THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1953.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Which Is The Right Scent?
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By Helen Follett**
WHATEVER dictates of shower and a brisk rubdown, fashion you follow, be she should friction the bit fashionwise in perfume, No on the body surface. After woman should feel that she that she can fluff on per.
completely
talcum which, of is
assembled tumed without the final aura of course, should be the same fragrance.
scent, If possible. Even the nicest perfumes will fight each other sometimes, so see that yours are harmonious.
The scent that is right for you, of course, is the one that gives you a lift. It should
and
delicate be
subtle, IL should
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be WHEN you get out your feminine and enchantingly make-up equipment and prepare clinging. You may like floral to put on a new face, be smart, Bolt, flattering shade of scents or prefer a delicate Use Louquet. it is only fair to powder. Try a pinky-pink or a creamy gardenia and take note the public nose that you of the enver, You might even choose a scent that is not blend these shades logottier. too strong,
Perfume Psychology Just as the colour of your clothes has a stimulating psychological effect on your mond, so does the right perfume, because it creates an emotional reaction.
With warm colours, you can flaunt a warm perfume like rose. With
colours, select
If you have a bit of natural colouring in your cheeks, do not hide it under an application of rouge. Believe it or not, some- nes Mother Nature knows best,
No Vivid Lipstick
Soft-pedal pstick colouring. vivid red is old stuff. It accents the mouth so much that pretty eyes aren't noticed, and pretty eyes head the list of beauty assets.
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light If you use eye shadows, do cool not attempt to make yourself fragrances. If you are fond look fascinating and mysterious of athletics and find by applying too heavy' a coal,
light ghost of pleasure in outdoor life, Just the
shadow will do the business. wear a scent that is crisp. First, use a little light cream on and spicy. Among these, the eyelids, Don't extend the shadows 100 high. Stop when carnation is a leader.
you get just below the ends of
If in your family, you the eyebrows, That's the beauty have a teen-age daughter rule.
who is at the awkward age,
Bright Faces
give her a stick perfume for When make-up Is cleverly her purse and a bottle of applied, it will make the plainest cologne or toilet water for Juce, bright
her own use.
Conserves
A perfumed bath oil is a blessing to the woman who
be mask-like. The Use cosmetics
Dre
Victor Stiebel is another London designer who, like Hartnell, has chosen rich materials for evening dresses. Black paper taffeta embossed with a lace design in grey velvet fa the material chosen for this ankle length “after six" dress. The evening dress with back swept fullness is in pale mauve slipper salin brocaded with black feathers and finished with u_black_toffeta · bow,
Hartnell's Answer
The New Trend
By Dorothy Barkley
Tmaket, Normun Hart- They cant
reasons, or
had
J
ference, however, runs to showed his collection
than other leading de- and white Donegal tweed, had
are
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with
To
still
Beauty Tricks
To Enhance Housewives' Hands
Plike tile white butter-
OETS wrote about hands
flies, hands as soft as pussy- willow huds, hands like Sounds fluttering doves. purty, eh?
We can see the expression on The face of the hard-working boss of the domestic works when she reads the foesgoing. White butterflies, nothing! Pussy- WILOW buds-don't make her laugh.
Housowork Takes Toll
She washes pols and pans, wrings out the floor mop, dusta the furniture, polishes silver, Her poor mitis take a lot of punish- ment. But she sits in "at the bridge game now and then and her hands must not look like housework. Hence the need vi persistent, dally cure.
First, he must have high- grade soup, not only for washing her hands but for washing dishes, Harsh soaps fay the skin, cause redness and a rough sur- face.
At least twice a day after the dish-washing, she should apply a soothing, lotion, Those semi- liquid, milky preparations are convenient to use because they dry quickly and one can about one's business immediate- ly.
Good General Health
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has dry skin, who feels itchy Janning makes hands brown, itDior school. His decision is final Typical was an outfit named ng dress had a detachable cow!, or beyond, is the best guarantee
London. But these are clothes which The new rich materials that At night it is wise to apply a showed for afternoon | hand cream. You will find many Queen's dress should make everyone happy. Hartnell
wear them without an evening black stin of these special cimollients at
diet charts resorting to
and woven with gold thread for cosmetic counters. Rub soDG of nell, has stepped once drastle figure alterations.
