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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1948,

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

LIGHT, AIRY STYLES SEEN IN THE FOG

By JOAN ERSKINE

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LONDON. THILE all London suffered under a blanket of thick grey fog carly this month-the worst for years, which reduced visibility to matter of yards, slowed up traffic, and masked the win- dows of the London Model House showrooms-there was air of pleasant unreality about seeing more of next sen- son's light and airy styles for spring and early summer.

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In the Brenner Sports selon no fawer than eight models showed a collection of tailored dres and afternoon and Jacket ensembles. evening dresses, and playclothes of every description.

cottons--

-Favourites were the right for a garden party, perfect for complete with promenading-and matching parasols. Most eye-catch- ing outil was in blue and white Swiss Crinkled cotton (rather like tecroucker) with boat neckline and while apron front, trimmed with rickrack braid. The parasol, in the some material. had a rough wooden handle and was aloo trimmed with rickrack. Handbags made with basket bottoms and drawstring materiai top2 also matched dresses.

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PIRATES' BREECHES

in pale bluz

》IRATES' breeches

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linen, Btting tightly below the knee, had a mixed reception. They Innked a little difficult to relax in. Blue linen Jeans, thonged with lime, had a matching boiero, Tiny shorts with corselet waist, in ten limen,

were

with shown

brief tan bolero a youthful Buster-sult effect.

Many

wero of the sun dresses strapless, with matching boleros. A particularly attractive, though very simply designed one, was in pale blue linen-type rayon trimmed with white braid, illustrated here.

A drawback to the strapless casual dress is that a boned brassfere is necessary, and this is not always ideal for very hot weather.

The bolero seems to be gaining in popularity, for both formal and in- formal occasions. High waistlines,

of

too, were not only a feature dresses and skirts, but of shorts and Jeans us well.

Sult Jackets were all quite long. Skirts were slim, some split, others pleated-but not all round. Groups of sunray pleats inside deep in- verted pleats gave a straight slender line.

A typical Brenner two-piece illustrated here. The skirt has a flat panel at the back, which not only gives a good line, but prevents the inevitable "sitiing-out"

of the pleats. It is in petrol-blue with a narrow double stripe of navy. The bodice of the dress has short cuffed sleeves and a tucked vest effect. It is fuished with. a. while pique bow at the neck.

- MISTY CHECKS

INE misty checks in soft colour- Ings are used for most of the suits. Do you remember the very popular Glen Urquhart suiting? During the war it was hard to find anyone who clid not possess a glencheck suit. but this is the first revival since then.

Many suits had cowled hoods attached to the jackets, which look- ed equally decorative over the head or lying back as a collar.

Cocktail dresses were often strap- less, with elbow-length capes, long stoles, and cequin embroidery. For those who have refused to port with their long hair, there was a sequin- spangled bun-net. A triangular briliant-studded scarf tied either round The neck or the waist of annther dress.

Loveliest materials were. bronze grosgrain, and satin the colour of burnt sugar. Smartest were the crimp navy and whlie piques and nens, Navy-blue seems to be m ineing black for next season,

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Two dresses described by Joan Erskine. Left: a pale blue linen strapless stin dress with matching bolero, Above: Petrol blue two- plece with narrow donbio stripe of navy, Both are by Brenner Sports.

New cardigans

are

almost hip-length

by SUSAN DEACON

UEEN MARY-siyle foques are n Bond Street milliner's window. For day wear swathed felt is used with feather trimming in

For soft colours, evening wear beautiful pieces of brocade and rich satins are used, II with pearl and jet embroidery.

TIME now to think of warm simply bears out the much-quoted sweaters

and fine Wool remark that if only you keep a alrriost thing long enough. It is

blouses to wear with your win- bound to come back into fashion.

ter sults. As a vital part of accessory planning they surely deserve more detailed thought than they get.

What is causing women to droop?

25% more ailments than men

HE women of Britain are not well. They are not invalids Trevor absentees from work to any great extent, but they go about their daily duties feeling below par.

Men show greater discrimina- tion in their choice of shirts than many women do in their selection of a blouse or sweater. A rainbow-hued open-werk

labour jumper - a

of love though it may be-has ruined the chances of many a good suit..

For day wear a sweater should be perfectly plain and collar: less-if it is hand-knitted it should be of fine stocking stitch or ribbing. Confine ruffles und glamour to blouses.

When they do-go-to-the-doctor-at-that-it is many doctors-view that they do not know what is wrong they stand up to physical troubles with them. But the symptoms they better than men and make less fuss. describe are always roughly The Child health is on the whole same. They are easily tired. They good, but as one doctor put it-- lack

They

children

have energy.

suffer from

more difficulty in shortness of breath If they exert getting themselves born. themselves,

Ills experience shows a lower

The only possible exception is the Everything is an effort which fertility rate than before-the-war woman with a filter figure→→ worries and depressed them.

