They're Warm, They're Slim-Fitting And..
This is gala year for glamour. Gossamer stockings, Jersey like the skin of a seal for any woman's little black frock. Taffetas petticoat under your town skirt. Crinolines with huge billowing skirts precious Nttle bodice.
Draughty fashions.
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Fit comes first in the 1938 winter
fashions,
Your longer sweater must cherish
THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 21, 1988.
frown on all women who shiver
in the winter because of mis- taken ideas about undies. When cold breezes blow you can be snug and glamorous.
SMOOTH AWAY
HIPS.
Standing, step for- ward
with right leg. Bend right kree, and lunge. forward with left arm raised. Repeat with left leg and right arm, doing it six times with each
leg.
The vest she is holding above her head is made of n wool and artificial silk mixture, and literally goes through a ring, as the sketch shows.
I did it myself, so I know, and the pants to match are just as dainty.
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Modern "woollies" are designed and tailored to fit a dozen figures.
Look at your shoulders before you buy your vest. If they slope, choose French shoulder straps. They taper up from the bust and are woven of the best material. They stay put and are specially good for sportswear.
Opera tops when you need alim- ming about the shoulder-line, and. for all evening occasions,
Three pairs of ribbon straps to each vest is not too many if you. cherish a band-box reputation. Clever women make them with press studs all ready to snap into place in three seconds.
Buy pants with enough "slack.” Slack is the part you sit down on,. and if there is not enough of it you will be extremely uncomfortable, and your lingerie will wear out much.
Aren't they sweet!
your hipline.
Your jacket is cut from a corset pattern.
The top of your skirt and the bot- tom of your tunic moulds your figure into sculptured lines, -
"Sleek" is the password to chic in
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1938.
How to wear the new clothes and how to keep warm? It's easy. Get rid of all those old gooseflesh ideas about wearing your summer lin- gerie in December just because you can't bear frumpish wool.
UPLIFT.
Stand with feet apart. Raise arms forward and upward. Raise upper part of trunk. palling in abdominal muscles and drawing
up breast and chest.
Sileping
Specially Recommended
A New Shipment of Manchurian Game
COCK PHEASANT
$2.40 ea.
HEN PHEASANT
$1.60 ea.
TEAL DUCK
QUAIL
76 ea.
42 ea.
.75 ea.
WILD DUCK $1.25 ea.
.54 ea
PARTRIDGE
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SNIPE
PIGEONS
THE DAIR
COLD
Modern "woollies" needn't even to be wool.
They can be wool mixed with silk or cotton. They can be pure spun silk. They can be silk on the outside, and wool next your skin.. They can be cotton woven so finely that it looks and feels like silk.
If you want your frocks to flow serenely from shoulder to hem-and still want to keep warm-ask to see the Alpha trousseau” range.
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There are bulge problems all these vests and pants have las- tex ribbing or narrow elastic ribbon to give your waistline a glove-fitting elegance.
Alpha elimmies" are specially ribbed to cling, and your best bet under that strapless evening gown. Spun silk. all wool
mix-
Some women want the moon silk to look at and wool next the skin. The Twixwol people thought of this when they introduced a de- licious two-faced material to winter Hagerles
* Silk_on_top means 'your warm frocks and skirts slip smoothly into lace and stay there. Wool under. neath means you're warm.
Big feature of the Twixwol range is variety. They ake winter lin- gerie in twenty five different weaves
ed: the girl do
IF YOU HAVE TOO... MUCH TUMMY- Lie on your stomach.. with your weight on your hands and knees Keeping your head up straighten your arms, lifting your trunk from the floor. Lower yourself again by bending the arms. Repeat four times.
too soon.
Very brief pants are right with thin frocks, but a longer leg looks. better under a slick-tailored skirt.
Mannequina showing vests with. evening gowns wear them over their pants. Try this for streamlines un-- der your Batin.
You have a sensitive skin?
Then what you have to do in for Meridian doublelock.
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This is an ideal fabric for sen sitive skins, and is made up into a wide range of snug garments.
They wash and wear well, and can be bought at prices we can all.
this winter.
Set yourself up in' undies before the snow comes:
Keep moving. Practise your daily dozen before breakfast.
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