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In the army, the navy und war plants millicos

of men learned there is nothing as comfortable

for summertime as a "skivvy” -- the knit "T-shirt"

with short sleeves that absorbs perspiration

while it lets the breezes in. Now Coopers — the folks who make famous Jockey Underwear- have styled up theso shirts for civilian wear. In smart colors and stripes-color-fast washable. Lay to a supply now and enjoy them all summer long. Available at Hong Kong's Leading Stores.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1949.

WOMANSENSE

THE UPSWEEP→

-THE DOWNSWEEP

Short-hair-styles at the Spring Hair Fashion Com-

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Britain. Top the winning ploture shows head, that of Joan Robins, 20; anel, below. Barbara

Allert.

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garret, now

★ Mr. Revson, who made nail enamel in

chooses the spring shades for 53,000,000 women.

THE LIPSTICK MILLIONAIRE

New York.

VERY time an Amer

can woman's overstuff- ed handbag finally.

.By... FREDERICK COOK

First of Mr Revson's brain- waves was to name the family product Revlon, not Revson (it slips easily off the

tongue, Revson doesn't, he says). Since then he has thought up snappy names for 73 different colours.

bursts open and spills its actually satd). Ife asked for a bewildering array of con- rise and get instead a lecture

On the market now arc tente. it is approximately on the inadvisability of young

corning too much enamels with names like Pink five to one that the lipstick fellows

Garter, Bravo, Misty Corul, that goes rolling across the money.

"But I like maney," said Mr Sweet Talk, Fatai Apple, Pinkc floor will have been made by Revson, who now has enough Lightning, and best of all and the man I talked to the or it to operate from a suite of the latest. Touch of Gentus. other day..

luxury ofces on Fifth Avenue.

Mr Revson employs no "I've always liked money,

Intellectuals like to spend it. So I got out." thinkers, no arty

will And It was March 1. 1932, when' to tell him what wornen

like. He knows.

In his thinks he could easily Charles Revson, his

cars the tinkling of cash regis- make himself cosmetics king of Joseph and Martin,

ters in 70,000 beauty salons and up their England, 100, in a very Short friend started

between 3,500 and 9,000 retail while, if times were different tiny business in New York outlets in the sweetest music of and the Whitehall people would garret. let him open a factory outside Landou).

Its name is Mr Charles Revson, uncrowned lipstick and nail enamel king of the U.S.A. (Ho

Seventeen years ago, Charles Revson

for working was another mans,

what for a moment I thought he was go- ing to call the "beauty racket" tbeauty profession was what he

Vicki In A Terno Knocked 'em Cold

MANILA.-Vicki

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woven

Is

By MANOLITA TEATSORTH

Manalo' The teruo is distinguished by Kirl who's enormous butterfly sleeves,

usually made of some equally breath-taking in re lice pina (pineapple), just bathing suit

a party or sinamay cloth, which

It to make dress, wore her first "terna" heavily starched

sharply nbove the recently at a party given by stand President Elpido Quirino at Maleanan Palace and the guests just couldn't keep their eyes off the Amerienn diving queen.

shoulders.

Latest Word in Style

thinks

brothers and n own

their own

nall the

all.

up the fancy colours, any too well these days. guesses what women will take.

Atomizer Conserves Perfume

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Perfume and toljet water are best kept in an atomiser, Tollet water that comes in an atomizer-type container is easy to apply, lasts longer.

By HELEN FOLLETT

IRLS who must conserve the Don't forget that the scents of beauty budget, can't bear the floral kingdom have a dis- Mr Reyson is a clean-shaven

for to give up perfume and toilet tinct Influence upon people, so a taste man of 42 with

In severe blues and stripes in his water, would do well to invest select one that is delicate

in extra character. A famous perfume own clothes, contrasting oddiy in an atomizer. It

of chemist has remarked that one's They made

with the Hollywood elegance of vagant and a sinful waste

odours to entire mode of

ho Mo may enamel, more or less by

his showrooms.

expensive floretted dab them behind the ear. or

changed by the perfume one cupful. "In those days we made

As to what goes into his odd put them on handkerchiefs and uses. We offer that for what it maybe a couple of gallons in a

be worth. may

We do know werk. I peddled it round from but prontable concoctions (his scarves.

