WEEK-END
THEˆ CHINA_MAID, SATURDAY, JULY 27,7 1987.
WOMANSENSE
The Senoras' Secret Of Keeping Cool
By JOY MATTHEWS
THERE'S A CRASH OF blown poppies,
COTTON BY DAY. There were many of thu
THERE'S A CRUSH COTTON. BY NIGHT. IN THE DAZZLING, DE
SUN- FIANT, SPANISH LIGHT THE COOL, CRISP, COTTON DRESS LOOKS AS OUT OF PLACE AS A SEALSKIN COAT.
Tossa, vineyards of gropes, and "full heavily painted ones that told staries of gory deaths in the bull- ring of passionato nights in the strictly for tourists patio are ON Bakerloga tunfes-straight
Or only.
Spanish women do atli bouffant dresses with six inches use tans-1 found that I could of underskirt showing at the hardly do without one ther Eem-ome in plain coloured but they are made to match cottons
like the dark
full- their suite or dresses, Most tope. An
the akirler
pleture, popular were spots and stripes, and uthern straighter
more willi
white backgrounds and culptured.
colours to match their clothes, Personally, I think that the Mort welcome of all was a big Spanish have hit on the secret ion provided for me when I aut of hot weather Smooth, unrufflet
dressing. mouldering under
drier. and fairly fournal for daytime. Bouffant, If you must go to a bullight brilliant, and #herbot-fresh- (I did and never again), don' but not "dressed-up, shining, wear your best black whatever glittering or ultra-sophisticated your feelings about the bull, -by night,
Said a Bmooth, smart servant-happy senorn: "The cotton dress is not suitable for day-wear-not practic- ul. It can be worn for two, three maybe four hours enly.
"Cotton dresses with sleeves are seldom pretty. Without, they are wrong for daytime. Anyway, cotton dresses crease too easily getting in and out off cars." INSTEAD, Spanish women choose linen, tus sore, shantung.
I saw the govere white. linen-suit in the drawing on!' A bird-like Spanish beauty: the buttons were the big pearl baby-coat variety,
And sunching on the cool, viewful terrace restaurant on top of the Manila hotel in Barcelona, the smartest woman there was wearing a stern and stately tunic dress in clotted cream, tus- sore, collarless und prae- tically waistices.
And most practical of all was the white pleated linen skirt worn with a novy blue sailcloth jumper-blouse,
COTTON-CRAZY
BUT BY NIGHT and The night in Spain is really night- (they ask you to meet them for tea at 7.30 in the afternoon), the Spaniards are collon-crazy. At El Cortijo, a white washed farmhouse right spot that packs in every smart Spanish worun in Barceloun, I saw hundreds.
Most popular were full skirted camisole tops and tiny with shoulder straps-h white with bold prints: bursting mari- fruitful blackberries, golds,.
DO'S AND DON'TS
approval from the Spanish man The way to get the glanco of wear a striped onu-picco bathing suit, strapless and atting like a Spanish glove, Besi com- bination is black and white or black and yellow.
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the
hair-
Chiamaco, who Paris The arenas with his youth (he's
at a bullfight.
SEEN IN SPAIN: Bevere white line sult with big pearl baby-coat buttons... a stately tunic dress in cloned cream
collarless and practically waistiess ... bouffant dreasds with six inches of underskirt showing at the hem, same in plain cottons, others straighter and more sculptured.
Sursore,
DRAWINGS BY ROBB
The lobster and chicken dish was the favourite of Doudles Fairbanks, who was there a few weeks ago," and the chot gave me the recipe to try:-
You need lb. lobster, one 2ib. chicken, ono onlon, one tomato, a clove of garlic, Valb, mush- rooms, brandy, salt and pepper to tisto Cut tho chicken and tobrice into four portion's
try
separately in butter,
bugn
la a little brandy and mox- son with salt and pepper. Prepare an American muce in a separate saucepan using the onion, garlic and tomato, which should be wall chopped and cooked in oll or butter. A half bottle of tomato ketchup art lb. of mushrooms can also be added, Next add the, chicken and
the lobster to
sauce-which should be first passed through a sleve-end arrange the mush- rooms on top. Serve very hot. IN DAFFODIL
There's a breath of an English Spring in the heat of a swelter- Ing Spanish Suminer.
