O
VAN HEUSEN
COL
GALORE.
EVERY SIZE FROM
13% to 18%
IN FOUR SHAPES,
1, 11,
77 and 99.
AND A FINE NEW RANGE OF
ENGLISH WASHING TIES
ON SHOW IN THE WINDOW
AT
MACKINTOSH'S
Gantner
OF CALIFORNIA
The Most
Glamorous
Bathing Suits
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1949.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
TONE UP
This
way-it's easy
Exercises to tone up your figuro. · And everything you need can be found in the
home. So no excuses!
"TyUE daily half-dozen-much despised,
perhaps because they cost nothing are still the best way to tone up the muscles, pep up the circulation,” and correct your curves.
1:
They are a "must" for anyone. DOORWAY STRETCH; Put your feet to- gether, your back against the door frame. Now cross your arms behind your back 'and hold the woodwork. Let yourself drop forward until your arms are straight. Arch your back, and lel your head hung buckwards. Relox, stand_up again, case your fingers, then repeat the move- ment.
CHAIR BEND: Place your right foot on a 4 kitchen chalr, and bend your body slowly over the left leg.· Keep your right arm close tof the head. Repeat with the olier foot.
3 WALL STRETCH: Stand an arm's length
nway, from the wall, your hands flat on the wall at shoulder level. Dead your arms and· sce it you can touch the wall with your chest.' Keep your head up.
PILLOW LIFT: Get fat on your back and stretch out your legs. Hold a pillow be tween your feet. Inize your tega slowly from the floor, still gripping the pillow, Lower your legs again, keeping knees straight. The exer- cle is less than half as good if you lower the lei's quickly.
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WALL FLOWER: Gei na close to the wall as you can, with you body at right-angled to it,
If you are pressed for time- choose any tree exercises and alternate them dally with any of the nthers.
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Beach fashions will
startle the
by EILEEN ASCROFT
LONDON.
EACH fashions from the Paris summer col- lections are brilliant in colour, crazy in design.
In the World! trunks and bolero, fringed with
Schiaparelli shows black linen
Solc Agents: U. SPALINGER & CO., LTD. York Bldg.
Tel. 26774.
SORE THROAT?
Stearns Pine Tar and Honey quickly cools and soothes your sore,-irritated throat relieves hoarseness and loss of speech from colds
stops painful coughing Pleasant-tasting, ideal for children. Re commended by doctors. Get a bottle today!
STEARNS
ALWAYS LOOK FOR THIS LABEL
PINE TAR AND HONEY
POPULAR SWIMSUITS
'by
Cole
OF CALIFORNIA" |
NOW AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT
Paquerette
. SHOES & ACCESSORIES
GOWNS
Ltd
Glaususter Bldg., 16 Des Voeux Rd., C.
wool, worn with a topee. Black satin bathing dresses are fasten- ed up the back with another-af- pear buttons.
Bruyere features a white linea funle, trimmed with larian, over tartan slacks; also blue und white gingham smock over short tan trousers,
Marcel Rochas presents yellow linen "gaucho" trousers buttoned on ton shirt blouse and black cotton tzigane strapless petii- coats with matching trunks,
Jean Denses uses maize colour and navy blue for many bench outfits; blouses have long stoles from the waist to swathe as belt or neross the shoulders as scarves.
Molyneux Introduces chokers of egg-sized pearls" to be worn" with sunsults.
£22 TROUSSEAU
FOR readers whose figures are quarter
not fashion-plate but who busque. SU want youthful styles I have collected n holiday trousseau.
crowds
PIRATE PANTS in Black linen sing with gold coins worn with wif teen shirt and pirate scarf ea sleeves and
All these clothes are
IN NEW YORK, men's washable suits of n
new cotton cloth.
und your knees drawn under your chin. Then, with lo steps, crnw! up the wall like n climbing Bower, Keep.on "walk- Ing" until your, back is of the Noor. Draw your legs back again by back-pedalling very slowly.
