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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1953.

ADD GLAMOUR TO YOUR DESSERTS

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

'I'LL NEVER DO THAT AGAIN' —YOU HEAR THEM SAY

My Fashion Catechism

"I'll never fall for the latest hair style just because it's new. Oh why did I once wear the short-cut !'

No. 1.-Mrs. ROY BOULTING

"SHE KNOWS HOW to dress well" they say when an elegant woman walks into the room.

And there, for sure, is a woman who hns learned a lot of costly, fashion lessons. She looks so smart now but you should have seen her once upon a time...

It's a long, snd trail, learning how to dress, and the milestones are little piles of clothes you wish you'd never bought. It's a bitter business learning how to distinguish between what's good value for you and what's a waste of

By DRUSILLA

BEYFUS

money. Between what's your line and what's somebody else's, Between what

with

ought to look smart on you and what REAL WHIPPING CREAMI

actually does.

.

Just now-when women everywhere are grappling with the ifs and buts of summor fashion-Womansense Pago" invites people with a reputation - for eleganco to share their experience in good dressing.

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First of the women with a fashion catechism worth hearing: Mrs Roy Boulting, wife of the British film pro- ducer,

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Yes, if you put me in a sack, I'll

BESIDE THE SEASIDE

London.

RIGHTON is London's

BRIG

By Kay Campbell

own seaside resort. Brighton is no place for bath-

crammed with cafes, fun- falra and ice-cream stalls,

chairs. It's a town for the young, and a resort for the family---if father docan't mind

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holiday suit-case. If the weather is fine they can be wom sunsuits; if the day is depressing, any number of jumpers can be put on underneath.

For the heat-wave that every- But if you look, beside the fishing in his pocket to pay for elasticated bathing. suits tha

there are one hopes to enjoy, big sea-front hotels and ice-creams and joy-rides. It's to won't sag like the knitted ones, Rashy cafes, you'll find Brighton that many

London plus cotton sun-bonnets or straw elegant Regency houses, re- families are going this year, and hats to keep the sun at bay. lics

frantic of the times whon in many homes,

packing 14 going on right now. Brighton was the hub of

Small boys who have A London's fushionable society, led by the Prince Regent.

For the very young there are

new nylon

penchant for ramming sharp- beach-suits made from coloured edged tin buckets ever the heads of their fellows can be thwarted this year by the new all-rubber buckets un ante, which can be for, bench battles safely used and make good sand-castles well.

stitch a rose on it!

TM all for suffering for up at a dressmaker's. I know it's "Tell at food dr fs. A tried, but to the mind we the only way to get Just what I ing," said Mrs Boulting war" and in a single sentence re- vealed the basic belief of her fashion catechism.

The woman who was speaking is a noted beauty, mother of four small children, and the keeper of an elegant house in Chelsea, She has the figure of a model girl, light, soft brown hair, blue eyes, and an air of long ago about her face....

She has the three ́ussets a girl needs to look her best-some leisure, some money, and a hus- band who notices what the

wcars.

+ "never want to put on something elegant that's no trouble at all. I'd rather spend three hours washing and trening a dress I lilze."

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"I'll never buy a ready- made summer dress again. The. ones I ece never suit me. I find material I like and have it made

CHISLAINE ALEXANDER

style of a hat again by cutting

"I'll never try to aller the

the brim off, reblocking tho crown, or remaking the shape. It's hopeless to try to give this

r's look to last year's hat."

111, never choose topless evening dresses again. They are

no hard to wear with any dis- tinglan. Did you ever see a topless dress with a full det that looked different from any

other?"

0 "I'll never wear va stiffened petticoat again. They shred nylons, ruin the line of adrese by sticking out too far, and It's agony, when you sit down. My rolution is to have mere material in the skirt or press an extra petticoat or two."

STUDY

theory

the Boulling of elegance. that half an lach makes al? the difference in good dressing. The picture SHOWS

The curved neckline made kalf an inch, smaller or half an

inch deeper would lose its particular elegance.

The black thread round her neck worn hair an inch bigber or half an Inch lower would destroy the even proportions be- tween cheek. throat, shoulder, and dress.

an

The silver rings in her care hung half

inch shorter would be hidden hy hair; worn half an inch longer would mix with the neck band.

darit eyes, not, a flushed with pale eyes."

face

• "1'0 never wear scarlet lip-o "I'll never wрand money on stick for the evening again. It expensive couede gloves again. goer black and hard instead. After a

I wear soft pinky shnden.”

"I'l never put on rouge again. 1 Hke a pale face with

ARE DIAMONDS

A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND?

I DOUBT IT.

arc

wear

choker!

A

ARE diamonds a girl's can take a look better with

best friend? They can a fair skin be IF she knows how to and, if you have a short neck, one of the more pinky tones.

wear them! But how many DON'T women do?

slightly longer string will make all the difference to the picturo. of I'm not talking about or course, your neck is Lerry towelling, in which they heirlooms. Few of us have tho else won't worry you. You elegant, swan-like. variety, can play happily. Equally happy them: but when they on the sand are the

can even sport an Edwardian we dog-collar if you feel in the dresses made up in a crimped dug out of the banks

It is mood. seersucker weave, which needs can beat the world. no Ironing. Some of them even costume jewellery that trips have smocking on them, and as work are rubber webbed feet, fo

Also approved for the juvenile long as it's made of nylon there's us up. For sheer dazzle of spotlight on to Victorian jewel-

season why

small giris rhinestone rocks American, Tery-not worn in the Victorian

with manner

the bosom like frogmen's Bippers, which couldn't play in the sand in their

festooned like 'a pincushion. You go to Brighton to wander they can slip on over their bare frilled party frocks all day and women win hands down..

