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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1948.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

papworth

with a wide wmp- Left: Hardy Amies two-tiered caped coat over front in dark brown cloth. Right: Victor Silebel puts a belgo corduroy jacket with a curved, "stiffened hip-line over a saffron yellow skirt with unpressed fulinets: worn with it is a deep golden

yellow brocade blouse.

Britain's Thank You' For Food Parcels

(BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

in

LONDON, Nov. 8. UTSIDE Batlin's building

Oxford Street, flings of all the British countries of the world are flying.

Britain is saying "Thank you." with a pictorial display, for all the food parcels that have been sent from all over the world. The Queen exhibi- herself came to open the

tho tion, whte's 13 sponsored by Ministry of Food and the Colonial

made Omce. She

speech. those that simple and short everyone who has had puckages of food would like to make, if they had her charm at turning a grateful phrase.

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The exhibition itself was a "Alm trip" of photographs stretching around the room. Each "frame" of this film showed eager people nil over the world packing up parcels, wishing Britain sending them off. well with gifts to enliven a rather dull diet.

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I have I must admit that this exhibition with the same lay- -out before. It is an ingenious de sign, made I am assured, as cheap ly as possible. Blue curtains, in neatly pleated folds, surround the "exhibition space."

Thin wooden

rods painted witte run from Abor to ceiling to support the "mock film" of photographs. To attract attention to particular photographs, pleces of cord whiltened with tennis, canvas- from shoe blanco run diagonally paplermache posts towards the out- line of the photograph to be spot- lighted.

Framed Lotters

after

of

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the Linister of Food, beautifully typed, on official notepaper; that, grateful and 'more homely.

all the countries sernwls from

Wales and England, Scotland, Northern Ireland.

The organisers have made effort to eslimate just what weight of parcels have come from overseas. All countries have contributed; but Canada tops the list. In the last two years she has sent 54,485,000 pounds of food in bulk. Australia has sent nearly as much. My statis- the tician informs me that if all peaches were put Into the Serpen- line, there would be no room for the swans! The Agure from Aus- tralia represents 41⁄2 pounds of food from every man and woman in Aus- tralia. This is the highest praise.

Hongkong's Gifts

I met a man at this. exhibition asking who was wandering round

million rather cynically how many pounds bad been stolen en route. 1le told me that he wrote a "Thank you" letter for' a parcel he received from Hongkong recently. The kind most donor replied that he was grateful for the letter, and glad to hear the parcel had arrived, as be had sent five parcels previously!

When these parcels come to Eng- land, and they are really very gratë fully received, they are either sent direct to particular addresses or, in the ease of the larger packages, are dockyard open (not by broken

depots that thieves) and sent to distribute their contents primarily to ex-service men, particularly the maimed and needy.

This Britain's gesture of "Thank you." Her thanks go also lo CARE, the vast American organi- sation which has bought and

dis tributed to Britain and Europe par- of cels of food of real value-and

greatly appreciated.

After a long series of photographs of pioneers of Empire, at remote railheads, with due tribute to the Imperial Order of Daughters of the

scrles Empire, you come to a framed letters, the first signed

Angela

by

Bobbie

Victoria Chappelle, internationally known fashion writer, reports that the Eighteenth Century shows its influence in the new coats

-NANIMOUSLY the impor- London

Fashion

Designers, the neck and wide revers; this

tant London designers Each one shows plainly the has an unusual double sleeve, Ignored the temptation to handwriting of the designer con- the flared. top being three- Introduce any kind of exaggera cerned, but no sketch can do quarter length and the lower tions in their winter collections. justice to the perfect cut and more or less fitting to the wrist. Creed has almost a fanaticnt They have smoothed shoulders, finish of the original-the details rounded every line and left it at for which buyers are coming interest in the First Empire (and his family has close, con- that, with the result that the more and more to London. clothes which the buyers saw in First the enped coat from nections with the Second Em- This has a pire, for his greatgrandfather the London houses are wearable Hardy Amies. as well as extremely elegant. double tier beneath a collar cut made the little Prince Imperial's

ACCENT ON ELEGANCE IN NEW

NEW COLLECTIONS

Women will not be asked to Accustom themselves to dras- tically new lines, but they will enjoy wearing the high First Empire collars, the caped coats, the capes. Clothes need not be fussy to be feminine.