BATH BEND: This one is excellent after a bath. Perch on the edge of the bath, 'with your logs pushed out forwards and sideways. Keep your heels on the floor and hands straight. Throw your arms above your hend, keep your tuinmy in, and bend forward and touch your toes.
• Similar exercises, and many others popularised in America by Veronica Dengel, are to be pub- lished soon in Britain by Faber and Faber,
-(London Express Service)
COSMETIC VALUE OF
THE BATH
By HELEN FOLLETT
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Beripi roll bonnet in black, piped with velvet to tone, and trimmed simply with velvet bow. Designed by Ange Thaarup.
THE HATS OF
A
A PRINCESS
By Joan Erskine
London, April 29. Another type is "bobbled" all AGE THAARUP, who over, giving an appearance of returned from a visit flower heads. A most unusual to Copenhagen last "wig" hat is made of binek horše Friday, spent a hectie week- hair carefully worked to give
cess Margaret is wearing during her visit to Italy.
end designing the hats Prin- the appearance of hair. It als closely, colls in a smooth roll down one alde, and sports o scarlet rose. A hat for a Spanish festn-light as romantic ns a mantilla.
n feather, and
I called at his showroom
on Tuesday, just in time to
daily bath. A rousing old sce Princess
Margaret's.
L
A
tiny cloche in soft pink
OF real cosmetic value is the scrubbing every clay with "aight-seeing" hat before it bobbly straw, which pulls well plenty of warm water, a, bland was whisked
a stiff brush serves packed, con route to
away to be soap and
down over the hair, and a the more purposes than that of Palnce. It was
dainty hat with a flurry of a simple snowdrops as trimming, are na keeping the epidermal surfaco
large brimmed white preity in a vitalising clean. It acts manner on the skin, helping it straw-the only large hat smooth shiny navy straw is
she is taking.
to function as an organ of IN THE SOUTH
elimination and a regulator of OF FRANCE, pirate pants by Pierre Bat-body heat. It brings a senzo main in back linen of self-respect and well being. bung with gold coins, IDEAS DEPT.
BR
1
If you're tired as an old dray- horse, it will restore strength. ▶RAINWAVE from
I soothes sizzling nerves that the beauty world. comes in the form of curl up nt the edges, makes "Thick and Thin" them pipe down and be quiet. One night say that it has an lipsticks. Set con- sists of an ordinary
enlivening effect upon the lipstick In glit case spirits, considering how many with a baby brother
bathroom singers and yodelers "outliner"" In
there are in the land. matching case, Join- ed together by a smart gilt chatu. In seven shades, costs 76. d..
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ATEST
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д
set
Interior
Lecorating colour
schemes feature dark wall shades and one- colour themes. 'Dark green-------walls -off
and.
hite carpet, oyster white ceiling curtains navy blue walts, panels for pictures in off-white, plented covers in navy and white, off- while curtains and rugs, young
KREMLIN TOUCH SOMETHING nice to cat. Wal-
and smart, but hip sizes go up
It will take you to town, beach to Sein, und Coin. for the coat.
THEY ARE WEARING
Also, it gives a girl an op- portunity to indulge in' bath tolletrics that are
perfectly wonderful these days. Pour some tangy pine bath oil in the water, for instance; it will leave you feeling extra fresh.
After your tubbing, have an alternating hot and cold shower, then u brisk rub-down with a coarse... towel. After that you. will enjoy a friction with a bath tonie that will make you smell sweet all the day long.
The cosmetic effect upon your complexion will be greater
Cocktail hat, helmet shaped with assymetrio movement. carried out in black feathers _and__trimmed with three- marguerlies. Designed by Aage Thaarup.
113 ♫
spring day. A
lined beneathi the brim with. white
Broderic grosgrain. anglaise lines a brim and is cleverly cut into tiny stiffened flowers to decorate another hat. Alternate layers of black and natural straw were used to make another small neat shape. Some of the Swiss straw was made Into flowers for trimming, with strands 013 Ans
gossamer.
