1953-06-06 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1958.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

KEEP IN TRIM

So it's KING Cotton again Lips STEALER

The type of nightdress that steals the glamour from nylon-in white lawn with frills of eyelel bluc ribbon threads round the waist and through the collar..

FASHION ALLOWS FOR embroidery; pulc

HIP VARIATION

By IDA JEAN KAIN

So

Symmetry is the measure of a shapely figure, whip out the tape and seo how your hips measure up in proportion to the bust circumference.

While narrow

skirts would seem to make sum hips do rigueur fushion has to allow for hip' variations. Some hips are just naturally fuller.

By the way, there is never Movement: any

(Picture by John French.)

རྩྭ

of the SHOW

Anne' Edwards

sums up

in the Old versus the New

That Are In Fashion

By HELEN FOLLETT

IN days gone by, the pretty rosebud mouth with the Cupid's curve was supposed to be the Ideal pattern. It just doesn't it the picture of the modem giri who wears slacks, pilots acrʊ- planes, argues polities, knows Der way about..

A large mouth with good, highly

polished toeth is no defect. Many stars of tho sereen and stage have largo mouths and make them, even wider by spreading ipstick over the white, flosti.

Thin Lips

H, what a surprise! COTTON is stealing the show from NYLON, Cotton nighties, cotton slipe, cotton camisoles seil as soon as they come in. "We can't get enough of them" is the verdict of the shops. And nylon? "Sales of nylon undies are definitely down on expecta-vious unless tions," they say.

which

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Oh, what a surprise! Cotton, signs are charming and bought the material that made Vic in Paris, torian undies-competes with And what a surprise has nylon, the modern miracle been for the

shops, for the febris. Cotton,

needs manufactures and, for the pub- frequent pressing-rivals nylon. licists to find that there is a the new uncrushable fabric limit to what on overworked that needs no ironing.

British woman will wear just Now v why? Because women because it is less trouble to lock have discovered

again that after. cotton wears and wears and nylon undies do not wear £Q wonderfully well after all.

Because women find cotton is soft and cool to wcur and nylon is often too hot or 100 cold. Because cotton Is and Almy-but

not throughable like nylon mesh.

see-

Becauso the best cotton nighties are cheaper than inexpensive nylon ones,

the

to

"Customers are. prepared do the extra washing and pressing," Gald an Oxford Street store manager, "to have comething pretty to wear."

If lips are thin and straight, it is dieul to use lipstick to thicken them without being ob- one Lakes great

pals in the application. The safest method is to have a

and to do remodelling with the ald

of

a magnifying mirror. If you would seek really glamorising results," keep the Don't let this ends lifted.

lipstick with a Battened point

be just a part of your company face but do it all the time. IL a pleasing will give your face

practice will expression. The also keep the tissues of your cheeks arm.

Several Lipstick Shades Don't conane your beauty equipment to a lipstick of one GUESS WHO?

colour. Have several, so you PEOPLE I feel I know all can pick out the ono that is most harmonious with your hat about (and wish I'd heard blouse. If you have a red the last of) are the girls who frock, and a lipstick to match. get their picture in the paper That will

cosys every time one of them travels

cosmetic chemist tums out with a

old baby or with an

twenty different hem Arteen latly, every time one of them tones. These aro blue-reds, gots engaged to a pilot or mar-true reds, orange-reds.

to reli-and come manufae on the same fight as a VIP. turers did not bother to design I mean. of course, those air it well. Cotton had a harder stewardesses. Bght for sales and so the de

A NEW LOOK

-(London Express Service)

FOR MEN

London By Hazel Meyrick

Raise right le PARIS may be considered

where to and right arm a few inches oft question about

and Circle the floor. Hold mensure the bips.

peat slow.y

OF

bo

that

every

means "

THESE ARE PRETTIER But the strongest reason of rics a passenger, every time Don't forgot that, as the sea- all for the rising success of one of them goes on honeymoon

change, your sida tono also cotton undies is that they are by air, or gets firanded at

changes and prettier, Nylon was so easy Prestwick, or may be travelling different make-up outfit. The girl who spends hours getting a golden tan during the good old summer-time will not add to her good looks by using rouge or lipstick that's blue-red. Croam Application Unless the skin is excessively olly, a heavy cream should bo applied after the face is washed, and dried. Spread it on with upward, outward movements. Ploln shirts are in fashion Do some brisk tapping. The again, although there are some more cream you. force the

into styles with

Sidia thrives the centre of women's

stripes running flesh, the better. you minimise the fact by going across the chest to give a broad-on lubricants unless it has an stretch. Refashion, but when it comes without turn-ups.

