THE "CHINA "MAIL,” SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1955.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Most Unusual Outfit
This delightful beach ensemble in red and white striped link is the most unusual erration in the Paris collections This season. The legs of the pants are of different length, the short one being cavered with a half-skirt. · Completing the outfit is a white linen T-shirt. By Ledoux-Sports. - Arence France-Presse.
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A VARIETY OF LONG
THERE The
HAIR-STYLES
By DOROTHY BARKLEY
London.
THERE'S no doubt about
it.
long-haired brigade have won the day from the short-cropped girls. Fashion has moved away from the untidiness of the casual look, from the severity of the short cuts, from the "set" look of close, tight curls back to a natural style. London hairdressers have any amount of varia- tions on this. provided the hair is long.
French of London-who claims that just as a milliner would not. dream of selling the same hat two years running, he never offers the same hastyle twice- says the fashionable length is Just below the ears. Tight pi curls are out, and a smooth, sleek appearance is the one to air fer.
DECORATIONS
When I suggested that there Dr two might perhaps be one people who still preferred the short style, he gave me a pity. ing look,
pair of jabbed 1 scissors in the direction of his clientele and said I wouldn't And a single short cut there.
He then showed me some of the styles that were to be found"
there, and two of them are
to
your
lightly curled to frame the face. At French's, there's a choice In the other, he picks a style between a raffia chignon, which for the girl-in-a-hundred who is hollowed out to accommodate has easy-to-manage hair. It is your hair and clings pinned in large curis, then head with pins; an Alice band brushed into wisps and will of three rows of assorted blue and pearis; or a colour. stay in place if chosen for the beads hair that
streak of gold, bronze or silver suits the style.
the highlight hair, But don': imagine that fashion brushed on to has finished with you when you Raymond, who thinks hair emerge
with
deserves cosmetics just as much
the complexion, shows variety of colourful rinses, but hastens inform his clients
These days hairdressing does not end with the new style, for decorations are also being worn.
15 a new coiffure,
In this asymmetries) style, is curled into wisps hair and brushed to one side of the face.
to
2
that none of the rinses are per- manent and all at them wash out
DAPPLED LOOK
long,
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A long style for those who have no short ends left on the crown. Hair is nei în....
flat, loose curls.
dappled "look to the hair. «Prettiness" which has been rather out of fashion amongst the recent sophisticated styles is back again with
curls framing the face.
soft
A nett head is the first step towards good grooming.
Time
At Martin and Douglas, they are giving clients 1 feminine style. The suggestion and money spent on it is well that long hair was more trouble spent, for without it the effect than short, horrified them. Long of an outfit may be ruined.
Don't imagine that, because hair is just as easily managed. they said if you have the ends you find your hair dimcult to lightly permed and look after manage, it is beyond help.. Ex-
instructed by
by the pert cutting and styling wilt hairdresser. Hair must be kept usually do something for it. in shape by brushing it in the For those who have their hair direction in which it was set permed to give it the necessary Hairstyles should be natural. A body, here is an idea passed on woman should not look as
if from London. Many hair-
the hair
se
she has just emerged from the dressers now offer a budget ser- hairdresser - but paradoxically vice. For a down payment of "the only way to achieve this is ten to twelve guineas a year by going to the hairdresser."
you can have your hair re- In the effects department, permed as often as you wish they suggest white bleach used and so keep your style without in streaks here and there to give fuss.
pictured here. In one, he FROM BARBADOS, BRITISH WEST INDIES, COMES
long hairstyle for THE FOURTH ARTICLE OF A SERIES ON
chooses
those who have grown their hair fully and have no short ends left or the crown. Hair is Jong, but not unkempt,
TEN RULES FOR GLAMOUR
and
You Too Can Be Beautiful
With
London.
These Gimmicks
By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES-
SOMETHING I just do not understand about woman is the way they to heat the always wan
same thing.*
an almost alcoholic glitter,
UNDERSTAND
PERFUME
pearls.
HOW
WORKING GIRLS BUDGET ON A £12 OUTFIT.
The All-Purpose
Dress Gives The Answer
Barbados.
