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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1948.
Woman Today
New Look Timing Was An Error
for'
SOYM
New York.
on
vein about the new long skirta". Kay Wister, faabion writer over the air. That wa
Cosmopolitan magazine, | Fridny--"On the following she has been conviners Monday morning", she asserted that one thing most women of "there" were more than 12000 fer no love to in "New Look" letters of praise in his morning styling--particularly to skirta mali." Another such broad- that hang down to the calf. cast, and the fostman brought in a much heavier batch of
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This Autumn, she remarked in Cumopolitan article, was said that this new furion taking the New Was
York wholesale market by storm Storm Indeed! A wind storm! Lots of conversation, no long dresses"
When first she aux manufar- turers' collections for this com
The total, 97,432 lettera. "A careful study of the let ters revealed that only five of every 3,000 had a good word for the new long skirta", Mion Wister declared, She Bated these objections:
1.-"The timing of thin fashion trend is 'diabolical'. Ir
I Spring, shr mat: "The forces WATAN to buy new skirts were 20 Jun
we were clothes, throwing budgets out of]
frantic But when she asked line when the government
a designer" if selected dresses asking for conservation," wold be shortened, she said she got the reply:
We
וין!
"Oh, naturally. You know, best shipping Long dresses to most of the sporen. Buyers tell us they can't well them."
MINN Malone. recently
Wider said Just Ted a rodu commentator, remarked Finn light
Miss Joy Begdon, above. was bridesmaid at the wed- ding of Mr. T. A. Peace and Miss Nina Quinn,
50 Beautiful Views of
2.- "Long skirts (and ex-1 tremely full skirts, coats and jackets) call for much fahrie at a time when Europe is in tatters.
3.-"Long skirts just cannot be wort by women who are using about after Amali children.”
"Long skirts, along with other style features, age wo
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Mrs. J. H. Beattle, wife of Lieut. Col. Beattle, 25 Field Regiment, R.A., addressing those who attended the opening last week of the Services Familles Club at Whitfield Bar- гаска. (China Mall photo).
FEEDING WITHOUT
By Dorothy Mohr
men." A further comment in What is the matter with Mary ↑ The mail was as follows: "Who ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ Jane?"
on earth are the droopy dresses She's crying with all her might designed for? A short person and main
looks like a gnome. A tall per- And it's lovely rice, pudding for 'son looks like a skyscraper. A
uvi-u
fat person looks like a thin person, like a bengpote." Associated Press.
Paris Begins To Slim
From JOYA BEGG
Paris is slimming down the New Look.
dinner again
What IS the matter with Maru
Janet
There are many different rea- sons why children don't enjoy their meats and often the trouble starts carly in life.
For instance, in infancy; if the |baby la bottle-fed there is a great
temptation to hurry
Не him. seems to be dawdling, the mother has a dozen other things waiting to be done, so hurry him along. Then, later, when the child is spoon-fed, the same thing hap- The spring fashion collections pens again. One spoonful is push- openeit today with Lelong and ed in on top of another without Schiaparell showing very little allowing the child time even to hip-padding in dresses and chew property. And the effect suits, with skirt taliness flatten- of this awful haste is the exact ed In intricate pleats and opposite of what this mother drapery.
wants! The child resents being Conts
show the hour-glass | hurrted, so gradually he learns to line moar strongly, and inany dislike mealtimes, even to dislike! have big shawl collars. They food, or he Iries to ferce the are almost ankle-length.
pace his way and becomes slower Bright pink stockings that and slower: appear flesh-coloured on the leg
Let the child take his
are worn by the mannequins. So the first rule of good feed-
Hats at Lelong are forward-ng. 19: tipping, with upturned brimawn time. Allow 20 to 30 min- showing the back hair.
ules, for the meal and then re- what
At Schiaparell sailor have, without comment, have roses rambling all over the has not been eaten. face-velling.
(Continued on Page 1).
FUSS
Mr. T. A. Pearce and his bride, Miss Nina Quinn, af- ter their marriage at St. John's Cathedral last week. (China Mail photo).
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Keith Butter,”
Athens.
"Before the war I used to be very obedient, but now-" sald Greece's Queen Frederica to me,
Thrones
with a mischievous twinkle in "La Primera her blue eyes. "I'm afraid I'm might sound sometimes a little rebellicus."
Descamisada"
S
It is. Indeed, whispered that: bis continual submission to her flomineering personality Wag eno of the reasons the Shah's beautiful wife, Queen Fawzich, sister of King Farouk of Egypt, feeling her position in Pervin to be that of a mere figurehead. She is President Peron's sec-went to visit her brother two ond wife, and at 27 years of age years ago and has not yet re- and "rebellious" Queen, For- exactly half-his age.
The turned
Her husband, King Paul, and her country are lucky to have such an intelligent, charming
a little odd to English ears if translated.
is when her people are suffer: Senora de Peron was a radic Ing through the inefficiency, red artist and her early raising tape or corruption of the au- has contributed to her well theritics that she becomes re-modulated volce, heard increas bellious.
ingly in offcial, broadensta,
THEY PROD HIM Richard Hughes.
Tokio. Behind the weak; vacillating, Since King Paul succeeded to
slack chinned figure of Em- the throne on April 1, 1947. As First Lady of the land, peror Hirohito of Japan stund Queen Frederica has accom- she is indefatigable in her ef- two remarkable women-his panied him on nearly all his forts to implement his pro-aged, strong-willed mother, the long and exhausting tours over gramme for social justice of Empresa Dowager Sadako, and the unbelievably bad roads of the working classes, for whom his plump, amiable wife, their mountainous and war she holds open court daily in former Princess Nagako. torn Kingdom. She knows her her special office,
country and her people's suffer-
ing
better than most of the
Athena politicians.
MOTHER'S VOICE
the
Together, they have proddel him into more active acceptance of Western Ideas, thrust him in- She has won the love and John Roberts,
Teheran. to closer personal contact with loyalty of Holdters and civiliansi The 28-year-old Shah of his 50,000,000 subjects, per- alike to her husband and her- Persia, modern, vigorous and suaded or driven him into the self by her simple messages adventurous, loves to drive his public glare from which he from the King.
golden Rolls-Royce at speed timorously shrinks, tried to im- With the help of his charming through the streets of Teheran plant and maintain some back- -and-sagacious wife, he is heal, or pilot his own Hurricane on one in his apologetic, sham- ing some of the old political a day trip to a distant town of Eling personality. wounds that have for long dis- his huge kingdom." But family Agured Greek life. He will yet ties mean more to him than allto resist the shocked Court Is mother encouraged him rally his divided-country-where the pleasures that his high sta-nobies when, 26 years ago, he the politicians have falled.
tion can give.
wanted to
Princess
A. Rowland Thomas; «
marry
“THAT WOMAN” twm, Princess Ashraf, and the member of the Fujiwara family His two sistere, his dark vivid Nagako, who was not a direct older Princesa Chams, occupy which, for 18 conturles, had· thomasives with hard work for been the only clan from which Buenos Aires the social welfare of their coun- empresses of Japan might be The most talked of personage try and live in that blaze of
selected. In Argentina is, Dona Maria publicity that beats upon Royal Eva Duario de Peron, wife of deeds of charily.
She is still a dogmatic per
the President of the Re But, in affairs of policy both nonality, who likes to meddle in public. She is commonly re-home and foreign, the Shah Court polities, although she ferred to as "Evita" or "That turns. for advice to his aged seldom appears in public.
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