THE CHINA. MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1952.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
#HY A S
The Bossy
Nervous frostess
Utente:s
J
Fascinating The Good Listener
Talker
makes bores
Two Authors in
conversation
"They won't read instructions
Princess Elizabeth's I
little dressmaker
TWO
VERY 1 M
WOMEN in London
Elizabeth took with her Canada, Now she is busy on hats for Australia.
to
'PORTANT worked quietly
on a VERY IMPORTANT TO DO THIS Ming Day has JOB the clothes Princess to work with whoever is mak- Elizabeth wears on the Aus-ng the clothes.
tralian tour.
Miss Avis Ford calls her.
Court self simply a
dreza- maker. She asked me not to call her the Royal Family's "Little
round woman
corner."
*
the
Iler showroom has NONE OF THE GLAMOUR of the usual Mayfair salons.
There
are, no crystal chande liers, no tall vases of out-of-sea- son flowers, so heady perfume, glit chairs, or thick-plied carpets, AND HER assistanta, instead of looking liko film sturlets in clamour dresses, have natural complexions, wear their own woollen dresses, and look like the well-bred daughters of county families.
QUEEN'S TWEEDS
Miss Ford herself, small and
If it is Miss Ford, Miss Day sees her sketches and materials belofe designing the hots.
וי
In her now spring collection she is using a lot of CANDY- STRIPED materials and
teatherweight straws,
on the scap packets because they think they know it all.
"When rocks" go 'Telly 11
usually due to bad handling at home."
BUT the material manufac- turer la also to blame.
*Ifr Diplock says: "Theso days manufacturers are work-
margin, ing on a small
they are skimping
drinking."
and the pro-
"After weaving, cloth should
be shrunk back to its original size. In Loo many cases now that doesn't happen."
What
Is the solution?
IF ALL THE CLOTHES were labelled by the maker, giving lly of the table, and the Idently
read
the instruc- housewives tions clothes would not shrink
therefore to much and would have a longer life.
Kanufacturers should be COMPELLED'
their to label
pre-shrunk.
Much of her trimmings are pastel-coloured feathers, usually materials if they have not been used only on winter hais. Misy Day likes them for an all-the- year-round trinimiug.
SHE WILL also use lots of veiling.
"The most popular shape wit Spring," says Miss Day, "will be the hat with the face-framing brim."-
They all blame each other
dignified, could easily be the SWIFT shrinking, which adds
headmistress of an establish- ment for Young Gentlewomen, instead of one of the top dress- makers in the country.
QUEEN MARY has clothes made by Miss Ford, who, I am told, has "the
finest tailor in town." And It is Miss Ford who for years has made many QUEEN ELIZABETH'S tweeds.
BUSY ON HATB ALSO BUSY sewing for the Australian toer is milliner Miss Kate Day.
It was Mica Day als matis
SOM!
HAVE received from America Mr. Russel) Lynes' new book Guests or how to survive Iospitality (larger and Brothers. New York), "
Mr. Les Tas made a study of
party bores. He exposes :- THE CRASHING BORE
"whose conversation weigha on you like a phyrical burden." THE GOOD LISTENER.
THE to the cost of living, takes, place As
in women's much clothes as men's.
Are the laundries to blame, as
many housewives say?
I'M TOLD that they are not. The blame should be shared
turer and the housewife.
between the material manufac-
Mr Roger
Diplock, of the Retall Trading Standards Asso-. elatlon, belleves it is "mainly the housewife who is at fault."
HE SAYS: "You' would never predil the things women dɔ to of the hera Prinecas the family wash.
their ultimate rand sole fi social contribution to 'party is to make hores out of other people."
FASCINATING CON- VERSATIONALIST is one of the most boring of boren. ・・・ Strictly an audience man." Other bores we all know ?== THE KNOW ALL THE ANSWERS.... Now listen to me."
Russell, Lynes is lucky to have missed the female BRIDGE BORES, THE SLIMMING BORES, and The UNHAPPY MARRIAGE BOBER, Hests and Hostesses, too, havo a
chapter in the back. THE GOOD HOSTESS.
must be nervous-it she isn't nervous I am.”
THE APOLOGETIC HOSTESS It's going to be terribly dull. ske saus.”
London Express Service.
EILEEN ASCROFT'S COLUMN CHARTS
A CHILL. WIND IN THE DRESS SALONS
CUT-PRICE Paris Cowns may make 1952 feshlon news, I pre-
dict that spring styles to te shown to world buyers in Paris.
will be more practical and cheaper.
The sedation in English travel allowances means that English wo- men can no longer buy clothes in Paris. Few Parisiennes can afford to pay £100 or more for a simple frock or suit, Su the chief customer is now the American big store which buys several toiles each season for mass-producing in the States.
