like affairs, fitling tightly round the ankle, with the for New Idea separated big toe

soft pliable silppers is to use leather moccasins for the soles and! knit brightly coloured uppers right| up to the knee.

With visions of Oriental splendour In mind, 1

Liberty's 1 paid a visit to

I saw Chinese department,

there exquisite hand-embroidery sold in pieces of all sizes-ideal for of making up into evening bage, for trimming

'dark dresses.' 'The fine embroidery workmanship of the altracts admiring glances every- to where. Overseas visitors seem

particularly attracted by the coata on sale, some 150 years old. One, in bright yellow, once belonged a member of the the Imperial household, and bore.

oddly twelve symbols. It has an new appearance, in variance with its great age, and may BOON gracing a modern. dinner table.

be

Chinese

be

herself.

Now Miss Wills is under exclusive contract to preduver Sam Goldwyn, for whom she designed the elaborate. period gowns Teresa Wright had Meadows wear in "Enchant-- Jayne, ment.""

Becauso of the soaring cast of living, Miss Wills said, more than are making twice as many women their own clothes today as they did before the war,

"They are quickly discovering that they can dress themselves "more attractively and sensibly then can some stranger in a drafting room on the other side of the ocean," she Bald. "The few egocentric designers who still wage their bitter war of pads are hemlines and shoulder driving more women back to their sewing machines every day. And these sewing machines are producing really authentic and wearublo reas fashions."

Since it's the designers who make up the best-dressed lists, the women who don't buy their clothes don't get picked. Miso Willa saya this shouldn't concern them.

The really best-dressed women

may never have appeared ambni the top 10," she said. "Quite possibly they live in small towns, and very likely they make their own clothes."

Marjorie Best

The other designer, Marjorle Best, is the only woman in town who can tell a man to wear purple lights and make him like it, Most women

hus-. battle their bands to get them to buy a new suit. Miss Beat not only sees that the movie stars get new suits; she designs the suits they get,

And if the coat wrinkles across the shoulders or bags in the seat of Miss Best is the lady the pants, with the mouthful of pins who spruces things

up.

Miss Best, who used to work for a costume company, started dress- ing movie stars when she outfitted Sydney Greenstreet and Paul Hen- reld for "Devotion." Since then she's the put pants and shirts on most of Warners male star Hst, including

Jack Morgan,

Carson. Dennis William Powell and Errol Elynn,

"I was scared to death," Miss Best confided, "when Mr Powell came to But be fitted for 'Life With Father."

Ulko Not at all he was a lamb. Father'

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Long-haired

Felts

JUGH Beresford of London,

Hu

whose "Town and Country" hats are mass produced but hand finished, has brought out a new Jong-haired millinery felt made from marabou and goose 'down, which he called "Melucine." IL was introduced on this page 蟲 low weeks ago. Now here another sketch showing how elegant it can look when worn straight on the head, velled, and balanced with two fluffy feather poma. Wear with tailleur,

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your classle

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Another model: a very pale pink felt with a flourish of dark

brown pheasant feathers. -*

PHOTO MURALS TO

DECORATE A HOME

By ELEANOR ROSS

a'subdued purple-

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SOME of the prettiest items yellow and in

for-the-home-that we've toned red on either while or yellow. Leading off the group is 'n drama- looked at recently, are those'

of Manhattan from tie view that have been developed not. Governor's Island, a handsome affair

wonderful for for the luxury trade, but for that would be moderate-budget homes, which library or a man's sitting room or

charming choice for study. A is a very happy state of affairs.

room might well be dining It's a wise manufacturer who pleasant New England landscopo works along these lines, too, with tiny buildings nestled in the hills, done in sepla or yellow. since obviously there are many Sultable, too, for the dining room more plain folks than there are and equally nice for a bedroom is In the champagne and caviar a photomural of blooming magnolia trees in the sunlight. The whole group.

composition is so artistic, so restful. yet so stimulating that it would just about make a room.

A, vertical design trees may be reversed in the second panel for use in pairs on the top- posite sides of a doorway.

