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THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1952.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

New Tricks In Nail Polish

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bit exotic,

TAVE you heard about

HAVE you hear in polish? A bit exotic, some of them, but what woman doesn't love to play with pulchritudo novelties?

but

By HELEN FOLLETT

desire if theirs are larger than they like. They can console themselves with the thought that The rule is light shades for light large hands look strong and coloured clothes, darker tons capable. for the tailored suit and dresses

of more subdued tones. And keep your hands In prime condition because polish calls attention to them, you know!,

Grooming with

old- fashioned chamois skin buffer before putting on polish is on excellent procedure. It husties up the blood streams.

You can have gold or silver nails, if you like, by sprinkling the fine crystals over a flesh- coloured polish that forms a baur, makes the glitter stick. Suen polish is nice to wear with the formal that is trimmed with gold or silver lace. It will make nalls shine like sunlight and you'll be a sensation among your girl it gently away from the nait friends. Silver crystals sprinkled fabric. Forcing the flesh down. over a deep crimson polish pro- at duces a charming effect, too, one that is effective with a frock of black velvet or silver brocade.

Coral and Red

Pen" purh back the cuticle with the orangewood stick; lift

the base mny produce ü deformed nail because it in- Jures the matrix that is con- tantly sending forth new cells.

A beautician, who is keen about now. Ideas, makes this suggestion: Spread over your the

Hot Mineral Oil

if the Ersh the come of nail thick and heavy, nails a deep coral polish. Then used by fine too far down lacquer the nail cave and the hair at the sides, soak your finger- tips. now and then, in hot moun at the base with a deep

mineral oil. Work gently with red. Or, instead of printing the half crescents at the bases of the the

nils, form a little triangle.

For everyday wear, you will find a wide range of res. You pay your money and you take your choice. There are luscious toward

bright poppy geranium shades, tones and, of course, the darker ones that so many women prefer,

Putting on Vencor

Be canny when putting un the veneer. A heavy application is more likely to go spotty than a light film permitted to dry, fol- lowed by a second one,

It's nice to have little

viols

By keeping them in perfect condition with skin smooth and white, by learning to move them with grace,, large hands will

qualify.

•

Lation's Needed

No hands are in such perfect state that they do not need lottoning. This quickly-drying cosmetic shout! be used, and bands, should have a rousing anil freaming and friction now then. Give it the leavings of the cosmetic feast when you massage your complexion at bedtime,

Sometimes, after doing heavy work

washing clothes, the angers may feel lift and rigid. Then they should have few ainutes of limbering exercises, The elderly sisters are especially

this in need of

good-looks practice.

OF

Hand Exercise

+

AFTER SIX O'CLOCK

By MERCIA SNOW

And one

suck on the hardened

Hold your hands in front cuttele until it is loosened, then you, palms upward. Spread out little shaps with fingers and thumbs. stretching ship off the

curved, needle-point scissors. them to the limit. Bring them! Place the runts of the scissors back slowly into the palms with

the eave, Then you all the force you can exert. When HE evening skirt to evening gown.

Tether with blouse or can bring the changes with will not be ikely to have a you have done that, spread them wund. Even a tingent invites out again, turn padma downward, sweater provides the answer two or three tops'." infection, and an infected nail et than relax.

If the hands are to have grace-to a dress problem: whether may prove a serious matter.

The sleeveless sweater is ful movement, the wrists must be to choose a garment suitable Incidentally take a look at flexible. Palms upward, ages for cocktail and dinner proving the most popular,

wrists from new nail polish colours. There inclosed, turn the are dellcate shades that will side to side. Fingers lowered. parties in town or one wear- though a modified bat wing able during country-week- and the raglan line is also delight

move the wrists up and down. Some have you.

Black wool fashionable. Place fingers and thumbs on a end evenings. mauve east that's grand with

table and do five-finger exercises,

models are often trimmed on Sumer clothes,

as if you were playing the piano.

