1948-02-25 — Page 12

Pago 8

Suits and

Dresses

By

RENNER

PORTS

Alyson Taban

Tel. 23025,

Coto

The SINCERECS

HONGKONG'S GRE

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNES DAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1948.

'SPOTLIGHT On The Well-Dressed Men Of Other Lands

They Prefer To Let

To be a well-dressed male in other lands dependa

on

1100 things cash and your wife, for men in most countries, as fat Britain, must take second place! But there are exceptions, da pou

Britain Dress Theme

Stockholm. effect, go with the new Lancia, an income less than £6,000 a car and the $100 a month flat year, or twice that much if overlooking the Borghese Park. married!

if you are elegant in Italy.

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| various Correspondents,

Ralph Hewins.

Coming from coupon alarved Britain, the visitor at first will

From the tip of the 268, rublish poplin, hla striped tle, the have the impression that the

At least one large diamond bars which protect his £10 hand-colours of a famous British re- tall, fair Swedes are a lot of

worn on the fourth finger al-made shoes to the crown of his giment, his New York hat and dandies and tallor's dummies.

youches for financial imported London hat one com- They might claim to be the ways

soundncas with more best dressed men in Europe,

Or la he the type we ate every enthu plete change leaves him with his American shoes? Shoulders are heavily padded stasm than can be relied upon a handful of nickels from £120. Sunday morning riding a mang- and waists are wasplah. The from one's bank manager,

The most popular socks are cut in almost "teddy bear”

This in the land of silk and tartan or heather mixtures from nificent horse in the Paseo de la Reforma, wearing his Mexican of man-about-poplin, bath

which obilgatory for the

are Scotland at 80s. a pair.

In tailored lounge suits the "charro" uniform-n amall black town. In the evenings button- actually cheaper per yard than holen

white wool and, of course, as in all hearty tweeds from the Isles or Eton coat covered in gold braid

back and ranging from

front, tight-fitting that didn't win the the border country are greatly trousers with their braid of and pink to Bacarlet, crimson and countries

favoured-adding" that husky hellotrope carnations blossom war, plentiful and un-rationed.

PriceR are to right and left

semi-Inflationary outdoor look to the night club gold Ince down each leg, colos. Yet, if he minkes inquiries. na the Government printing tant The price la enough to sal spurs and huge black som- usually ints that presKER continue to pump out blanch the rosiest cheek. £50brero with is fortune in gold the visitor

and more billiong of a time! the well-dressed Swede's outfit more

A pair of good, Americana pay more for the What is paper ra. comes from Britain.

antelope shoes, goudy hand-painted neckties more, the cuiters here are often ready-made, London-trained.

rubber soles, cost than they do for their shirts with crepe

And made to measure Ahirta Ruit hero costs between £7 and 10. A first-class

there are sull many

ordinary man £30, but

A ault of poplin pyjamas £3 coat anything from £4 upwards. Overcoats at £30, gloves £4, Swedes ready to pay this for 108. Silk ties at 7a Gd are one English cloth. Wincas the of the

cheaper items, but underwear £3 and hats from very like any other well-dressed York, or Newcastle, Though rolls of cloths marked "just lounge suit, made of cloth from £5 run away with the remainder, man, whether in London, New Trouser buttons are obsolete it is considered patriotic to buy from England" in the Swedish Milan, averages around $15.

and waist gripping Mexican-made goods, it is the shops.

Harris tweed for the horsey Zippers aristocracy, who alone profeas clastic take their places.

Can Padded Shoulders to admire things Brish. run.to £25 a suit.

Cecil Clarke,

Mexico City. It is difficult to any who is the best dressed man, in Mexico City.

One thing more. You are not well dressed here unless you let the barber wave and tint your hair and manicure nails.

Wife Comes First

Kenneth Thorburn,

your

Paris.

The dapper je Frenchman, with

striped his immaculate trousers, black coat, winged col. hat and tightly

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furled umbrella, is a figure of the part.