that the woman who carries. Firms that have toiletries to to shop. In the first year lipsticks cost 53, for the most shop

her an overpowering. we made 200 gallons. Now we expensive, 3s. for smaller ones offer are going out

in a big with

aroma Is considered. make 80,000 gallons a year, and and his enamels as a botile) way to supply members of the musky sell it

he claims he does not know universal sisterhood will these anything but fastidious. "ar Revson is the man

who

As the gardens of the world little spraying gadgets. Thern ure charming designs, some cannot supply enough flowers to bit costly. others that come

meet the demand of perfume within the means of

cm- synthetics are average shopper. You will buyers,

ployed to a large extent. These are made in laboratories and "In nail enamel-not varnish,,thern in all colours. There are

since tween 15 and the grave wear please" he said, "there's a cute tricks in clear or Swedish the colours they do because variety of things: resins, pig-type gluss, topped with black. they duplienie the flower scents or blue plastic, and are likely to be more last- ivory, pink Charles Revson says so.

plus There are others of Iridescent ing.

mother of pearl. Fancy that! The most popular offerings A nice gift for that girl friend seem to be blends or bouquets. 01 yours when her birthday These same scents can often bo. comes and you are wondering had in the form of toilet waters what to give her.

thai, being more reasonablo In You might go all out and price, can be used more freely send along a bottle of perfume. by the budget-watcher.

and the fancy tiles that send his sales graphs up, up, up.

Alost of the $3,500,000

American women and giris be-

nitro-cellulose, ments, tieisers, solvents. They daub on the lipstick "Some of the dyes are earth and the rouge, the powder and dyes-cbres, iron oxide and co

be on the rest,

You synthetics. the nail enamel they do cause Churles Revson had seen really ought to go to

one of to it that, my dear, one simply our chemists for that sort cannot do anything else Unis detail. But they probably would not tell you. Won't even tell me, most of the time."

year.

the

of

I asked him what was coming

He sees to it in a variety of Vicki's terno was the latest fashion authorities on market- up.

ways, by agreeing with word in style. Fashioned from ing the colours both want: by "For spring," he said, "it's It was the first time in victory blue lace over a darker thinking up named no woman Sweet Talk. And a neat little Vicki's 24 years that she had shade of slipper satin blue, need go grey remembering (no number here i-called,

had a tight Ion torso that worn a terno, or native Fili- moulds the figure and a

funcy French

names, nothing what do you suppose? Orchida too sexy, simple and easy to to You. I cather like that, skirt. It fulfilled & bouffant

The pino dress.

satinmemorize),

don't you?" over like n lifelong ambition for the underskirt turned olive-skinned Olympic diving mushroom cup at the edge of

na

full

It

champion, whose late father alluringly low neckline.

WALS sparsely decked with

was a Filipino and whose mother-of-pearl

beads to catch mother is English.

lights.

"I used to attend parties in California where Filipino or mestiza girls dress in their native ternos, and I secretly hoped that some day might also wear one," Vicki sukl

Vicki's mother, Mrs Gertrude Manalo of San Francisco, asked her diving doughter by-trans- Pacific telephone whether she

was

going to wear a Filipino terte. At the time. Vicki didn't know. Then, Manila dress- maker made one for her as

kift.

sequins

and the evening

The dress had a trick

con-

raption by which the butterfly sleeves could be detached. With- out the sleeves, the gown be-. comes a strapless evening gown.

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St

Sackcloth Becomes

Fashion Favourite

PARIS-Women

сап even

PAS wear sackcloth and

Vicki called it a "convertible," | fashionable this spring. With-

out ashes, of course. Formerly, the design of the skirt was woven into the bodice

Although there is nothing re- "camisn."

Hence,

the Spanish term “lerne,"

volutionary about "Look 49," which

Jacques Fath has come up with literally means "to match."

a new idea in materials. Among the dresses he showed here was a full skirted strapless cocktail dress of sickcloth,

Vicki, now a professional, came to the Philippines for a serles of diving exhibitions. Because of her Filipino ancestry, the people of Manila look her to their hearts, Vicki was en- tertained, dined, interviewed and the point of exhaustion. But she loved it and the Filipinos loved her unassuming, sailing manner.

