THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, ́1956.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES INTERVIEWS NANCY MITFORD
WHO HAS GIVEN A NEW CATCHPHRASE TO SOCIETY
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PIZTURS BY JOHN OGLE
Biggest beauty news of the Of the more natural colours,
spring is coloured hair,
Biggest uprush in cosmetto sales is in hair sprays, rinsCB, tinis, creams, and shampoos.
AIR colour is probably the most important now beauty Invour clothes in simple
fashion since the cyclamen lip- and sunset teokurs, clean, cons
stick. temporary lines
Serve with boiled potatoes and and rock-hard
Women are The hot fat
their changing woods for heir furniture; and other vegetables, salty,
'-shley
from the pan should be poured hair colour from week to week. as trank ap For the girl who likes clothes “Vr each portion and a spoon- (Hair colour La Dhat are different, Scandinavian ful of black-currant jelly com-make-up, there is nothing sur- fashion has a lot to offer. Misa pletes the dish.
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Britain is taking note of Danish
FURNITURE
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furniture
raincoats in prooted poplins untd lough
Some are
to
reptitious about it.) high-lighting a few streaks of hair. Some are choosing de licato colours, like pink or is apricot, which owe nothing generally made of teak, oak or nature. Some Bro going to These frocks are made in a natural mai gany, all of which salons, and some are mixing the thick, rather coarse kind of are exceptionally hard-wearing palette at home. cotton with a hand-woven look
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Items that look my cyo are:
FOOD
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Among well-known London beauties.
the copper and suburn shades and the honey blondes are in fashion, but the platinum blonde has gone back where she belongs.
it's
TWO:
There dro semi-per- manent rinses that last for about eight shampocs. You can have this at a salon or do it at home; either way, best to choose a colour near your own colour. You can't rinse your hair from dark brown to palo lavender. TIREE: There are temporary
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LADY BEATTY has a Vene-
In addition to all-over colour- tian pink ringe on her dark hair, round table made in
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have become good fashion-this coiffure. butter and bacon are the best in can sit.
is the process whore one or two
With it were dining LADY ROOTES has tortoises strands of hair are lifted out the world, but Scandinavian chairs in natural mahogany, and shell highlights food goes
on chestnut and flated with a lighter colour.
Far beyond this. I these could be stacked on top of hair, and a wide puffed style tried out (and can recommend) each other when not in use. with large waves and no curls. The second picos of coiffure Norwegian got's cheese, Nor-
news is longer, more voluminous woglan flat bread, Danish Cutlery in Swedish stainless
MES DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS hair, like the styles I tho salumi, Swedish herring fillets, steel.
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Sweden, too, a metallight chestnut hair.
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