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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1952.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

NEW S for WOMEN

THE

TWO

PETULAS

When a woman changes

PERSONALITY

Petula Clark

WO well-known women An chaletced Initting wool, and to be used only for swim suits, Margaret Lockwood-have will be hi the London market It is fine wool recently done a personality very shortly.

thread twisted round a slender switch.

MY OPINIÓN: It is heavy to the ounce, but knit up like machine-made lastez,

How like the. chameleon we elastic base, women are. It an unsophisticated girl falls in love with a man who likes glamour she will change overnight to his favourite type, Sophisticated women seem to And the switch to wide-eyed lunocence even easier.

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PETULA CLARK'S change- over from, girlish simplicity to

GOOD-CHEAP

Aids For A LIKE MOTHER, LIKE

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Sallow Complexion

By HELEN FOLLETT

THE ghi with the golden rin pretly, looks wholly alive, alert

athlete. But the and poor dear who has sallow``akin feels that It is a good-looks handicap. No cosmetic magic. can Beem to change it much, though Certain rules of muke- up will give it a more normal, healthy appearance.

Dark rachelle powder with a suggestion of flesh that in it .... attendants at cosmetie bars will blend the two-tends to detract from a green-yellow skin tone. Rouge and instick inust be orange-red. Wine and asp- berry shades are just about

fEY as counterte fatal as glamour is concerned for giris with sallow skin.

Work from Within The cure for this benly gr means that one must work frem wilun. Chemicals are actink unfavourably upon the epider-

\RDINARY turkey towelling

will be the 1952. glamour mal

sophistication brought protests ORDIN

Inther. Arst=onngoranee-ferrie-for-holiday-wear Dyed we cont, if you are among the

an American holiday

I used

her soft curly fringe. Her hair in belliant colours it is practical sweetened

(needs no ironing) AND IT 18 CHEAP.

do is sleeker and brushed of the forehead,

Emerald

ficted taked-glass of un-

"Jemonadë and drink a plat ut breakfast bullermilk a day. These neld drinks have a pleasant effect the digestive motors. upat towelling

and urange julee, rich Tomato in vitamin C, are helpful.

cuiffed

With this new look she wears rhinestone drop earrings, a lot of black, including nylons with jeans sell for under £2, Bur-

rundy towelling

black patterned heels,

Even her make- -

hos

been

"treated."

Now

she has

A

pale.

complexion, uses a

by SUSAN DEACON

clear red lipstick,

which, she says,

"is more citec-:--

five,"

Volce-lower, more mature.

shorts

with patch pockets for

£1. A beach brassiere match, 14, and a boxy towelling Jacket with 龜 mandarin collar in peld yellow and white under £2,

And with it all goes the New Early rush by slimmers THE spring slimming craze was Y to an early start this year. Beauty experts, busy with MARGARET LOCKWOOD the seasonal wax baths, exercises

The colour of the frock and the hat may tend to accent the sallow skin, Green should not be

grey isn't su worn. Steel

although good,

doye grey provides a softening Influence. About BrownIS

Women with complexions of this character seem to have u for browns and special yen belge tones in dress, and nobody CHLO guess why. They offer no contrast and should be avoided. Black is 11 safe colour, and is attempting to desert the and massure, thank the •pild

the smart thing this black is "Wicked Larly" for "more winter.

"The rush sympathetic, natural person.**

usually starts in season. Soft cream shades aro

flattering. Her

and a mid-March," one expert told me hair is longer

type dressed in a curled bob. It is "but this year women started Like the redhead, th

should avoid pinks and reds. lehter in colour and frames the reducing In early February." face. Make-up is softer,

Favourite is Dr Stephen Tap Navy blue is among the happy Lighter shades call lor's 3-pari diet from his book selections. "FG13

and Figures."

attention to skin that is for re Forbidden: "Everything made moved from the ideal peaches- and-cream variety. Mauve and from flour or cereals."

violet are nice for dress- whether soft I asked Dr Taylor Chinese food, which is mainly up.

fattening The vegetable, is answer: "Definitely, yes." "Crispy Boodles And are obviously and pitched a

foods and chop suey is served plenty of fruit, vegetables and with sauce made from soya green salads.

The lipstick follows more the outline of her lips and has not such a hard edge.

