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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER · 27,

1952.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

NYLON “FURLEEN””

For the first me Nylon "Fur" is seen at a' London show- The materiat is nylon throughout and can be verled Toom. in colouring to duplicate mink, ermine, ocelot, and other skin. It is claimed to have superior wearing properties, to be mothproof, fre: resistant, washable with soap and water, and almbat Impossible to wear out. Nylon "Fur" was developed

Canada for by the Defence Research Board of

servicemen In Arollo stations-Express Photo.

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How to keep young

By HELEN FOLLETT

A

Eileen Ascroft's Column

BLUE haze hangs over the dress shops, of this country, Each spring and autumn the fashion colours change. But each season — and they are doing It now the shop buyers don their blue-tinted spectacles and order turquoise and baby blue.

Manufacturers despair. They follow the Parla colour trends, go to great trouble to dye or import materials in the new shades and find them left on the rails. For the buyers demand blue, blue and more blue. ·

The farther north customers come from, the more they are blue-minded. One manufacturer said to me: "Every time I see a buyer from north of the border I reach for my blue shade cards."

Store buyers

counter this

charge by claim-

北 is the

casiest colour to

Bell "If I order

nc w

fashion

shade I might be left with it, but know can always sell blue," says Scottish buyer.

WHY, WHY

DO THEY ALL WEAR BLUE?

And here comes the rub.

b

The buyers are right. Englishwomen-do suffer from this morbid passion for baby blue.

li a revent itionat colour quiz 17,000 women out of 22,000 chose blue as their favourite fashion colour.

I most

W

Light blue is becoming colour to wear. It flutters only the very young atau silm. Anyone over 30 or with a hipline above 30in, should beware of it, to matter if it is your husband's favourite colour. Maybe he loves you in blue, but he'll look at the girl in

I black colour-conscious smart

Few

women buy baby blue. Margot Fonteyn uses colour with drama in her wardrobe. Although it is basically black, she adds contus bright us an emerald or a peony.

Ludy Lowson, London's for mer Lady Mayoress, brings colour into black outts with her bats.

scerns as though some wo- toward the sides. Don't pull the With a short evening dress she men cannot

convey their flesh out, just roll I thoughts with words but must

Stroke with nationed fingers lift the eyebrows, pull them to- from the upper part of your gether, purse the lips or squint throat out toward your cars. the eyes. All these things are a Knead the flesh big help in courting premature knuckles, wrinkles.

with your

our

I

Toning Treatment provides a dash of spice and But let's abolish Lift the eyebrows and you will To avoid flabbiness, it is neces-personality. have little railway tracks across sary to have a toning treatment. these bi-annual fashion blues. your forehead. Frown and pretty This can be given by frisking an Soon there will be

simperings of the average child film star or mannequin?

Of six mothers I spoke with five said: "I wouldn't dream of perming. my daughter's hair." The sixth disagrees, and is off to buy her perming kit. "If you buda session every night with curlers you might feel g ofterently." she said.

Unpressed PRICKBAT No. 2 for the Bundarned, unlaundered and unpressed appearance of many schoolchildren.

In a recent report from school teachers Dr Norah Mills, Roch- dale's depaty medical officer for schools, blames

parents for the children's untidy appear- ance.

Anyone why has watched children going into inorning school will agree with Dr Mills that something is wrong. Bul there

is another side to the picture, Today's young mothers auve left school during or since the war.

missing from the

are

"too

But I found two teachers in- cilgnant about the plan.

Long holidays are one of the few compensations for low pay and a nerve-wracking job, they say. "If we lost that we'd give up teaching."

Children's views were mixed. One

"I'm always girl said:

to gel back to happy

school. There's more to do there."

"What a rotten ideo," was a schoolboy's reaction,

orc

* Autumn hats

UTUMN Kats

young, small and hend-hugging. the recent show emphasised a sideways movement, well down on the neck, baring the hairline in front. There are few brima

on the new bots.

Panne velvet is No. 1 fabric: and black the leading colour, followed by

emerald. ruby

and the cin- namon shades.

Many pull-on styles are

·

Eileen Joyce tells me ahe likes coloured gloves WILL cocktail outils and the beauti-

Sadly ful French Comtesse Olain de la Falaise Introduces it in shoes. modern girl's education is the suit of wool

old sewing leason, where em- made will wear silk

pumps of ancient darning, patching and gen-jersey.. trimmed with contrasting An eral mending skill were taught. entirely different colour. other woman

sveta Cocktail who loves con And today most of their young

are missing this bdts carry bun- trasting shoes is the Duchess of daughters Windsor.

valuable training, too.

chy ince vella of

mesh colour Ink

course Let's have

Untidy

veiling. wardrobes by all means.

