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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, ́NOVEMBER 24; 1951.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

STARRED FOR EVENING

By DOROTHY DARKLEY

London.

~WO Royal Command Performances ---

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the Variety Show. and the Film Show and the long-awaited first. night of the American musical "South Pacific," all three in the ten days so, have given actresses, film stars, and first nighters a chance to wear the most- talked-about-dress of the year.

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Out of the host of not-to-be-forgotten dresses, people talked about: the royal erinolines as regal as ever; the magnificent dress of fifty yards of tulle over seven petticoats Worn hy Jean Kent: the "Lucreti Borgia" dress in wine red velvet with matching tur trimmed hood; the star whose shoulder were decorated with twe small white birds: and a "fairy queen" crinoline in pink enroster with pearls.

These were

yellow

Tailored blouse in the new with pin- striped havg

taffeta, quilting ww revers and cuffs. culis.

Popular colours are blue, pink and yellow striped with black.

chosen by skats colouis-blue, puk for royal occasions The ru

rd with blacl. they son, what do fashion designers quik ng an

and Levers star in their new collections for tellustration) other Important Cvething casions?

The winner

Cuff feature

COM-

Your quide to glamour

NE morning, 'your little

O girl will skip excitedly

new

off into the bright world of school. Her new friends, a teacher's voice, and fun of chalk and black- boards will soon make school 1 familiar, happy place. But, more important, this is when she'll first become conscious of herself as an individual,

A wise mother will choose this 1 big stp of growing up to

her child

beau y cach

base habis.

Older children, too, are Loody brush up on good groom- Hig routines before they go back

class.

Paychologiste agree that it's Rocd for any small mist to die- ELVET her sppearance - apti ude early in life. Pride in a clean face rea: fingernalls, and a tidy hem- 'rey-c with mat, narrow skirts;ine help sma girls and poise and full circular skirts, with end confidence. narrow patent leather belts, suit~ | able to more casual wear.

Cools for

evening have asting salin collars and cuffs; Par ruffs n be won either but. ned round the wrist, or folded back to the elbow to reveal the contrading colour There air

delhited ttle Jackets, suitable for day as well as even- The joke of the collections

Cileurs pepular for was the "back to front"

dress hough it

Separutes wi sweaters or blouses and sky. provide scope for versatility Spangled sweaters fan fine Wa or cotton) are first cluce, these have beads

sewn sequen round collars and cur Specta tor

Sports

show

emerald se Егест

kerte

the

wol

The joke

And what would be more fun- damental to good grooming than well-cared-for coiffure, even is a junior-sized one. Base the hair style you choose for your daughter on a home per-

shed strawberry which buitens assymetrically La mala-red, tuxedo tom necks to hem, and can be

revealing male in anything from tropicalanen wove, and there' be no

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button Jings.

A new idea

far to a "wood. Wear It more sleepy bedtime sessions the humà fashion, with the reiling. This wave will giv buttoning at the front. But, says her the sof, epringy curls tha BRENNER SPORTS show als designer, ! you want a wear well for school and play,

Check huge wear it with the buttons and black w idea. They rail at

a Chik skirts are paid at the back

are full, and have Tiny gold star plioped in now plow inches apart To go with them" Tork. handknited, se, man's sweaters. in navy bine, roarspiele pelo-neti: A shaped patent leather belt and "bullet" pumps cataplete the outfit

Sweaters, of

with

course

with matching triangular friepeg

Shawls which button un to the

skirt walst-band. Worn with a bisek popla buc-high Jared three quarter riceved Sweaters. of gravitse are just of an armful of bracelets, the one of the many egestas for cutit locks in distinữu that evening. Tailered blouses, tha There skirts have waist-high in- new pin-striped taffets, ure in other. Made in a wide take of

verted pleats, conectina pley's avite f thout double plents spard and the lam, box je behind. gofel or ta plent .t RII Celours we hlas. Latter yellow, and, of course, black

