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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1952.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

What to do when you spot "THE YOU YOU WANT TO BE

on the screen

A FAMOUS HOLLYWOOD DRESS DESIGNER SPEED-SKETCHES THE OUTFITS SHE WOULD GIVE TO FIVE DISTINCTIVE PERSONALITIES

CAST YOURSELF HERE FOR

THE 5 FASHIONS SHOWN' ABOVE

18 45, and asy- Y te myself on parties. My friends and I get togather once a week, all dressed up, and hate a good gossip. Y husband says I'm too young to behave as I do, but Bay young in beart," say I

R8E 18 22, and says!—

artlatio and

conven't

highly amsitive. bother with Nociety: I'm after the deeper things of life. I paint. but won't be recognised for, cen

point the inner turica. 1 meaning of life,"

SHE 1A 28, and says:- "I dress Amartly be cause the bow likes it. and that's the way to get on. The other girls may dra to. please their boy friends-and.

frankly, they look it. I'm pretty, and I make the mor of E.

IA 33, and _zays!—

We think my brain j

good be any me With of course, the added Benattivity of being a woman. Most men are foole, actually, but they manage to blur and Not with cet away with it. me, though. I best them at their own game."

18, 20, and say ---

Because they love me. I think I am the covence of femininity. Theo only one Important thing in this world

I'm not Eroedy don't ask for diamonds they nurl them at me, Of course, 12K Vary nice."

OTC.

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A Slim Waistline Exercise

By HELEN FOLLETT “

Regular daily exercise 1 Here is a simple exercise. It will whittle excess fat off the few seems to appeal to

the mid-section where the first

tent leather belt

Black

Seubil

Jersey

chess-

black

Call me a circus-trainer

to the star's, says Edith Head

IT is not my affair really,

but I know that women

do like to copy a dress they have seen a film star wear- ing on the screen.

But it seems

winan

Ject in

that when

"I would Eays

look

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that gown Jennifer

Its wore,' she is not merely

ing to carbon-copy the star

350 delight

always tell the children to shut up. But you can never get an hetress to obey," she says.

FOR EXAMPLE:-

Although the fashion designs What she is doing is trying to may differ for an actress from identify herself with the Amm to film, certain methods pernality the star is playing. semain the same

The distinction was pointed JENNIFER JONES is always out to me recently when into fascinated by detall, and insists

the hats gloves. job is dressing the atare, not and"

He chose his leading Indy-- Edana Romney, whose last star picture

""Corridor of Mirrors" Ave years ago.

WDS

Since then she has spent three years and most of her money trying to make another film. "Anchal." On the Farrar prin- ciple she would

SOUTHERN COLOURS

AQUA or Hime green are the two pretty colours chosen for a holiday useful and attractive

a linen-like rayon. There is interesting treatment shoulder

have been the dress, the fabric star and co-producer.

The film crisis crashed her flanged

a nicely tucked yoke, "Rachel" was never made, above hopes. and Robert Newton, who should which, uke the hip-pockets, la have appeared in it, was award-cutlined with bone buttons. It ed £12,500 damages for breach of contract.

has the crisp, band-box-look

13 seen frequently Miss Romney went to work in that radio and TV. But in films she southern resorts. preferred to Ignore amall-part; offers and hold out for some- thing big. Just like Farrar.

... WITH BRADEN

London stepped a woman whose only, tamo time early in the morning when hus- ;

for their own personalities, but as the. dress

WHEN Barbara Kelly matio her last At she left home band Bernard Braden was in for the past they have to play... ELIZABETH TAYLOR would bed. At night, by the time she She is Edith Head, with fou look attractive even in a sack returned, he had left: for the

She takes over a dress com- theatre in which he was appear fashion-designing business

women, and it is a pity and abdomen and thighs, all along Oscars and 15 years in the film etely. Mis Taylor's commenting in a play. When Brad

their

a shame. About the inus- invading fat cells form culature they seldom give a adipose tenements. Lie on your legs slowly, breit. Lit.

slowly. Do that

Byte

thought and it is the strong lower them resilient musculature that ten times to get your creates the svelte shape.. It gives working. Then, Bft legs is alzo a pretty good guaran- es high, as you

muscle

con, until you

tee against adipose billows are fairly standing on the back

and a waistline that follows

Four Oscar.

the sketches.

asleep.

The

ot. a

Wife

to

at fittings is: "Let's make the came home his wife was her credit,

lule tighter, ch!" For the first time, they are It

Miss als a 酒

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND,

In Head who de- with the intendly of a college.

now aiming together Pledge, the story monstrates, in

studies her deers who pawns her husband, In musciams"

Are their off-set hours any with the The star

largest better? Says Braden: "Barbara wardrobe-bigger than Jane is on call earlier than I am. So dress-to-your- Russell's is Trigger ROV she takes the car to the studio character philo- ROGENS's horse.

He has two and I have to hire one. The sophy works out stand-ins, against one for most dept is costing me money," on five women stars; and, if Trigger is weiting

above how he

match-your-

whose types (EE) familiar.

HERMIONE

SOAP OPERA?

BADDELEY,

pink in a scene, then the rest of the cast change their colours.. Edith Head accordingly, herself is short,

Says Edith Head: "Trigger whore money troubles have slim with dark has the best figuro of the lot. made more news than her parts hair worn in a singe. With a And he never uses the habitual in the past month or two (she clinical air she describes her excuse at a fitting: "I'm a little even Hollywood Job like this:

"I'm a sort of circus trainer,

of your neck. The most im- pertant part is the slow lower- a policy of expansion. The ing of the legs, so there will be beauty upkeep in money is a muscle pull from the calves

to the waistline, Yet a something terrific. ten-minute workout every day costs nothing at all and means that the figure will remain youthful.

