1938-01-15 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 15, 1938.

Swing a

Leg-and have

A

slimhips

SLIM, neat hip line is an

asset.

A broad,

spreading hip line is not.

There are no two ways about it.

The one makes all the dif- ference in the world to the The one makes all the difference in -the world to the set of your clothes, the line of your silhouette and the grace of your walk, and the other ruins the look of a good frock, gives you a bulge in your figure- profile and makes it very hard for you not to waddle like a duck.

Never mind.

Try to correct your hip line by "swing a leg." Here's a very easy exercise. Begin to do it now.

DO THE EXERCISES LIKE

ONE

THIS

Hold on to a chair-back with your right hand and rise on to the toes of the right foot. Now swing your leg forward

Then swing

it backward to TWO Swing easily and vigorously forward and backward like this twenty times. Keep your body upright and your knee straight, but not stiff. Now turn round and do the same thing with the other leg.

THREE

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Holding the

chair as before, swing your leg easily and vigorously sideways.. upwards and down

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twenty times. Then turn-round and do the same with the other

leg.

Her Hair is

Going Grey!

Q. I am very distressed because my hair is going grey Is there any gland I can take to stop this before it goes too far?

worse. A bland diet, liquid paraffin and very small doses of cascara would suit you much better.-

A. I'm sorry to say that nothin QI suffer from anaemia and I have will stop it. Early greyness runs in been taking liver extract for months; some families, and is occasionally due but I don't seem to get any better to a gouty tendency. It might be A. Liver cures pernicious anaemia, worth having this investigated, but but not the other kinds. For simple that is as much as you can do.

Q I broke my leg a year ago, play- ing hockey. It seems quite all right now. Do you think it would be safe for me to start playing again?

A. If the leg is perfectly straight, it should be stronger than it was before the fracture and it will be quite safe for you to play.

-- I have always been constipated and have been told to eat plenty of "roughage. But all this does is to give me a pain.

anaemia you must take iron. Liver as well helps, but the iron is essential and in large doses. Any chemists will sell you a good preparation.

Q. Do you believe in having tonsils out; because I don't, but the doctor says mine ought to be done. Isn't there a dict I could take to cure them?

A. What you really mean is that you are in a blue funk about it. That's the usual reason why people don't be- lieve in operations. Be a man. You'll survive. Get a second opinion about it first.

Are lemons good for slimming?

Because

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WOMEN BUY HUBBY'S CLOTHES

It Does Not Mean That They Do Not Need Aid

USINESS men in London

B dislike more and more any

thing in the nature of uniform outfit. The frock coat and top hat enjoyed an exceptional run, covering not only decades but generations. At long last the more graceful lines of a morning coat were preferred; but the #reign of the cutaway in shops and offices was short. At the right moment a well-known fin- ancier adopted a black jacket and waistcoat with striped trousers, which permitted mem- bers of the Stock Exchange and others to retain their glossy top- pers. Tradesmen and shap as- sistants followed suit, but wore derbies.

Gradually this characteris- tic dress lost its hold because· men preferred the sartorial free- dom of the leisured classes. The younger men jibed at a special brand and bought stylish suits of dittos. This spread from

stockbrokers to merchant and

finally to managers and assis- tants.

trousers with his Foreign Office hat. I saw him a short time ago in such attire, the trousers of black worsted with sharply defined white stripes and socks

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suite. He carried gloves, hat and umbrella in left hand, the right unhampered for greeting friends. Most members of the Cabinet possess such a suit and make good use of it.

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New Style Overcoat

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new overcoat has made an appearance, a two-way belted style. The belt may pass across back outside, enter slots at side, and then fasten inside at front. all-round belt outside. Also it can become loose or close-fitting at wearer's discretion. In over- coats as well as suits and even with dress clothes there is the noted in black same demand as jackets; customers will have pattern to brighten up the sur- face. As one tailor phrased it. "They require an Interesting cloth.

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Favoured Dark Gray And Blue A Spice Of Novelty

I recently asked a City tailor

scarf is generally all-white or with black mono- gram and fringe. Some of the new designs break down conven- tion. One displays a neat win- dow-pane check as motif. - An- other inserts little top hats woven in the material, No sur- prise will be felt if gay little figures in top hats, white ties und tails dance or

of standing if his customers had given up this rig altogether. He replied that few black jacket suits were made; and most men. in Throgmorton Street and dis- trict favoured dark gray and dark blue worsteds. When black jackets actually are o

ordered, they are not of plain cloth, but of Shethand herringbone raised herringbone worsted; which applies to morning Coats as well. I also learned that black double-breasted reefers have a following. On good rule is that trousers accompanying such coats should not be made with turned-up hems.

Gone Into Public Service

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up and down scarves and wraps. An enter- prising hosier sponsors silk handkerchiefs with a spice of novelty, white with a red pat- tern and red scored with white discs. For customers' benefit a space is left in the corner

for monogram.

Braces become less conservative and leather tends to popular. For example: one pair is in dark and light-brown shades, the other of plaited fea− ther in dark brown. You can also buy elastic braces finished with chains instead of leather and cord.

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Ties For Tastes Many

It would be a mistake to sume that an outfit with such an honourable past has 1

lost tige. On the contrary, it has moved up in the social scale. Statesmen and politicians find it useful for the House of Com mons, for public luncheons, and when visiting their constituen- cies. There is something safe and reassuring about it; more- over it calls for smart accesso- ries. - You need good shoes with the trousers, a whit

collar with

ties in dozens or scores, so that manufacturers ablack

are constantly the jacket, above all, homburg or derby. Politicians

welcome this kit as a compro- mise between the formal and those tweedy clothes which smack of recreation or eveil

levity. And most politicians find public life itself largely a mat ter of compromise.

. I have been taking them for six months, With The Foreign Office Hat

A. Your kind of constipation is due but don't get any thinner. to having: am irritable intestine, which A. Lemons make a nice refreshing screws itself up painfully and lets no- drink, but I don't know of any conat thing through Roughage makes, this tion at all they are good or bad for..

Mr Anthony Eden delights in black jacket and striped

Men pay more attention to- ties than any article in the wardrobe; and it has become an anxiom that cravats indicate

characterMany number their

launching fresh designs. Stripes. whether single, or in clusters, are set wider apart to chime with current suits and shirts. Madder designs appear in the smartest-windows-with-woven Paisley patterns in foulard silk, For those who prefer neat but distinctive styles there range of geometrical designs dark grounds, Possibly the most attractive ties to be seen those with floral designs.