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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1953.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

DRUSILLA BEYFUS

PRESENTING A NEWS DIARY IN A FRESH FORM-

WITH HER OWN: VERSION OF AN OLD RHYME

TO ILLUSTRATE THE STORY OF ONE WOMAN'S.

WEEK.

Mrs CHURCHILL'S SPRING WARDROBE

EE the skill the Prime Minister's wife puts into her dressing-it shows in every

lino of the new clothes she has ordered for spring.

Mrs Winston Churchill, who will be 68 very soon, is one of the most elegant elder ladies in the land. She is exceptionally skilled in the art of grannie chic, and although she always dresses to suit her age, she makes it an age worth dressing, She may order lavender-and-lace, but she prefers it with more than a dash of "It used to be easy to dress," she told her dressmaker, "but now I have to net' about it scientifically,”

Paris.

ing.

Tho. Churchill selence is worth study-

She creates a line to suit herself from clothes designed for much younger women. She adapts, alters, modifies the sort of dresses made for her daughters.

For example, when she BBW a pretty young dinner dress in a stuff she liked the look of, she added broad strapa to a topless bodice, changed the allm skirt to a fuller one, and wild she'd never dream of wearing it without

jacket to match:

the

She is fussy about the

ft of her things. Sho

Monday's child is

+

of grace:..

doesn't care for the loose, flowing clothes

the "older woman" is supposed

prefer,

but she likes to be free and comfortable enough to drive, walk, and dance.

In general, she in against suits, and prefers dresses and coats." And in all her clothes, wherever there is a pocket, che. likes it deepened to take her spectacles.

Here's the clue

Here is the Churchill science applied to three of the dresses she chose from Frederick Starke's spring collection.

For Court parties: a pleated dress (plature A) In a new materiai-grey-green sea-laland cotton volle. She changed the Eleeveless line to a three-quarter-length style. The neck died In bow she changed to a ling with a simple collar.

For about-lowning: a dress (picture B), simply tailored and a slightly flared skirt. The model was in grey and white striped

Wool;

she changed the fabric to She put a deep soft plent the back of the top of the dress to make it more comfortable, and a double inverted pleat in front of the skirt.

dark

grey.

ballet-length lace

For dinner dates: a evening dress (pleture C), with the bare neckline covered in a Aim of lace, and a long top-to-toe stole. Bought as it stands. The clue to the Churchill faraton setse that--whatever your uge, seems to be there will always be a dress to suit you- if you know what suits you.

Pretty, but cold

THE pin-up

of

mition

British homes reposed in u bower of lies and lac. There she stood, admired by oli who

SOW

her-petite,

Tuesday's

child is

Aufgir

of face

streamlined,

freshly got up. and full of un- suspected virue.

Her

pralector,

a salesman, ex-

plained

was 90 About his

what

uice I

refrigerator.

now

She was built

to take quanti-

tles of food-a cuble foot more space inside her than the old kind of the game size.

The protector waved offee- tionately to a table laden with the food she will take-a large leg of lamb, a whole tongue, a

bowl of brown speckled eggs,

A. AFTERNOON 'DRESE · LENTVE

Spoed woman

"Jackle" SPEAK 10 Mr Moggridge, the woman who break the sound

barrior.

Docs the fly for the devil of

wants

to

hursday's

child:

has far to go

it, for the thrill of danger, for

the sen90 loneliness or for the proud pos-

session air?

the of .Not on

your ute.

boilies of chicken breasts,. She told me: "It's only in

bunches of grapes, arxi four the air I feel I can relax.

whole bottles of hack.

She had polish.

I stay up an hour, sort out all

Her white my land problems,

coat shone and glistened-part- down refreshed.

cularly on top. Someone joint-

and

come

If any

"I'm not a bit seared.

** MORNING- ONESE LOND

OTHER: DAVISKERIES.

