THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1958.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
How To Beat The Heat (5 theories)
By VIVIAN SANDE
New York.
year, a number of ex- perta advance various theories about how to beat the heat.
Just in case you could uso some, tære is a sampling of theories from a physical culturist, a dict!- cian, a dancer, a decorating insti- fute, and a psychologist.
1. Relaxation Theory: Paul Miller, who believes in ro- through
laxation of nerves
exercise and runs a New York
teach school to
his bellet, naturally phages for the relaxa- tion theory.
"Frayed nerves," he maintain- ed, "Hep up the pulse rate. When your blood "is flowing faster, you tool hotter,"
Est Cool
2. Dancing Theory: For those who have the courage to take his treatment, here it is: 10 to 10 minutes of exercise a day; bot towels and massage at regular intervals.
Dancer Alicia Alonzo, who pends her summers working out un the concert stages of her na- tive Cuba, also subscribes to the exercise-for-coolness theory, She she doesn't mind the heat "I work off all my excessa
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energy?
Eat Cool: Florence Bro- beck, dietician and writer of coolt books, belleves your reaction to weather is directly related to your intake of calories. Com- fortable
coting during high- temperature days should com- prise diet, she says.
a low-eniory but not a reducing
Her recommendation is about 1,500 calories daily in meats, fruits, and salads, leaving out as much fats and starches as possible. High school students, men who have to use physical energy in their work,
and
athletes, Miss Brobeck says, need about 2,400 calories of the same port of foods.
Think Cool
4. Cool Colours: The Decora- tive Fabrics Institute in New York suggests cool colours for Büpcovers-tints of green, blue or grey, or bright floral printer- to give an lilusion of coolness. The institute also favours crisp white curtains, fresh flowers around the house, and white corative touches throughout,
5. Paychologist, Theory: You'd expect a psychologist to say you can beat the heat by exercising]
power of mind over discomfort of body, and some
the
and you won't feel so hot,"
de.
the
But if you're one of those who have tried this unsuccess-
WHY SO MUCH FUSS ABOUT A TINY WAIST?
DIANA WYNYARD, one of those always elepant Englishwomen toho are not stock size. (Photographed
by Zoltan Glass.)
Anne Edwards: says:
If elegance came in a larger size, you would eat that cream... and be happy
N
-EWS that women are falling for yet another new diet (This time: "That It's not what you eat but the speed with which you eat it that puts on weight”) convinces me that they have got the wrong idea about this slimming business. Women have got the wrong approach. They are dicting to get slim enough to fit the pretty dresses in the shops instead of inalating that elegant dresses are made large enough to fit them.
They nin cowed into scraping
all the mayonnaise off to lobster
-Instead of getting belligerent and banging the dress designers on the head.
I think it is nomzense--this idea that you have to be a Size-
12 sylph look elegant. For look gt all tha well-known fashion-leaders of
time.
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They aro all "large" women by drese manufacturerə' standardi, by fashion photographers" standards, by model girl standards.
For example
Not one of them could walk into an elegant ready-made dress In the shops in Britain. The Begum Aga Khan is Bize 20, so
Lady Churchill, Madamo Massigli and Diana Wynyard are Size 18. The Duchess of Kent is Size 10.
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And everyone knows what a · Size 10, 18, or. 20 can expect when she goes to buy ready- made clothes,
She gets those assistants who take one look at her as she enters the departments and say: "Oh, no, madam-not in YOUR size
Sho gets those rippling laughs when she asks for Sizo 42la. hips, and the reply "We don't even have the in Size 38." She is sent along to the Juno Department or the
Proper Laundering Gives The Salty Shop as if she were
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By ELEANOR ROSS
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PEARLS
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One liftic...
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ONE LITTLE two little, thro-little, four little, five.üttlé six little rows of pearls... The six celebrities pictured here (above, left to right).. Flona Campbell-Waller, Lady Anno Coke, the Queen; Motherį. (below) the Duchess of Devonshire, Valerie Hobson, and Barbara Goaten, wear their pearls in six different waya: And they demonstrate once again that fashions for giltter and gold may come and go on the Continent but pearls go on for ëvet in this country.
