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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
choice every
THE CHIC EQUATION: Black+white SENSATION
THE HARD-AND-SMART LOOK. -high-necked black dress, white hat, necklace — the whole svelte and sophisticated."
GOOD SALARY FOR MODELS
CURVES
WITH
LONDON fashion models But there wasn't much have found that they are work about, for slim models. no longer out of a job if they So she began a fattening start putting on weight. dict.
-In fact, If they are really "O.S." they can earn a fat salary.
Eighteen months ago Miss Olive Clare, aged 36. a. London model, was as slim as any woman could wish to bc.
CORONATION
COUTURE
IN
By HAZEL MEYRICK
London.
TN Mayfair's back streets, as the Coronation draws near, there are going on frantic last-minute fittings of the clothes which will be worn by peeresses at the crowning.
The higher your runk, the more you wear. A baroness fur instance, has two roys of ermine talis on her cape, but a marchione wears inree-and- · a-hall rows.
A baroness gets away with a short, easy-to-manage train, but a duchess has to cope with a heavy capo which nooks onto her shoulders and walls for a good two yards behind her
AB
she walks. Turning comes be comes a hazard-she must kick her train to onɑ side, or it bo ecomes entangled round her ankies. All this and a. coronet too, which, she has to balanco on her head.
She says: "I found I could do better by being dumpy. I now represent the
average
country woman, buxom and round. I eat erything I can, where and when I can.
fatter."
Just want to get fatter and
-(London Express Service)
woman
HARD-
and
SMART
must make
OR
SOFT
and PRETTY
HAT is it about her that makes her so elegant? It is the question women are asking themselves more and more as the London scene grows thickly sprinkled with visitors worth looking at.
And the answer? Nine times out of ten the Woman Worth Looking At is the woman who has decided successfully the stiffest
problem of dressing well.
Is she to be one of the Hard- and-Smuclies or one of the Soft-and-Pretties?
See how the decision splits the ranks of the well-known weli-. dressed. On the side of the Hard -and-Smart are the Duchess of Windsor, Mme.
Masiell, wi
wife of the French Ambassador, and Schiaparelli.
On the side of the Soft-and- Elegant are the Duchess of Kent and the Begum Aga Khan, Queen Boraya of Persin, an Diana Wynyard.
It even sphis Allene Dietrich for she dresses the bard, chic way in private, ́ und the soft, pretty way for films, SLEEK AND SLENDER
Each side has its hallmarks, its successes, its pitfalls.
For the Hard-and-Smart the hallinaris are: Straight black dresses with high necks; chle hots that take a lot of wearing; sleek hair and slender figure; a devotion to dress that ignores comfort.
At its best, this style of dres
turns out u woman with
Д
chamelied perfection and sensational elegance no one can miss. At its worst, it can make her
look freakish, unfeminine, frightening
For the Soft and Pretty brigade the hallmarks are: Soft maiorials and full skiria,, dark off-blacks and low necks; hats that are Battering; hairstyles that are soft; and a tendency to dress up to her face rather than her Buure.
out
By Anne Edwards
THE SOFT-AND-PRETTY ́LOOK—with a simple style und a sweet and serene air.-Pictures by John French.
shall feel.20 when I am 80,"
or G87
· stance:——
Emotions
May Cause
Skin Itch
:!
By H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
NOME people are bothered with opere itching that
is really due to worry or emotional strain. We are learning moro every day about this type of disorder, called
In psychosomatle, which the thoughts act un- consciously on the nervous system and affect the body. ftching a not" "Imag!- Įnary." It is an honest-to-good- ness disease, sometimes with a definite rash. The condition
This
cannot exactly be called rare, but it is not very frequent, either.
Other Causes
Most itching comes from other causes, one of the most frequent being an allergy. Many people Itch because of paraslies living! on the body, such as lice, or the Imites which enuse scabies, Skin scoses may also cause itching,
us do Internal disorders that pro- duce jaundice, with the skin turning yellowish,
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Usually the itching is greater
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the patient's mind, the me. I don't feel any different Gd.).
Females of the human race, cadition seems to improve.
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SAID Claudette Colbert (aged every woman knows, have much Sometimes the condition gets breath of spring minks, the sapphire 47): "I feel just the some as more trouble getting rid of
un-so severe and the scratching so minks... did when I was 20, and I wanted suitors... . For in- pronounced that there are actuni scratch marks and irritations on What is so splendid about Suddenly Tony buried his the skin. It may even become Hundreds of ready-made Fur garments thing to be said for feeling 47- sako don't torture me, JIH,” feeling 20? Surely there is some head in his hands. For pity's hard and thickened and lose its
Le clastic cried.
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as night falls, or and the fiching however, the person look messy, matronly, or mul- short way with sultors who still as marble.
becomes wearier It can eccost her when she is returning "I bent down and kissed hun becomes prolonged. The warmth make her wear a rose and a vell to her nest with prey. Sho gently on
the forehead. and a fur instead of a rose or a avoids them, she ignores them, didn't look up, only he gave vel or a fur.
she makes it clear she has no kind of shudder. And alus, it is the style that time for them, both suit the British
At its best-inis style of dress 158 tions
alluring 211 elegance that invites you to look at the woman more than at her WASPS.. clother.
ton-dressed-as-lamb.