"Tropicord"

TROPICORD" fine, busin corduroy- & weight, washable

t-

shown ma series of clothes uble for tropical wear, as name suggests. New colours 14 this ure ember, and pink-prui We bad toll.wagger cont.

la loved

BEACHWEAR

AND SUNTOPS

Ideas for beachwear are shown in the new collec tions." Convertibles"— the jacket over the But- top dress have been thoroughly accepted by women in Britain. Styles reflect the TеYB and yellows of the season: neat, fitting jackets (in grey) with "boat" neck- tines, are worn over strap- less tops (in yellow) and full skirts fin grey).

one

pcs-shampoc setting each week will keep them nea'ly in place.

According

to Carol Douglas, Beau y

Consultant, Toni Home you should pian to give your litle girl's home wave the week before she starts school.

Thus, she says, is the perfect

By MARILYN MARSHALL

Glamour gets an early start! School time will find this Hittle girl all ready to match her pretty new dresses with a lovely, natural-looking home permanent. Set In loose curls, the hair style Mother has chosen for her so simple that she

can easily take care of it all by herself.

papers. Cae well-known kit has hundred strokes a day should be

a picture

direction sheet most par, of the daily beauty roulin:

me to capture her whole a ten- tle girls find as much fun to lor any lady, big or litle. Ex- ton before she's busy with in- follow as they do their own pic plain that a good brush stroke. triguing

school-day things. Also if sure books. This way, the whole is a lung, sinoth one carried to your child is

is thy, pretying up procedure will turn into a game the very tip ends of her pretty fer school with you will make

o keep her amused and inter- hair, Ther Seel more cerain that you seted.

are going to share this new ex- perience with her.

The old tale about all children

Miss Douglas advisto riyou to having baby-fine hair is purely Shell think "khampooing exck- follow the same procedures in Botion. Reliable labora cry easingly grown-up if you give your giving your daughter's wave us have proven many times over daughter het very own jar of

when you would

giving your that while some children do have greme shampoo to keep with her own.

fine bak, others, just as adults, brush and comb

on a speciai, Begin with a good shampoo, have

medium-textured locks. easy-to-reach bathroom shelf thin enlist her cwn help in

For his reason, accurate fine Always make shampooing an oc- getting be home wave by hand check curis ore all-important to casion, taking time to provide a ing you spin curiers

and end a child's successful home wave. Auffy, clean towel for drying]

Take them a. the sta ed inter- and finishing the jch with one vals, and match them conscien- f mother's brau y aids, a fragrant

iously with the well-developed creine rinse. curl on the picture direction

PARTS sheet in your kit.

FASHION COMES IN TWO PARTS

HMS.

N York Comes

and rombino then in both ever this year, features brocade

2

If your life girl grows up used to a clean, neatly curled head of bal, she'll never be satisfied with anything less. Never hers will be the 'ragic adolescent episode of To "learning to be beautiful”.

! this

silk taffeta Worn With ፡፡፡ Two lord and dressy outfits." Everythine

It's fun to try your daughter's her, beauty will have come - clays. borts in fashions the e

Brane used especially skirts. sen.cely noticeable two- woven tie stlk in brown and

separates hair in a varley of styles to find turally, from near-babyhood. Cardigan topped dece French bathing suite topek tripes for one moup of have been dressed up with which one best suis your win-| valemin ju two-part evenity, separates. The full triped skirt littering buttons and unusual some cne, and chce a home wave cari br wom either with fabrics. One evening cardigan of finished, styling is easy. But choose a simple "c" so 'ned she striped halter top or

a more grey tis:ue taffeta with a woven

can easily care for it herself. tailored shirtwaist blouse,

pattern of white and gold and a grey wool ribbed border is com- bined with slim grey velveteen "There are slim skirts in my skirt. Other fancy cardigans

she combine

with calicction, too,"

velveteen

the arute added. "I think it is an outdated wool-ribbed sweater border and Fashion idea to refer to only one tiny rhine tone buttons.

