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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1953.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

EXCLUSIVE

The Man-of-the-Week comments on The Great Commotion

WHO WENT SKIRT-CRAZY?

by

CHRISTIAN DIOR

What does Dior himself say about the great commotion?

It seems

that when he's cornered The Dior is not half so certain about the short skirts as everyone made out.

And-surprise! he says a woman must choose her own skirt-length.

He doesn't say a word about "The Flapper Look."""

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Where the calf thins down

WHY, did I do it? My astonishment today is as great as that in 1917. I made the dresses that I felt like making and in The whys and where-

the proportions that seemed normal to me,

fores of fashion are not casy to pin down.

It is a question of atmosphere and of meeting the occasion. I create the style that I feet, not the style that I wish. One can never work in opposition to what one feels. True creation exists only in dncerity.

I seek therefore to express a silhouette which definitely impuses itself upon me almost without any will on my part.

The public attaches perhaps too much importance to skirt length. Obviously certain forms require certain lengths, bui ho length of the skirt dues not exist as an element all by itself.

For example, some of my mannequins, the smallest ones, have skirts 15 in. from the floor and yet they look as if they were wearing shorter dresses than some of the gall ones whose skirts are 16 ins, from the floor.

ONE

Look !

NE should not, however, imagine that the dresses are knee-length or

even just below the knees,

THE RIGHT GOOD LENGTH BEGINS JUST WHERE THE CALF BEGINS TO THIN DOWN.

May each woman therefore look at her legs and find the length that suits for the best,

it is certainly a fuct that the year 1953 is one of renewal in which a breeze of youth, fresh-

within ness, and case felt Biowin

ing through the world

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of

fashion. If people at first were stunned by the skirt lengths it is because thero 13 also Q Beneral transtormation of the suihouette, which is freor, more

much alve, and so

more

at

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The wars of fashion are of alty Lightness. It may be good sign that the situation in ino work in general is becom- ing less tense and more relux- ed.

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Great respect

And now DRUSILLA

BEYFUS

sums up...

DOINTERS from the

Parla

fashion shows--each one a trend-setter to remember when you buy new clothes for the

WATCH OUT for the little platter hals and the flat jogues.

the

Tho platters-shown_on girl in white in the drawing are made in a felt that looks like silky fur. The toques, Baiter and neater than beloze, are trimmed in front with balance, single jewel, worn like a third

ET us therefore hail the ar- rival of the shorter skirt, which corresponds to a "ole te vivre,

a sense

and above all let us not forgot eye. that the sole and inal decision rests with the women them- selves.

WATCH OUT for barrel- shaped coats with broad town-

shoulders and * SILENCE IS WORSE THAN curving

uppca-in, three-quarter-length ANYTHING.

hemline.

But 1

know loo that oppos!- tion is neguuve, especiany

WATCH OUT for the bell

fashion, a cannot be main skit, rather like the white

- teined-for-a-very... long-time.--dress-in-the-drawing. -10~1

christen the new silhouette smooth and sculpted without the "Living Line" because it is trace of a fold, a gather, or like a healthy new-born in-

Plat at the waist.

fant, which arrives in this

altenuion of

world with a lusty cry long WATCH OUT

before world was focused upon it.

Miss House Has

the

Houses For Hobby

Mantes, N. C.

for

dresses in 'charcoal grey.

Q

jersey

WATCH OUT for the day Gres with a waistline which is Juusely daried and worn with- out a belt.

WATCH OUT for the after- noon frock with a circles of white fur round the neck with

It's probably only naturala muff to match. that

Milas Vivian House of Washington, D. C., should make

a hubby of houses.

as House recently opened a inuscum to exhibit her collec tion of 600 model, houses from

u over the world

vitain is

WATCH OUT for the ginger-ple coloured tweeds worn with black.

new

ta

WATCH OUT for the return of the cowl neckline, shaped close to the throat, home, WATCH OUT

for bigger!

with

model of care's by

France by a villa of blue porec-hooped earrings crusted lain, India by a Taj Mahal glimmering jewels, and collars carved from bone, and China by a temple that serves as a jewel of nobbly polished jet.

box.

WATCH OUT for cardigan

Her largest house is a pre-sults in tweed with the jacket fabricated bungalow piven to short and loosely tailored.

her by a bullder. The smallest

is a tiny Blarney Castle, that WATCH OUT for the new dangles from charm bracelet. Į colour-mixes, peat brown with

Her museum is located near palest

green,

chestnut

block,

Fort Raleigh where the Arst brown with chalk white, bril- English-built house in America | Hant royal blue with was erected of wattle and daub | the palest baby blue with the

four nearly

centuries ago-palest cabbage rose pink.

-(London Kupress Service) Unued Presl.

