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[THE "CHINA'' ''MAIL,” SATURDAY,” FEBRUARY": "26, 1935. "?
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
EVENING GOWN WITH KA TRICKY DETAIL
"Pastorale" by Jean Paton, is a short evening dress in old cain design. The lowered waist is emphasised by the ribbon lotted through at the back at hip level where the full skiri
France-Presse, sturis.—Agelleo
Expert's Advice On Brightening
Up The House For Spring
London.
in my
By ANNE SCOTT – JAMES
EVERYTHING and Jammy Angers.
of money.
don't
These Jobs dusty. The first shafts of alone will pop up quite a bit February sunshine streak- "But for the occord zone of ing in through the windows people-my choleo would always throw a
to cruel light on be middle-aged chintzes and carpets and curtains, and Illumine my own discontent, I want everything new.
I look up my bank-book and rattle the baby': moneybox. The most I can run to is a bit of patching-
up.
There's so much to do, I cunft Hinh where to start, New curtaine in one room? Or now cushions in every room? Trans- form the kitchen? Or repaint the woodwork throughout"?
As the same tople is in nearly every woman's mind this month, I thought I would get expert
the
advice on how to make least money do the most work. I went to
SIR soo architect HUGH CASSON to put one question.
want to enjoy my house {TL the spring. 1 can't spare much
1010 shaft money.
spread it?"
"I think there are two zones
of people," sakd Sir Hugh. "Those with young children, and those without.
"The first lot can hope to de no moro than solvage work. Put back tho plaster th: children have kicked to pleces. Replace the breakages, and
the remove
smears
fort
by
THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU
FOLLOW A NEW FASHION
B
EAUTY fada
are ex-
citing but before you
BY HELEN FOLLETT
features, JL Is
altculous.
Just plain
follow a new fashion make unly for the perfectly propor- In considering ethes or ap-
In toned figures, sure it's becoming to you,
some vario- tions, however it may flotter the That "eat-look" is a cur pumpish woman who is short rent fud, and a surprising walsted and long-legged. On number of smarties can get the skinny giri, this fashion only Eyebrows accents her fragile frame and away with it. have a
distinctly rounded lack of curves arch, hair is done in wings, A blonde or silver streak in hair 19 smart on some lip ends turn slightly up, dark
calling attention But what's it all about, for weinen,
shining stresses and lovely. goodness sake? Why look chic coiffure. catty7 Some women will try anything, not only once but again and again!
The long-lorsued style Dor sul is gaining popularity, but it's
preurance, stick is what's Matter- ing *10 you type. What glamorises one woman will turn mother to a caricature
Bare-top formais
are worn by heavy, thin and perfectly pro- They cm- portioned wor phasise femininity, but they also fat or bony call
to They bring scrawny out in plain view. make lo
thin nocks looks hunger. Only slim goddess The Italian hairdo, u fancy
wear them, get a young that's just abiad past, is cute woman feels she is a step-child world if she has us can be on the pint-size girl in the style
ክፔ
shoulders. with mischief in her eyes. On raps
1
over
the heavyweight, who has large That's silly!
STAR TREATMENT FOR PYJAMAS
By Dorothy Barkley
HEY are the current hit in the
Tashion
London shops and are set
to become the year's best- seller.
No, they have nothing to do with A-lines or H-lines, and they are all-British. For pyjamas are the latest to be given the full glamour treatment.
For the Grst time in years fashion has caught up with the pyjama industry and brought in new styles and materials and colours which are gayer than ever. Plakt satin and
the square-cut, straight-up-and-
down type of pyjama are right out of the picture.
The fresh styles have brought
a boom to the industry. *Wo
Left: Square-necked 'siyle pyjamas in white cotton spotted wiib yellow,
Right: Peep-zoked stylo in red, blue and white checked gingham.
"Alternatively, concentrate on just one resin.
“VI think one gets torrife kick out of a really comfortable bathroom. How about carpel-
the bathroom, marblessing the walls and hanging up soma pictures? (Choop once, of course. because of the steam)
ing concentrate, I believe in the odd bit of paint work or a fow new cushions, They only make the rest look shabbies.
•
"Or here's an idea for people
with daughters.
Your
and spending everything on ose lasting object, such nu a ploture, or a plece of furniture, or even one good piece of china,
Ho sald: "In the long run, this wit cove you the most per A brave idea. And, I think,
Eno one.
creamy
DECORATING NEWS AVING soaked up this HA
theory of doing a little bit WELCOME FEELING
"At about 18 or 16,
very well, I went round the I GET for inore pleasure from
one corner of the house that daughter doesn't want a child's shops and decorators In search
of spectile nows, I found: 1100273 ony longer. She needs
THAT black-and-white is looks exnetly as I want it."
feminiae. A the newest basic colour scheme, something more I have soma suggeste "Could tions?" I asked him.
dipasing-table
wallpaper
replacing "Landlord's "Well, why don't you repunt i think that once in a lifetime feathery wallpaper as a sciting more space for her clothes, and-belge, eg, black-and-white your front door and spend all
on the hall? the year's refurnishing money for bright fabrics. your money think almost the most important should be spent an her." thing about a house is the way you feel when you go into it. If there is warmth, colour and a feeling of welcome when you open the door, the rest will tako care of itself,
Bir Hugh gave me one more idea which carries still further the notion of "concentrating" your money.
Ho suggested letting the re- decorating go hang 'for a year,
A-line Dress By Dior
Typical of Christian Dior's A-line is this dinner gown of black coarse-grainos!" silk, called "Audacieuse'', = 'Afrner France-PressO.
