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__THE_CHINA. 'MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1951.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

By Susan Deacon

Seasonable Silk Suit

COAL AIR WATER

Naturally, we are not in.

the market for the above properties, but from them is made this extraordinary

fabric colled NY'LON.

It has now appeared

in the form of men's

SWIM SHORTS

at

MACKINTOSH'S

Colours: Grey, Maroon. Fawn. Blue.

The answer to that 'ten-years- older' fear is.

MOST

RELAX

OST women dread being ten years older. What are

they afraid of?

In the 20's they are afraid for their appearance. In the 30's it is figure and wrinkle worry

look middle-aged and less attractive.

.In the 40's ten years

ahead appears fright-

ening,

Wonen made

their life.

especially to

who have

the family

They

Fee them marrying and leaving mother with time on her hands and nothing to do with it. What is

the answer?

11

Is

Most men agree that

woman in her 30's attractive mere

than a 20-year-old.

She knows how to use moke up, She emphasises hier good As without luck- Ing pairited. She has poise, is more assured.

In fuc: 30 shoold

be the Coming of Age for women, sot 21.

ст years in the life of Cover Girl Sylvin Shelley hus changed her from typical prolly open- air girl to a lovely ana

sophisticated

woman.

Wrinkles?

Spreading hips?

None.

iler

is

measurement 35insond she doesn't

Fin

diet

fact she

"I can't plains enough to "at."

+$1~

set

.

that they will

1940 SYLVIA SHELLEY,

the pretty,

open-air girl,

SHOP AT

SINCERE'S

DEPARTMENT STORE

FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS?

HERE COME AGAIN

THE LONG AWAITED

"GENERAL INSTRUMENT”

3-SPEED

Amabel · Williams- Ells in "The Art of

being # Wuman" deals

with the prob- Jem of women with time on their hands.

She says

that women

1950

*kW live lunger and have only two or three children Instead of u duzen,

When the family have left home, mother often has 20 years vigorous life left-in spite of 'the 77-hour

week which must housewives put in these days.

"Women are still klaves of Victorian opinions about

of t

AUTOMATIC RECORD CHANGERS n's place."

MODEL SS-700

THE MACHINES THAT ARE WIDELY APPLAUDED FOR

ONE PICKUP ARM ONE NEEDLE

Women ure judged as good or bad housewives by the time they spend in their home. Tais

is wrong.

It is vital that all women should have an outside interest. Relaxation when the family are young Is # safeguard -against- Jontliners.

THE MEN

WRINKLES↑ None. Diet?

I can't get enough to cat," "SCOTTIE and- CHERIE"

"But then pou insisted on going with me to the ble fight thought you realised we were in t.

But what makes so many of single their wives go with them?

Why

violets, OF

with strings of coral,

HUMIDITY PROOF CARTRIDGE THE Men in search of recrsa- chignons SIMPLICITY TO OPERATE NOTE THESE ARE HARD TO GET NOW -OWING TO U.S. EMBARGO-AND ONLY LIMITED STOCKS AVAILABLE. PLACE YOUR ORDER EARLY !.

RADIO DEPARTMENT SECOND FLOOR

GIFT

Silverware

A FEW pieces of Sterling Silver make a living place a home and put warmth Into the

welcome we extand to

our friends.

For birthdays, wed. dings or christenings, give Sterling Silver-a time-honoured method of paying compliments.

TOM HONGKONG'S LEADING JEWELLERS

FALCONER S

TEL.2714

́OPPOSITE. THE OP O. HONGKONG

GRANT

Men?

Grape bubble necklace, carrings and chignon slide are in pastel colours.

Wooden bead

with

necklace

fruit and mimosa spray and transparent but- terfly earrings.

The Vegetable

Kingdom The

Steps Into Accessory Sphere

London. Times have changed since

our Victorian

an cestors did not consider it

electric light.switches providing the buckle on a belt, a brooch inade from pea-pods, and extending curtain-rod used 011 the back of a be!!!

an

proper to go even as far as the

Mauris used for acckleba office without and brooches are wood, plastic, post

and high china and

bannet, muff buttoned shoes. smile at those

even rafia. This We may designer is working In con-

well- junction with #omelic He ladies has produced wooden bend,

both in England and abroad with cotton scarves which are In bright colours. Inevitably there is the scurf fur the Festival of Briton. This shows

a lion in the centre, against a sparkling background of fire- works and crystal painces.

