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WEEK-END

For A Pretty Plunging Backline

By HELEN FOLLETT

To longer the talk of plunging neckline is

the town; now the plunging backline that sometimes

stops above the waist, sometimes goes down to it,

fashion frenzy

is in fashion.

This should inspire a woman to cul- tivate periket posture. It the cannot do so, ao in not entitled to jola members of the bone- back contingent.

One must keep the chest Bilt-

ed, swing the his Invo the ndboinen

contained

backward,

so it as flat as a stomach

flounder. Permit your

to potrude and the back takes on an ugly curve of the waket-

Here is an exercise that will help if you've let yourself go Abit.

make

fiats,

0141

Stand tall, extend arms straight front on

line

with < 1**

shoulders, Slowly hift The high, and with a strong inurele pall send aus backward as If You

strelching after 北 IKKI-

long sleep. Back to first

tion on repeut

There is that importam mat- fer of koophug the skin surface of Die back smooth and of the

texture. Sometimes the nape is clarki

enlour than the

shemblera, in

which event sho

shoudi TRA little bleaching erewn during the before-bedtime

good-looks session.

Whe

may appear upper portion of the

to the friction of

fabrics.

001 back,

Hence the need of the well-xaped long-handled bath-

ing brush.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1954,

WOMANSENSE

This year's recipe for a beach outfit: take one pair of jeans, and strapless top in black colton, and a circular skirt and matching scarf in white cotton with a black pen- guin print, (By Horrocknes).

GLAMOUR TAKES ON A

BUSINESS-LIKE

London. THERE'S a new twist to

Theory of the model

girls. those glamorous creatures who 80 often topped their carcer by

By ANNE EDWARDS

And if so, what a black look- out for the dukes and the meat packerst

MEET MONSIEUR

YOU ARE Introduced him In Paris and you think: marrying a duke or a mil- "At last... soncone new.

lionaire meat packer.

gay.

For three internationally FRENCH."

churming.

famous model girls turning serious,

ure

• BETTINA, who was once the most celebrated model girl in Paris, has chopped off her thick, curling, auburn hair and taken up dress designing for a living.

• SUZY PARKER, latest star model is now

too busy to be photographed she's

fashion articles.

•

sophisticated..

flattering.

But he comes to England ond then it hits you that all those things you didn't notice, or you thought were part of his charm in Paris, seem out of place is London:-

LOOK

mun who has only one girl whom he la really smitten with is willing to spend a lot of money on a Valentine. And he wants a serious one."

The big sales are for

the that a young man can send out light-hearted kind: "The sort to a dozen different girl-just to show he's a bit keen, or could be, without committing himself

at all.

because mon

"This sort has to be cheaper, great deal of money on a lot won't spend a

of different girla"

GOLDEN RULE HE brings out a comb in a restaurant, instead of forgetting Valentines is to be strictly non- The golden rule for writing what he looks like.

There must never committal, HE makes a point of knowing be a proposal of marriage, all the night club

The

owners in

writing Laxton, Instead of disregarding sort of thing the customers like

⚫ AND SOPHIE-the girt they

them.

18:-

HE pours out compliments in "You really are a perfect pot, The sweetest thing I ever met."

used to call "The Incomparable French at the top of his voice, Sophie has become a fashion instead editress.

MAGNIFIQUE!

Sophie used to be one of the joys of the Paris dress shows She floated in at Jacques Fath's wearing pole grey crinoline hals and tight-walsted grey frocks with enormous billowy skirts.

Thu

Sophle year among the crowd of reporters. She looked much like the other women Journalists,

Kat

She had a hairstyle (now red Instead of blond) that is easy to keep, instead of one that needs two visits a week to the hairdresser,

She was wearing a jersey and skiri and comfortable shoes,

furtively case anyone should

of looking

round in hour.

HE flirts outrageously in public, Instead of pretending he doesn't know you until you're Bione.

HE has to be laughed off to your friends, Instead of being taken for granted.

LOVE IN BLOOM

OR:

you are so nice, you look so

sweet.