.:
woman best and leads her furthest estroy.
than
“LET'S BE ̃OUR AGE
How ODD it is that women
who have lived more half their life should still feel as if they had lived only a quar- ter at it,
SAID
AND MEN
He of the bed further stimulates the askin and the itching may be
unbearable. come
I whispered: 'Goodbye, Tony.' Semtching actually seems to
"I was nearly at the bottom of alve the person a way of ex- "The passionate miles, how the stairs when I heard the attic pressing the emotions and feel- give up hope, and they have voice calling my name-calling hisually this type-of-- itch-is ever, cannot bring themselves to door open and Tony's anguishedings that had been troubling ...buen seen occasionally-to eling me to come back. And then I
prevent them from to the backs of females and so was in the street, was running helped by mild sedatives and
entering
down the hill-and it was all talking over the problem with a over."-From a woman's maga- family doctor or psychiatrist, zine.
Once the emotional". factor withdrawn, the itching stops.
their burrows.
The resourceful female thus embarrassed has no dificulty fa
Courtneldze simply scrapes him off by walk- (aged 60); "I feel just the same ing between two pine needles. Ry when I was 20, I never have From "Lesser Worlds," by
Cicely
Because they have to be in one time this was relieved by a their places in the Abbey at state bunquet. But now, every dawn, there will be little or no one brings sandwiches. sleep for the peeresses. Beauty and hair-dressing salons will
dealing with her suitor the
on!
OH, SO CHARMING......
LOOKED IN on the Couple lunched together at the Dorches-
ter.
of the Moment as they
They are, of course, Port- land, ager four, and her friend Bonjy, aged three-a pair of precocious poppets whose film- star parents" have brought them up on the progressive American system of "Do whatever you like, darling, whenever you feel ilko
Benjy greeted me with a dirty and Porty shot me with a miniature silver gun.
"Have a Scotch, Benjy," she Bald,
and filled in the ensuing convervational Full with o high
squcal like a siren: "Yoo-hoooo.
"Don't scream, Porty," sald Behly. The walter's coming with lunch"
"So what?" piped, Portland, screaming hard, "I can scream all I want in my own house, can't 17
Porty pip-pipped like a train signal and loaned forward: "Do you know how many times I've soen Hans Christian Andersen'?" sho Bait. "Five times. And 'Peter Pan'? Geo I guess I don't' know how many times." SO—IT'S TIME TO GO
"I hate Captain Hook," sald Benjy. "Ho's make."
"I've got a snake," said Port- land, twining her table napkin round her neck while she made noises like a trian whistle: "Wheeeco-ow.”
Tell it to bilo her," sald Benjy,
looking at mc. "Make
The sketches show the old and the new robes of state for a peeress. At left! eating sandwiches is a marchioness in the full robe of state, a kirtle with sleeves and a long separate train. Standing beside her, a baroness wears one of the now alternative gowns with a deep shawl collar and a short scalloped train. The new nobility, who And they cannot afford the tradi- simple Rkdirt and
decolleto take everyone to the Abbey in his head when he rose to put it her go away." tional robe, will wear Instead bodice. With the gown is worn time. an alternative design by Nor- pair of above-the-elbow When they
"Go away, you," sald Port- arrivo, ahead of With the eagle eyo of the man Hartnell (with the Earl length gloves.
them is a seven-hour wait. At new recl, and TV Cortesia on Band
***Now don't you want the Indy. Mariinil's blessing) in white
them in the Abbey this time, to slay and have some ico-cream fur and velveteen, with a cap of
everyone is fervently hoping no with you?" said tag aurse. "No. state Instead of a coronet.
Ititches will Decur.
There were some moet un-do away. I hate English Ice- announced fortunate Incidents
cream, anyway." at the Portland. "I wish I was back in The result to something ex- be working all night. First will Many potresses have had, an
coronation of Queen Victoria: A Callfornia," trenfely, regal: looking and at come, a facial, and o Epecial, Inner pocket made in their robe
high.
church dignitary tripped "Shoot that the same me cumemporary make-up that will stay put in to inke a packed luncit, while and fell as he went to pay
funny lady,"
and chic. And the new
coal- the long hours ahead. Then others have bought a plastle homage to her. Then the arch-berited Benly. and rain combined is easier to comes a visit to the hair-stylist bog specially designed for the bishop forced the ring of state away." "Bang, bang. You're woat than
Go away, go away," they the heavier tradi-, to have a coiffure bull up occasion (le won't crackle as a conto, djs wrong; finger of her dead. tional robe with its separate round their coronet..
paper one would.). Should the nnd and shouffered great squealed. cloak.
who left pants of hunger overinks them
I closed the door. "Oh, goody. pain" in wrenching it oil again, Under
der they
A zobe of estate, you their hair
day, they can din Finally, blatiop, turned over sho's gone," they said. "You wego kong waludder dress of will have to have their, hole creetly partake of some light two caps at doo in the book, hoooo • Þ\p-pip
wheeeze which
Croom." ~ Hartnell has done on the evening before, and "refreshment. stay and announced the "cerumtny. ow." designed one in heavy lame. it up all night in their laras, At the last coronation, and was over. The Queen -im-
with Overtown
Interlinking London transport, resources poqr secreted his lunch Inside inediately left the Abbey and Portland beloper to ringh of gold equips, like a fulvis over, is puttigona Mike Dronet, forgot about it had to come back to lie crown
Benjy to Olivid | chall-mesh," whilcis cover the cial underground train to then tipped, the sandwiches over ed.
de Havilland, *pecial.
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