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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1953.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
If you'd keep your complexion youthful-looking, now's the time to massage in creams that will help combat the dryness and aging.
Women Wear Multi-colour Locks
ON
New York.
جها
NE beauty, authority mang dia 29.
says that 86 percent of women 1.day alter the lural colour of their crowning glory.
By GAY PAULEY
"Madam," at operator sold politely, maybe it has some- thing to do with the way you wash your hair."
Originally, Mrs Shayne had five-toned hair. One customer brown hak, but confessed that it got a combination of chestnut,
"Wasl it," the woman Gald had been res, hinek, auburn golden and allver blondes, and Indignantly. I don't wash it... "overy shade you can imagine," two shades of red.
do you what
think I permanent for?" Most of the shop's customers want to be blonde--not necca-
arily liver blonde.
What's more,, said......Mra Ronda Shayne, the rush to improve on nature is just
Asked why, Mra Shayne mul- beginning. Some women tered something about" "gentle- already are wearing multi- men prefer..." colour locks,
into
she said. Right London
TASTES VARY
"We blinded one ghade the other." meiking results,"
Mrs Shayne believes the shop's range of customers gives her a She sees the day when every pretty tale stumpling of national Mrs Shayne, mir-icoking woman will "do some kind of tastes. young worn currently iver hair colouring" with as Bitle "We got customers who can blonde, is what she and her fanfire as the changes her lip afford just a cut,"
+
she said.
We
| brass belleve l the nation's, stick. Only a few rebellious "Some of our customers arrive
hap the world's largest husbands and a few die-hard with chauffeur and sables. beauty shop.
It shampoos, cuts, females are left, she said. pedes, finta, inaus, bleaches, styl
FIVE-TONED HAIR andzor permanents about 7,000 Pustomers per week.
The shop apone! meerely at Macy's a right big departmical store.
"Fagaly-ve parcent wn the days ease or that of the the r hur, Ms Shayne said postively, "We don't like to use words like birnghi and dye. They grand so drastic."
Don't Let Age Catch CHIC
Up With You!
Dy HELEN FOLLETT
S for ar your complexion is fragrant teams Don't rub it
. concernel, you should keep the emollient with wide circles. I ITI D0 light, delicate movements.
an eye on the fidure.
Just how you look this day but ig your fingers along the jaw how you ne foing to look when
u décade rolls by.
Glance atoul you and regard the middle-aged women of your acquaintance. Sume took ten years older this their age, sotne ten years younger. group are smarties. They didn't tet age catch up with them.
in sagi
that
nothing
more
have customers froni every state...
from Alaska, South Amerton, Europe,"
Her favourites are the woman
"Remember how a few years ago some some weren't going who wanted to know whether to follow the fashion for short the shop had an “eye, cream .......
around, it'll be hair, she asked, "But they came to make my eyes brown insient the same way of blue," and the woman who with colour."
enlled to complain there was no curl her hair although she The up already has given had a permanent only customers three, four and even months ago,
got a
Girl
Disillusioned
Over Paris Shops
London
one
"IT'S the window displays that
will get you,"
"sald friend. "It's the beautiful cut of the clothes," said another. "You never see food like it in English shops," added a third.
So 1w0
I got together, plenty of travellers' cheques and, as I was going to Paris only for a week, decided to have a shopping spree and spend the lot.
INTERNATIONAL
MODELS
COUTURE
By DOROTHY BARKLEY
London, fashion has LONDON Ladopted An interna- tional air.
Stores are now buying designs, often exclu- sively made for them, from couturiers in Paris, Italy and Spain.
By won't come. we mean you should do quick little dance steps with your fingers.
Girls in their twenties usually
th neckt The alter Horough, faslidkus
fave wash- and, as cream to remove makes up before the war hing, a heavier one to apply inter Along lu The thirties, it rany be wise to tre a stimulding tone to rustle cent collections to open an
In the up the blood streams,
Complexion Enemies Your complexion his eneinde, trong sunlight, harsh winds, atmospheric dust and sometimes forties, practically every woman yourrett, Do facial acrobatles should use an astringent and to
face of cold water. A friction with and you will soon your with little acgorilion pleats and an ive rube now and then will tune the Aesh, keep put erinkles around your eyes, help That's silly, Why Brekon beauty wrinkles from forming. problems to come along and stay for life?