Charlie Chaplin's portrayal of the Frenchman in his latest fim, "Monsieur Verdoux' is, sartorially at least, causing Frenchmen to glance wryly at ench other, for your average Frenchman has to take second place to his wife when it comes to dress

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coing round the brim?

Personally I feel that "charro" is the best dressed man in town. But his appear. ance would create a stir in any street in Britain,

Tho

here is

last thing that he would think of doing his clothes must be "Importados." preferably from Great Britain.

He does rather lean towards heavily-padded shoulders, which

It Costs A Fortune

New York John Drummond,

No New Yorker can hope to: aspire to the immculate ranks business

the fashion plate male with English cloth, his shirt of Eng-hanger before dresslag.

Is he the smartly turned out give the Impression that he has

man In his suit of forgotten to remove the

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IS MY SKIN NORMAL?

By Max Factor, Jr.

A general tendency to wear With a regularity and fre brighter clothes Is evident.quency almost beyond measure, Scotch tweed jackets with grey women ask

flannel trousers are popular normal?! even during business

are

me,- "Is my skin

hours. None of these women are Double-breasted suits of cheylat worrying about their complexion tweed, preferably in blue or presenting any freakishness of grey tones,

favourites appearance, or anything of that gort. All they want to know Is among the 30-40-year-old Bet.

Shirts for the well-dressed whether their skin is too dry, are hand-tailored in poplin or too oily, or whether it offers a sk, cut on British lines, with normal, average, and correct cuffs and detachable collars, and amount of the natural skin oll cost anything from £5 to £16, which should be present. French ready-made shirts are usually badly-cut and ill-fitting French movie netor Andre Luguet, considered one of the best dressed men in the coun try, says he believes in match. ing tlea and socks with the

shirt.

Land Of Silk

Rome Cedre Salter.

Tight-waisted, dark blue, fur collared overcoata, achieving a slightly 1010

Unless the complexion of the questioning person happens to be so extraordinarily dry or so very oily that either of these facts is obvious at a glance, it le very difficult to surely classify a complexion. It is just as nearly impossible to define a "normal" complexion as it is to specify how_an_"average_wo- man" or a "perfect beauty" should look.

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There аге many different points which must enter into the classification of a complexion. Such elements as climate, diet, exercise, and racial character-i istics must all be considered.

It must be allowed, for in- rtance, that the normal skin of the women of the Latin races is on the average slightly oiler than those of women of the non-Latin races.

Oll-abundant diets tend to for

Claudette Colbert has one of the loveliest complexions in Hollywood.

to

remove

generally have drier skins than produce over-oily skins for we their non-athletic sisters. The men of any nationality,

drying' action of the sun on the Hot, dry, climates usually skin, plus thorough scrubbing

which is needed result in extra-dry skins.

Women who steadily go in perspiration and grime after cutdoor athletic aporta athletic endeavour, combine to somewhat drain the skin of its natural oils. Think This Over

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All of which is prelude to the most important observation of all, and that is what all women should recognize that changing conditions In any of the folds Just mentioned often means, to all practical purposes, a change In the Individual type of com- plexion.

For instance, if the woman who for several years has done no great amount of physical work. or exercise suddenly goen In tor such activity on a steady hasis, she may find her "nor- mal" skin has become a more than usually olly one. Or, if her skin was originally "dry" It might become #normal." Physical activity docs often stimulate the flow of natural skin ell

Or, the woman who has been very active, but who for some reason ceases such activity, will often find that her skin becomes appreciably dryer as a result of thin,Panam

No-Harm

No harm comes from any of these complexion changes if the woman upon whom they become apparent recognizes their pres ence and allows for them.in ber skin "cleansing, skin lubricating, and general make-up practices. But particularly in the case of khe person whose skin becomes tiller without her recognising änd" allowing for this fact, queftrouble kan result if up-

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