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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
A preview of the various versions of tennis clothes you'll be seeing Are You
this summer on the glamour girls
Skirts, Dresses
Are In!
By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
London, some in white straw cloth. a
THE tennis season gets new fabric choice for tennis.
cracking
THE
in earnest. THE BOUQUET GOES
Lawns are being mown art hard courts rolled.
All over the country the tennis A girl-from the Wightman Cup
TO THE PARENTS
RE your children, i wonder,
ar lond of company as mine?
players to the local rabbite...wild that most modern children
be bonging away at the one and ne only woman's game which cary on the cyc,
There's
Bri ECWS clothes they will weur.
born mixers. They adore
is anything in the shape of a pasty, Iron slap-up birthday binge down to an elderly great-untie coning to tea.
the
ON THE WAY OUT; The very short hurts of the past jew year.
IN: Short,
ON THE WAY Tema
kt.
MARINAS
w.tit blowe or sweater, acmietitties short-skirted dresses all in one
Dirce
I remember vividly how, when
I was a child, every party was blighted by an
antierpatuly nervis.
were mure
On the doorstep you уиц had comt to the wrong humb, or on the wrong day. Was your dress becoming? Were your Clarks ante?
But these Ads have no social nervos at al. They frequently do cute on the wrong day, but they laugh it off cheerily und say can they stay Just the saine --what tuck to get the party Twice!
SKIRTS stop three to five inches above the knee and there are everal shapes Higgest news
Den du I find them in the least the wool and Terylene skri
ur apanded, “John, James, which
Demanently
pleated blus fat in wadi Sally have come to ten,
a (ypical 4 v'eluck announcement. They say they don't mind if Marvellonsly las nang.
theres no cake, they just want but rent and short enough for
Lo come,' There the most serious player,
and alterly washu the ng pictures,
are lux-pleated and nero: dion- lented varieties, neither ex]N- sive considering what value you set.
URESSES Аге start and Teminine, mustly sleeveless. Nechlines vary from the classic shirt neck to low cut-out necks To determined glamour girls. Their is quite a lot of detall on Bottle dresses, from scalloping to stdfined hems.
The fabrics are modern labour. Savers like Everglaze cotton or permanently pleated sharkskin. BURTS are universally sleeve-
other
Jess--in fact, more blouse then slitin poplin or pique. Mesh colton sweaters are the choice and they are very cheap.
PULLOVERS for wearing after play are big and bulky: loose thirk cardigans of fishermen's Jackets.
You see us new ort-skirt fashion on The top-line courts es well as at the vent cuts. Even the bust of the American girls even Little Mu, who gives nothing siway Lo vanity--are switching to skirts.
Wightman Cop player Ann Shilcock will wear dresses con- sistently for matches, keeping shorts for practice.
"No trilly or that port of nonsense," she told me, "but alill, dresses every time, dallored
and shurt, All the men
wear
short shorts. very
now
and
I think it's a pity for us to wear
exactly the same."
One of the prettiest at our younger players, Lorna Cornell, agrers, She has a wardrobe of
new dresses with fitted sleeveless Rodices and short ballel skirts,
Old Time Stunt Still
Good
IRLS who care enough
Gikwane resume
scornful of heavyweights who won't diet and exercise pounds away.
Feminine shapes won't stay young in appearance unless the
and musculature is kept Arm resilient. This calls for thuscle activity. Just talking doesn't help. Action is the thing. Every woman should have enough pride in appearance to keep her silhouette attractive.
Outdoor activilles, of course, are more enjoyable than calls. thenies. They not only clear tho lungs of stagnant air and make
Jus
you
the complexion. In the summer
there are plenty of outdoor
exercise opportunities.
need
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Usually I let them. But if font want company, I stroo kum oll and there's no embarrassment other side.
mire the way these chil- dien have come to terms with each other and with grown-ups. Or maybe it's ut I admire, Can we--much-abused moxtern pality be doing something
change? t for
HOW TO SPOT A CAREER WOMAN
"HOW hate real, dyed-in-
the wool career girls," Bumeone said to me the other day. It was Alm producer and script writer Jill Craigle, wife of Michael Foot, MP.
PIDTUNKA BY DAVID GLINS.
THIS IS IT The 1954 Look for the tennis courts. The skirt is permanent- ly accordion-pleated in a mixture of wool and Terylene. The top is sleeveless, tallored, and as simple as possible, here in white pique. Both from Harrods.
She joins them with a tailored leather belt,
She user sex to
further her carcer. She switches charm on and off like a tap-you can see her smiling and laughing with someone she wants 10 get on with, and as soon as that person has gune, everything angð.
She rams technical language your threat. (... the womun doctor who talka in scientide words of five syllables).
"How I hate them, too," said carcer girl Scott-James to career girl Craigte. We agreed that the tmigh stick-at-nothing pro- down fessional wono--whether M.F., pourzitet, docur, magistrate, or local councillor sent shivers dowth our »puties, (We started by bemg detest, but, of course, we ended by mentioning a name In two)
Jill Craigte, who is pretty and feminine herself, as well as muę- CARful. has Aune so far as to formulate the Five Trade Marks of the True Career Woman,
She tells you the story of her rise to fame at the first meeting. At the end of one lunch, you
know every step in her career- but she still doesn't know what you do for a living.
She is over-competitive with
vartwheel
She is either frightfully dress-
...A cora! ed up (e.g., store buyers, fashion in Italian straw with a Laco journalists) or frightfully untidy straw brim. (e.g., ductors).
