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THE CHINA' MAIL," SATURDAY, FEBRUARY:"6, 1954.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Wise Woman Knows How To Forestall Her Grievances

By HELEN FOLLETT

We Carefully

WISE women watch their for

signs that all may not be well with their complexion and facial contour.

Those watchers may dia. cover tiny crinkles around the eyes, they can come early, especially if vision is! not normal. They may suN- pect that the smooth surface of the throat has become a bit soft or crepe-like. Then, with a determined lift of the chin and a sharp gleam in the eye, they set out to forestall grievances that may be budding.

Applying Creams

They do not leave all the work to the creams and lo- tions, knowing that cosme- ties should not just be ap plied to the skin, but should be worked in with the finger- tipu. This is especially necessary when applying olly cosmetics to the face and neek.

When applying an emollient to your neck, fold your Angers in the palms of your hands, and use your knuckles, Start knead- ing at the line of the collar- bone working upward. Throw your head back, but don't have the muscles tense. Turn your hend to the right, treat the left side of the neek; then the other way about,

Simple Exorcise

There is a simple exercise that will help: Upen your mouth wide, throw the head back, then close your mouth and back to Art position. Those movements are likely to keep a second chin

trom forming, in case you are Inclined to take en adipose tissue.

if there is a tired droop of the muscles at the sides of the face "huff and puff." Fill your with air then try to

checks

It out through tightly blow closed lips. This is a help to the girl with hollow checks, too.

So It's All Settled Now...

Elizabethi

Who's To Blame?

By Anne Heywood

HE other day, a woman

THE other day, a woman

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with

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Jacket folia wa

an outsize in

bow.. The the

new line-held in at

the front, loose the back.

Fashionable Styling for Centuries-Old Materials

Ą Culi kiried tweed dress for evening. It has three quarter sleeves and the ICW wide v-neckline.

RAINBOW-HUED

UNDERWEAR

THE LATEST

By DOROTHY BARKLEY

To is

O many people, Ireland eighteenth-century, hosted

A country of County Cork. There she has her factory, and there any day of leprechauns and the Blarney, the week you'li find stone, a land of poets and Trishwomen busily, stitching her song-writers.

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From now on it's going to be

fabion

well. centre

Mra James is alim, raver Surprising? Not If you consider haired and vivacious in fact, the work of Sybil Connolly and

quite colleen Her BUCCORS Elizabeth James, and remember now is due partly to training, that Ireland has produced several of London's leading rectly to flair. The training she received at the Royal College of designers Br Michael, for Art where alle took a degree la instance, and John Cavanagh. deslam, and at a wholesale arm in London. And the flair? That

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Sybil Connolly and Elizabeth 20

runs in the family. She's a

James Are already well-d established in the dollar market, Book Beeton, the originator of great-niece of Mrs. "Cookery

probably

and for that reason both are

beller known America than in Brituin. they both have the same alm:

which

paper patiens, In

This And

is the way in centuries-old materials are given to give the handwoven tweeds fashionable alr-and it is also

in

which and linens,

have been the way made In Ireland for centuries, putting itself on thu fashionable styling they mup.

deserve.

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Last week Elizabeth James showed her collection in London. for the first time, She's a designer who believes that fashion and practicality should together. It's no use making town, suit with a skirt so tight that it would be impossible to climb on a bus in it. So all her straight skirts have pleats at the back.

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Sho goes In for quiet shades, particularly beige and grey; but she always puts bright colours with them. A suit in beige tweed, for example, would have a jacket lining shirt and scarf: in pink and white printed silk.

She achieves effects by switching materials. Not silk or brocade for a short evening dress, but white tweed. Not wool for a cold-weather dress, but black and white striped cotton, given warmth by knitted cuffs and polo neck. New York. colours is as varied as the And if you

Rainbow-hued crochet should buyers rainbow.

ELEVEN hunden buen ratouts of importa fet have just spent an ecstatic or scarlet nylon underslips week

the seeing

latest blaze the trail of the new American mo American models for 1964. trend for brighter coloured land of easy underthings. made me about as mad as I going, this is the first time can ever remember being. such a spree has ever been

On the surface, there

was held. nothing so awful about hor, She was tall and silm, probably in her inte thirties, and her name whe Mes B. H. She curried her- self very straight, and her mouth had the tight, controlled look of the excessively virtuous martyr,

For Better Pay

BERMUDA TRIP

WALTZ-LENGTH

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thought that be confined to table ihale, now's

the time to Mrs James revise your ideas. makes several dresses in hand- crocheted white silk.

switches She also

colours. Black or navy with white la usually o popular spring con- bination, but this year lots of women will be choosing white with touches of black. One of Shorter nightdresses are the new mults is in white linen piped with narrow scarlet or and is trimmed on the collar brightly coloured washable with an outsize in black bows. velvet ribbon and are frilled just below the knee. They

match a cost; a six-inch deep

British dollar-earning en- tered into the show. Each retail buyer was urged to call them "Waltz-length." She has an original touch with take a chance in a sweep→ stake

Elastic shoulder straps for accessories. A fringed shawl to for a free trip to uneasy sleepers stretch as patent leather belt with a tweed She had a job, she informe Bermuda. He or she-there they fidget and never slip off dress; handmade earrings attend me, and wanted help in moving. to another one where she could were some women-could,

semi-precious stones; even- make more money.

in fact, take 194 chances, Women are wearing shorts ing bags shaped.

