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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRÚARY 19, 1949.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
London Fashions... reported by SUSAN DEACON
longer, wasp
big
Jackets are waists out and hats in
ONDON designers have at inat broken nuny from
those who accuse them of lnck- ing originality or definite line is
n newer line in British clothes, inimitable, restrained. and
wearable.
The
exotic styles-hobbie skiris;
Ngure- ankle-length day dresses; revealing, low-cut necklines and hip padding give way to impeccably tailored, traditional, elegant, English clothes.
were
Beat the
spring collections obviously designed with an eye to the English summer, making nin allowance for hot weather.
Poor styling
Fine woot dresses, suits, and 10p- coats in worsteds and tweeds were the bulk of the clothes shown.
Or the few silk or linen dresses 1 saw almost all of them had short sleeves, and, in striking contrast to styling the tailored clothes, their was uninspired
London women going enatless on a hot day insist on three-quarter or sleeves full-length sleeves. Short
are not smart and are unsuitable for Town wear.
Colours ብር muted-frey and neutral colours of beige, cafe-au-lait, biseult-and a lot of
navy with
white.
The
which
was
colour only consistent true
ran through each collection E clear yellow, sometimes sleepening into a citrus colour. It is worn with black, navy, and grey.
The general nutie is slim and fabular. The hem-line in shorter, between 13 ins, and 14 Ins. from the ground.
Padding again.........
Designers insist on a straight slen- der line at the front, and any ful- ness is at the site or centre back.
Suits 1:0 longer have sloppy wil shoulders, and most welcome the return of shoulder pad- model ding. Unless you have a girl gure, padded shoulders are essential
women
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Jackets ure (onger
fairly plain--but they have a kick in them mostly again at the centre back.
Waists are defined but not nipped in wasp waist is no longer neces- sary for high fashion.
Bellowed Pockets are important. pockets, slightly fluted, are used, and "smugglers' pockets"-one small one on top of a larger one-are seen on suits.
Skirts have panels of pleats, again mostly at the side. side back or centre back. They are seldom used! All
skirt-where smoothly
Golby
I Draped ́s raw coltar scen in-suits and- coats. The hat is a chip straw sombrero.
2 Panels of sido
pleating shown on the skirt and jacket.
3 Enormous bow to
give hips emphasis on ercalng dress.
STATELY ATTEM
should
you are big bosomed you wear the colours the other Way round.
You will wear orgundie or pique with your sult this spring and i will show
In a deep bigh rifle, or 4171 enormous bow,
Necklines. on dresses as well as blouses, are mosty high- Chinese style-ficult to wear for most unit.
women. They need a long slender The
neck. the "plzlar fulness is taken
Full to the back, caught up and then dropped like a pigtall--is much used.
slender The mermaid" line-a skirt with Daring or pleating at the bottom-is ecensionally seen more dressy sults.
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Two tone colours are sometimes used for suits-a light grey tweed jacket had a dark grey skirt. But tr
length top conts are mostly were Atled-valuminous tent coats rarely seen.
In The biggest news in coats is the frame collar, which stands out and away from the face.
There is more swing in the skirts af topcoats than in suit skirts,, nod, again there are lots of pockets, al the back as well as the front.
Materials used were all that is beautiful in British tweeds. worsteds, Buitings, and rayons. although most designers admit to having, used some French fabrics.
Tarlan'
Tartan remains popular.
yellow corduroy. It was belted and hnd wide cuffs and a deep collar.
Flaring back
Another in while pique, beltless, within full daring back was shown over a full-length dinner dress, but It could be worn as enslly over day dress or odd skirt.
It
und
is used extensively for lining
or for collars and cuffs on neutral coloured cont.
A deep yellow tweed wrap aver coat, which hung longer at the back than at the front, was iined, cuffed, and collared with blue tartan and worn uver blue tartan dress. The underbrim the hat with this coat was also tartan. was so
worn
vor
A pale yellow
Atted cont had
revers and cuffs
of black tartan.
