WEEK-END
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1957.
WOMANSENSE
LOATHE IT? YOU CAN'T
ESCAPE IT
THIS IS
With a belted front, an up-and-down back, the shift dress looke alarming at first glance. But it's a line that grows on you. Here, in scarlet jersey. A Paris adaptation by Corvette suede hat by Mirman.
"S not a false start. It's
IT'S new silhouette.
PARIS
This
is the
length
Narrow or full your skirt COYEES the knon Ly two inches. Note the streared hiplina; the fatter bust. ' A Paris adaptation by Dorvilia.
by ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
There are many hate with
evening dresses,
or
with leopard print, black velvet Paris somebody must work in with black velvet, tweed with August, tweed.
France wouldn't merely run down, I suppose it would stop,
• Parisions talk or nothing else now but the eost of Living, Prices are soaring. Even wine (as staple there as beer to the English) is going up for the arth me this year.
And there are suede hats and fur hats; not last year's Ces- sacks, but delicious, round helmets.
tile
DIA MOSS os diligend a verer for be large, round caffes tebla: 14.js at felt and it ties round the tabla tudi, Bid diep sockits on all gidis will hald wpazines, Baiting, plovika cords and 10. The felt top is just the thing for Carasts.
MARS, NIGEL CAMPBILL has taken on ald hamboo cushaard end biðugl
it up to date. The framework is white › with green liner over the joints and the
panels are covered with wallpaper- splashy french bilse print-to match the walls. A single shell in a deep. black velvet-lived Frame Nemos above
brick
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-(London Express Service).
"Robbing The Cradle"... A Good Beauty Idea
By JEANNE D'ARCY
QO you're expecting a new Use it on hands and elbows, addition to the family and Rub it on to a dry complexion. you're spending the last months Four some in the bath and be of waiting, buying things for sure to use it as a body lubri- Baby. That's where all your cam. money's goinge and you're cut- ting corners on everything --- Including the beauty budget — so Baby enn have the best.
You can't skimp on beauty, but you don't have to do this. We've fours words of good ad- vice for you:
Try robbing the cradle, What we mean is, use baby products for beauty. They do a wonderful Job and, compared to and de luxe dusting powders or the complexion creams, they're
nicely priced.
The French haven't the NOT FOR ME
faintest Idea of comfort. Tapestries, hard glit chairs, and Evening dresses are short and bibpjets are no substitute to full or long and narrow. A low the deep sofas, good beds, of the shift dresses turn up In hospitable fire-places of evening fabrics, fringed and English home, beaded like the twenties, but In Paris, even the grandest they are not everybody's meat, house in basically bleak. Not mine, for one.
A pouched He is the
out-
clanding alternative to the up-
Take baby oll to begin with Marvellous to dry sidni
too, benent
from
Cuticles, baby oll. It keeps them' soft and easy to shape, does away with rough edges.
Baby's medicated powder is something else you can borrow. It has a clean, sweet odour and is just the thing to pat on after, your bath or shower,
SOOTHES FEET
Use it, too, on tired, burning feet and sprinkle a bit on skin that's chared from a clothing rub or shows prickly heat rash.
Still a third baby akd that has beauty uses is the sterile cotton bull. It's handy for removing nail
and-down dress. There are suits HOW TO MAKE A LITTLE-HUSBAND polish and also makes a nifty.
and dresses pouched softly over
the waistlino, which is loosely belied. The tight-belted waist, like the fitted waist, absolutely out.
Sweaters take very kindly to the now line. Guy Laroche has thick, loose sweaters with a
band of tweed round the hips, and tweed skiria to match.
GO A LONG WAY
By Eileen Ascroft
powder puff. You can use it to opply lotions or to remove them. It's practically an indispensable item for both beauty and baby shelves.
London. colour. To match he bought The Autumn Look
Swiss cotton net chiria that
Belts are everywhere, wornADAM, if you posscas hang loose and straight over the
In any way but the way Mpint-sized husband
you
know. Soft, narrow belts mark
FO
a low waistline, or lower do you know that you can or without tie. stili, round the hips.
add inches to his height by Racing skilful dressing? Bells the softly. Or a belt is
motorist Stirling Mors (57). 74 in.) ndds 10
tailored with long, INKTOW
gutter."
slotted in and out of your coat. Faced with this problem his height by having his suits Or goes round the front only of from a tall girl: "My hus- lapels and just one or two your dress. Or is alung loosely band is a darling, but I buttons to close the jacket, round your jacket, like a sash.always feel self-conscious
BRIGHT IDEAS THEY MATCH walking bealde him in the "This helps to streamling the street." I set out to dis- figuro," he says. "I also put Shoes ате st!!! long and
Louls-heeled I think you must be slender pointed and extremely pretty, cover some of the secrets of my fiancee Into The for it. The only place where They match their dresses exact-making a short man appear shoes and make her walk in the Paris autumn line is
the dress clings is the hipline, ly, and at night are not only tall.
His bright Ideas for the male, 13 So If you're too hippy already, dyed, but embroidered to match.
