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THESE

Radiac

SHIRTS

ARE WELL WORTH CONSIDERING IF YOU NEED A SHIRT THAT IS A LITTLE DRESSY YET NOT TOO CLAMMY FOR THESE HUMID DAYS.

THEY ARE MADE FROM A CELLULAR CLOTH, HAVE SHORT SLEEVES AND ARE AVAILABLE IN FOUR PASTEL SHADES AS WELL AS WHITE.

Very suitable for such air-conditioned premises

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1950

WEEK-END

WOMANSENSE

—and a charming_woman.M.P. opened the show

FOR FOR

CLOTHES

WOMAN

LONDON.

This dress is designed

We must hand bouquels ning to the designer who thought of an adjustable halter neckline on an evening dress, and the other whose sharkskin collar and cuffs were detneliable.

THERE 18 AN by GIL and priced at 8% Kns It would be dimcuit to find OLD PROVERB: better value. 'GOOD CLOTHES OPEN ALL DOORS. This not is a half-truth-I do believe that good clothes can cover naked minds. But I feel confident that tho British clothes a how N during this Fashion Fort- night will open doors per- hape only ajar before.... because those British characteristics--more prized today than ever-common- figure. sense and the capacity to compromise, are reflected in our styles."

For the outsize

Somo kindly foul had cun- sidered the outsize woman, and produced

a number of outfits for her, mainly with hip-length traight Jackel fushionable and flattering to any type of

Bella and te "Wedding March heralded the bride and two bridesmaids, We liked the cool effect of a net bridal gown Thus spoke the Minister of with insets of late in the wide National Insurance the Rt. skirt, but must we always have

pink bridesmaids? Summerskill, M.P..

A mild fur- Hon. Edith when she opened the first ore

was caused at one point "Drernes for Every Woman" when the bride stepped on her parade. Edith Summerskill, be- veil and lost her headdress. sides being an aolule politician, charming women with a strong sense of humour. She was dressed herself in a simple grey and white small patterned dress, plain navy court shoes, und a big brimmed navy straw cocktails, and fine wool for win- ter were the fabrics. A fabric often seen шля shadow check in gay colours. It had a pleasantly blurred effect at the be confessed edges but it must that at first sight, we wondered If our eyesight were folling.

hat.

She htt come

things to say.

provocativo

A woman's logs

"Nobody can shackle a wo- man's leg after her mind has been emancipated

the man

With two suits the model show. cd us a reversible berct--which she was kind enough to reverse on the spot. Printed taffetz and for evening lacquered chiffon

and molre for dresses, poult

not

Is it fair to criticise too rev- crely a show of this kind? Re-

who thought he could re-intro- membering that the prices were duce hobble skirts and wasp

very low and the quality in

waists forgol-if he ever knew general very good, we do feel

that the Sex Dequelineation bound to mention

Removal Act was pazed in facts.

1910,"

Dr Summerskill liker the long howing skirt.. It is

splendid dealin

women

one or two

Two salient facts

Firstly, manufacturers should that in cheaper polliclans--We car crosa our remember

brilliant colours Im- knees discreetly and forget our dresses, mothers told is no lady should mediately make the dress look

By Joan Erskine

do so. I can lounge comfortably Into the small hours in the front bench at Westminster, and even

about put speculate seriously ting my feet on the table."

Emerald

and

tawdry and "loud". green, royal blue, purple scarlet, are not successful col

cheaper to produce In D ours range even if they do appeal Manufacturers to many girls.

11

their In and buyers have

good taste. power to influence They should use this power to

Watching an betier

advantage.

EVERY

MODEL AT RIGHT is shown in a lovely evening dress in shot fuschia and blue moire designed by Gli with draped peg- top skirt following the line of the graceful swathed bodice. It is the cheapest evening dress shown in Fashion Fortnight.

TYPICAL OF those seen at the recent show is this creation of check taffeta afternoon or cocktail dress (model at

left),

Site Glows

City Bomb

With Jewels

the delightful form of fashion- able spray brooches matching car-clips.

Diamonds-most coveted

LONDON. unromantically-named

in

the

with

o!

all jewels, for they never los their intrinsic value-were well represented. Most magnificent item was a platinum necklace 200 more than composed of

baguettes large diamonds and skilfully worked to form leaf patterns.

FOR THOSE of us who are not-so-wealthy there are reason- in available fascimlies able the form of diamond-set pasto of magnificent Reproductions

the jewels which once graced fashionable women of the 18th Пра Brd 10th centuries, these

form Imitation pieces take the

of of parures, cach consisting

necklace. bracelet. a malching £8,000 to bracelet worth

selling for 24. dress clips and the fashionable plastic brooch

all chandelier, earrings. the

Included exhibition

Gutter Lane

heart of the City an unpre glittered tentious pre-fab

Mentally adolescent She dealt drastically with those who slavishly follow it. shion. "In the future the only

endlers procession of ordinary and gleamed with jewel women in the world who will dresses we were inclined tolery worth £250,000.

which extreme fashions

paraphrase distort their bodies are those quite nice little who are kept mentally adoles dresses Ro-and cent" And her

skirts they went." มก "Mine stay down," she said In her forthright manner. "I'm do-

wear

"they

Were

dresses 45 Ranging from a diamond

as dresses 60,

We also felt inclined to re- ing with my skirts what men mark that some should be seen their turn-upa during but not worn, and we auto- ald with the war-keeping them as they matleally distrust such phrases

arc.

It

was

Bre

as " neckline that frames the

Pot horror

As wo

And with this delivery, the face," We have yet to see if.

