THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1952,
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Photo courtesy Procter and Gamble
IF YOUR HAIR is short but you'd conform to the new longer fashion, here's a good hairdo for you, Brush well off face, set in soft wave, curl aldes to cover
BY
MARILYN MARSHALL
uneven ends.
FIRST a trend, now an accepted fashion is
FIRS
the long hairdo so,necessary to hat- monise with. today's ultra-feminine fashions, But what to do if you'd be in style, yet have been wearing your hair short, not only be- use it's becaming but because it's a com- fortable and easily gicomed? .
Since hair doesn't grow overnight, the pêw iden in hair styles may present its problems. It needn't, though, for with a few tricks you can create the illusion of longer hair,
If trees are very, very shorl. try on up- do. Sound Impossible? Well, It isn't. All you have to do is set your hair in pincuris all over the head, then, when dry, brush it back from the face and up from the neck, The curls sat at the neckline will farm waves if you brush them hard enough, and will stay flat against your head so that your hair will look long, while the top hair ends in fluff.
Another method of grooming your hair so that I locks long while still short to to comb the hair while lig damp, then set in pincurls low on the neckline. When pincurls are set of even sections of hair in even rows on the head, they will comb into elther waves curls. Waves are being more highly em- phasised this season, however,
or
of
Incidentally, no matter which typa e:iffuro you prefer, it is always well ta' re-
Also,
member that short, shingled hair looks better when i curled back from the face. that cropped hair-no matter what its length -always alleves a neater look if it's combed out well while damp and then set in pincurls,
Whatever the length of your growing-out huir, however, arrange your waves and curls to conform with the lengthening ends. In this way, you'll climinate the unattractive "grow- ing-cut" look.
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To keep hair looking its best, have trimmed as often as necessary. And be sure to wash it often, because clean hair has body und sheen. Whether you use saft or hard water, one of the new type special detergents will give you the results quickly and easily.
After the hair has been sat, it' will keep neatly in place much longer if you'll use one, of the many lotions, pomades or wave-sprays to be found in the cosmetics department of your favourite store. Somo women like to control their waves with
alon velo
aro
"ereme-set." Others use a recently wave-pet capsule, the contents of which diluted with wafer and combed through the newly-washed and rinsed hair to expedite Bet- ting. The choice is your own, of course, but do use one of the wave-control products to achieve perfect grooming -- whether your tresses are long, short or just in-between.
SPOTLIGHTED IN FASHION WEEK
In colour. Sprays of hyacinth,
London. By Dorothy Barkley ches of ly of the valley of
row good it is after re-
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Spring clothes
would have been
sombre, anyway
by EILEEN ASCROFT
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PRING fashion buying will be Influenced by court. mourning. Buyers of large stores expect immediate demanda for the quieter colours, black and white, greys, and pale muuves,
Gaye: spring shades will be kept at least.un-
t after Easter.
By coincidence the new fashion shades favoured by both London and Paris housca for spring are sombre, with predominance of black and white, with black ae- cessories.
Hals, too, are curiously simple, lacking the usual seasonal trimmings of flowers, fruit and ribbons,
FRENCH HATS FOR THE STARS: Born in France, Modame Lilly Doche now designs hats for American film stars. Spring choice of Joan Crawford is this farge transparent hat of block and grey veiling, with a cushioned brim,
has she now sideways-dipping movement.
Buyers are reloved, as they restaurants It was"dimcult to will not have to buy new stocks' get a meal under 25s, to meet the public, demand.
Mowered hats from one of the cheaper department stores were
I asked my hotel
manager whether he Was expecting English guests this spring. shook his head andly and spoke cf cancellations' and empty rooms. "How can they do ft with prices so high?"
Parties shrink 304. In 1951. Now they are £3.
MOST worried about the
fashion situation are tha | London' eputurlers.
Although they report that ex- port business is briak they fear will be serious, that home orders
Bettina's job
ly affected.
Many big social events usually held in the spring have already............. been cancelled.
Ha
ONE of the more vivid person-
At this time of year the salons. alities in Paris Is Battina. of the couturiers should be full She has modelled for Jacques
of debutantes and their mothers Feth, been No. 1 cover girl on choosing
presentation party French fashion papers, got her- frocks, ball gowns and all the self into the gossip columna. other
exciting clothes needed for a first season.
This year they will have Httle ute for these sort of clothes,
Public mourning
PEOPLE responded noticeably
to the Earl Marshal's request
for public mourning.
Queues for Westminster Hall were more sombre. Most men in
the atrests wore dark, plain ties. Many women lacking a black hat, wore a black or navy heret.
A
lations and running the boutique.
Refreshing Twosome
Blopes and sizoks.
BY GRACE THORNCLIFFE
FOR lounging, resting at home or in a dormitory here is a nice combination of blouse and slacks that is refreshingly different. Tho alcoveless blouse of worsted JerBoy is
ila cardigan type 15 1
and dark Mark green goes beautifully with green and red plaid worsted dungarees. The two are linked by a bolt of antiqued red leather. Note the novel turned back cuffs that finish the sleeveless shoulder line..