For Ascot and important race days, we were told, the hat must very definitely dip to the side, whether it be large or small. A white smooth straw, with clusters of yellow and white flowers, touched with crimson made a smooth clean lino righi across the forehead. The flowers dipped right to the side,
lustrated are two of Angu Thanrup's latest" creations," This famous designer from Denmark has firmly established himself in London as a creator of ex- tremely original and distinctive bat He has a very definite the other idea behind all his collections-a
Mr Thaarup told about some
of
me
if you wash and cream your hats she will wear. They thema which he carries out with ince before getting into the tub. are small, cloche shapes, great care and his reputation The combination of steam will have a beneficial ping slightly towards the
all and assymetric, with brims dip in world-wide. effect upon blackheads if h happens that you are cursed right side, as she parts her with them. It will also give hair on the left. coftness and fresh colouring to your complexion.
or dining and dancing.
Included 15
tailored
nuts preserved in honey are "Unenetle" dress in larkspur blue with a flecked navy spol. It has
IN FLORIDA, fishwifo skirts in Stalin's favourlie delicacy. Crack elbow-length sleeves front but-
brilliant hand-blocked cot-lb. of good walnuts and divide toning panel, attractive scalloped ton, with fullness caught up in in halves. Scold with bolling
For cocktail and restaurant water to remove skins, atrali shoulder trimming
wear she will have a tiny and white front like a fishwife's apron.
IN PARIS, white pique boleros and dry. Meit Alb, honey with touches at the neck.
black Now that hot weather is on
Bmooth-fitting
clocke over day and evening frocks and pint of water and bring slow-
you must not fall to apply tried to keep tho
almost helmet-like. She ly to the boil. Drop the walnuts The coal is a navy edge-to- pique waistcoats with suits.
into syrup and simmer
or deterrent
number of edge, In light wool with scallop-
until IN ESTORIL, one-piece bath oft.
to your arm-pils. (Recipe comes from a
These pre-
hats down to a minimum, and ed top and waist tle. Suit is in ing costumes with high tops and
in several cases one that will coolery books). fascinating series of foreign porations come in various forms
match two dresses. ---creams, Ilquids, powders. If one does not do the business, another one will
slmw colour "Jinenetto" with skiria. (You can be fined £50
open design, collar and pocket the spot for exposing a Inpel in light navy, Jacket is midriff or too much bosom.) belted, with long sleeves,
For evening or afternoon u polka-dot two-piece. In light navy and white, with white collar Jumper top has three-
Stop Worrying About Teeth
are now
Modern dentists warning: don't worry about los- ing teeth, or you probably will, In fact, don't worry!. Many per- *sons are losing teeth because of
excess worry.
Dr Merrill Swenson; professor bfidentialry at the University of Oregon, advises people to take li The dental professor explained
when people worry,
they
casy.
・that"
grit and clench teeth. That, he sold, weakens surrounding bone and leaves spare for decay.
But Swenson said he wasn't going to worry about other people losing their teeth. I wants to keep hin
Be Careful!
You'll have to be careful when disposing of an, old duorescent Imp.
barc
-(London Express Service)
..
A
deodorant
Scarves for windy days
By CHERRY MARSHALL
FEW women can go hat...
less on a windy day without looking untidy. with the new fashionable. Iwists Scarves for your hair tied
can look attractive.
Silk, fine wool, and cotton tie and drape more caslly than material with a shiny surfaco,.
Scarves made from Batin slip their knot and
Juse shape.
Artificial flowers and fruit are attractive Ins- tened to the side of a turban, but use them moder- ately,
plexions. Eye-shadow
and masenra are Inappropriate for sunshine.
Although a greasy complexion will wear well out of doors, keep toned-up by mixing a toa~. spoonful of cau-de-Cologne with the water in your wash-basin, patting It Into the face as a mild nstringent.