And when Parla says "rail how commenced. combined effort by the Apparel chiffon scarf from your belt or and Fashion Industry's Asso- pocket" is it really necessary to clallon to show clothes within trail half a dozen from a belt, the price range of all women, an dierent colours?

Association there In the

four hundren something ilke manufacturers in London alone, and during the Fashion

Fort

But our pet horror 303 44 night there are 100,000 various pink satin dress, in particularly

be seen in their garments to

visiting buyers.ry soft teiln, with bract lace showrooms by

It looked suitable oris bedroom, but was No other city in the world, in- tu a stage

and New York, cluding Paris

apparently designed for 150 would claim this variety today.

oday dance

nce floor.

hnd, seen The chief points we noticed

well-designed and taste- were the extremely low prices ful dress, many in the utility (some woo) dresses were

we felt designers the range,

could little na £4 or £5); and the high quality of the workman- do better than this. It is inter- SSC ship.

A fine black white check cling to watch these "Dresses

for Every Woman" parades dress with deep scooped-out because undoubtedly they are horseshoe neckline was the best the dresses that sell widely all example.

over the country. The cheapest

It is pleasant to see a

collection, сусп more Illustrated on this potte is an ture evening dress which has the pleasant to write about It, But of these ordinary distinction of being the cheapest to see one dress

In Fashion

Fortnight of parades is both instructive and

revealing.

Its kind.

many

cou-

kinds of Jewellery, silverware The designers have not for. and novelties. Amongst the lat fer nothing, perhaps, attracted gotten the

fascinal bracelets

Charm teenagers. had even mort

more attention than a ing matching set of choker and original symbols, amongst them bracelet from which dangled mousetraps, gramophones, road reproduc signs, kitchen utensils, animal beautiful enamelled

even black- of Aures,

boards bearing the legend "1 Love You."

tions of the coats-of-arms British colonies and towns.

THE SHOW was put on by the British Jewellers' Associa

Lon. tion for buyers visiting don's Fashion Fortnight. The humble pre-fab, elegantly car- peted within, is built on site where, in the 9th century, British gold-beaters followed their cruft:

the

and

of The

charn perennial

inspired pearls seem to have designers to even greater heights. Pastel shades of green, Well mative, orange or lemon shown as well as the conven. tional white or sleel-grey.

THE AMONGST

novelties attracted attention from "Wonder" was the Vanity box. No larger than an

compact, nrdinary powder

the Outstanding amongst Jewels which have been design-di ed lo complement present-day yet managed to contain powder fashiona are muguldcent compartmicut, rouge-box, comb, coloured gems. Exquisito stones clothes brush and perfume con- such as amethysts, turquoises, talner, as well as

lipstick all holder attached by a fine chain topazes and sapphires are cleverly employed to alther harmonise or contrast with One of the amusing compacta was the "Bon Voyage," made fashion's newest shades.

form of a small of the jewellers who have most in the

Initial plate successfully used these coloured suitcase complete with handle.

made straps and gems is the firm which Princess Elizabeth's engagement which the owner's name can bo ring. This firm's creations take inscribed

Оля

OD

Made in

Set

tur- against authentle silver jewellery, set with

an

pearls, background of tartans were the queisës, opals, garnets, "Luckenbooth" brooches. These and other semi-precious stones. Intricate strikingly are reproductions of old Scot- tish betrothat gifts which were patterns, they could be bought made in Edinburgh prior to individually or in sets of neck- 1745, and seem the ident jewel- Inces, brooches, bracelets, ear- rings as large คร rings and lery to wear with the

knuckle-dusters. fashions of today.

MOST EXOTIC exhibits were the Oriental-type of inexpensive

larian

By Eve Lovegreen

Even hairdo

is tailored

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Che casual jacket makes

news in two capitals

LONDON shows the casual box Jacket in navy and white check wool (left), with raglan sleeves and deep pockets plped with tavy Wool

Morton).

(Digby Navy and white Jacket (extreme right) has large checks

en light crepe worsted (Matita). PARIS uses stack and white tancy twood tcentral to achieve that fashionable bulky top look over a slim, straight.wool town dress, Bolero has balloon elbow sleeves and big cuffs complete the affect.

Courtesy M. Louis, N. X.

It's neat and nifty. A sleek, up-swinging, tailored hairdo that's easy to keep in place.

By HELEN FOLLETT

EXCEPT for the girl in her fashions. There are no hard and

Your hair #lili ilcks to fast rules,

can be late teens, who flowing locks, the tailored type thort. long or between lengths' of hairdo is likely to be one's and you'll still be marching in Some" wo- happiest choice. Tallored charm the fashion parade,

Your men have turned down the short treases are clipped fairly short, cut which, of course, is not there is an up and backward precisely new, not new enough motif that takes them into the to be a sensation. realm of smart distinction. Only

is simplo, almost clussie,

a few wide wave lines. No cur-

ly cucs,

no ringlets, no fluff. Perfect for a well-shaped head.

Hair Reacts

Whenever one takes on a new hairdo, the tresses require speci- weil- at care; for hair, like a

Out Of Proportion trained child, hates to be pushed Longer bobs, fluffed out, hide around in new directions. Hav the rear neckline that may have, ing worn a charm of its own and they make deciding to

the head look masalve, often out the middle.

of

aldo parting, and part your inic

note how your

the portion to the rest of baje-ncta upi It fairly anarisi at ally if one be you, Your scalp especially

feels soro and the shafts, per Sull some giris are customed to resting in one direc. hanging onto them. That's the lion, are swept in enolher min- nico thing about modern nor.

longs to the small-sized contin- sensitive when

gent,