1953-02-07 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1953.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

IN spite of years of long

hours and indifferent food, the Englishwoman's complexion is still a far sight better than anyone eino's.

That, anyway, is the record- ed vertlet of some of the men and women who paint the Eng- Jish face, photograph R. Ilve with it, and sell make-up for

it.

com-

"An Englishwoman's plexion" reports celebrated por- tralt painter SIMON ELWES, "has a special quality of cool- one UBES ness. To paint it

and blues and

cool brown umber,

greens

"I think Englishwomen

should wear black, and Sca-

Freeny blues, Bat they seldom do.

"But," he adds, "Englishwomen are idle. It takes an effort to be Parision of ur- chin, or whatever may be

able.

and

and

Avemen

fashion-

American

French

try

ED

hard and suc-

eced. But the

English woman

will not make

the

offert. She

JOHN FRENCH reveals

all the vote in s

single photograph`sə----

The

Forgotten Woman

shows her face-

can only be herself,"

CHAPTER ONE OF A

50-GUINEA GROOM COURSE FOR WOMEN READERS

An Englishwoman's "greatest bit of luck is her complexian," suys leading Vogue photogra pher

NORMAN PARKINSON. "It's a pity she wears it with dat heels, so that people notice her large feet and hot her com- plexion.

nose,

in

and

"Her features are, good this order eyes, lastly mouth. She tends to be a Bile thin-lipped-not

that

she can do anything about that,

or is wise to try.

"It's nonsense to paint on ̃a" month that isn't there.

Ameri

"I like photographing Eng- Hish girls better than cons. They are more indivi- dual, and intelligent, and they always disarm me by being to unvain-Do you want to photo- graph ME? they ask."

HER SKIN

THE

BRYS

"To Me,"

historical novelist NORAH LOFTS hus- ROBERT AROIFCH, band, "an Englishwoman's beauty lies not only in her natural com- and plexion and her freedom grace of movement; it lies also In her lack of affectation and her grace of behaviour."

the So what, after all, do opinions of the specialists It comes pinount to-when down to you and your face?

That it is NOT A GOOD IDEA--if your skin is clear-- to cover it with a thick sun- tan or tinted make-up base.

NOT A GOOD IDEA, if your lips are thin, to try to make them look full.

NOT A GOOD IDEA to follow fashions in make-up or wear too many pastel colours in day time, That it is -

A GOOD IDEA to try darker

you powder than

usually wear, and pater lipstick.

☆

Watch for

GROOM SCHOOL CHAPTER TWO

POINTS AND POINTERS

TRY less eye make-up

and than

more lipstick you see on the girls In smart fashion magazines.

TRY brown

Midscare

bc.

it is Cause

obvious harsh and

Ught

less

English than black or blue,

try

HE English' skin is still thei best in the world" - re- ports a head woman of Yard and Jeys who has had many years' over the eyeshadow experience of beauty salons in

powder

the - for

America and of the Continent. reason. "American skins. are shocking-

ly leathery and often pailld

It's probably the operitifs and

the air conditioning.

skins tend to be olly.

French

"But road English skin is 'ling, clear, and alive.

English womeg "That's why should not follow other people's make-up craze, American women switch styles of make- switch up as quickly as they styles of clothes. French women use make-up as an ac- cessory--with shock tactics 10 startle you.

"Bat Englishwomen should choose the make-up that muite the colouring --- usually rosy lipsticks and creamy powders, Then choose the dress colours that it both."

HER GRACE.........

፡፡

Fame

THY wearing a little make-up every day (to keep your hand in) rather than piling it on for occasions. Make-up is mat- Ler of practice.

TRY to find dresses that are from the away usual blucs offered by dress manufac- turers (namely pow.

especially the sea- oreen blues and the

periwinkle mauve blues that have great artists for 200 Vears chosen to paint as settings for Eng- Itshwomen,

-the paler you aro the better, if your lipstick is right.

TRY not in be scared of not using rouge. Engiialt not la colouring

necessarily pink and white it is often white and gold-and without 13 better

is

rouge. But if you're zure you need it ignore those clever Jia gramis about it in the placing

face centre if your is fat and always keep it high near the eyer, It flatters them. Above alt you should

TRY to ignore all the advice you get about ing down der, electric, mid-

features and play- night, and navy)... ing up "good" fca-

tures,

its because to TRY not to be result is

mako scared of black everyone look alike.

ON THE RIGHT

London,

there a stripe in your` life? There should be, for the Brat spring collec-

LINES

tions stress that the stripe, By Hazel Meyrick be it Regency style, or broad

of comething to cover behind,

Jeff showed spectacles with all'

GOOD NEWS TO ALL

TOURISTS IN

HONGKONG!

