THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1985.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Gay Stripes For The Beach WHITE HAIRS? Don't Worry- You're In The Fashion

This gay striped skirt in red and white Unen is designed for the beach by Christian Dior. It has su ammising hat to match. The square-decked pullover is of white wool--Agenes France-Presse,

TH

NHERE'LL be no worries. A dramatic contrast with

about the first white dark hair, it also gives pleas hairs this Spring. Heads ing silvery highlights to white blonde heads and lends an touched with pure are the very latest fashion. extra note of sophistication Elegant women, long be to hair genuinely turning fore nature intended, are grey. Newer and amarter having their hair highlight than mauve or blue rinses ed with touches of white. London's top model girls are

falling for this new craze,

It looks equally effective on dark haired Italian Marla Scurada as on bloode Jean Dawnay and Barbara Musa,

SUCCESS TIP:

Pat Lover wearing m touch-of-white hairstyle

by Martin Dongius.

gril, Joan Diener, has adopted this style, also Patricia Roc and Susan Shaw. And, demonstrat ing that it's a style equally good for the very young or the over fortes, so has Gladys Cooper,

A JOB IS NOT Photographed on right you see Rene, the

A TEA PARTY

Boston.

the season's touch-of-white hair 'styles on models Fat Lever and

Jackie Jackson.

FOR YOUNG AND OLD

The white lights are pleacked

into get along in business, right To ust behave the hair about

the hair, and lasi like a yaman at work, not a Actresses, too, are finding the girl at a tea party," says light-headed looks more glamor Margaret Divver, advertis ous for Spring, Kismet's pin-up ing executive for a large insurance firm.

Miss Divver, who handles US$1,000,000 a year

verlişding (Jo John Hatrock Mutual Life Insurance Co.); 3's the basic rule for wométi in business is to work as hard as a mask.

"Women are still conspicuous business," she said, the girl who werts to get ahead should not take a 'Queen of the Court' attitude.

од

her

Mystery man of the hair- dressing world at the moment is tail, good-looking Frenchman, who dressed Prin- cess Margaret's hair Caribbean cruise,

Pending the opening of his own: London salon he is ter- porarily in hiding, working in ona small room on the second Bloor of a London, club. Els oldest and closest customers him there, including visit several of the top modela.

Junkie Jackson's skyba in' shors and windswept, Highlighted with, whilte

00

Only his wife and shampooist share this smalt Mayfair hideout which "bonEIS only one drier and one basim

BANNED

There are certain words: Edi like to see banned for ever fremmes fashion dictionaries. They include combinations, bloomers, mackintosh, suspender belts, bust bodice, corselette, knickefs. and underpants.

Let's substitute their modern, more attractive synonoymal in-ones, parties, well-ors, rain

wear, bras, foundations,, brinds. and trunks,

"--EILEEN ASCROFT

This "Maternal Instinct”

Has To

To Be Taught!

New York. mothers for the first time, privacy, have ensured that most

is the considered opinion ani

It adrything

There are fewer of us in the buskuess world, so it is necESSATY that we betave properly-

be moody can*

or display emotion, because it just doesn't go. Men are always the first to say, see, just like a woman!**** -United Press,

THE THIRD OF A SERIES ON HOW WORKING

GIRLS BUDGET ON A S12 OUTFIT

The

Well-Paid Kenya Secretary

Many Problems

Faces

By LESLEY CLAY

Nairobi. sells popularly-priced! Res- it for a late-night, engagement,

THE problems which beset Phon ne names on the Mints of into full evening dress which

those seen in many London shops worn

preet

bo

very many

we

the young secretary and in a mail community lite occasions. who works in an office in this you are likely

So what to do if we cannot Kenya are very different one of these dresses round the go straight from work in our be office-stained cotton to that from those in other coun- next corner she will not

able to

1 cotton dress theatre matinee to which buy which has a reasonable ex- have been hidden, "matinees" To begin with, the has to pectation of life, under about in Kenya starting at 5.15 pm. attempt to follow a much higher £5 or more. As cotton doses The only thing is to rush round standard of living and dressing, are won all the year round the shops and try to find some and while her salary is far in here, with the exception of a material which is not too ex- excess of that in most areas, month or two when perhage

pensive and yet will look

tries.

