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EVERY SATURDAY
1948
WOMANSENSE
TIPS ON GOOD GROOMING
By HELEN FOLLETT
M durability of
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play with, and it boosta morale.
characteristica Every mouth has manent wave depends..
of its own that must be taken into upon the thorough shampoo, consideration when the lips aro which is the basic principle of tinted. The pattern of the
mouth hair loveliness. The home portals usually harmonises with the shampoo is not always what always safe to try out an unnatural other features that is why it is not should be. You are fighting design. If there is a bow line it a combination of atmosphere may be emphasised alightly. dust and sebaceous oll; it does.
centre the of the work out toward the not give way easily. Tho
end. Or if you wish you can shampoo medium must be first skotch a gint oullino, All in with class, washing technique per- the lipstick brush, a cute little trick. fect.
the that forces the pigment ino .creases, forming a smooth, solid ap- plication.
Start, 1861 Application in
De neat and cunning. See that both sides match perfectly, Hasty can got 鼈 lop-sided effect.
Start with a brisk brushing fot- lowed by a warm water rinsing, with bath spray. Using a good liquid-conditioning shampoo, do zig-tip-inters zaj, rubbing along the hair line forward, sides and back. Gradually fluff up the suds to the crown of the head. When scrubbing the crown
let thumbs and Angers meet, do a vigorously clowing movement.
Warm Water
spray
Instead of turning on the to remove the lather, keep pouring uittin' warm water the head to weaken the suds. While doing this, Цеср lifting the hair, strand by strand. Then turn on the spray, using water as hot as can be com fortably endured nad. rlash thoroughly.
Repent the lathering, repeat the spraying. It the hair is extremely olly, there should be three soupings
Beautiful Eyes
If the features are large one can shool the lipstick, works, but when the features are small and delicate, one must stay the hand, know when and where to stop. It is well to think on this subject when you haul out the make-up box, preparo to make yourself a new face.
Girls with beautiful eyes make a mistake if they use too vivid colour- Ing on the lips. The beholder looks at the startling appilcation, falls to notice the soul' orbs which, after all, form the most Interesting feature:
help
A magnifying mirror is a when one resorts to complexion
Right, black lett ix folded Bat into an off-the-face silhouette which
in paved over the face with
pink roses and buds.
and veiled with
sheer black. Velvet ribbon
chin
strings.
FULL-PAGE FEATURE
Nicole de Paris
She's Engaged!
Geneviece has a complex-
ton white as milk-smooth as velvet
• Genevieve takes special care
of her skin with Pond's,
First Sho slips Pond's Cold Cream over face, throat. Pats to soften and release dirt and make- up. Wipes off.
Next: She "rinses" with more Luffy Pond's, to keep her skin'
She's Lovely!
She uses Pond's!
extra clean, extra soft. Wipes off.
Every morning, every night. follow Genevieve's way of using Pond's. You'll see why engaged girls like Genevieve and beanti- ful sockely women like The Lady Moyra Forester, choose Pund's \Cold Cream.
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Pretty
and
Girls who look after bodily freshness get so much farther in life, Keep yourself sweet and taintiess this sure, economical way. Every time you wash. or have a bath, put a little Milton in the "Water. Morning and night, do Milton Underarm Delll. Paz Milton on full strength and let it dry right in. Milton, the unique antiseptic, kills all odours and keeps you perfectly dainty at all times and seasons.
Sweet
Milton ANTISEPTIC
Read Instructions for the many, other antiseptle uses of Milton
Courtesy In Crosse
After buffing, apply cuticle cream and use the pusher over so gently to the nails.
and a final rinse with vinegar. Fill the wash bowl with warm water, add three tablespoonfuls of vinegar. pour over the head, lifting the hair so the water will be distributed.
The important part is to keep working up the lather with a little warm waler added. Otherwise you may have so thick and rich a sads that removal by the spray is not casy. This method is used by many Beauty shops. As the water is add- ed, the suds are squeezed away from tho hair and then the spray IK used.
The balls of the fingers, instead of the tips should be used when manipulating the scalp since. finger nails may cause liny abrasions.
the
If dandruff is present, the scalp should be massaged with hat mineral oil the night before the shampoo.
The Lipstick
Every woman will agree that the lipstick is first and foremost among the items in the beauty kit. It has
become
institution. Dn
Some- times It is used wisely, sometimes
Robb
artifice. Place i In a strong light and go to it.
We
Before liquid nail polish became an institution, the giris used a pink powder and a buffer to shine. up the finger tip shells. Now we are told by those who know that had better go on a hunt for
dis- carded toilet tools, And that old friend and start bung. Not good that the liquid glow is to bo abolished. Not at all! You put a drop of cuticle oil or cream on each nall-right over your
polish-and buff like everything.
