*
2
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1952.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Illustrating the season's line is this grey suit with a blue
whi check hat to match The eravat.
Trimly Tailored
W+1
Check wool frock,
By VERA WINSTON
SKETCHED for today is a wool dress that looks quite a bit different from the current step of woollles, has a trim top of black and white check and a skirt In solld black. Linking the two is a ahug band of red, and there
In a small bow-lied gllet of
*nd
the red. The collar checked revers are in black, and there are large black disc buttons.
1
WEARING “THAT” IS WHAT *then comes spring WOMEN ARE DOING NOW... And The Secret Is
BY DOROTHY BARKLEY
London.
badires. whe c they octur, serves the purpose. THE
HE short evening dress themed with guipure lace or Importaul
fecorated with embroidery and their little matching jackets have manda:in collars, rounded shoulders and dolman sleeves.
is here to stay. Cone are the days when i was banned in London's elite, "Evening dress only" restau- rants, shunned by fashion- able women, and greeted with cries of, "Oh, but we could never wear that." For, wearing "that" is pre- cisely what more and more women are doing just now.
Princess Elizabeth first brought the short style to the publis
tention last summer when the wore a short evening cirent The theate
Now
fon out of live women. La rioting the that styl, in
reference
house The
LO
wife of one too London designer has had all her long everg ses shortened to the ballerina ngth.
Pan
shown
variety
Jersey
WATE
of the reason for the popularity of the short evening css is the return of very full kirts. Four or five skirts over two or three petticoats make an enchant ng evening dress. At a collection.
al! evening
dicats "mort [ the Dar, with high-necked, long-sleeved bodice of black silk bad a ful skirt-two layers of black pleated lace, ovD-
black Bond white quille underskirt. Another version again with high-necked, long sleeve bodice over a full skirt ---had a bodice in black lace ove: Lan net. The skirt, in bluck organza had five layers! Strapless
:1
Two
accessories are indis- pensable with the short, full- kirted evening dress. The first
Most
the full waist petticoat, essential for emphasising the width of the skirt and the narrowness of the waist. women have either acquired such a petticout or found tha! their old New Look petticos:
From the new collection is this mushroom coloured suit. A boater
silk wih spotted scarf round the brim matches the scarf at the neck,
A Short
Story
WILL it be the same spring story-lots of navy and W
white-lots of grey-a touch of mimosa-strapless evening dresses or can we expect something new? I think we can.
London and Paris designe are now planning their Collec-
The second evening accessory comes in the need for pretty shoes, These are more im- portant with the short evening dress than with the full length dress. Next year will probably a vogue for exotic evening shoes.
Designers, at the same Lime as showing the short evening dress, are promoting the short wedding dress. But women, we feel. are more inclined to be of their plans. conservative in the choice tofir welding dress than their
vening dress
tiona.
Details are TOP SECRET unthi this month's shows. But six of the London designers have broken the rule to tell me some
of Princess Margaret's new dress-
maker, VICTOR STEIBEL says:
ing
"After three years, short even-
dresses have 'arrived' in London, For day wear I un showing lots of beige."
LACHASSE, lamour for his tailor-mades, says--
Two sults we have chosen from the new collections. They illustrate admirably the new "Navy and white is uut in my season's line There is a ten-new Collection. I am showing dency to use shades of beige more muted colouring-Including and brown, sometimes blended the new off shades, which are in with other colours
more subtle." checks always
ace1
In Aue
and stripes Grey firm favourite, is still to be
in all collections, There is a feeling for higher nocklines, and where the sult does not button up to the neck, a bright cravat or scarf, Binked in colour and material with the suit, All the neckline. Choose
PETER RUSSELL says:-- "Short evening dresses are important m going to be very
next spring. And no London more strapless dresses for me" (Well done, Mr Russell!)
FROM MATTL):-
"I'm showing short evening adresses, and short dress is going to be big news for the spring
Textile designer SEKERS:--
THE AWFUL CHILD
don !
DANCE ? MEY you know there's still some ice cream teft 7
nausealing diet of hash, stew, tubbage, and bread pudding.
