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THE CHINA, MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9; 1940.
Woman Today Today
DETAILS ARE IMPORTANT
By Jono Barry
Fashions in the coming season will be varied, and
if you seek to know what makes them so dif- ferent one from another, you will find that it is often the detail.
Even in skirts there is great variety. Worth, as the
accompanying sketch shows, pleats the back of an otherwise straight skirt and brings the fullness forward in a basque movemerit ENT either hip.
Elsewhere designers are sloshing their straight skirts up one side or wrapping them over in an envelope pleat or fold. Some skirts are slashed up the back.
Waistlines
come in for their
share of originality. Nearly al ways moulded to the natural line, many are marked high with a ball and sometimes boast two belts, as In the case of a Jean Desses model where a belt at the normal waist- Jine in secondary to one marking
high princess line.
L
Fur Trimmings
As to fur trimmings, you will And that many of these make all the difference between one model psat another. Paquin uses blue fox lavishly, setting it on collars which that might
bronden shoulders brund
otherwise be considered sloping, and edging The basques of after-}, noon Jackets with this same fur. Jacques Helm uses fox to em- phasise the spiral lines of many coats and jackets
the neck and allowing it around!
it the wrap- over designs favoured by this house, which has just celebrated ils 50th anniversary.
When the Maison Heim was opened by Monsieur and Madame Leim in 1899 it was situated in an entirely different district of Paris from the sauve West End where you find it today. Years ago the neighbourhood of the Grand Boulevards was the contro of fashion, and there Helm made a name for his fure, gradually de- veloping as a specialty cloth conta
and suits trimmed with fur. Then
he added the "haute couture" de- partment of which
Monsieur Jacques Helm now managing di rector of the house, is the de- signer.
BEAUTY BOX ----·*.
by Margaret Leighton_ Star of "Bonnie. Prince Charlie."
HATE thin - pentellled
artificial Bones over the eyes. It gives an un- natural staring expression to the face. So there are -no tweezers on my dressing:
table and
I ban eye brow .pluck. ing even for Alming and close-ups.
If you dis agree and feel you have very untidy eye- brows, Juni
trim them to their natural shape. Instead of envying brunettes, blondes should smooth their eyebrows and eyelashes with o!! every evening before going to bed. It darkens them naturally,
Then, if necessary, shade your brows, emphasising their shape with brown eye- brow pencil,
gown
Again a basque offect`is fea- Variety In French styles ap
tured by this seasonal pears even in sklets, as Nius. trated by this afternoon frock from Paris, doalgned by Maggy of black wool,
Rouf. from Worth.
it's of black molre silk back le Sunray pleating in
with silm skirt silt up the back. brought forward in besque
and back buttoning. line over the hips.
Your life and Mine
At
by IRIS
ASHLEY
a dinner party recently I remarked that it would be good fun to get our 'readers to suggest sub- jacts to write about,
Embroidery is, of coutre, en all- A pleasant voice from across the table said: "Why
Important detall of fashion just
now. Ionumberable binek tailor- mades, almost classic in inc, owe their individual charm to jet em-
don't you write about me? It's about 20 years since I had a waistline..
brolderies, to soutache trimminga "I guess I could wear most
emphasise a basque effect,
Fashion News From Britain
London's dress designers are by no means constant in their use of the blouse, sometimes showing collections in which blouses planned like the tops dresses art prominent, sometimes ignoring them al- together.
of
"certainly do! She's my their collars, revers, and of my dresses stpside down and mother. Isn't she a poppet?" pockets, or to the way in which jet not notice it! You'd think from I suddenly felt I would rather sequins and bends Are used to all you read that women like have my daughter, when she is me were a lost cause; but we're grown, call me a poppet in just J101. Jewellery In Collar Style
Not by a long way," and that lone than be taken for her
sister any day! she laughed.
So this is a salute from me to
Yet buyers for big stores all The way you wear your pearls looked and saw a carefully at the women who take great
Ittle groomed, buxom
wonsun care of, their appearance but do over Britain say that the demand and costume jewellery is import whose expression had a kind of not care to measure their waist for blouses very rarely varies. Of ant, too, Just now. Many of the serenity, and whose laugh Wasinos. new necklaces shown by Molyneux warm and full of amusement,
Plump poople are usually late, there has been a tendency to cheerful, so, ladies, pursue your introduce a fluffy type which was are more like embroidered collars
The Same Age uncaring way1,
fast fashionable in the first decade than anything else. Stranda of ir- regularly shaped copper bonds It occurred to me that she was?
