BEAUTY · ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
Posed by Barbara Stanwyck for Lola Leeds.
can, anys Lola Leeds.
Look na lovely an you "DEAR LOIS LEEDS"
"Dear Lois Leeds--Which should I choose, A vory tailored satio negligee or a very frilly are one? am going on my honeymoon. I am tall, red hair.-T. 11"
-The kind that you select should be influenced by where you fill wear it. Soft net and lace negligees are so feminine, so lovely. That's my! cholce for you. Look as lovely ar you can!
"Dear Lois Leeds--Now that I hear hals hug the head and really t should I cut my hair and put it down. -Mm P. S."
flair may be worn as you lies 11 -up or down-with the new head - i itting hot. But try on your new hat when wearing the bardo that you'll wear with the new hat. That's the only way to be happy about thei whole thing!
you
are
foods
"Dear Pois Leeds-Is salt fat- fening? I love highly salted and am overweight.-L. B. X."
The whole fault doesn't lle in your "love" of salt but in your evident "love" of highly scasoned foods, which stimulate your appetite
and you eat too mygh and the wrongt faxis. Try les seasoning and you won't like your food so much, thus you will eat less. And how about leaflets? They will be good for you! sending for some
of my exercise
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1947.
WOMEN'S INTERESTS
Tulip is the current
silhouette
HIS "tulip" dress-so called
Tbecause the shirt folds and
falls like the petals of a tulip- is the current beloved silhouette of Victor Stiebel, a designer at Jacqmar.
In a geranium-red wool, the bodice is draped and caught to one side at the waist; the skirt. dips at the back and is two inches longer than the front.
But do not be misled by its up- parently effortless simplicity. Stlebel says: "I like complicated dresses that look so simple the tulip - houette is extremely intricate, and calls for the highest standard of workmanship."
Discussing fashion trends, he says: "The present ultra-feminine vogue the elaborately draped hobbles,
VICTOR Siebel designs day and evening clothes, prefers making characteristic dinner gowns. alm complicated in cut, in subile (pre- ferably palely subile) shndes-einder blue, tobacco brown, and the leing sugar shades of pink, mauve, blue, green,
of his present collection, ła favourites are: (1) chalk-white crope dinner dress, hobble-light, the bodice Pailletted with jet and (2) a yellow across the bodter. crepe tulip dress, ivy leaves tralling opulence and bits of nonsense...will
serve as a blue-print for
WANT TO FEEL FIT?
-TRY DEEP BREATHING
By PRUNELLA STACK
Lady David Douglas-Hamilton, Director of the Women's League of Health and Beauty
fashions, which will be practicni version of to-day's complicated shapes.
"think the future will see a do Bnite accent on femininity."
He declares, however, that changes of instilon do not depend on de- signers. "Fashion in how a woman feels she would like to look; we, the Interpreters, have to keep a few steps ahead of women, and there- fore, it is woman herself who lends the designer."
IN 1937 Victor Stiebel's production rate was about 400 model dress designs per year. Now, owing to shortages, he produces only about 100 in two annual collections..
Haute couture prices in general, he says, are as high as they have been since the postwar 10206, and with present labour shortages in the clothing irndeiat
unless youngsters again decide to apprentice thematives to the trade"-look like remaining at present levels.
Thirty-nine-year-old Victor Stiebel
Ja
unmarried, upbane, dislikes
women in trousers, especially in the
twin evils of high heels
Helena Rubinstein's
tein's
Cullaby
Bring you fotelinnas
white póu sleep - - •
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creams
'To Helena Rubinstein dry skin is the most serious beauty problem. More than cavan out of ton women have IL A dry skin ages quickly, lines easily, looks taut. Even if you are twenty and have only a tandenoy to dryness you will nood a gontie lubricant. You may bo or sixty and want a cream that is rich. Holana Rubinstein urges you to use these special lubricating creams at night. Smooth them In, in rhythmlo, upward strokes. Lullaby for a sleeping beauty!
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and at almost any time during the day. Whereas it is seldom possible to break of work and play the game of tennis, or take the sharp walk which would achieve the same result-delightful though it would be
is
child-
KNOWLEDGE of how to to loam how to breathe correctly? | H one could! Abreathe correctly is essen- But, you may ask, it is necessary to learn how to breathe? Surely one
Now, good breathing habits start tial for the development of does anyway, all the time?
early. Most ronscientious mothers "Dear Lois Leeds--1 feel the need healthy body allied to a healthy
Of course one does! But how? see to it that a child lams to sleep of an astringent but when i use mine
mind and spirit. For thou- There has been quite a lot of com. with its mouth shut and to breath after washing my face the skin draws sands of years we have known nyeuple contend that in exer. always the best
through its nose. Indeed, this over this very point.
of breathing in, and Itches. What do you suggest that certain types of breathing cising-whether it be 13. E. M."
the hosed to act as a could calm the mind and free parin or netual physical training vent them from entering the body.