·

are

very

women have no which tells them feed their babies.

searched out women do not as children watch

has -science

a

haby being suckled," she said. Indeed, among her obstetrini. instinct found out about maternal patients, it is rare for more how to instincts.

tham one in text ever to BayE ssen It even craquathlon Basin to That instinct was not have an easy familialty wit Dr Mavis Gurther studi- among them. But if it is the

Truck - frecat watching ed 150 women, who were any consolation to WOMEN,

her all-round Eileen cotton dress which she made herself. The bag and match- ing court shoes are of lizard

TUCCIONES.

she painted out that chim Since there is no instinct in panzees in captivity don't women and since they can't know how to feed their mimic when they don't know what it is they're to mizade, babies either. They have to doctors have to face up to the be taught.

fact that first mothers have to be taught

MIMICRY?

Fortunately babies are bom

7 When a female chim- equipped with an instinct of how

her expenses are much greater thinnish suit or a jumper and smart enough to go on" and her choice and range much skirt makes its appearance, cor Our enterprising secretary. smaller

office girl requires a minimum Eileen found what she sought

1. 8d. comparatively of five or There are..

White shows at

a yurd,

which speaking, few young unmarried and white bandbag the pretty glazed cotton girls in office jobs in

Kenya;

usual accompaniment, and al- silky appearance would allow not very the majority of women. who though she is often told she can it to get by at a work in this young and grow never

Inolt

without formal party. She bought 4 ing community are

married stockings,

she often goes yards of this material; WOME

for who,.

reasons around minus her nylons on the fastener cost another 2s. 6d., a

the work herelt. "Digs äre! economic

domestic, fre- grounds of economy., Almost buckle 15. Dd, and the paper quently leave their children all women, and meri, too, for pattern from which she cut our rarely less than £18-£20 per in nursery schools and go out that matter gro batless in the dress herself 35. 3d, mak

7

suryart

to work, being dropped off at Kenya, even elderly women, ing 2 st 5d. is all their offices by their husbands except for the odd formal oc- on their way to the city.

worn.

a zip

Well Equipped

month. If Eileen lived far out of town she would reed-but could not afford-a car, bus services are overcrowded and the casion--perhaps a wedding or

If Eileen had not been able inadequate because of Utopia? something like that. Gloves are to cut out and sew the dress Emergency boycot by Kikuut demand for shorthand On the face of it, it sounds herself it would have cost her. A shampoo and set at most typists and in particular, for cheaper to wear cottons all the between 40% 06, and 70s 0d hairdressers costs between 95. secretaries, far exceeds year round, for wool is erpen- to have it made by one of the Od and 10s. Od.; cosmetics are Indinn tailors to she took it approximately 1s: 64 to 2s. 6d. the supply; in consequence, sive and needs careful cleaning. to one of the very few, Duro- dear per article than in the employers have to pay dearly But don't forget the

dressmakers, it would United Kingdom from whence for the services of quite often end

tear of. laundering pean slipshod stenographers. Gener- these cottons. Even the better have probably cost sill more they are Imported. The rising

The

good

ally speaking, a girl who shorthand

trade can known

rames

wear

White

would not do for cost of food, too, is a constant Elleen spread anxiety if our secretary fends

Like type bu

but who does not know Horrockses and Tootals find it after face,

expects and fre hard to stand up to the rough herself on a pair of lizard for herself, for instance the of the African courts at 75%. Od, a very good price of the best brand of tea quently gets a monthly salary ministrations OF 240. A qualided

and houseboy; and most laundries buy as they wear extremely has just risen to Bs 1031⁄2 4. per efficient secretary hero

and charge between 3s. 6d, and as well and go with every colour it from 64. ed. “ there finds a plum at 270; buz Od. for washing and s. 6d, for scheme. That meant a matching handbag, which she was lucky

