THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1947.
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{ WOMEN
Glamour
a la Mode
BY QUIZ
a theme
BOUT # century ar 60 Luster * Sil, Martene maken up for any
shining morning face was an ideal of beauty and to achieve satisfactory
aberration in tuste by having such lovely legs, and by her knack of grow the rustle belle looking elegant In stacks and used to grease hose and face with trousers. fresh country butter in order to
dazzle her admirers,
EGS have been the chief glamottr; denvery of the 20th Century.
But that shiny face would make After 20 years of day and evening
her a wall Bower to-day.
So Fashion changes
und
publicity they now go back into haling at night, covered by long. evening gowns, although there is a font nowadays, that mindern wo- man has to be a quick change artist heathlike tunic style, side-sht from
to keep abreast of the mode.
Delving into history, Madame enn igo all Grecian in the morning, have the snaky slļnkiness of a Mata Hari In the afternon, blossutaing out in the evening in, 15dwardian or Vir torian exulkornber, and be in the height of fashion all round the clock,
Some popular fushions have, been
a little too drastic. The Eton crop, for instance, had the disadvantage of typing a woman in the role of a waphisticated hoirboy unlil hair grew again-and. It was
Jen
not-
a particularly glamurous role either.
FILMS and stars have a tremendous
influence on modes and manners,
A spate of period films will be re- sponsible for rage in off-the-shoulder; frocks that are prevented from revealing too much by nothing more apparent than will power.
Very bare barebacks are not so fashionable, now that Jean Harlow has gone, but before the war they used to get quite dangeroudy low.
Marlene Dietrich socrißed glamour
hem to above the knee, which glas a provomative, mide-argi-reek view of leg.
Men, also, have had plenty of fun arraying themselves, Styles. In begrds gave, and still give, both the wearers and the beholders much entertainment, And there was the krat masbne sartorin! hey-day of glamorous broendes and laces, when perfumed and be-riblxened, Man strutted around-the peacock
the hum in face,
A
PATRICIA LENNARD'S
FASHION PARADE
illustrated by BATTERSBY
NTERCHANGE- ABILITY is a long word for the short cut to dresu sense
Build your wardrobe found
a theme so that every item you buy dovetails with the rest of your clothes.
Actually, this is something you De Bai doing six years Dgo. stretching your wardrobe by judicious selection and not By quantity buying You had to do 12 tira You should do it now and in the future-na a hubit
Choosing on bums a dress nad jacket froin the recent fiest com lection by Wallace, nere 1 an nll-the-year-suund wardrobe which any woman' an have made a taky to sini ner purse: you yoursel tau add other items--wenters, blouķes, a top- cout
combine the clothes aketched in different squr të sulk yourself
Colour plan
Our colours for this wardrobe are emeritid green for the jacket. black and white for the track. Try primuose. dark grey andË white, scarfel, navy and white. or pale blue, brown and white-
Hasie outlit (centre) is the two-plece sweater and skirt dreas, and odd jacket The long-sleeved sweater is in black and white striped wool jersey, worn under a matching skirt, which nas unpressed pleats for front fullness. Over this, wear the harvy Wool box Beket in vivid emerald, proetical beenuse of its intr undtied Unes
Here your Bucleus. Now let's start building. Top right, Wear the striped sweater top over in plairí bločk skiri Accessorise with nurrow senriet or in leather belt a slik sonary Out of doors, slip of the kat
BALANCE & GRACE
Bottom right: For easy living wear the sweater and jacket over emerald slacks-black slacka If you are bashful or broad in the best.
Bottom left: Achieve a short cut to glamour by wearing the striped skirt over n plain black Big-necked and three-quarter- deeved sweater.
Swathe a wide emerald cum- merbord round your waist, pin
By PRUNELLA STACK
(Lady David Douglas- Hamilton, director of the Women's League of Health and Beauty)
unself- your
It in place with an old-fashioned gold hatein, knobbed at each end.
Top left: For a formal even dine and dance in your plain black eventer and huge white rain taffeln skirt billowing all round in unpresset pienta
Again, you can uccessorise this outfit-fel pearls or gold at the Beck, or a wide and glittering belt. And your emerald green Jucket tops the outst Benin coming and going.
