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BEAUTY

WHEN next you re in town, vialt the

mezianine floor of Lane, Crawford's where you'll find Hong Kong's own beauty salon, styled on the Elizabeth Arden Bond Street Salon and operated by Miss Arden's trained representative.

Here, a In Londen and New York, you' may have full teralments und advice from Elizabeth Arden experts

Eligatish; Arden

visit the

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1950,

WEEK-END

WOMANSENSE

POTPOURRI OF FASHION IDEAS

A FROM

1. IDEAS IN

LONDON

FUR

London. belted at the back to hoki in

the fullness.

UR shows in general have somewhat de- preasing effect upon their audiences. Could it pos- sibly be because the prize range is something tween 200 and guinets per coat?

At-

conts are the

By Joan Ersking

The current vogue for rever- sible coals was seen here on a zomewhat more expensive level. Natural summer ermine, a clear aramel colour was lined with rumel, and n white Indian lumb cost, fitting tightly to the hiips,

with black was lined face-cloth.

Illustrated is the most retive line in fur Jackets. all kinds of furs, from rac- This flated-back line is used coon to phantom beaver. be- Tailored fur 2,000 latest innovation. An ocelot trimmed with nutria had coal a very straight back, with the Most unusual designs were a Albert Hurt, well-known kets. The best example was a

front fullness falling into poe- white mutation mink bolero, with scarf ends to basque; n London furrier, recently

leopard-skin coal with revers, black Persian lamb cant with showed furs that would patch pockets and bell sleeves, full-back over a slim skirt have graced any occasion. cul exneily like a fitting cloth (eut all in one); und a white His most

coat. expensive

ormino fax and cont

cape, that The furs used were natural reached to the ground, silver-blue. mutation racconn, natural

This wolf, skunk, had the effect of a soft fox mink-with n wide satin dyed ermine, fitch

sking cepe over a long ermine cont, belt. His cheapest was a

(usually worked horizontally), and belongs, we feel reluctant- Persian lamb, mutation mink, ly, to the wardrobe of a dim- modern little jacket in broadini, seal, fox, and baum- star, to be taken out on pre- cfazzling white Indian lamb marten

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3. FACES

THERE are always new ideas in make-up to

match the season's favourite colours, bul recently, in London, Helena Rubinstein held a party to launch something really out of the orellary, her new "Silk Make-Up."

She has been experimenting for. many years to produce a make-up that would im- part a fresh natural glow to the face, wlikour an obviously "made-up" look The result is Silk Powder, Silk Tone Foundation, and Silk Lipslick, all made from pure, atomised, natural rilk.

At the party, held in Mayfair, a long table held bowls and bottles, separated by hot- houze flowers, by which we could see the pro- ccaves involved in "atomising” raw silk Into dust-fine powder. It is considerably lighter than any other powders, and it has been estimated that one standard size box will cover nearly ty square yards of surface. Because it is urganle in origin, it is a better distributor and absorber of beauty fashion tints and the translucency of the silk allows light selec- tions to bring out the natural bloom of the skin beneath the surface of the powder.

Soon women will be able to my they are silken "from top to toe"-and it there is a larte perentage nylon present, no one will quibble,

miere nights,

2. VOGUE PATTERNS

THIRTY-FOUR outfits were on parade in Lon- tton recently, including snart town dresses, country suits, afternoon dresses, interchange- able week-end outßts, evening dresses....and all with the elegance, cut and character of the new collections,

The main Interest of the show was the fact that the clothes could not be bought, bul could be made, from Vogue patterns. Any reasonably good needle-woman, provided she follows the pattern exactly, can dress in the height of fashion at a very moderate cost.

Fabrics included Abe worsteds, barathen... gabardines, tweeds. wool crepes, repp, face- cloths, and it must be emphasised that lighter fabrics, for wear in troplent countries, could be used to make the same patterns.

Illustrated on the page is an interchange- able week-end outill which would be sultable for many occasions,

At left an emerald green wool jumper sult with sin skirt and tightly belted jacket, which is styled na man's shirt.

Below right: a stone-coloured guberdine jacket which can be worn with uny ensemble. Note the rounded revers and pocket interest.

HERE is an attractive for jacket by Alber Hart in horl- zontally worked ranch mink wi flared back, graceful wide sleeves and small upstanding collar.