PRICKBAT NO. 3; for school

thet Dholidays

Most unusual long."

trimming was a Cut them to a fortnight in the self martingale summer, with a few days off at belt on a pillar- Chrismas and holiday week- box red panne

County Durham-

cloche ends, BOY'S your eyes. Keep your

E. Cain. He is closed to bar out sunlight and neck which have been previously children's home permanent Councilor

It is tracks appear.

brings a quick wave.

million American placing his suggestion before (London Express turkey enough to fight beauly afflictions camed. Tee

of the blood streams, youngsters already have per- the Durham Eastern Divisional that come with the years without the blood streams bring nourishmanently curled hair, and now Education Executive Committee. creating some of your own. mont to impoverished cells. comes the news that permanent

about the plan. Wrinkles should be treated be- If you use thin strap at curls are also to be available, for enthusiastic

Д Try

They claim their children get to night, have it hold a piece of British-children...

Little girls become vain alf bored Jore you get them.

with long holidays visualise yourself years hence gauze that has been wrung out

What especially 111 these days without а line or a crinkle in in ice-cold astringent or skin too easily and to0 BOOK.

more nauseating than the working mothers. your face. That should inspire tonic.

two horrid ice tube on these areas. And ditches between while you are at it, you might

Brickbats for Junior

Herrigation eyelids half as well to all over your face and DRICKBAT No. 1 for the

you to keep your complexion

satin-smooth. And if you have

a habit of making inces when you talk, you will break yourself out of it.

To condition the skin so it will retain youthful loveliness, use creams freely. Don't forget that soap and water are your friends, When you apply lather, friction

with your fingertips. This practice will help iceep the de- fiente fibres strong,

Be health builder. Your! complexion and youthful appear- ance depend upon how faithful n follower you are of Hygein.

Firlicky Eators

Don't be a finicky eater. Fussy women who subsist on a few favourite dishes are bound to miss out on certain vitamins that are necessary for energy, good lasks and health.

Don't be housebound. Get out of doors every day for the sake of you spirits. To fall into a

rut, going the rounds of the

duties, having household

change,

will

no take the sparkle from your eyes, make you moody and morose.

Drink plenty of water if you have a dry skin. An arid com

lexion wrinkles more quickly plexlan than an oily or normal one.

WATCIL

chin.

out or

The

the behaviour of your habit

of thrusting it it in Yog soft tissues at its

of, drawing

dinca in

In the base. Perhaps you fancy that china don't change. Ofttimes they develop a companion chin, Horrid Unes form between chins. When, this happens, youthful Appearance has departed, woman has a "settled look" that settics her chances of taking any beauty prizes.

Vigorous massage will help to this superabundant

break

is

A

Parents

spoke to were

SHE gets the second glances

Service.)

The

FÜR again

You

Can't

get

away

from

the fur

CASHION FAVOURITE FOR' THE AUTUMN is the” fue trimming, Overcoats at collored with blue, red or belge for (right); suits bare small tailored collars of black or Brown' Persian or Indian lamb (left): Ocelot makes a bɔod for an alpate and wool total coat (centre) red COUNTRY opossum appears on twaads; mink and beaveraro used' for black town cools.

*

*

Moleskin, in light tones of brown, makes a return for: jackets and trimmings Something new is nylon fur" that can be spanged and tt moth-proof t can be made resembling, mink, Ocelot and armine.

* *

The fur-lined jacket sult is practical for winter wardrobes. Many of these jackets reversible with fabrics

Ora

The fur-trimmad coat is in I have seen mast price ranges. them of 8 guineas.

this month's Spointah collections Leopard makes this travel bood collar,

day the

Queen

must choose a hat

By Joanna Paco

O a woman, a choice of

and this is why, says HET huts is always impor

SIMPLICITY –

that's the secret

By LEONARD MOSLEY

HY is it that every

FRESH time I express my CHE will never dry up in the instream of a conversation

line, looks, and personality

tant. To a Queen, on a great state occasion, it is vital...

And so to the question: What will Queen Elizabeth wear when sho rides in state from Budding- ham Palace to open Parliament formally for the first time?