Aut now something is happen- the in the cookhouse,
BY COMMAND of the Air Council, a cookery book has been published which is to be the basis instruction on R.A.F. courses.
This "Manual of Cooking and Dietary" Includes a section on MIKI Larnishes, a glossary of culinary
terms, and nutritional require
"Silk tweed was an autumnents.
a little hat in blue and white check to match a cravat on a gey suit, picture at left) or a boater with spotted
silk scarf wand the brim to match a scarf at the neck, or a mushroom eu zazred suit (ot right).
Both suits because of the success, but newer still will be POTATOES. fur instance. Re- a wild silk duplon which locken wember? Beiled at lunch and Eh colours and light-weight
rials are eminently wear-like softly woven straw.
rashed at breakfast Well, now "New colours? Straw-colours, The Manual gives 32 differen: goids and the new Ciel deays of surving potators. Paris, which
bk in warm climates; and both styles could be made in one of
new tropieul-weight worsted | blue." cordurays,
CARE OF CORDUROY
ol
CORDUROY is one Fashion's fabric favourites lis reas, n und appears in everything And shice this fabric is usuale V washable, this means a breek 1 50 far +19 wardrobe main-
senance is concerned
By ELEANOR ROSS
colour-fresh and thew joking,
or by dipping garment and down in lukewarm, fluffy suds. There should be sufficient suds so that garment can be swished around.
Never friction-rub the fabrić, And don't crumble it in your
оп
11
Is a summer sky
AND THE NEW SPRING HATS?
AAGE THAARUP says "Tiny
hats and berets will
They include "DUCHESSE 1.TATOES," which are piped no to a tray and brushed with beaten erg
"POTATOES MAITRE THOTEL are cooked in the
ven with milk.
SAUSAGES? They will be white wine sauce. served with
HASH? It's still there. Bul
Germent can be dried flat by give way to hats with a definite
brim and crown. lyng it and shaping
"Featherwight in rbent towel. If weight of
light course now called "HACHIS ET eniment won't drag it out
straw hats weigh only 11⁄2 ounces. BMINCES," and there are ten pe, it can be arranged on Polka dot and plaid material different ways of cooking it.
peddeci clothes
and langer lett to dry in the shade. From
shake time to time,
drying garmen to fluff it.
uc In washing corduroys, guided by the fastness of the colour and the degree of soli
While fabric Is still Children's coveralls, slacks and
smooth out any wrinkles. that garments get thoroughly hand. Use a soft brush, but not
too vigorously, on soiled parts. Garment loto shape, the poiled, can be bost washed in the nature. Lukewarm water such as collars and cuffs. Rinse way a woollen sweater is
blocked should b
uzed, and enough in lukewarm water, then
from" water, sqačēzc Tr coup or all-purpose detergent move
re-
hats will come in, and the line will be shorter at the back and higher on the head, and worn slightly forward. This is the 'Niniche' line. Smart flower hats damp, will be trimmed with Edelweiss Puliflowers. Colours are bright reds, same greens, and blues."
Well, it seems that women will at last move out of their "grey and navy blue spring fashion rut.
hand-
carefully handfeil. D
to make god thick, deep suds. gently by hand and roll in a pressing should be necessary.
Garments should be pre-test- turkish towel.
Ed Bret for colour-fast qualities, Do not wring or twist, Wring
unless tagged Wash separately ing will mat the pile and leave
However, if Iron is used, press only on wrong side of garment
When corduroy is complete-
if the colour runs. Corduroy ugly crease marks. Krad ly dry, brush with a clean, ckirts, Jackets,
shirls towel gently to reinove
mols- .oft brush in one direction to end accessories should be ture, then unroll and give the raise the pile and restore the
keep them garment a vigorous shaking.
hand-washed
S
to
BEAUTY is something you're over the years—is the heroine of
born with; but glamour is acquired. What it takes is cleverness and hard work,
The show business girls know this better than anyone. They go to high- priced hair stylists and cosmeticians and massage and exercise experts. But then they work at what they have learned. They work hard.