WE SUPPLY. ALL KINDS OF FURS AT.PRICES MUCH LOWER THAN- IN YOUR COUNTRY.

his hats, many of them with matching material Taminated HUNDREDS OF READY-MADE into the frames. For court oc- FUR GARMENTS ARE NOW ON

Jorg casions there was even

netle of pearls and rhinestones. But the craziest accessories of as in a butcher's apron, is cories made from poplin, shown the week were shown at Ed- in London's first attempt 0 back in fashion.

ward Harvand's spring millinery the' fashion

co-ordination. Thanks

With each hat the to an enthueastie group of

A model carrica stripe is Australian-bh manufacturers, it will now be walking wilck to the uninitiated

top stick signer Robert Schulz, who feu possible to buy matching gloves, tures it in a boxy college blazer belts, hata and even umbrella in a matching shade, some-

The latest exponent of

a

DISPLAY..

:

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO OUR STORE TO SELECT THE FURS OF YOUR DREAMS, times trimmed with flowers. Your Choice---

MINK, SABLE, BEAVER, PERSIAN LAMB,

worn over a slate grey dress,

of With a hat Dink and Robert (born 28 years ago at covers at a reasonable, price, in Boleroo, South Australia) has severul dazzling colour alter-

lavender straw. the model Just shown his first gown col-

rated with black. In cavalry brandished stick ot for lection. He studied

Alve tan, guardsman red and other Brands arles pageantry tones, there are gots enamel, trimmed with a full- under couturier

***** blown`rose, A black velvet KOLINSKY, SQUIRREL, FOX, OTTER, Etc. years

of basic accessories which give pill-box went with a Creed. The master's Influence

twisted endless permutations ироп black liquorice stick, and * pupil's work, single theme-the stripe. These huntin' fishing shootin' model Ingers in the particularly in the design of the sult, one of which had military braid frogging a Tavourite motif of Creed.

Robert hus darts-with-a- difference in his dresses. In-

some-

tels will also be on sale in large stores overseas.

*

Dipping into the past for in- Jeff

queens. Elizabethan in

had a matching cone of green

snake-akit.

Imagining fop sticks In the hands of the umbrella brigade, to be left on buses and trip uv

fashion

chion that ought to be speedi-

ly

OUR FUR EXPERT, MR. S. T. FONG

IS ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE..

also welcomed.

stead of hiding them by seam-ssed the stolonline collect pedestrians, I think this is one Ready-made or made to order; orders by mail ing and careful pressing, tion based on the reigns of

the darts, highlights

three use of saddle times by the

suppressett The general line of Harvane's atmosphere collection was that of the small- Stitching, sometimes by simply

them inside out. A dress were his high-crowned colf in brimmed hot. Не showed of rough silic has the darts black and white striped gros- scomed outside. the edges grain, and pikeman's hat of several boaters of coarse straw,

all worn ulted well slashed and neatly pressed lehen green fell. For garden He had several turbans in his 27 Des Voeux Road, C., HONG KONG Tel. 25934. back. Another with the darts party occasions there was an collection made from fine straw Elizabethan cartwheel of black with leghorn, trimmed

turned turtle is trimmed penny-sized buttons.

• Jace.

The Schulz conception of an Ingenue evening gown la model in black and white har- lequin check silk, with a puri- tan collar of seven layers of organza.

with white

forward.

jersey, but these were all knot- ted to one dide, not wern Queen Anne's reign gave Jeff straight on the head. the inspiration for a flat tel- corne of black sisal straw, with

a narrow edging of stephanotis. A hat car-marked for Ascot He also crushed fine raspberry had a wide dipping brim of straw into a draped turban, white straw, with its shallow trimming it with a frontage of crown composed of a huge pink pleated material.

23/1

Then, foining the queue 10

chrysanthemum. calen

the eye of aristocracy, he

Based on tile Victorian poko Among the cocktail hats was show a

cloche a court. gown of ivory bomet was Jet's

in a gold helmet worn with zotin, embroidered with gold faut ribbed satin with a dip Egyplan c choker of gilt snake- paillettes and silk tufts.

ping brim to frame the face.

half hat trimmed chain, and The highspot of his collection More Victorian his bride's with stars and moons, teamed coronet of yellow comellas and with a black walking stick 19 a black theatre coat of st pudding basin hat of black rib- with its own dismente collar.

corded silk. Its deep horseshoe neckline is filled in by a scarf bed satin, trimmed at the back The most terrifying hat front, detachable for decollete by splash of

is Harvane's clove-pink the year occasions.

TOSCS.

