1952-01-19 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1952.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

A NEW LOOK IN SPORTSWEAR

By DOROTHY BARKLEY

LONDON. below the knee, where they weré elasticised to keep them in posi× tion

EMEMBER Gussie

RMoran bare panties? Remember how they startled Wimbledon-and the world and how in the years that followed, lace panties. frills. and broderie anglaise be- came the new look in tennis clothes?

dress.

Remember the man who de-

1otany Signed Gussie's Colonel Teddy Tinking" latest tea is to break down the conservative ati tude to dress in

lizab

For

malink: "Anchors

Aweigh" was a practicni autût in navy cotton consisting of top and slacks. The top was eco.n- ted with miniature signal tags:

and the belt fastened with a

ver anchor.

For the tennia-court: The The r:was design is based on "toomer" suit, is made in whitz ton, and has wide bands of multi-coloured elastic roun the waist. It was modelled by Miss Lorna Cornell. British Jumor teanks champion. Many of his

Several designs are sketched here: "Elegance" white dresg with unusual pockets and black saucer buttons (top left)

knitted "Sunny day," in multi-coloured striped cotton, has

yoke and waistband in yellow the yoke a buttoned on, and can be removed (bottom left). "English violet" has a partva violet jersey top over a bouffant hurt in white cotton with small black spots (centre), "Promenade" is in black cottun. Letreshingly combined with pink waffle pique (right). mings-belts and buttons-are gilt which noi tarnish.

Trini-

wasites and dos

other sports a collection this tennis dresses have transparent week introduced a new look for organdie yokes. These button on the golf wu:se.

the skating the dress, and may be removed rink, for railing--and, of course, play ge's too warm.

a new idea for tennis wear

WEARING a blue silk dress- ing gown eird tied round his lie, Teddy neck in place of a Tialing compered his own show of sportswear, taking to York.

which he

£3

Montreal ond New

wear ure

for

8

dresses

a year?

ONE WOMAN WHO NEEDS THEM-AND SOME WHO DO NOT

GLADYS LEITH

M must be an exceptional

woman in these days,

It was Mrs Letth who said (during a court dispute with her dress-makers recently "Sun-e people will manage with fun or three evening frocks a peur, but take seven or eight." Of six housewives I spoke to

one buys mon recently not

than or new evening dress

year

Usual reasons. "No money to ព [ripperies"; "We spare don't

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these enough days", "Nobody seems to dress ир now," and "Il's school uniforms that are worrying me at present, not evening dresses." Even women in public life did not equal Mrs Leith's buy- ing record.

Jacquetta Hawkes, archbeu- logist and author, with an OBE

il

the last Honours Last: "One full evening dress in two years and about two dinner dresses." Cabaret Mar Hermione Bad- deley: Un I was in cabaret I had two evening dresses year, but now I need them for work

buy Six Betty Jumel Uus

"Humply-Dumpty": pantomime

dinner drees and one full One evening gown ste me through 12 months

112

season's

Norma Andreotti, opera singer, who gave

Lon- recital don recently I buy about 20 dollars a year, averaging 100 each, but these are mostly for my work."

My own ruunt is one in three years. But the one before last did duty for ten years.

Light up IGURES of Last

FIGU

October's

Tobacca consumption Brain were the highest ever- 21,130,000.

This means that manufac tures are making more not that the public are necessarily buying more, says Mr Feather- stone, of the National Union of Retali Tobacconists

But he points to the post-war increase smokers

large

11 Women

nervon

"Women face more

and strain today and find he luki

worry smoking comforting."

те

of

THIN LIPS →

FULL LIPS →

EILEEN ASCROFT', COLUMN

bles" is a new group for girls between 11 and 14, with more than

puppy-fat lu average camouflage.

Miss Another range, called Debut, covers girls in their late teens and carly twenties

Coat Inings are almost more important than the coat. Con- trast colours are gay; quilting of the 15 warm for the rest winter months, bright tartan in wool or silk is good for coun- try wear

Wool jersey makes an elegant Hining, especially when match-

g the frock beneath

Thinking small CHILDREN ure lurger

wor

now than they were before the

Mothers repeatedly confirm this with weight and measure- ment chart: But manufac- turers

ol small children's elu hes refuse to recognise faois. They still producc pre-war Nizes

This is a typical letter from a mother 11 is

Mrs from Christine Shirley of

Tow!

Court Lane Petts Wood:

"My sou. three years old last September, weighs 35t

fall 7109 10 is 3ft.