There is a strong relationship

it can do to take off those exces Actresses are pretty in. Aligent between excrelse, health alluring beauty. It i't always Squator. inches is something animals, and each one has to be

about, its effects will

differently when It possible for a girl or woman to

soon be apparent in the pliant treated

to designing for their find me for outdeor spots, but in

swing and

grace of your bear-C# even the busiest one can spare ing.

Before she took up fashion If you are much overweight a short period of time before or

Calisthenics you should, of course, cut down Edith Head-how in her forties after the bath,

-was a schoolteacher, "I could speext up circulation, give one i on sweets, starches and fat,

clemens that sense of well-being and have a food definite effect upon the com- builders. Eat lean meat, green plexion, creating pleasing colour salads, vegetables, fruit, That beats the rouge compact and drink buttermilk and orange all hollow,

2 Here is an easy one: Place

your feet ten inches apart. EDITI HEAD Hands on the hips. Rotate the torso in os complete a circle as you can, firs: from left to right, then from right to left. This is called the torso twist and what and

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juice.

ore

fat

• Awarded for her dress designs in "Samson and Delilah Place in the Sun" The Heiress," "All Abou Eve."

A BRIDE WHO BREAKS

London.

П

overweight this week!"

has ä song about her cheque book in cabaret), 1s suddenly caught up in a rush of A NEW TEAM offers. mers.

Two new films-one with the Hermions (G!ngold).0 series in the autumn TWO ARTISTS with more other than the usual amount of radio determination and ambition team ("What will, Gingold say about ntw play, up today. Their names: David that?"), and a

"Pagan in the Parlour." Farrar and Edans Romney.

In that Miss Baddeley will appear os a coloured girl. Says she: "I hope the income-tax people leave me enough money to buy soap

to wash

off my black make-up,"

Mr Farrar, who fights for what he wants (and sometimes gets it), is putting part of his money into a new play, "Royal Com mand." He will star and help

to produce.

WITH TRADITION

Over

Q

Ince

£t

not length! The mantilla-type head; ballerina-lcbgth dress, dice It's sweeping the floor offend "pophisticated",

"quite right", or it's "how" dress of matching lace also fails has no trein to alter afterwards, OES your ideal bride your sense of tradition?

film diar in two tiers at the back; particularly suitable, And

to draped tullo

condition Maybe you are one of those (they remember

the will be in perfect drift down the aisle in

wore one once.).

face. The bride wearS the after the day. It shocks one to But is it? On a young hiridd at face

of "bare-backed"

material so Ane and diaphonous vel, full- women who can adapt herself

to the vagaries of fashion

irallinx length dress with long train any drem.

many

least and for all but the grand now type It appears

anvith The ballerina traditional weddings, the sandal and, as a demure touch comer-like Would a people cannot. floating behind?

colour

her white on the ground, and perhaps strikes of

a Victorian being trodden on. But nore outat, the conica bride in a ballerina-length length wedding dress is already balferinn-ters

out me us being condemned by the

than

posy of mixed flowers. (By avoided if the dress is short, dress no train, no flowing aged as a designer's freak, as a charming, more

Frederieke Starke,

sketched If you decide not to choose

perhaps you eil, no full length skirt nine days workler. It's too the full-length gown. Although

it in short, it is nevertheless com centre). plotely formal,, and so perfectly.

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seven inches

from the ground,

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ke omadej ka 'Chantilly – iace placed clouds of¡.net and a streptoku taffeta petticoat. it hag i match-

mantsita- headdress.

(DY FREDERICK-

moded,

in keeping with the formality

of the occasion.

Elizabeth has sketched

from top to toe the out have selected

4

Would

no embroidered.or

Paldies with the

skirt

in a series of fille,

which a little jacket wh can be removed to reveal a strap

фото

it. the bride is in a short and a wedding gown, the bridesmaids

wo naturally follow suit This less dress for dancing? Or a for this year'a year, there are full skirted, calf dress in pearly organza shan- and bride and it's Ballerina fengih bridecanalds dresses in tung with lucked bodice.

nylon of the most delightful bourant dat? Ce one. In em "Jupin" shades-palo mauve gandle collar and cuffs,

bossed ergoadly with plain of

and blics

pinks The and shorter veil and little caps are full ekirt held put by numerous charming with these, too. If petticoats?

RIGHT: Alternative bridal headdress for a short gown: miniature peart and brillante coronet over a short, circular vell. (By Vyso London)

of

| LEFT: pridesmaids' head- R dress: close-lifting cap of sky blue or coral pink, georgetto embroidered with 21 milyor - thread, and worn with short jmatching, veil." (By Vyuo of London).

Sprays of orange blossom-n the form of horseshoes,"-.or lovmiş”, “knots; make a useful, bridal accessory. (By Vyas of London).

new

you are looking for something a Hittle morò umutual,

than the floral-type for the big wedding in the

why hat short veils with

grand manner, the full-length dress with Train “ánd vain, i ing headhugging cops of sky obviously the most suitable. blus or -egrat - Dink georgette

Variations ride. Countices

present embroidered with

thrend In

themselves for this year's coweb Posled paltem? (Sketched

Matin over a crinolined plan- petifcoat pale pink tulle rides and

embroidered a budget slik

Але must be practical, there

white

piqus. Kulle encrusted Many of them choose style with eatin flowers or lace which can be worn after the wedding as an evening dress, spattered with diamantes and and so make a welcome addi- mother-of-part, PANEE Kiba to the frousseau.

By Dorothy Barkley The

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