Black grosgrain and black satin
is tallored into atting full- length town coats.
A few hip- length
were
conts
shown
which could be matched
up with odd skirts
Or
worn Over Summer
dresses.
Outstanding, was one made of wide ribbed
deláll
Jaw no
Buttons are an important
are inndu of dull metal, bone. I chromium or material-covered buttons.
Formal dinner dress were often bend-embroidered. The lovellest one
was slender fitting, with
BON
stand up Chinese collar and three- quarter length sleeves.
The material honey-coloured
Was
A
gleaming embroidered with Jet. With it the model wore
long black gloves.
salin
Trailing ivy leaves were used for the belt of a mid-blue all not dress, and velve!
velvet ribbon
kanded the walst
of another net dress.
Evening cool shown were mostly
full length and three-tiered. But the and hemlines were much too long
In many costs, trailed the ground,
Beautiful furs
Fur wraps were beautiful. Mink ermine and similar smooth Ant fur was used. Long fur is not fashion- able.
onr
"Fur evening stoles--so popular Inst season~~~were not
scen. But designer showed 11 hem length feather bon which looked smart.
Evening dresses have a new on the-shoulder look. Strapless, naked dresses were rarely seen.
Some evening dresses even sleeves, but in all styles n abawl collar of net, ince, or
hnd draped scif
material covered the shoulders.
Artifelat towers were either fas- tened to the shoulder, at the waist, or carried.
Wide brims
On hats, us
well 05 evening dresses, a spray of white tine is top favourite.
made
Huts are very wide trimmed, in straw, or neat and small Atting.
One clache hat I saw was entirely of rose petals-another had tiny artificial daffodils at the front, and the base of the hat was-sealter- ed with shining green beelies.
Seen in the audience of famous fashion writers:
8
Pearl chokers varying from 2 to Women.... rows, on out of 10
return of the eye-veil... white cot- lon gloves with a winter cont-and
colourert why not? Jewel
Atting velour cloche bats,...mercury wings flying from a black skull nylons.
Hurry-Up Beauty Routine
cap....
Frilled Briefs Get Briefer..
Fashion, busy deslining Spring's "tube look," toe-length gowns and frocks, has not for. gotten the possibility of a hot
and
equal puis
off-the- Imagination buto-this ahoulder two-piece play suit: frilled brassiere top, abbreviated frilled briefs-
summеr
and into thin swim-suit: tic-at-the-wylst briefs, brassiere top, in white.
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OUTLINE is everything in 1949 fashions. A dress, a cont must show a clean-cut, dis tinctive silhouette with particu-
country, wears an excellent exampl
beer
Inode'
of the type of track we have direuseing a 11urdy Amies' showing the back-swept line in black and belge ince over champagne
lar emphasis on the back in coloured fulle, bolh materials made most cases.
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This is essentially by Birkin of Nottingham.
The rame
15 back-swept line shown again in conts designed by Blanca Mosca in plak tweed made by. William Boines of
of evening in the case clothes, whether gowns or coata. A dress can he penell slim, or it may have a full flowing skirt, but it is not until the turns her back that you see the significance of the design.
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Rouge should be applied after foundation, and blended with powder. Marguerite Chapman uses a brush for this.
CURLS IN CLOVER
by PATRICIA LENNARD
CHORT hair styles are giving way
to
tercut.
swinging
longer hair with
back in-
la hair
The straight page-boy bob
the out at
back favoured, also long straight brushed back into "clover-len!"