example look best in simple the cream between the palms of Country tweed outfits received slyles. So Hartnell's afternoon your hands and over the other und interesting.again into fashion's spot-
had round collarless areas, Gentle massage of one And for two good London touch from Hartnell. dresses When it's put on corelessly, the light. It will make affect can
fuil calf-length hand with the other from the hia He mad ruther
them exciting by necklines and combining
bright them with
skirts; evening dresses, mostly wrist to the tipe of the Angers her feel more grown-up and rule should be:
answers to two questions com
colours. One tweed coat in a strapless, were full skirted and will not only keep the skin solt will give her confidence. properly or not at all.
embroidered.
and smooth, but will give the exciting the whole fashion block, yellow and grey mixture Coronition In the matter of nail polish, world.
spirit bright lernon yellow
hard-working hands a sensation At Tub Time
The gift at west lingers on in these embroidered direct and relaxation. as in stick, bright red is out.
Firstly. the question of that lining, and Supply ber with 4) Bark crimson
and wine shadeshem length. It will be mid-calf with it, in the same tweed evening dresses. A pink tullo gown was appliqued with pink were popular for years length. He said so.
he mixture, had As
a lemon yellow that
thread roses atomiser
and blue china The years.
colour new
month jersey. Another outfit in brown
beads a water blue satih scents. Tell her to spray her
The appearance of the skin on dress dress was decorated with neck, chest and shouklers pink tones that
slightly later
of deeper blug velvet the hands cannot of necessity be the natural nailsigners owing to his numerous a tangerine cont lining and after the bath. She'll look darker than
shades muke Co
Coronation orders, he was the tangerine blouse.
aquamarine on a higher plane than that of beads
dress in white
the skin elsewhere, and it must, forward with pleasure to the colouring. These
a big hit with men: Most of only one who had time to re-
be recognised that the beauty on the just-below-the-
ever had satin had gold daily tubbing.
Anyone who has
and pearl em- of the skin depends in no small them are not keen about nail fleet
knee Diar length before com-
difficulty in solving the problem broidery.
Newest
the health of the pleting his new designs.
climate
colour combination measure on veneer that is too noticeable.
body. To preserve the general was bottle green with hydrangea In the summer season, when Hartnell is no disciple of the of clothes for a wet
try the Harinell way; blue. should
A bottle green salin even-health, or to bring it to standard a nail so far as London's fashionable "Cats and Dogs" 10 UNC
There's of
hydrangea of beauty, not only of the a good idea enlouring that has a suggestion women are concerned.
ปี black waterproof velvet collar of orange in it. Try it, just for no disputing that they follow coat, princess style, with a waist embroidery and was worn with hands, but the complexion, halt,
Hartnell.
matching elbow-length satin fingernails, contours of the body cowl
white dcep
collar-in fun.
fiself, The second
gloves, question-whal
mink. To complete the picture will be the style of the Queen's the slim black umbrella
that
Obey the laws of health and clothes for her Commonwealth went it had a white mink collar. tour?-did not receive a straight Fascinating-it
For those who prefer plain hygiene and your good-looks- you have #
dresses, black velvet will be the griefs will not be manifold. answer. There WAS a veiled spare piece of mink.
material for evening, Hartnell Well-being is a help toward Many of the umbrellas. at used on unusual broderie anglais maintaining courage and a sweet tracted more attention than the black velvet for a “full skirted | disposition.
There
with gown
own matching For many of the Queen's out they accompanied." favourite styles, which she has was a miniatur: black umbrella,
like
Edwardian parasol,
By the way, there's no need for official worn frequently
wit
a long white handle; an- now to catch cold through sit- engagements since the Corona- other had matching fringes allting in draughts when wearing tion, were reflected in the col-
the way round the edge. A evening dress. Hartnell lection. There were neat tailor-
new accessory note was provid- gesis a full satin skirt, with a ed suits, princess line coats, full ed by umbrella covers which lining padded like a quilt, and a skirted. jk afternoon dresses matched scarves and gloves, matching long sleeved blouse. and richly embroidered even ing gowns.
after the bath. She should in put some
bath the water. Then, after a tepid
THE
FLATTIE
This is the hat that setting
is
the pace in Paris.
It is worn four-
square on
the
head and has a
very flat crown. It is made in tho
glistening new fabric,
acetate.
Designer: Marie Christiano.
KEEP IN TRIM
hini..
And it is well known that the Queen preters her skirts at mid- calf length.