Fantastic creations are of little us to this market. Their business is strictly breed and buiter.
been built by
Yot the mystical reputation of Paris fashion has fabulous clothes. And ficti cilenta broni Persia, like Queen Saraya, Egypt's Queen Narlman and Eva Peron. from the Argentine, still expect than. En big designers, such as Dlor and Fath are trying to strike a happy medium in their spring shows-to mate the majority practical enough for the Americans and yet sufficiently glamorous for their remaining wealthy private customers.
Few Parla conturiera could afford tald-
SIGN OF THE TIMES
season shows. Lanvin was the only designer to make a completa col- lection.
Many of the prices were
slashed. toe, in a desperate attempt to attract
customers again. Nothing in Rochus mid-season collection cost more than 260,
Spring roses trim Paris hats and take evening ac- Ceasorics.
x has sketched an enor mous blue rate threaded through a felt hat, an easy idea for British milliners to capy:
Other simple, inct effective, levan area elave bangir of full-blown roses or a cluster caught at the throat with necklace.
Master patterns made of
солец.
PARIS
clothes
at cut prices?
Comfy And At Home
T-4
Velveteen pants and blouse.
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE
AS comfy and cosy at home or at play is this nice piece of interior design, The black vel- veten pants are peg-top and fashion, are bultoned, toreador
at the calt. The lantern-sleeved case is of white cotton and is worn with a sleeveless vest of black and white striped cordu- гоз
FABRIC TIPS
Wrinkle-proof cottons may turn yellow and the synthetle resins used in the development of wrinkle-proof cottons are
Bome responsible. The finish times used to make a garment
makes wrinkle-proof also
k chlorine retentive. In other words, the Anish absorbs chlorine from the bleach-hence the resulting yellowness.
sewing
on
Grow Your Own Hat!
By DOROTHY BARKLEY
London.
"ROW your own. hat U strange advice, this, to emerge from the elegant, gilt-chaired, crystal chandeliered salons of May fair. But there it is. For the latest material, shown at a collection of new mill linery recently, is not silk or satin- but grass.
side-to-side movement. Some- times pom-poms or a bunch of lae are placed at the side. It it's originality you want, why not have a large, fe-like imita- tion apple by way of a change from the usual exotic bunch of wax cherries? Sometimes a wing of matching material la placed horizontally across the crown, at on
the hat Hlustrated (Top left).
very narrow, pin-stripe groa grain, (black and white in this case), was chosen for this Itlo
The newest detall in this side-
The most up-to-date recipe for making a hint is: take some grass, dry it, and sew it onto a urip of ribbon. Then wind this te-side style is the one-cye velt.
round stripe round and
#Made of the eparsest net avail- leaving a fringe able of strawberry-net thick- canvas crown, at the edge, to shade the face, nest-li covers only one side of Sometimes it has a crown of the face and extends only to flower petals.
chin-level. It looked delightful
(See illustration centre, right). on a little "dalsy" cap which had After grass, strow was another a yellow spot in the centre like material causing a sensation, no- the yellow centre of the daisy, from the and white petals spreading out tural straw, straight ecuntryside; terry towelling over the straw crown. (See
Elizabeth
When
a jersey straw, (with a pile a quarter- illustration bottom left). Other
thick fable, ease the material under jof-an-luch
resembling Bowers forming
the pressure foot of your sew-terry towelling); and cellophane such hats were
the basis of mauve violets
ing machine to avoid stretching straw, either black or white, and pink rose-buds; sometimes,
which, with its shiny
THE
ROSE SHOW
*parle finds new ideas for
rosei: sketches by RIX.
Foreheads Are In The Beauty Picture
You have to watch your fore-
head! Things can happen to it
if you don't keep your eye preled for little furrows that
cán.
como, prematurely.
Women who feel
By Helen
Follett
a five-minute overhauling. got- ting the blood streams dancing so they will bring nourishment to the silky shafts, Cream your
will not re- Angernails; cream
Try to get move the polish.
Give thought to the way you the youthful face appears to that they dress your hair. When bangs are advantage in a tipped back must express surprise by lifting worn, or the hair combed low allor that has simight, severo in five minutes of torm twisting an eyebrow
similar effect, the lines. get little din giving ditched that run Crosswine, apparent width of the face is
and bending before your bath,
Increased so bangs are not-dor wom
Woman moonfaced girl.'- If the age, to give. thought: to. over the lang alco
tho
Those who pull their eyes together when things don't, sult them get frown lines. As forehead is unusually high it defail that confrites toward.
If there are not enough beauty may be wis
griefs without
creating them
It doem't make sense
WICH
Nourishing
Cream
Should
to
all over
body
It is the duty of every Have a friction with toilat no matter what her water afterword; it will keep
skin
YouT pretty figure doem't mean much to a girl unless she moves in rooming, with grace. If she has chest in, care tummy and shoulders forward, eams her clothes
be flattering throws When sitting
charming appearance
Maka the WomenIAL"!
they
stocking
cover it with! hirsute fringe..
