A FILM STAR CUTS HER HAIR
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By Patricia Clary
HEN the average girl de- cides on a haircut, she steps into a chair at the beauty parlour, says "Cut it off about here." and in half an hour the job is done.
But
movie star's haircut in accompanied by as much contusion and ceremony Int AL presidential Inauguration and is recorded by almost 13/1 many reporters - and
camerumcu
The procedure when Its Hayworth switched from a long-haired redhead to a close-crupped topaz blonde for her new pleture, "The Indy from Shanghai," started with an appeal to Studio executives lo okny the coiffure change.
Then artists sketched possible now hair styles from which one was chosen as milling Misa Hayworth's features and her role.
After a veruting of various hair shades
against the star's complexion, whade called topaz blonde was selected.
Hair stylist Helen Hunt flew back In the middle of ber New York
honeymoon to perform the actual shearing.
Newspaper, magazine, wire service and syndicate correspondents and piblographers were called in to see "the most famous red hair in the World"
fall to the barber shop
floor,
While fat-bulb exploded all
Mixa Hny worth got sround, preliminary trimmtug, then a sham- poo, blench, and permanent ARVE, Hunt went to work with the clippers, again until she achieved the "cinema awiri".
When it was all over, Rita rushed out and bought n half-dozen new hats for private wear.-United Press.
Minati Makeyo
GABRIELLE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1947.
WOMEN'S INTERESTS
FASHIONS FOR THE REASONABLE WOMAN
Giving a new style
to an old frock
by
CAROLINE FOX
ET'S get down to earth, about fashion. "High fashion" may be stimulating to rend about, but it is apt to be dispiriting when considered in terms of cash and coupons.
A bird of paradise may sweep elegantly up to crown a 60-guinea model evening dress, but it would droop dejectedly above last year's made-over!
Fortunately, this season's fashions are very adaptable to the needs of the reasonable
woman.
Swathing the hips
HIPS ure swathed... what easier than to
take a 12-inch-wide length of black crepe or velvet or satin and swathe it around the waist of a favourite "little black dress," rounding the folds over one hip and tying the ends in a giant bow on the other?
Sleeves are often deeply cuffed
so long, loose sleeves can be turned back into a cuff, thereby achieving the new above-the- wrist length; and long, tight sleeves can be either ruched up or cut off above the wrist and gathered into a band.
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Necklines are squared or cut into a deep an adaptation which is easily made from the plain round necklines which are familiar on wartime afternoon frocks.
Treasures in braid
COATS and Suita have trimming of braid
C why, then, sortie into the furnishing depart-
ment of any large store should yield treasures of narrow, furnishing braid, fringe or bobles, with which to edge pockets, cuffs and revers,
Tweed frams with velveteen in country suits or frocks.
Many a wilted garment can be re- juvenated by brand-new sleeves or even complete front of velveteen; or merely by collar and patch pockets.
Fur trimmings are back but are not over- Javish..
A band cut off the length of a too-long fur coat can be made into patch pockets and button coverings for a plain cloth coat; or into a buckled belt from which hang loose fur pockets like purses a very new note, this.
Belts are highly original. • and simple to make. A leather or chamois belt may match big leather- covered buttons: a fabric belt many fasten with outsize melal hooks and eyes, or with ordinary padlock and key, the key hanging by à little chain off the belt!
Ideas from the moors
A wonderful new colour is appear-A YOUNG designer from Scotland
has emerged with
log in hats, scarves and blouses.
a calf- It's a deeply glowing Tangerine length evening dress of cream wool and it looks beautiful in velvet and lace, its bosom threaded with black is very shiny satin. But watch your velvet ribbons, which also tie around ipstick it must match!
ankle and thusat
High neck cut down to a low heart shape; long siceves ruched to new length; salin swolli- tno around the hips brings last ucar's dress into
this year's li
A black velvel sheath of a dress
that has a basque, pink lined and wired to look like the petals of a rose: it can also be taken off and worn as a cape ... a vernal while chiffon gown, swathed and clinging, and garlanded with white blossoms around throat and shoulders.
BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
Posed for Lois Leeds.
Walk as if you wore a diadem
and balance'an imaginary eloak about your shoulders!
RELAX-ERCISING!
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"Walk just as if you were wear- ing a high diadem of jewels and a swinging clock of velve!". Cinire Mann, the famous exponent of Relax-ercising! Claire Mann is a tencher of creative body proportion- ing and she says that you must "Take off pounds and inchies in the right places in an enjoyable, lazy way".
All of the exercises must be done while you are listening to music; aft strains which give you Peace and Polse. The music serves to create mental pictures. This makes the actual exercising attractive and the tired woman will feel renewed both mentally and physically.
This is a completely new idea of musical therapy as applied to body proportioning.
Before beginning your exercises in the musical atmosphere, wear an attractive outfit and drink a cup of peppermint tea and eat on orange. We all know that mental exhaustion leads to physical fatigue and often to overweight. And even when wo- men are just mentally bared, they are also. In need of physical Relax-
a cocoa brown suiting two-ercising. piece, with a side-slit skirt and a
"Deep breathing". says Claire flared hip length jacket, its twin Mann, "is so important! You must strap belt fastening with big luggage-relax and you must lose your ner- strap buckler; similar buckles on straps across the shoulders
and vous tension by emptying the mind. a shoulder bag to match slung from Then, breathing deeply, with long,
Inhalations and smooth under the straps, 'safe from slipping. tions", must be practised.
A WOMAN'S POINT OF VIEW:
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In our great rush to get here and there (and often nowhere!) we have lost our Polse and the important art of calm, unhurried walking. This new iden of salt music, to which you do NOT keep time, establishes A calm, relieved-from-excllement atmosphere, which should help! Try
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OME weeks ago I saw a small hen-coop, fowls squawked Irritably
Chinese boy-n bronze in the stern.
It seems as incredible as the "hut. cupid, beautifully formed, of trick" that from birth to death these about four years old, innocent familles of fisherfolk live out their of all clothes, even a fig lent. crowded lives in these small dark His cumshaw tin was poised on brown hulks, barely twenty feet
long. one shoulder, and he threaded
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of traffle in a main thorough- A sparklion the sand enjoying the
of
ELABORATE COSTUMES
The most expensive of Holly- wood's new films show a definite irend toward elaborate costumes. Silk, satin brocades and laces Bre being used in profusion.
Katharine Hepburn, for instance. will wear more than 6,000 yards of material during the filming, of "A Love Story"not at once, of course, but in a succession of voluminous gowns designed for the scenes in which she appears.
Her negligees are worn over slx- starched petticoats, and the wedding gown for her screen marriage to Paul Henreid has 95 yards of embroidery alone.
Linda Darnell, in the picture "Forever Amber," will wear zoveral gowns which weigh nearly 40 pounds aplece! When Kathryn Grayson bell song from sings the famous "Lakme" in the film "It Happened In Brooklyn,"
23 she wilt wear pounds of beads.
Costumes for Lana Turner in the pleture blue cleanliness
"Green Dolphin Street" sky and sea, another strange contrast necessitated 5,000 yards of satins, I was tickled by the little chap's forced itself to my notice. A coolie velvets and failles from the ward- across her robe stocks at the studios-Asso- complete self-possession, and amused woman with a bamboo by the contrast his state of nature shoulders, from which hung two ciated Press. made to the high-powered limou-shallow wooden scoops, siuled into view. She bent down and picked up an empty tin stranded by the FROM MAYFAIR tide, and as she passed me the clean nlr was cut by an appalling stench
fare.
sines that threatened his cool non- chalunce.
ANOTHER contrasi I saw in a field
the const rand,
by a Chinese peasant and drawn by
which emanated from her noisome
treasure trove. This autòmaton and
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