THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
PURE SILK
BOW TIES!
Brief And Fitting
SPOTS
OR
FANCIES
FOR EVERY NECK SIZE
key to Colour is the key
a holiday wardrobe
thing new (most of us would probably end up without the price of a holiday).
Planning means clover pleking from what clothes you have as well as caroful buying. A basle colour for acces- sories is the first big money saver... and luggage space saver, too.
com-
One set of leather accessories (black, brown or navy) gors a long way-you need n handbag: sturdy, fortable walking shoes; a pair of dressy shoes; summer sandals and a light handbag.
of
the
Avold buying clothes (with the exception beach clothes) which can be worn only on holiday.
Gay linen sandals are as suitable for beach as with cotton evening dresses. Take two wool day dresses if you are holidaying in Britain.
Blours are indispensable,
Tailored shirts cotton wear with
in black and pin stripes to skirts and jenns: Ince blottses with jewelled but- tons for cocktails and dancing.
These don't crease
CHOOSE packable fabrics.
Nylon, pure silk,
and wool are naturally crease-resistant. Many other materials will lose their creases hung in a steamy bathroom.
It
Seersucker is a perfect holiday fabric, as it
does not need ironing.
Avold plain while. It does not wear clean in spite of all that shop assistanta nay.
fresh
Fashion In The Sun
Strong sunshine, apart from fashion, demands suri- at Windsor TADES. glasse Above, Mrs 3.5. Elwes wears ∙heavy whito frames, match- Ing her white felt cap with cak apple motif. Below, saris and sunglasses, Mrs L.V. Mal- kan and Mrs A. Thadanl
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Illustrated is a Horrockses two-piece beach outfit in cotton, printed with extra large white spots. The bra is particularly well fitting, with three bullons down the front, and the brief pants are neat. Over it can be worn a matching hip-length beach coat.
YOUR MOST
EXPRESSIVE FEATURE
A BEAUTICIAN
once said "The mouth is the most mobile feature; the eye, the most active; the eyebrow the most expressive." He also says that all lines of make-up should tend upward. It is a good idea to let the eyebrows lift slightly at the far end; you get that effect with the crayon. A touch of the crayon at the end of the eye gives the illusion that the lashes are thick there. To impart the up-tilt to the lips draw a toothpick aern99 the lipstick, make a fine rising line at the corners of the lips.
If the feminine countenance is
10 look alive
and radiant It must be on the up and LIP, never dragged down.
Drooping ilnes lend a look of despair and nge to the face. They should be avoided in every way.
No woman can afford to lg- nare
restrained what clever, make-up will do for her.
BTC
MISGUIDED women who stil seem to have quaint ideas con- cerning their eyebrows should come to their senses. Film stars. who were responsible for their devastation are no longer affect- ing exotic
and startling pat- terns. Make-up artists who in- fluence the beauty
trend telling their lovely clients that the most flattering place for The eyebrow is right where nature pinces it; that is, the space from the upper edge of the eye to the brow should be exactly as wide as the opening of the eye itself. On the average person this is on the ridge of the frontal bone.
Plucking too much along the lower border of the cycbrow means that two things will hap pen; the eye scems smaller in appearance and an unattractive bulge, which reflects highlights, La left where the naturally placed eyebrow would be. It is granted, by experts that light, coloured brows should be treat- ed with mascars. The crayon can be employed but it should be used with the utmost dis- cretion and a steady hand.
:
·£10,000
Mink
Frontie
Duchess Westminster Komo thing new in fur coats is being designed: a jet black nafurat mink. I will prob- ably cost £1,530.
White, with a coloured spot, looks as and is more pmelical than pure white,
la unnecessary generally to take anything but cotton evening dresses, Bulky-to-pack billow ing tulle gowns are not worth the worry:
Button-through
and cardigans are useful can be given new life with Petersham binding or facing at the front,
And don't forget a raincoat and jewellery.
Retain your smartness
costume
THE hot weather, for too many City typists, simply meant leaving off hats and stockings
and unbuttoning coats.