Polite baby
BY GRACE BARNES
T seems to many mothers that children reserve their worst manners for social occasions. You know how sweet your child can be.
LI, enlightened systems of mental awkwardness or maladjust- and
consequently physical training for women ment. And yet the mind and the consciousness, will be further im- are based on the knowledge that body are
. Yet somehow you've only got to so closely inter-related proved. tlant the problem can be tackled The ideal to be aimed for is that take him out and he behaves as if the outcome should be grace, arst from the physical side, which netion, when it is required, should you'd never given him any training poise, and beauty of physique, will then react on and improve the be smouth, not jerky or tense, and in good manners at all. and, with these ends in view, mental attitude.
that the body when at rest should be relaxed. Women
Often, of course, he behaves. In the acquisition of a sense of co-
fidget with their hands show Dul- that way because he knows your eye ordination and balance is empha-
ward signs of inward tension, and is on him.
sised.
can
How
those he achieved? Undoubtedly the best way is never to lose the natural grace with which one is endowed as a child Young children possess an unselfconscious- ness, a power of relaxation, and a corner- ure the suppleness which
It is only later in stones of grace. life. when the tyranny of desks be- gins to round the shoulders and the the strain of competition-lightena- nerves, that the child's natural grace and freedom of movement become stunted and damaged.
to the grotesque, when she started By encouraging good posture,
that it develops as
habit, and in-
the craze in which the fashion de culcating a health sense." the wise votee plucked out the natural eye-parent can do much to help a child brows and painted a Mephistophelian retain grace as lifelong possession. substitute a good Inch above where I mentioned the fact that children nature intended them to be-ahlev- are naturaily unselfconscious. This
thic ing a look of satante surprise not al is
secret
of grace, Much nice to live with!
physical awkwardness is duc
to
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Balance is another necessary In gredient of grace, and there are severni simple exerelses for im- proving balance which, if practised every day, will also help to develop. co-ordination of the body and grace. Hero-pro-soma:
happens to grown-ups on occasion. everything seems to go wrong.
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le repeats a remark he overheard Daddy make about Aunt Mary. It made everyone laugh when Daddy said it, but somehow it doesn't g> at all well now.
He shows off, he gets aggressive -and finally, perhaps, he gives up and bursts into tears.
1. HEEL- RAISING. Standing with toes and heels together and more you try to teach your
feet straight, raise the heels off the TIME -child "party" manners, the more
floor, pressing them closely together; likely it is that this sort of situation
again. Elght times. Hold Avill occur.
Lower
on to a support at first if necessary. When you can do this quite easily,
The fact that he is expected to without a support, with both feet, behave differently-without really try it on one foot alone, holding the understanding why-will make him other foot off the floor.
self-conscious.
Take the simple example of sitting down in a chair. If the body is well co-ordinated it is easy to 2. TAILOR. Holding with one And children dialike insincerity. lower yourself smoothly and grace- hand on to a support, raise buth They are quick to spot it even under fully, with the minimum of effort, heels; then bend the knees, keeping the disguise of social courtesy. into the chair. If. on the other them together, until they are fully hand, your movements are ungain bent and you are sitting on your ly, you will sit down suddenly with
a jerk, dir else lower yourself stiffly and painfully, leaning heavily on the
arm.
Test yourself next time you sit down and see which method you
Good manners should be taught as heels. Keep the body straight part of a child's routine, as much throughout. Gradually straighten for home as for outside, the knees again, returning to the. Regular washing of hands and starting position. Do this first with face, neatness at table, please" and a support and later without,
"thank-you" curtesies-small chill- 3. SIDE STRETCH. Try with adren plek these habits up very follow. It is by checking up on partner the exercise pictured, easily. such simple every day actions thar starting from an upright position, bodily grace can be improved. And then leaning away from your part-just for specini occasions.
But they must be habits, and not once you know that you are
ner to the fullest extent possible; forming these nctions with the and finally returning to the upright DEMEMBER, also, that you should minimum of effort and the maximum position. This Is an excellent test of efflelency, Your self-confidence, for balance and grace.
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