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aby
Provide her with $57.60 (£12) ALANCING the bud and she can purchase an outfit
which she could wear on "B
get" is one of the occasion, Her "special occasion” of the dresses are very few, therefore IDEA THAT WORKS: Eye- always a big hat, always fresh major problems
the "all- Bar- she concentrates on always a veil, always white-collar girl in tea before a party. They give flowers.
bados, British West Indies. purpose" "dress which, by the simple method of changing Hob-On this sunny island, 21 accessories, can be made to look hair; miles long by 14 miles wide, quite different.
of the white- short,the salary
This is how she does it and collar girl is far below that still keeps the new look": of her co-worker in other
Our white-collar girl gets a parts of the world. Why? half day holiday
weekly- on Because there is no "equal saturdays-and during thase HE doesn't think too much pay" system for men and free hours she takes the oppor
about her beauty.
women in Barbados,
is the glamour PERFUME
git's vade mcum. But You'd think, from the better none than one squirt of number of letters I get a fragrance that's too cheap about beauty, grooming, and too sweet.
EXCLUSIVE
TIP:
Lasting,
the art of being magnetical pervasive, and elusive results ly attractive, that no one can be achieved by the use of had touched the subject be--nothing but a good scented bath fore.
It lingers on the skin from bath to bath,
HAVE THE
Yet millions of words have been written about most of them as repetitive as a gramo- phone needle that's got stuck in a scrater.
am
about
oil.
HEA
GOLDEN LOOK EAVY problem here. Sum- mer sunshine on your pale winter skin looks awful
heavy
00
Don't mistake me and think that the search for glamour summer shine bores me.
On the enntrary, make-up looks worse. You want a monomanize
my golden tanned skin that appearance spend hours at the quires no powder. mirror trying. new cheekbones or a different parabola for my eyebrows.
A
BEST ANSWER:
clear brown cream that takes of the slug-like pallor, looks un-made- there's much new to be said up. and lasts all day.
BE REASONABLY about it all. If you don't know
It's just that I don't think
because
* SLENDER by nov
now how 10 exploit your personality, you can't be trying. TRESS "reasonably,"
However,
"in response to. D yuu need not have the 'many requests," as the band skeleton measures of a model; I've done a simple many men do not care for summing-up of what I really jutting bones, But you mustn't believe about beauty. Some of be fat or walk with a waddle. it's new, some of it's old, but. HARD FACT: A fat in all of it works,"
must eat less, there's so other
leaders say.
1 hereby present my
Tested Rules
femme fatale.
for being.
Ten way.
.SPEND A FORTUNE
SPEND
ON HAIR
.HAVE A SOFT
DRY
SKIN
skin is more ageing than any other factor, Some more than you can modern make-ups
are drying; afford or having your hair avoid them. The sun is drying: done often and well. Save on use a litle of as protection. something that matters less, like the children's education.
Untidy hair kills even the Lovellest Yet the English, are content to be the worst-coiffed race
snug, complacer...
the Western world.
in
No need: there are many
Hard water is drying use o cream after washing your face.
WARNING: Take care of the delicate skin under your eyes. Once it sags, you've had it..
.KEEP IT UP,
KEEP IT UP
more good hairdressers than TTS the constant, unremisting
there used to be out of London
as well as in.
attention to detail that matters. (Which of us has not
IN THE NEWS: Hair that run into the man we love the springs of the forehead into one and only day we have not waves. Every kind of colouring, set our hat?)
from bleaches and dyes
rinses that last a few hours.
HAVE MAGNETIC
EYES
to
BEAUTIFUL eyeş eclipse
THE MORAL: NEVER go out with your nails unvarnished. NEVER let a perin go a week "too long.
GIVE OFF
SPARKS
every other feature. With CUICKLY, languorous creatures them, you can get away with Sykept the board on in other ages, but not in the pencil
quite a slabby face. Pile
mascara, darken your eyebrows, 1950's. The Ava Gardners, the
outline your eyes with a
If you can stand the pain,
Lollobrigidas are... electrically
Dive.
BEST SOURCE OF VITAL- ITY Sleep A long night, a
*Such as: "Do you love me?" Sunday in bed, or frequent ext- "I adore
Zika those dynamic
love me darling." "Do. you naps,
"Yes, of dear. "Do you love me politicians suppose so, but do shut up. HAVE A PERSONAL
GIMMICK
about it."
But the silly girl will ask SHE has some trick that's
him again..
specially her own. Such as
EXAMPLES: Valerie son's lang, never-cropped Lady Mountbatten's never-lengthened skirts, ....NOT BE OVER
CONSCIOUS
You clean your teeth-but you don't think about them all day,
The
giri
linen
in
wag
Barbados business
lace
her red-coloured dress with
trimmings.