Women are not

Бо prone to patterned sweater in a pinin colour Also they have is a happier choice for her. greater tendency to miscarry. BOMBING BLAMED Mothers often blame the perience of bombing for any weak- ness or abnormality in wartime children. Doctors say this is generally nonsense.

The doctors call it lassitude. They final Just what they expect to find low blood pressure and varying degrees of anaemia.

I have discussed this prevalent condition, which is affecting young women as well as older ones, with a dozen doctors of widely different types of practice,

YEARS OF STRAIN Anaemia, several said, is the basis of most current ill-health among

vycinen.

boen

an enormous

"There has increase," one said. "Where I was

cases treating eight new

a yeur. ti. month. now have as many have

never in my life seen many anaemic women as now como to me."

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The cause, doctors say, ls. partly nutritional and partly the years of

overwork and worry.

Ond strain

called them "the doctor

the years of far too much standing about."

pregnancy.

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Try Trying Them On

Fur 100

women

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The "bat-wing" sleeved sweater, with straight "boat" neckline.

It really can be worn throughout the day, and is as frequently seen worn with pearls beneath a full as it is at parties, together with a full and pretty skirt.

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For evenings these plain sweaters often sprinkled with single pearls or sequins, or worn with your chunklest, Jewellery,

buy many sweaters and cardigans without first trying them on. You would never

Although wool is everything in consider buying a dress without Brst trying it for size, and it is even more

our winter lives, there are by the Important that knitwear should fit

Young children who lived through raids, unless physically injured,

air were

totally unaffected]

experience.

and

well.

But babies bom during or even

When sweater is new it should after the rald periods sometimes dll' suffer through their mothers tend to fit a little loosely-a clinging Struin and emotional disturbance sweater can be a social embarrass- And its postwar effect on women in ment nervous disorders, chronic fatiguo and depression,

premature ageing.

One general practitioner finds that the most difficult-and, in his view, the most pathetic-patients are the middle-aged

approaching incl "elderly of both sexes.

"Far too many people who were in their prime before the war-over- drew

on their futuro Income

They were keyed nervous energy. Clinies prescribe. So, after a woman has up during the war, folt they had attended for advice and been told to keep going, and, since 1945, they she needs Iron to counteract annemie have been running down far too

fast" tendencies, she is referred back to

Inox in

the case of expectant

a

doctors put their finger on in the new health service.

allowed to not aro

her own doctor for a

a certificate to. take to the chemist.

This

means going, to her doctor's surgery, and probably a long wall.

Either she hasn't the time or she doesn't take the trouble-and goes without the Iron she needs.

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NOT ENOUGH IRON "Rations," doctors say, "are de- falent in iron. Liver, kidney, red ment-the principal

of sources

of

THEIR MONEY'S WORTH · A busy suburban G.P. had this about the precent medical theory sliuntion:

Unconsciously, many people are loolig for n scapegoat for that 4s 11d. (or 3. 10.) n weck they have to pay. They scan the' bencills and say to themselves:-

"Unemployment? No good to me, I'm working. I hope I'll never need that.

"Rotirement? Not for years yet. Death? Lot of use that'll ever bo I'm not even Mutemilly? me.

whero That's

iron-are very scarce.

"Nobody is going to cut spinach all the time!"

to

Anaemic lassitude is particularly

married. married women provalent among

who have had a child or two, even where the mother is no older than the late twenties.

"They just lack kick," sald one

The last health survey, showed Coven in every ten housewives "complaining" that is, when caked if they were well or ill, said that they weren't well"

Women sulter 25 percent." more minor allments than men, but even

"Medicine-ah!

can get my money's worth.” So they become without really realising they're doing It-ness- conscious to an extent undreamed of before.

And, this doctor argues, by 20 transferring what are really political sensations to the and economie realm of bodily health, they genuinely accentuate their allments. Stephon Watts

There were new trends in knitwear seen in London this autumn; many longer-almost hip cardigans are length-and snugly belted.

Several knitwear manufacturerr have followed the fashion silhouette of the model dress houses, and jumpers, too, have sloping shoulders. and dolman sleeves.

A recent Innovation from America Is the sweater in the smoothest of wool jersey. Its charm lies in its utter simplicity straight, "boat" neckline-deep "bat-wing" sleeves- and it is smartest in binck.

Evening dlou~~

girl

many women who prefer to wear a blouse, and extra warmth beneath it.

never Blouses this season have

are back- been prettier. Jabots wide and fal, and fastened with n pearl fle-pin, or frilly, lacy, and very feminine.

