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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
WEEK-END
1958..
WOMANSENSE
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Don't Follow Food Diet
And they say that models If You Want To Reduce
are supposed to be dumb!
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ON'T anyone ever tell me again that model girls are "dumb. in a 10-minute encounter I've learned more from one than I've learned from many other women in 10 years.
There was I sitting alone at the one Maytale anack bar the fashion world lovea, "toying." as they say, with a "Rarebit a la Mode" (a Welsh one with a bit of salad trimming to you) when up she drifted. *Model girl" was written all over her delicious little face-in blue, black, and dark peony red,
PIOTURE BY RDY GOUNG
A DRESS THAT GOES ON LIKE A COAT
It's June in January in the stores, with the first of next summer's dresses arriving to gladden our fog-dimmed eyes.
alternative to the pretty-pretty flower patterns said to be no dear to the hearts of all British women. It puts on like a coat, buttons diagonally, and opens flat for easy packing and ironing.
It is made in average sizes also for vize 5ft 2in, and under.
The big news is of clear black and white "spool" prints leopard, acelot and zebra... herringbone or Prince of Wales checks... and they are all in cotton, My choice for today is a bold SÜLTETERNELIA KASARTERETANSANER DEERTJÉLES MALA GUILD13 (228mm..
She snaked up on to her stool. I offered the menu to break the ice. At once we were deep in an utterly feminine conversation.
Product of one of the public schools, she was the most
of simplicity and sophistica- tion.
We had a gorgeously goty time with cosmetic surgery.
Hor best friend's nose had boen straightened-" he went in through the eye sockets and did tan Job from behind... left her with a hose like a football but the looks dicampy now.",
And did I know X (another model) who had had a second Ufusing the same soar. of course, Mind it makes her look just the littlest bit Chinesey, You can't keep on titting
without turning the corners of the eyes up.
but in a sort of sinister way it suita bor."
Comfortable?
Bhe advie ma that the Prench were better on bysta-
two half-moons of plastic on the under side. It gives BUOD A boost and only a 3in, scar to show for it.”
BIM-
I switched the conversation to cosmetica,
She wore false eyelashes all the time...” look, come closer, you swear you can't see them ?" Comfortable But yes, I'vo worn them for so long. I can't bear the sight of myself without them. I even sleep in them- well, sometimes. Only because I'm too tired to take them off- modelling's exhausting. But they get a bit bent."
It stems you can do wy thing in them except c Pive minutes of a mushy pusy and they start peeling d
I quizzed her on the rest of her make-up. How long, I WOT- dered, did thom hure," blue
heartiest" English astonishing mixture
Daded doo's-cybe complace?
An astonishing mixture of
simplicity and sophistication'
to
About 20 minutes-if I've steady hand. The rest of my face 1 leave more or less to nature. You can't bave 100 many gimmicks."
• It's orazy'
From cosmetica to mothersTM** "mine wouldn't let me wear nylons untill Was 10. It's crazy to damp a daughter down, pace I let home I went haywire- fashionwise I mean.
"I bought a huge black velvet hat and wore it with a dead white make-up ang a purple Up- stick. I remember crouching under it in a night club and refusing to take it off. The boy I was with was lividad"
She told me how the gaw T-strap shoes make thick ankles look so much alimmer.
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She told me how men hotice teeth first. Bome girls 1180 a special white plastic paint tried it once, but it was agony getting it off again."
She said that everyone know what Lord & was like ...that abe WDA burning to see The Ten Commandmenta
that also had been offered a job as a tannequin in a store ("but the pay was terrible-215 a week and I was expected to sell things too") ... and that for marriagd was over Oh.
"the" was, I judged, about 19 years old.
Now step out-
in colour
"EMLINES are going
Hp
up- up- UP - no
1958 will make fashion history as the year of long, pastel tinted necklaces and longer pastel-tinted legs.
I believe women will go wild about the new coloured nylons.
No more neutrals, no more akin tinta, You will choose from
mist blue, coral, blush pink, ses- green, or anble.
Hey your stockings to the res of your outat,
The aim is: a long-streak-of- the-same-colour look from your shoulders to your toca
We've learned the wisdom of thia from the twenties, the crazy days when they wore bright hate, short dark dresses, and paie legs-and cut them- selves up into three diferent- tomed blia,
Today it's varying depths of the same colour for a long legged line.
SMOKING NEED NOT MAR
A WOMAN'S CHARMS
ESPITE the fact that it
DE
now more than 70
years since a High Court in England ruled that a woman
By Patricia Compton
these offenders.
TIRED?
A new tonta
"T
HOSE thousands of women shop-gazing
around LoWD- cannot think why they can't look at something they can got the teeth into," said" Madame Kay Cimpel-meaning pictures.
I had called in on" Olmpel Pils, the Mayfair gallery, for an oyeful of Action Painting, Dur rently they have a first showing of the works of a Dutchman called Bogart - extraordinary swirls and gobbets of colour. inches thick on big restless- looking canvases.
"You know," said Madame, warming to her theme, there is often a period when a married woman's life becomes utterly pedestrian. She probably lacks the mental energy to tackle new writing or poetry. But she can use het cyck.
the hair regularly and often, In between shampoos brust the hair, with pertamed hair brush. To do this, rub a spot of brillantine into the palms of your hands and then rub lightly over the bristles of your brush.
