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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1952.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Illustrating the season's line is this grey suit with a blue

whi check hat to match The eravat.

Trimly Tailored

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Check wool frock,

By VERA WINSTON

SKETCHED for today is a wool dress that looks quite a bit different from the current step of woollles, has a trim top of black and white check and a skirt In solld black. Linking the two is a ahug band of red, and there

In a small bow-lied gllet of

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the red. The collar checked revers are in black, and there are large black disc buttons.

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WEARING “THAT” IS WHAT *then comes spring WOMEN ARE DOING NOW... And The Secret Is

BY DOROTHY BARKLEY

London.

badires. whe c they octur, serves the purpose. THE

HE short evening dress themed with guipure lace or Importaul

fecorated with embroidery and their little matching jackets have manda:in collars, rounded shoulders and dolman sleeves.

is here to stay. Cone are the days when i was banned in London's elite, "Evening dress only" restau- rants, shunned by fashion- able women, and greeted with cries of, "Oh, but we could never wear that." For, wearing "that" is pre- cisely what more and more women are doing just now.

Princess Elizabeth first brought the short style to the publis

tention last summer when the wore a short evening cirent The theate

Now

fon out of live women. La rioting the that styl, in

reference

house The

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wife of one too London designer has had all her long everg ses shortened to the ballerina ngth.

Pan

shown

variety

Jersey

WATE

of the reason for the popularity of the short evening css is the return of very full kirts. Four or five skirts over two or three petticoats make an enchant ng evening dress. At a collection.

al! evening

dicats "mort [ the Dar, with high-necked, long-sleeved bodice of black silk bad a ful skirt-two layers of black pleated lace, ovD-

black Bond white quille underskirt. Another version again with high-necked, long sleeve bodice over a full skirt ---had a bodice in black lace ove: Lan net. The skirt, in bluck organza had five layers! Strapless

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Two

accessories are indis- pensable with the short, full- kirted evening dress. The first

Most

the full waist petticoat, essential for emphasising the width of the skirt and the narrowness of the waist. women have either acquired such a petticout or found tha! their old New Look petticos:

From the new collection is this mushroom coloured suit. A boater

silk wih spotted scarf round the brim matches the scarf at the neck,

A Short

Story

WILL it be the same spring story-lots of navy and W

white-lots of grey-a touch of mimosa-strapless evening dresses or can we expect something new? I think we can.

London and Paris designe are now planning their Collec-

The second evening accessory comes in the need for pretty shoes, These are more im- portant with the short evening dress than with the full length dress. Next year will probably a vogue for exotic evening shoes.

Designers, at the same Lime as showing the short evening dress, are promoting the short wedding dress. But women, we feel. are more inclined to be of their plans. conservative in the choice tofir welding dress than their

vening dress

tiona.

Details are TOP SECRET unthi this month's shows. But six of the London designers have broken the rule to tell me some

of Princess Margaret's new dress-

maker, VICTOR STEIBEL says:

ing

"After three years, short even-

dresses have 'arrived' in London, For day wear I un showing lots of beige."

LACHASSE, lamour for his tailor-mades, says--

Two sults we have chosen from the new collections. They illustrate admirably the new "Navy and white is uut in my season's line There is a ten-new Collection. I am showing dency to use shades of beige more muted colouring-Including and brown, sometimes blended the new off shades, which are in with other colours

more subtle." checks always

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In Aue

and stripes Grey firm favourite, is still to be

in all collections, There is a feeling for higher nocklines, and where the sult does not button up to the neck, a bright cravat or scarf, Binked in colour and material with the suit, All the neckline. Choose

PETER RUSSELL says:-- "Short evening dresses are important m going to be very

next spring. And no London more strapless dresses for me" (Well done, Mr Russell!)

FROM MATTL):-

"I'm showing short evening adresses, and short dress is going to be big news for the spring

Textile designer SEKERS:--

THE AWFUL CHILD

don !

DANCE ? MEY you know there's still some ice cream teft 7

nausealing diet of hash, stew, tubbage, and bread pudding.

Aut now something is happen- the in the cookhouse,

BY COMMAND of the Air Council, a cookery book has been published which is to be the basis instruction on R.A.F. courses.

This "Manual of Cooking and Dietary" Includes a section on MIKI Larnishes, a glossary of culinary

terms, and nutritional require

"Silk tweed was an autumnents.

a little hat in blue and white check to match a cravat on a gey suit, picture at left) or a boater with spotted

silk scarf wand the brim to match a scarf at the neck, or a mushroom eu zazred suit (ot right).

Both suits because of the success, but newer still will be POTATOES. fur instance. Re- a wild silk duplon which locken wember? Beiled at lunch and Eh colours and light-weight

rials are eminently wear-like softly woven straw.

rashed at breakfast Well, now "New colours? Straw-colours, The Manual gives 32 differen: goids and the new Ciel deays of surving potators. Paris, which

bk in warm climates; and both styles could be made in one of

new tropieul-weight worsted | blue." cordurays,

CARE OF CORDUROY

ol

CORDUROY is one Fashion's fabric favourites lis reas, n und appears in everything And shice this fabric is usuale V washable, this means a breek 1 50 far +19 wardrobe main-

senance is concerned

By ELEANOR ROSS

colour-fresh and thew joking,

or by dipping garment and down in lukewarm, fluffy suds. There should be sufficient suds so that garment can be swished around.

