- THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1952,
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
SPRING... How it
galvanises the women!
SUNSHINE is good for
business.
Spring Is galvanised wosten into thinking of brightening their homes, wardrobes and faces.
This is how
the Arst spring
suihine affected business:
irs and cleaners report an incase of enrpel and
etting.
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One
Arm
Partain dyeing
ort are for blues.
17 corators tell me
of a rush of outside
ting
requests.
Fax purite scheme:
green
rnishing depart.
mrits
th.
are buster
they have been
10 months.
Utility
ร
ehuir
clindzes much dram
for
cors and new eur
10.
Itat shops say that.
sping buying start-
ev
with
swing
curinin
Ands
with the sun. "It's the in-
ensive martels women want one buyer Informs
car."
this year,
mi.
Natural straws with flower
try are tops.
Punty
parlours are booking
lots of new clients for facials. Per treatment is an elee- tri i system for toning up lazy fac and threat muscles.
Off to the sea
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PRING SUN also starts sm- mer holiday planning. The lity clothes sketched by Rix contfrom-u-collection-made chiefly of French and
Italian
of
10
materials. Only six copies eliza
outfit can be made
beach three- mere Left is a
stripe picze in Italian woven colon; the other has a black cotton shirt, worn with woven check cotton jeans and shovel- shaped beach hat.
Nylons? Of course At times chango, How
Christmas, when we were pre- searching for nylons ay senta, there wasn't a pair. to be,
seen.
even seen I have placards, "Nylons
ол
window Sate." attracted which would have quettes oins a year ago.
There is alms, a ghit of the finer 15-denter nylons (about 17s. 6d, a pair). Wonen pre- fer to buy the cheaper, harder- wearing 30-denier type (at 12%. 114).
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Manufacturers teld present plentiful supplies are due to (1) three new British mnatories, and (2) more "frustrated exports" available because of increased output abroad,
In the USA. the nylon glut is enormous. Even at 4s, a pair shops complain that their shelves are still full, American women, too, are turning agains! the very fine types of maskings. They find their cost too high and their ille too short.
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Looking ahead: play 'othes for summer.
The men who stood up in egur! general manager of a big corect Tipton (Staffs) to object Brm. ile elaims to be able to
to the manufacture of aleholic, tell the kind of corset Ice-cream would find plenty of rope if they wanted to extend their campaign to the shops.
could name at least 20 if forent kinds of foodstuffs can taining alcohol,
There are liqueur chocolates in the sweetshops for children to buy If they wish. Mincement
Christmuz inincepies rually preserved with brandy or whisky.
Dellencies include fish in port wine from Sweden, grouse 20 b. wine, peaches, cherries, ste and pineapple preserved in brandy or rum; fruit 111 Lqueurs; Ic
most
he women are wearing when.
them. He also does u meets
ile amateur character reading from women's figures. But his findings are his own secret,
pink
The average woman, says Mr Carey, hep a 28in, waist and a 3 bust. Sho chooses girdles and white bras, and each year buys three bras, one and
girdles and two-thirds Corselette. Between the
one ages
of 20 and 30 she buys more of everything..
Feather-weights
of
corset
salad French THE corset industry is cele-
brating
the arrival mustard mixed with champagne,
a national Cookery expert Helen Burke spring with points out that in French week, kitchens the housewife uses red and white wine and the brandy 1.o the as freely as we use pep per or. Worcester sauce,
Figure reading
MIAN who probably knows more about women's figures than doctors, artists or sudip- Thomas F. Carey, tors is Mr
New idens include trousseau belts and matching bras, in white broderic anglaise over 5-way pink or blue cambric; bras, and a featherweight girdle weighing only
14 ounces, mcmuring 8 x 7in. It feldy into an envelope, although Is fits 26in. waist and 35in, hips,
Work Copyright Reserved-- London Express Service:)
The first spring sunshine in London has always produced a change of atmosphora amongst designers Hats burst intò flower and trimmings look whitor.
THE FIRST CHAPTER OPENS
By Dorothy Barkley
London. numerable tucks, pleats or He first spring sun- Borer, allowing plenty of room shine in London has far movement. This skirt is a blessing in disgule for those always produced a whom. nature hao provided change of atmosphore with sufficient Inches on the amongst designers. Coloura waistline. are suddenly brighter and
Other details noted
at the more cheerful after the collection: armies of buttons, sombre winter wear.
drilled in precise rows, like soldiers on parade; low neck- Arst chapter of
lines spring story opened recently at cake frills, three Incles
reaching a new low level; Faquin's collection where G
The
colours were nation
and
the
deep, gold, round the hems of blacks suits; delicate coloured satin ovening pink, Gelle
tiresses
oyster, water green,
yellow, and sults and dreases were trimmed with white. White lemon sherbert-worn beneath
long salin
the
edged imitation bolero thade evening
were
showed
deeper, ass, just a and
up in a crisply starched cuffs on black typified by the dress in 'lemon Weherbert' tulle-the diaphanous dresses; these cuffs were nine inches deep,
fitted closely at tulle stole, yards long, frothing the shoulders ke the wrial, and
sload. stimy out over away from the rest
of the sherbert, sleeve. Short gloves, in white "waffle" pique affectionately termed "shortles" had turn- back cuffs, and added sparkle both to the black auit, and the evening dress.
in
Illustrating the spring story $10 two suíta from Charles collection. "Jockey Creed's Club for the country, is in covert coating. It is new be- cause the
single rever of the jacket folds back revealing
4
Another new touch appeared check waistcoat front; and be-
the
It was n cause skirt line.
of "odd" pockets--one cross between the trumpet line high, waist level, the other. of a few seasons ago, (when low, hip level. the skirt Btted tightly over the hips, bursting cat at knee level in a fanfare of pleats) and the currently fashionable "petti cont line, whose fullness falls from the waist. In this now line, the skirt is not skin tight, and the fallness flares out at hip level falling_into___in
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RELAT
*Jockey Club" - zult in teigo
Futting. The covert single rever of the Jacket turna bard to reveal a check
waistcoat front.
