THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,' "JULY" 11, 1958.
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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
THE BLAZER as Paris sees it
It's in blue, white and black striped wool.
Tips
Make-up For Sensitive
Skins.
By HELEN FOLLETT
It la true that some com- plexions are easily irritated. The thing to do in to find out
be
Just what is wrong. It may the soap one uses. While prac- tically all tollet soaps are good these days, one may prove more agreeable than another.
Sudsing Sensitive Skin
It is possible to use mit suds on sensitive skin. First, remove make-up with a thin oil. Dip a wishcloth in sudsy water and press t close to the flesh. Then, ringo with
water, dry warni pently and apply cream. A licavy cream should remain on overnight. The flesh will lap it
Powders vary, Some arc light, some have a creamy base. This Intter lype is best for the complexion that is inclined to dryness, Make-up foundation should be creamy, too,
Powder should not be ground into the flesh with a pad. Fluff It on lightly. Remove the sur plus with powder brush. You will find that this system will elve the skin a soft. deleate work with appearance. Heavy the powder pad is likely to pro- duce a spolty, patchy surface.
Exposure to Sun
The
No matter what type of com- plexion you have, it is not wise to use roop and water after ex- posure la strong sunlight. Besh is sensitive after a Un- ning. A cream should be applied Immediately and allowed to re- main on for a
ime. Complexions just don't gel along well on their own. They need tender care if they are to survive through the years and retain youthful bloom.
Crisp Taffeta
By VERA WINSTON
wear
WHAT the woman spec- Walor
ut the Text will match
is sug gested by three Paris de signers, who went straight to men's outfitters for ideas.
it's the blazer, this time in white flannel, bound with red and white braid. Mora feminino is the high cut of the 'neckline.
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London.
news for mothers.
AFTER
YOU
SIR!
Follow-the-men is the fashion theme in Paris and Berlin.. Designers, looking across the Channel, have chosen the Test
cricketers for their latest inspiration.
By BETTY. WILSON
A Berlin designer follows up with a notion which used gentle- to be exclusive to men and players,
For
Afternoon
and
Is
Evening
The most obvious "steal" the blazer. Paris takes a while flannel classic. binds it round with red and white striped braid, adds three buttons tastening and finishes off the sleeves with the traditional braided line and buttons.
Where Lanvin-Castillo makes
it different and more feminine is in the high cut of the neck- line.
Please note.-Parisians this culfit without a blouse.
Rounded dip
wear
contribution is PERLIN'S Dstrictly tailored-the fabric
the
is heavy, nav-blue wool; front closing is double-breasted and the breast pocket is em- broldered with thistle heads in coloured silks. A pencil-straight white flannel skirt buttoning lightly down one side, helps the tailored look along.
Paris designer Paquin starts off by designing a blazer- jacket in blue, white and black blazer-striped wool, but Buishes by shaping the jacket away into a rounded dip at rib- lovel It is bound round with black wool to match the slender dress bencath.
KEEP
PLUS
THE THISTLE
Berlin sends a strictly tailored outât. The blazer is in navy blue wool, double- Broasted and with a breast pocket crest of -strangely enough-the Scottish thistle,
Plus
*
a little glitter★
Take the structure of a sweat shirt, add
a little glitter by studding it all over with gold nail heads. Combine it with 'an instep-length skirt and the result-a glamorous dinner dress.
A SECRET
By HAZEL MEYRICK
London Express Service,
der a loose hip-length jacket, usually a coat of terry towelling or a 'yachling blazer,
Globe. The end of the cardigan with batying sireves, ter dress. It's a button-through of thick fency yach
Snork age is in sight. So it looks smart and, like the skirt coat in check cotton gingham, many women now combine sketched with it, you can go on with capacious patch pockets Career and family that wearing it after the baby's placed strategically on the full skirt. It can be worn loose or they've refused to sit back arrival." and give up smart clothes The sitirt is cleverly fashioned alpped in at the waistline with
Its pleats (stitched in matching the belt, and best just because they're having so that
on wearing a baby, and the designers oups of three) retain their all, you can carry
shape indefinitely, adjusting their it afterwards,, spacing to suit the wearer.
With its white starched collar: elasticity The natural
of the
and cuffs, and cheerful check the skirt spring pattern, it makes an ideal house- wool makes unelt to its original shape the frack for anyone, and would be moment you take it off.
good thing to take down op the beach, Elizabeth - hps sketched it in the centre.
have had to come round to their way of thinking.