One of the outstanding film stars whese leaks have improved steadi-
an exercise salon story. She enter- ed the class, took her lessons, and then proceeded to do about triple the
work specified For one month she put all her energy art time into the business of acquiring a really good Agure. Since then she has had the determination to keep it.
That, of course, is not all she hat done for her jooks. She has changed from a not-bad-looking blonde to a gorgeous brunette, has adopted an in-
velvety look.
Your
guide
BY
MARILYN MARSHALL
Photo courtmy
to
COME to the cookhouse!
LEFT the W.R.A.F. at the wrong time. In my day we endured LE nourishing, but
Glamain
The rocking home exercise, as de- monstrated abova by pretty Patrice Wymore, is death on fat, takes
ractice, though. Af feft, Patrice -- istrates a quick trick for masing nervous tension-ansy to do, too.
more becoming hairdo, and keup, and
THIS IS THE EXERCISE AS MISS WYMORE DOES IT:
Lie flat on your stomach on the floor, reach back and grasp the ankles, then, raising the chin as high as po". sible, rock back and forward. Exe fat simply cannot stand this punis ment,
But perhaps neither can you! Be- gin with a modified form of the exercise. Lie flat on your stomach on the floor and, simultaneously, fling Your Te up and back as you raise your legs up from the hips. Do not, at first, try to bend the legs at the knees. Raise the chin, as in the more strengers exercise, and alm for an up anth backward stretch all through the torso. Relax and repeat, five times,
After a couple of weeks you should be able to bend the knees and reach back and grip the ankles. Thati in itself, is an exercise. Tug at thr ankles and see how far backward you can pull your trunk, relax ecmplétaly, then repeat.
It will pay you to work at this exer- cise. Besides dealing with the midrift dudel, it guarentees a frm line of chin and bust.
Patrice Wymore has another, en- tirely different frick for getting quick test on date nights. If you are fired and need to make a quick come- back, he says, lie on the floor on your back, with legs raised straight, up the wall, heels touching the wall. Remain this position for five minutes. The change in your clroulx- Hon why give you a new lease on lifel Much the same position can be turned into one et une bast
exercises, you will ever coms deroas: Šiferan voll back on the food with
19
meal.
If I were recalled to the Scr vice, reeipe No. 385, which
HOMARD A L'AMERICAINE." would
be my first This means hot lobster "For 100
50 men tuke lobsters and one bottle wine."
FISH?
line
white
Yes, but not cooked- in a pudding batter. The Manual way is: "DELICE DE SOLE
100 SYLVIA"..."take
large fillet soles, 11⁄2pts. cream, 50 scallops and 100 medium mush- rooms."
QUAILS are cooked in brandy,
-London Express Service}
WOOLLIE UNDIES
by WOLSEY
VESTS in Silk and Wool with Opera Tops or Built-Up Shoulder Panties to Match
PURE WOOL Vests with Built-up Shoulders or Opera Tops in Peach Only
Panties to Match
$ 9,50 $ 9.00
$15.50, $16.50
NOW ON DISPLAY
WHITEAWAYS
WHITEAWAY,
$13.50
CAIDLAW & CO., LTD.:
Gevaert
FILM
の
Jas
33°
GEVAPANG
fast in Speed
EXCELLENT IN GRADATION
Obtainable.from all feading photo stores
Sole Agents:
HONGKONG CANTON EXPORT CO., LTD: French Bánk Building, Hong Kong."
ONE OF THE LARGEST WATCH
AND CLOCK WORKS IN THE WORLD
Known throughout the wildumaking lodubtry,
bua Bttle known to the general publi
the CYMA factories with their vast sina and alabo- vate modern wquipment are one of the watch and click works in the world.
It was CYMA which, several decades sen. Jatrs duced new methade in the mass prydation of proelion watch, which have inade thee naine Cina world-famisis, Today the
ples un kraw of mori iban 200'000 square contains 2248 madinga. Soma 40 milli
bulon of a special Crik
The very
THIS IS CYMA