There

women silhouelis.

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A ceck of designers show they feel women will be more terested than ever this autumn having a flexible wardrobe that can be easily twitched te

un

Es different Occasions. A suggestion for the more pecially for dres, up occasions. sophisticated is the still-popular ballerina-skirted evening dress. separate the different qual with hips who just can't wear a This style tooks paritcularly ties of mitenal woman can traight skirt, and others who

by switching tops a attractive in net over tulle, the comb" Sort Designer Brig- don't look well in fuil skirts, woman

can make B radical net of the dress we have chosen

Shr ance.

several There should be both." M

change in the outfit." Brigance has velvet spots sewn t! inter-different separates in velvetron,

Tina Leser, who says the's pointed out, "from bare-backed taffeta and tie silk, for instance, de igned more seperates than to shirtwalst"-United Press.

vals.

EILEEN. ASCROET's

COLUMN

The newest thing about the

Cell

are

EVENING JEWELLERY

$

"Just

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GETS MORE SHOWY

In Paris marcasite...o handsome metal- «ls being slawn in claborate Jetallery. The dog collar neck«' "inaishlar pendant earrings blued with yellow topax

^w^Maany' Bouff-gòla satin

EVENING Jewellery is becom-

ing more elaborate. In Paris, heavy paste and jewel dog col- lors are fashionable, with large pendant extrings to match.

In London there is a return of two Victorian Jewellery fav- ourites. marcasite and jet.

Jet became popular when Queen Victoria wore it while in mourning. It is being used to- day for necklaces und earrings, and looks particularly sinking with blonde ha'r. Film star Susan Shaw wearing & chunky jet necklace and earrings to match.

Another actress who ilkes jet costume jewellery is Barbara Murray. And the Duchess of Kent has jet buckles for her Court shoes, bucked with tiny pleated frills of alik.

Marcasite, usually set in silver, was used by the Victorians for church ornamental crossda.

Court ladies of France in the 19th century wele vory fond omarcasite. The Comtesse Dubarry word large pendant earrings of this stone, mixed with Bopphires.

fened waist petticoats, both leng and short, give the smooth "bell" shape and cost between £4 and £5.

To go under plead skirts there are pastel woven nylon "waisters," with deep ruffle hems or one or two layers of perma- nent pleating, which give an at- tractive stiffness to the hemline, For the budget-conscious, these latest fashion whims con bought in lace-trimmed rayon tricot, with lace elastic waist- bands, for jurt over 109.

A NEW VIEW

be

ALEXANDRA PALACE is tak

ing a rather belated interest in the wardrobes of their main Ennouncers, Mary Malcolm and Sylvia Peters.

Fashion editresses are invited to a cocktail party to give their views on what the girle should wear,

Here are my three suggestions for a start: stop putting the unfortunate girls into Those frightful floral patterned dressos, winch sometimes seem neither to Today women who cannot fit now become them; (2) cont afford diambods, but who pre- them to first-class diafrázissor fer a real stone to an artiñetal regularly so that wothan viewers one, are buying marcasite neck- by enjoy being the latest hale

Incen

styles, and (3) diapering with the

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revived the Tominine, wingJA.

ling of frilled petticoats. Sit-

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This is not difficult if you setj your daughter's hair in large pin curls and avoid fussy waves and small, tight curls.

Any elaboration of the "hair- do"for parties and speriai ce- cas:ons can be accomplished with pretty hair ribbons-ne bow of two whichever she likes.

Teach her to use o palural

bris le hairbrush as regularly as

she does her cothbrush.

One-

Just bank from two redre modelling in Italy, where Jot costume. Jowellery fashionable, Hietis Unborne wears a sot wanby Jet. Her curved belt, whlel ilin Arapes like a "chatelaine," var be worn ne a necklace. Her flower blloker is

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