United Press.

Doris Day Now presented gifts almost

Relaxes

ORIS Day, ex-night club sluger, who scored a big hit

DOR

In "Romance On The High Seas," claims to be Hollywood's num- ber one anti-night clubber,

She doesn't own a single even- can't get ing gown. And you her to put a toe into a supper club.

That indientes you can get fed up on even the most expensive things, Miss Day said.

"I spent almost every night for eight years in evening gowns, in night clubs," Miss Day saki "I never want to see them again -either a supper Kown or a supper club,"

Miss Day's allergy to night clubs brings up the question of what she does do in her spare time. She plays in rummy, reads good books and takes care of her four-year-old son. And instead of evening gowns, she wears red sweaters.

It's often been necessary for Miss Day to wear an evening rown on the screen, inovias being the lush things they are..

"When movies call for moto dress up, I dress up," Miss Day explained logically. "That's part of my work.

"I put on an evening gown the way I'd put on any other kind of costume and take it off when the job is done.

"But I don't believe in dress- ing up just for the sake of dress. |ing up."

Gorgeous lace and salin crea- tions have lost their appeal for Miss Day. In eight years on the road with bands, she Aguren she had four times as many of them as most women get in 80, years, When Miss Day goes on a sponding spree now, she doesn't buy an evening gown. She buys tailored slacks.

ever

the

cerve a useful purpose,

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

An

Outdoor Buffet

In

Mix

ONE of the most delightful or green pepper. Cut 2 good- Outloo buffel parties I sized cucumbers lengthwise. attended was given lost Scoop out and discard the seeds, Rutume on a ranch.

and fine-chop the pulp. Mix The hostess planned a buffet glass bowl with the tomatoes meal for quick serving and easy And pepper. Add 2 tbsp. grated The dress had a gold serpent-eating. It was a delightful par- raw carrots, tbsp. fine-grated be skin belt and was topped with ty. The service was so perfecl- Bermuda onion, tsp garlic a white wafle pique bellhop ly conducted and it was such a, salt or 1 section garlic, crushed Jackel.

practical way to entertain

a fine, 2 tbsp. lemon juice, 1⁄2 tsp. Another little suckcloth num-large group, that I'm sure many cayenne pepper, 1/3 tsp. black you planning family reun

salt. 1

tep. pepper and ber was o thigh length full of

and---scrvo. coolle coat studded with almond ions: on the Fourth would like thoroughly, Chill to about it, nutshells and raffle embroidery,

very cold, preferably in a glass The food was who attended

arranged or bowl. Serve with crackers and Rita Hayworth,

arge linen-covered tables in whole sprigs of water cress to the show with Aly Khan, described both numbers as "un the houses, with the dishes, nap- nibble. usual but very smart" She king and appropriate silverware

Brownies a la Modo It was not the sackcloth of showed a marked preference for placed nearby. First there was piblical days-dark cloth of the cont

huge perfectly baked ham, For each person top a brownie goat's or camel's hair-worn as

and tremendous platters of

Of with a scoop of vanilla, choco- Fath said "I brought back this quar a sign of penance with ashes on

broiled quartered

chicken

and late or coffee lee cream, Pour the forehead. It was cotton taste for simplicity from my re- sliced turkey, Next there were over cold chocolate sauce. sackcloth and what's more the cent visits to the United States." big bowls of tossed salad, and a bruce was heavily cncrusted' with gold and sequin embroi- dery.

FOR THE JUNIOR MISS

A two-yard stole, with pockets at each end, conceals the bare shoulders of a sun dress, left, for informal summer dancing. The daytime dress, at right, has a dirndl skirt and matching belt that ties in front. The New York modelled dresses are boldly printed in warm colours, a pleasing feature for the younger net.

know,

Brownics

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Jacques Fath, like Desses and wonderful polalo. and almond

There were plates of Cream together 3⁄4¢, granula- Balenciaga earlier in the day, different kinds of buttered bread tea sugar and 4 c. butter or shows fallskirted dresses, many and baskets of crusty rolls. margarine. Work in 2 squares of them stiffened with starched All kinds

tbsp. mented bitter chocolate, of olives, pickles, dark com syrup, 2 weit beaten linen underskirts to make them

relishes, mustards, cholce jeillea stand out.

