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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 24, 1938.
Beauty and You
= by PATRICIA LINDSAY
ARE YOUR FEET IN YOUR FACE?
You've seen them, perhaps you are one of them. Women smartly dressed limping along with tor- tured expressions on their faces, or surreptitiously slipping off their shoes for a few moments of foot ease! All their poise destroyed, all facial beauty sacrificed for
that are in fashion.
shoes
chief
It is ap-
Il fitting shoes are the offenders to foot health. palling how few women have good feet, and rare is she with beauti- ful feet! Wrong lasts have de- formed them, and constant con- striction in leather since infancy has weakened their muscle tone.
YOUR SHOE TELLS THE STORY
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Fashions-Straight
From Paris
Sea-side ́resorts in France this edges with white stitching, tight- year resemble great music-hall re-fitting at the waist, rising a little views showing fashions of recent on the front and caught by two bands of material passing over the years. The Parisienne, as in town, shoulders and knotted at the back, wears the outfit most suitable to with same white stitches forming a her figure. She disports long design on the front and on the edges classic trousers in grey or white of two pockets in the manner of a with light blouses, or, still under gardener's apron. Couturiers have the influence of mountains winter made other very juvenile ensembles sports, she puts on light Norwegian or costumes in printed or plain. breeches. Yet the reappearance of Little berets and graceful caps are trousers does not deprive her of worn with the former and broad- wearing coats and shorts, the lat-brimmed turned-up hats with the ter either matching the coats or of latter. different colours. There are two And
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at- last the Parisienne
sorts of coats, the long, tight-fitting shows is an unexpected sight of at the waist, which is sometimes her various transformations. She highly open-worked or transposi-looks sometimes like a quaint exotic tions of material; and the half- flower lying on the beach, and this. length coats, wide or straight, plain is due, for instance, merely to the or printed.
combination of a short wide striped Besides all the entertainments skirt with a black blouse,
a wide that the Parisienne enjoys at the fringed turned-up straw hat, and a seaside, tandems or bicycles are most handkerchief, in favour this year, and couturiers At night, she becomes, in the have had to create most original casino, a butterfly of lace, tulle, and graceful ensembles for the chiffon, satin. Her dresses are numerous adepts; one is composed wider and wider. Yards and yards. sides bulging it is a safe bet that exercise your feet at home, daily, of wide shorts forming skirt reach- cf tiny lace adorn them in geome- you are not fitted correctly.
and give them a pedicure at least ing the knee, each flare being stitch-trical designs; or other charming To begin with, a good shoe has once a week. Walk around bare ed, the short-sleeved blouse ac-details as bows at the top of
Look at the shoe you are wear- ing. If it is run down badly at the
heel, if the lining is worn through, the toe scuffed or the
Slipping off your shoes for a few moments of foot ease de. sacrifices stroys poise and
facial beauty,
.
a straight inner line which keeps footed or sandal shod these summer companying being very simple in shoulders, scarfs edged with frills. the big toe straight and prevents days, as frequently as possible, and shape, made of light spotted ma-flowing in the front; three roses a bunion from forming. It should whenever you can (without drawing terial worked with transpositions; and leaves placed on the forearms; be-wide enough-to-give-your-toes attention)-sit -with-your-feet-rest-another is influenced by a gardener-frills adorming long gloves, etc. ample room for gripping when you ing higher than your body. Up like outfit, a checkered blouse and The period gowns have taken a walk, and the heel should allow good on a table or he back of a chair. the shorts black, adorned at the definite place for gala wear.
posture as well as comfort. Learn
whether you should wear a vamp shoe or a short vamp
long
shoe.
Choose a model with strong arch
support and don't let style or colour influence your purchase.
Just any
shoe which is pretty, is: the wrong philosophy-in fact that is flirting with ruined health.
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For general wear, I advocate heel no higher than one and three -quarters-inches. The pretties, with heels three inches or more, should be kept for times when you
are
not depending upon your feet to get you there! Or for dancing.
HOME CARE SIMPLE
Ignorance of foot care is an- other offender to foot beauty.
Re gular treatments by a registered podiatrist, or a chiropodist, are strongly commended if you have the means, otherwise you must learn to
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FAGGED OUT
THROUGH HEAT
Witty Kitty
It's all right forij
to hold der. he's doing the
NOTHING is more enervating than humidity,
V excessive heat and sunglare, which seriously saps the human vitality. Such a strain
on the nervous system weakens the powers of resistance, resulting in headaches, conditions of lassitude, nerviness, debility, etc. During hot trying periods 'ASPRO' can prove invaluable, particularly due to the fact that after ingestion in the system it promotes skin action and poison elimination through pores the natural function of the body. Furthermore, ASPRO' quietens and soothes the nerves and is the ideal medicine for minor complaints during sweltering hot weather conditions and heat waves,
ASPRO
IS INVALUABLE ON HOT TRYING DAYS
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