The colour that every fashion- ninded girl is wearing now is daffodil yellow, In Вапія Eulalia, the big Spanish fashion house, Baw a lovely 10-year- enly 31), his arrogant, glower- Spanish couple. Again they the tables and boards were old Spanish girl wearing a while style, and his had gone for the built-to look covered in plain white marble pleated skirt, a beautifully aited to see women in dull colours bed-room, and hall had built-in
. hundsome bravery, told me that be loathes, sitting room, dining - room, to give a luxurious air,
cashmere jersey in yellow, u TOW THE Spanish Why with of real pearts nearly down to cupboards of beautifully de- ilqueur, Lost in a glassful of the waist, and a big, black straw corated wood: maple inset with crushed Lee, I tried Green handbag. "When I'm in the arena," sycamore,
Chartreuse served this way--ilt he said, "I can't afford to let
was cool, lingering, and my attention wander and eyo
Inside the cupboards the delicious,
decorated with the pretty women, but the mood walls
enormously primrose-yellow and white- FESTIVE FOOD of the crowd is
If they look spotted wall-paper: the shelves important to me.
ombre and pessimistic-It liey were covered with yellow and
The clish that the Spanish And the prettiest sight of all wear dark colours-It has a bad white cotion, frilled at the front
So I like them at nailed down at the edges, order when they are feeling was a pair of 17-year-old twins efteet on me.
The kitchen was one of the festive is "Langosin con pollo" in palest yellow linen dresses to be gay and not too serious,"
most labour-anving I've BYGG a dish of lobster and chicken with full skirts, tiny, waists, disapproval from any Spanlard The way to get glances of
When I saw him defying seen. in white and red with cooked with a hot, rich, frulty sleeveless, (that old story about
be had black led floors. But in spite sauce,
covering the arms in Spain is wear a bikini, Or buy up the death in Barcelona
I had it myself at the Hostel out), and simple shiny white
court shoes.
The war o get the glance of approval from the Spanish indies -have a pair of their beauti- fully mude penguin shoeg is warte kid splitea with black patent leather.
WOTE
hideous fancy dress straw bats chosen a white satin fuit heavily of the plastle handles on the
embroidered in gold. His cupboard doors, every one of de in Gavina in S'Agaro.
Adu four drops of
When I saw him fasting, not feasting, the day of a fight in a smull restaurant called The Yellow
they import for the British.
THE Spanina way with an favourite eviours are red, white, raclette.
and peacock blue, But off duty water to the-beaten ergs, and his clothes are dull. make it on top of cooked diced potatoes, or French bears, or best of all-globa artichokes aiced and fried in a little butter, There's 1 new fashion In fans in Spain. The old black,
When Glamour Goes
Cary, he had chosen a dark
brown sult. AT HOME
I visited two ontirely different homes in Spain, One was an old family house built high up in the hills looking over the Bay of Barcelona,
-The owner, A well-to-do
without a furniture the chairs.
the built-in cupboards.
Walking through the hilly streets of Palarnos I was entranced by a brilliant reddish brunette in a pale yellow cout with a big cloak collar.
The Natural Hairdo Needs.