and jams,

were arranged in Egs, and 1 tsp. vanilla. When matching glass dishes.

well mixed, add 1⁄4 S. milk. Cheese and Crackers Next sift together 4 c. flour,

baking pow- For dessert there was a fine tsp. salt and up,

der. Add 1 c. chopped nut unusual. array of cheese and both buttoned right through the crackers, arranged on a special meats (any kind) and stir into

the frst mixture.

are Oil a shallow centre back. The bolero was table. Fresh fruit, warm salied cut away in front to reveal a almonds browned in grope ell, Pan, 6 x 13"; spread the brow- nie batter evenly in this, making erk coffee coloured printed and plenty of hot coffee poured it about 4 in, thick. Bake 15 blouse. He uses plain tailor at the tables, topped off a per min. in a moderate oven, 375 F.

Fath shows bolero suits with long tight skirts and cutaway jackets. One ensemble in navy blue wool had a straight skirt and balero which were

buttons in

every conceivable tect meal, place-down side scans.

un

а

We collected all our food in While still warm cut in 2 in. pockets, cuffs and collars and the house, cafeteria style, then squares. These will keep fresh

ni several days If stored in we went outdoors to eat

closed Lin. tubica in the linen-covered

Dinnor grape arbour, on the lawn, or under oleander or fig trees,

On

even down shoulder seains. his spiro sitirts they are used to nail the end of the spiral wherever it falls.

Household Hints

D

So here's planned for the

String Bean and Cheese Salad Boiled Salmon or Other Fish.

Cucumber Sauco Parsllod New Potatoes Buttered Green Peas Apple Pio

.

or

A family reunion buitet mby Fath maintains the over-the- be served indoors or outdoors. shoulder seaming formula but Baked ham, turkey and chicken has moved the team about two may be too expensive,

and as inches forward. This gives the the weather will probably be wester a round shouldered look wann, a cream is a must.

and children will br Hot or Iced Coffee or Tea present, Ice

Milk (Children) different menu,

same kind of String Bean and Choose Salad Informal service, and starting Use 1 lb whole boiled Warped drop leaves on small with-ing oranu-new, that's pressured string beans for this tables are a common problemn. | 40% expensive, but that won the salud. Combine with plain or ucclaim of a group of gourmets gurlic French dressing and chill. The slope can be partially re- who enjoyed it. It's a native Arrange individually on Jettuce medled by gluing a wedge on top of the support which swings pensant soup from Spain, made or cress, Garnish with balls of out to hold, the leaf

uncooked vege- cottage cheese rolled in grated place. entirely from The wedge should be just as tables. long and as wide as the top of: the support, and should be wide the outer end, narrowed down to nothing at the other. side. Apply glue to the wedge and support, the place in po- sition, raising the leaf. Let dry for 40 hours, and don't use the table during that time. The weight of the leaf will be enough pressure to hold the wedge fely to the support.

on

To nvold wrinks when Iron- ing a bra, turn the fron towards the centre of eschi cup until the entire arch is smooth and dry. Or, iron the eups double. The flat pections and straps are iron- ed next. Try not to iron over elastic portions.

Buffot -Cold Peasant Soup Crisp Crackers Sliced Roast Porkc and Smoked Tongue Chili Sauce Horse-Radish Mustard

Pickle Reilsh Potato Chips Buttered Com Bread Hot Escalloped Macaront and Cheese Brownies a la Modo with Chocolate Sauce Hot or Iced Coffee or Tea Milk (Children) All Measurements Are Lavet Recipes Serve Four

and raw carrot.

Cold Peasant Soup Peel and Ane-chop Inrge, ripe tomatoes with 1 sweet red

Boiled Salmon, Halibut or

Order a

Cod

thick cut of Ash weighing from 1 to 2 lb. Place the fish

on a plate and Be a plece of cheese cloth loosely around, so it can be lifted from the water without breaking ni- ter cooking. Place in a kettle. Pour in boiling water barely to cover. Add 2 top. salt, and tbsp. vinegar or lemon juice, to make the fish firm and flavour- ful. Simmer 20 min. Drain thoroughly and serve with sauce tarlare, creamed chopped egg sauce, or soured cream cucum- ber sauce.