5lbs

LIPS GIVE AWAY THE CHARACTER

- HEAVY LOWER LIP

THE CLASSICAL

MOUTH

Shampoo Advice For Blondes

By HELEN FOLLETT

IT is not re long ago that the Platinum blonde was :1 the public eye, her hair almost to snowy whiteness,

bleached

most

Over-ble: cher hair, and hair hak has not been abused by

for Weaching, rail

The fastidious care, The shampoo agent mus. be of the blandest There

high-grade liquid CORDS that quality": there

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re

a) C

Elit leanes Svourites among the tow-

r- d

penunggal. If shop 15 ed.hould be thinnes with

to water, hall and half.

4

al

c'eam

Publespeanfu: shampoo will suffice for the first crubbing As it foams up, water should be added a little

The second applica at a time.

wi!: dig out the just of scatp debris and a

rousing The rinsing will carry it away. more

the

used

the

elbow grease better: the scalp thrives OG friction that hustles up cierto- tion and has a favourable effect

but make-up upon the glands in the scalp.

can tell a lie

TTRACTIVE Hongarian-born

A Maria Hornes reads characters

from her clients' tips as she works to beautify them.

Rix has abetched the four main

typen of

Miss mouths and Ногдев gives ber character reading of each, together with practical advice on Up make-up. A HEAVY LOWER LIP signifies

a volatile

Good character. intellect, but inclined to be lazy Emphasise the top lip with a slightly darker shade of lipstick Press lips together and the imprint gives a good guide. Stop short at the corners of bottom Hp and shade of colour with the Mtle Anger

THIN LIPS indicate a purposeful

character and shrewdness. Make lips look larger and fuller by using clear, bold red and by buliding up the COTRETS unobtrusively,

4 with

slight extension of the centre curves. CLASSICALLY SHAPED MOUTH. with clearly defined Cupid's bow. Set of top lip saggests superiority. Spotlight the perfect mouth by medring wirid lipsticks. Blot of with excess

tissue and any

Take pojeder over the top colour well inside Tips to give on even line when smiling. FULL LIPS uggest that bele owner is generous and appre- clates the good things of life. Tone down a large mouth, trace the outline just inside the natural margin Take colour as high as natural lip-line in the centre WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED London Express Serples.

14 months, When NO ROMANCE

He quoted examples women who took part-time jobs to earn their cigarette money. A London bar-lender told me he finds more

crimson-tipped Stephen was learning to walk, sports-cigarette stubs in the ashtrays he had to wear heavy walking

than plain ones.

hoes, as manufacturers do not One business woman 1 quz- muke kid shoes with non-slip

Hin zed about her smoking

oles in a size larger than 5. confessed that she had

Spunt

He now wears clothes for A on about

year £100

rix-year-old.

my 10 a week, but i do NOT like to see the ful- lowing smokers:

Equally important in

the designs spectators "For every player," says Teddy Tiling "there are a thousand spectators." Tips on OCCE- sporting how to dress for sions are given in this collection. Since

being cigarettes this collection is being shown now in London, and will be shown lale: in Canada and the US, the designs are mainly for warm weather occasions. Cotton is the material chosen as it is cool and washes so well.

The tennis "bloomer" suit has is easily already been launched in Paris. It was worn by Miss Cornell in a championship match the e Perhaps elsewhere sportswomen

daring will be sufficiently sper his new look on the golf course and Perhngs!

And the details of his new look? The material chosen is

50-60 the is a "Osmalare", which mixture of wool

cotton "warm in cold weather, cool in hot weather." It is confortable for sportswear. and washed,

*

For the golf course: Lumber- Packet and slacks outüts and divided skirt-in bright colours Outfit in black-and-blue striped Folten consisted of peaked cap. ket, blouse with gold

buttons and neat slacks, fitting in the ankle. A similar outfl

brown and pink colour

had

a

scheme. "Detalls at the front distract the player," declares "Teddy Tinling". All pleats, butions, pockets are placed at i the back to "amuse the faithful followers."

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the

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tennis court.

2

Girls under 18; Elderly women: Smoking in the streets. Chain smoking, Cigarettes dropping out of

a woman's mouth,

Nicoline-stained fingers on

a woman.

Spotlight on teenagers TEENAGE STYLES

e-

received from more attention signers in the New Year, "Club-

The Ministry of Health have been conducting a national sur- vey during the last two years to establish the average post-

and war weights

heights of Their children under 3

And-

ings-to be issued in about a

persuade

manu-

year-may facturers to change their sizing systems.

