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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 4, 1988.

Beauty and You

Long persaral

by PATRICIA LINDSAY

ions, rolled stockings and smoking dur-

ing office hours are strictly taboo if you want to hold your job.

THE NEW FIVE WAY AFTERNOON DRESS

Here's a basic dress

with the

new high-shouldered sleeves, tiny waist, and definite bustline that

has no less than five different per-

sonalities, all charming. You can haye this design perfectly plain, with a high neckline to be worn. with clips, or tie a sash around the slim waist. If you prefer a

detailed neckline make it either, with the little round bow-trimmed collar, or turned back at t the throat and trimmed with flower-- The fifth version gives you a soft

rolled collar, cut in one with

sash that girdles your waist (Jand ties in the front! contrasting

colour if you

DON'T BE AN OFFICE MENACE! This versatile delalen, 13-36 493y

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nected."

Beauty is as beauty does in the your charm. Most bosses prefer to work with. office as elsewhere.

to pick their own charmers after Gradually there is being formed business hours.” unwritten laws for office behaviour and the girl who is aware of them, and obeys them, has a better chance of promotion than the girl who ignores them.

Take for instance the small mat- ters of grooming. Small but im portant. Tidy appearance, personal daintiness, never obvious dress or make-up. Those you. are familiar with, or should be if you are business at all.

in

"Don't strive for too striking colour combinations in your office Unless you have a very extensive wardrobe your confreres will become all too familiar with the rotation of costumes.

"Don't be a telephone chatterer. Personal conversation in an of- fice should be kept brief and sub- 'dued. Bill collectors and beaux should get the same impersonal at- tention from nine' until five."

"Smoking during working hours

But just recently a personnel is usually, indulged in only by ex- officer of an important company, ecutives.” voiced a few more office rules which she says are as essential

golden rule!

as

tem-

"Don't take out your bad the per on the switchboard operator, she can't talk back, and may have "Remember that good manners had a bad night, too.” and courtesy mark a person's true "The person who makes a phone character in a business office as call should end the conversation. truly as they do at a dinner party." She is also the one to call back if the "Be sparing in the exercise of telephone conversation is discon-

GIRUÇAÇS

"All personal beloi gings such as make-up kits, compacts, etc., should be kept out of sight. Do your touching up in the powder room.

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"If you are in a dignified office never appear without stockings. It doing that work by telling them is not only bad form but your legs about your personal doings. Night- look better when clad!"

before reminiscences are for lunch- "Don't keep other employees from time chatter."

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