17, HAS

JEAN, 17,

£50 TO SPEND

ON

CLOTHES

Junior Miss with money in her purse is opening up new frontiers in fashion. EILEEN ASCROFT meets three girls

who go to make the pottern of the Tern-Ago Era,

Shades Of Paris

Blues are numerous in some Paris collections, and 70 per cent

10 in sapphire

tqua gamut, meaning they have no purple in then and tend to be grayed near dusky sunset and biuvapour on textile colour cards;

In velvet especially,

they suggest afar supplitres. A like a

maro Juminous shade darker cabana blue. Dlor is a big sponsor and calls kls "Bleu de France" and "Atlantic Blue," Fath is another calling Deases features Sapphire. nquamarine for evening. A bluish green close to duck is emphasised by Griffe; Manquin shows brillant blue green called Muranu.

Grays Smoky and Toupes

Grays appear in every cof- lection for daytime, nearly al ways in smoky and taupo tones hard to distinguish from boiges and browns, Deadwood

Ktoy

al Griffe; tobacco gray at Bal- main; velvety mole at Alwynn are names given which express the trend.

D

Yallowy-Groons

Prominent

Greens include some wom forest tones especially in vel- vets and tweeds but more la- rortance is given yellowy par- ret shades, especially at Piguet, and

vivid billiard or emernid.

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Reds With Blue Cost

Reds with blue in them pre- deminate. A half dozen houses have at least, one lace dress in a light shade comparable to Caribee rose; Schiaparell offer uses derivatives of her famous Certota

"shocking pink.

houses

tone

use the Game slightly deeper for

on occa- tional woollen model, such as a daytime coal at Balenciaga, and stronger reds in the same gamut.

WHAT does the average plece in grey and with it she

English teenager spend on will wear the navy blue ae|AUTUMN clothes during the year? Does cessories bought for her sumuner she choose them herself, and

oulfit. what kind of clothes docs she buy?

Iter taste is better than her American counterpart. She spends less but gets better valne. She does her own shop- ping, sometines with her mother, more often with a friend.

This information comer-f10m the buyers of three big London stores who run Junior Miss de- partments.

They all sak that the teen- carefully. ager of today buys

Jean goes for "separates" bo-j cause they make her wardrobe;

it appear larger thau

12 Dressmaking is her hobby and she knits her own sweatery,

Jean puts her dress budget at little over £50 a year, resiste the temptation to buy an even- Ing dress which she would Teldom wear, buys court shoes or "Battles, knows that a amart London business gri wears a hat,

sensible and

MONEY-SAVERS

Gertrude Daniel.. 20-year-old secretary to a director of educa tion, spends about £25 through the year on her clothes. Rua- canning a Kensington at with a

She cutmot afford to make mistakes. She choores coni- fortable, simple clothes, likes good materials and is fond of "separales," which she change around to make different cuthis.

Jean Pope, 17 year old blonde, who lives with 1:er parents at Euston and works in a wool organisation as a typist is typical of today's practical teen-agers.

She plans her wardrobe twice a year and makes one big pur- chase each season. This winter It is to be a utility wool three-

4. AND HAIR The Fabrics You Will Be

HORT hair"

says itiche. famous Mayfair hairstylist, "will be fashionable for some time to come." Riche repre- serited England at the Annual Congress of the Haute Colffure Francaise iti Paris, where 2000 hairstylists from 18 na-: tions showed about 50 new hir-styles at

the Palols de Glace, using mannequins from leading

couturiers Jean

Parls Deasts, Pierre Balmain, and

many others.

The "New Hair Look" is ún naditional chignon of contrast- ing coloured hair which is interwoven

on a baste hair

In dressed F{3•le

swirling movements close to the head. asymmetrical

It produces an hre which is distinctive and flattering on any woman from 17 to 70. The tailored look, so different to the ragged, Urchin Cut, is maintained. There are derent versions of the "New Lock" as it is called, for day and evening wear.

Wearing

Fabrics contributing a

the most significant trends!

family) are very important themselves.

*

*

In dramatising Bannel

heathers and coverts.

DULL DENSE SHEER is he frendi in opaque dress big new part of fashion news. What are crepes, sponsored by high strie

houses last season and much. more popular for autumn. These The following are highlights dull twiil, petit-point and classic these fabric points that crepe weaves show up dolail American designers are talking well. They also have more body about sampling, and expecting to Interpret narrow silhouettes

big fabric better,

of

to feature us the points for nutumn.

E

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a

family, Charcoal

much talked of "coloured black" for dresses, Frosted look

that is so good in contings also interpreted in dress weights.