Sketched here are a selection of models from six members of the Incorporated Society of

Clare

FUND FOR COMING

BABY CROP

Chicago-Notre Dame thinks it has the Brs! "maternity fund" ever raised at a men's college.

The campaign's goal is $5,000, and the money is to be used to defray expenses of married veterans at- tending the college.

The collego announced that 100 births are expected In the next seven months to the. 300 couples living at the college-United Press.

Diana

with deep revers and a wrap- first tailored suit) and his house over front, and shows, like other is full of Napoleonic relics—~ fashions in these collections, a hence his constant preoccupa- strong Eighteenth Century in- tion with the fashions of the fluence. The result is a coat period. which can be worn for travel-

Third is a Victor Stiebel con- ling or for informal town wear. tribution in black cloth; this attractive cont has Next, Creed's greeny-belge simple, top-cout with its First Empire rounded shoulders, waist and style collar standing stiffly at hips with raised stitched bands

Left: Digby Morion's butter- Bcolch coloured velvet. mult- jacket with plain velvet walst belt, shoulders and collar, and with corduroy sleeves, skirt and wide corduroy bands on jacket and below the waist. Right: Peter Russell's pink and And black tweed sult, slim elegant, with skirt slit back and In the hip pockets not only

front but at the back.

Above.

on the skirt. It is worn with a limegreen sequin embroidered cravat which gives a surprising touch of sheer sophistication to an elegant outfit.

Contrasting Fabrics NEXT the sulls.

Nothing could

have looked simpler than these; analysed, they often proved to have the most intricate work put into them. Material was used as a trim- ming in cunning bands and straps: on the belts of plain woollen skirts sequins glittered alluringly; insets of contrasting fahrle were used again and again.

Victor Stiebel combines a beire corduroy facket with a curved stif

by fened hipline accented

the material used against the grain with saffron yellow skirt, its unpressed fullness spreading out towards the hem; with it he

he puts a

a deep golden yellow brocade blouse.

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Corduroy is a leading material in many of the collections, often allied to velvet as in the Digby Morion model Illustrated here. This butter- scatch-coloured velvet suit jacket plain velvet waist-belt, and shoulders collar, but the sleeves walst and the wide band between and shoulders and again round the with the skirt orc together edure or the rest, it is simpli- city itself, with a moderale shawl- type collar, full peplum and silm skirt.

Supple Tweeds

PETER Russell, on the other hand, is largely using fine supple tweeds in colours which include en ex- quisite green which he calls Scotch Fir, another muted yellowish Long called Grape Fruit, Tudor Brick and Wisteria, none-of-which-need any explanation.

The tweeds he uses come in two weightsono for the roomy top- coats (often with three-quarter sleeves)

and

another, lighter weight, for the dress or suits will matching or contrasted jackets. An the excellent example is shown in

illus- pink and black tweed suit trated here, with a skirt slit back, neat-waisted jacket and pockets not only in front but on the side panels as well.

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ANNE EDWARDS reports with skatches by ROBB Four Girls. Four Hats, and Four Mistakes

SINCERE CO., LTD. THE shine was regarded with

suspicion...and the hat counters were thronged, with a larger-than-usual crop of pretty giris trying on pretty hats. But

She would have looked batter In the bonnet next door,

CLARE has a face with slick, hard features that could take Bobble's hat with the addition, of o feather, Clare is a little too sophisticated for a bonnet, even when it is in panther fur with gloves to match.

seldom was the right hat bought. by the right, girl. The four girls in the picturo could have looked smarter-if only they had, all changed hats. ANGELA is thirtyish and fat-faced. Her new velvet beret was both Rattering and fattening. The hat she needs is the ono Diana is wearing, with its tall height-giving. DIANA typically. British type peak and slimming close-to-the-tops her long, serious face with a -port pixie cap; it is the hardest check brim.

to wear of all the new hat fatteninst fashions. The flat and beret that makes Angela look like 'a' pudding would have made Dlaná look elegant.

BOBBIE Is Young and boyishi, and

·weara the new short-cut Her "porringer hat is the right shape, hut

the feather-on-the-chock touch is much too sophisticated.

On the left is Creed's greeny-belge topcoat which owes i much, to Fint Empire Influence in a standing collar, wide-revers and double-breasted effect. By its sida is a black Isco-sloth! 00SSIN by Victor Stiebel, highlighted by a fine-green embroidered: stával) The coat has sloping shoulders, shawl effect 'böller andirrated

siliched banda on the full skirt,