For Englishwomen found out long ago that this above all te the jewel that suits their skin best.
Bay
Four little.
Five little...
Six lite rows
thank
the girls who came to him for The dream of a life where their prizes....Told them they there is tea in a sunny garden Hoomy ought to be very grateful and under a big tree, a distinguished is offered
you to the people grey-haired wife playing croquet; bottle green crepes with wrap who cut the sandwiches and. The grandchildren dropping in frontser frilly flouncy make the tea and wash up long), a ahady hat, an easy chair for an hour or two (never too sleeveless affairs that would Sat a child on his lap to have a look stout on a sylph.
picture taken....And said child on the lawn, a view you can sit ren often become tired after and admire, and the Test match them: on TV. parties but wamed "Don't be cross, because you
And will be sorry in the morning” It vanished long ago,
Why, it was
was that irritable suddenly it
front-page news. For the man with the old Scrooge Gilbert Harding.
the lawD, the bat, the tree,
the wife, view, tho grand- children and the TV was Sir Winston Churchill.
It's all wrong, I say
of them do say, thinks cool, HIS season's clothes are especially net and lace, often
In the end she is cowed. She "Anish" that may figure - revealing contain a
Irritate a sensitive skin. Dark is persuaded it's all her fault. which ever
means colours should be pro-laundered And she falls for the latest new fully there's at Icast one that special attention must to suds away excess dye that diet craze, psychologist who won't claim be given to that basic might otherwise rub off on the you're weak-minded.
fashion ingredient-the pro- body Or on pale lingerie. -Dr-Charles - McCormick, who teaches a personality adjustment per foundation.
Laundering extends the life of course al the New School for
the garment, Body oils, dirt and Social Research, believes that from the tiny pinched waistline fibres and clasic.
Point of control has changed perspiration all tend to weaken "the theory of the power of mind over matter is an ideal." to the hips, which must be flat- The only thing to do in sum-tened and moulded to do away mer is to accept the fact that with all bumps and bulges. An weather is weather, and it's big-unbroken line through the torso ger than you are, ke
required, therefore United Press,
emphasis
above-the-waist on girdles..
Versatile Slip
By VERA WINSTON.
B
Soap-and-Water Fabrics
the
Hand-Washing Bost
I think it is all wrong. Why on earth should any woman be expected to eat asparagus with- out the melted butter, solo with out the cream and wine sauce, steak without the bearnais salad without the French dress- ing, peas without the blob of butter, or strawberries without the cream or sugar?
Why on earth don't they just
elegant dresses mako
a little
Close zippers or hook-and-eye large?
Then scrub any plackets Arst, extra-soiled parts with thick i suds and a small, stiff brush. Hand-washing is recommended
I'm waiting
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for your foundation; tuck it into LETTERS I know I'll get:- From manufacturers of out-
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Shy..
Gracious
moment were on show at a THE TWO HEROES of the Press conference...and here is a woman's-eye view:
a
Hillary-ashy, gaunt, gauche guro with a shock of school- boy hair and baggy flannel trousers-smiled modestly ad he spoke of the moment when he reached the top of the high- jest mountain in the world.
ho "I was fairly"pleased," said in a cruff jerky voice. "We didn't talk much, had
around for bit of food, sat nylon mesh laundry bag it you size dresses; "Wo were astonish. about 15 minutes, discussed the use a washing machine for the The well-dressed womati tokey task. Squeeze or swish through ed to learn from your column, view can't remember really."
Tensing-annall, gracious, time to select the right founua- soapy water, but only lukewarm that no elegant dresses are made
scholarly-looking man, with
browni face,
bright amooth brown eyes and the whitet of What teeth smiled quickly and do what:
hat vastatingly as he spoke of the Kent moment when he reached the top of the highest mountain in the world "I was
very pleased to be there after my seventh attempt," tre sald in his soft lilting native tongue," "because it meant, po much fo mo."
clothes
rooms.