By Dorothy Barkley..

Wi

Shantung outfit in honey beige.

their Gre

By VERA WINSTON

American shops are specialis- Ing this rearon in clothes that are perfect for a warm tropical spring. Beautiful fabrics and dellelous colours play pari, as do designs that smartly

simple. As proof we offer this delightful two-plecar

honey beige Monat, the super hantung weave, Little cuffs standing cellar, nolched for the short sleeves. Single breasted closing below a deep silt neck, Flapped pockets on the front-gathered peplum.

neckirees in dellcate shades of Preview Of B.I.F. Fashions.

at pink and red to tone with the The stick shader.

chaperoned young today, but

they had least one right idea. principle is the some whether it is 1851 or 1951: it is the accessories that complete the picture.

#

coated with red, is used for a Natural-coloured, raffia, de- three-stranded choker. Delight- ful sprays and brooches hove been made from imitation flowers and plastic. A new idenļ here Lado have the beads single- ALEGANCE is achieved double-stranded on

stranded cn 0110 side, undi the other well-balanced so that this extra weight keeps) detail: carefully selected and the decoration in plage. matched accessories are the

Ethrough

key to being well-dressed.

Umbrellas, bugs, - belts,

scarves,

buttons

and

Two typical designs illustrated

jewellery provide scope for wooden

arc

✡

de-

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hree. Fly, bead necklace, infinite variety. They com corated with fruit and mimosa- plete and perfect the new the lower of the season, scen suit; but equally well they kels, on lapels, and

cverywhere tralling from poc- trimming give new life to last season's hats

and evening dresses. suit. Matching scarves and Secondly, a grape-bubble neck- signed to conceal rowing hair. gloves in bright colours are love worn with matching car-

Draped chiffon and flower

an excellent tonic for the rings and chignon slide, made grace the back ofl

coat or suit that is a season, pularity of the chignon has set

In past calours. The tion generally find it amid meny of the new spring hats. dampness, winds, crowds, noise, Artificial hair chignons are or more, old. Buttons and willery designers to work de cold or a smoke-filled hall. worn with sprays of lilac, belts of unusual designs pro Suck a one is the slide pictured signing ornaments and brooches. entwined vide interesting detail on here which covers the chignon. both old and new clothes. The daisy-chain put in an ap ptarence here—one yard long. made of materlat and fastened by an ordinary necklace clip. investigating-now-designs accessories in London recently. specialises in making bel's and This same designer also I find that the accent

during buttons. Among the many ex-f coming months will be an amples in calf and suede, there the light, gay and colourful side. In jewellery,

is the most pretlenf bet scen and

diantonda for some time: practical be- pearls have, fer the Cause the back half of the vegetables

given way to fruit,

belt, which is made of white, ond Rowers:

they There are imitations, but deceptively stiffening, and is removable for

pique, is completely withou good realistic, and amusingly tif washing. Another, in

ferent from pear! chokers

green and leather is in four pieces, each diantond tiaras, They are ex-

ex- joined together with a gleaming cellent for informal wear with gold, oulsize safety-pin. Smartest both dresses and sweaters, and and most flattering of all be are much lighter on the pocket. are those which are shaped, and London designers are deter- not cut in one straight pleze. mined to exploit the uncon- Another London designer who ventional to the full: the motto is determined that accessories

Jeweller is, "use 4 shall be light and gay is Mr. obicat in An

Ascher who designs scarves, Ho way." So,

We find is having considerable success

do they endure the misery

of laddered stockings, crushed clothes, bedraggled hats, for a few hours with The What will be the most popular]

hat this summer? I prediet One woman who dislikes rush of straw cable bits borso

racing told me she began the shups. Originally shown, going

to meetings with her Paris, this style will take the husband soon after they were place of the ever green saller married.

hot.

