THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1956,
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
HOW TO BE HAPPY
(not to mention successful)
-AT WORK
LISTEN to End Chanello,
"Too many giris put all their money on their books,” she says, then have nothing loft for good accessories."
one of London's BUCCOBA women. Blondo, blue-eyed, and pretty enough to be a I endorse this point whole fashion model, this young
heartedly. Nothing spoils the general appearanco more than women - In hor eurly badly kept or unsuitable shocs. thirties is general mana- No matter the pressure of ger and chief fashion buyer work a short break In the frush for a group of 82 dress air each day is essential. That shops.
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In 1946 she joined the group Lo-a-week window- dresser Within 18 montha she rated anil Feat four-figure xalary. Today she is one of the bichest-paid
the fashion Heid.
EL
Watnen
In
"Goret grooming Reis a ghi a long way in business life," ALYN MIS Chanelte. "When I hire stait myself I choose the appli- eun who has token trouble with her appearance.
uno
dresses belang to week-ende.”
La Mira Chanelle's objective, though she confesses that she lunch hour on a coffee and a works through an occasional
bun.
This mid-day break is im- for health and the portant
she freshening of the ml,"
**Tirodnosa and bad belleves, hopjih Bro crut of place in business,"
and and
And manners
thou
Another know she'll
point I discussed be consulentious about her work
with tiris successful business woman was office monners. as well."
Dark or neutral colours for "Tact in business lito con got business life is
of a girl farther than brains," says
her frutton rules. Flowered skirts, Enid Chanello. That includes white blouses and low-necked knowing the right things to
better left unsaid. understanding of moods of employers, colleagues and customers."
She thinks, too, that home Personally she likes dress- problems should not be brought
into the
ofice,
Working col- leagues are just not interested in home affairs.
A break
maker suits with which she can chango ascessories.
Clanking jewellery and sloppy shoes are two of Miss Chanelio's office "don'ts."
IN THE OFFICE—
you
Do
SMILE
or
GROWL?
ARE you the smiling girl
behind the typewriter
Does
- an office grump?
1th-
your job bring you terest, satisfacilon, pleasure anti friendship, or do you as just a dreary regard it a necessity because you need
money?
the
Here is heart-searching quiz for
CUETH girl who
works th on office: 1
should reveal how much she is getting, happiness
life:
missing, in her working
Answer: YES or NO
1^"{ can't wait for the week end." Oan you honestly say that on Wed- nesdays you NEVER mako that remark?
2-If there's an extra ruah, are you happy to stay late or take work home?
3-Ar
you on good
terms with the majority of your colleagues?
4.--Do you dress and groom yourself each morn- In a carefully
YOU BLA would for an evening date? 5. Have you a plan for your career and a definito abjectlyn in view, not jud regarding your job stopgap illi marriage?
Do you regard other
AB
*
people's jobs objectively
and not And your отл dreary by comparison?
For YOUR rating the key in Col.
see
tha
And what does she think are most important offico virtues?
Tect first," she says, "hen adaptability, appreciation, team spirit and willingness to underinko any job, that needs doing.”
Picnic lunch
After talking to Miss Chanctly I raised her point of the import- ance of a mid-day break with my colleague Helen Burke,
Lots of girie have a packed lunch. I know, but Mics Burke insists that it is quite possible to prepare a nourishing plenle lunch. 1 lg the coffee-and-coke macks that do the harm.
Here she gives some Luggas- Hons for Eck lunches when canices or restaurant meals are not possible:
Tike, every day, some kind of uncooked, such as heart ealed. of lettuce, firm heart of cabbage, a whole tomato, ploce
sweet cucumber, half a green
you pepper-Indeed, any green like.
a
Wash and drain the greens, then place them in a fransparent where they wlu plastic bag keep fresh, crisp and, above all, cool. No dressing is required but, If you must have one, buy a tube of mayonnaise and dot the sulad with it, en branche, and eat it from the hand.
An extra
Нето aro the
Bnd Office Habita that Miss Chanello names as the most irritating to
Add n bultered roll and employers:
plece of cheese, either a hard TELEPHONE one or cream cheese. Or gril |--PERSONAL
CALIS that last too long or
an extra rasher of bacon yhen occur too often. If it is essen- you make breakfast, fold it and Bp it into a split roll. Or mash tial, make it brief.
and season a hard-boiled exk IN -UNTIDINEAS
and
mix into it Just enough AND SURROUNDINGS. my
mayonnaise or salad dressing to That includes the cluttered make a pasto. together with desk where nothing can be chopped parsley or chives or a found, the spilling
handbag little paprika, This alling and shopping basket. and belter carried in small jar
WORK
snacks and coffee cups too much in evidence. -HAIR - COMBING AND MAKE-UP in the office This coka sloppy and un- business-like, If Couching up is necessary it should be done in the cloakroom and a small beauty
kept there for C350 that purpose.
La
a
and spread "on the spot."
Finish with
banane, a peach, a pear, an orange or any fresh fruit available. Such daily lunch takes up little space. MONDAY
What kind of hobby should you have?
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continuing a
for women by
EILEEN ASCROFT
series
ENID CHANELLE: "Tact takes you farther than brains.”
And something else to remember is
WHY THEY
HIRED HER...
PUT the question: "Why
you
hire
sour
did secretary?" to three busi N1253 110TI Here are their replies: 1-She has 腐植
attractivo
speaking volet, In- portant when receiving visitors or answering the telephone.
2–1 knew sho would be good-tempered with mo and her other colleaguEN and not bring temperament into the office because her smile was frank, friendly and unforced.
good-looking 3-She was
and smart, bus with
good taste, nothing flashy.
