„THE CHINA. MAIL SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1952.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Elizalde
Expert's revolutionary theory for perfect hair grooming
A daily shampoo that's one expert's revolutionary theory for porfect` hair grooming. Saves money, too,' when you do it yourself.
IF you are away from your
favourite hairdresser, this summer and trying to take care of your own locks, you will certainly want to hear these comments by a hair expert:
1. Any woman should be able to shampoo her hair as easily and as pleasurably A3 she takes a shower.
to
THEY
London.
CALL THEM BOUTIQUES
-Not Shops
NOME years ago, top Lon-
don designers opened
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off-
at the back,
By Dorothy Barkley,
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trubentred band round the hem.
These two kinds of stift petti- coats are much kinder to one's nylons than the old-fashioned horse-hair style,
Many women have acquired a walat petticoat and havo
—
" boutiques - little shoots of their salons in which they could all their
then been at a loss to Imew intest frippery, nick-nackery why "boutique" should be a have shown blouses with starch, what to wear as a silp beneath more fashionable word than the ed "Eton" collars and cults, a semi-transparent blouse. The and fashion accessories,
good old English" "shop",, is The "fake" blouse provides a Now London
15 answer [accessory- hard to tell.
raally practical solution to this in silk or lawn, it is edged with the "camisole top". maker has had the bright idea
fashlon. In fact, it is not Hero la
its: of designing accessories, Hte
a selection of cur- a blouse at all-but a collar and lace and
tiny
bacque is those made
fashionable by rent "boutique" accessories:- slcevolet set. The sleeveleis
long enough to cover the Just London and Paris "haute cou~
The All-purpose Hal: Tils end just above the elbow, where top of the waist-petticoat. and fure within shops"
of selling them in looks as if it will be the hat-of- they are held in place by Quilted stole: If you thought
In Lon- the-season. It is made of al-
that stoles, after their success. don stores.
any kind of material elastic,
fula run during it, in pique and heavy wool
recent years, Here
women can ree at a saw
Wear the set with a sult, a mest surely be "out" by this alunce "what's new in the at-cut into a strip the shape of dress or a sweater. Wear It time-you were under a misap
There at a a crescent moo. It Ats close to with three-quarter sleeves or prehension,
is still cessory line and buy it fraction of the fantastic price the head, and buttons securely long sleeves. And you will find nothing more fashionable for charged by the haute couture.
1 more practical than a blouse providing that extra little bit of These departments go by the
because
use it is so much simpler to warmth when the day or even-
ing turns chilly.,. пате of
lounder. "boutiques"-though
Separates
untlerwear: Camisole tops and waist petti- coats-separates to you and me
is the lingerie required to The correct length is two and
half yards for underline present fashion,
day, three for With the
to rotum full, evening. Choose one in quilted skirts, the stiffened, satin, with the centre-piece become n shaped into a collar, and wear You can "must",
tucked One of the newest with its fringed enda types pack it fial. You can have it
It is through a belt. For evening, iti is illustrated here.
looks exceptionally two bands of
good in reversible one side, white, the etiffened with
"shocking pink" other navy, for example. And "corset steel" placed just above black with you will find it cool to wear, the hemline, and is made in organdle dress,
Finally, it is inexpensive, two lengths short for day The Matador Look: The one without looking "cheap".
wear, long for evening. An- essential accessory of this "look" The "manniah" look: Time other new and effective way of is i the cummerbund. It accents and again this season designers silitening a petticoat is by a the waist of the ever-so-sum,
Centre 'top: Quilled black satin stole.
Left: Starched collar and alcovelet set.
Lower left: Reversible stole and cummerbund
Centre: "Ring Hai", .
Right: Separates in under- wear.
You can wear it in a variely of ways, with the brim down, or flipped back off the face, with your curls-or a pony's tail, if have one-drawn
you
up
through the crownlèis crown waistcoat has
the back.
You can wash it.
It's an off-the-peg ball
for the debs.
by EILEEN ASCROFT TNUSUAL feature of the "recent Queen Charlotte's Debutante-Ball .. most of the dresses were
U
ready-made.