You're nearly good enough to

Cat," OR;

"Oh, it would be the height of

bliss,

To give you just one little

Victorian Revival In

Nightclothes

By DOROTHY BARKLEY

London. red flannel-a wool and rayon longing for the past? A mudden

fancy

you've thought

Ivetove always enoughs suitably edged with white Lace Love of her clothes? Not a bit

Thia

The Byron Line

the daya

If you want to give your hair now look, then it's back to of Byron for you. Styles for 1954, shown by members of the Fellowship of Hair Artists of Great Britain, all Byronic, being short were with curly fringes and broken waves

The old-fashioned pantaloon, because women like a chiango a form of fancy dress, in white cotton or cambric, is in style of petticoats as much now's

their the time to change trimmed with broderie anglaise, on in anything else in

Nightdresses your idens. Frills and fur-

and

dressing wardrobe. bolowa are right back in gowns have likewise caught the Victorian fever. Frills, broderio fashion.

anglaise and ribbon trimmings flourish more have pantaloon

Pyjamas everywhere. is just one

frills at the step in the revival of Vic wrist and ankles, nightdresses torian fashion. In the last with portrait necklines are in. few years there have been blue cotton and threaded with crinolined blue ribbon. Dressing gowns processions of evening dresses, regiments are in pink "dimity" prints.

ensy of flower-trimmed bonnets, launder as nylon, but women of little Victorian are prepared to put up with The number of the extra work involved since postes. designers who haven't been they always feel fresh in it and hot practical in to a Victorian family album find it more

climates. If they buy cution for inspiration could be

seersucker then there's no extra counted on one hand.

trouble at all. Seersucker launders es castly 06 nylon, needs no ironing.

masses

It all started when young actress, searching in her attic at home, opened an old trunk and found an evening dress that had be- longed to her great- grandmother. She took it out, pressed it and wore it to a film premiere.

Fantastic as it may seem, the fashion for frilly under- wear is catching on.

London stores are being besieged with enquiries about the new-old Victorian designs, while the conven- tional styles lie unsold their shelves.

"Comforters"

Heiress

preparing

luxury

trousseaux chose frilly cambrle or cotton in pluce of the more usual nylon or satin.

A London model who flew to Paris for the dress shows recently was another who has taken up this new fashion and for good reason. She thought the, Victorians had something. when it came to dressing

fox cold weather, For the journey she wore a pair of red dannel of the Victorian pantaloon. They "comforters"-her own version

were the authentic length-just below knee-levelünk were laced up with tassels.

reproduced straight from the scrapbook Just like that, with no alteration. The moderna. versions are adapted to suit the

Of course these styles are not

clothes we wear,

Camisole tops and petticoat skirts aro in white cotton or

Cotton

บ

not

What makes these Victorian styles so popular? A nostalgic

This year, hair can

be any colour of the rainbow, includ- orange. One of the new styles had o flame-pink fringe in the front, chestnut waves at the back.

ing violet, pink and

An expert's touch is needed to keep these colourful styles in order. But, then, that's always good for business,

This sun dress la in a floral-printed cofion and has a matching jacket. (By Dorville),

COLLECTS

PET PEEVES'

Newark, N. J. the idea of eventually publish- Milton Bell collects ing them,

Dthe pot peeves" hus-

and

A booklet, they felt, would Valentines are selling batter every year.

The boom started bands and wives harbour point up the petty matters

that cause family rifta A MEETING with the up again in the war, when against each other the way would start folks laughing at woman who has been wrll- people were parted. And lately some people collect Stradi- their own shortcomings. They ing those verses on the Vaica-, it has been helped tremendously varius violins.

tines for 30 years revealed that even this sweet sentimentality

because girls have started send-

Valentines.

is fully commercialised now.

But if girls have changed, The lady herself was quite a young men not-quite-i-love surprise. She had a bulging notebook in is

Mis Nora Herdsman have not. The verse they liked no frail old mald penning best when Miss Herdsman first her pocket and the beginnings verses to the lost loves of her wrote it 30 years ago is still the

of circles under her eyes,

youth, but a successhil, jolly career women In her sixties also writes advertising

She says she likes bec who Journalist better than ling, but what

Unt

wants

she rec is to be a dramatie

Can it be a serious out look

វិទ creeping into those glamorous lite heads? Can it be that model girls are tired of the tount: "Where did

get those great big eyes that tiny little mind?”

you

and

ket a

lot of fun out writing Valentines," she Bald. "At least they have a subject with something to Love, mean....if you can call it love." She added: "There is only a very small sale these days for expensive Valentines. A young

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