"I don't know why I started," Grouped around a train time the said. "Possibly because I indicator at a big terminus moment, thought a shared interest would counted 57 women. Many wore be a sort of marriage Insurance, well-cut spring sults.

"Now, after fiver years, I were expensive conts, would prefer to play bridge shoes, nylons, and let him go alone, Rut he would be so disappointed."*~-~~-~

Another spends many Sun- day afternoons watching her - husband play hockey.

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haven't the courage

fo

tell him that it bores me" she sold.

But I found one woman, doctor, with courage,

At first she used to go bird- watching with her husband,

birds she suld, "but

nothing will ever again

out

. like

make me stand for hours in gum boots with marsh water

up to my kntes"

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Now he goes alone, and she

looks for antique furniture, or paints.

They are happy. :

*

What is the

answer?

honest at the start.

But only FIVE wore hats, Wisdom for Women

"Personal beauty a greater recommendation than any letter of intro duction.”—Aristotle.

London Express Bervico

of

one

familiar familiar

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Fashions pictured here will later be shown at the British Industries Fair. At left is a short evening dress in vivid rayon print of flame-coloured flowers a blue ground. The full length overskirt is lined with white taffeta with applique of flowers. At right is a day-dress with pleated frills made in rayon with large green paisley print.

Newest nylons have gold, gems

and even beads

DAISY CHAINS, TOO, ARE POPULAR

The Dalsy Chain Features dalsies and rhinestones in a elde clock that frails delicately up the stocking.

Ong of the conversation pieces of the spring collection is called Ballerina. This fen-

ballerina pecking.

From FREDERICK COOK: New York, OSSÁMER nylon, stock- Prices are from £t is, a pair. tures a

The 24-carat gold pattern on one ankle of the pattern of 24-carat gold or The gold sparkie, appiled by with hand-sewn rhinestones.

is the newest hosiery glamour. Her tiara, skirt and toes sparkio of a battered man tottering in spangled with jewels, are a method never before used on Soverál Now. York jewel-

Say that you find the Aight

Ings, - twinkling with a

a boxing ring brutal re- the latest American fashion hostery, la very apparent offlers, determined not to be out pugnant: that the screech of craze. Lending Fifth Avenue the leg as the leg the effect is meded, are advertising Jewelled skilling racing cars frightens stores, are reporting record of a light dusting of gold. .. you...

cilps specially designed to wear But don't expect your hus-sales of them, i

For those who prefer some to damage the nylon.

on stockings and guaranteed not band to go with you to fathlon S shows,

thing less, startling, but-never- ManWomen are finding them theloss eye-catching designers. Bo fearonable, You'll be irreéfatible, leading hosiery have conjured up a rhinestone happier.

designer told me, or cock buttorny or glittering Initial,

Ankle-high desiguri A bouquet { "RUSH "ON" "COOLIES" - | Wills there the gala nylon, Yet another design is of of flowers (top left),-a-ballerind pinky beige, fashioned Just multi-colour pašiel beads, (below) and something more VIDENCE that short hair is above the ankle with the cutest twisted into small posies and tract (right) onlied "Star.

on the way out is in the little black, Thinestone poodle hand-sewn to the stucking in Flower sudden popularity of hals dee[ you ever saw."

a scatter design on the instep.,

-(London: "Express Barviće)-

W PLACE.

IT. GROWS

PURNITURE that "grows up

with the children" will be a feature in the Homes und Gardens Pavilion at the Festival of Britain.

Small chairs "grow" by re- versing the positions of the com- bined seat and back to produce a higher and larger seat; the height of tables is adjusted by reversing the table tops.

Ingenious safety devices in- cluse oléctric fires that switch off When itd. or lifted, power

points with automatic shutters and foolproof gas taps,

New Ideas

TYLON #flect underwear in pink and blue for boys and girls, Ideal for holidaywear bo- cause it dries in a couple of hours and neods no ironing.

A waistbelt made from your own material, guaranteed to wash or clean, made for 3s; id. in seven days,.

Summer slippers in

every

Khade of utility alub cotton with draw-string tops to "keep them Janug-fting, and handbags to

match,.

Nailpollsli remover which betually has an attractive scent, A hairspray that impan's high- lights to curls and waves in a fow, scound",