WATCH OUT
#
Gallery-going is so stimulat
in and such a cheap pleasure. I'm not proaching culture with a capital U. What I mean is, it's another world... Do much a new dimension Awareness, open to pil.. and conversationally. what oneup- manship."
She's absolutely right about painting. I'm not so sure about the oneupmanship.
could smoke without any into a careless and untidy yield to a brisit rub with a slice the ordinary way will not of lemon, and then a well- remove the nicoline stains. stigma being attached to manner of smoking.
pumice stone. Or, Make a paste of peroxide of Nicotine-xtulnext her morals, there are still
treth Lind staped
collon hydrogen and precipitated ohalt many people, mostly male, the front of a dress, and wool dipped in some household end apply it to the tools with
fingers, esh carelessly, dropped alternatively, a piece of who strongly disapprove of smoking in the street are only a bleach will do the trick.
Allow the tips of the fingers. the idea.
Finally, watch out for facial few of the crimes committed by if the calls are varnished.
Special care should be taken the paste to remain fon about
If five minutes and then brush the gymnastics. Nothing looks more
than En unattractive to curt teeth thoroughly with a the umoke is allowed
to co Although some male an-
If a little care and forethought around the nail the vanish wili dry brush.
woman with o olgarette purwod abo is undoubtedly is given to details, there is no dances to a deep brown tagoniam
The
Another offeneo which often between her lips while due to selfishness —–—– women reason why the woman smoker best remedy, counte, is to gon unnoticed by feminine endeavours to Bow or knit.
on their re- cannot appear as well-groomed make a habit of using a smokers is the stalo trespassing
cyes screwed clinging With her serves women amokers and elegant as hor
cigarette bolder which is both smell of tobacco which pervades against the smoke, and her
in coming the hair. The only solution to breath
pasmodic protective and elegant, often unconsciously foster Nicotine stains on the indox Discoloured teeth took most this problem-other than wear- gulps; she is enough to turn jany this disapproval by slipping and middle fingers will usually unattractive, and imaging in ing a "Smoking Cop-is to wash man against a woman smoking.
HARDY AMIES
FASHION · DESIGNER:
sisters.
"ylee-less"
Never!
Left:
"Never again will I have a
belge carpet throughout the
house. It is so dull and un-
anterptising." Ile recomincide
Loft:
"Never again will I havò a red look wallpaper in thò drawing-rooth. It felt liko im night club, and after three inunthe, considn't stand it. Ve have now, got 'plain isvendar
Rightt
"Nover,"<agal · something · that Ja naša to bo triple" parpeen. Tho zlodi that won ning's fable:
What do you think of Boulagos 7" could be a dead- ender as an opening gambit
But then, so could What do you think of Belfridges?
Try it WORKS.
So much for the colour. Now for the shape. Is there anything to be done for those unfor tunates with grand plano_legs.
Yes" says Helina Rubin. stein's beauty clinic. "Cer- tainly," says Vivian Sorsble (aho's the girl who has slimmed down more notables than she'd care to mention).
Rubinsteins recommend Traxelor-A suction cup tropf- ment followed by Paradism to tone up the muscles electrically. The Borsble method includes special baths We sweat them from the waist downwards, fol- lowed by deep massage." With this a high protein diet and exercises.
Costa? Anything from six to
for 12 guinens
six-week treatment.
Preity patterned earpets as bo YOLANDE DONLAN kmrnsting rack was a reER MICHAEL FLANDERS
lug far zinie, to Hwa with:
AOTREER
AUTOM
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Successful 7 No guarantees- but they're all very optimistic.
HER FIGURE is perfect! Glamorous Ava Gardner is someone to keep in mind if you're weakly waiting for Inspiration to reduce.
DON
By JEANNE D'ARCY
hostess pleads with you, be ON'T diet yourself into firm when you say No,
state of decline. Calorie Chart That's just plain silly. Yet 2. Carry a calorie chart in your purse, so you can keep tally of all you eat. Every mouthful adds to the day's intake, so watch it!
so many girls do it.
After a year or years of eating all the goodies in sight, they decide to shed weight. But they want to do it overnight.
go
8. Ent slowly and you'll find you won't eat as much. Bad Dieting Practices
4. Do eat between meals They on fad diets, -a carrot stick, a piece of guaranteed to take off ten fruit, a celery stalk --- if pounds in a week, or they you find that such low- try a few routines of their calorie snacks help you to own, such as skipping one be happy with smaller meal- meal every day for a week time portions.
or more. Either practice is Look at Picture bad.
6. For inspiration, paste
Lose weight, if you need a pin-up on your dressing to, but do it wisely. Plan table mirror, a picture of a well-balanced diet. Con- someone who's figure- sult your doctor and let him perfect. Every time you map one out for you.. look at it, consider that this Five Helpful Hints
is what you're working to- How to stay on that diet? ward.
You'll find the photograph It takes willpower, but here are five hints to help you: will help to remind you 1. Make it a rule never that your "hateful" diet
to have second helpinga. will be well worth the No matter how much your trouble if you keep it up.
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