Protecting Hair In Summer

By HELEN FOLLETT

Hair can get sunburned the before the shampoo, give your-

skin.

samo

良性

Hair

that's self an oil treatment,

medium -browns may develop There are special cosmetic of- lighter streaks. Tho copper ferings for this purpose, oils thin with a After

locks - in trickle the odd

headed girl will find that she is enough to be applied

The blonde medicine dropper. partially blonde. will lose her golden lights, locks brusting, part: you

will get drab,

When the

the

various places. Then, sprend

along tho thermometer is

ing out Angers and thumbe, do mounting and the sun is beating circles with the thumbs, pressing flesh. If you down and you are still deter the oll into tho mined to go hailess, use on oily prefer scalp ointments, you will tonic on your ambrosial locks. Brk them, too. It will perform on a protoctiva agent. But that is not enough. Your topicot requires even more attention.

Boy

pray DTE

Your shampoo next morning must be thorough Have a hot water rinsing first to remove or much of the lubricant as you

DEMACHY DRAWS THE SCENE THAT MADE NEWS OF KNEES...

Summer Separates

By VERA WINSTON

Designed to load's fall fo from the beach in the daytime to dancing at night, is a nice batch of separates that team on rarily. A top of black taffelined colton la draped

through the centrs front and

buttoned with covered butions. It has a sweetheart neckline in front, halter in bark. With it is worn a skiri· of decorator's cotton taffeta of black and white stripes touch- od - with narrow rod lines. Zi is gathered on's snug walet- band and topped with a self

..bell.

ALL EYES TURN on the girl in the new Parks dress. The scene showD A typical moment in a Paris dress salon when a dress is burn, There are the faxlijon 'crowd, the writers, the artista, the dress manufacturers, the material

KEEP IN TRIM

makers, the buyers, and the people in trimmings. There is the star of the sceno, a new dress on a new model. She sweeps through the crush-in a white cocktail dress, threaded through the bodice and around the skirt with an effective silk ribbon,

GIVE YOUR FACE

A

A LIFT

By IDA JEAN KAIN PHILOSOPHER observed that it is the common wonder of all men how among so many millions of faces, there should be nono alike.

are

BA

Exercises face muscles

Let's analyse what makes a face different, for after all, everybody has a like set of features, similarly arranged. Mulling this over, I have concluded that the main difference is in individual expression. Often wo

Many requests come to this self-conscious because some department for face-lifting exer- elses,,,lagica) enough since the one feature falls far short of face is composed of muscles. The pleasing us... when actual- checks are supported by eight

the

imperfection is muscles, four on each skle. They scarcely apparent to anyone are attached to the check bond else, or if it is, only in and to the strong muscle sur- rounding the mouth, and still passing.

lower down are attached to the It's the expression that's most wide bandlike muscles of the noticeablo about a face. For a. Undoubtedly, exercising proof...one young woman, who these muscles can give the face

a lift. had her nose changed at the

ly

time of an enforced operation, However, the exercises to be was quite puzzled that no one of much value must be regular, seemed to notice, any difference Chewing is a natural exercise in her appearance. Strangely, that keeps the muscles of the enough, months later, she did so toood. That's one reason looks different to her friends. why it is important to have a Since she no longer felt self- fall complement of teeth on each conscious, her characteristic ex- side of the mouth, pression was more serent and happy.

A good exercise is to say oh- ah, bringing the corners of the lips close on oh and se wido as It's on odd thing about facial possible on ah, Feel the action in expression...In conversing wil your cheeks. Another exercise is

balloon. someone who has just had her to blow up a' face lifted" and so registers To keep tracing tone in the Ile of her fooling and my cushion of muscle along the|| echt speaking quite loud. Getting

no facial response, I must think jawline, uso muscle massage, Form the hand into a fish and that I hadn't been, titard.

knead along the jawline, "rock- the knuckles from tip of fchin to car. Move the knuckles but do not pull the adn. - This pepelantan doep...At you'll realise the next::day !!

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

The best possible Ince-im-

Before putting away rubber with warm water and baking you overdo, To keep it from drying out, enn. Then friction in somo articles, such as gloves, caput and soda. Use about a teaspoon of Bamb brush for five minutes before you liquid soap. Don't spare time, so forth; clean then, then dust mods to a quart of water. Rinse

at night, or strength. It should four up lightly with inexpensive talcumi with clear water and dry proving exeralso. Is the praction your Brushing will bring out the like egg white, Two applica

* thoroughly, Waxes, Clement of relaxing. To relax the face, natural oil, from the scalp, ex- tions, two rinsing with the bath speel San

2500 med polishes should not be surped unclamp the lips, and amãe, A sinile reis (the: föd. "Jargely tend it along the shafts to thou-miray and-you-outs got buky with The interior of your refrigera on the interior of the refriger

bocauish it fotsus tension, :, dry: olev Thoo, the night the pin cate.

for should be cleaned regularly... ator.

powder or cornutarch.

A mind without occupation is like a cat without a ball of yarn. -(Samuel Willoughby Duffield)

...The sound.of.a.kiss.is.not so loud as that of a cannon, buť Its echo lasts a deal longer.

---(Holmes)

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