THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1955.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
GIRL de LUXE Italian designers offer new ideas for bringing your wardrobe
• A new phrase arrives: Gin de Luxe. A new orgument | starts up: What is the ideal feminine figure? From Chapman Pincher comes this evidence from sixty American girls who answered the question: "What is your idea of Below he gives The perfect feminine measurements?" the quite surprising story of what they would like to look like compared with how they look now.
THS
US is the American woman's iden of the ideal female figure not based on the distorted views of artists, dress designers, or doctors, but on the opinions of the women themselves.
It la far removed from the flat-chested, stork-legged. Agures
of the fashion plates.
Weight: 5ft. 5}las.
Best
Miss Perfect America
should
35ing.
be Sft 5ina, tall and weigh
enly 8st, 10lb. She shoud have a 35in. bust and hips, with a 24in, waist
Hips
35iox
THE QUIZ
no obtain these figures Two
psychologists quizzed 60
smart college girls at Emory (Georgia) University and then resuits-reported averaged the
in a British scientiae journal recently.
They found surprisingly strong agreement about "ideal measurements,
The paychologists Dr Sidney. Jourard and Dr Paul Sccord. then measured the girls to see how far their real-life body ...proportions were different from
their ideas.
T
THE QUEST
THEY report that in the case
.of every measuremen except the bust the girls would like to be substantially smaller than they are.
The women would almost. all prefer smaller waists, hips, legs, ankles and feet. But they would like substantially bigger busts
Waist 24ina.
Weight: 8st. 10.
A warning: They believe that these beauty ideals are so dif- cult to obtain that, by hankering after them, women are doomed And what is the psycho- to feelings of inferiority which logists, comment Cr all this? affee: them mentally.
Don't Nurse The Baby
If You Have Chronic Illness
these monthly periods do
after the birth of a baby.
these
of the previous season up-to-date
Keeping Up With Fashion
Is Easy
By Gina Popesina
Italy.
RYING to keep up with
TRYING
fashion can be very frustrating, especially if your budget, is small. No.. sooner do you buy one or two garments in the latest line than it is superceded by another. However, unless you have unlimited means and discard your complete wardrobe each season, you have to think of some way of bringing the clothes of previous seasons up-to-date.
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The Italian designers are parti- cularly kind and considerate in this respect, for they introduce.. much detail interest into their new creations. These can be easily copied and used to make last season's clethes currently fashionable.
Study some of these details in the sketches and see if they give you any ideas for your wardrobe. Many of them are very simple and would require only simple alterations to existi
existing garments and small outlay.
For instance look ai the tailored suit in dark blue wool fabric by Marucelli The neck- line falls to the waist in a "U" in front and has been an in with a front of crisp white pique with a little bow at the neck. How easy it would be to adapt your match bex jacket in this way.
Then there is Schuberth's small, striped bolero in fine wool fabric. This is very short, with long sleeves, a little bow at the edge of the centre back, and a white collar edged with velvet, This designer showed it over a summer dress of blue wool gabardine
Guidi
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Manual
Simonetto
softened,
If you bought a suit last spring with a sailor collar, how about of smartening it up with a
cing pleated chiffon and adding little bows to the points of the collar them in bows in front. If you to waist-level and then wider To make your boxy jacket up-
Venezian! as used by in front as
in have one of those loose, casual out to form a basque.
to-date, give it a not this black wool tallared mult. coats which is always By- Guidi uses a double cuff on a blouse backed effect by making JUST about every mother tegin until Bve to seven months Dan't take the pleating right to ing open in the wind, and you wool flannel blouse and a two- come darts on the hem at the
No the edges of the collar, but make were
of putting thinking
a plece suit There are some mätter when they begin, there is it about 11⁄2 inches smaller all fastening on it, something like me tightly larger than the one
of lightweight wool back so that it rests snugly on her baby.
twood, the lower cuff the hips. Carosa showed jackets no need to stop nursing..
the outer edges. round
this "exceptions, of course,
would be an ideal solution. being
Hike these in
in her latest collection during Nervousness
Another Idea from this Apart from making your coat above it
of lightweight wool fabrics, and it's If you are a new mother, you periods may reduce the amount designer is to have the cuff of ultra-fashionable,
much
This There were many short and full they looked very smart. probably should not burse your of milk in the breasts for a few your suit finished off with a rib- easier than making a button and skirts on models in the latest style is not really suitable for the baby if you have tuberculosis or days. And your baby may be bon laced as on your shoes and buttonhole fastening. There is collection
She would woman. of Simonetta, but, shorter a.chronic weakening illness such come a little restless because of tled in a bow instead of the no need
thread as heart or kidney trouble, severe
the ribbon realising that such sitirts only look better in a suit with a more button and buttonhole through the fabric of the coat really salt women with slender tailored jacket. your nervousness.
classic anaemio, diabetes or cancer.
But he will get plenty to eat fastening.
You can just sew it on the figures, she showed a number of Capucci has given the new
surface.
models with controlled fullness If you have a contagious dis- from nursing. You won't have
him any additional long-torso look to a perfectly Another novel idea, this time over the hips, usually in thes ease such as scarlet fever, your to give
plain, straight topcoat, by putting from Elza Volpe, is a tie at the form of pleating (as illustrated baby should be kept away from milk.
two bands of narrow, threaded high neck of a blouse or suit here) but flaring out from knee you entirely If you are not too
--H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D. | ribbon round the hips and tying jacket, the ends of which fall level to hem.
ill, you should make every effort to keep up your milk supply, Empty your breasts by hand until you recover from your ill- ness and can nurse your baby.