The More Chivalrous Male
to the
Now she has given up model- ling. She has gone into businessow nico to return with a new young couturier, company of the dull English Hubert de Givenchy, who train-male after a week among the ed with Schiaparelli.
Callant Latin lovers. Bettina's jobs are public re- The idea that the Frenchman more chivalrous to womon than the
Englishman is nonsense. He will steal a taxi right under your nose; slem restaurant doors In your face, if he is not trying NEWEST rejuvenating beauty
treatment in Paris is a mix-to impress you; elbow you 20
lentlessly aside in a queue, and ture of massage and deep clec- race you to the last seat in the trical stimulation.
metro.
Spring cocktail
I saw children with black arm the rain feeling about fifty and I went into the beauty salon in bands.
an increase in came out an hour and a half Shops report sales of crepe bands and black later with a mad desire to buy a
spring hat.
ties,
Women are buying for black
hand, buys you flowers or Batters It's not true that he kisses Yojir
....unless he has an ulterior you with delightful compliments
motive. electrio pads give a
Englishman face ant neck, exercising
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The
may
be
out-fts, but there have been big ni seshing, sensation over unromantle, But how nice to be
sales of cheap black hats.
The Queen's choice of a black all those deep muscles that are given a sest la the bus once Persian lamb cant when she not touched by manual massage. more; to be shepherded safely road; have one's Note for winter-weary Lon- across the went to Westminster Hall doners, this new treatment is parcels carried, and doors held
Thisanced. women's
open once again, coat buying. Sales of real Persian now available in Britain, lamb have been little affected,
-(London Express Service).
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hz
but there has been a steep riss
demand for black fur. in the fabric, conts resembling Persions lamb.
Oh! So dear
PARTS in the spring...the chest-
nuts in the Bois de Boulogne moonlight in the Tullertes Gar dens...will be just a dream this year for British tourists. Unless they go only for a week-end an the 405 foreign travel allow- lanes.
Prices have risen stoeply the last six monthat, but
a year ago, The same room with
I stayed at the hotel I visited
croissants, butter, marmalade and orange juice) cost 9s. dd,
My favourite bistro, whero_a year ago I could enjoy (a) Bs. inack, now charged me 381, for
filas decorate huge white or the same bath had risen from cent years of "Little hugging with a swinging ganza akirts, We like here a 30s, to £2 10s. Breakfast (coffee, Boy Looke", and tight, canvas-stiffened skirt - a short evening dress with a skirt straight skirts so elegant, line currently favoured by made of an embroiderat Spanish
shawl mounted on tulle, so impractical-to return to Princess Margaret; or re- feminine silhouette when duced tent, with the full- Mattli is another designer who shoulders slope, waists curve ness swinging from the has accentuated the waistline by the same fare. In the smallest and skirts billow out to im-
widening the hamline. His suits shoulder. Materials: All have pleated skirta miniature measurable fullness.
practical for tropical bax pleats are placed all the Victor Stiebel, particular climates or warm weather, way round. A new hip pocket pouches to the, hip-
ly, in his collection promotes in particular, a new "wool in out of ones are Peacock's Pride this silhouettes. he showed crepe de chine" a wool a new neckline which fo
it for suits, conta, day and evening dresses.
* SUITS: Jackets are rib fitted with short basques.
with the draping qualities scooped out and filled in with
dung.
of a heavy silk crepe. Shan- crisp white pique or black shan- tung and faille are both popular for loose coats.
...
Ho shows two delightful colours — "Sung") green and ~\mimosa_yellow. "Sung"" green,, 14
The rounded shoulder lino DAY DRESSES: Dresses are that tht shade of jade green is emphasised by narrow in light-weight material; skirt associated with the pottery, of white piping which runs mess la emphasised here by ancient China. We noticed a from neck to wrist. They one of three things: by canvas full-backed, sloping should cred lining, by several petticoats, or coat in Sung treen mohair A are unusually collared, with by a light crinoline. Materials; similar style of cost was made white ermine. Skirts, which Shantun La
und as top coats give a cloak-like effect ard ballot-full are either sometimes the season's law in the mimom Blown made due to the tremendous amount of circular or gored. Materials: y es organdie; sometimes
is as heavy as cloth. There are faliness at the bank. The tropical-weight worst- toffeta shantunge, slubs, mont/c- eds, grey flannel and Donegal line, and prints. "Ascot dietes From the shows, we remember tweed, Accessories: Buttons are in these materials, tigil Hartnell'a crinoling of 1980 or paper taffeta; mounted en pink tulle strewn with roze are of bamboo, horn, wood oninoline, fliey are topped with petals, cash one fixed on In and leather. - Cravat, um- matching cantant brella, cover, gloves and hat
au all made in the same
material gunuelly"
upotted silk surah,
dividually with white: brushed Holman olesyed.
angora" Jacket. and selosenttin
EVENING DRESSES: The worn with, ting feasthita:
white full skirt is shown bare in its stated evening
mort dramatic foon. Like every silk chiffon, the Dolphin fareen ether designer this season, Stic splashed bravely against, petrol Aweka spotlighting what bvqning blue in Digby Morton's Celtication
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