Parents traditionally spend heavily for the all-white dress for this ball, one
of the first of the deb, sen-
son, and even if the rest of her coming-out clothes are simple, this dress is usually made by one of the expen-. sive dressmakers.
2. She shouldn't have worry about the setting; she should be able to push her Disappointed dressmakers at- hair into placS with lier tribute the change to the un-- hands. At the
she certainty snast,
whether the event should only need a clip here would be held or not during and there.
court mourning: Most Girly Only once, two wore white,
convention
3. The woman who handles years ago, whs this her hair correctly is never guilty of the timeworn cliche, broken-by a girl in a flaming red dress. This set the debя. "I just washed my hair and whispering and can't do a thing with 11**
tongues clucking.
4. In the city, hair needs washing once a day,
By MARILYN MARSHALL
maternal
Their Styles
THE big stores, from
whom
many of the gowns have been bought, told me the deb.
ball dress is changing.
This year they have cost ab litle as £7 or as much
cotton, pique and organdio,
WELL, whether or not hair into shape as to block a £100. Simple materials, like
you concur, it is part sweater, of the credo of an enter- There is, of course, a proviso! make their debut beside gleam- prising young man whose You must have an expert huiring silks and satins and limey
cut--by a man who is "cowilcklaces Fifth Avenue shop conscious" or all this case of Many girls have chrten the specialises in ladies*
new ankle-length in preference bar frequent. hair washings a rule to the full floor-length ballgown. hering.
out. The
"cowlick" that His throngs of whorl in the crown of the head They think it will be more use- happy customers, all look from which the hairs radiate in ful during the rest of the sea- ing very well-groomed, are every direction. The hair must Another proof that his theories work? be cut with this cowlick in mind
practical question for some of the women, any- and the laundering finished with many have asked-"Will it dyc
well afterwards?" the cowlick as the storting
way. And since there seems point for the "setfree* wave,
to be a trend toward a You must find the cowlick be- workable routine for hair fore drying, care at home, I think you
would like to examine the
basis for his line of reason- ing.
First, the daily
hair washing: this is recom- mended especially for city dwellers who must exist in
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Long white gloves still seem form. But many girls have de- to be part of deb, evening unl- cided to dispense with expen sive white kid, which require costly and lengthy cleaning, and are choosing instead long silk
three weeks befort-ano's which they ear-rings.can be used.
Lucky, pirl with a beautiful dreasmaker gown, sketched hera
cinches the waist of the not-so- sum. It adds colour to a dark dress, interest to a pastel dress, and covers the ugly gap that appears between a blouse and skirt. I EnW these in satin lastex- the swimsuit fabric-in rich jewel colours such a sapphire, emerald and ruby.
Satin lastex is the ideal mate.
by firis ?-pear-old rial as it will not stretch out of Patricia Collingham -shape- and -is- sufficienly... strong- only daughter of Mr to give a corset-like support to Vera Lillay, of Arling- ton House, Mayfair.
the walst,
-A reversible stole is a good It is a tropices ple- partner for the cummerbund, tura dress made by the one illustrated is made of Rahvis of billowing and white organdie with a two lengths of very fine wool; bodice embroidered one side has a dark spot on o with white all fiswars dark background, the reverse und diamante, and a satis waistband fasten dark spot on a light background. Touches like these mark the between clothes and
ed with two, bows,
own Paris visit. This greying star certainly holds some secret of malo sex appent. “
Two cid-lime atm ars in She nows are "Mrs Deeds Goes Town" Jean Arthur e 51-year-old „Clark Gable.
Tean. In dark glasses, refused
His is obviously not because ho is good looking, because he possesses the ugliest pair of ears In Hollywood.
wash the hair "at least needed for the shaping, with says, "with that wide wave, in ore by malio-up. It should be Rhea Langham... "He is hard
once a day."