But it in no more expensive
to dress well in the summer
than in the
Lakes more time.
winter.
.. it
Blouses must be kept fresh, Never and collars kept white.
Ro without stockings unless you
are wearing sandals.
It is smarter to wear a hat-
on ordinary beret costs only a few shillings and in white, will Ro with any outfit.
To the point
FROM Paris
cach Reason's falon fine is faithfully re- Lon- ported in America and don, although, comparing re- poris, ours appear brief and to the point:
America : London says: Wear a billow-Knot a chion iny: boa of schrf at your tulle fuging neckline..
at your throat. Toothpick slim Peneli
skirt. Wear gadabout Wear authentic
chess Ar
slim
日
Pius tours with outsize bloomer legs, are the latest bits of nonsense from Paris. When you would, wear them is doubtful. They would be fatal on a bicycle and look
But the kly on a beach. idea is amusing-seen from a distance !
Do you know that
never storo
Washable collon evening dress
in a large spot design.
0
Linen thot is to be stored for
should long time
not bo starched?
I
A Hittle salt added to the washing water will help to keep linen white?
1
Shopping news
A new sandwich maker, which trims and toasts
#andwich in two minutes over an open fire. Costa 13, 11d. and can be used in and out of doors.
Gloves with
Biring backs and pastel coloured leather palms-359.
3 A stainless steel sink which
has
driven electrically brushes fitted for washing up.
Those soggy salads
London Kaprese Bereice.
RECIPE: A restaurant fresh Sun Glasses
fruit galod too often these
days means a stewed plum, a
bed piece of soggy apple, and three N the all-in-one
NEW fashion in sun glasses is
in a cupboard grapes.
descent taf-
feta in honey-
tarians a mid brown with flecked bluc.
You should
and
table linen
near
a hot
water cistern
brown
with
So
dry
In America six coals of natural
mutation black
been made, have already at a cost of £10,000 each. Greta Garbo has one,
has Joan Crawford. These coats were
froin made minks which were born
black.
Lave In London Lexis been made by Mayor Cyril mink Kent with black "blends." By this is meant dyeing. Ordinary กร leave 11:0 fur without lustre; but
Brillsh craftsmen have
found a keep the
akin supple and shining.
The long, black, ripple- back coat for the Duchess of Westminster will be the first of its kind,
WAY
to
If the eyes are set close to- gether, deepen the colouring at the outer corners. Round, pro- minent eyes appear to take on a
more
attractive contour if the shadows are a bit heavier in the centre of the lids That is the way to make the most of this type of good looks witchery,
DOTS and DASHES
DASHES in navy and while üre --- the feature of this garden party model in crapa, The stripes of graduated widths give a most unusual appearance,
DOTS in black patform this summer favourite, which cort... bines horizontal pleated skirt, gleaming sharkukin material and the new. U-shaped neckline,
· Landon Kryessa Bervice.
aquamarine
slinding.
A wide feather- A picture hat. light straw so
"sheer that the
shines:
through.
Whaleboned
And Laced
ex-
Mme. Repiquet, in 1820, a famous corset-maker of I'aris, was the first to show her corsets on a living mod- el. Mme. Mayer, another fn-
corset maker, mous hibited at the Paris Ex- corset position of 1823, a
or busk without made whalebone, reinforced rib- bon replacing the usual form
other source
Warm liable
of heat? In
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sun shield, which not only looks glamorous
When making it at home try but keeps to the shape of the light out cubed
fresh face and keeps the with pineapple dry atmosphere
or from the sides. iccream, strawberries and become
and
raw apricots
prunes. Another unusual model has a brittle and even turm yellow, Choose a cool place, free from Another good mixture is grape-combined sun-glass and mirror fruit sections with green lens, so that the wearer can
with
dampness, to preserve its white- ness and prevent deleribration Grapes, or melon with grupes.
-CLONDON Exprest Service) or mildew?