"Blue Ensign" is a town suit in "slub-silk." The jacket is short, the three-quarter sleeves and the are "leg-of-mution, dress
be worn with or without the white pique waist- coat front-all new touches.
can
EASTER - BONNETS: 4-The- second chapter of the spring story came In the new millinery collections, Materials Included zebra - striped gros- grain, chessboard checked slik, and straw for the drst time/ In anthracite, which gots well with the dark grey suits and dresses of the season.
"Blue
Elasign" --In navy
bito lub sk. Tho ricever of the jacket are three-quar- for length leg-of-multan. I can be worn with or without the white plque waistcoal front,
Square Peg In A Round
Hole
If you choose to represent the various parts-in life by holes upon a table, of, different shapes
Hale had a definite "east-to-some circular, some triangular, west" movement, created by an elghteen Incli quill feather
some square, some oblong-and
placed on top of the head, or by the persons acting these parts by
ear pleces-like those on deer bits of wood of similar shapes,
stalkers-curling up either. side,
A miniature teliby had the dip
In the crown running from alde
to side, not from front to back.
hats
we shall generally find that the triangular person has got Into the
square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person
the.
they were
almost
(Sydney Smith),
Hats were "east-to-west" in has squeezed himself into inspiration also: sombrero hats, round. hole. The officer and the in natural straw, with green office, the doer and the thing crowns; Pagoda hats, with black or flint green
velvet done, seldom fit so exactly that "spires," and burnt straw sides; we can say
with tiny made for each other. Broton anilor brims and shallow growns, sit- ting straight on the head, some times tying under the chin velvet ribben; Pinocchio bereis in forest green velvet with black feathers and black scaming,
ecolle and Chinese
than Inst hats much smaller
withi scason-in black straw rosebud trimming.
emu
But, whatever the styles, all hata were small, and perched on the very top of the head.
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BY
MARILYN MARSHALL
THE FOURTH DIMENSION OF YOUR PERSONALITY
THIS spring, give yourself every
possible aid to loveliness. Sur- round yourself with a sense of fomioielly, a sense of being the most glamercus girl in town. Wo en't
lovely
all be beautiful, but each one of us can be feminine,
Rnd charming. It's all in knowing how. in taking advantage of oil the wanderful feminine help now on the market... and fragrance. is certainly not the least of these.
✡
10
Set your foundation of fragrance through your dally bath. Why not !essive right now that for at least
each day 10 minutes
you
will enjoy with
a luxurious bath, complete
eet smelling deflatries
sweet
oil or
..bath
sense of loveliness. It gives others
a sense that you are charming and womanly roughly attractive person. For the fragrance with which you surround yourself truly
dimension lo, the fourth
of your personality, giving you an aura of. bemity. But do use enough, (wo never like too much) to be notice- able subtly and surely.
Perfume is one
of the most. glamour-giving alds you can UDO yet many women hesitate to use it .this except for special ctoasions. for several
ere old reasons which wives tales. Expensive? Not at all, costs little more than your dally newspaper when you use it every day, Bad taste in the daytime?, Stuff: and nonserae, No more out of pince. than painted nails, and obvious lip- atick. So use up that bottle of per- fume on the dressing table before you "spoll" your
to evaporation of.. self. And do be lavish with colome spoils duo
alcohol, by water followed and/or tollot clouds of bath powder. The fram grance will give you a pleasurable rense of glamour. Your body akin WIH feel soft and silly. You'll feet feminina and attractive.
or antls
or bubbles, perfumed tollot water or cologne, bath powder, Refuse, la answer phone or doorbell while
.
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Following, are several ways-to apply perfume to yourself properly and outilly.
clings to your skin and clothes. Either way gives you an, CRAITESTE cf, being heautifully, but subtly. scented with the perfume of your choturate a plece of coiton with cholce, perfume and tuck. It into your The fragrance will rise to greet "you, giving you a feeling -feminine,
Portumo, used lavishly
'ing
glamour-gly
jo
scent.
sweet-
than "four hours, no ronow, youn through the day, makapagh
Although many mon object to a make-up job at the luncheon or din«; ner table, we've never heard any thing but compliment from malé companions when wey
meal.
Bra
renae of You'd be the most peinlinting,
woman you know this season. by, be
fume at shorend zor, H on puİ. -
portant Itent of fragrance-perluano)/your throatins, temples, ingido "urma
And remember, the most im- Always truch a few drops to sing fresh, hinnakerchfettin
it is the accent to your foundation of 'scent your lipstick Access your make-up, Perfume is one of The mocke: glamour giving alde you Can Ur4. Aft giver you a wonderful,
when you ph dressing the pulse spots where the heat of the body. tears the sent allve, Oc if you prefer, sp ay, the perfume all about your să that a mink pist of scent
Öt .004jam, you will some your...ing email about gleancur-giving, fra-
¿grance.} In a recent survey,
yourpure
the sign of a gracious lady. It will
cont of the mea questioned said they fominke Liit, mach Line Ulko to have a woman wear It prea And spraiding That could be enough of pursos, de egy as perfume virzo jr overy "womas
glambro container. Few perfumes last more eat all times).
choose carefully,
use cleverly
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to your beauty. There are nine perfect skin-tone colours. Choose a shade alightly darker than your skin.
Press the powder on firmly and generously.
Brah away the surplus-and admire
your new found lovelines.
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