APPEARING IN PRINT

TAK

By Hazel! Mayrick

London

Fruit and flowers were his

MAKING note, perhaps, theme. He had one hat com- posed entirely of cherries, of' loudly expressed another covered with ripe and male opinions that denim unripe lemons. Black ribbon dresses, have à 'workhouse and red-currants may not lend themselves to everyone's look about them, London imagination as a basis for a

women

Wildo

loved 10

have started ap hat, but the result WDE FUR- pearing in print. The pat- prisingly chic. tern itself is of little ac- Dowager duchesses, the kind count, but there are always that Oscar flowers, and currently satirine, were catered for in a of forbidding leghorn popular are baroque floral-scrica

hats, some edged with ostrich designa nicknamed 'gar feathers. Another immense deners' nightmares." -

set

hat was fringed with what looked to me ke barbed wire.

But why did Erlie have to trim all his hats with coarse mesh velling? Fing volls, can flatter your complexion, but one as thick as a fisherman's net, just get in the way.

Leading London's smart in the print race is Christian Dior, who is now showing his mid-season col- lection here. Dior favours bird prints for summer dresses. Dior's birds aro not strictly authentic - one dress Inbelled 'night

into a hal? ingale was patterned with what I took to be parrots Liberty's did, and produced

bowler from but they are gay and colour, woven cane, with a handbog ful anyway.

Print coat

You're bound to have seen the fine mesh of cane they use as seats in old-fashion chairs, but have you ever thought of making it up

very

effective

to match.

A boater displayed by this store was trimmed at the back by the tail of a cock-pheasant: The feathers stood up stimy like radio aerials, and I held my breath as they just grazed top of the doorway.

The print coat makes its debut this year. It is capa- the cious, all-enveloping and can Imagine the effect of this hat be wrapped round you like in a crowded theatre sufferers cocbon. Couture versions behind you would have to part have a new dropped neck the feathers to see the stage. line, giving the impression that your coat is slipping off. Fine for the square shouldered, but I predict trouble for those who have the dowager's hump.

Seen also at Liberty's girl wearing a fox fur slung round her shoulders collar and lead on it.

w

with a

Man of the wook

The print coat is usually Most flamboyantly dressed reversible. As the fabric needs man of the week. I nominate

a lining, it might as well be Mr Harry' made to wear inside out. of a famous Imagine one made

up in who

furnishing chintz, glazed

give

Wheatcroft, grower

species of rose, appeared as what he to called the bar turn' at a Lon- surface,

don cocictall party, Furnishing

ed: crease-resisting and why

tabrles can

erous widths,

not?.

His hair be bought in gen-

was long curled of his neck.

they are cheap round the nape

to buy, washable and pleasant- He sported long curly ‘side- crazy to wear. If you aim boards' and a prolific walrus to make a' Jasting impression moustache; but no beard. ot your friends, make

Hi up a

sult

was completely coat in surrealist curtaining, collarlets, littered with patch

Talo one of

which

ich he pockets, But please, please...how- had stuffed a bunch of roses, pver uninhibited you may feel, His horn-rimmed ́ ́ spoctacles never mix two different print swayed to and fro on his chest, designs. The result is horrible hung from his neck by a plece beyond bellef,Culprils are of wire. To round off the those women who wear a effect, Was a magnificent patterned dirndle skirt in one striped silk old-school tle. print, blouse in another.

The quietest-dressed man of What makes

nn Easter bon- the week, Artist William Gear, hel?

according to whose collection of weird sur- ef? Anything,

and ho hired realist paintings is being shown milliner Brik, London's

hair plush hotel, Claridges, in London. His for the afternoon to prove it. slicked back with

grease, he His collection featured hats wore

of a a neat sober sulf made up in artificial grass →→→

check, very

small

spruce tho kind they put in shop collar and tle. And he windows with outsize grass talked all the time about his muffs to match,.

wife and family.

felt they couldn't let themselves somewhat `exceptional down in front of the other. sons. Alone, neither would Have given Because of Papa, for instance.

thing. a The

Said the chief of a smart-busi- renily well-dressed ness Arm: "wher, a valuable put client comes and tells me that vromen proelically never anything in, the box. A flag his young daughter wants a job would spoil the look of a good consider her small salary suit. Ono passer-by studied good investment." the literature on the box and Because she lacks ambition. seld irritably: "They've got Said the chief of a leading de

pře, take oni enough money dready?"

partment store: debs

because what we want are Investment

presentable Junfors who don't BUT it's a bet want promotion

she's not

Because of Mummy. Said the debutante. A's chief of

glossy magazine: "It's one of the true they are frightened of get-P world's workers ting the sack. Not because of the deb has a the money, but because Mummy pretty, easy time will be cross."