0

for

crepes which have been classle

DRESS WOOLS slated rowth, notably the thin worsted better-dress favourites for many years, are out in attractive values and done in all leading FAILLE WEAVES have a big lines. More wool dresses expec SUPPIE is the most impor-

ted falle-crepes with

register in lines. Some in tuut

spot. Both all-over* Influence In

worsted volle, as luxury Ex- fabrics, a pre-requisite for alim body and real failles, including

number of new

woo) rayon-worsted Pression of

afternoon combinations,

dress. are stressed for the dress trado's sharp neat faflle dresses and mults.

Thiese is sutne are one of the leading 12-months through fabrle familles and will get more The other attention from dress houses. the knit look.

sihouetter

VELVETY LOOK thing that looks fabric styling news, look stressed

all

EX

girl friend and indulging in her favourite hobbies of musle and ballet does not leave much over tur clothes.

Gertrude believes in sinnet ulls, pleated wool skirts, simple berets, plain court shoes and a few well-chosen, gay accessories,

Most of this

Allowance year's

bas

a

Been Lunk in a classic, single-breasted tailor-inade.

Money-saving hints from Ger- trude: lnts cost inoney but berets do not and look smurt either plain or with a clip, veil, dower or feather pressing, cleaning and brushing at home

useful stand-by save bills;

12 utility plain black wool dress that looks snart in the office, can be dressed up with white cremories for a a special engage- even go to A cocktail parly with flowers or the right piece of jewellery,

ment or

.

GIRL WITH RED HAIR

Maureen Darley is a 19- your-old receptionist and lives with her fanity at ford. Hor dress budget adds

up to be- tween £25 and £30 a year She likes green tr 1:0 with her red hale en brown eyes.

This winter sho will look for * wool gaberdine suit in soft green and black utility woollen dress. Maureen is an other girl who likes "separates" and kits sweaters herself.

For

a young girl the kas an exceptional taste, which shu confess comes mainly from window-shopping in the lunch

REVERSIBLES news In crepes, crlap, yarn-dyed salins, taffolas and metallic velvets. Satin-back crepes the biggest

hour. entry, used on both eldes for Needless to any bath velvets and YARN-DYES a growing type, dull-shiny contrast to bring out

groups and detalls.

零

♣

knit fabrics (the whole jersey taking in all fabric

IN LONDON-A hat in 26 shapes

Side to side

As a handbag London Express Bertio

Back to front

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DULL BATIN, both yarndye type and drapey type.

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The teen-ager is

tive"

che

compara-

newcomer to the fashion world in this country. Previously either worc schoolgirl slipper clothes too young for her or supple

adult clothes which were too old.

But In recent years her speelal needs have come to be

TURE SILKS ́ a bigger talking point because there are more of them,、

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for

TWEEDY INFLUENCE more prominence after try-outs" last autumn. Black plus a colour as copper, gold, red, very big version in all sizes and weights of worsteds and woollens. Calis for black braid and velvet ac- cents, i

TWILIGHT

W3

.

By VERA WINSTON

HERE is a good fashion path leading to a young

and

Lay evening for come charming young thing. Black, red and white wool plaid is the theme of the daytime length evening dress, the shoulder straps and bodice top edge of black vel- vet. It is a two-plece model. The bodice la zipped up the back and the

skirt

is box- pleated and gathered. With it is worn a le cover-up agent of black velvet. This is a ulce item for an autumn wardrobe.

Hair tint

for Queen

celebrated

The Queen,, who her fiftieth birthday recently, regularly has her hair tinted to camouflage a low grey hairs, says a columnist in a London Rawspaper,

The newspaper adds that as Duchess of York she rarely used cosmetics, but since she become Queen a beauty expert frequent- ly xocs to the Palace,

The Queen's dazzling com- plexion and youthful appearance are based on these beauty aids: A light creamy foundation and powder; very pale rose-coloured rouge for day wear and a darker shndo for evening: eyebrows tidied but not plucked; pofl, blue-grey, eye shadow under the eyes; brown mascara usod light- ly on the upper lashes only; i subtle and almost imperceptible (World Copyright Reversed-Londoni perfume; palest pink nail var-

Express Service).

recognised.

Big storva opened special Junior Mies departments; manu- facturers started to produce specially angled teen-age styles, Later facilities Included a

Londoners' young

hat

bar stocked with inexpensive models and a beauty department in one big store, which offered make- up instruction to the girl just starting to use cosmetics.

T

niah.