Д

The stripe appears again at To prove that glasses can be an inexpensive level in acces- an attractive accessory, instead

Elizabette

Two versions of the spring dandy:

LEFT: Inexpensive level: A set of striped accessories, from a milkmaid's cap to a striped umbrella ali

from made

Shenz popila. Worn with classic suit of black barathes, RIGHT: Couture level: Harvane's dusiman's hat of coffee and white shaded straw, witla a matching fop stick trimmed with an outsize rose. Worn with it, a masher salt,

All my

Grooming Course I

BY JOANNA

PACE

I BAY men are for peacock-vain... about

YOU have read the analysis....you have read the than women. And if you Yody bays read the the towel women

mord clothes

don't

Viking helmet made from splinters of irridescent steel. It may be chic but would you wear it?

Let's Eat

BY-

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

Expand Menu With A Casserole

"MAY 1 Inquire who is that kale instead of asparagus, would distinguished looking, slim, bring down the cost. By using dark-haired lady over there?" plenty of stuffing and gravy, a 21⁄2 pound chicken would be Esked the Chef of our hostess.

"Mrs Walter

Craven, enough for a family of four.

from Charlotte, North Carolina. Asparagus Casserole

Sho

under- not only stands good cookery, but has exquisito taste in home decor tion, and was chairman of the committee that redecorated the Governor's mansion."..

Expanded Menu

First hard-cook and slice 2 large or 3 small eggs, prepare 1 c. cream or white sauce, gate mild cheese, and blanch and spilt enough almonds to make 4 c. Place half the con- tents of 1 (No. 2) tin: white When we met Mrs Craven 1 porngus in a well-buttered or the nearest golf course next asked what menu she might margarined at easerolo. week-end.

plan for a dinner for unexpect range half the sliced eggs on the paragus; cover with half the I ASKED as I-listened to the guests, If you are under 35- and your altin is not clear-remember with

B.B.C..

SITE "Why don't they play a

I had planned baked Blanched split almonds; pour in chicken with stubing for the half the cream sauce mixed examples of it, "has something that advice is FREE at most beauty salons, And, ono (in Lon-

don) at least maintains a staff of seven girls to answer your now tune, instead of reviving family and two persons dropped with half the grated cliccse. Ro-

opos? that other faces haven't got."

BO many of the old queries on the phone.

Then

I asked

THE Englishwoman's

T

Say men who live

Lace,

it is up to you to make the most of it,

skin

only the ugly ones that worth attacking.

Do more.

Ar-

and

4

dl.h 11at could

JEAN

supplement the chicken with a lhe remaining asparagus, eggs, "To Me," SAYS.

cheese, KENT'S husband who ·was

If you are over 35 and your well....A for of skin foot to And Mey played a new tune, in, I'd use more staffing, and 'peat, in the same way, using

I WAS delighted with thy substantial vegetable carpis almonds, sauce is wrinkled-remember put on in the bath it, your

min, friend mado with a uinned or frozen Bake 26- brought up in Vienna" that wrinkles can be ugly, but skin is dry....A skin this new sult, and I told

not all of them are. And it's If your adn is ally, ter he bought folalde vegetables, bake lots of but ovori, 316 modera

are witchhazel to two of rosewater "Oh, I thought it must be a biscuits, iens a bigger salad, and a This outstanding

A fino thin milk, prefer good one it has much hier get out an extra dar of homes be baked individually in Large

mado pepper

relish," Tán menu prekinuo cocottes, and bo- the main dish at a luncheon. And It would be DMIRED the way a tradi- might be spen powder.

balzo card "tabla"

vegetable dinnes, as it is high in protein,

English woman sqmeone with

an excellent complexion

"Women of many countries ably not, unted-to use under buttonal

- I

look beautiful in old age? says

Q

famous photographer of

women, "but the English aro KEEP THESE EXTRAS

the only nation whose women

know how to grow middler If your skin is not-so-good

who aged beautifully.”

logkamuch younger than to

is. I do not think they should

waar:

KEEP THE

THESE IN STOCK

spots

TINTED liquid foundation

to do a cover-up job... Calamina lotton"?, for

but dioting is more efficient A clearing qul to paint ane worth

dwidth the climate,” And I do If you haven "good" skin

honeycatsako stylt does not A GOOD HORTA

eleanning cream to (sare-as

Lionel

corne

had been re-covered--with darkclopecial Occasion Digner perfect for the star food in al

brown, condanny. It made, pick-

is up cards (and coins er counters) easier, too.

22 Brolled Grapefruit Make Baked Chicken and tuming

·String Beaná vágy Asparagus Camorole

Green Salad

The Chef Broils Grapefruit

·I'M ONLY asking; but

Cat large fuley grapefrult in halves. Renove the seeds; why is it so cper the big

Joopen the pulp. Add 1 big atores to buy silk scarves and

and Apple Pine Coffee tournful honey to cach hair any moles of all kind

hitnou jy This menu could also be used dust with pionation, and broil wamy loog woolly munkafor, or linner. Chilled 3 inches from the heat until

tirintas grapetrulty and buttered mailing. De luxef London (Mayrets

mayor 1 year, hoiva, but: 00ʻlard to buy arʼqidət

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