A set of rhinestone Jewellery decided upon as she had none of these in her collection. The necklace is a very simple tunity to do her rounds along the two main streets of the city, short fitting design at the cost Her weekly earnings are be- She is out to get the best for of $3.60 (15s Od). The ear- tween 520 (£4 3s 4d) and $25 her money and therefore visits rings are of a spray design and cost $2.40 (10s 0d). For the (£5 4s 2d) and she may be nearly every recognised store.
four-strand bracelet, she paid Same way, make up your face living with a large family or with love and care,
and then renting a
Since all her clothes are made $6.50 (£1 7s id), bringing the room with friends. forget it.
She has, however,
to subscribe by a local seamstress, the rat total cost of the jewellery to
item she needs is the material $12.50 (£2 12s la).
dress,
Practise every art of make- up, clothes, and grooming, and then get on with something else. Well, that's beauty in 10 easy lessons. Try, them for a month. If at the end of it you're still not a femme fatale. I would for cut your losses and go something different.
After all, there are other interests in life besides men,
I'm told.
fashion catalogue.
her share towards her upkeep. As to the style to her whether it be family or friends, she chooses it from an imported weight nylon stockings to add to She purchased a pair of light- She work
works in "the city-Bridge
the outfit. These were tagged town-and is
is perhaps from the suburbs or a country district so
at $2.20 (9s 2d), she takes her lunch in the city.
had On totalling how much She also has to set aside small
been spent, our business giri sums for entertainment, holidays
realised that she had $4.00 (£1 and if possible, savings. In
Os 8d) lett over after completing other words, she has to watch her expenditure with 34 carla for her £12 outfit is a crease her out, so she decided to 'get
eye.
BEACH DRESS. TO GO
WITH BIKINIS
"Pampa", by Ledoux-Sports," is a short beach dress colourful Mexican design. Worn underneath is "a bikini
bathing BallAgence France-Presse,
The material she
selected
resisting spun linen in a very
quary to her
brown
rich shade of red which is most set of imitation pearl acces- sories which could be worn with She did not attempt most of her wardrobe when the buy an off-the-peg dress for rhinestone accessories could not be used. The single-strand pearl fear that the better part of her
£12 would be utilised. The ecklace cost her 4s od, the ear- price of the material is $1.25 (5s rings 45 0d, and the bracelet 63 4d) per yard. She purchased 34, a total of $3.42 (145 36).
her $4.48 (18% Bd).
three and a half yards costing
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The style selected is a sleek one-piece. It has sleeveless
Her bill for the outât was:— top with a square neckline and
£ s. d $ inverted pockets in front. A Material, trim- belt of the same material cm- mings phasised the waist.
tailoring
Shoes
and
3 60 15 84
2 10 10
16 8
10 5
To trim this dress she pur- Hat chased 1 yards of pretty Handbag white guipure lace at $4.00 (163 Gloves... 0 4 2 8d) a yard costing her $4.80. Rhinestone. (£) and two dozens of rhine- stones at is 6d.
Her dressmaker charged her $8 (£1 5s (d) to make the dress thereby bringing the total cost
to $15.84 (23 63 (d).
necklace.
bracelet and earrings Hose Pearl necklace, bracelet and earrings
88862
1 00
2 12 1 12 50
9 22 20
1433 42
Total: £11 13 7 $58 08
After that she did a spot of She next decided that a pair cheating for our busy shopper of white court shoes would be was still left with $1.34 (6% 5d) most suitable for this outfit and when she had finished her shop- to complement her wardrobe, so ping in an 80 degree Fahrenheit she selected a pair with a heart
So temperature. she sought design cut out in front The seclusion in a restaurant where price for her shoes is $12.20 (22 she purchased a hamburger and 10s 10d). Her handbag cost her malted milk for 54 cents (28 38) $4.90 (£105)
Her next stop was the cinema
A small white straw hat was to see a cinemascope movie, the selected by our wise shopper: Latest in Barbados and this cost Once The hat is plain at the back and her 55 cents (2s 3d).
Inside the cinema she purchased HET halo-type front. It was chosen for its practicability and a chocolate for 24 cents (is 0d) andriness The cost is $4.00 and was left with the handsome (16s 88). Her white mesh of 21 cents (100) for bus
fars home. gloves, which are suitable for till-the-year-round purposes, the bought for $1.00 (is 24).
Tony Vanterpool
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