THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1952.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
BASIC HAIR-STYLE FOR CORONATION WEAR
LEFT: Basto hair-style for the Coronation! hair is swept back from the forehead, and drossed high at the back. -
RIGHT: A variation on the baslo style; hair is brushed for- ward in a fringe, and the halo-rfect at the back of the head Is trimmed wiil a wreath of flowers..
WARDROBE FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
By ELEANOR ROSS
TAZITH Hо many careers shorts has switched to this type W
rolled into one, a home- of dress, we are told.
Washable, colourfast und maker needs
a wardrobe shrink-proof guarantees should come with U housedress, II machine with perfect assurance, should go into the washing and it should take to the iron. with equal aplomb. Same thing goes for the dresses that, while they are of the housedress type, can go to market smartly.
especiady adapted and care- fully chosen to fit her many duties a proper working outfit, so to speak. And it must be easy to care for. First of all, the house- dress. A busy housewife requires at least two or three dresses that are pretty, easy to care for, easy to move about in, safe and easy to launder. Leave the frilly housedress for special occasions when the hardest work has been done.
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For dashing about the kitchen, cleaning the house and doing washing, a front-zipped or but- toned dress with a moderately flared skirt and, mort, comfort able, loose sleeves and action back shoulders Is the ticket, Matyu girl who went in for
A busy young housewite we know always looks charming, even before breakfast, as her
family proudly avers. What she does is to set her alarm
ten minutes ahead of the others.
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A quick strutch and into the bathroom for a shower. Then pops into fresh, elean she underclothes and housedress, Axes her hair, or if she wearing curlers, she slips on a pretty scar!. A dash of powder and lipstick and there she
15, pretty as a pleture, fresh as the While Axing early morning. breakfast, she covers her dress with a comfortable apron, but off this comes when she joins her children at table.
For Toes That Will Twinkle
A. B. Deck Bhom.photo
Dress up tees with a pretty pedicure that will look especially attractive if you like to wear open-toe shoes.
By HELEN FOLLETT
London,
IT has arrived already-
our
By DOROTHY BARKLEY
tho
And
Anally came tho do- signer's, little jest. TARLETON was a trimming in the form of the way we are to wear crown of the head. At the back next year. ("A hat covers more a frigate with, sallo -billowing,
hair
in Coronation it is trimmed
half to a length of than
it head, on (Somebody suggested that Year. In a "cavalcade" of roughly four inches and curled ornamentation less than half, would need the courage of styles, Richo-London hair upwards halo-fashion, At the he explained). He presented a Raleigh to wear it),
Main advantage of all these stylist who will be respon- nape of the neck, the hair is variety of suggestions, inevitably
by Tudor styles: decorations, It seems, is to keep sible for dressing the hair only about one inch long. Here inspired
feather cut, and brushed up. Illustrated
hls "Floral the hair tidy, of many of the Indies inside, (Sao Ilustration). Ав a Enchantment," a wreath of Westminster Abbey-show- variation at the front of the flowers encircling the "bal" of Now Ways with Cotton ed a theme, hair-style for the head, hair is either swept back curls.
smoothly from the face, as in the Coronation with 20 varia photograph, or brushed forward tions, (After all, he insisted in a sleek fringe if you wish to with good business sense, conceal 'n high forehead-or what is the point of show. given an asymetrical sweep in
Onco again designers aro poaching on male preserves and Other suggestions Included: Tudor Rese: A tiny basket of women. Latest in the long line adapting men's styles for straw, Atting to the back of the
of adaptations (remember. the Edwardian head, with roses on the crown.
Runleite: A Walter Raleigh the Eten collar of a year ago?) masher jacket, and
ing just one fashion? One the parting for a sophisticated ruff outilhing the "halo" on the the use of - pin-sirined and
would not mult everyone):
oppearance.
crown.
is
Riche diso emphasised that Dove Tall: A feather fan, like pla-checked poplin shirting for hair ornamentalions" for a fortail pigeon's attached to the afternoon dresses. It was shown
a parade recently--in party-goers will be important curls of the back.
variety of styles, including wing-collared, full skirted dress with long sleeves, inished of course in the authentle manner, with trubenised cuffs and cuff- links.
Basically, the theing is a short cut. The hale is that on the
A PAGE
IN HER
She
INTEREST
examines e complalat
against critic Leonard Masloy
TO A FILM about the fashion business critic Leunard Mosley. wept
"New Elizabethan He thought the outfile-three of which are pictured here for you to argue about-designed by 25-year-old. Shella Graham for the film, "pretty ridiculous. Women readers who have seen the film-called "It Started In Paradise "have criticised the critic, thus
parking the query-
WHY TRUST
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A MAN ON
FASHION 2 by SYLVIA
GOUGH
667HAT a lovely dress! It's perfect!
WWhat a pity you are not just an inch
or two shorter-so much red is almost TOO much!" Only a woman could say a thing like that.
So for praise of what we wear-upspoiled by the smallest drop of acid-we usually 'depend on men.
Surprising that the fashion stores haven't tagged on to the idea. How much more happily would we carry away our purchases if an exper- ienced male assistant endorsed our choler.
For it so happens that we usually shop with Another Woman — surprisingly
often it is another-woman who has heard something we haven't beard about some other fashion house which is "60 much Emarter nowadays.
Why, everyone goes there." Except us.
A male asistent could ភ casily tip the sales our way. and his in such shopping crises,
But why this utter dependence on men for praise, for endorse- ment of choloo--and, of course, for the creation of the ideas we fall for?.
Objective
WE asked ROBB, the fashion
artist. He sald: "Men are more objective about fashion, They can see how a woman should look quite dispassionate-
ly
We asked FREDERICK STARKE, the fashion designer: "Men are more objective about Inshion," he said. "They con see how a woman should look, quite dispassionately."