Politicians have long since given

up speculating when the new parliamentary session will begin, but it is certain

to be some time before the Coronation which raises the problem next June. And that is the point will not havo Because she

admiration for the on any subject. I heard her been crowned, the Queen wh

Desert Island Discs" the other was perfect, too,

of someone like Ava Gard- night, and her choles of records not be able to wear the symbol

ner, or Simone Signoret, or Jane Russell, all the women

I know say: "Ugh, we know why you like her?

100

the

ONE SOLUTION

-the clara presented to the Queen by Queen Mary.

of monarchy. Yet custom demands that she should have But though Mins Leigh fascinates me, she le far her head covered when she reads elegant in the female sense of the Queen's Speech, outlining

Government

policy for the word to appeal to me,

Give me n

girl named Vir-coming session.

Would one of her lovely turna And why is it that every ginla McKenna instead.

ing doorge VI, did not have

His. Coronation for instance, the one given her timg they tell me: "Look Miss McKenna is a 21-your-this problem.

after rapidly la just begin-followed nt that woman, Isn't he old actress who elevant?"

his by Queen Mary-bo considered

I know that I shall ning to start the fast climb to accession. He opened his first suitable? Peeressps attending a be expected to enthuse over 4 fame, and she seems to have Parliament in 1937, dressed in state opening customarily wear dres or coat that only inciden¬ ́m) the talents. needed to get the full panoply of robes, and tiaras, and this might be done. tally has a human being inaldo her there,

VIRGINIA MHENNA Something about her

il?

Grandma's Kind

Of Cake

diger..

Crown.

tho

sidered

for a reason Sovereign not to do so. One Solution

The Garter . • THE Duke of Windsor, as King

NOTHER possibility is that Edward VIII, was the Inat Sovereign to open Parliament the Queen should wear the before his Coronation. In his splendid cap and robes of the book "A King's Story," he tells Order of the Garter. It would

to wear, and wears it, what to Morgan's play," "The River how he overend the-difficulty, boì & Itling dress, this costume

tissue. The application of Becoming Lost Art in fact, who is often overloaded she walks on to

Her beauty is at such a fresh On the subject of elegance in and simple kind that the effect is devastating, like smelling the women, the female sex and I frst scent of English and drifting over the waves after To women it meane somcopo weeks on the sea.

SINCERE who always knows exactly whe

THE audience at Charles say and says it what to ko ard

of the most ancient ordell of when to like it. Someone, Line," gasps with dolight when

"«r'decided to wear in place of chivalry, for the Queen's first the stage for

the massive bejewelled head appearance in Parliament. with poise, but not very often the first time. with personal appeal,

Hor volco throbs with sih- Egear of kingship; the cocked Nat compresses or los friction is

cerity. She puts meaning and that went with the uniform of For before she reads Her speech alle had to carry out one effective. But catch that double

Cincinnati, O.

To me an elegant woman 19 feeling into everything sho Admiral of the Flest

of trouble early

: A University of Cincinnati someone I like to look at.. Bays, No wonder

reign. Bho makes her declara

talth, At Bodtime

of Protestant.

¡and", home economies expert belleves

A lot of women will tell you Balcon signed her up as the

fim of the hat raised a weighty point on After washing your face at the art of baking cakes the way

that the most elegant person in only girl in his

tall the Protostant Lords with it on my hodit, or to bedtime, when the flesh is warm Grandmother did is rapidly be-London le Vivien Leigh, and I famous best-seller "The Cruel Should I enter the House of swears to do all in her power

maintai what they mean. Mino Sex, and glowing, see that the skin coming a lost art.

Hall, Leigh is one hundred percent sweater and a roll of dilcloth

Virginia could wear an old should I carry it in my hand?" siccasion to the Crown,

The opening of Parliament urlage is dry, as Bone and then Mra Elizabeth Carson

one of the most splendid a heavy emollient abply a

who investigated the 'cooking the perfect modern woman,

Hor features malagures are around her waist, and some were fially resolved when da thumb and first finger, and roll dern" women, said 54 percent of

By that means you will break interviewers relied on prepared trouble over her dress, and Hee cyo, the serenity that seem to be Mout enter the Fount of only by a coronatus And even down fat cells that form the uncako mixes. She found that an clothes are perfect (I wages in through her skin, means Lords carrying his adattal, het dihat becomes a Very Important

Thero la no quel onok maken. Afsu. Becoming pouch. Start under the additional 14 percent used them they are too, even when she is elegance to me

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