Ministry figures already show that schoolchildren have 1- be- creased their height since fore the war by Min.-in. and their weight by 1-2lb. (3-3lb. for girls)..

REDUCE SAFELY AND BEAUTIFULLY

BY MARILYN

MARSHALL

the the fact that no che food is in IT IS sad enough when

PERSON itself fatening, that a middle-aged

loses woman

For the skating-rink: Most her girlish figure, but when a original outfit here consisted of schoolgirl graduates

into the blouse and torreador trousers, in blue and red velvet. The blouse overweight class, it may be stark

(blue) fastened on one shoulder tragedy. with red beer-barrel bultons; the

Too many poinds may make torreador trousers, ended just her feel so pcutely and pain

that she fully self-conscious tends more and injore to with- draw from her normal share of social activities and per- haps to take up eating as a form uf escape!

Suit Escorts

For dinner, the same day, the the menu follows: 14 pound gains weight when she eats cube steak, 1 medium potato, 1-5 modium head lettuce, 1 en- more than she needs no matter what the foods, and that to lose riched roll with that tea- weight she must simply make it spoon butter or margarine, 12 a dally habit to eat nutritious cup sherbert for dessert, and 1 foods which total fewer calories If you have done any reading

mile as uzual. than needed for the day,

about diet, you will know that A basle three-day diet was fried f:ods are taboo on a good adopted and was repeated over diet and that the ment, always, the entire 8-week period. You le roosted, baked or broiled. may be surprised at the amount and that potatoes are either of food contained in the menus baked or bolled in their jackets, bread and butter for all the Those rules certainly apply to meals, milk amounting to 13% these menus, Dints for the day, an egg for

To all of you young women who may be haunted by or in- creasing surplus of pounds by breakfast every morning and, For lunch, sveand day, there far the most fascinating et re- every three days, candy on the wars: alices enriched bread, cent weight-reduction studies

butter, 1 medium carrot, 1 me will be that conducted by D dinner menu!

dium orango, and. milk.

Ruth M. Leverton; protesics of But the foods were cerupal- human mutrition at the Univer- ously measured for each moal pinner for that day consisted |sity of Nebraska,

and there was no more than a of 1⁄4 pound pork chop, 1 small

パ

The Leverton not long ago teaspoon of butter or apple, 1 cup raw vegetable Helped 12 of her students to vitaminised margarme per mehi salad with Temon Jules / pr shed a total of 280 poundia in even when two slices of bread, vinegar and reasoning no siltä, +84 days. As she pointed out, were specified. Ales the candy dressing, over-elles marieh "We lost

the The participants were all bo- tween 10 and 20 years of ago Juice Frer rapshule, juice MP-: 3 slices enriched board with and they carried from 20 to 3 pead so the brakest manuten butter

Birls in the phe two wan required to be eaten before broad, butter, 4 quafresh

ex,; it couldn't be Boardødl; strawberries, and 1 cup milk

10

onewhair cup of orange. Ennen for the thin

CULLED from the offerings pounds too many Average each and, aside front this, spoon Jetty made into of the season 1 e riest tulo of weight loss per girl was 192 they are the landaren 1aalide wich) or "d-inch strip of Geccssories, Tint coloured calf pouids, or a hotmail cafe, 16ks enriched bread, butter or mar

slith is ipod, der lundy but of 20 pounds per week, and garine (just 4 teaspoont),

cup

most attractive hand black malleulgur plys checkups mediums and 1 cup pound round orld" strappings th sille and

duction mulk

women

no-

There is no such thing as romance in our day, have become too brilliant; thing spoils a romance so thuch as a sense of humour in the

woman.

--(Wilde)

Spectul rinses for light bair can be found at any Cosmetic counters; they help to bring back the highlights. A good old-time treatment consists of trc

lemon

rinse. Add The Jemons strained juice of three to a washbowl of warm water. Rinse the hair well, using a the cup for the purpose. Let

through ifted water

with clear-

Fun

strands. Follow water rins".

White hair, like golden locks, must be shampooed weekly

they

it is to look alive and glisten I wave lolions are used should be of fairly sistency.

Distinctive

thin con-

The gray tissue faille bluutse uses tucking. on the collur, the front yoke and cuffs. It has

uncealed

for fastening, and, hat distinctive touch, the en- velope pockets are placed slant- wisc.

To complement a suit.

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