One model It is easier to pack into a the seams. Hammer first with the little

an show recently has two-inch bands of black silk braid, woven with gold thread in A check pattern.. Another. has braid hung with pear- shaped pearls.

so that you can select a colour One cannot change the patterninger, then down with the others. holiday suitcase than

that harmonises with your frock. of one's hands, as some girls may

Behind the Headline

hangs a tail

IT'S A NATURAL FOR THE HOME HAT-

MAKER

by Phyllis Digby Morton

NATURAL

accompani ment to the autumn '62 of the fashion unpinched waist, middy line, sweater-s ha ped dress is this casual cap that has the same carefully do sigried shapeless. ness

Obviously right with tweeds,

jerseys, and

almost any neckline; what curl

about any faco?...

on

Plunging peddlines are

large loops

trimmed with

the garment's own fabric.

thread and wool mixture

in

There are sliver and gold

jer-

seys in 1 wonderful variety of

silver

has

colnurs shown; one

and

in flamingo pink-

a minute collar and front buttoning; another, a collarless design In violet wool with wide yolk in silver, has сар sleeves; and there is CIUSY- over style of the same weave but in lemon yellow and graduated stripes of pale gold.

BLOUSE POPULAR

evening

Blouses have certainly come into their own this year. Their claborate outlines BRVC the skirt and blouse idea from-becoming slightly tawthry. They are mostly in white lawn. broderie Anglaise, nylon finest gile organza in Edwardian style, with balloon- ing or leg o'mutton sleeves, und high, prim collars. The most original is in yellow and bincit plaid,

the

Ballet length evening skirts, very wide, made of taffeta folile and velvet, are the pre- sent favourites of the designers. Many are displayed with match- ing fitted jackels, minute capes if desired, They also tha xrotit ds. tinguishing the skirt. Thus the elaborately embroidered *cirt with a deep floral

or biri

ΟΓ

or boleros

carry

orlined in gold throad (TO miniscent of the Japanese bird design),

is matched with the embroidered cape. Rays ΟΙ purple paltoltes model has

skirt of

down the wide

with

bolero ornamented in the same Way. And an enormously

full black taffeta skirt graduated quilting all over and narrowing at the waist, has a finely tailored matching Jacket with a dull.peplum.

used

Purple pallettes prt again in a 9-inch band at the hem of wide silk model and they gleam unexpectedly as the skirt swings in walking. There are a few narrow skirts shown this season also. One is in velvet and it at the front. But the wide skirts carry the day.

GOING TO THE FEET

10-

It seems as if we may look forward to a return of the elegant shoe thanies to Paris.

-bave For the French troduced the "spindle heel" harrow that it is scarcely half an inch wide at the base and only Hitle more at the top-and the more pointski vang.

con-

The English shoemakers are being more cautious and servative. But they have been forced

to

*adopt at Icast modifed Vomion. It is an

profement on the thick, clumsy heels they have foisied on the

That carefully calculated casuainess.j No dressing up but the Making time roughly an crown for shape, the end, fringe kuuricet in recent years. And It glimpse of outsize stud earrings. hour, Material three-quar trimmed, hangs down the back. & big change from platform

soled shoes, which started out Already fashion in Paris and- tera of a yard of jersey) (the. That is all there is to the high | dole Wollt deminds a brow New York predict It will be the dmount is necessary to get the fashion exp-except the soul, an exotic whimsy of anest headline this length, but makes two). beauty, and courage to wear it. Leather and crafiamanship, for amouth and wined: Eyebrows most popular

Pattern-think of a stocking, Quice is there a piece of Italian feet and ended up | in England', in their millions, well shaped. Features good winter.

Easy to copy, it is a naturol with the foot cut out tài, make joracy in the Houndt enough not to require the

was produced." room for the head. Tied at the ~~~(London Esprang Bereice) uncouth; and softening influence of even one for the home hat-maker,

LEFT, Top: A sleeveless-

black evening Jumper of plalted silk ribbon. Centre: Five rows of silk fringe decorate this evening jersey, Bottom: Black and zola embroidery culiine stiff, white lawn flowers which are Hghtly stitched to this black wool evening sweater.

CENTRE, Evening skiri * of fine black Isos banded

black with

Saffota and lined with rose-coloured. moire. The blouse stresses Iltis season's sleeve-line. Here worn with black miin shoes which have djamante embedded in the fabric, Black day shoe shown has piping and bow of black and white striped-

RIGHT. Cocktail sull of phot charcoal coloured povit. Note dropped shoulder line. The yolk and collar are of narrow bands of poult mounted on not. The silk slide is fastened round the ankle with = bow. Evening mulo' design with rolled leather thong from heel encircling the ankle on a slip knot.

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