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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, ́SEPTEMBER 20, 1948.

Woman Today Peggy Sage

FABRIC AND

THE STYLE

By JANET MARTIN.

to a

Fashion Editor's Visit

Mrs. Jenn Bartelme Thompson. į are cheap, some are even Assistant Editor of the American wearing them to work. fashion magazine "Mademoiselle". Hots are smaller but they are has arrived in the Colony, She more neat and trim, not so very is nukling a trip around the fancy.

work by Tan-American World Not Really Now Anways.

To by charmin

rew home.

very pretty with charming per- Blonde hair, with the

A neeth wing

cars...10

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MANICURE PREPARATIONS & LIPSTICK

Your hand

Lived by

of

Diwiingnished

effect,

Kentle the Ince. and has

Women

Throughout The World

Every season, fabrics become an increasingly im-

Mrs. Thompron kaid that the She told the "China Mail" that New Lank is not really the New portant factor in the make-up of fashion. Each the most exciting new fashion in Lou any more Many didn't the States he "Empire look."ket in the begining but most scason, new weaves, new toxtures, now designs

During war Ume when things go in for it now. And oven the and now cloths emerge from the weaving sheds. were hard to get, people wore men are starting to admire them, So varied, so attractivo, so fresh and exciting

shorter skiria and shorts were when the ladies dress carefully. popular. are many of these now cloths that they can in-

Mrs. Thompson thinks that the When materals becaune plenti-Chinese (rocks pra despire fashion themselves.

terk om Of Cang and mining to" fuller skirts That's-when-the Original models are created from them, specially

She herself is Look" come in.

But now

inc W YOU designed to set off their beauty and richness, thite ese not so many full skirts,sonality.

they are straighter but still re- latest cut. sơ that-fabric and style go hand in hand;

mat long. Shoulder pads are her hair is drawn forward over This Indispensability of style, Finally, either our eye is captured so popular, it is more of the th

sloping Victus lan look at the 1 Tatric, of dress design to by some design of special appeal. shoulders.

irames, flattering

fair She is very drive ourselves cloth. & factor we are some- or else we

Many wear the metallle striped beautiful complexioa, times apt to overlook, but It is final choler.

colton Co. new kind of fabric}} She is slim and wearing a New the ultimate secret of succes + | We hasten

with to the tailor

the taffeta and the stiff broendes Lauk checker Ander spoils and proceed to inspect are used mostly for the evenings, with a lovely sliver belt bought two-piece frock in good dressmaking. now, while fashion continues to the fashion designers have been heels and toes, and the Louis very attractive.

Cashton books, only to find that

As for shoes, the Opare (closed in Manila, which unde her look experiment with unusual con-equanily busy and prolific of ideas!

sulting tweeds for we leaf through book after book, sandals are plentiful for sale and good time but will

Heels binations.

style. Golden Mrs. Thompson is having a dresses, velvet allied with wool, making mental antes

leave very most of the women are wearing soon for Peiping, us the has to be Nounel with Jersey alk....It is tundly choose our style, maybe

them during the day-time. They back in New York next month. mare important than ever that) with secret misgivings. maybe the material

boundless and the dress with

confidence of pattern should be closely inter-having spotted a winner. related.

Maybe too, the result in a trifle This is where we are incline the material is there; the tailoring es

disappointing. The style is there; to be a bit casual! We deride to up to standard; but something have A BOW dress.nlways

is not quite right. We are not as matter for thought and planning, pleaset as we should be. Perhaps 110 matter how extensive our wardrobe...

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the linking up of

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ton. We go to choose the mater-the fabric with the style selected, tal, mayize with <711>

Not Easy Ap preethrrived ideas in mind] Cnnel at once we

ue

In

Am Temple

What Makes A Friend?

and air friends fast teachersi I can't decide whether to tell were sitting talking in the staff him I know and upset our nur

then the conversation

mal happy family life. When I turned on friendship. One ask- lunked him about her he denicu ed: "What is a friend?"

everything aut sald be loved me only. Now I know that they are meeting regularly and 1 feet terrible about it. Definitely lic toes not want to leave me, that one

never know's what might happen If things We7c salt openly.-F.M.

We found that if a friend had to hure the various virtues we mentioned, then none of us had a friend, only acquaintances.

We decided to ask you what you think should be

considered necessary for one to be called a friend.-M.5.

Not one having this or that What muktes virtue, I think. 14 friend

in the

are spoiled for It is not at all easy to formulate felctee by the galaxy of fabres, muy sort of rules. The "don'ts" are Park more delightful thun the much easier to tubulate than the | løst, created for our delectation do's". Broadly spenking, we hy the talent of textile designers know that stiff materials ilke taffeta or suff silk will hang in tolds, but not drape. We know that flimsy fabrica cannot be cut tailored lines; that soft, far cloths are not a success in skimpy siylex.

WA KIRHY that heavy fabrics do not lend themselves to friiis

and Hounces; But in the event, w

we must

must develop an "eye" flair for knowing, whether combined qualities of two peo- and you defeat the purpose of

by Instinct or by practice, the com. binations that are right.

II

your material is tweed, the cat and style of the frock must the simplest possible, but per- fect in execution, The minimun of pleats and tucks and ne trim

is not an individual quality but a harmony

ple. A sympatlıy that is be- tween the two, an Indefinable appeal.

if you keep silent, do so frum 11 far-seeing wisdom, not from fear. Be miserable, let worry gaw at you, get loo frightened of the consequences to speak up,

the family keeping

happy. Thoughts can be more dangercis than words.

This is what makes a friend

But if you enn be really strong one's second self. Someone with whom one can be entirely one your silence it may prove the

better course. It's that self and comfortable in being ticular strength that comes inlng. A

A good brooch or a neat without fear of misunderstand from a link of pearls, are all that is ing. And better friends with nature, from a tolerance

permissible.

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(not

Light woollens, the angorus,j

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heavy) too

and slight draped effects. Some of these fabrics are so fine and de fleate in texture that they may ue. treated us silk.

and

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It's the strength of a woman who isn't fooled but who keeps

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Does one announce oneself on the

Jones telephone is "Mies speaking" or "Mary Jones apeak ing"-M.S.

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Paiterned and printed materials from the usual fashion in finger-rules. Adopt the same form of are quite a different problem.tips.

speech as you would use in Small patterns lend themselves to And in the years following the meeting these caliers in person, a variety of styles, but bolder creation of that first pink polish, pattern of special originally Peggy has kept her position as calls for reserved lines The

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Ix intelligence inherited, and ap-lender of fingertip fushions.

Today, almost every dattering does an carin change of environ- spoiled after cutting. Striped new shade of nail polish, everyment have any bearing on the

Intelligence level?-R.F. materials, of course, need their new and strilting method of Investigation so far bears out own special patterns and you will application, can trace its source that children of parents of low be wise to keep strictly to the to Peggy Sage and her Salons in intelligence

have less mental designers' suggestions.

New York, London and Paris, capacity than children of Woollen or silk jersey cloths From dozens of original Peggy parents of high inteligence. are in a special category too, be- Sage colours, you can choose the There are differences of opin- cause they are ideal when made very thes you need for perfect lon as to whether one's level of up into styles which feature in harmony with your costumes, intelligence is fixed unalterably irlcate draping and swathed folds. your skin

your make-up, at what one tones, The material is too clastic forjeven your jewels.

claim environmental changes simple fitted styles, its main op Her incomparable colours make little difference to the in- peal is in its pliability and elasti-[runge from the faint blush of telligence level. Others claim that. city

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