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In tune are Miss Lockwood's clothes in her new film: the type "well-bred English

would Woman"

wear

rather than a screen siren.

las And apain the voice changed-richer tone lower

Are women wise to adapt personality to suit the mood?

I think Peltla

Clark ta ber

natural, unaffecte a Lule ana

Margaret Lockwood

sophisticated elf are

more convlucing,

NO SAGGING

not

Above: Cotton dress for town with a belge and black reflects colour scheme. · IL fashion i it. dropped shoulder line and its gathered

in

do is But the thing to stick to sensible diel. Ent dishes that are not too rice simple

butter and cream, slimming rich

to

121

one

bean flour." So that is out, too.

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let

far, lar

the

PİROM Franer comes the Jong-

FRO

sought answer te hand- knitted swim Gulia which sog when wet,

Perms at half price

front anel.

Above: Gay little play-suit this season's of

has wide picture-prints, Il flared skirt, bodlee with tiny straps, and jacket and knick- ers to match.

W

DAUGHTER

By Dorothy Barkloy.

London. pink plastic, it has a screwtop 710 would have thought "safety" lid. It contains a new nylon-sifted powder, delicately that the time would scented to harmonise with arly come when an elegant town good perfume. outfit would be as easily washed as a child's play-

ton.

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Gym tanto 1052:

What a Kyn tunic sult? But so it has-when surprise to find the the material chosen is cot- entering the fashion world and flaunting itselt us the "latest in evening wear." It has the FC- rulation square neck, and the But it Cotton becomes less like regulation wide straps.

some concessions to cotton and more like silk makes ench season,

Ishion and sophistication in its Consequently, colour-Bloc-pink, its length

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Perfume library:

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it has now taken its place ballet length, and its trimmings among the silks and satins matching bolero and cummer-

д nn "hnute couture" bund rash. material. Naturally, cotton

Have you dresses reflect "houte cou- ture" fashion. Analyse the One has been designed to over- ever heard of a perfume library? fashion points of the cotton seine ine lack of system in de- dress illustrated. Its colour scribing or recording perfumes scheme beige and black to help those who "eater for the is up-to-the-minute. Sa public nose". Every type of scent is catalogued, and it will are it dropped shoulder therefore be as useful to chem- line, its gathered front sis and manufacturers as to per- punci, its tiny polka-dot fumiers pattern. So are it all

sun

Evening dress or nightdress? black accessories -the so clamorous, go extravagant is black cartwheel hat (on the newest design for a night- excellent sunshade when the dress that it could almost pass evening dress. It is in becomes

too warm), as an

leatherweight nylon tricot, with and its long gloves crushed

its opera lop outlined in colour- down to the wrist in the ful Batin embroidery. Over Jacques Fath manner. But it is worn a neglige of fine nylon its fashion points are not net

embroidery on which has

too elaborate to prevent it yoke and cuffs to match that on the nightdress. The pity of It is from being washed and that, it is for "export only", washed.

.

a

-Paris Fads; Each season, Lon-. Many firms now design don is inundated with the latest special "collections" for children, fads from Paris designers. The

evening trimming to end all in trimmings is a glit decoration the shape of a fish's backbone

and the term fashion is used more and

describe more to clothes worn by the under-tens. Last year, patterns for cotton and is worn fixed over the part- dresses were faint and delicate, ing of the hair. colours mainly pastel. This ye there are bright

polka dots and

candy

pictu-sult

Uttle

The gay illustrated has a wide Dared

skirt and bodice with tiny straps.

Gilt-

sheaves" in the shape of brooches

and earrings form the newest

for

are scarves

of

Heady

uch

Sven

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originality by picating placed

It has jacket and knickers to accordion from forehead to

and

match. The

material is one of the back of the neck. They are this season's "picture-prints" fashionable in shantung in the

with children shows

Bame colour as the jacket lining. bicycles, scooters, hoops and Eleotrie Colours; New com-' kites capering against a white binations of colour have an effect. Try absinthe background. A style it may be electric said, which the well dressed with navy, rost red with lilac, child is wearing this season." or pewter with Chinese blue.