<ning effect.

over-supply of its own natural three times, then

The raglan-sleeved arm to men's clothes, London,

raincoat

Ties also veer towards tho Į oil. Wo have to reckon with aise opposite leg and

such elements as bigh winds, Later stretch on the bias, rals and Savile Row in particu- which, says the magazine, made plain and sober, a relief after

that looked dry air in living rooms and its wearer look like a bottle of those masterpieces Ing one leg and opposite

arinlar, can certainly claim to cold tou is replaced by a dandy like tropical fruit crushed on the office, constant face powdering and p-u-l-1.

have the first and last style topcoat of

and reducing projects. All these Wlp into the sido eclissors.

of rainproofed wool, wearer's chest. word..

decorated by velvet collar.

will Poaltion: Lying on side, head

temporarily

reduce arm, palm Savile Row itself is a small,

Sleeves have cuffs on them,

slcin's own lubricating power. "The knitted tie la the last word pillowed on folded of hand braced

floor for unnoticed

During the summer season, it *button higher and are backwater behind Bond Street. But It Is here that slightly wristed.- And something in men's fashion. Made in fairly is--not wise to use soap. .and.. "support.

thick wool, or silk, it consists of water just before subjecting In fashion parlance, slender

Movement: Shuttle into ac-ine year's sartorini slihouette is happened red power row upon row of garter-stitch, your precious map to strong tion, crossing and re-crossing planned.

The camel-coloured type we've hips are never more than 11

ever you should think of sunlight, legs in as wide an action

or immediately after The street inch larger than the bust--a

Is dominated seen around for so long has been

dandifed making one, I should back it with coming in. Apply a soothing 12 times, Repeat

replaced standard difference for nudels possible.

by a very by an enormous concrete police

a piece of matching silk for I'm cream after exposure to sun. and movie starst Full hip relax, and change sides and station, and there are gaps here version in slik brocade, with

toid, home-made ties degenerato fastening and measure 4inches larger than the swing again.

into a Finish with this casy version It is still looked

and there where bombs tell. But double-breasted bust circumference. Anything the bicycle excrelse..

upon as the room for a watch-chain. beyond the full, measure is...

alma mater of the British tailor- Position: Lying on side, head out-size.

allowed on folded arm, palm trade, even if many

members have decamped f other hand braced on floor.

neighbouring streets.. Movement:

tapa around the fullest area so us to include the gluteus maximus muscle which pads and shopes the hips, If your hips

110t more than muBure

bust inches larger than the circumference, that is avorage, and this measurement is in good

·proportion-

the

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on

alternate

of. ite

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It

picco of strangled string after being worn once or twice.

Perhaps the best news about To cultivate the military air masculine attire we've heard in If you are overweight gen-

to means buying a short, putty. London lately is that socis made craily, then of course, diet is in

coloured top-coat, topped off just from Terylene will soon be on To celebrate Coronation year above the knees.

This order.

looks sale. But when weight is knees, bring them briskly to the tallers strove to revive tho wonderful on within normal

a six-foot man. They look as though they are working the range, exercise ward the chest,

with bowler, but cuts a short made from wool; batter still, they Con Put a stop to spreading knees in a piston action, shoot-Golden age of Beau Brummel, and

in half. pull his British malo, to and Bot the British kips, and

feel as though they are made from what is more, con ing legs straight down,

The colour of the year is called wool, and have none of that ullm bulky inches of this bending alternate knees toward socks up. So, for the first time, measurement by restoring tone chest

tamela strictly male fashion magazine, Coronation blue-something be- clamminess associated with nylon This affords the came to. flabby muscles,

how has appeared on the bookstalls, tween navy and royal. I think and THEY WON'T WEAR OUT, Toned mus exercise ກ tho well-known

and I couldn't. It's a hideous shade for a man. Until they are plentiful, how- cles are always more shapely. high bicycle exercise taken with and Elizabeth

feet hoisted in air this side resist having a look at a copy. It it looks quite good on a tie, ever, we shall just have to carry bleycle is far easier, and safer.

afer.makes fascinating reading-for but a suit made up in' it looks on darning, but keep up your With weight at or near nor-women at any rate.

spirito for help is on the way! cheap and loud. mal and tone in these figure

*

This exercise tones hip and girdle muscles; so is well worth doing.