It was't so long ago that a room decorated with photo murals was distinctly upper bracket. But now what do we find but beautiful wallpapers, photographic wallpapers, avall- able in strips like large scenic papers.

of tall

birch

Another handsome vertical paper shows a group of birch trees all- houetted against a river, beautiful in soft sepia and white. Then there Selected' With Caro

is a horizontal strip of a birch grove that is really handsome, One wall in Photographs suitable in subject photomural 'paper adds a wonder and size for walls in average-alzo, fully spacious look to even a quite small room and bestows a luxury rooms have been selected with care. Because the views are printed on look, too.

wallpaper Instead of developed onNet at all in the luxury class but

heavy photographic paper, the costs have been materially reduced. They are done in soft sepla on white or

GLYCERINE IS A USEFUL

HERE are some more ideas

arid suggestions for the use of that useful household agent, glycerine, many of them. contributed by roadors after a similar round-up some, time back,

ITEM

the discoloration

nicely handled as luxurious neces- gities is new offering of storage aids for the hame. It is splendid to see so much artistic effort put Into moderately priced home aids of this type.

Smart Cheats

Chests of drawers made of fibre-

DOW

Rubber articles such as, garden. bowl, cover with glycerine and then hose, mats and the like that may pour boiling water through from a board, while useful, generally ure have become dried and brittle may tea kettle, holding the kettle about relegated to the closet or attic, for often be restored some degree of three feet above the cloth. And holding out of season ́ clothing, or usefulness and value by the so-scorch spots on wool, if not too deep, storing accessories. But the - called "glycerind

process."

First, cun

often be removed, if the group la so handsome that the chests trubbing it with a fairly stiff brush with glycerine. Allow the glycerine plete group of storage pieces and clean the article by thoroughly searched area is at once

are smart enough to take their place saturated,

In any bedroom -- scheme, Âm com- dipped in warm water. Continue to to remain 'for, about half an hour. closet accessories have been finish scrub until the article looks clean, Then sponge well or wash with ed in a beautiful soft quilled – fabric Here is a hint for house Next, place it in a solution made up warm soapy water. If the fabric is that cleans easily. Wood, a drawer

of one part of ammonia to two parts painters, so busy at this time of water. Allow it to remain in this only slightly scorched, try rubbing pulls and frames of wardrobe door panels are-painted" - to match ·· the lightly with a of year, and who know that solution for an hour or two, then piece of flannel wrung out of cold green, road - or light blue of the one of their trials is that paint rinse the article with a diluted solu-, water and moistened with glycerine. group colours. Two narrow, five- has a way of running and spat- tion of about 10 percent glycerine

drawor, chests, the top drawer mada shallow, for cosmetics or jawellery, tering in the wrong places. So to 60 percent water. Wipe off and

If hot dishes have left their mark become a charining dressing... tablo It is handy to know that one dry thoroughly. This procene 1 on your dining room table It may when topped by a gain or„pustic- TOULARD silk,-used from Ume Im-

applicable for recondi- help to rub the unsightly white covered board, O memorial for man'a

can easily protect så! mirror.lor especially dressing

floning rubber articles that

have rings with spirits of nitre: then pol- Towns and ties, has been appraised, glass panel or door, a brass out lost their elasticity because of im- lahing Immediately (after within approved, and anally appropriated by lot cover or door knob during proper storage. a femining section of the community, painting by rubbing a thin films the for formal afternoon and informal

vening wear. The tiny Palsley do- of glycerine over the area to be A render tells us that she has sign and delightful colouring are protected. It is easily removed most attractive on the soft silk, and, with water after the paint has it rather locks as it women may dried.

FOULARD SILK

The cheats come in widths that glycerine-dipped cloth. And for a range from a shoe cabinet width to, final hint, mildew on leather-ynay, nineteen inches: Alið available lam -yleid=II* ■ -litiis petroleum jelly"is | handsome and inosti inexpensive: Met

well rubbed in, and the leather then of storage accessoria for 175 nur found a good way to remove stub- palshed thoroughly willing soft shry, andis kikila's bedrooms, and our born frult | stains on table linen, clothon, which a faw drops of gly that comprises, chest, wardrobe Fand Stretch the cloth tightly over a cerine has been sprinkledajte pojemall storage pieces.