THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1955,
WEEK-END
WOMANSENSE
Effective Colour Blending In Room Decor
By Charles
E. Day
Chicago. much of the upholstery in blue background and white
Of all the parts that go one tone, leaving colour for
into the making of a small pieces and acces- Toom, I think that colour sories. «
successful.
pieces always are
Green-From emerald through
greens.
probably is the most im- Here is a glossary of colours celaden, from mossy grew to with their complements. Al- citron, greens remain a peren- portant ingredient.
though I have thought of these nial favourite. in terms of the living, dining shades and library rooms, I think the some principles carry over other rooms.
Belga A
A room filled with magni. ficent antiques with a badly coloured background can be a failure, whereas the pro- verbial "orange crate and remnant of chintz" school such
can
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With yellow usc yellows, copper and
"Salmony*** pinks. Both tones felld themselves to pickled pines, bleached woods
furni restful and mahogany. Darker background for cool colours ture is good with the lighter
tones. as jade green, bristol blue, be charming, if the emerald green; a particularly
Kood background for
colour is pleasing.
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LEAVE RED TO EXPERTS
Red — A. dificult colour for 13 exciting backgrounds; red and; stimulating colour and Is best handled by experts.
Pink A
most feminine and seldom suited for living rooms: it should be re- served largely for bedrooms.
for colour
bleached woods.
and natur Psychologically, colour can walnut
case
pieces. For ac- change moods of persons. cessories, try gleaming brass; High colours can be overly accents of black laaquer.
Grey — A calm, serene colour, stimulating, drub colours
Calling
for accents of warm), per- can be depressing.
simmon, ruby red,
gold or yellow, a fine background mellow mahogany pieces. Again, black is a good accent with crystal and silver accessories.
BlueFrom deep tones to pale ones, blue is a restful, re
the ceding colour giving even
mallest area a sense of space,
THE MIDDLE ROAD
to
It would seem best follow the middle road and contrive rooms that have a peaceful, tranquil quality, This can best be done by keeping walls, carpet and
Yellows, oranges and reds are at home" with blues. Any wood tones are enhanced by a
IT'S THE TALK OF THE TOWN!".
Western-Style Hats
For Soviet Women
Purple Another difficult colour that must be used in mail doses. It can give a depressin even funereal quality.
Yellow Even though the colour of sunshine, yellow neces care n execution. Remember that the depth of yellow fades greatly under artificial light so deep tones of yellow must be used to hold their character. White,
blues Bright are good with yellow, and for a neutral stick to greys rather than beiges. Pine is a poor colour against yellow and
mahogany is used, be sure it is of crown rather than red tore,
WOOD TONES
use
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With
The A-line dress. It has straight-cross-the-shoulder neck- line, sheath bodice, and full skirt. It is made in sky blue
shantung.
LIFE AS MADAM AMBASSADOR
By IDA JEAN KAIN
all, uge a quantity of beige THRER'S never
The New Line Is Very
Much Alive
London.
WITH Dior himself sell-
ing off-the-peg A-line outfits in London and with British manufacturers tak- ing up the line with enthü→.. siasm, there is no limit, to the variations of the long torso look'.
You can be clad in the new long look for sunshine or rain, in cold weather or hot. From the different styles now in the shops you can choose a tweed overcoat or a cotton suit, a tennis dress or a glamorous ball gown all with new die tail. •
The long torso look is not a dead fashion. It is not confined to shops and show rooms and Mayfair It is being worn everywhere,
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The A-line coat. Narrow shoulders -tiper out to a wide
hemline. This version is in yellow tweed, but it sets the
style for many others in cotten'or silk.
A.
Seen in Regent Street in the first spring sunshine: an up-to-the-minute tweed suit, with rounded shoulders, slightly fitted waist, and an up to the "minute belt
Brown In
buckled round the jacket's the days of whalebone and the roll-on is stretched too the rich Van
hem. Dyke or tobacco shades, the
steel. Nylon elastic net, ach every time it is pulled brown range is perfect setting
Seen stepping onto a bus light but firm, moulds the over the hips. If hips are Moscow. the majority comments recorded
for modern furniture. As brown
in Piccadilly: an A-line suit line and is comfortable larger in proportion, choose SPRING display of by the viewers.
can vary considerably, let the Western-style hats is resident milliners took private natural
But, upstairs, in "GUM", the wood tones
a side opening style, so that guide you. With
with its jacket smooth- into the bargain. fitting to mid-hip level, its the
walnuts, use a reddish
To emphasise their point, extra strain is not put on talk-of-town among orders at once for hats in the brown; with bleached woods,
full skirt bursting into they have organised a Na- the waist, women in Moscow.
show from women who could
greenish shade. With
2 dull During the week, it is necessary pleats.
tional Corset Week, arrang- hardly wait for the chosen The 600 hats being ex- models to be put on sale to the hangings and
floor
I moment in the life of to attend three or four official coverings.
