1938-11-16 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 16, 1938

Tiny waists, swishing

skits-it's your

dream

dress

Too many chances to make mis- takes.

Begin by asking yourself a few straight questions, and say "No" to some of the new fashions if you don't know. the answers,

The big story is the crinoline. It is hooped, and you wear it over

a petticoat.

It can have, straps, but - it looks charmingly indecorous

without them.

It can

or

be slipper satin velvet or thick-ribbed .poult. It can also be

transparent, and your petticoat through.

and you can MAKE it!

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You copy the Empress Eugenie in real hoops and lace or drape your self like a Greek in chiffon-tartan, for choice.

HERE'S a new hanger in the Top of your dress can look like a wardrobe waiting for your most camisole threaded with velvet rib- important frock your evening bons. Flounce of your skirts bil- frock. And you're wondering. No low like Edwardian petticoats. fool-proof line this year. No pre- All history to choose from, and

not so easy. scibed fashion.

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You can take a crinoline' it you have good shoulders, are not more than 5ft. 7in, and can walk really well.

You need poise and complete as- surance to sweep into a room wear- ing a dress which was listed "fancy" last year.

Say no to crinolines if you are very tall, too thin, dashing, or more than 36n round the bust.

Pure Edwardian gives you chance to float into. rooms.

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You need a "proper" figure to wear it it was never designed for boyish young women. It de- mands a porcelain delicacy of make up, good ears, and an ability to stand still gracefully.

OUR suggestion is a dress which uses the best fashion points and leaves the extremes alone,

A dress which says Winter 1988, but not at the top of its voice.

A dress with all the comic bita left out and all the becoming bita left in.

It is wide skirted because nine women out of ten look well and feel happy in a wide skirt,

The voluminous hemline creates the illusion of a small waist, even when it isn't there.

The badice has the most alluring of all necklines... the heart shape. The scalloped front panel gives you

that coveted "thin through" look, which is forgotten in many of the extreme.. crinoline frocks we have

seen.

Shirring set on whalebones, is the secret of the delicious nipped-in waistline. You'll see that the waist is an inch or two lower than it was that's how it should last year.... be for figure flattery.

We are so sure that for five wo- men who want to wear strapless frocks there are five women who

with folded shoulder bands, don't, we have designed this frock

They give the bodice a lovely curving sweep because the strap- ping tapers away to the waistline and also covers the outer shoulder which can look so unlovely.

If your shoulders pay for show- ing, you can leave the strapping out. and still have a lovely frock we thought of that when we design- ed it. If you scallop the hem wear a pleated petticoat underneath.

Greek gives the thin girls a break. Long hanks of material loop across salt cellars and indifferent shoul- If you and the occasion are in the ders. Rich, matt materials or semi- mood for a bustle loop, but a whole sheers are right for Greek dresses. single width of material at the back You don't choose this kind if you and tack it securely. It needn't are a "little woman" or wear your match. hair in sausage curls,

If you think you're the tough and And we know you'll like your sporting sort, go Greek and you'll frock as much next year as you do look good.

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Gossip for girls in their teens

Immaculacy is your key-note,

Your best friends are a cake of soap, warm water, cleansing cream, deodorants, shampoos, tooth aids, simple make-up. Use them all faithfully. Their effects make for charm.

A bath a day tempts beauty to stay.

Insist upon urishared property rights in your own towels, face:flan- nels, sponges, brushes, combs, soup, creams. Here's where stinginess in truly a virtue.

Don'ts: Bite your nails, gise for your clothes; use heavy

Be yourself natural thoughtful, fastidious:

a pimple; scratch in public; apolo-

wear heavy make-up.

a good loser, polite but not unc-