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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1953.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
EXCLUSIVE
The Man-of-the-Week comments on The Great Commotion
WHO WENT SKIRT-CRAZY?
by
CHRISTIAN DIOR
What does Dior himself say about the great commotion?
It seems
that when he's cornered The Dior is not half so certain about the short skirts as everyone made out.
And-surprise! he says a woman must choose her own skirt-length.
He doesn't say a word about "The Flapper Look."""
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Where the calf thins down
WHY, did I do it? My astonishment today is as great as that in 1917. I made the dresses that I felt like making and in The whys and where-
the proportions that seemed normal to me,
fores of fashion are not casy to pin down.
It is a question of atmosphere and of meeting the occasion. I create the style that I feet, not the style that I wish. One can never work in opposition to what one feels. True creation exists only in dncerity.
I seek therefore to express a silhouette which definitely impuses itself upon me almost without any will on my part.
The public attaches perhaps too much importance to skirt length. Obviously certain forms require certain lengths, bui ho length of the skirt dues not exist as an element all by itself.
For example, some of my mannequins, the smallest ones, have skirts 15 in. from the floor and yet they look as if they were wearing shorter dresses than some of the gall ones whose skirts are 16 ins, from the floor.
ONE
Look !
NE should not, however, imagine that the dresses are knee-length or
even just below the knees,
THE RIGHT GOOD LENGTH BEGINS JUST WHERE THE CALF BEGINS TO THIN DOWN.
May each woman therefore look at her legs and find the length that suits for the best,
it is certainly a fuct that the year 1953 is one of renewal in which a breeze of youth, fresh-
within ness, and case felt Biowin
ing through the world
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of
fashion. If people at first were stunned by the skirt lengths it is because thero 13 also Q Beneral transtormation of the suihouette, which is freor, more
much alve, and so
more
at
*
The wars of fashion are of alty Lightness. It may be good sign that the situation in ino work in general is becom- ing less tense and more relux- ed.
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Great respect
And now DRUSILLA
BEYFUS
sums up...
DOINTERS from the
Parla
fashion shows--each one a trend-setter to remember when you buy new clothes for the
WATCH OUT for the little platter hals and the flat jogues.
the
Tho platters-shown_on girl in white in the drawing are made in a felt that looks like silky fur. The toques, Baiter and neater than beloze, are trimmed in front with balance, single jewel, worn like a third
ET us therefore hail the ar- rival of the shorter skirt, which corresponds to a "ole te vivre,
a sense
and above all let us not forgot eye. that the sole and inal decision rests with the women them- selves.
WATCH OUT for barrel- shaped coats with broad town-
shoulders and * SILENCE IS WORSE THAN curving
uppca-in, three-quarter-length ANYTHING.
hemline.
But 1
know loo that oppos!- tion is neguuve, especiany
WATCH OUT for the bell
fashion, a cannot be main skit, rather like the white
- teined-for-a-very... long-time.--dress-in-the-drawing. -10~1
christen the new silhouette smooth and sculpted without the "Living Line" because it is trace of a fold, a gather, or like a healthy new-born in-
Plat at the waist.
fant, which arrives in this
altenuion of
world with a lusty cry long WATCH OUT
before world was focused upon it.
Miss House Has
the
Houses For Hobby
Mantes, N. C.
for
dresses in 'charcoal grey.
Q
jersey
WATCH OUT for the day Gres with a waistline which is Juusely daried and worn with- out a belt.
WATCH OUT for the after- noon frock with a circles of white fur round the neck with
It's probably only naturala muff to match. that
Milas Vivian House of Washington, D. C., should make
a hubby of houses.
as House recently opened a inuscum to exhibit her collec tion of 600 model, houses from
u over the world
vitain is
WATCH OUT for the ginger-ple coloured tweeds worn with black.
new
ta
WATCH OUT for the return of the cowl neckline, shaped close to the throat, home, WATCH OUT
for bigger!
with
model of care's by
France by a villa of blue porec-hooped earrings crusted lain, India by a Taj Mahal glimmering jewels, and collars carved from bone, and China by a temple that serves as a jewel of nobbly polished jet.
box.
WATCH OUT for cardigan
Her largest house is a pre-sults in tweed with the jacket fabricated bungalow piven to short and loosely tailored.
her by a bullder. The smallest
is a tiny Blarney Castle, that WATCH OUT for the new dangles from charm bracelet. Į colour-mixes, peat brown with
Her museum is located near palest
green,
chestnut
block,
Fort Raleigh where the Arst brown with chalk white, bril- English-built house in America | Hant royal blue with was erected of wattle and daub | the palest baby blue with the
four nearly
centuries ago-palest cabbage rose pink.
-(London Kupress Service) Unued Presl.