In general. Hartnell's collec-
avoided extremes:
tlon
there
were no barrel lines or Sapper
looks. Instead, be concentrated
an
This consisted
jacket.
with
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GLASSES & GLAMOUR
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make passes at girla
"MEN seldom
Fon practical styles. That may wearing glasses" that's
not
sound like high fashion. what America's Dorothy Parker said, and it has caused more mirror search- heartache than many of her more pointed barbs.
By Ida
What To Order
Dining
IT
more than
fattening properties of food is bound to irritate. He might get
With
Jean
Kaining and
When A Date
In company with many other' spectacled women 1 abandoned my glassos. I used them only to peer furtively at the number of an oncoming bus, hastily re turning them to my pocket for fear of being caught in the set.
Many were
the friendships
Even the indignity of crawling
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the
look Yes, lasaca c glamorous and there's comfort In that for 11,000,000 women---- for that's the number in Drilais
who wear them,
prange frames combined
with
the habitual bright red of my lipstick were a veritable sunset. It was dike Yearning, dress sense all over again.. Frames,
mia-
in the bud when warm smiles were met with my stony T is safe to assume that the notion you are trying to in- calorie score. Any meat choice, stares of non-recognition. Many without gravy, will do. It's the were the films that remained for a man does not relish veigle him into dieting too.
All this brings up the Ucklish side dishes, the rolls and the me mere blurrs on a dancing diet.talk certainly not
screen. question of how to curb calories dessert that make the difference. at dinner. It spoils his when dining out with a man, Order the non-creamed dishes Debonair fun.
be he even your husband. The and skip the rolls and butter. No And this holds true regardless fact is you don't have to choose comment. If there is a cholco of a man's weight. If he is built between abandoning all calorie of dressing on the salad, ask for hopelessly on the floor in search which at the optician's seemed like Kirk Douglas, he can afford restraint or announcing firmly dressing on the side ...and of a dropped needle did not the epitome of good taste, hnd
The leave most of it there.
deter me my anti-spectacles been reduced to hideous campaign was in full swing. . takes when I got them home. to be nonchalant about calories that you are on a dlot. and the topic is boring. But If solution is in the way you order.
Dessert? It this courge is
Then I realised the ridiculous- overweight is
Ah, here's the walter...
Triumph! threat to him, any talk of the Seafood Is Safe included with the price of the noss of it and self-consciously meal, order cheeno and crackers donned imy spectacles. The com❤
But I triumphed. Now. I Seafood as the first course is or fruit or sherbot. "Coffee pensations were always safe, and low in calories only" is always acceptable.
world once again
mony
Look
on pride myself that I am a con- and will probably, match his
clear-cup lines and I no longer holster word, the meme of my order. For the second course, Some girls order a big meal
around success is when I am sakod if peered shortsightedly only me
nood to wear glasses or steak would be sultabla... not figuring they will out
really if you're hoping for another date what they want of it. That's a From that day I never looked are they just an extra fashion with the gentleman or eager mistake. You're quite apt to be back but Bounted my glasses ocCURSORY.
husband invite tempted to overent. Or if you with debonair grace.
Glasses can be glamorous. So to have your
leave part of the meal,
that's
I not about to acquire a ward- throw your misgivings and you out to dinner oftent
robe of spectacle frames. Once prejudices to the winds At this point, I can't resist certain not to please, telling that one bachelor's ruse if it's only an occasional I had accepted their Inevitable wear them. Take the advice of for curbing his date's appetito!
anew,heolour you?! When you bus clothing, look was to ask with apparent guile intout out moderately and necessity was determined that your optician, pick a new style,
However, If you; they should be fun. Lamarrow for good construction.
The pitfalls were many and zest in the wearing, Seuralessness If she hadn't taken on ure dating steadily or for some
(every -FOOTNOTES: Undantringed 7.5 should be well-finished, hems a bit of weight lately. One giti
Lone of how to order a low-caloric meal one them. Bright green Theh remember that Dorothy large, and buttonholes well- fixed him she ordered simon met out often learn varied and I fell kuto
dreadful things to „Førkeriterself wore klasea and titched. Examine the fabric expensive cloak, explaining tunobtrusively. Just as well to frames tid
complexion, blue “dovil!"alth has been married three also, to scoff the garment is was on all the best diets.
Jet your escort think that good my mado of the propor material for The most course inay set the figure is an effortless, part of shaped Frames made me, look.times!
Gloria Howard like Robert Helmann, And pried, but fortunately, not the your natural charm.
Household Hints
Soaking fine chinaware is not a good practice, since it may damage the porcelain and cause fine cracks.
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