THE · CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1967.
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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
COIFFURE
The Look-Through Look COVER-UPS
T
is going!
HE naughty nylon nightdress is on its
way out. Women have had their fling, and they are tiring of those flimsy, frilly bits of nonsense that do not conceal a single curve.
Feminascope
A big lingerio firm that getting married. Everyone els@#%€¥¥
wants her nightdress to be much more opaque. So we are
nightdresses selling them in thicker nylon,
sold thousands of the ultra- transparent last year can hardly sell a single one this year.
And the buyer for a chalu of lingerie shops selling n quarter of a million nighties a year sal the other day:-
The
only people now who seem to like the invisible nighties bre the fechagers and girls
or if it is a fine material. It is 'made double.
"Not
only do women want, them more opaque, they don't like them as fussy now as they word to-fewer bows and rumfes The newrgl and bits of lace. look much more tailored and plain, and much more chit."
Veronica Papworth
SAYS
A pear into a tube
WON'T go
--So, look out for that
awful menace ... the Woman on a Diet
TOR the first time for FFTORE
ages I've been on the receiving end of those Paris Collection Reports. Instead of dishing out deathless prose on the Latest Look I've been reading it. And
*
morning. Oh no I can't--we're dining with Willy... such heavenly food but the next day I must."
There's the Woman who PLAYS at it. "Oh alop," she trils, not another Martini darling where's my self-control? Well, all right--just this
once. But should be more strong- minded, I'm dieling really, darling!
Pounds down
There's the bore who has LOST TWO INCHES round the waist and can talk of nothing els, "Barely you notice some-
thing different about IDC, sweetie? I'm pounds down
skirt's practically slipping of ....haven't a thing that fită. I'll Anish the souffle, sweetle. I can afford to let up noŁO.”
There's also wie one who takes the same pills that the Queen lakes-"positively us supplied to Duck House, We're both doing
" And the one who goes on and on about her patent "bulk" food-"swells in the small and then. .don't intestine mako such faces George, my pet this is madly Interesting.
Add to these the "sweat it off
bolled-egg-and-sherry expert
it scena that it all bulls at the baths" addict, the hard-
down to a leather helmet and oh goodness there's no end and a hairy tube-like dress to the ghastly boredom of it.
for autumn.
Which ja
really in view shattering
rather of last month's Stationary OMeg Re- port that the great, majority of English
are PEAR- SHAPED,
wamion
A warning
It doesn't take a mathema tical genius to prove that a pear into a tube simply won't
00.
Not unless It's a very wide 'tube--which is certainly not,
intended.
So what will every other woman by dolog betorn”, very long?
She'll be paring down her pear shape,
I'm warning you, chums-wo are in fur a heavy autums session with that post-war menaco the Woman on a Dlet.
Goodncep-pho's a Bore.
..
There's the one who is always STARTING. TOMORROW -- "my floal fling," she crlos a
A
What
lesson these girls could learn from the Dedicated Dieter.
One of many
Let me tell you about one I know. She's one of many.
Sho serves cocktails to her guests-and quietly pours herw aclt a glucose drink.
She
nover twitters over a ment-sho sticks to grilled meat, salado and fruit.
She never, repost. "NEVER. falks about her waight að ber figure--which, incidentally, is perfect. Her husband adores her. But not, I feel sare, für her shape.
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I don't think Englishmen cpro. all that much about shapes, '
One thing I'm certain they do sot tremendous ratore by Is a LIVELY COMPANIONSHIP...
And if there's one thing that ja guaranteed to bore the panta off any man, gum up party conversation, infuriato à, hostess and drive good cooks to drink it
the wepe another ladle full of 15 200 MUCH TALK ABOUT
cream.""Bolici water and Lemans Jules, for ' mo - in" šio
DENT..
➡kenden Express Derulon)(
THE CYCLE OF A SACK ·
T'S summer, and' you can't do a thing with your hair.
In the fire place, hair can have too much of a good thing, namely run! You'd be, whe to cover up the curls while you're getting a tan, That's where a scarf comes in handy.
.You Must Know How;
An ordinary scarf serves your purposes.
Here are a few ideas;
Tako a ble 36-inch scarf. Fold
cover
your
one corner back over head, patching it tightly at the back of your neck. Fasten, iherd with a pin. Let the scarf hang free 10
your baro shoulders when you come out of the water or when you go boating or metering In the sun, Another idea is to wear, the scarf babushka style and It's
faces. pretty with pert young Fold It diagonally in half, tio oni anugly, pulling the fold well over your forehead so the heir ino is covered. It will provent Fun from streaking your locks and keep the wind from the Russian athlete and the five blowing them out of line..
The Sack In London.
LONDONERS
London.
hats,
1s
By HAZEL MEYRICK fre not
But the sack I ke best noticeably quick in tak dresses was amazed at the re-
fashions-we sult
the one that plays safe. It's In ing up new
"We put one in the window, heavy ribbed wool, has a belt leave that to New York-
Just to tirnet attention," she to go with B and is cut with a but the sack dress, from told me. "But so many people collar and push-up sleeves With the moment it made its came in and bought them that is button through fastening, it can also be used as a knitted appearance in the Paris I've had to order some more." collections, caught on, over
Wearers of sacks sl have a cual over a cotton dress, here with amazing speed.
the you need it to cope with giggles of the girls whose waist The girls who have realised ines are still nipped in; the that this year's sack is simply opon, appraising stares of the last your's sheath dress with the British workman-a.well-known walsiline let out,
vocal already and extremely walking around In this new authority. SITANO, while the buyer of a Sack dresses are even on sale way. London fashion store who tenta- in the store where there lively bought, one or two sack that famous incident of Nina,
are
sightly defiant air about them
fashion
WHO
Two British versions of the sack dress both by Susan Small:
Abort: In basket weave fervay, caught là ni the waist by a patent leather belt, topped by a matching knitted coat,~~~
Jelow: In Ane wool jersey with a ribbed sliet in the neckline, this dress is shaped to give you backs some of your walsiline at itasi.
Quick Camouflago
If you need to do a quick pin-curl job at the beach and who doesn't after a dip in the surf?-camoußage curls with a
scarf.
Take the square and fold it diagonally, comer to corner, "You look like a zacis tled Next, fold over twice to make a The around round the middle in that dress," narrow bandeau.
the ends said my mother of my first the head, letting
In addition to looking teen-age effort at dressmaking, dongle. Now the fashion wheel has pretty, it hides your pin-up joli turned full circle, and it'e sud- until the curls are not. denly smart to look just that
JEANNE D'ARCY
Room 211.
"Parisette
Pagō
The little French Boutique
H.K. Hotel Building.
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