ONE ANSWER. * conscious of his lack of inches straight up and downer, it won't do.
to: "Cultivate a circle of small Fabrles are substantial. For Rather frightening. Rather
Sporta shirts, with bold friends and try and hang on to English I think you have to wiggle coats, hard
mohair-and- on the curves. But about inside it to get the best nylon. For suits
vertical stripes, are one answer, your hair." and dresses,
wom outside the trousers so fresh, chic, and a pointer to out of it. The models
Film producer Herbers Wiigox ripple knobbly. twoods. For night, that they do not eat the figure. (st (in) bolloves in single- the future.
as they walk, to give interest. to more velvet, less chiffon,
These como in Venetian breasted jackets, *Double- dresses which are very, very THE PLEASANTEST
denim new striped
with brass breasted coats are a mistake The up-and-down dress is loose and plein.
fox short trand I've noted is an outburst buttons and coat pockets,
and tubby loose at the waist, liko a
designers Bu! If you rippled around in of
V-necked smooth And
pullovers because they make them look shift, skims the hips, and is private life you might be mis- younger clothes,
jare another idea, in preference square."
to those chunky crew-neck Ho has his waistcoats cut very, very short two understood.
The greatest designer since affairs that make ahort men very high and his trousers thrice inches below the knee at
the war, Balenciaga, has led look life cubes.
or four inches above the normal Diur, even shorter st
Faris for 10 years with clothes Jackets, with long narrow walst to give the legs. a long Balenciaga.
The rest of the Parts news is which look their best on women revers, help to "Stretch" tho look. Narrow trousers also help casier to swallow,
of at least 85. But now younger torso; sq do diagonally or the grean-uning effect. men like Cardin and Laroche, vertically striped fies
PIN STRIPES
ALL SHORT
•
younger
men
But there are many veria tions which toke away the Skirts, are short everywhere, with their pinafore dresses, Yet another trick is trousers stárkness. Often, the hips are on everything. Full-skirted simple salts and bearable prices, with sharp creages and shallow Wife Anna Neagle cautiona loosely banded or belted. (The dinner dresses very short, pre blazing a trail for the girls on no turn-ups, worn with plain against wide-striped sullings, hips are the point of interest Sults very short. Coats In their twenties.
sveks. Violent patterns draw favours blue of grey and very this season The bust is flat- tapered et the hem and
utletion to the dest....and narrow pla-stipeś, She hates tened to vanishing point,)
It's time someone burst that their lack of distance from the chart man in loud sporta suild old slogan that you can't both pretty and chic.
THE SNAGS
very
short. Piented skirts quite u lot about and very short,
Kals are wom blck of the Often, the fabric is thick and head. There are dozens of ・・
knobbly shapes, but that's the angie, exciting auch Ba
stager and black tweed.
be
head
SHORT SHORTS
or chunky swertem.
"The short man" Rays
comedinia Norman Wisdom
(5ft. 4.), "must be meticulous
He docks
I mot actor tlchard Allen- about his grooming."
wero his
4001)
TTS not like me to count iny borough (51% 18.), shopping a regimental blazer You want a helmet way back. I blessings. But, I must say in Simpsons for his South of Hums) and formele (fairly Often, the front is belted, or A cloche way back. A turban Tin quke glad I don't live in France trolidiny *SHORT alim sting) are good daytime cut in two like Jacket and way back. A fur hat way back Paris.
all flower short It's not
instructions wear. akirt,
while the back alone The only' hats that go further
Sho Mrs. Wisdom (51%, 8in) inalaba hangs straight and loose in the forward are Dlor's young, pretty markets and wine by the carafe from wife Shella Sim."
hates to see manll then wearing on wearing high heels, but she sailors, filted on, the side.
The way the shops shut up bulky shorts down to their bar
alook, not hairdos to "There's a big new trend for for Augat anakes housekeeping | khoes.
miminties the difference in their the fabric hate in the same material a nightmare for the few who Sheik will appraise his chated heleht
oh your dress. Leopard print nie left behind ---- and even in of rough-surfaco" linon in-string -~-~(London - Expessa Serotsi);
shift line.
don't know how it I've only seen it worn by mddels.
The "freda Ciatlo" took t back for ornning. Worth emplója vivid pesodch-groom pure silk malên fór ship alim sheath of a drem with Buffed Winged renalų. Kabreldery,
the square, low iweltisi tar of 'fine<bonds.
Parë J
1957- YOUR LEAN
YEAR?
Around about the end of December most of us began toi show definice sigra of schizo- phrenia. sometimes known under its other name of New Year Resolutions.
Qur personalities split in two and the angel half wrote a long | list of the acts of discipline, salf-denia) and charity it would accomplish in the coming twelvemonth.
t
On January ¦ we rose immedi- ately the alarm rang, touched our tões, performed deep brea- |thing exercises, drank our tea without sugar and sctually amiled at our breakfast mates, ¡And the hopes we entertainedi "One month from now, by dint of doing without over- (rich cakes, sugar and sweets, we shall have a figura tika a fashion modal. Sanity and the Awful Truth returned circa Jan. 2. 'Naver', we said, com. pensating ourselves for the [previous" diy's excessiva and impossible strain by sampling a pile of buttered scones, 'never halwa regain our girlish figures."
If that is the kind of fate which overtook your attempts at weight-reducing you should try PLJ's Fabian Slimming Method. The principle of the Fabian| Slimming Method is as old us. the hills of Rome itself for it takes its name from Quintus Fablus, the general who subjected Han- |nibal to war
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The strangth of The japa Method lies in the fig
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