Seen at a small country ing displays up and down dinners. These start, at 9. you hibited in the "GUM" de public generally.
With this
colouring, use high Ambassador Clare Luce, the
They also Prices of the new-style hats colour accents such as peacock American envoy to Rome: fish after 11. Also Mrs Luce patterned silk dress,, unmis- staged
sit down to the table at 10 and inn outside London: a rose-the country.
*Why is "corset forum", comfortable when tried on in built-up corset partmental store in Red
between 100 Square are revolutionary by average
and 170 blue, turquoise, bitter grens The title Madam Ambassa- gives one or bro diners a week takably the long torso line, with experts in the chair to the shop but not afterwards, in roubles, high by - Moscow and bright tangerine.. Russian standards.
anydor sounds glamorous, but herself, so if she gets one night with its fitted midriff, un answer queries. White With, white standards, but not too much to
wearing? This is due to faulty to have dinner home on a tray; belted but fitted waist, and. So, whether you are Ao fit you, as if she but judging
fitting.
Do not allow the to brighten a drab wardrobe. other shade is beautiful,
a typical pay. Nearly all are straight For an average Moscow typist, avoid that "snow storm look in week's activities, the role In the course of the week she full skirt springing from a line-minded or not, hers are slapping wallpaper on the .copies from the West and a new-style hat would cost four a room by using large areas of calls for one-fourth glamour is invited to numerous cocktail dropped waistline.
wall. some facts about your cor- You have to and pictures
wear the thing are up-to-date by Western days' pay, for an average dark woods, floors,
Off-the-peg fashion at set and you:..
afterwards, so when you try it standards. They are small factory-hand Ave days' pay. But to give contrast. Be sure that girl and three-fourths truck parties, and someone is the en-
shop,
sit dow 171 it would still be considered a the lighting of a white room is horse. Mrs Luce, chatting bassy is sure to point out that
How many corsets should or in the
Som gindic, stretch, up, and and smart and the colours worth-while buy-China Mail more than adequate to eliminate informally to members of Madam really should attend. If prices we can all, afford has
new line to you have? The experts sug- bend and teach your toes 11 are bright and gay, pink, special,
that's impossible, one "sends a brought the blue and white being among
the Women's National Press Minister Counsellor but, accord- everyone's wardrobe. Much gest a corset wardrobe of at you can Club (New York) gave us a mng to Mrs Lure, that it to everyone's relief
zirdle wear out. and least two. Wear them al- Why does a the favourites.
the Ambassador rough idea of what the job cricket if
surprise the off-the-peg ternately and wash them fabrics naturally will not wear so quickly? The more delicate alive and on her feet, really entails.
version of the Paris original regularly, in soapy water, for ever." You cannot have the Her day starts bright and
is elegant, wearable, and not so that the elastic can regain modern lightweight foundation early at 7:30 and often ends
in the least startling. its shape.
garment coupled with long life. - If “you want long wear, choose at 1:00 the following morn-
Why does a built-up roll- a tough, this fabric. ing. From 8:30 to 10, she
ön get loose around the catches up on the news and
Probably because.. reports; then' staff meetings she tries to curb the calories.
Tiny hats which look as if they consist of only a few feathers are "all the rage". Hats like these have
never before been seen in
Soviet Russia-except on the heads of wives of foreign) diplomats,
UNBELIEVABLE !
Soviet hat-making factories have always contented them- selves with heavy felt in dark blue
marcon" for winter
TO
wear and straw trimmed with artificial flowers for spring and Summer
A year ago, a Moscow new paper complained that to find a pretty hat in Moscow was like Jooking for 11 needle in a haystack. It described the hats then оп salo being "of incomprehensible. shape and adorned with faded Bowers and greenery from which even goats would turn away with abusive contempt."
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Since then, Soviet fashion scouts have obviously been studying Western magazines and -probably hat shows in European
cities.
When the Spring display in "GUM", the biggest departmental store in the whole Soviet Union, crowds of women drawn there by the advertise ments could hardly believe their eryes.
