THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1952.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Bhoulder
THE DUMPY
The solution:
onses. 2 and 1h
Next round
neckline.
padded to reduce the slope. An
Inset sleave.
Long Princess
line narrows
the walit.
Bleeve not
too tight.
Flared
skirt reduces
hipline.
Sklet le
slightly
shorter
than usual
to give
longer
Iegged look
And the problem
Sloping "shoulders.
Thick waist.
Big hips
18hort legs.
YOU AND YOUR SHADOW Rob continues his news-in-fashion-sense series by tackling two of the trickiest figures
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HERE is no need for the fashion news to pass you by. Whatever your figure, you can have all the fun of following the fashion trends. But first you must stop deceiving yourself. You must be realistic-and stop buying clothes for your shadow... (which is the shape you think you are).
Today I have picked two of the most difcult #gures to dress: The Dumpy, and The Beanpole. I will prove to you that, by clever dreasing, you can disguise proportions that are out of balance; and that is something diet (which tends to reduce evenly all over) can never do.
If you have. made your ruthless recognition and spotted your figure here...read on for a breakdown of the problem and a bulld-up of the fashion solution
DUMPY. WRONG
DUMPY
RIGHT
BEANPOLE
~RIGHT:2
THE BEANPOLE
A long neck,
Square
angular
shoulders.
Flat-chested took.
Tiny waist.
A very
long legline.
the
Dramatic high neckline.
Long. wide stole soften the angles.
Dolman οίσονες.
Contrasting belt reduces the length.
She can wear
alim skirt t she has plenty of width
on top.
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curved brow wÜI throw all the features out of harmony..
The Inner end should ho directly above, the inner comer of the eye; the far terminal can extend earnklerably bo- yond. The crayon can be used cleverly, if the line le not for this purpose, if it in oppiled heavy. Do little strokes with a pointed pencil,
CONSIDERING what some girls do to their eye brown, you would think they have a grudge against them. It's fine to do a little re- modelling because it is pos- sible to improve upon na ture sometimes, but why distort them? Eyebrow tweezing is an old, old beauty story. It has been
Eyclash Boauty going on a long time with The eyelashes respond to the result that some of beautifying attentions, too. these pretty forehead de. Every little winker is fed by corations are mere, shadows of their normal selves.
an oily substance that lubṛicates the eyelids and keeper them from sticking. But sometimes, as one grows older, the quantity What IB the result?. The of the oil released by the tiny feminine countenance looks glands becomes less and some- vapid or carries a permanent thing must be used in its place. expression of surprise, especial-
is directly on the edge of the eppiled at b They should bot
eye sockel.
ly it all the tweezing is done On cosmetic counters, you1| along the under border, lifting will find colourless jesh ereums the eyebrow to an unnatural that are propared for this position. The place to tweeze special purpose.
but can be used used during the day. Lash creams impart lustre and it is The pattern of the eyebrow possible that they will make should harmonise with the the growth thicker and longer.) shupo of the eye. If a girl has Anyhow, why not experiment? large, round eyes, the brow, One thing sure, they impart a should be arched. If the eyes look of dowy freshness to the are long and narrow, the too eyes.
RECIPE
IF YOU ARE A DUMPY, the dressmaker sees your figure as
short walated, neck, and sloping shoulders. The centre figura, in fact.
with very little
✰✰✰ Btudy the drawing on the left. When you were 16 and prettily plump, maybe you could dress like this. But not now. The wide decolleté top, the puff sleeves, the dowered print are all wrong for you. So is the coloured sash, which makes the waist look even thicker.
Alm Instead at the effect on the right above. If you cut out fussy details, you immediately look slimmer. Soild colours are better than fancy designs: a V-neck is more flattering than a wide, bost-shaped one. ***Dumpy types should avoid lines that go across the figure. Long downward lines increase height.
BEANPOLE WRONG
THE BEANPOLE is thin and angular with bones that stick out in unexpected places. If she's foolish she thinks she is lanky. If she's wise, she turns her height' to good advantage.