LONDON FASHIONS
DRAW THE
MONEY
by EILEEN ASCROFT
of stiffening. However, it FASHION FORTNIGHT
had little influence as whale bone and finally metal wore used in corsets throughout the century.
By 1830 he waist had be-
women
is making
people happy all round. Manufacturers report that buyers are visit- ing their showrooms and are placing steady the orders.
Buyers aro enthusiastic about models they have seen. "Better in quality and style than last year, and cheaper, too," is the general verdict.
The Board of Trade are glad they per- severed with the Fortnight in spite of critician last year. Buyers have attended the organised parades and other functions in fair numbers, whereas last year it was difficult to find a buyer who was ordering.
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have received
come so small that the most en- vied was one that could be mensured with the two hands. To emphasise this silhouette the skirts were made very full and reached only to the ankles, the unul would be shortest they after World War I. Very thin
It is too early yet to thel skirts padded around the hips to emphasise what the Fortnight will produce the waist, several starched petil-In hard cash, but already some coats were worn, and whale-manufacturers
arge orders. bone was used to hold out the hem of the skirt. Until 1830 the
Most popular choice of the 250 holes for lacing the carset had buyers from 31 countries is the
made with
buttonhole stitching but at this date, Daube, tailored sults. There is a per- sistent demand for checks, both who was a doctor with the armies of Napoleon, created the large and small, metallic eyelet. For sometime, however, the motalic eyelet was covered with button-hole stlich- Ing.
been
Highlights
restoring some of the rigid court had a slim skirt and knit-
TOWN SUIT
in black doe-skin, hàn long lapels, nippad walst- Li
hipt and moulded alendar wrap skirt,
Bec...out, but...her friends only see their own reflections,
con
tachable enpe and a deerstalker's hat, the whole outfit rather m- miniscent of Sherlock Holmes. New rayonn
Exhibition of naw materials at the Rayon Centre included cloques and userushable satins.
cross- one half of the width otic mat-
organdies, transparent erial the other half comple- checked with nylon, Rayon also mentary but quite different.
This was effective in a tailored produces lace, net and fine fila-
ment crepe. tircas of plain purple wool
Designer of an original-bretla and grey flecked with black and design print is Royal Academy white woven together.,
exhibitor John Oldham.
If it rains
ballroom
Manufacturers'
Minton, from
Most unusual checked jumper
Beauty news. suit was in jersey tweed in a
With a heat-wave on, buyers cherry gathered in Grosvenor House The week's beauty news in- With the Restoration of the subtle combination of
The jumper
to see lates; glamour cludes a feather pressed pow- Monarchy
1814 and dark green. in French
sult
rainwear modois by 11 mem- der which is a great improve- fashion began another chango,
stocves and turned-back
bers of the Rubber Proofed
As ment on the old cake compact. Garment basque; the matching overcoal
This is pressed so that no stray formality that had been abolish-
three quarter length, sociation. Was and ed during the Revolution
specks spill on to clothes when and loose, double- the Directory. The feminine si breasted, with low revers
ell straight
Proofed gabardino shower the compact is opened, yet it houcite turned to the corseted
coats are now so smart that dusts on to the put as loosely
Parts hour-glass Bgure, with sloping deep patch pockets.
to The three-in-one suit hasz many will be doing double duty as you please.
Latest Import from shoulders, big sleeves, tiny waist skirt and unlined waistcoat cum as winter coat One. all-wool London is a mask of egg om and bell-shaped skirt.
fuck-in-top, which together model in cinret had a companion
and
The waistline became more took Uke Li dress and matching daherman's ball another in bryos, which must be repeated normal and corsets were roade jacket Without the waistcoat. emerald green had a matching every night for ten days to re- longer and higher covering the bust. They were stily whale- boned with a wide busk in front and laced at the back.
cap like a baseball player's. In vitalise tired skins. Cost is over it makes a mart autuma sult,
One collection Introduces line-with the now crate for £2, but French women wear for checks, shepbard's plaid coat by it.
**(London Express (Service) companion woolles cloths the arst une woven, together, in black and white had à de
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