Never friction-rub the fabrić, And don't crumble it in your

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Is a summer sky

AND THE NEW SPRING HATS?

AAGE THAARUP says "Tiny

hats and berets will

They include "DUCHESSE 1.TATOES," which are piped no to a tray and brushed with beaten erg

"POTATOES MAITRE THOTEL are cooked in the

ven with milk.

SAUSAGES? They will be white wine sauce. served with

HASH? It's still there. Bul

Germent can be dried flat by give way to hats with a definite

brim and crown. lyng it and shaping

"Featherwight in rbent towel. If weight of

light course now called "HACHIS ET eniment won't drag it out

straw hats weigh only 11⁄2 ounces. BMINCES," and there are ten pe, it can be arranged on Polka dot and plaid material different ways of cooking it.

peddeci clothes

and langer lett to dry in the shade. From

shake time to time,

drying garmen to fluff it.

uc In washing corduroys, guided by the fastness of the colour and the degree of soli

While fabric Is still Children's coveralls, slacks and

smooth out any wrinkles. that garments get thoroughly hand. Use a soft brush, but not

too vigorously, on soiled parts. Garment loto shape, the poiled, can be bost washed in the nature. Lukewarm water such as collars and cuffs. Rinse way a woollen sweater is

blocked should b

uzed, and enough in lukewarm water, then

from" water, sqačēzc Tr coup or all-purpose detergent move

re-

hats will come in, and the line will be shorter at the back and higher on the head, and worn slightly forward. This is the 'Niniche' line. Smart flower hats damp, will be trimmed with Edelweiss Puliflowers. Colours are bright reds, same greens, and blues."

Well, it seems that women will at last move out of their "grey and navy blue spring fashion rut.

hand-

carefully handfeil. D

to make god thick, deep suds. gently by hand and roll in a pressing should be necessary.

Garments should be pre-test- turkish towel.

Ed Bret for colour-fast qualities, Do not wring or twist, Wring

unless tagged Wash separately ing will mat the pile and leave

However, if Iron is used, press only on wrong side of garment

When corduroy is complete-

if the colour runs. Corduroy ugly crease marks. Krad ly dry, brush with a clean, ckirts, Jackets,

shirls towel gently to reinove

mols- .oft brush in one direction to end accessories should be ture, then unroll and give the raise the pile and restore the

keep them garment a vigorous shaking.

hand-washed

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BEAUTY is something you're over the years—is the heroine of

born with; but glamour is acquired. What it takes is cleverness and hard work,

The show business girls know this better than anyone. They go to high- priced hair stylists and cosmeticians and massage and exercise experts. But then they work at what they have learned. They work hard.

One of the outstanding film stars whese leaks have improved steadi-

an exercise salon story. She enter- ed the class, took her lessons, and then proceeded to do about triple the

work specified For one month she put all her energy art time into the business of acquiring a really good Agure. Since then she has had the determination to keep it.

That, of course, is not all she hat done for her jooks. She has changed from a not-bad-looking blonde to a gorgeous brunette, has adopted an in-

velvety look.

Your

guide

BY

MARILYN MARSHALL

Photo courtmy

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COME to the cookhouse!

LEFT the W.R.A.F. at the wrong time. In my day we endured LE nourishing, but

Glamain

The rocking home exercise, as de- monstrated abova by pretty Patrice Wymore, is death on fat, takes

ractice, though. Af feft, Patrice -- istrates a quick trick for masing nervous tension-ansy to do, too.

more becoming hairdo, and keup, and

THIS IS THE EXERCISE AS MISS WYMORE DOES IT:

Lie flat on your stomach on the floor, reach back and grasp the ankles, then, raising the chin as high as po". sible, rock back and forward. Exe fat simply cannot stand this punis ment,

But perhaps neither can you! Be- gin with a modified form of the exercise. Lie flat on your stomach on the floor and, simultaneously, fling Your Te up and back as you raise your legs up from the hips. Do not, at first, try to bend the legs at the knees. Raise the chin, as in the more strengers exercise, and alm for an up anth backward stretch all through the torso. Relax and repeat, five times,

After a couple of weeks you should be able to bend the knees and reach back and grip the ankles. Thati in itself, is an exercise. Tug at thr ankles and see how far backward you can pull your trunk, relax ecmplétaly, then repeat.

It will pay you to work at this exer- cise. Besides dealing with the midrift dudel, it guarentees a frm line of chin and bust.

Patrice Wymore has another, en- tirely different frick for getting quick test on date nights. If you are fired and need to make a quick come- back, he says, lie on the floor on your back, with legs raised straight, up the wall, heels touching the wall. Remain this position for five minutes. The change in your clroulx- Hon why give you a new lease on lifel Much the same position can be turned into one et une bast

exercises, you will ever coms deroas: Šiferan voll back on the food with

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meal.

If I were recalled to the Scr vice, reeipe No. 385, which

HOMARD A L'AMERICAINE." would

be my first This means hot lobster "For 100

50 men tuke lobsters and one bottle wine."

FISH?

line

white

Yes, but not cooked- in a pudding batter. The Manual way is: "DELICE DE SOLE

100 SYLVIA"..."take

large fillet soles, 11⁄2pts. cream, 50 scallops and 100 medium mush- rooms."

QUAILS are cooked in brandy,

-London Express Service}

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