**
Keep the issue: of your face toned and firm by using gentle
when
massage
you
Apply
You don't ke jep frletions? They shiver your timbers? Well, In the grent and whest of t glorious routes of pulchritude one is expected to suffer slightly.
Exercise To Banish The One Cylinder Look
By IDA JEAN KAIN
ALAT - chested girls
FLAT
keep
asking for a routine to put,
a little meat on the collarbones
and banish the plucked chicken look across the chest. Fine
all this and better health too.
The right kind
ut
exercise
can work wonders In the direc- tion of curves by stirring up the circulation and sending nourish- Ussues. ment to Impoverished However, only the right nutri- ents can properly nourish
the
tissues. So before we case into magic builder-uppers, check to be aire you get these health building materinis in your three meals...allk, eggs, meat fish or fowl; green and yellow vegetables; fresh fruits includ- Ing a citrus and enough whole grain cereal and good bread and butter calories,
to furnish extra To make the most of your curves
in
and
use
To pad, the cuilarbones banish that scrawny look, my favourite keeping throatline-young exercise. de
the -
The
Liberty's, the first store to do so, has imported suffi- cient mudels from the re-
International Room". Here coats, suits, cocktail evening dresses
are made
up in cheaper materials and sold at half or quarter the original price.
at
An
This new department mirrors current European fashion, It has
Jacques Fath outfi the
matching dress and
capo black and white kweed, the dress moulded to the figure, the cape circular in shape and fringed with black wool. It has the Schlaparelli tweed suit, in a heavy slubbed Donegal which contrasts
with the turquoise blue
corduroy used for the coltar. And it has the Jacques. Fath evening dress in water blue satin which follows the new domed skirt line--the dome created by a net lining sewn onto the satin,
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Top coats are big and bulky.
heavy as a man's-and
warm. They are made in lanz- haired, shaggy materials. Dark grey wool, flecked with a silver thread, is a favourite. Often they have a shaped stole, in a con- trasting material, which nts beneath the collar and falls to. hem level.
Dresses are slim fitling. They have tight sleeves, flat dla- phragma and straight skirts.
lisabeth
Two new skirt lines from Liberty's International effection:. For day the "flated" skirt, designed by Veneziani of Milan. He shows it on a dress in grey and flame wool, and lines the skirt with plastic horsehair to hold the shape. For evening the sheath skirt, trimmed with frills, made by Santa Eulalia of Barcelona. He uses a pimento shade, of lace for his strapless dress.
Spanish designers, recent fame, used by Venezian! of fine chevron pleating on the entrants into the world of haute Milan for a dress with the new sleeves and from waist-to- couture, have sent the kind of "Aated" skirt. (Illustrated), shoulder. Another, by Pedro
frilly
lace Wool,
clothes we expect: lace
The other is the thick black Rodriguez of Madrid, has clever:
woven with Mind Bery colours. One
crystal draping beneath the waist at the vening dress by Santa Eulalia threads, chosen by Givenchy for back, and an unusual curved of Barcelona, was in a pimento
full black skirt.
buttoning at the' tronf. shade. A skin-tight sheath, it
Full skirts vary from the frills on the skirt. (ilustrated). and others, to the new Italian had frills on the bodice, more belled fullness, shown by Dlos
What goes wrong sometimes fluted aldrt. And it's essential when inexpensive dresses follow that they have an interlining of styles introdures by couturiers? stiff material to hold the shape. The new princess line dresses, We found
one good reason For the domed skirt, why couture models are ex- interlining of padded canvas is Departments (where all clothes An now appearing in the "Budget pensive. One Paris designer is
used.