Your cheeks are round, but your of this century, but although lace are arranged in collar effects with about the same age as two world eyes are bright. Your shoes are insets anti fronts are attractive to You some women the plainly styled a twist or
1st or knot in front,
famous beauty specialiste, Eliza-neat and your hat is gay. All-Important at the moment beth Arden and Mma, Helena may never appear in the movies, well-tailored blouse continues to are anioke-gray pearls or gun- Rubenstein (nearing 00); and you may never earn $25,000,000, have a popular appeal.
but I think you will have-and wondered how they would react to metal beads. These look delight-
give to those around you-arlot of her challenge, ful on black, as well as with the
And, what i more; you many
shades of gray so much fu
I think I have always regarded fun. vogue.
alender soft-complexioned, look to be a very nice person to One of the latest ideas is an vivacious Miss Arden as a shining Immensely long strand of large example of what planned-living gun-metal beads that can be and cosmetics CAN do for twlated several times round the woman as her years go by, throat in a tight dog-collar, or learned with some fascination that On the other hand, I recently worn in a loose strand, casually the equally famous Mime. Rubens knotted at the base of a low, tein la no dryad herself. Further pointed decolletage.
Really delightful accessories are more, he does not earo.
Sho dresses well, but is of pre- those shown by Marcel Rochas in portions which indicate clearly They'll make good conversation tuluscarf can be icnotted loosely that she pays but scant attention pieces sharp, spreading cheese round the neck and kept in place to the diet of herbal juices on threaded with finely chopped by a jewelled pin.. which hor clients battle. along. toasted or salted almonda Don't do as I do, do as I say. fried onion and wafer-thin slices might be her motto.:
his newly redecorated "boutique"
or spoelaity shop. There are gloves, scarves, handbags, belts, costume Jewellery, and perfumes.
Chantilly Holds its Own
this
the
дз
0
know,
· * Even these blouses vary con
siderably, one of the newest hav ing long sleeves and small turn- over flaps at the neckline which take the place of a collar, others"| showing a trimming, of dino tucks and collarless necks. All those PICK-UP PIECES are a good choice for the business girl or for country wear because Sandwiches, like recurring they are easily kept in ordet. An decimals, just go on and on. attractive necklet or, plete of Here are some new ones to add jewellery can be worn with both to your collection.
the, long sleeved blouse and with the collarless models or colour-
*
give
and bled bacon, chopped parsley and disappointment
up
of young boiled carrots, touch off Hairdressers in Britain have Made A Fortuna with chopped parsley peanut been much resolved in their minda
butter with
cream cheese and about the Introduction of the "cold Most readers probably know the But Madame has dono vary!
She has married, Isoft butter, just a sensation of perm" which women can Rochus perfume Femme" in its nicely, too.. black Chantilly lace-covered box, brought up a family who are more crange juice tried chopped themselves at bome. Apart from and will not be surprised to hear than usually devoted to her, travel mushrooms... orange marmalade anything else, coiffeurs all agree that Rochas is still addicted to led widely, and in the course of with cream cheese, besprinkled that there is no doubt that quite
**her career-made
much As with finely chopped nuts... creom a large proportion of the home binsk Chantilly.
will find cheese (agsint) with criip crum-
Wavers" Among
the accessorion shown In US$25,000,000,
Both feadames Arden this newly arranged display are
Rubenstein are so successful be-spiced with Worcestershire arising through conflicting chem numerous pastel coloured crape
It sauce... and apple and encumber, ical reactions on the half of the scarf-squares printed with a black causa they deliver the goods. lace, pattern, arranged in a huge you want to look a cutle at 50 they not such string betrellows with triangle in their.. centres, and (and a lot of will-power) will take sugar for the appic, salt for the teaming up with delicate black you right along to the point where cucumber. You take it from lace, rather a
Luxury nowadays, but nevertheless popu lar with his clients.
More practical are the many point the sad fact sometimes Cut-glass and crystal will spar-women, will run into, dilleulties. emerges that slimmed and lacquer hic if rubbed with a small brush black suede gloves Rocher has toed the lady of 50 merely looks which has been dipped, in lemon show with colour-lined gauntlets to cute
Which, as anyone juice,
black Mother Nature steps in and says here. line in gloves No farther!"
It is no fault of theirs if at this
turn back upon the wrist. ho knows, is quite different from a prettiest come lined with dark cutie .:The diferenco is about Use adhesive tape to remova olive-green strede with zasp-180 years roughly.ditt
fragments of-fluff or for that cling barry-red,
Let me say in a hurry that I am to woollen materials, frankly in favour of Beauty Cul
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