THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23,” 1957.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
VALUE for £500
IF
-it teaches a girl what to
say at cocktail parties
By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
London.
wero Beventeen you and had £500 to spend, what would you do with it? You'd be a mug if you spent it on a London season.
has
The compact kitchenelle boon proved a dismal fallure, and most women would sacrides space in any other part of the house to Leave a large, hospit- avle kitchen.
and
This week I've seen two exciting new kitchen, Go round the world with tyre both large. child, or buy a cor, or learn to fly, or get to America, or go to A COOXING
foreign university.
CENTRE
Get some money.
value
for
your
Now that the dowagers aze sharpening their knives for the ech Season 1015 coming they are arranging stance tank, The SOCIBI bul squeezing chavers, and making li
ul
Fo..biy
YOURH 23174 Wh hasured to be liste--I thought
I would porky with two of last your's dels.
GOOD MARRIAGE MARKET?
"What did you really get out of asked, "I the Season vill a good marriage market?"
"Oh, no, we were a disuus Jot. my two of us are married
Jacqueline Samuel arch Penctope Drew. And look nt Hobo Bigrist. She's got married mahout A senson"
"Did it help you meet people?"
"Oh yes, we met lola of people, but, I must say, always the same pople. You longed
for a new fure,"
you le
ages?"
Any Inngu-
"No, we mean to, but
didn't have
only
enough
10 month
time. We
we could
it tenth in Parls and
Florence, Not Journ
nything
properly."
ALAN GORE. A young architect who is making a lame
in kitchen planning, bus (wfajlie en the misi alicien in England to have a "bag cente is being buit to an old manor house in Berkshire,
This is an island unit consist-
a cookes, two sinks, and
Just $ulled
nutdute of the kitchen.
Whe
Alan Gore elalins that it saves the housewile hundreds of steps a day.
tools are to hand from eller side of the unit,
Shelves, for knives, groceries,
always within paris, etc, are
& reach.
'Taps over the sink swivel round to the table if water meded for mixing,
And there is a pleasant feel- Ing of space. The outside wall
is left free for a huge window, and there is room for coinfurt- able kitchen meals,
THE GADGET OF GADGETS
I'HILIP
HARBEN has just moved into a new house with really big kitchen. "I would have the just large," he sald, "even if I weren't a pro- fessional cook,"
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He gave me one hot piece of your parenta enjoy <wa, All his pans are uned themselves?”
with a new substance to whten "Yes, mummy adored it, ex-
nothing will or can stick, nut cept for
nell her even glue, having to
These pans should brooch. And Daddy groused it be on the market before the end bit at parting with his guns."
the year. "What about the time since?"
Other good features of his "Well, thn, is the hitch, We've kitchen are:
felt rulor flat, and
We can't
two ovens, (11c
Buys any
get the right sort of jobs, Babs cook who is doing more Is a sort of secretary and ternich incals needs two.)
theu
in interior decorating, bul it A row of 30 tool clips above isn't really soul-satistying."
"Would you de It all over again?
"Un ycs, rather. You see, before we came out, we never knew what to my at cocktail parties.
"Now, we can always think of something.
Awful bad value for £500. LARGE, HOSPITABLE KITCHEN
the cookers, holding kitchen knives, spoons, carving torks, whisks, graters, squeezers. Everything possible is hung up raller than slowed away in drawer.
Durry shelf for spices for grinding your own curry pow- der. (Also essential for good Curry:
a stono mortar peslic.)
YOUR SPRING SUIT is good if it's off-the-shoulder, - good if it's blue, good
if it's casual. Your spring accessories; beads and a tailored hat, Frank Usher a suit of corded blue wool is strictly a dress and Jacket. Red hat with polka dots by Simone Mirman,
"Is there anything you're not and pleased with?" I asked him.
"Yes, I'm afraid I've got the A dishwasher and a rubbish cooker and the sink too far grinder.
apart. There's too much walk- ing. I may have to make a change."
Philip Harben is not a gadget
WATCH this important change manine. But he says the rub-
in the design of our homes. The kitchen is getting much Larger.
bish grinder (price about £53) is worth all your other house- hold gadgets put together.
Confirmation of Alan Gore's idea that your cooker and your sink can't be too near together.
LEARN THE TRICK OF THE HEAVY-LIDDED-LOOK
IT'S FAKE BUT FUN
ONE good bit of beauty news
• Third, get a for spring: there's none of paintbrush and this nonsense about being na- some tube mas tural. None of those depressing enra nnd again. Instructions about a touch of lip outline stick and a dusting of powder eyes, bul this and off you go,
This season your skin will be golden and your eyes enormous all gloriously false. More eye make-up is being used in Paris than ever before
your
time draw
On
your Hino ABOVE ว cyc only, and make it from eighth to quarter inch thick. Continue the Une outwaris and upwards beyond the corn
corner of As I believe that inside every the eye, tapering it off Its you housewife there's an odalisque go. The exact slant of the line struggling to get out, I'll here is a matter for experiment.
recip оп how the doe-eyed, This brushwork gives a much sloe-eyed, dope-eyed look is more professional finish than if done.
you use a pencil only.