For the fluted skit, plastic are under £10), provide ล using
a new the costs
material which her
This is as effective topical example. horsehair. £6 a yard, It's silk as real horsehair, and it has one, embroidered with wool. And it big advantage it doesn't snag with has the warmth of wool, the rich nylons.
appearance of silk.
EXERCISE NORMALISES Now to the exercise. Ex ercise always normalises, and
sideways across the bed, on alt exercise is developing
your back, head hanging over under-developed spots. Start of the eilge Ralse head to hed easily with mussage petion. On level and slowly lower, raise a full diet massage is develop again,, about five times. ing, for it helps bring nourish trick is to hold with the ment to the spot through in muscles of the neck, rather than
there, to let your head drop, all creasing the circulation To turn hollows at the base of way back. the throat into dimples, try Back up
this routine Grade A nutrition and you can Place right hund on tip of turn into a beauty... or left shoulder, and draw lightly next thing to it, which will be across the base of the throat close enough.
.then follow quickly by placing left hand
right
this,
on
shoulder and stroking across the p right hollow, Repeat 20 times, alternating sides. This leaves the neckline all rosy.
Now lo strengthen chest muscles and straighten should- ... to make the most of
your curves.
the
Many of them look like a sick dressed up with buttons and braiding. And, of course, there's Two other materials make Most of these designs have no belt to give them a definite news. One is the reversible Intricate defalls. One dress, by shape, Do they need to be mo wool; material, grey woven with Asuncion Bastida of Madrid, has obviously the poor relation?
Do You Know How To Relax?
FATIGUE la the enemy of Career girls and wage-earning the seasti. Others can go to a Scrub well with o sospett Hood looks. If you are a wives especially should know movie, let their muscles go limp brush with bristles that take For this builder-upper a too-busy woman, take time out. how to relax. wand is needed an old broom When you are over-tired, you
The homebody and pick up energy, An enter hold like a doormat. This Your brain handle or the handle of the are not offelent.
can catch forty winks while the taining book will make one for scouring will stimulate the bloed streams that are sluggish when carpet sweeper serves well. Sit gets sluggish. Maybe your dis- baby is having his nap, but does get the job for the time beling you are tired. Have an alter in a straight chair and hold the position gets mappy. Such she do it? It is not likely. She 50, be kind to yourself, now and -nating hot and cold shower and
wide things happen in the best of keeps right wand overload, hands
on tramping the then. It pays in the long run. a brisk rubdown with a' CoRTVE friction witf towel, A quick apart,
palms forward. Then families.
domestle treadmill, She forgola If nothing else offera in the eau de cologne is refreshing. behind Nobody
hectic UTO
times, wand slowly lower
seems to have much that a success formula provides form of relaxation and rest you shoulders... but do not allow insure except some of the lacky time for work and time for can got it during that bedtime head to jut forward, Ralse wand lazy ones-or are they lucky? play.
beautifying hour, Take a bath Then, take your time with and repeat six counts. Put force Being lazy can mean being
instant, esikla, to take he ache out of your your complexion cream to, your on the downward notion and borol and borexiom costa
Soma wames And relaxation bones.: Ilò in warm water for pin curling a, YOU, rome up lightly, and hold head shadows on the face that make in outdoor sports-golf, tennis, five minutes to soften skin of nah.. polletíž preet. throughout, exercise. up cannot camouflage.
@wimming, skating, according to scales.
you will be ring to gol
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في الله
These
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Now I'm back from Paris, my cheques barely touched, my total purchases--n small bolile' of perfume and a pair of rope- soled sandals -- bought in the "flea market."
Paris, you can keep your shops, They leave me cold!
femous shopping place from
ond
have prowled around every
Rue de Rivoli to Rue de la Paix I haven't found a street approaches the bold. colourful window displays of London's Oxford Street or the elegant
Regent Street.
that
of artistry
The dress shop windows are packed with garments in a hop-| [hazard way that seems to pay no attention to a general colour scheme.
Dull shoos
Expensive shoe shops just line
uplicir shoes in rows which is
dull, and in pairs, which is un-
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