Like Ash and "After

These all," she announced as there were 194 exhibit for sleeping. They are in povered with sequins, in a whining voice, "I practical ing manufacturers, and any cotton plisse needing no as may be new and smart by carry the house myself. My

but would you carry one? client could take a ironing. You can have Boxer one husband

has a job, of

Judging by the clothes Ports,

shorts, Bermuda shorts or designs, you might expect Mrs chance with each. born to be

Toreador pants for sleeping. James to be established in May- Terry towelling is being fair alongside fashiber's foremost Like styled for housecoats with gybl Connolly, she's staying at

...but you'd be wrong are nylon, satin and rhinestone home in Ireland. All her clothes

of trimmings,

carolki are planned -- and made in an

By Venetia Murray but he is just

failure. The money he makes

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1.

- only a drop in the bucket. have 1wo children, London. And FASHION that has school-age, to take care of, So

you been fighting for its mou

money

see m

have

more

life for months took one She went on and on, telling stop nearer the end last me of her husband's drinking wcok.

how

and pil his negleet, hard m selflessly the worked. Sho was to full of bilterness

The long evening dress-

that I knew could not help full, flattering, and formal her get another job for -was dealt a weighty blow money. Employers don't hire by the man who made his constant complainers

for as I was concerted,

name producing it. Victor better tharik har lucky

and as

stars

Stiebel, at the first of the that her present firm had never London fashion shows, had fired her.

But I didn't tell her thai, 1 not

just asked,

a long dress in his collection.

Instead, the Sliebel evening dresses are ballet length, and they show the American Influ-

legal

The Truth

Here are the latest trends in frilly underthings:

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she

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ALL PURPOSE EXERCISE: FOR OVERWEIGHT ... AND NORMAL

AXERCISE is no match

pretended that it was against and

out

By Ida Jean Kain

Position: Lying on back on floor, feet elevated to low has been proved that you

bench, arms down at sides, Gone were the prettlest

cannot overeat and keep individual needs. The over- pen by means of the same palms up. evening dresses in London "Well, if your husband is so weight controlled by exer- weight's diet should be exercise: The overweight -the layers of floating awful, why don't you get a cise, even a prodigious limited to 1,100 calories will draw on stored fat, and tulle, the regal satins, the cosy, if the drinks, and don't case, it is easy to take the low her requirements. The

separation? It would be amount. That being the daily which is about 800 be the pounds will be likely to

Movement: Flex alternate light, glamorous laces trail-support you" ing to the ground, which She hemmed and hawed and course of least resistance underweight's menus should come off the right spots be- knees firmly to cheat as armas made him famous.

conclude that since furnish between 2,800 and cause fat there will be are circled around on floor nerothies to consider such a exercise is not reducing. 3,000 calories, which allows jogged and Tuade more until back overhead. Swing thing. But Anally the truth came why bother.

for 800 above her require readily available for use arms back down to sides and The ideal way to show the ments. Our normal weight, so through She hated the idea of being

Improved ence. On and on they came single. She was afraid that, as beauty role of exercise is to if she does sedentary, work, muscle tone, the dieter a circle again, flexing other all much of a muchness, with a long wohn,

lude the take three women of varying needs approximately 3,000 measurements will be slim mee to chest. To get the their full skirts, light bodices, friends would include her

parties. Hør self-esteemm ro weights one overweight, calories a day, to match her mer. The underweight ill most good from this exercise and nipped in, belled waists.

underweight, and fuel intake to her energy rain on the extra calories, movement, be sure to keep quired that she be "a married one

third, normal weight but out, requirements oil but the pounds will not the small of the back flat it seems to me, ton of shape and explain what neither gain nor lose pounds, bundle about the waist if she against floor, pull up snugly and white printed paper taffeta many wonku like that women can happen with the same an

la stretching. And, sincs all with abdominal muscles and with a black tulle sash over who want to be martyrs, who one shoulder; coffee creans lacetio

developing in centre the upstretch through themselves up in a miser-exercise with a plak rose; grey and black able marriage qui make a life- To control weight the On. those mepun, here is underdeveloped spots, the tulla covered with immense rod work of complaining about calories must be suited to what can be expected to hap“- thi

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