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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 20, 1980.
Woman Today
Paris drops a hint
Drawing by Francis Marshall
By IRIS ASHLEY
Today we bring you a really clear example of the Paris Influence on British fashion,
Designer Wallace, of Spectator Sports, has been very quick off the mark Indeed. The dress and coat you so here aro directly in line with two of the most successful models shown by Christian Dior this spring.
On the left, absolutely the season's classic line for day. time, is the dress with the newest trick of achieving colour by the use of transparent material-a lovely sheer cotton In navy blue in unpressed pleats over a silp of peacock-green alk Nots the horseshoe" neck and sleeveless effect which la not yet too bare.
Made of
The coat does for spring what a fur coat will do for win- ter. It goes over anything and always looks right. tussore, ita pale, almost oyster, colour cannot quarrel with hat, shoes or even hair-and it is lined with black slik. hardly tell you by now that the flower is a large red ,son carnation..
Electricity may
remove toil from housework
By Elizabeth Toomey
Somebody will have to-think'up a new name for housework in the next 50 years. If all the predictions of electric engineers come true, the house will still be there but the work will be gone. There will be no worry over the vegetable boiling
dry or the eggs cooking too long. In a fore- cast of the coming half century, one expert predicts electric ranges with temperature con- trols on the surface units...
The heat on the top of the Ih the new refrigerator, 'a' me- stove will be keyed to the chanical counter keeps track, and on the 100th opening, the defrost- food it's cooking. If the water ing mechanism begins working. boils away, the temperature it even disposes of the defrost, automatically drops to a point water automatically, where the vegetables won't burn.
These Previews of electrical marvéla come from officials of the Westinghouse Electric Corpora-i tion.
Electronics, they predlet, will influence the lives of nearly everyone on earth. A tough steak even will be impossible. It will be electronically tenderised belore Is sold. it
COOKERY BY
TELEVISION.
woman chef with many secret recipes has been giving de- monstrations in Britain's televi slon programmes. She began as a kitchen maid and today, 45 years old and pleasantly plump." Miss Andrews la in charge of the feeding at Wallingford Cottage
Shopping to be simpler Hospital in the English county of
One of these days we may have, a combination washing machine and dryer that will soak, wash, rinse and dry clothes all in o single cycle. You even may be dumping the soiled socks in a supersonic washer."
Housewives may shop for fresh and pre-evoked foods only a few times
year. They'll be stored
In refrigerators end freezera, which will have special compart ments for all kinds of food, so each can have its special tem. perature and humidity condition.
Berkshire.
She bus supervised the kitchens of Lord Leconlled, Lord Inchcape, and Mr. J. R. Upton, the shoe mil- lionaire. But she learand to make real curry in Scotland at a house where Ranji, the great cricketer, was a quest.
I used to prepare meals to Indian recipes brought to me by. his valet" she said.
CHAIR WITH A PEDIGREE
The famous Glastonbury (Eng- The electrical Industry's Lore- casters predict that homes of the land) chair is known all over the future may be lighted by "bottled world, but not many pecple are surviving sunlight." It will come from aware that the sole phosphor powders mixed into maker is 40-years-old Gordon E. ng, who is celebrating 25 Browing, building material or inte paint or
Women wallpaper. At night, these phose years as a craftsman." I need
phors would crnit the light who are proud to own one of his to Know malmal...
energy they absorbed during the chairs will be interested
that he models these beautifu day.
on the pieces of
exactly originais made in Britain In King Henry VII's time. His replicas have neither nailr nor gluo, and bear the hand carved Latin Inscription of the first maker: "John Arthur, Monk of Glastonbury, May God Save pence, Oh Lord."
Designing dresses as a profession
Houses may have automatic indoor climate control. The en- gineers say that the home of the future may have its own built-in) transformer to provide power for that and for other household appliances,
two fumiture
Nothing to take apart him, Praise be to God, and give When Britain's boys and, the only things necessary for suc-
It looks as though tomorrow's be stuck girls prepare to leave school "The Dress Designer husband is going to
to take rects that native view. The
The electric today they can ask for ad- booklet analyses the need, first of when he gets the urge vice, concerning the kind of all, for the personal qualities something apart. work they wish to accept or
which go to make the successful motors for home equipment and the career they wish to fol- designer. It then points out the appliances will be burnt-out for professional train brbot: All the electrical gadgets low, from the local branching, and also discusses the train will be foolproof. of the Central Youth Employ-ing ment Service.
and
The only thing that has the visionaries puzzled is a simple substitute for ironing. Electrical troners have helped, but they want something that frons a
shirt
utom They're dreaming |
like a sensitive, self-
could be drawn and steamed at the same time,
course, a full-time what it is likely to cost.
The boy or girl who wishes to To supplement this verbal
become a good dress designer, advice a series of booklets pre- says the booklet must have tem-
temperamen pared by the Ministry of Labour perament, but to be. is being issued. These contain tal is merely a hindrance, and of information and detailed, parti- technical knowledge is absolutely adjusting form over which a shirt culars about a profession, indus- essential. In the wholesale trade try, craft or service.
the young learner must also be
Just to convince the sceptice One of the most interesting of good at teamwork for there is these new booklets which have close cooperation with the firm's that these things may not be too. the general title "Choice
of buyer and plan and costing for in the future, the same com~- pany that's doing the forecasting Careers is devoted to the work experts. of the dress designer: It tells
Both in the model trade and in has announced three new appli- how the
Miracle dishwasher designer works in the the wholesale trade a clear-head-ancer ready for the 1959 market. highest type of model fashioned business-like approach is
dish- There's an automatic trade as well as in the wholesale essential. For the people at the industry. It also touches on the top of the profession the leaders washer that washes off food ringes work of designers of theatrical whose ideas are followed through waste, sudses the dishes,
out the dressLeadowe thele costumes and paper patterns.
Many aspiring applicants to the success to a kombination of drea- them and finally does the drying. rank of dress designer imagine tiye talent, technical experience, It uses 140-degree water, too hot Then there is an electric range that an eye for line, a fair for an understanding of contemporary for human hands
built like a knee-hole desk, so sketching and a lot of luck nfc, social life, and business golity.
you'll have a place to shove the kitchen stool.
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The third development is a re- frigerator with a completely auto- matic defroster. The researchers Agured out that the average Wyndham Street, Tel. 38043. household refrigerator door is opened 40 times a day.
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