Nail Food
in
The purpose of this treatment is to speed up the blood streams underlying tissues. Your nails live on the nourishment they bring. The more good food they have, the less likely the chance that nails will be brittle or that ridges will fort. Incidentally, -the all seeps into the surrounding cuticle, keeping it soft, so that the nearest touch, of the pushor will keep it detached from the nail fabric.
And here is another interesting item; if you file your nails down far at the sides, they will be likely to break because you are weaken- ing the protective cushions.
Those tiny white spots that some- times appear on human talons are often caused by pressure at the nail base. It has a deplorable effect upon the matrix, the new nail fabric that is constantly being pushed out in tiny, delicate, overlapping scales.
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Hats to Frame a Pretty Face
NICOLE
By PRUNELLA WOOD
OLE do Paris can tie a bowknot like no one else who ever created a hat, and when she chooses to use flowers as trimming, the blooms look as if they had grown on the spot with as much ardor and life as if they had their roots in a garden.
Here we have both a ribbon bowknot and a flower trim. Description of the flowered model is printed beside it; tho hat with the ribbon bow, just above, ia. navy cire straw, with a moulded, upawept brim, against which is sprayed a bowknot of navy and yellow chartreuse ribbons.
Florodora Back On Fifth Avenue
By ARTHUR WEBB
round the brim.
T is a "new look" spring in strings under the chin and daisies
America. Opposition to longer skirts and bulgy hips seems to have petered out.
There is no evidence that American women wanted the new look," They just could not help themselves. No other dress styles are on sale.
All this distresses the photogra- phers who specialised in the leg art. Tho cheesecake arlists (they stress sex-appeal) fear they will be on the brendline until playsulis come out the summer, even more re- vealing than ever if one can judge by previews.
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there Meanwhile,
a great lefting-down of old dresses by those who are trying to keep in the fashion without running into debt.
Today suits (grandiņa called them costumes) are less plain and man- nish. They have what is called, somewhat unromantically, a· "poa- terior ripple."
George R. Sims and George Edwardes would feel quite at homo on New York's Fifth-avenue this spring, for it has a Florodora
air.
Not all the fastion "experts" ap- prove of the American adaptations
of the French "new look," but in the great warehouses of Lower Broadway the Yankee "new look" Is being mass-produced and is bo- ing sent all over the United States at a time when shops are reporting
a falling-off in sales. The "new look" may set the cash register ringing again.
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One outspoken. eritle, however. says the new dresses have turned women into football players from the waist up and Gay Nineties' characters from the waist down. She prophesies that shoulder pads will go and that women may soon have natural shouldórs again.
Unfortunately she has no predle. artificial tions as to the fate of bosoms--"fulsles" to the New York society columnists. There is no mystery about these feminine ad- juncts. Every store advertisement shows how a girl can be a Turner for a dollar or two.
Jackets are flounced at the back to give a bustle effect and skirts have lost their straight country house lines. They are flared to
from stand away
the hips,
number and " still have not although they
got
Lana
But the "new look" has created LE
of problems. The furriers were not let into the secret
back to the mid-Victorian, models and few fur coats were designed to dresses are moving steadily back 80 with langer dresses.
to the crinoline.
And an Easter bonnet, with rib- bons, made its reappearance. It had
It has enused consternation even among Girl Guides for whom new uniformy with below-the-knev skirts are being hastily designed.
Boudoir Beauty
Lingerie for a hope chest.
BY VERA WINSTON
A GEM FOR the bridal lingerie chest is this lovely ensemble of real boudoir
laca
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FED and oyster white double
beauty. It is aheer. The negligea has Д
edged capolet, below the dropped shoulder line, that dips to a point in bark. Lace outlines the hip yake and forms a border from neck to hem. Tho gown has a simple lace- ́edged round neck and is fitted
with a flared skirt.
spends a sunny afternoon pre-viewing the Newest Look in summer frocks
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BUYERS have been watch-
Ing
London's latest dis-
play of new length cotton frocks. Backing a hunch that cotton dresses will continue to be the fastest selling item on the fashion floors, they are buying heavily now for sale In May and June.
were
Horrockses Crewdson (where these shows held) predict a boom in coiton frocks unequalled since 1938. Three main reasons: (1). Most women's summer wardrobes ara badly stocked. (2) Col- ton has gone up in the world. It used to be considered suitable only for seaside or country, now it is worn
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in smartest town restaurenta.- (3) The immense improvement In patterns and design of Intest
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Square buttoned, yoks ·
Of shoulder bodioe matches.buijan-up: (with drawsfzing neck-
Button through
drase has plain:
Fichu bodies with gathered skiri 'ond · White
Jerkin top; akiri gathered on at hip level;
· White collar and Cuds, unpressed pleats in-akiet;}