1
curl-three thick bun-llied curls held at the nape of the neck in the shape of a clover leaf.
dis-
Hairdressers in Britain have been much resolved in their minds about the introduction of the "cold perm" which women can give themselves at home. Apart from anything else, colffeurs all agree that there is no doubt that quite a large of the
home "permane will find complications and appointment arising through Aleting chern!cal reactions on hair of the agents used for waving. Unless the hair and scalp are in 1a do- first-class condition-which pendent upon conditions of health--
Place rouge high and will run into dimculties, disappears. blend with powder. A brush handy for this.
con-
the
By HELÉN FOLLETT Here is another trend which is im portant now-the high-waisted Em-
shadows, pire line, carried out by
cunning E
LIVERY girl should know how to will whisk away fatigue searing which moulds the
look: best at short notice. Alve the eyes brightness.
her
Put on a foundation cosmetic care- to the figure well above dite waist. It's easy enough to get into the grand fully, tapping it in until most of it there, is no doubt that many women On the other hand, trimmings aru
while also
accenting the waist itself,
glorious dry goods, arrange the for the moment unimportant, Sim-
thus making
far the whole line.
thatch, Iny on the complexton high plicity is important, not only be- more attractive, than the original Heits it one ins an hour or more in cause of the kind of materials used Empire silhouette itself. For in that
which to produce glamorous effects But how about the time when the and the richer or more lavish these silhouette the looseness of the gar
because there pre the better-but
ment below the exaggeratedly high best fellow calls up, says he wants
shapelessness
and he'll be is today a vogue for "highlighting a waistline suggested a
to take you places dress with a
a single piece of exquisite which only the prettiest and round in no time to pick you up? That happens. Do you get into a jewellery. Stiff fabrics well youngest of Bures could carry oft.
the
brocades.
Alurry? Here's what to do: oven lle-silks are being unftu-m-bau| there is also a tendency to use inco and tulle elther over a stiff foundo- tion or over layer
of upon laver tulle itself, so that the delicacy of the material is stressed.
in
1
orc
picture--antius,
These gowns are likely to stay in favour for some time, for they aro as sultable for the debutante as for the older woman,
and
aro moro wearable and far
to more easy Kerr, manage. Deborah
one of Britain's loveliest Alm stars who has returned from Hollywood to make another picture in her own
In this cont, too, the material is skice important. It is some time
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If you have h yen for shadows, use a light colour and don't let It extend beyond the terminals of the eyebrows. Shadows are won- derfully intriguing if used sparingly, a wash aut if the application is heavy. and
With hair modes what they are-- chic-you'll have little simple and
through the Bilky trouble raking threads, putting them in order, every little fuzzer where It belongs and where i
it will do the most good. No matter how hurried
you are, don't fail to wear a little perfume. There's
Cream,
a busy day If it has been the designers first discovered the you're tired, have a hot bath and a tonic great possibilities of tweed. In this euid shower, followed by a
the coat the delicacy of colouring and friction. Before getting into the fineness of material proves that tub, remove make-up with It is as good a choice for an evening wash your face, apply cream again. wrap as for the more practical day- The only application, together with a .timo suit..
alcamy atmosphere, wiil refresh the complexion, import picasing colour- ing.
Finally, there is the back-swept Allort the lina as interpreted by evening cont. This in Intended, Allm primarily, in ba worn over n skirt, so that the fawing movement la given its full value.
a
tissues. Dip Remove it with wash cloth in cold water, place over your eyes, le down and relax for ten minutes. This simple treatment
With this in mind one of London's most famous hairdressers, Riche of Hay Hill, has introduced a posini culture on hair advisory service
this find Its problems. It was colffeur who claims to have intro- the duced
1032 Into England In first #yetten of permanent waving which dispensed with the wires at- taching the client's head to a con- traption above. Since then he has
nearly. handled personally million hair samples.
All good hairdresserH test Vic hair of a 'ellent for its elastić pro- perties, and put it under microscop something about a sweetle examination before beginning to ecent that makes one feel rich and "perm" it, and this is the lden be elegant. Put a dab behind your ears hind the new service which offers to give n professional report and and in the curves of your arms. If
dance, place a few opinion on individual hair problems, you're going to
oven at long range. drops on the hom of your frock,
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