A young Moscow typist fingered a shimmering halo of white feathers priced at 150 roubles and said: I can't believe it. This is what I have always dreamed of,"
ALL BEAUTIFUL ! Another woman, asked by a friend to make her choice from
the dazzling collection, aZEWET-
dingy shadows-United Press.
Simple But Attractive
This simple attractive rat by Albouy is of black and white muslin—Agence France-Presse.
from
she's lucity.
TOUGH ON FIGURE
Because of all this official co tertainment, Clare Luce gained unwanted pounds, even though
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Fashion is all line this waist? and appointments until 1:00. This presents a clothes problem year and that is some- Home for lunch at 1:00, and little tiene is left in her busy thing the corset manufac-
a where inevitably there will life for shopping. And clothes
lady
Ambassador must have! turers are busily putting! be Americans coming in and She has to dress three times over. The long, moulded
NO, SIESTA
Atter
- werd
Dorothy Barkley
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
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•
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perhaps she will have five or daily for business, then for the look, so they tell us, begins To soften hard paint, pour an handled brush and an agreeable Bix Italian diplomats for after office hours affairs with the foundation gar-inch of turpentine on it, and let looking tio Elled with whatever
finally for the formal evening lunch..
ment, and if you are buying it stand for a few days. Then chraning powder you like. dimmers which are very dress-up. Strenuous as her programme is, a new line dress, you should stir with a stick until soft.
Hair ribbons may be wrapped Mrs Luce looks wonderfully get a new line girdle to go Every Bathroom should have around a wet, round far after It is the custom in Italy well. In fact, to my way of with It?
This place being wasted. in an easily found thinking, Clare Lace is lovelier to start the business day tocking now then she was tan
Don't imagine, though, rangements for cleaning the wrinkling, and eliminates the between 10:00 and 11:00 in years ago.
that this means a return to tub. The best might be a long need for ironing.
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the morning and take siesta in the afternoon, fol-) lowed by work from 4:00 to 7:00. The office hours at the American Embassy have! not been influenced by the locale - 'they are the usual 8:30 to 6:00. So the Ameri can Embassy keeps both the American and the Italian hours. After all, when inj Rome...
An important part of the work of a diplomat begins after 6:00.
DOES YOUR COMPLEXION
NEED EXTRA CARE?
[ORMALLY, the pores of. By HELEN FOLLETT
NORM
the skin are very small,...
favourable effect upon enlarged pores.
cd: "It isn't possible to choose. indeed. Note the skin of a 'pecially close to the nose and patients on a diet, as certain They are all so beautiful." -
The hats on show la "GULittle child; it is fine In tex- checks where
did not go on sale immediately.ture, smooth as satin. First, a census of public, opinion
the
They also put their beauty course porer food elemente stimulate flourish. The water, should be functions of sebaceous
glands fairly warm, but stop as soon that are often the reason for the When these little openings in as the skin feels sensitive. Rinse coarse skin texture, so today choked with horough friction with on do, but not eliminated as fat with tepid water Tats of all kinds must be cut
·Then the exudations of the sebaceous As women entered the display glands, mixed with atmospheric ice cube to speed up circulation. is an merg-builder. The order salon, they were given cards, on which to enter hair remarks dust and when the fibres in
berded to keep these outlets
was conducted by the store management:
the skin become
satisfactory"" "Dad":"
is: less butter on the bread, less, cream in coffee, no pastries or about any of the models of closed become relaxed, the com That is the time, when the rich sauces. In fact, it's a good show. They were given a piction is coarse-grained, a coma fesh is cold, to apply an iden to do without all, high- choice of four comments.
grief *
You will find this calorie desserts, stringent make: “excellent”, "good" on beauty
The inccessful treatment of toiley at any cosmetic counter the list of good-looks foods
Fruits and vegetables, head this condition consists of a dally and it often does wanders If you're in earnest about A suggestions book was also routine somewhat different from refining, ages provided for any other that recommended for the An ice rub during the day is it's a good idea to consult your improving a poor complexion, comments the women night mal complexion, want to mak
Remove make-up with a thin recommended. Use upward doctor. Have him outline a The management said that all. Form a thick lather of sweping rotary motions. Beau- Glet for you, one that will help production of the new hata bind soap, onu washclota, ticis also recommend ? certain your stand your figure too, would begin in
ith greaseaner to: thes, Deskt especies er mask the havela Bif need betw
THOP
prevents
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Priginals
Beautiful beads at the collar, lovely lace from throat to tip of train over filmy nylon tulle. The bridesmaid's gown, of misty pleated tulle, and frosty crystalette..
Miss
Lydia
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tendance for consultation,
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