One is his popular cocktail hat-helmot shaped with assymetric movement. It is black feathers carried out in
amooow and
shape
and trimmed with narguerlies whito, black. The accentuates the face in a highly has flattering way, The other is a
script roll
bonnet done in black straw piped with velvet to tone, and trimmed simply with a velvet bow. This is one of his Ascot hals. It veers right-away from the usual line, and is n of the type of hat
Another interesting point in the Princess's size. It is well known
fortaste that she is extremely petlie, but, according to Aage which may rival the cloche this Thanrup, her head is simply summer.
minute!" He continued: "She always chooses clothes with tiny waists, you know, and bouffant skirts, so I havo de- signed for her very snuit close- fitting hats-all very youthful,"
FASHION NOTES
NEAR-with your prettiest
hal-Pearls.
They bro still top favourites in the jewellery world.
L.S. Mayer. show twisted chokers of steel grey and pink pearls, grey and and a very white ones, pear shaped drops, patterned pearl necklace, which attractive wide falls in a curved collar,
SCATTER tiny, dragon Nes and minute elephants profusely over your lapel or collar.
Two small white hats, and a tan one to match a sult, are included. The tan hat has two enormous bobbles on the si, likduiniaturo snowbalky Wo nil hope the famous Italian, sun- For evenings, use. brighter will live up to its reputation colours that stand up well to while Princess Margaret is artificial Ight That means there, and that the sea will look crimson lipstick instead of pinksos. blue as the guide books teli
ADAPT an American idea for Sand orange-reds..
us it is.
summer, and twist long strands of tiny gold and while bonds Don't use cream under a pow Nearly all Ange Thaarup's into fat chokers to wear with a der base if the evening is warm new hats follow the same lino- light summer dress. or includes dancing. The heat small, head-hugging, and side- will make the grease shino
. STRIKE a severe noto with dipping. through and cause the powder notable exceptions.
plated plastic gold and alliver' to cake.
Augornamente like ancient Celtic rough straw in ido green: has two cnormous white dahlias jewellery, which have the effect "wearing off-the-shoulder dresses, and you tend to be sal-placed on one side, with a touch of polished powter.
of green In their low, your face and neck need Another very large white,straw contres. with bleaching is turned up at the back, and the
Abovo's Use a long straight scarf for this styla. Drape the anda to one side Left: Vie a square scarf..
Tia li like " "
nurse's cap
Tone down on make-up. Heavy powdering tends to
If
treatment creams.
There area, fow
#
Make your own scarf with length of
Grey
JINGLE fow heavy old Jersey, white
coins from your belt. You will pique, checked Bingham, or strip-
crown covered with green laurel And it is fairly easy to get them Tollet vinegar or ed taffeln.
cau-de- leaves. At the side is a dash of glided to add sparkle to your
qulelor dresses, S If Klass from broken
Avold excessive exposure to show up wrinkles and skin Cologne massaged Into the palms scarlet. fluorescent lamp cuts a person, strong sunlight. A protective blemishes under strong light. and fingers prevent them get-
BUY sunglasses with wide months
The majority of his hats aro .may pass before the cream will act as a sun filter and The present trend towards Ung sticky. cut heals.
allow fanning, to take place soft, feminine colours in make- Nylon fashes are now avait made of straw, or at least have frames, and paint tiny clusters
Howers straw in them.somewhere. The idea is American and expensive.. on the sides. The The beryllium phospate in a gradually, and safely."
up is particularly becoming in bble. They and when up wind beautiful hand-made coating on.
your own. lashes when applying comes
variety the inside of thu Skin sau la affected by the open, niv.
This mathod is home-made and tube la considered to be the
from Switzerland, "and ultra-violet raya Zeven in the
lipsticks and mascara, and look real,
sometimes is worked to give the 2
economical A "enuzo-of-the-infection.
Labsence-ok-sunshine."
Kreuges are, fattoring Jo_all_som:.
den Kärrent Service) appearance of a loaf design. ->
- Lilac - toned
~London Express Harvics)";