• Suurday's

werks hard

for a living!

of its She may

And the child'that is born on have a Job, but, the Sabbath ddy is fair and wise according to my and good and gay,

research, sho

keeps it

for

OVER TO YOU

-(London Express Service)

Coarse Texture Problem

ed out that this was a new fea- thing, I find flying rather dull. ture,

* shiny, flat enamelled When I was giving joy rides, 1 herited. surface like the tops attached to thought I would scream with daughter are smart gus stoves that can be boredom... used as tables.

crumple up

announced.

Uke tufoll,"

te

But she's only interested in

homes with money.

Lamb cart

"One

of the reasons why

I MEET a girl-

who swears

By HELEN FOLLETT

COMPLEXIONS of coarse friction is helpful. Go easy on texture are sometimes in oily cosmetics.

Often mother. and At beauty counters you wil|

burdened with And special astringents and

tonics enlarged pores because of the skin

compounded for Usa' coarse skin. 1 family diet

them affer l'oor sida:can be the result washing the face and when the

much

fried food, rich flesh fa-glowing from the cold

.in.

had a good heart. Ke want to break the sound, barrier of too

is that I like to think that now nices, bread with butter, and rinse, The best means of ap removed the core of her-the

zouces, lee tray and stood

I'm married and settled down on IL

Fats of any plication is to dip a pledgefiof triumphantly, "Some

I can do a thing like that, "It's cream in coffee. kinds

glands cotton in the liquid,' slap it on sebaceous rejuvenating.

get fed up with kind make

overactive. They pour out their the fleah briskly. scraping vegetables."

lubricating fluids in excess and. Complexion packs- are-help- the walls of the pores expands fall.

.too

There are many on Then conditions are precisely the market' that are dengued right for blackheadd to move especially for probida cóm2 plexions. Look then over and Tâxture Treatments› find the one that's right för To change the foxture of the your skin, skin is no easy matter. If one Camouflaga: Fores

one should. A foundation dor E attempts to

cosmetic, if expzet to continuo treatraens properly applied, helps to cover. for a long time.

large pores and gives: the skin It is a mistake to use hota batter appearance. You will water on course complexions find foundations in various because moist 'hest relaxes akin. forms. Whichever one you use; carefully, and water just: worm read - directions

REVIVER for

woeful off-

spring

round

ical times the Wednesday's

cheap and cheer.

ful idea in the

picture.

It is an CRS-

cup, shaped liko

maali cart,

pulled along, by

lamb.

a gay plaster

STUFFED MONIONS

WÄNTH. THESE ONIONS USING

US BOY TEU MAKE A GRIFFING

DO THAT

child i fil

PBELAND

PARBOIL

SZL THESE

SIZED "OMES FOR

ABOUT, IK MINU-IN -BALTER EIWATER!

CATABYALE:

31 DOOLI

BODOR OUT

THE

· CENTRIFS

that Friday's children are out of circulation in

the West End.

She told me:

"People with

'

purseful of

of silver

say they haven't

any change.

Friday's child i loving and giving

What they moan Is that they

Have the

haven't any coppers.

"I found that two friends enough to fluff up a suds. Rinse follow them to the lotfär. walking along were good for with teple water, then uso cold Liquid powders are favourites. some cash, They clearly both water freely, A daily ice now, but be stingy with them,

CHOP UP THE CENTRE

PART FINELY

ADO 14 OZ OF" BREADCRUMBO FOR BACH':

ONION,

AND

SEASON!

WYTES

BALT

POPPOR

ANDI LITTLE NUTMEG

POROTUKAS ZAM, PLJUN BUT YOU -COURES ADITURIBD`AKADHARA OR RAORE OR A SPOT OF CREEJÍ

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A GREASED

·TINE WITH AS [TWY BIT OP MÁRSTÍ

FIN ALMODURATE.

OVEN FOR ABOUT),

· HALF AN HOUR!

- Left! Aỳnew Easter bonnet, made from artificial · grass' and

marigolds, Right? - a pring hat in black, whitd and neutral

ahades.

WAS

KISEMA

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