We asked CECÍL BEATON, photographer of beautiful women and beautiful clothes: "Men are moro objective about fashion A tour round the Top Eleven and members of
Do you dress up your do that little thing, nature will toes as you dress up your build up heavier cuticle at the-all men,
sides 48 modes of protection, London's high fashion warren fingernails? A little roay when this flesh has hardened, would hardly have carried the lacquer will make them you will do
bathroom argument Some prettior. A pedicure is lots surgery, start to dig it out, take gallantry, which is good busl- easier to accomplish than a cliances of cousing a nasty in-ness, camouflages fruih.
manicure, too, because you have both hands free.
Also, these treatments
now
fection.
Cuticle Cream
Next, you put cuticle
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that especially on the little too
wood sticks, emery boards, which often suffers from
metal file, a pair of those neat little nippers that
choo
pressure, Vic the nippers to
further, because
Moral
PRETTY ?
ONE of the contro- verstal outfits short jacket in black and white diagonal striped cotton with farge Whits collar and slashed leaves toorn over a one
piece playsuit
OR RIDICULOUS ? ➡OR BOTH?
COCKTAIL dress in orange
fan duchess salin.
Spot yourself?
SUIT in olive green ribbea Olloman, alk.
allowances for others whoso temperamental Endowment in totally different.
Chesser* refers to people group- WEGMATIU
ed into four types. Do you aco
manicurists clip off any little shreds. WOMEN design for others" yourself as—
nover
It is this: Women designers
In his pecerally tense state, have murgical attitude to
the man of CHOLERIO tem fashion. They take our defects
perantent mey FALEŽA ia to and they samoladage them; they
demand sweeping reforms, and cream take our good points and they and then are for the good of on each nall and triction it in highlight them. That is a very
may find it hard to understand your toes. By keeping the well. With the orangewood womanly skill.
"NOW yourself, and you know why the multitude does not share enthusiasm for radical cutiels free of the halls, you stick, lift the flash gently.
But his being in the fashion-- your neighbour. But are not so likely to have in it is not kept detached from particularly being among the how many women can honestly changes. The woman who fests might everything grown talens. As in manicuring, the nail fabric, it may creep up leaders of R-demands more defino their own temperaments? hat you will need plenty of equip and prove bothersome. It does than that..
attempt is foredoomed to failure,
therafore Marriage expert Dr. Eustace and who ment-polish remover, omage
the anything type She ands it exceedingly dim- cult to convince herself that sho ean, by an effort of will take action which will make her happier and also increase, the comfort
and well-being of those around her.
who walke be cheerful, hopeful, quiet in hand-in-hand with fear is the MELANCHOLIC,,, a **source,.of to a woman; If you can find one, envied.
So the moral rooms: lo ba: Go many respects he is to
"Inizery to himself and to all fresh so you can treat it easily, pedicuro part of your weakly who looks just like you. Olber
around hiro.
bat pirogid en Then, comes the shaplog beauty programme Faldt hope wise, trust a man. For he will But just because he has theas Elle straight across. If you tonally unos uweel when you never mind how good you look. pleasant tandangles he may brand #rectors? Rich and Cowan, Par In his new book, "Marriage start clipping down at the sire your fingernails We ullille sees you as a customer, not-
view life through 128-68. Ader rouvilleregret it. If you treatment,
as a competitor.
rose-tinted glasses and not makej.
uce" for clipping away hang-
nails. A
Remove Old Polish
You start, of courss, by
moving the old polish,
you
Then
what they would
WeAr
Deformed nails Foru usually
SANGUINE That caused by ill fitting sho
themselves. One, wholesale de- shoca. Spo that you have flexible leather signer, I know, who is young and enthusiastic but changeable.
outsize, designs dresses for · Says Dr CherseT!---- solca, that they conform to the contour of your foot, that they women who are young and out-
aize. pro comfortable in every way
Lu,
Happy is the person who can A but designer who is prosty, dark, and French, designs rightly b
classifieds
dark, and French.
plunge.. your trotters 12. Don't forget that corns are 10 hats for women who are pretty, BANGUINE; his mind: tends to ́ ́400 individualt: who
hot, soapy water and rerub your battle scars of vanity.
toes with brush. This part
of the programins softens the It's a good Idon to make
In colours, the trend is away from the dark "jungle" prints so popular in the last four years. Emphasis is now оп jewel colours, on dusky pink, sky blue and lemon yellow.
Smartest dress in the show was in charcoal Toy denlin, full skirtod, worn over a stiff petti- coat and trimmed with a fresh white pique collar,
Denim was dressed up for town in a variety of ways. Other styles had red piping round the mandarin collar, belt and cuff.
As
for stylos, the strapless cun-top is out. For sunbathing, the important style is
is now the halter-top, Day dresses showed two styles of neckline...a high, winged oullar and neckline just contrasting with this, a
fitting on the shoulders.
Amongst the newest cotton finishes are cotton spun Uke worsted, cotton embossed like a doyley or a' superior quality wallpaper, and cotton with a Balin-sheen.
.
New Fashion for the Queen
What happens when the her Queen veers away, from traditional evening wear of crinoline dresses?
|ing-de
It sets the fashion world talk- it did recently after the Royal Film Performance when the Queen wore an un- usual "magple" dress. This had white satin front, black satin back, and V-neckline (new fox evening).
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That Imitations would appear was expected, so it did not sur prise that within 48-hours Ler den dress manufacturer an nounced; "Of course, we can't copy it exactly, but we are put- ting a similar style into produc- |tion-right away; it should bo
ready by December."
choose carefully
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