THAT many decorators ard using dress cottons for furnishing—eg, scarlet
cotton satin curtains edged with black bobble fringo.. cation face- cloth for chair coverings dress organdio for curtains... permanently pleaded cotton for Valances
trellises, THAT SCOOTS,
of two-way project- pregelting bla salps us dividers for
larg rooms The Idea is that ono blz room used for several purposes is a better use of space than a mnumber of small rooms. (Not my idea of comfort ko lata of small apoms, like an egg- baxx.)
and
Ing
♦ THAT there's a voño for real tiles, pecudo lles, Ilno in hugp
and dic-sized checks, marbleized fireplaces and waits.
PICTURE SHOW MEN, as you know,
M lot of bad habits,
the worgt
have a Among
lạ that of showing you their family snapshots.
They are far more pushful than women with those out-of- focus pictures of little Alfie on the beach; of Ted and Molly at the church porch; or of that dreadfully overfed baby In its pram.
Though rarely at a loss for faced with these snap- 'I fumble vainly for In
remark.
appropriate
delightful child," sounds so patronising
"What a heavenly · baby," sounds so insincere
The other daya I saw the snapshot to end all spapshote being shown by ario mikile- aged man to another on a bus.
Arst
That's Herbert Bald. the
man.
minder."
"He's a machine
"And who's that on the left?"
That's
Victor. He's
machine minder too.”
"And who's the third man?"
Archic. He's
That's
machine minder as well."
3
P
The socand man paused for a fill minute, before producing the only possible" comment,
Ho sald, "Fancy that
—¿London Sxurier Service)
• Eileen Aycroft meats a woman with some new ideas for other women today--and finds
a link with the days when our grandmothers were set free from those awful, honed
strait-laced cagra,
MME CADOLLE CARRIES ON WITH THE REVOLUTION
OUR
are
beautiful than
our
UR grandmothers were "In Paris we love colour," says to supervise her mannequins. "Even prettier than the clothes proud of their beautiful Madame Cadolle, "Black found-
gilon garments, are
top on top. I agree wih Madame. busts and conscious of thelf sellers for winter, white for It's like peeting on range. ugly hips. Today the facts summer. The traditional English are reversed. Women's hips P you approve of Dior's
is not considered smart.”
A LADY'S MAN
more
MINISTER ANTONY attempt 19
the W HEAD, in the House of obliterate their busts.
feminine bust?
arked. Commons, defines a gentleman? | almost Madamo "This is due to the increased sorrer
in shricked "Never, never sho a man who incorporates amount of exercise when
under- doclared. But one gesture she "humanity, emerosity,
braveness, tingesty and young," says figure export Alico ima made in the raw pushed stains, Cadulle.
This Frenchwoman certainly tip line. She ate ting fo
inta platforms has
more claim to discuss and bras, which give uplift and and re-shape feminino figures. than all these male fashion de support dos oust be pretty signers who optimistically try to improve on nature's handiwork. Were the parting words of this Madame Cadolie's great- Frenchwarman, as she rushed off grandmother was Helene Cadolle, who first set wpme free from those awful boned, sirait-laced
Her Inventions of the brassiere túro
casca.
have sold more pyjamas in the laco trimming. It lined collars, copied for use as a hostess apron, and the roll-on bolt were last two months than during the piped cuffs and gutlined yokes. It has a halter neck and bib last two years," reported one Light and cool, these pyjamas front, and doubles over at the of the most important revolu shop. "Sales have switched are à boon in hot weather. They back to make a second skirt. tibus in, the fashion world. They from nightdresses to pyjamas." are also good traypliers. They Inspired by a butcher's apron, charged women's lives just g
tako up tula 109m in your it is made in colton, tweed or much as the suffragetics.
suitcase, and weigh next to volvet, to match, or contraat nothing
wash dasily, dry with your strens,
and need no froning.
THE STRUGGLE
ឋ
They The pyjamas are made in quickly and ging cipipes cure up for your guests in the kitchen
You wear one' while serving-MADAME Heledo had to fight
V for her bellofs, 109, every kind of cotton. Topping in Lashion are brunch or to give a new book to an byglende cried the medical pro the list a cotton plissc, a fine crinkle cotton with the feel of coats made in padded cotton; they old dress.
sille and the advantage that it work
bok like scaled-down seersucker, gingham and plain while at length...
requires no ironing. Next come
all English
roses
"length of
fession when she introduced the Arst cipstic roll-on. Unfashion able, shricked the outer ladies
thes to the numerous skyles now at the dron fat lerving Tüp ito at the recent hat shows Me Any> [reo and unlaced, d
cotton.
Patterns ore either pyjamas, and also modern in style, featuring stripes, space in a suitcase. There are thing to go by the lust will be Mirt tools her 15 years to spols and stars, for nostalgic with also brunch conte in plain cot- this
verailure (vinco women thay your," " be rambling up tom. Bamp these could do accessory.
hlor" and happier double duty na'a delom, and one We have had the fraclan hat,
styles," said Styles are equally varied. digne shows o brunch runt made huo may tanti One pair, in a yellow-spotted as part of a three-piece beach is a colton, had a large blouse top putat.
nd down
#quare -neck and puffed
with and was mitched with “
half-length jeans. Another Fair For those
in (high fires!
obeckad gingham: had a braditi
top
Other had matching bloom
Greeted
D high Grecian bun
prefer the
rubber
without restriction.
her
There are three virtues I
would like to aid to make the perfect lady's gentleman good manners, good temper and a sense of humour.
London Express Service.).
While
Paquerette Ltd.
is closed for
redecoration
(we hope to reopen middle of next week)
Customers' requirements will
be
attended to
by
The Linen Chest Ltd.
3 Chater Road.
T
R
Tel: 21050
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