THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11,” 1952.
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FORGET THE WAIST LINE TYRANNY... THE SECRET· OF WEARING FASHION IS IN THE SHOULDERS
✪✪ THESE Five SilhouetTES tell the story of how the hemline and the back and front view of any dress can be spoiled. This is the lesson: Your shoulders are the key to vour sure. If your shoulders, droop, the buat drops, "the diaphragm weakens, the waist enlarges; and the stomacn sticks out, Most women can overcome the shoulder danger by better deportment, by standing straight with shoulders down and back, so that the neck ta long and the head is high.
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TACKLING THOSE EXTREME FIGURES
DOO TAKE THE FIRST group of sketches. Those show you the DUMPY gure.... There is nothing impossible abou dressing her unless she demands (second sketchi a horizontal design which makes her appear even broader The aim 18 simple (third' sketchi Tits, gure can be made to look fashion-ne in any design which breaks the fashion line vertically:
000 TAKE THE BEANPOLE figure. Here, in the next three, sketches, you see the lesson in reverse, A vertical fashion line is disastrous any fashion style which breaks the vertical na does the trick
“Galahad?”
the
"Galabad"
appropriate
natio riven to
this evening shoe
of gold elastic
meab, resembling
chala mail.
flexible as a shoo
could possibly be,
it is an experi-
model
mental
shown by Dolcis
in London.
I
Robb introducos his 1952 Fashion Courso
BELIEVE I can liberate any fashion-conscious woman from the torture of striving for the perfect figure that elusive list of tape- measure sizes which nature seems to reserve for fashion models.
In place of all the chastening remarks about being "too small here, too bulky there, too long all over, and too short for words," I offer you one rule:-
Set your shoulders right-and any woman of any size or shape can have all the fun in the world buying up-to-the-minute fashions which suit her.
have spent a week arguing this prin- ciple with fashion leaders. Let me just quote you Jaeger's chief designer: "Every fashion line moves from the shoulder down. Even round-cut shoulder lines are bullt to go on models whose shoulders are level and parallel with the waist.,, Shouldera
weman's dress hanger."
So will you forget your fashion shadow
is made up of which the things you think you are, or would like to be and in future dress the real you?
On this page are flustrated the new fashion hazards, apart from the Shoulder Line.
Danger
Hazard No. 2 is the Four-Inch Line Skirts do not hang from the waist. The danger point is four inches below and half-way
or you
are
OOO LATEST ADAPTATION of the new Middy Look breaks all the 'aveepted conventiană. It has the dropped shoulder the Dilman sleeve, no wall tine, and must be at least four inches below the waist line in length. every
Although concealing the natural figure. It is an iden) fruit (falterer.
between waist and hip lines. 暴堂 you are small and fat, tall and bony, either way are in trouble. You will find the Four-Inch Line produces a row of creases BCTOSS your middle, makes the hemline un- CA O DON'T make the mis- even, ruins your back view. take (left) of adoping the Hazard No. 3 is the Thighline, carrying the coat hanger idea military shoulder look. That is You may remember that in your too far. And fright)land like summer swimsult you felt a a little this and any fashion will look
For A Lady my because of your thighline, and on you.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
The problem did not disappear when you packed your summer clothes away. Those thighline bulges show beneath a straight skirt (particularly when-you-sdk- down); they show if you wear Blacks.
Camouflage.
by
10
tin-
wearing
You can camouflage zainly thighline circular or pleated skirts, · for they are--the designer's "clever appeal to the majority-
These hazards affect nearly all women-but they need not spoil the fashion pleasure of any.
WATCH FOR Robb's Guide to- YOUR FIGURE
0✪ ✪ Your waistline is not the big fashfód problem, Par more likely to spell your fashions choice are (Taff) the thighstino. and (right) the Four-inch ... below the waist... Line,
DOGS LEARN MANNERS
IN · TRAINING
SCHOOL
Eleven
dogs were
Owner
Hollywood Maximilian von Frankenberg, ago 14 months, graduating class, and each had in Max' has graduated with honours and even has a diploma to prove it. to walk at his owner's knee Max- Beverely Hills (heel) both on and off leash neighbourhood children call him (lead), sit when the -only needed nine weeks at special school, according to his There were two mass exercises stopped and circle with him. young guardian, Miss Bobbe Frankenberg, to pass his finals at the finale when all dogs had with tail flying.
to do a "long sit" and a "long Bo"
the washers under the cap nut pointer whose degree of "Good stem when your faucet is open, may need renewing.
If water leaks around
it cun sometimes be stopped by
tightening the cap nut. Adjust
He is a German shorthaired
Doggie" indicates his attendance at animal trainer J. King Ross' county-authorised obedience the nut firmly, but not SO To remove castor oll stains, classés gave him enough polish tightly as to cause the faucet rub well with lard, then wash to walk, sit, run and generally to bind. If tightening doesn't in hot muds, This treatment will behave himself well enough for
leak, the packing also remove cod liver oil stains. # judge to confer the degrev.
stop
the
Ros mid many dogs have been ruined by lack of training. He explained the basic idea of obedience classes was to educate the master as well as the dog.
"Every dog wants to obey but must be given the chance," Ross said. United Press.
The Compact Is A Fashion Accessory
To the glamour-conscious woman her compact is a dia- tinctive fashion ROGEMBOTY chosen with the mamio caro sa nbe selects gloves, bags, jew- ellery, Hore mother-of-pearl In used in a smart compact for evening.