First, outline your eyes with • Fourth, darken your brows a sharp peneli, getting as near with pencil or mascara, extend- the lashes as you can without Ing them with pencli ir screaming. This hurts at first, but soon gets easy.
necessary. Nover make the
brows too dark or too hard.
Brams
by ET
stage, you won't be able to see what you are doing with the outline penell or brush.
whole process
ecoms
Second, put shadow on your Fith fand not before) lids, carrying the colour out a mascara your lashes with two This Hitlo beyond the lids, but never or three coats, brushing after highly technical to begin with upwards from the lids towards each coat with a dry brush. I Then, one glorious day, you get the eyebrows,
you do this job at an earlier the knack.
KEEPING ARMS PRETTY
to arms and you can't
BE
DEAUTY'S Issuing a call
By JEANNE D'ARCY
Stand erect
ignore it if you'd look
Erma hanging
the
more
pretty in dress-up clothes, posely at sides. Bring arms than exercise is needed. Make Arms are going to show togellier over head, moving
via
shoe-string straps, strapless
ward action to exercise upper
musclus On the underside of the arm
To keep armis - pretty,
sure skin is smooth and soft, Loo, Check elbows especially! to become discolour- ed if
Uso thick The "windmill" is another brun to give good arm-improver.
briskly. Clap hands together.
gowns, Work up to 30 times over those with mire hints of a period of two weeks,
alcove.
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shoulder. Repeat 6 to 8 times for a starter. they tooks & nightly |
Do your's lock prolty?!-
goingen skin.
If arms are soft and flabby, Standing erect, stomach pulled help. they're no beauty, asset. Better in, shoulders squared, bring aro
did'n soft
If
you,
here
EXPERTS LIST TIPS FOR
fro
BLANKET BUYING
of
[PARIS Fashion Front...a
report by: Faith Shipway
The New Boy Makes A Big Hit
Paris.
TP and coming star of the Paris collections is
a brilliant now designer, 38-year-old Guy Laroche, who has just oponed his first Couture House. Buyers from all over the workl flocked to his show and gave. him a big ovation. The audience' were disarmed by hls simple decor-striped beige and while curtains made from mattress ticking. and his confession that one dress, a black showth in crepe with a complicated neckline, "gavo me a lot of trouble."
de
INFORMAL APPROACH
Helping him are the "Jeunesse doree" of Paris soetely. Anne the Palfieu, daughter of former Ambassador to the U.S.A. cails the numbers in faultless English; society girl Mario. Claire de Flers received the Press; while Joan d'Arcangues, who started the Tuesday night debutante diniere at Maxim's, showed people to their schls,
Two young models, Zoe and Jackle, both from designer Givenchy, presented the easy- At clothes, Jackie is well known the stand-in for Audrey Hepburn, whom she strongly resembles.
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Laroche's collection is gay and young. He has an informal approach to dress, and stops his collection at short-skirted dinner-into-dance numbers of billowing floral taffeta or glim printed chiffons.
Coals and suits of pastel checks and bright shetlands follow the slim, unfitied look, Bo well, cut that when the body moves the clothes stand still.
BACK
INTEREST
Shoulders
are natural with Inset sleeves. Skirta die either slim or have deep klit pleating, often repeated on coats, where the tightly lower waist is indicated by wide aloited belt. Day ensembles are topped by lite matching berets or mob caps, worn to the back of the head..
Guy Laroche has chosen the bloused back or panel as the motit of his collection. Back the interest is given to his straight
Champaign, 11. Laundering quality of blanket buying confuses blankets is reported excellent hanging chiffons by a blown up particularly those made if they аге manufactured full panel effect, sometimes lied from the new synthetic fibres, properly. The fibres should not to the dress, sometimes hang-
ing free. from shrink or mat when washed. Rome tips University Illinols textile A good quality nylon binding
Two striking dance dresses helps mark a good blanket, And follow this line, one in ladybird rlon, acrilan and dynel are since the fibres aro synthetic red and black dotted chiffon, trade names for some of the they аге
and if the other a bright orange hp- new fibres, and blankets mado Improperly noth,
will fluff or hugging jumper top worn over a from them are usually very fuzz easily. If the nap Tubs very short, full white chiffon warm and serviceable but light of easily it wil rub off in skirt. in weight.
Guy Laroche recently spent general use and in laundering. Weave of the fibres should be If you prefer wool blankets, two years in New York, studying characteristics: the mechanics and technique of tight and firm, and the nap look for three
and the trade. washability,
This and his talent should support the weight of mothprool, the blanket and not pull out. nylon binding-Unlied PTIES, should carry him fat.
The lathor |
and, if there
disc!
# 100
Dip
get to work firming up those arms to shoulder level at sides, nets ad a mild muscles: A few unity ozor, then bring them together in elbow, in the close will help no and front of you, then upward and of the lemons, rubbing, gemily.
To slim wrists, and upper dowo agun.
Dry arm carefully after nema, try this routină just Über This extreide is good ihr re- washing, especially in cold wow-
beds
Yatwa, too) - Start with a downs ther; ta krok"-sBOO
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