THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 8, 1938.
Tips Of Beauty
If your upper arms are red and rough. here is a treatment that softer and whiten them. Buy so green soft soap from the chemi a couple of ounces of almond oil, and use your own favourite skin food or cold cream.
First of all massage the arms with a little of the oil Then work up a good lather of soap and warm water and rub that in. If you have one, massage it in with a rubber
nail brush.. Put, a knob of cream in- your hand, work into it a little of the green soft soap, and apply it generously to the skin. Again work in with the rubber brush. Use a light circular movement. Wash off and rinse with several cool waters. Dab on some calomine lotion. Allow it to dry and leave on overnight.
Incidentally, this is also good treatment for discoloured backs and shoulders. In that case you need a friend to help with the massage. -Don't Do It!
I get many letters from girls who want to make themselves blondes at home. And, alternatively, girls who want to turn their brown hair jet black, or make a similar drastic change.
My considered advice is, don't do it. Bleaching is a professional's job as many girls have found out to their cost, when their amateur ap- plications of peroxide and 211- monia have resulted in brittle brassy hair, that looks rough and
coarse
If you want your hair bleached there are far better means than peroxide for doing it, but they all need to be applied by an expert.
It is the same with dyeing. No two heads of hair are alike. Indivi- dual treatment, or rather adapta- tion of a treatment is required to ensure success. It is not wise to economise on matters of this kind. In fact, it is penny wis eand pound foolish.
LUSCIOUS TOP-KNOTS. Red velvet geraniums bloom atop Suzy's newest pillbox seen above. It is of silk-like straw to match the flowers set on a circle of black patent leather. The cire streamers and the veil are black. Below, Patou sends us a diminutive hat of black stitched silk done in the 1880 manner and trimmed with a pink camelia. It is held on with a snood of black veiling over the high coiffure: -That demure look is all-important for Spring.
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HOUSE WRAPS
Very Fit To Be Seen'
There is an increasing tendency to adopt the American fashion of “house wraps" for wear indoors in the morning. The wraps are not by any means the rather nonde- script garments slipped over or- dinary frocks when household work has to be done. They are slick, smart-tailored coats of calf- length with well-pressed revers, button fastenings in front, and aeat sleeves.
Short Sleeves
Some of these coats are design- led with short sleeves, which make them all the more practical from the housewife's point of view, for long ones are apt to get in the way when doing jobs about the house. A suede or kid belt in a contrasting colour adds style to the garment.
Materials are varied for this type of house coat, but plain or pat- terned foulard, linen, tussore, and heavy washing silk are most suit- able. It is necessary, of course, to. choose something that will laund- er well and easily.
The smock is back again, look- ing fresh and trim after 2 short absence. This is one of the neat- est overalls to wear at home in the mornings, and it enables a rather worn skirt to take on a new lease of life for everyday purposes. The same materials as suggested för the house wrap will be admirable, and a touch of colour contrast may be introduced in the thread used for the smocking.
Try preparing Four red currants this way. Hold the stalk in your left hand and slide the currants of by pulling the stalk through the prongs of a fork. Quickly and eas- ily done, and no more stained fin gers.
Here is an excellent French mustard:
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Tidying Up Eyebrows Waistlines Hold Fashion Two tablespoonfuls mustard,
Then we come to tidying up the
eyebrows. If you have never had Interest
your brows put in order, it is per- haps worth while to let an expert do it for the first time. After that, you can keep them tidy yourself, doing a few hairs at frequent inter- vals rather than leaving the brows to get straggly again over a long period.
You may have thought that the styles this winter were revealing, but when you see spring dresses, you'll know that half the figure facts have been kept back until this batch of Southern fashions came along.
Don't economise over the forceps. Buy a good pair and have done with Dresses húg, cling and do every- it. They will last a lifetime. Bething to keep out bulk, which might member, it is possible to get an in-hide something. They're crisply fection when the brows are pluck-short, with the skirts wide enough ed unless the whole business is to show how graceful is the long,
free stride of. to-day's giris. surgically clean.
Necklines Lower
undeviating dresses in mind.
Waistline A Wanderer
A third school of fashion thought holds that waistlines are going to stay put at normal and be played
big. Chanel and Paquin and Le- with wide corselet girdles and big long put accent on the waistline
impressive belts.
The lowdown is that the waist- up and line is just a wanderer down and around the body, so far as any tight and rigid mark is con- cerned. What we're supposed to do is dress ourselves so that the whole territory between bosom and hips looks slim, and willowy
teaspoonful sugar, 1⁄2 teaspoonful salt Add enough boiling water to TAX
When cold add 1 tablespoonful thin it. A few drops of tarragon salad oil and enough vinegar to
vinegar is a nice addition: will keep a few weeks.
FOR AMATEUR
This
When you start tinkering with your
So wash your hands in a mild antiseptic, boil the forceps and Necklines crash, down and down treat the skin with the antiseptic-this is a big fact of the new Mainbocher achieves wonders for both before and after the plucking styles. We are being eased into let femininity by making his dresses Do not use cosmetics on the eye-ting our throats and some expanse with soft bosom lines, fitted, re- brows until every trace of redness of chest see daylight once more.vealing midriffs, and skirts that are has disappeared.
Sleeves grip the arms, are slashed full below. Take out each hair separately. off to leave the elbows bare. With thumb and forefinger of left
Maggy Bout brings aid by mak- But the big climax of the dress hand, pinch up the skin towards the story is right smack in the middle. ng dresses with hip-length, softly forceps, which are held with the The dramatic sector of styles is be-
shirred blouses which take care of car or some other piece of machinery. right hand Grip the hair where it tween the bosom and the hips. the vital part of the dress sil- look out for trouble! It only needs enters t the skin, and pull it evenly Some folks say waistlines are on
honette. Schiaparelli does the neces- sip of the spanner, sczew driyet, and quickly in the direction in the down grade; they are thinking sary with the impeccable simple whatever tool you happen to be using
and you find yourself with which it grows.
of Main-bocher's long blouses with freeks and those pint-length day graze, bum, bruise or similar In this way you will prevent the never a halt at the waist. Other jacket of hers. Alix sets contrast Be ready for such an hair breaking off at the skin and fashion experts say waistlines areng, hip-length front waistcoats on keeping She-ko handy- leaving an ugly dark mark. If there on the up and up.
slim black dresses in our figure in antiseptic treatmen *terest. are hairs over the bridge of the
and rapidly heals the They have Schiaparelli's boson-
For skim con -nose, these should be plucked up length bolero jackets and
Coats also do their part to play equally beneficial. slinkly wards and outwards,
up the middle ground of styles for troubled with When the placking is completed, palm a teaspoonful of caster sugar." spring. dab the brows with calomme lotion Pour over it a few drops of olive Mainbocher's long, fitted coats
To Clean Hands
oil, and then rub the mixture into that button in snug waistline re really both hands. Rinse off with soap and gions and are liker and water, and see how much improved there by drapery an your your hands are.
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-If you have been doing dirty work in house and gat are wondering how to get hands smooth and clean this homely method. Place int
#ry Afterwards, of course, carry on one with a good hand lotion.
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