Fascinating new necklaces taken emerge, afte

after the frocks have How do you choose jewel- from old designs look lovely been laundered, looking deceplery? To look attractive in and are flattering to wear. tively angelic.

Cotton frocks are glamorised Itself or to suit your per- Even lockets and pendants are this year by being worn with sonality?.. cardigans edged with the sama

Today you go to Brighton not Just to see the sea (although it is conveniently near) but to pro- menade along the pier, try your hand at the funfair. have your fortune told, or eat whelks.

from one cafe to another sampling feet. These not

only increase

ice-creams and pouch melbas. their prowest in paddling, but You go to Brighton to paddle, protect their toes from cuts and that is, if you can bear the scratches, pebbles, or to gape at Ash you

come

Jewel chosen

can illuminat❤

}

Crinolines have switched the

back.

But these delicate pieces--liko crinolines - look their best on women of not more than aver-

could never hope to catel, in the underground equarium.

Gargantuan beach animals are fobri

fabric. The cotton binding Remember the eye is ht=" offers you that seaside back for the first time since the marries the cardigan to the dress, tracted by light and a well-

mystery tour, wor, and many perspiring fathers and bvolds the knitting being your face like a spot-lighted' age height. If, like me, you are where you

you all pile into a a coach, will be blowing up rubber ser- tugged out of shape. and don't know where you're pents, stakes and sea-horses for For small boys who are blazer-picture. Don't buy something tall, make the most of your going till you arrive. It may their young. Wise parents will the conscious, there are beach blazers just because it looks pretty or extra inches by wearing a large chunky broock or broad neck- happens to bo turn-out-to-be-a-place-you-visited-a-long-lead-to-the-animals, and in cotton decorated by the aury should be med-to-lace-of-the-kind that wise yesterday! But that doesn't hold on tight at

at the other end stripes of mythical college accentuate your best

features small women avoid. matter; at least you didn't expect to provent any cross-channel which won't

to grief if to see it again so soon. The sorties being made.

and minimise they're splashed by Ben water,

your worst, I

tall women.. only true mystery tour I've been

For London mothers who find Instead of the usual tennis you have a long thin ineo don't dangling 'car-rings- to on, was when the driver got denim dungarees ideal for their shoes, which get clammy in het wear

The One of the nicest things about offspring to play In at home, weather, there are this year for lengthen it. If you have are including them also in the children cool pumps made from kind of hands you want to sit being tall is that one can carry on, fight shy of rings, peri a really big plece of jewellery denim,, cotton pique or nylon

overdressed. not, punctured of intervals with Decide on your own personal without looking

highlight,

Only one plece, though Beware ventilation holes.

of the Christmas tree look.

Concentrate good

design. can blaze alone,

lost, and none of us knew where we were going.

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Left In Horrockses is this boy's play-sult`made up' ta' chuci; alough corduroy.", Bight: A small-girl's, party frocký by

04:31oTrocken is mede la nylon, needs little or no tryninger

and dries within a few minutes.

Passion for

pearls!

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The

but

Koh-i-noor

Most children find sandnis dif-

costume sparklers need cult to keep on The buckles The colour of your eyes, come off, the straps cut into their very important. If they are blue craftsmanship. A clever design is worth hunting for and when get, but these, new soft beach sapphire,

aquamarine or

you've found it, wear it. One oes are good to play about in, turquoise will heighten tho and don't let in too much sand colour; if they are dark dla satisfying piece is worth a box

full of trinkets.. And if they're caught in A monda

increase their tidal wave, they dry rapidly depth and brilliance. It

keep your jewellery Lastly you heuch pall in comparison with low blue stones a touch of blue wearers would be shocked 12.1 But even the joys of Brighton have dark eyes and like wears clean! Most of the stuff I see

Junt

but the

telovision. So if their.

or green eye shadow is a great fold them so... Remember that posscansa

the set

help

*** and almost creates the the warmth of the skin clouds afternoon activities and to illuzion', of “blue eyes.

*both diamonds and paste, and a be curtailed in

honour of children's hour.

The passion for paris has with a soft brush un stones or Utflä, Jewellers- rouge used, fizy just how seriously the young become almost

metal will keep the brillanes, Lake their TV, someone has now whether the inevitable strings Even if all that glitters is not designed glamorous junior-sized comes from a jeweller or from god, it is all the litter that Housecoat, in at a zp, cáro

velvet, a chalu-store choose It. with commut with a quilted skirt

And to, girova

for the televialot hostosa who || Pearls vary enormously-(World Copyright Resersed-Londen wants to start young.

colour; a dark sunburnt sixin Express Kervices)

single cleaning they look like raps. I'll buy pretty cotton gloves insient."

'll never wear separates again. No matter how many tops and bottoms you have to ring-tho-changes, they all look. like the same dress.

→

"I'll never forget that pink Is. what to wear with a white dross. PINK. Pale pink gloves, pale pink roses, pale pink rib- bon.

"I'll never wear real flowers again. Somehow the flower imparts its own wilted look to the wearer."

"I could go on for ever. That's what I like about fashion. There's no end to it, If you put me in a sack' I'd stitch on a rose."

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