Elizabeth and I discover ed this when we saw some of the maternity clothes shown during Fashion Fortnight.. We went in search of others, and pre sent our own shopping list of convertibles for a new way of dressing.
By the way, if you like wear- Ing a pencil slim skirt, there's
no reason why you shouldn't continue to indulge in one, it
choose you
a stylo with kangaroo pocket in front. This ingenious contraption keeps the
and hem of your skirt stim
waist straight while your measurement la adjusted by, a tio belt.
**
For walking expeditions, the matchbox suit might leave boen made for you, Originated by Digby Morton, and shown at his last collection, it is a brief box For home entertaining there's The buyer at Treasure Cot, a jacket with fullness caught in a mad plaid ensemble-a skirt in London storc which sends as the back by loose beit, over an electrio tartan, cut like a maternity clothes all over the a matching straight skirt. It can kit with a wrap-over fastening world, tells us that expectant be made up in anything from With it comes a good wide stole, mothers can, and do, join in linen to tweed, and should have Sitled Ilke & jacket at the back, sports and games, so she 18 n deliberately unfitled air about First of all, away with pockets,
the front ending in two deep frequently asked for slacks and the sloping shoulders
- It Is worn over a shorts.
shade too wide, the skirt atting that smock-especially the loose sweater in soft grey wool
easily, but not top-coat By Over floral kind that proclaims jersey which can be tucked in We found
in colourful this goes a pyramid como linen, with pleated pockets at your state long before any ur left outside the skir
with an interesting lining in For days around the house the sides adjust the waistline. one else notices. Throw it out of the window, or at comes something new-the dus They are worn, of course, un- jungle-printed silk or cotton.
lenst banish it to the kit- chen where it belongs.
Buy yourself instead one of the new
stylo maternity
out.
fis, which are themselves a smart set of clothes, One'encein- ble, which anyone would be glad to own, i
slim pique
nicirt of dazzling while, topped by a vivid scarlet coolle coat cut like a cape, made from stift slik. The effect of this outab is aheer magie-everyone is too busy admiring your coal to |notice your silhouette,
on
BLACK or navy acolate taffeta Wo sow at a Fashion Fort- is the fabric used for a crisp night display the first twin-sot and youthful town dress do-over designed for the mother- signed with an eye to the trim to be. And wo weru po. 03- figure. It buttons in front below thusiastic about it that Elizabe a white rayon. and liner sailor has sketched it for you, collur finished off with a tailored the right. It is cut on 'sloppy bow. It has silm. push-up Joy lines, in colourful” wool. Bicovas, and
unpressed The an
Jumper ການ alimming pleated skirt with stiffening diagonal stripes, which are re- underneath fares, gracefully, pealed
The on
loosely.. cut
At left: The coolle coat and aklet." „Centre: A duster-dress. At right: A twin-sei and pleated skirt.
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If you're going to a dance or a party (and why 'shouldn't you?)—*—there's a new cocktail: dress for you' in black chantilly lace over inffeta. It has a halter affect about the neckline, and eap sleeves, The front has a cromover fastening which is in fashion for everyone just now, and down one side cascades an enormous to bow in emerald green satin, in vivid contrast, to the black late.
or
For special occasions—a then- tre first night a formal charity ball, for instance, wo'VE poon a loosely cut Chinese coolie faciet in rich broende, mbrol- durea with dragons in blood red and
alooves
g how their scarlet
as you move your arm and la a high vacarlet: Seolhary=117) worn over a slim qvening indiet In black crepe, Accentuate tesis Oriental Janis by laging your hair back into a chignon, and wearing jet earrings,
Troubled by smells?
NOT WITH
Air-wick
Amazing discovery kilis smolls of cooking, drains, lavatories, disinfectants
\IR-WICK is now. It works in a
A few way--tigt to cover up smells,
but to destroy them in the air. You' simply unscrew the cap, pull up the wick and put the bottle on a high shelf. As Airwick evaporates, unwanted indoor amolis disappear like magic, Alrwick contains chlorophyll, the wonderful substance that keeps all growing plants fresh and green. It does indoors what nature does outdoors- keeps the air constantly refreshed.
Uso Air-wick all over the house, wherever you want a fresh, smell-free atmosphere. Alr-wick is indispensable, too, in clubs, hotels, offices and Hospitals.
Air-wick
It's the wick that
does the trick!
Airwick
in davr
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