If you become pregnant again| while nursing, your infant, it may
advisable to step nursing,
be
-him.
Too Great A Strain
Be Cool And Smart In Warm Weather
London
By DOROTHY BARKLEY
r:
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From this same house comes another novel detail suggestion which you might like to copy-- a large square pocket with a which is fringed dap, deep! tucked inside a little belt, just the width of the pocket.
The really classic example of how the latest kleas can be used clothes is in a on cit-of-date pinafore dress which is part of
by ensemble
and wool with Eng
a silm sheath in brightly-coloured
am Awards Ha In Britain, most people buy
blue a de- THERE stems to be
an evening dress that they can
straps of prossingly defeatist attitude
wear all the year round,
felt. These towards hot weather clothes. It beach where it is meant to be
This year the tables have been it is only recently that
are attached to the dress in Now don't misunderstand. is said that if you dress to trel worn, but quite out of place in turned and there are cool but have begum to buy a dress
novel, way-like men's braces. Pregnancy has no adverse effect cool, you can't possity look town..
smart styles for every occasion, specially for summer evenings. Doy
is cut so low that it But many smart.
This model is of on breast milk.
Perhaps half the trouble has
For town wear there are two Nowadays there are plenty doctors believe that it is tool
Come the first hot weather, been that sufficient variety of
Of extremes,
the formal and the ideas for warm weather evening has to be worn over a blouse in much of a strain for a mother to and people throw fashion sense styles has not been available in informal.
cutfits and some of them might this case, of honey wool mislin- but it could be cut higher and nurse one baby at her breast the winds. Sleeveless cotton the shops. More often than not, In the formal group
come appeal overseas.
wem without a blouse. And re and
at the same time nourish
dresses, transparent blouses. if you go to look for a plain Atted
cotton coats, matching Most popular material is another within the womb.
that although this member, And dresses and jackets, and duster satinised cotton, which is glam- the essence of "Make Do-And- flimsy sandals in these they may tailored town dress you' think
out- coats your doctor will also
feel cool, but hardly smart. A nothing but casusi beact.
contrasting crous enough for a gala occa-Mend it is also the height of advise
against nursing you
dresses. Where patterned fabrics sion, is not too expensive, and fashion! have a
a breast abscess. He will, sleeveless dress looks fine on the fits.
at least, tell you not to use the... infected breast. You may find an ice bag helpful in checking If that Tails, the infection.
penicilür. usually will clear it up,
Some mothers make the mis- take of stopping breast feedings because of menstruation. Usually
Household Hints
Small scratches on walnut fur- niture may be removed success- fully by cutting a walnut or Brazil nut in half and rubbing the scratch vigorously with the freshly cut nut. The oil from the kernel will refinish wook
the
Decorate the exterior of an empty coffee tin with cut-out flower or other colourful pictures. Then cover with thinned white shellac. Fisten an old thread spool to the cover, coat it with shellac and you have an attrac- tive cookie tin.
As a rule, the hems of ready- made dresses and skirts are SOWNI loosely Examine them before wing the garment and rehem and strong thread.
If récessary with seture stitches
While cotton is chosen for this afternoon dress with soooped
ont neckline, and durably picated ukirt, By Corvette.
LEGO SA
that
-
Over
are chosen, gay
more popular shadow prints.
is true.
Aze most of Creases show up more sensibly stiffened
with on a plain fabric if it is underskirt. coloured, so frs: choice here is
Another favourite in the
colours are yet can easily be washed at sembre, home. Both short and long Where
plain dresses are being made fabrics are chosen, the reverse this material,
them
New
STOPS NAIL BITING
effectively Invisible paint checkr İnsanitary diriguring imbit
If your child peredato fri the dis-
easily
a navy or black, partnered with cotton family is the no-iron furing and insanitary habit of nall crisp white accessories.
One of the best
on
cotton. I have seen it made up bing, you can now help him for
her? to stop it, Jah pelat outfits for to short evening dresses, its while the new harmless Hould town is the matching dress and pattern given extra sparkle by, which usually stops, the habit in 3 jacket. Usually the dress is being picked out with rhine- camisole style for off-duty wear, topped with a tailored
stones.
jacket for office wear. Febric NO FUSSY DETAILS
can be cotton, linen or
In the informal
blouses and skite.
shan-
gruta",come",
Whatever outfits you choose, Many you have a constant battle with Cultivate a 0001 people fall into the trap at the climate,
by avoiding fussy scerning a single blouse-and- appearance akirt outät. But if you take a details and choosing
Thom
is smooth and un-
cool- and lightweight the Paris girls, the looking prin result can be surprisingly chic. fabrics
by aiming for an outs They choose a penci skirt in Line black linen or barathen, top it cluttered; and by having for with
artificial ered or blouse, Howes that are as fresh as a cotton
Every and circle the waist prith 1 plain black belt. And this kind daisy, and clean cotton gloves. of cutât em also be economical. Easily the best-seller in hats
is the orclet of Bowers infro TAILORED OUTFIT duced by Dior
Summer weather and copied may
by For your afternoon or garden chain stored
comes exclusive
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Your
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$4
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