If YOU went looking for a new job tomorrows would prospective employers SLY the same alco things about
you?
I
H
RELAX...
TOWEVER happy you are in saya Joseph A. Kennedy in an your working life you must Interesting book on the art of have relaxation from it. That relaxation.
women
is why, I believe, married: The business man or WOOLLEN are frequently more who practiaca relaxation, be successful in their careers than balloves, is healthier, more likka- their unmarried colleagues. blo and far more successful.
He gives these five rules for relaxation for the office worker:
Relax
your shoulders and your jaw." Too much tight determination of chin, jaw and shoulders puts people on the defensive with you.
Their homes and husbands offer a completo change of sur- roundings, company and thought after working hours. And be cause of it, they bring a fresher approach to their job.
Do not erect subconscious defences against imagined hos tility." Expect people to bo friendly and you're more ilkely to gentle persuasion.
relaxing
S'T
Most of the successful busi- ness women with whom I have discussed the problem of relaxa- tion agree on this point: "No work taken home unless it is light reading or on ethergency." 3.A smile has a
All of them, too, advocate an effect on the other person out-of-offles hobby that gives well no yourself." This tends to pleasure and mental refresh- break down defence mechanism. Don' be 阳 eager Relaxation is not something beaver." Strain never impressce you do: it is rather something and people react more quickly you don't do, Doing requires to gentle persuasion. effort, and effort makes for tensión. Many troubles today, both psychological and physical. stem from the inability to relax,
ment.
SMART LOUNGING CLOTHES DESIGNED
TH
BY PARIS COUTURIERS
By MARIE FONTAINE
THERE is a lot to be designed for this purpose and in suld for changing one's which you can greet unexpected
callora with utmost confidence
work-a-day attire for com- in your appearance.
fortable clothes in the even- During these cold winter ing. It has a psychological evenings you cannot be comfort- effect. It refreshes you, makes it easier for you to relax, and gives your other (There is clothes a rest. nothing which will ruin 3 straight skirt so quickly as lounging about in an arm chair.)
Changing
into comfortable clothes, however, does not mean
eble if you are not warm, 50 choose wool for your casuni clothes. Tho
current fashion trend decrees greys, blacks and muted colours for daytime wear. Thus you can give vont to your love of colour by choosing bright rod, green, blue, multi-coloured de signs, stripes, chocks or tartans for evening wear,
Go in for pasy-Atting clothes that do not restrict movement, that you have to don the oldest especially soft fabrics such and most disreputable Items in hand- your wardrobe,
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or machino-mada knit-
To be dressed wear or cry. comfortably you do not have to Here are a few idons taken relinquish smartness, for these from the current Parts Collee days there are plenty of clothes tions of suitable clothes in which
to relax.
From the boutique of Chrie- tian Dior comes a housecoat in thick woollen material from Pyrenees. It is cut like a
the
E the only opening
that through which the head passes. Another housecoat In the same style from this designer is knitted in thick.pink wool in a mesh pattern.
Delightfully soft and comfort- ablo
the hand-knitted dresses in cobweb-fine Shetland wool in an unlimited variety of designs by Anny Blutk
1. MADELEINE DE RAUCH; In while ribbed Jermy this Lelansemble consiale of a blouse and Jodhpur-și le trousers. TRE noget and matching suede, hali ara:in a light tobnose brown colour.. 2. HOBERT. DE GIVENCHY "Bier-to-wasy in the Hooverfilling blouse at naiurai ooloured "week" JRINTALANGA drawn in at the neck and silfur lips by leslier'
Great use is made by Prume of hand-woven woollens in numerous novel designs and harmonies of colour, Thea PTO used for skirts with long match- fing stoles, with swester & {uous)- ly in black or white) te` com=" plate the eflæemblee, and
Dazzling but very
adress
a roll coller and re
the
neck, in
In a larguard deki
bands of MIN
white
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lounginst ensemb
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of Jodhar
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maichin
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Time to think of what to wear on the beach,
in and
-outila to room your
mtalent Err
Black
from
nime colour, SKAN DEHSESIHATAN RAYA SIN TOMETHIN wn ether thigh pocket sortinned
BDon't make an effort
to
get the other fellow to relax." Just relax yourselź und hơʻli da the same,
Relax and Lips. 108. 6d. Rider and Co.
QUIZ KEY (see column one): Bbx "Yes! pnswers you. obviously in the right job and gotting
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most
con**
out of it; five satisfactory
office life, slight room for Improvement; if you rala "ker! four times you are not getting es much out of your business
life as you should,
And If your score is three of less, you are wasting your time You and your employer's too, are probably in the wrong job and should consider a change to.
| something more congenial, even
It it means less money or start- ing in a more junior position.
When applying perfume, remember this-
Easy Does It
By JEANNE D'ARCY DID. You ever sit next to a
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woman in a restaurant bus who overpowered everyone nearby with the overwhelming odour of the pertume she was Wearing?
It happens every day, and it certainly is annoying, If not downright sickening.
why
We can't understand women (8) wear so much per- fumo you can mift them coming a block away or (b) choose a scent thats nauseatingly heavy. But they do
Some of the wort offenders, surprisingly enough, are well- dressed women who show ex- cellent taste in clothes (expen diye one, usually). We don't doubt for a moment that their perfume is expensive, 100, but why don't they economies a bit
We'd like to offer a few sug on the use of perfume. Don't wear heavy perfume during the day or in warm weather. You can put this latter hist swayuunil 1 FOIDE
or summer. A for perfume use in the A-1 hours,
to
per
Baren't conditioned":
Pine
mamque for after the lynch
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