Protruding Chin
with a protruding when The girl chin should not have her hair whether Bucked back and her chapeau aro happen, that your perished on the back of her the freshes need forehead is not as smooth ar acad. This style calls attention ling, as uoy de frequently these, she should have her spinal sily get after it with a nourish to the chin that is too prominent days of short wool, It is just too column extended, hands
preilily feet close
together This with scrambled heads
or ziggy. When because
nced pln-cur- them out
Ing cream and the zight" kind; for harmony of the faciat, com- ' much trouble, so Ilfov go aro Sprawling in a chair-is a' corrig
elifriction. Send your fingers pozlišon, VA,
belmined from adds to nde in little eircies, likely to be raare becoming.... Bo faithful to your beauty mon habit with high school girls, Pick up the flesh between your hats that reveal the forehead chores, and you'll make theIt is the file things that hages and iron, 1 upward. Tap are youth o own actyle, and grade, Don't fall to wash your count. They must havo, attention In the crpain, asing your fingers some of the Boar older Mathan face at bedtime and to pat in the so the complete, composition is Alico little hammers,
ebould remember that, Only fragrant cream, Gite your scalp. appealing to the observing eye.
Lers
surface. In place of the yellow centre of and reflects the light the daisy, they were finished at a jewel. A hat, made of the top with a tuft of bright-
| natural-coloured straw, looked green stalks.
rather like an inverted bird's hest, and was trimmed with hats is that they are easily con
The advantage of these small realistic dates.
There are, two basic styles of trollable in a high, wind, and are. not ⇓ mentee to theatre- hat this season: the "topknot" goers. Those large, big-brimmed hat, and the "side-to-side hat. hats of a year or so ago, with their Lont ostrich feather, The topknot bat - head-
ach a formid- hugging, close-fittingsults able and anhoying barrier in the
always presented such a small, neat head, with a short, theatre
or cinema-and, nent hairstyle. It
on the course, equally to be told, in a head rather like a tea-cosy on a polite, but firm voice from the tea-pot, or an egg-cway an an row behind, "Would you pleass
Eg-cup. Material is swept up remove your hat?" to the top and finished the
fits
of
characteristic knot. Sketched Even, if everyone does not all Is the type of hat we mean, at once rush to buy or make a It is made in white organdie. "grass hat" or a "topknot" hat specked all over with a small with a one-eye vell, perhaps and black spot. (Top right).
or two will do so. Where trimmings are used on It is the brave who make hals they always emphasise the news,
Page
NYLON
MAGIC
You'll Love The Exquisite Daintiness Of These New Nylons
NYLONS SLIPS..
With Brasslere Top and Frilled Hem. In Ivory, Blue, 7, Turquoise, Peach or Black.
* FROM $32.50%:
NIGHTIES.
In Infinite Variety. In Ivory, Pink, Peach. Sky, Mauve, Black, Turquoise, or Butter Cup.
FROM $59.50
KAYSER SONDOR. Mesh Briefs. Dainty Style, In Peach or White,
WHITEAWAYS
$9.50
WHITE AWAY.
LAIDLAW
& CO., LTD.
FOR THE
FINEST DIAMONDS
TAI HANG JEWELLERY
Sole Agents for, LIBERTY DIAMOND Works LTD. Johannesburg.
floors 707, 7th Floor, Bank of East Asia' Didg. Taliphone 21386
In cases of
cuts and abrasions
this healing antiseptic is an effective treatment
MUANOL Aaúseptic Cream
Bis
His one of the most powerful germicides known, yet it is entirely safe to use on cut or tern skin. It relieves the pain and aids rapid healing,
Burnol is equally reliable in the treatment of, burns and scalda, tropical zores and sup purating wounds, and infective skin conditions generally,
Simple instructions for use. aro enclosed with each tube of Euraol. Get one from your chemist or drug store and keep it handy for emergencies.
Let Your Beauty be See....
Burnol
ANTISEPTIC CREAM
It's made by
of Nottingham England and is available from
you chamlordrugstore.} [uwi
Palmolive Brings Out Beauty
WHILE IT CLEANS YOUR SKIN !
PALMOLIVE
36 WADING SKIN 'SPECIALISTS.
# 1265 SCIENTIFIC TESTS PROVID THAT PALMOLIVE'S BEAUTY PLAN DRINOS MOST WOMEN LOVELIER COMPLEXIONS IN 18 DAYS
Start Palmolive's Beauty Pian today! Discover for yourself—as-women everywhere. have discovered that Palmolive' Beauty Flan brings excit ing new completion loveliness. Here's all you do: Ciently ZANESAKO Palmolive v,extra-mlid, pure father onto your skin for just a minute, threo times a day. Then rinse and pat dry. You'll see Palmolive bring out your beauty while it cleans your skin.
Doctors Proces Polacotare's Beauty Resulta!