By MARILYN MARSHALL
the protective flannel jackets in which they come. The manu- course, get along without it, board with brocade, Mother-of-facturers have especially de- signed these to help the Consider, then, the vast verlety Pearl with jewels, Sterling fastidious woman keep har on the cosmetic counters today Silver with jewels, over-all
free compact and begin to think of them in jewels and, if you can afford it from the deteriorating effects the same light as you consider solid gold.
of the alcohol fumes that your other accessories-in the
In former. days good breeding, Light of suitability,
·
from scratches,
The working girl, who needs frequently escape from par enough powder to last all day, tume vials, from other damage. will need a large size round or
Then, there's the mirror.
No
And
didn't permit a "lady" to pow- There's the playtime compact, der her nosa' in public. That for instance the one you square compact. The compact Then there's the mirror ceremony was reserved for the should carry when you're wear for the woman on her way to a "powder room" or boudoir. But, Ing sports clothes, For such special occasion will be smaller thanks to the ingenuity and occasions, the modern misa of and thinner to at into her dress glamorous woman wants to sco craftsmanship of the modern good taste will choose a come up bog.
her reflection through a cloud manufacturer, today's compact pact of simple line, o tallored On the market today are also of powder and smudges, 80 Is such a masterpiece of beauty classic design, to reflect the small kits, known as carryalls, she'll be sure that the mirror.is ont desigh that milady La casuainess of the occasion. which come in as many varia- always clean and bright. proud to display it. The Usually, sports compacts are tlong as the compacts. These the puffs! Salled pulls should fashion-conscious Woman selects made in jeweller's bronze, silver are made to hold all her compact, however, as a dis- finish, bright leather, novelty feminino valuables in one small most manufacturors will pro
the be discarded immediately since tinctive fashion accessory, and platile or colourful enamel, unit-powder lipstick, mirror, vide additional puffs and most with the same consideration she For dressy frocks ometimes even a watch is not them in stock or will order ro
comb, cigarettes, plita and, department stores either keep would use in choosing the style, colour and detait of her gloves, With daytime dressy frocks on top. So, as you see, the task placement puffs in the correct bag and jewellery. Choosing a You'll want a dainty compact......... of selection is not dificult.
size and shape, compact should never be a hit- one showing restrained elegance. There is, however, the matter or-miss proposition and there's These come in two-toned sliver no reason why It should be for Anish, petit point, plain Mother today compacts are made for of-Pearl, cloisonne and Sterling every conceivable fashion mood, Silver, season and occasion.
For formal evenings, the com Perhaps you haven't given pact, should be small but truly pacts should always look as that the elegance and lovelines your compact much thought elegant and should reflect neut and bright as the day of the glamorous YOUR is res beyond the fact that it'g'n' uses, glaniesous sophistication. For they were parchussd. So when decled Both in and by your com= fur article mud you couldn't," of such occasion you can go over you buy them leave them" its "palete":
of cart. What a reflection on And there you havo iti-the the user when a quartly groom- choice- and care of your come ed womas uncirths a disrupul pact. It's not a difficult task ablb-looking compact from the So when next you daintily pow defths of her part Your coun- der your nose in public, be sure
Bright,
London Express Service
Bold
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Colours
Are The Fashion
By Dorothy Barkley
London. effect created with chiffon
SOMEONE in the fashion the waist. Boating back from
world remarked recent-
ly that the three Few of the dresses were strap- fashionable colours just now necked, a style which is so much les, Mostly they were balter- and more flattering to the majority of woman than the strapless dress.
are
"black, black, black." And so much black has been seen around town that # casual observer might have thought that yellows and hectic reds had been ostracised by those in 'the fashion swim.
new
Starke, on several dresses, in- troduced a" formality into evening wear reminiscent of Ed- wardian days, Marisonsisted of a jackot style of töpywith a £fted waistline and basque, worn over a sanl-straight sickrt. (Sec illustration). Made in emerald
Fortunately, however, a Influence, bent on bringing more green satin, this particular even and more colour into our ward- ing dress was topped by a new robes, stirred. And at Frederieke version of the stole. Sleeves, and Starke's mid-season collection.
buttoned on one shoulder, it had colours came out of their a long fringed end. mourning Little black was shown; and indeterminate neu- tral shades were nowhere.
As always, Starke paid parti- cular attention to elegant "res- taurant ensembles." For these, Instead came bright, bold, however, black will remain very dramaile colours, going under Braided silk, a material from
much B fashionable colour ΠΑΣΤΕ
ALL dragonfly, Gainsborough bino, ashgold, and heliotrope.
such
gamot, en hero..
used, makes the
milft Ita jacket, worn above a slim skirt,
Typltying this desire for creates the "big top" look dur colour was the close-filing din-rently favoured by many..do ner dress in street velvet which aigners.. introduced the TOW shade, "Gainsborough blue."
Evening dresses were the most Important feature in the collec- ner gowns, and full-length bail tion, and they varied from din-
dresses to the short ballet-length dress. They reflected a defalte trend towards a backward move- ment in the skirt shown by a gathers falling from a group of pleats at the back, by
low- placed hip yoke, or by a frain
FROM
OTHER POINTERS THE STARKE COLLECTION:
Three-inch fringes on the hes of Jumpers and sult Jackets. Little pointed velvet caps matching volves cravats on suits. Circular stoles with short evening dresses, fringed shawls with day dresses.
Far brooches; clipped the top of the ear, they con- sist of jewels set in the forma of a spray of flowers.
* At left: This "restagráns ensemble" Starka consists of 's inckes (worn) ore. braided silk.-
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