Position: Lying face down on controlling muscles, your hip The magazine deals with those floor, head pillowed on folded measurement will be right for subjects nearest to a man's heart

left arm.

you.

...Tones and alima

Peanuts may bring down

Hinge

the price of clothes

H..

PEAN

By VIVIEN BATCHELOR

eating and drinking, drinking and eating. It also proves some- thing we women have been try- ing to ram home for years that

neh ARE vaini

The first issue tells its readers, teo, how to overcome baldness, how to tie a tle, what shape het to wear, and even what jewellery themselves. choose for Women are banned from pages.

to

We find that the new look for

men

is a military one. Shoulders

no longer Jurk under gorilla suits

of

of pastel gabardine; they come out in the open and are shown up in their true shape. This has somo sad cases of revented

malnutrition, and caused a rush replies to the: "You too can EANUTS, pounded and Father can keep his new have a body like mine"

advertise- processed until they be sports jacket dry with a plastic ments."

raincoat which has its own cứu. The loose fiting come yarn, called Ardil, tainer, and will go into his padded sult, is OUT. Shoulders will soon, it is claimed, be pocket. bringing down the price of

your clothes.

The Queen tooks great interest ORMAN HARTNELL In Ardil at the Britch Is No

heavily

are narrower and even slope * slightly, Trousers are narrower too, and, if you're short and fat,

has

designed a new autumn

man

Current fronde'in mon's clothes; the short military-stylo topcoat, the new bowler hit with a curving brim, the dandy waistcoat, - sleeves with cuffs on them, and tho now high-

J buttoned jackot.

Lovely TV Girl Was Underground Worker

Hollywood: The pellto but curvaceous, father, standing watch during charmer is Gorry Gayler, Allied air raids -ɔe nirmen

tries Fair. Swan and Edgar al- collection for Berketes, includ ready, bave housecoals, dresses Ing teen-age two-piece styles nado sportswear In which the featuring corduroy. They will yarn is blended with pure wool be in the shops in a few weeks. and puro esille. Artil"improves

Rembrand!% the appearance of the original tion include autome people know that Brussels gift to the tim capital forced to parachute from crippl malarial, and it is claimed also toll zult will a low neck and the shapely Trench she came to this country Ava ex planes, and neting us lookout that it improves its wearing long ght sleeves in a new, cigarette girl on n recent years ago to attend college, and while members of the group

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collec-

material called Frody. This is Jack Benny television show last year with shoopained railroad funnela, and

dark taffeta-liko"

All of which was quie material

hand, Invaded Hollywood. Since was a member of the Bel has she has developed into ond

for a girl barely in her needlerin with a whito yan

WOLDE which glistens and feels Hike flan unterground during of the most promising youps ULES/ made

seagrass ; straw. Ne kete

World War II, On at lost pro hero, Ely father was the herd of (liko aina) and lined A colton which is woven to one occasion she surrowly the occupying German troops operated a small barbershop o

Her zolo in the fight against the family," Gerry said HO "and with towelling-useful for the feels like Biraw and glazed, 16 bathroom.or

the beach are used in summer dresses import escaped capture by the consisted of acting on courier for at night used it as a meeting

Germans.

resistanco „group 1)d by her place for his resistance group,

ed: from "Antorica.

the

Camelia

for modern youth

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PROTECTION

kills unpleasant indoor smells

It's the wick that does the trick!

IN HOMES, clubs, hotels and

offices, the only way to always. keep a fresh, smell-free atmo sphere is to use Air-wick. This

wonderful new discovery destroys offensive Indoor smells, including cooking, drains, lavatories and disin- even the smell of

strong fectant.

Simply unscrew the cap, pull- up the wick and put the bottle on

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