Protecting Hair In Summer
By HELEN FOLLETT
Hair can get sunburned the before the shampoo, give your-
skin.
samo
良性
Hair
that's self an oil treatment,
medium -browns may develop There are special cosmetic of- lighter streaks. Tho copper ferings for this purpose, oils thin with a After
locks - in trickle the odd
headed girl will find that she is enough to be applied
The blonde medicine dropper. partially blonde. will lose her golden lights, locks brusting, part: you
will get drab,
When the
the
various places. Then, sprend
along tho thermometer is
ing out Angers and thumbe, do mounting and the sun is beating circles with the thumbs, pressing flesh. If you down and you are still deter the oll into tho mined to go hailess, use on oily prefer scalp ointments, you will tonic on your ambrosial locks. Brk them, too. It will perform on a protoctiva agent. But that is not enough. Your topicot requires even more attention.
Boy
pray DTE
Your shampoo next morning must be thorough Have a hot water rinsing first to remove or much of the lubricant as you
DEMACHY DRAWS THE SCENE THAT MADE NEWS OF KNEES...
Summer Separates
By VERA WINSTON
Designed to load's fall fo from the beach in the daytime to dancing at night, is a nice batch of separates that team on rarily. A top of black taffelined colton la draped
through the centrs front and
buttoned with covered butions. It has a sweetheart neckline in front, halter in bark. With it is worn a skiri· of decorator's cotton taffeta of black and white stripes touch- od - with narrow rod lines. Zi is gathered on's snug walet- band and topped with a self
..bell.
ALL EYES TURN on the girl in the new Parks dress. The scene showD A typical moment in a Paris dress salon when a dress is burn, There are the faxlijon 'crowd, the writers, the artista, the dress manufacturers, the material
KEEP IN TRIM
makers, the buyers, and the people in trimmings. There is the star of the sceno, a new dress on a new model. She sweeps through the crush-in a white cocktail dress, threaded through the bodice and around the skirt with an effective silk ribbon,
GIVE YOUR FACE
A
A LIFT
By IDA JEAN KAIN PHILOSOPHER observed that it is the common wonder of all men how among so many millions of faces, there should be nono alike.
are
BA
Exercises face muscles
Let's analyse what makes a face different, for after all, everybody has a like set of features, similarly arranged. Mulling this over, I have concluded that the main difference is in individual expression. Often wo
Many requests come to this self-conscious because some department for face-lifting exer- elses,,,lagica) enough since the one feature falls far short of face is composed of muscles. The pleasing us... when actual- checks are supported by eight
the
imperfection is muscles, four on each skle. They scarcely apparent to anyone are attached to the check bond else, or if it is, only in and to the strong muscle sur- rounding the mouth, and still passing.
lower down are attached to the It's the expression that's most wide bandlike muscles of the noticeablo about a face. For a. Undoubtedly, exercising proof...one young woman, who these muscles can give the face
a lift. had her nose changed at the
ly
time of an enforced operation, However, the exercises to be was quite puzzled that no one of much value must be regular, seemed to notice, any difference Chewing is a natural exercise in her appearance. Strangely, that keeps the muscles of the enough, months later, she did so toood. That's one reason looks different to her friends. why it is important to have a Since she no longer felt self- fall complement of teeth on each conscious, her characteristic ex- side of the mouth, pression was more serent and happy.
A good exercise is to say oh- ah, bringing the corners of the lips close on oh and se wido as It's on odd thing about facial possible on ah, Feel the action in expression...In conversing wil your cheeks. Another exercise is
balloon. someone who has just had her to blow up a' face lifted" and so registers To keep tracing tone in the Ile of her fooling and my cushion of muscle along the|| echt speaking quite loud. Getting
no facial response, I must think jawline, uso muscle massage, Form the hand into a fish and that I hadn't been, titard.
knead along the jawline, "rock- the knuckles from tip of fchin to car. Move the knuckles but do not pull the adn. - This pepelantan doep...At you'll realise the next::day !!
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
The best possible Ince-im-
Before putting away rubber with warm water and baking you overdo, To keep it from drying out, enn. Then friction in somo articles, such as gloves, caput and soda. Use about a teaspoon of Bamb brush for five minutes before you liquid soap. Don't spare time, so forth; clean then, then dust mods to a quart of water. Rinse
at night, or strength. It should four up lightly with inexpensive talcumi with clear water and dry proving exeralso. Is the praction your Brushing will bring out the like egg white, Two applica
* thoroughly, Waxes, Clement of relaxing. To relax the face, natural oil, from the scalp, ex- tions, two rinsing with the bath speel San
2500 med polishes should not be surped unclamp the lips, and amãe, A sinile reis (the: föd. "Jargely tend it along the shafts to thou-miray and-you-outs got buky with The interior of your refrigera on the interior of the refriger
bocauish it fotsus tension, :, dry: olev Thoo, the night the pin cate.
for should be cleaned regularly... ator.
powder or cornutarch.
A mind without occupation is like a cat without a ball of yarn. -(Samuel Willoughby Duffield)
...The sound.of.a.kiss.is.not so loud as that of a cannon, buť Its echo lasts a deal longer.
---(Holmes)
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