Only by frequent washings of
to the roots of the hair and not touched to the ends,
which look
It is advised that you may and nylon gloves, start the part of the hair from can wash themselves overnight. the centre of the cowliels, then bring the part to
Their hair any place along the forehead or the centre HERE were short hair-styles of the forehead that is desired. but most debs, still clung photographs. "I'm
ugly without
He is not one of those tentier, to the long bob. When you have found your
Hollywood make-up, the says, nofily spoken ladies' men. Wa One hairdresser who is dress- an atmosphere "permented cowlick and have done the
Many woman feel like this- have the evidence of three of the hairs in told
Ing many heads for the party, that their own face docm't mate la former wives for that, with soot, chemicals, oceán parting correctly.
me he is adamant about ter at all. Making an early call Wife No. 1, dramatics teacher salts, and what seem to be the crown of the head should short hair for the average on a housewife
form a smooth helmet. There
one often gets Josephine Dillen... "He want sundry hair poisons." It is should be
woman, but puts debutantes in a the flustered explanation: "Torch someone who could help bim siceis, smooth
class by themselves.
give me, I haven't had time financially." only common sense. this appearance to the crown we are
They should always wear to make up yet." expert goes on to say, to told, and it this lacking. It may
their hair in the. conventional
Wilo No. 2, wealthy widow be that a bit more water is near-shoulder-length style," he
Women today put too much
to live with.” perhaps, a drop of all, The oil the wrong place,
a pleasant gilding of the ly, but not a completely false face. "should be confined to areas close
Wife No. 4, widow of Douglas co charming."
former Good skin and pleasant facial Fairbanks, cenior, the Their jewellery expression are far more impor- Lally Stanley of Alderley
tant than paint and powder, "He was mullen and would not You will have to ponder these DIGGEST touch the hair can be produced
of luxuryeally beautiful women liko talk to me." Bwas the gems of advice and determine
beautiful heirloom Greta Garbo ond. Ingrid Borg- I do not believe that it is bo-"| clean base froin which healthy for yourself how best to use cecklaces and bracelets, taken man worry Uttle about make cause he is one of the richest them, That they are provoca- from banks by mothers and up. Garbo, now 48, used only a men in Hollywoott; Apart from had to an bemutative, you must agree, that they aunts for this one special night, touch of Lipstick on her recent a few gold-diggers, women do And hair can be "burned" by are worth trying, you also must The current revival of the visit to Londen.
not tenii to lose their heads over Chemically contaminated atmo- admit. So many of the top-fashion Icr car-piercing sphere as quickly as by ex- hoteli actreses I have inter- accounted for valuable One of my most interesting men with money,
women-without-make-up, MIL
bellave the answer to the posure to oun on the beach, viewed have made a point of as well,
counters was with Mae West at Gable appeal is more simple, taking care of their hair them- Mr Cyril R. Wilkinson, who Southampton when she arri
arrived
because he is a Bell-made It does not matter what land scives, or, at least, of being pierced the Queen's ears recent in the Queen Mary,
man of shampoo you use. Apparent capable of doing so when the iv. fold me that many of this I was the only woman waiting
Once an oilĝeld labourer, he any, rellable product will do. need arose, that I am convinced season's debutantes have visited to me her, so I was admitted to became a leading Hollywood Our man likes a ligula soap. most of you are more gifted him to have their ears pierce the cabin, the males had to wait uht Women love Cinderella
than you Imagine In
that they could this 40
Eorrow outside full hour, while the stories in reverse. It captures family
for their other foco went on
their. Imagination. coining-out aliau
Without her make-up Mag should be laundered either make a habit of taking care of om able to report that it is not fece. All the bold, bad look
Whether or not she wishes to
After, personal experience, t West has a sweet and profly Well-undressed male under a strong jet or with a hier own hair, a woman should such an uncomfortable process comes out of pots. good hand spray for most learn to keep it looking, beautlar one might expect, and takes
ATEST thing for the well- effective washing and rinsing. ful between visits to the hair only a few praqiteslly painics
14 undressed male 2
pink nylon, underwear, set
Being skin colour, vests dre Aflow washing, • you should reaser, Perhaps these tips to seconds to pierce the GATE, Bnd day will help you to achieve inzort the gold slaver rings. cay to push your that sort of exquisitentas..
supposed nas do, show-through which have to be worn
Tight-coloured shirts,
is easily massaged into the respect. scalp and rinsed out. Hair
Cur-ring
a
Cable's secret
MORTY French hostomes have ALGITADEST, ERCktajt, portion heart-throb Clark Gable's
-
Terence
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