A Special Setting
By HAZEL MEYRICK
London. brush out into any style you Want, nid one can copy nt
If
don't pin
Spaniard, had his dining-room TOW on earth do those can
single piece of mobile H top-ranking hair stylists home, too, for these rollers
give you that natural look you can't find any locally, just The rest, and it was French when they set your hair wind your hair over a boilsuge- Empire, was built in. Even the and why is it that when you shaped piece of cotton wood in- pictures were permanent. He try to do it yourself, or go stend. For thick, coarse hair, has chosen a set of paintings of grapes, and each was framed into the little place round the collon wool is best in any case. corner, you emerge from
So if you want to look ke the drier lobster-coloured Gina Lollobrigida, The other home was a new and with dozens of tiny your hair flat in your head-set and modern apartment recently, decorated
curls festooned it on rollers instead. newly-wed sausage
round your forehead? get that popular shaggy halt- I've been asking London's wool along your forthoud at the fringe, place a roll of cotton top hair stylists where the hairline, and curl a few short home hair dresser's go pieces over it, anchoring the roll wrong, why it's so easy to at either and with hair-grips. get that I did it myself look and I've found that
by
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Overboard
By VERONICA PAPWORTH
London. IGHT through the
Rate they have been
tarring bottoms and caulk- ing seams-splicing, swill- ing, scraping and all the other odd-sounding things that chaps simply have tor do before they go to sen.
Now the season is in full swing. Sailing is no longer the sport of kings and tea tycoons anyone can have
a go.
Anyone, that is, with 240 to spare for a dinghy.
Writing as one who had never
set foot on anything less solidi
than a cross-Channel steamer
No full-length looking-glass.
to I have been laiking
wtil I married into sailing, I number of wives who go sulling insist that for a woman it is the the hard way.
Madama, "I think the pretties hudgent is a litle bobble cap
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And to
Eyching coiffure for
Bair sophisticated - the swept into a chignon, fastened the by a jewelled clip, and side hair brushed forward to cover the cars,
the
the secret of success les I can't think why it is, but In the setting. For the trom the moment I enter any way of pinning up your one of London's elegant hair- I shed my haar has undergone a revo- dressing salons lution recently, and not all courage with my cont. That's what I wear-with, all
have caught Muttering firmly, "I don't in the usual way-then cut it. my hair tucked inside it, I add hairdressers
want it cut too short. I can't Trimming the enda takes the a big white sou'wester on top up with it yet.
alford a permanent wave... tightest, trizzlest part of the won't let them give me a cut! away, gives you a more
I am lod, clad in casual effect, frlige...."
ridiculous cotton cape, to the. Italians When the
colour sanctuary DX the maestro On its way to you: a tonished the world with himself.
ringe that stays in, but can be guys Mrs George Mandow, whose husband
Lady their gamin hair styles, From then on the routine is removed In on emergency by Maude. "Groy hair like mine they thought up en depressingly the same, Madame's adding
in bad weather,
"I make myself bandeaux of navy blue velling led at the ribbon," back with a narrow
the place."
Franklin, whose husband
sails
ап
Ram
and
permanent wayo 1
1 chumical to your
didn't colours
They're on sodo ins London at the moment in every It sooms that the more you shade from strawberry pink to
seems to look worse than any tirely new way of getting hair is alwayB · SO thin, su ampoo, Ari inexpensive carian other colour when it's all over hair a way that is now straight, in such bad condites, will keep you the same colour
used in all the top London such a dull colour, that I end for a month or so. "I've given up and bad ming salons. Your hair is not offer up my scalp to him at all. thing to talk about: pin-in kis up wondering why I dared to To dve your trionda some- cut short," says Mrs James wound into snail cunts and Farowell. "And I always take pinned flat like it used to And I always got the cut, tring curly in nil sorts of improbable some of those picated plastic be. Instead, it is lifted want hoods. They don't fatten my from the scalp and combed hair as a headscarf does and round lightweight mesh pay for your, shampoo-set, the mauve, are made of nylon yot they fold into nothing when I'm
ends are more studied the insults, the look surprisingly roal, and kopt Small Tollers, ashore."
more despairing the stylist and in place with the aid of a still pin-curled, but they are
to the more likely you are hair-grip. Me? I just fume-crying Yul wound round the finger, croop
nursing a giant cylindrical fashion, aid inferiority complex. As a postcript to this I must pinned that way.
natural- loo A result? learned that lashings, of cleans-
that you ing milk and tissues are a MUST add that I cleo conmulled three
"there's never enough water old salts (female) of the ocean looking hairdo
racing world. TT a wise woman never Hero
their comments: limited supplies of running gour to non without a sliff wire ornie's no time to worry over water, wardrobes, retiring rooms clothes brush-goodness known
"The best thing Dad's look" and everything else a woman why everybody wear navy-ite is to forget you'tu a woman and mixes when the ham't got it. the worst ever for collecting muck in with the man. They
fluit and dust,"
won't thank you for any glamour THE HARD WAY
Blus
You're lucky it you
least glamorous of all sports,
In fact, it sometimes comes dangerously near to being down.
right sorald.