The figure on the loft thinks she is the tailored type, Bho makes the mistake of wearing the conventional tailored Buit, which makes her more stick-like than ever The long vertical lines increase her height, and the narrow sleeves show up all the angles. She looks like the Frenchman's Idea of an Englishwoman: "Half governess, half norse." ✶✶✶ The tall girl can wear clothes that are dramatic-as you see on the right. She can cut her length with a wide belt In a contrasting colour; with a three-quarter coat which makes her legs seem storter Dolman sleeves and a big, high collar give her figure balance and breadth,
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In his master of science thesis the institute of design of the Illinois Institute of Technology. Holme proposed that manufac= turers offer individual packages of toys for various age levels, Including visual diograms and charts for parents.
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FOR THE "TIGER LILY" LOOK
To show how effective these cinnamon, shuff and chocolate. suggestion of a whistline. For new shades of make-up can be It was a small, neat collec- country they were in bright
styleg of tweeds (orange with green for
By DOROTHY BARKLEY
London. which appears on the skin when used in the correct way, tion containing two is not often that we, with the first touch of frost, they were worn by all manne- coat-atted 'redingote' for town, example), and trimmed appro- look in make-up. From time not so afflicted, will find the CREED'S now collection, for country. Suits for town patches, Best of the docktall to time new beauty products new shades of lipstick and Colours Included all the fashion were slim, black and tailored, dresses was a completely plain come on the market, an powder blend well with sun able variety of brown-sherry, sometimes with only a vague style in a silk and wool mix- irridescent eye shadow, tanned skins).
ture. Sleeveless, It had scooped out neckline, and 1 straight skirt. Only decora→ tion come in the block and white striped "choux" twining round the waist,
I have not often that we with the first t the tropics, quins displaying CHARLES and loose, tweedy swagger coots priately with leather elbow
perhaps, a colourless mas-
cara, a mother-of-pearl nail
varnish, or a special gold
Cosmetic Recipo
y
APRI-
and
dust guaranteed to put The recipe for this look is as scintillating gold lights into follows, Bitins are divided into the hair. Consequently, COT, and
three types TAWNY,
CREAMY when an entirely new range ingredients to be used vary. of cosmetics appears, it is accordingly. A different blend greeted with restraint. of "brown" tones is suggested for cach type. The TAWNY
And so it was when the sicin. should use the "nut-brown "Tiger Lily" look, as the red" rouge and lipsticks; the trade names it, appeared, sherry)
APRICOT akin, & Calypso (dry rouge and Crimson Pink-and-white complexions Glory (berry red) lipsticks; and and blue-toned lipsticks are the CREAMY skin, a Calypso favoured no longer, Com- rouge, and Ilpstick.
plexions, so we are told, are
of rich
and lipsticks
to be "the colour cream" "brown-toned". This look for those two plan to wear the This new make-up is orly is designed to match the new sherry shades; it is only brown shades of furs and for those who will adopt it the sherry-colours of in- systematically, „ using mills the ingredients correctly blended coming fashion. (Yes, with skin colouring So deed, it is also designed to aer carefully before aben. conceal the blueness" doning the mid for now.
con-
„This season, 18's fur, fur, tur
Left: Close-filling
a
The latest in fur styles from
8. London) were displayed at the same time as the new Creed designs to show similar: fashion trends. But fashion can have only a very limited ap- plication to styles in fur as. no- body wants a mink to be out of dato in a year's Hime. New details, which won't dato, were noted. These included a new mid-thigh length, useful over straight skirted suits and dressca urd for evening wear; sun-ray scaming on jacket shoulders; gay
may linings short jackets; a cape worked like a Victorian pelerine, and u now shade of mink called "Pastel" (or coffee-cream with 'ometal description).
to
jackal, with wrist-length sleeves, and a high collar, in pastel mink, Right: Broad bands of fox trim the sleeves of ima silver bloom' according to tho perial violet cost and are dyed to match II,--
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