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tion garments for the types of water, please. Don't rub the in outsizes. May we suggest that unem good care. Manufacturers or wring it.
worn, and then gives material against itself nor twist you call at our London show decided long ago that
soup-and-
From an ex-nanny water fabrics are the only unies Actually, It's best not to let a business is it of yours sulable for foundation garma garment accumulate more col dress-size the Duchess of Mastic power net, nylon or suk than can be whisked away in 151 chitton elastic, and the
From three saltors at synthetic fibres, are
just a sudsy dip. No need to popuur, waft it in and out of the water.
"Hear, heart What's wrong
Various
most of the Tabrics apparently Just cup it. Rinse thoroughly, being plump, anyway?",
wispy things, yet with a world and roll up in a Buffy towel to
with
Look Who's Here!
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Let dry hai .on, a towel or
WHOEVER was it that
of strength and control. But absorb excess moisture, their greatest efficiency depends
argely on the wearer,
Fulham...Distributed
tho
Back to a Dream... ⠀ THE DREAM that viilátod long ago for so many well-
of for one
hang over line or rod. Stuff Brought 'cheats and smiles ^ good foundation needs with tissue paper to hasten to the street Caronations.parly proper laundering-that is, if the drying. Neyer hang garment by in
the garters and keep away from prizes in the fancy dress com wearer cares about her Ügurt. direct heat; shape with hands. petition...declared that he had to do English couples came un- Before. a now foundation 1 Press fabric parts only with a never seen such well-behaved expectedly to Hie worn, wash it. New fabrles, warin Iron.....
children in his life....Klised all them.
THE
HOME
HOME-MADE TREND IS GROWING IN
New York.
that will be the rage" for the the clothing department. By: dress-making is coming season and run her own the times they could send back coples through, her sewing: heme for apparel they lind seen machine before the originals advertised, chances were, the
items no longer were available... Besides they often didn't have
aro on sale..
AMERICA
11 growing rather than a dy- Ing ort, according to Harry Schwartz, who makes a busi- ness of helping along this trend.
[MA- survoy" wo made showed "Women we have polled olaim "They also know how to re- the money to get what they that the women object, to the it is 80 percent cheaper to model their clothes to make wanted. make their own clothing than it theta meet fashion changes,
expression •home-made,'!! Schwartz said: "They feel it
Is to buy ready-made clothing)", thus saving tailoring bills that-- After he got out of actvice, connotes something choup and Schwartz said. "They also feel will be incurred by the woman Schwarts set up a subscription poorly made. They prefer to SOMETHING new, useful and that they can be better dressed who doesn't know how to work organisation which provides call the clothes they make versatile in a slip, and a glorified by making their own clothes. over her clothes.
members with five swatches of
grade. sip, to be sure, ready to act as they get a better at and a
naterials every two weeks, with wider variety of cutits. blouse, with a suit or as a
"Because of the money, prices, description and available With the right amount of home-sower saves, she can colours of each. His organien still w with an extra skirt, or,
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which comes from miffi- "They take a great pride in afford to buy better fabrics than ton not only processes thoire - ojent application to learning of triumphs, tes a dread alone by their creationis comething like she would get if she had to bulling order, but also serves direm-making, there's n just adding a belt. But a slip it the pride of an artist in his buy her clothes ready made." really is, the fabric lock black painting. They get a kick out
a clearing house-
use for
wornan cart make her clothes in a satin, and *a, camisole bodo of being creative,
HU That's where Bohwartz com questions and problems the sort, these days "why w
staff ons most professidoki "maniant "The home-sewer also can be in. A textile salesman when the ant queries; at " members and thanks to the improvemen laji lis machines, and the ine as up to date as anyone--maybe Army got him, he observed imenanthemi-bulletins about the more so. She can buy the fashwhile abroad that wives of Tulostamowing goderelopments”, creuses in variety of -- tubeses fonTM magazines, seo the modda Army men had a tough time in twice a month.
since the war."-United Press.
elaborately embroidered in
blue or black sequins. The shoul-
der straps are wider than thone
ordinarily used for lips. The
form fitting' skirt haq ndo alitat
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