"THE CHINA "MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1954,
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
FEMININE
FLATtery?
PARIS winks at history, ·
lusists that the work is flat, ma'am, says corsets ore a girl's best friend ... ... ...
By DRUSILLA BEYFUS
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THE Flatile-the Girl with the Least on Top becomes a fashion star today. For the newest of the Parts clothes make a girl look flat where she used to be rounded,
She looks fat from the front, flat from the side, with never more than a hint of on uplifted curve.
For the latest Paris flattery is to reduce the prettiest curve In the world to paper-thin propor- tions. "Not one mannequin was dressed to show rounded
bosom," reported Ann Edwards at the Dlor opening", a month ago,
The newest of the clothes for
morning ADON. and evening simply by-pass bosom. Little black frocks, tweeds, and sulta drop plumb straight íroni shoulder to waist-without giv ing an inch.
And each outât is worn with Flattic's best friend a corset
that compresses her curves.
As for the rest of the Flattie Une. It drifts in to an unbelted wals, and curves out again to the hips.
"Sometimes it suddenly cut into a full skirt.
bells
Sometimes it keeps straight on and the hemline always ends Just below the knee.
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Brush Out The Waves-
Straight Hair Is In
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TJURRAH for the girls
H with
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They're being given their The razor chance at Inst. cut, the casual look and the cartwheel were all unkind to them, but hair that is long, smooth and straight is the way-as fast as it can By winter you'll be grow. seeing the bun, the chignon and the Grecian look.
on
At Inst comes the turn of the genteel girls with thin, weedy hair that never standa on end without n perm, and which is secretly as straight as a yard of pump water.
The straight haired brigade aro unlucky all
By HAZEL MEYRICK
Jength
For in-between hair, designed this stylė, for a sides summer party. The это curled wido und decorated with bows of or- gandle ribbon.
· Alan Bplers has
combs, flaras and whatnots.
through life. In their prams, plus the judicious use of colour they get mistaken for boys. streaks and rinses, As teenagers they have to
much right to cosmetics as the First of all, ho complex victims a colour rinse Then, after they have faced up to their families, ho dyes it to the approved shade,
If you have what the novelists call a "taunt, alive face" with wonderful cheekbones, then wear your hair, while it is growing. dead straight and cut to frame your face.
If your face is neither taunt nor alive, then bundle your hair under a commodious" hat, and awalt results, emerging from
with Cocoon
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your
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'FLATTIK BY MORNING
Straight, luona, ta-button facket åtted to jual below "hip; "glim black skirt.
Hats to go with chignons aro few and far between as yet, and short of hacking holo in the brim of last year's cloche, (to let your hair through); there is not much that can be done.
THE CHIGNON
Don't, whatever you do, just Jam on an old hat and hope for You may look French of Park Lane, who the best.
aunt
struggle with curling-tongs, complains his hair styles are so Wonderful from 'the front, but rags and
somono's maiden pipe-cleaners, advanced that no-one will take like Spots, red noses and flat feet them seriously until he is thed behind, bristling with hairnets too, all seem to go hand in of them, agrocs long hair is in, and hat-pins. Bo view yourself hand with lank locks.
But he shuddered when I asked first from all angles.
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Now the tables are turned. " He cried, with a wave of pillbox style The curly-haired brigado are the head that knocled plaster frantically trying to Iron out bust off the shelf. “But at the Iinly, culek in greep - "op- their Waves. Just because in-between alage a woman must portunities, already selling straight hair is IN.
have a permanent wave to give special knitted caps, made extru long to accommodate your bun. Xavier of Knightsbridge is boty to her hair.!! giving his clients a chignon DOWNWARD DUCK'S TAIL They are made from crocheted angera, are shaped like nowere
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But he is keeping it short and steiner of Grovenor Street, wlapy in front for the flu fets his allonts, try, their longer. But whatever, half-styl
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