Holiday Expense

secretarial pay is usually in cleaning a cotton dress. They enough to pick up only slightly Everyone in Kenya tries to the region of £50-£55 per last only about a day what

An take a holiday at the coast at month. That may sound like with beat, dust and perspira scopulled, for ** 95% Utopia to

the stenographer ton; some people who go home carring and brooch set of al- least once h year. Getting Aligree cost 218. Od down from 5,000 or 6,000 ft. who carns between £6 and to

lunch change into tresh her

to sta-level is supposed to be for 18s pd. A a panacea for all fls, but to

cheer, nylons stay at

rall fore

a week, but when it dress before returning to work.

210

an item that looms very largely

comes to budgeting for cibthes, ..

Social Activity

pair

to

on the Kenya girl's horizon, There is yet another aspect coste 10%. Dd, and he felt well the one of the hotels, plus

equipped

the

the pin begins to prick. of life in the Colony which dia, however,

Excted her away with app her Let us look round Kenya's has to be taken into considera budget by 1 d., is you higher salary

*240:480,"**" YOU BOE, capital, Nairobi, and see what dion

budgeting see from the list wo can find in the way of dres clothes. There is considerably shops. There

when

For

"or her

nicht will

are four which more social activity in a dy Other Commitments might be described as in the like Nairobi than› In a-town Haying budgeted for this the couture class, perhaps another with a population of compat- one quiát, pur secretary

still Keny four, inte slightly descending able size in say, Britgin., Being has a fair amount as out of emply scale of more popular-type an air terminal, it is frequepled her 240 monthly salary but by the clothes--though they carry by

Important visitors who you must some high-priced models too whether from trade or enter ther and then we come to the tainment spheres, seemingly modati Tadian shops

which sell have to be entertained by those materials of all kinds by the interested in the particula yard. •

lines. We propose, the

therefore, Not Couture Shops! to dress our secretary in

manner that she would

such

The couture shops are out of able to go on to one of there an

the question for the young parties, although in fact, it is fint for a single wage earner, except for special mot (mlikely that he would least £15 odcasions for which she wo

homwârst of that ther

have to save ury or imless she to change into something more waler, got help from her parents Win format, Bath

the exception of one shop which - tell ress - or" znáte “losky still, Ode unless the decis

Hero are

than

And tho

ce, is at a which Eileen bought and thei

Accom

ried respective 'costs.

mid" "Dream material

Zip fasterefetc

fiat Handbag

top

panzee cannot

rear

her to take in food. Thiz instinct. doesn't involve “sight, hearing,

young without having a co

Sined, or taste it, la got his

human male to teach her,

motion by touch alers--by touch. instinct in the mother may within the mouth." This natinet, indeed be said to have should be harnessed at once failed," remarked Dr Gun- "ince it begins to inder out after the first four or five days of de If it hamt bees - thurtzebly armised.

ther.

#

A likely explanation" of nature having short-changed

women

IMPORTANT

Teaching, mothers

on instinct is that "mimicry" may take the instinct don't tell them is place of instinct in infant- matter of much. importantes, sle feeding in human-beings mouer is very anxious for feet

thought, because as well as in monkeys: Mon her child and be retures and keys live in colonies. The aghtsq she is profoundly de- females have watched the pressed. She may be found each feeding. feeding process many times weeping before before it becomes their and her delight in her child may be completely taken away by tuzu.

for mindry.”

But with women, a real trouble Dr Gunther made her, stuffing has developed with advancing in a large obstetrical. Bosniak in civilisation, "the small size of London,

She reported

in the world famou families and the results present day conventions of modesty, combin medical journal, The Lent. ed with housing which allows United Press.

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