Lace frills are worn at the wrist, and fine lace round a high Chinese collar on a plain blouse front,

But fills and lace edging lore all their charm If they are not crisp and frost white.

One hears much about the "off-black" shndies from Paris, off-white is merely grubby.

Plain Neckline

new

Tests Aid Liver Disorders

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN

WITH the increasing frequency of Yliver disorders, particularly In those of middle age and older. It is important that abnormal conditions

be discovered as early as possible. because, with proper treatment, the progress of many of these disorders may be checked. There are a num ber of tests which can be made to determine the manner in which the liver is carrying on its many activi- ties and which aid the doctor in do- termining what medical or surgical treatment may be required, which of the tests should be carried out depends, to some extent, on: tho symptoms present.

Just

patient has For example, if the inundice due to a collection of blic

on

vigments in the blood and tissues, a large series of tests is suggested. Some of these include testing of the urinn for the presence of certain bile pigments. Another test is made determine the the blood to amount of bilirubin, a bile pigment. It is important in the blood serum. to determine the amount of choles- terol in the blood, since the choles- terol may be excessive in certain. disorders producing Jaundice. Cho- lesterol la a substance which is found thmughout the body, and is normally present in the blood.

Another test. commonly used is known an the bromsulfaleln

test.

The bromsulfalein, a dye, is inject- into a vein and the amount re- tained in the body determined at the end of 40 minutes. The bromsulfa- lein test is not used when jaundice is prescat.

Needle Biopsy

If, by means of these various tests, the exact type of disorder of the liver cannot be determined, it may be necessary to remove a small bit of tissue from the liver for ex- amination under the microscope. This

obtained by

what

material can be is known a needle biopsy. in which a large needle is pushed

through the abdominal wall into the liver so that some of the liver tissue can be carried out. This procedure should be done only in a hospital and only when it is certain that the blood clots properly, since there is always danger of bleeding in this type of

of procedure.

secured

If the tissua cannot be satisfactorily in this manner, it may be necessary to open the abdomen surgention

to obtain the liver tissue

for

Persons having symptoms of liver disorder should consult their physi- clan promptly, so that the necessary tests may be carried out to deter- mine what disorder is present. In middle-aged and older persons such tests should be made once or twice n. year, even if no symptoms. ara present.

NICE TOUCH IN FANCY BUTTONS

By ELEANOR ROSS

THE, new clothes are really beau-

out last

tiful, with special emphasis, on apparel in the budget brackets. Since the new things have a modified "new look," how about going through

combing your wardrobe, year's mistakes (every wardrobe has

skeletons) such

and planning a make-over job? A taking in of little alteration in the scams, b

region of the neckline, plus an original twist in ornamentation, is all that is necessary to put into cir culation a frock that has proved a disappointment.

One of the best methods of lend- ing a new note in through a clever For In- bultons. use of beautiful

In satin stance a

purchased frock the first flush of the new fashions last year, has had a good slimming Inh done on the skirt. The high

ine was cut into

deep scooped Opal-jewelled buttons done in

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lustrous shades against a looped glit frome, marched down the bodice and did link service for the cuffs,

from but Earrings created

simflar delightful buttons completed a ensemble, the navy satin shirt- waist frock with its fewelled touches being perfect for important after-

The over-blouse, which can be worn without a jackót, is nows this season, and it is always a good plan to keep the neckline plain, using it for costume 9 д background Jewellery.

A constant favourite of the career girl is the shirt waist or tailored blouse, and it can be worn off duty open-necked pad with a tartan scarf.

with blouses,

binck Lingerie velvet slotted through Ince inter-

noons.

Flashing Cubes

A search revealed just the right sultons to dress up a jacquard falla suit of last Spring. The fabric has woven square dot, and so flashing hinestono cube buttons repent "uared mood and give the simple

ver look. Phalt custom dressmaker

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littlebuttons, tossory touches,

too, in order to creato

If strapless bodice seems just a

tions, are popular, but the ribbon wee bit too much, how about treating and Ahould the evening frock to a single shoulder must be very narrow, not be repented at frequent intervals, sirap? Use two-inch valvet, taffeta on the yoke, sleeves, and neckline. or satin ribbon or a strap of the fabric If you have some at hand. Blas the

Only For Evenings

The big news story in blouses this season is the off-the-shoulder or goose-girl neckline, but only for avening wear, and, I'm afraid, only for the under-thirties.

It has a youthful sophistication the perfect companion for the new

grina-length skirts.

In

sirap scross

ross the shoulder and catch it with a giant jewel button, a place rhinestone or opni cluster not on a gold wire loop. Cement another to & win and use it to ornament a handbag or the top of a glove, fighiant the hair with a barretto match your frock in colour or fabric. Six-inch wide ribbon and two large rhinestone studded buttons in diamond chip style do the trick