So watch out, you women with jobs. It seems we've got to aleer A narrow course between aggres- siveness and inefficiency,
THE UP-AND-COMING COLOUR: CORAL NEW, colour combination for summer, wonderful with
skin: coral and un-tanned white. I've seen in the shops..
Spiky OUTAI jowellery
A coral linen shirt with short, well-sef sleeves.
A coral atole, large and circular, to wear on holiday or
Married To
A Bachelor?
By Eileen Ascroft PITY the wife who's mar-
to a bachelor.
I met one recently and began to understand what blonde Zsa Zsa Gabor meant when she wept in a Santa Monica divorce court early last month: "My husband, George Sanders, is a born bachelor."
Mr Sanders took his bachelor- hood to extremes. He even kept on a separate apartment, and there, entertained his friends
and if the travelled abroad he liked to go alone because hav- ing a wife along would "spoil
hile
fun."
Now this took place in Holly- wood where ihe marriage pattern is crazier than else- where. But there arc many
husbands in lem giamorous
parts who still cling
to the sel-
ishness of their bachelor
cxistence Although they ure anxious to enjoy the plea, slip- married pers and pullovers of life.
Not We
Like the husband I met re- cently. Before his marriage he used to spend every weekend friends. golding with his male
He still does. It Just never occurred to him that he should chunge his bachelor ways and share his weekend leisure with his wife.
She's taken golf lessons her- reit and now plays a fair game, but her husband refuses to break his old four.
up
On Saturday evenings he has
a fixed date to
piny
On Sunday it's darts.
no reason to change his
wife
billiarda. tic sven ways.
to slay gu
He expects his home with the mending or
to the pictures with her mother, "What can I do?" says the wife plaintively. He's not unfaithful, he's not cruel, he's always polite. It's just that he treata mo more like his house- keeper than his wife. Ho stiil thinks of himself as I instead
We."
of
There are other husbands who eling to their bachelor days in D hundred small ways,
The man who sends flowers as a summer evening wrap, to wives of business aequau- Coral #wester scarves in lances or female relations and silk foulard printed with small includes a card from himself, flowers or spots.
A coral cardigan,
not mentioning his wife,
270 flaherman who blithely accepts an in- man knit, with deep reglan | vilation for himself, irrespec- Live of whether his wife CAN sleeves.
The man who come or not. plans an outdoor sporting holiday with his friends вла expects his wife to children to the sen.
...A new coral pink, lipstick in a pink and gold striped case.
But to give coral its true
her husband, capping every re- single or triple-strand necklaco favour of sea and sunshine, you mark he makes and always at in a rich colour and with a lot of MUST set it off by wearing it
spikes.
the wrong moment.
with white,
BOLA
1. THE DRESS:
A one-
piece of knitted while shark- skin, permanently pleated, weil cut, sleeveless, tailored. From Lilly whites,
2.- THE FLARED SKINT:
Of fine wool with rubber the waistband. grips inside with it, wwenter top and a thick white cardigan to s pull on after playing.
PLEATED 3. THE SKIRT: Cat. In neat boa pleats and worn with one of cotton sweaters the mesh which are the alternative to a tuck-in blouse,
L THE TENNIS SWEATER: A husky double- breasted jacket In bright tangerine-coloured wool, with brass Buttons, Worn with a bax-plasted skirt.
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How to Budget Your Calories to Increase
Energy As You Lose Weight
calorie role in the
reducing story fascinates'
By IDA JEAN KAIN
lake the
Right Here!
And it's the eternal bachelor in the male that always blames the wife for bad behaviour in his children. "Can't you keep those children quiet? he Com→ plains when he's trying to read, and it never dawns on him that table manners in the nursery can be Joint concern.
He wouldn't dream of chang-
ing the baby, answering the doorbell, going out for a loaf of bread or sharing the washing Ho'p never cooked a meal, sown a button on a shirt, or spanked the children, ond if his wife becomer 111 he just rings
UP.
up her mother husband la
No, the
his extremest form may exist only in Hollywood. But milder types frequently dwell right hero on our own doorsteps.
Colours Used to Change Size of Room
Chicago.
N expert on colour saya
it can be used to change the size and structure of a room.
"In cases where there lg a structural jog in the wall, dark colour which will absorb light will out the shadows to # minimum," wald Margaret Kutchison,
colour
authority.
(Marlin-Banour Paint Co.),
High -ceilings found in older [homes can be made to look lower by pointing them a darker colour essential nutrients, you will mad by paking the base board draw on your own vital tissues the same autour as the floor, she
dows said
and that Is a tearing repair proceUS,
certain overweights, for caloris aub- let's do some straight thinking solentifically:
"Conversely, light coloured Career girls, especially typists traction sends the pointer on If you figure that because you materials are essential daily, and
cellings coupled with mallum tored wally will give the and desk workers, are most in the scales downward. How have considerable fat to draw are required in normal amounts,
Thore
obily ond safe appearation of raising a low of exercise. If they can't do anything else, they should find ever, while calories are a on for fuel, it matters little what not in reduced amounts. Since
Wald: bcolcen by door and time for a short, brisk walk measure of fuel, they do not you eat so long as you keep they are not available in reducing diet, and that is to celling ald
the foods which bulld your daily menus around every day.
measure the quality of the within your calories, you are excess fat,
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leafy or deep on since these materials are not a certain amount of money to yellow
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