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Highlight of your wardrobe fri navy and white.

away from black.

Get

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 30, 1988

She's not so young.. as she used to be!

"Clothes are easy when you're 'Clothes techniqué changes with young. Fashion pages forget the the years. It grows in grace. Fa- "over-forty' women. I'm fifty-three. shion after forty is full grown. It Perhaps you'll laugh at a back num- does not experiment with old, bizar- ber like me... but I am still clothes- re or catch-season ideas.. conscious. I don't want to look like It can, on the other hand, be my daughters, but I do want to be dramatic. 'noticed' now and again.”

Over forty. Back number. Fifty- three. I thought ahead a few years and got busy quickly. Time mar- ches on, but we're going to keep in step. Fashion blossoms in matur- ity.

Best friend to the mature woman is her foundation garment.

This should be the best she can afford. It should control and per- suade her contours. It should also To be different is not so import allow her freedom of action. ant. To be dignified is essential

Half my "getting on" readers com- Mothers-and grandmothers can plain of corsets which make them- steal the fashion thunder any day selves felt at every turn. in the week if they get rid of their back number complexes..

VALUES

in Hit of the Picnic FOODS

COOKED MEATS

Roast Leg Pork

.T.20 lb.

Pressed Tongue

1.50

Pressed Beef

84

Pressed Pork

.85

Pork Pie

Meat Pie

Your "dressy frock-hal clever cutting can do for the bigger tooman

The drapery up top should meet but not cross over. Any fullness An all-in-one garment with a in the skirt should be concentrated strong brassiere is often a better at the kneeline at the front and buy for the over-forty woman than back. In two-piece foundation.

You will see what I mean in the Tailored lingerie always. It looks second sketch. This dress would better and wears longer.

be good in black, a dark clear green, Unless you still buy your frocks or in spice brown.. It would also in the small woman's department, look charming in the small clear choose lingerie tailored "on straight."

the prints of 1938.

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Bias-cut materials are inclined For a hat the sailor gets full to drag, and on outsize figures have marks. horrid convex habits.

COLOURS

Navy and white get full marks for any wear. Black "relieved" with something or other is too often lover-forty uniform.

Black is elegant if the material is good and allied to clever acces- [sories.

For "occasions" have it flat and widebrimmed in dark felt. A twist of petersham or a miniature pair of wings are enough trimming.

For every day-the

Edwardian

boater is.. the answer. Tricornes Black with plain gold jewellery. and sports shapes are good, but. Black with rose quartz pink. Black 'ware halos, pill boxes and with gardenia white, amethyst, dull peaks.

comic

clover pinks and one or two of the Shoes. Dark, plain and large hydrangea blues.

enough is the recipe for foot level Browns, neutrals and the beige chic.

family

hardly ever.

Suede and kid are better than patent.

Avoid colours which run up into A simple buckle to hide a strip the of elastic is a better choice than a and plain court.

the complexion. You know kind I mean the dress ends the neck begins, but nobody knows where.

In summer middle-aged..___women can wear turquoise and dusty pink and deep cream, in spite of the fact that these are listed as "young" colours.

Gusset shoes are excellent if they are simply cut.

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Here she comes and she's fifty- three.

Dark dress. Immaculate acces- sories. Dark wrinkled gloves. Um- brella and handbag to match.

Her face and her clothes took

HOME MADE PIES,

.32 ea.

Chicken

This is a cape year. This is & Ham $1.20 lb. good news for my friend who is poised and experienced. They have .32 ea.

Veal & Ham

still clothes-conscious. A tailored character.

·1.00 lb.

They are front page dress and cape will put her right clothes. They never heard of back Sausage Rolls

.12 ea.

on the fashion map.

Navy and white. The navy-one of the fine firmly woven woollens. The white... pique.

OWN MAKE SAUSAGES

Cambridge .80 Tomato .70

FARM GROWN LETTUCE .15 cts. ea.

Oxford

80. Chippolata .90

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ideal

Sylvaine has sketched, an design. The cape is faced with a white slip which can come off to be laundered. This looks fresh and takes inches off "frontage."

The shoulders are tailored to fit without a wrinkle. The dress makes capital of simplicity.

Pleats grouped flatly in front and held in place. with stitching. Crisp little bows of fine white pique slip- [ped through double buttonholes and

tied once.

sug

can the

The ensemble is merely a' gestion A.clever. woman change the colour scheme or details to suit herself.

·A "soft" dress is often a big problem. ́ ́The standard middle- aged frock is jabot-minded.

My choice for the woman whose face and figure is mature would be a dress with a gently draped bodice. and a skirt very smoothly fitted on the hipline.

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