I am not thinking of dreamy
day trips on glant-size yachts with masses of head-room, un-
I am thinking of stoggering to and fro in a crouching position
of washing in 2. couple inches of water and whistling at the time to let them know they can't come in... of sleeping in your clothes because is too rough and you are too tired to struggle out of them
..of no
A MUST
Pooling their views 1 have
THAT a Terylene and worated
• Brynner.
STU
skirt is the answer to all shore can keep tidy-I can't,” going problems-particularly Soo what I ZOPROT white one in summer.
À REVIVER Quite the foot hot weather tip
via: I bevo ever, bonn Fakespoonful of SALT in
THAT jeans are more sensible than shorts-"you get so many bumps and scratchen"
THAT you must take clothes a glass of cold water when
chance to get the tangles out of you can put on without the you're tired" your hair.. no full-length slightest adjustment-1's ke looking-glass, no room to hang a dressing in the dark really, no
This good advios cuate from a
dress up and constant cries and chance to see it a thing is doctor. So I didn't say what I shouls from above for more hot draped right or flod properly thought but that's what you
givo to make people #ick.”
tea or coffee or cocon and "how long before the next meal?".
Bome wornon cope with it all and look wonderfull
Some cope with it all -- and DON'T,
H: How to keep one's hair tidy is
major problem:
"It's either a crew cut or rats tails" mys Mrs Douglas WilJÓS, whcem' husband Festa Jaile
I tried it instead and is a butter, plok me anger than ford
Tho
out
A new way to the 迂 you'ro
д
naturl home
The remedy for soft, floppy
can permanent fan: Wave your hale hair pour a dia of bear over your head while you're rinsing it. You'll find it gives the hair mora 'body', makes it curler to. I you haven't ally beer,
sot,
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1957 YOUR LEAN YEAR?
Around about the and of December most of us began to show definita signs of schizo- phrenia, sometimes known under its other nativa-of Nav Year Resolutions.
hair
Our personalities split in two and the angel wrote a long fier of the acta of discipline, salf-denial and charity it would i accomplish in the coming twelvemonth.
On January we rose immedi- ately the klarm rang, touched our toes, performed deep bres thing exercises, drank our tax without sugar and actually smiled at our breakfast mates. And the hopes we entertained! "One month from now, by dine of doing without over- rich cakes, sugar and sweets, wa shall have a figura like = fashion_model." Sanity and
the Awful Truth returned circa Jan. 2. 'Naver', we said, com pensating ourselves for the previous day's excessive and Impossible strain by sampling a iplie of buttered scones, 'never shall we regain our girlish ngures.'
If that is the kind of fate which overtook your attempts at weight-reducing you should try Pty's Fabian Slimming Method, The principle of the "Fabien Slimming Mothod is an old a the bills of Roma iuuall—far it įtakos its name from Quintus
Fabius, the general who subjected Han- nibel to war on the "naver-never'system, His'do-le-gradually" tactics reduced. Han- nibal's weight-and they will do the same for you.
The strength of The Method lies in the fact that it treats you not ar an angel but as a mortal woman.
PLJ
It sells you not to wage pitch. red battles against your body's long-established cravings. In- staid it, says, Do gradually without the foods you know to be fattening, it also says, Enlist your natural uities: PL) lemon juice, for instance, taken in warm water dally before breakfast without-sugar, and a little (equally regular) exercise to help you face life briskly.
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