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Travelling Companions; Think- ing of travelling? If you are, you

Welcome two newcomer

TUBBING THE NEW NYLONS will

Nylon velvet, which is becom-

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Watch Repair Service

In the commetle ine. Firstly, o It is

not necessary to use new travelling beauty bag, in wate" resisting TF you "don't look a day older

bluing when you wash white lightweight

but if you wash nylon, than 21 you can cash in on ing increasingly popular as

white material, it is large enough to ALL REPAIRS EFFECTED BY with

three bottles other contain

und gorments new cut-price-for-teen-drapery and upholstery material,

nylon

clothes

(all unbreakable) | SELECTED & EXPERIENCED that require four jary agers department started by nis casy to keep clean, For in- white

the for

for the usual cosmetic prepara- Lon don hairdresser. His stance.

not harm grease marks can bluing, it will

WATCHMAKERS Or you may safe- tions, and small enough not to prices:

usually be removed with plain nylon,

in the be a water. For more stubbornly use, blue flakes

The best way your luggage. Secondly at last! washing

powder bowl which will not UNDER THE SUPERVISION stains, a light shampoo with 2 to wash white nylon, however,

Your suitcase the to wash each

OF Es. 6d, shampoo and set (0s. | synthette detergent foam will do is

garment spill in

In pale moment you close il. td. adults).

separately to avold graying. the trick.

Feima two Kuincas for a tuiness whole hand (four for adults).

water.

Your Guide

Spring abundance, In the form of delicate white stone wild- flowers, pours from a finely-wrought golden sornucopia to make a doinly side-draped necklace with matching earrings and bracelet.

to

cumbersome addition to

Glamour

BY MARILYN MARSHALL

HA

TAVE you ever stopped to con- sider that the jewellery you wear is an intrinsic part of your costume and, therefore, a very real part of the picture you pre- sent from 2 glamour point of view?

The wrong necklace, the visibly wrong earrings can. 39 detract from the appearance of the smartest suit, the most fashionable frock as the wrong hat or the wrong bag.

demurely In finely-vrought gold- plated settings. Striking Beld Ulies are Bnked to form a Queen-of-the- May garland, or arranged to form a Jattering pendant.

A similar floral theme has been used in the new pins, which are offer- ed as handsomely-massive designs to shine alone as star attractions-or, in slightly smaller veralons, to mule in pairs for timely teamwork...

Of special interest in this group are the three-dimensional pins, which are bulit up in layer, to give not only richness o

and depth

unusual lihtness to the designs,

One of these, form, En outstanding exam

but

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in pelail ple of the manufacturer's craftsman- ship, being tailored in effect, yet lovely accent to the airiest of chiffon. All are gold-plated with non-taryish- ablo finish to

And so, because costume jewellery is such an important part of your en- semble, we've gone all the way to Providence, RI I to consult a noted. jewellery designer, Miles Jeanne Allen, a costume jewellery firm, as what's now in the fiel, Listen, then, to her spring notes and keep your good weather eye out for the imagina- tive pieces she describes todny

of a

"The new spring jewellery," Miss Allen says, "la keyed to complement the new age-of-elegatice fashions from Paris; also to the hark-me-back styles In promoted by American designers Both of these trends the accent is on femininity, Therefore, there's a breath- of spring lightness about The

now tallored gold jewelery; an arresting delicacy of design in the ultra-new coloured-stone. Line.**

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Floral Theme

the

Particularly culstanding als wind-flowbr", Broup, which borrows,

· Zunhbor's' favourito, spring colous w white, pins and blue-for He, duinty flowereis. Diminutive", daisies · spill from a golden comucópia, or nestle

Quaint & Gay

Stone-sot pins, too, are offered in

A variety of design ranging from, eye-catching conversation pieces, such as gay umbrela pins, to stylised birds quaint enough to trace the moet old- fashioned of ante-bollum revivals.

"All-gold Anish necklaces, brace- Jois and earrings," according to Miss Allen,

"haye also been softened with undulating contours and alry open

work sela

designfringe effects, both mobile and, rigid; fluting, "golden baguettes," and multipla fine chain Treatments all add further unusual anat feminine touchen,“

Combiyallons of amooth and ridged surfaces in a angle piece of jewellery. nometimes even in a single link, pro- Vide the Jekture, interest, which is Catillas the most important marks, of all, hight fashion apparel and accessories,;~

JAMES J. KING

COLD & SILVERSMITH NAUTICAL OPTICIAN

St. George's Building Top Floor Telephone 35993.

NEW

Spring Gabrie

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London

The babies. and children of to-day will be

There is nothing in the world'

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Please

help to give them a fair start by kindly sending & donation to-day

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