ἐπ Hames, as
filter to possible germs and to pre- It sounds to me as if
the spirit.
the movements-the fact that the body But breathing Undoubtedly Irritating your skin by using
traluing in Is moving with away in which
purpose, and therhood should go further and become tringent just after soap and water.closely related
one breathes is fure automatically quickening the
also to mental pace of its breathing, is suffferent to a habit. The circulation is stimulated by the effort. One has only to watch trala the breathing apparatus to the washing, so you must use a different
Deep breathing before an open i plan. If you are sure that soap and a child, concentrated on
full.
window with no clothes on every water agree with your skin, use them, absorbing activity, and to notice the question.
There is, however, another side to morning is the ideal. Of course, but apply a bind, soothing cream the deepness and regularity of that the sim to be achieved is the body or jumping. Then au sorts No one would deny the child must first be warmed by afterwards. Then Us astringent
round the room or clapping fullest possible expansion of the the realdue of cream. Or change to
to make the daily breath- cleansing cream and astringent and
ing breathing exercises
which are then apply a little of your bland cream. I think the soap and water
designed to attain this and which be devised. Blowing an imaginary
this speciße object bi view, one have this
feather slong are irritating to your skin.
the window-sill; is obviously going to achieve more breathing in
deeply in order to have shorter time
by
brenth merely
to exercising the body as a whole and
rey Imaginary breathing Incidentally. And
riba the training thus achieved will stond its owner in good stead when it comes
Immy's
some
about an hour after removing any its intake of breath, to become; thorax or chest enge. By perform-ion fun rather than duty can
convinced of this fact.
partant and inter-related part of one's It, then, breathing is such an im-
well-being, surely it is worth while
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an
puff out
sideways to reach extended hands, breathing stretching the arms overhead,
cun geeing how far the
to performing moviments, which re-growing very tall-like- grant), the quire prolonged control co-ordina- breathing out, bringing the tion or skill.
arms
down to the sides ogain, (shrinking
Another point in favour of breath-like a dwarf).
ing exercises, as such, is that they The form of the exercises is not can be proelised regularly each day *** Immortint. What matters is
Two student
Lag enchers' training school demonstrate the exercise.
Gainsborough Studio
that the result is achieved: that is a fully expanded chest and a capa- elty to breathe deeply. In through the nose, out through the mouth shaped as for whistling.
-By QUIZ-
AFTER the cramped quarters of a
ship's bunk, the idea of a room
to myself had become almost an obsession. But when I was polated m the ration of Hying space allo tell me. In the hotel, my dream of being able to stretch stiff mind and Hmbs became an almost unobtain- able luxury.
The room was dimly lit by very low powered electric bulbs, and 1 could just discern my bed in the corner. And I rather wished I were Soviet Russian who, being used to communistic overcrowding, woulu not mind sharing a bedroom with five other strange women.
Much more at home than I wasl
Still, it was impressed on me that I was lucky to have a bed and a rouf at all. So, thinking back on barracks and school dormitories, I decited to take my present situation in the same spirit and commenced to unpack-not that I could unpack much, my hanging 'space being also strictly rationed.
Why is it that the dress one wants Invariably seems to hide right at the bottoin of u lurge trunk? And why do materials guaranteed crease- proof always come unpacked looking like crumpled rags?
As I was the last to join the 'night Dursery' I had to take back place in the order of the bath' un- fortunately the time and my inclina- tion rarely seemed to synchronise.
When sealed at the dressing table, and happening to glance over my shoulder, how my hair stood on end on seeing a large fal rat, obviously much more at home than i was, giv Ing a careful tollet to Its whiskers.
Cockroaches at night gave me the There is a pleasant custom at
creeps, especially when in their clumsy fight they collided with mèl Easter of giving photographs as
These methods should be followed.
A clcada used to serenade nightly presents, a custom much apn sense for exhilaration, as well as
for adults, too. It is amazing what Its mate, and it kept me from sleep JUNY much as the snores of my proved by photographers. it of chim and repose, regular brenth- co-bedders (who are fortunate în may seem a little early to be one feels that one has started the
Ing before an open window brings.being able to sleep through murder, talking about Easter, but the day right, with nind and body co reason is that the few weeks
ordinated and in harmony. before is one of the busiest times early morning practice breathing Pictured here is an exercise for for the photographer.
in as the arms part, and out as they come forward again..
We therefore ask you, if you of the ribs should be practised every In addition, the actual expansion
for Easter, not to leave it til aetion, and, as the inward breath is would like your portrait taken day. For this, the hands are placed on the ribs in order to feel their last minute, but phone for an taken, the ribs expand, sideways and behind as well as in front, to their appointment now.
fullest extent.
•
the
Gainsborough Studio Morning Post Bldg. (3nd Floor) Wyndham Streat Tel. 21224.
When breathing out do not allow the cheat cage to collapse, but keep will an upward lift of the ribs which maintain a sense of buoyant polse in the body.
Pract'se this cach morning and then endeavour to keep the upward poise for the rest of the day.
fire and sudden death), the click of mah-rong pieces, and the rest of the nolsy night life outside,
young children are living in ex- A family of parenta and, three perating propinquity in the room next door to judge by the peevish admonitions of the parents. yells of the children and the weary
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and
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