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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1954,
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Novelty Prints For The Beach
Four Types Of Men At The Dinner Table
London. be served with salad, or mint They're on thole home strotch Was recently. re- when coffee is servod. and vived by Divorce Com- whatever their pet method is—— missioner Mr Samuel It's never the one you have Richards Edgedale, Q.C.; used.
They awear by percolators, of "The way to a man's heart novor use percolators; grind Hies through his stomach." the beans freshly. or buy it 1
You are ploughed, Mr specially blended at some little Commissioner. And this is shop. why-
A VERY dusty theory souce with lamb.
It may be true that a man will love you botter if you cook him the kind of meal he likes, but it is a thorny and thankless task-as any woman who has tried it out can tell you.
A Menace Even the mildest men (hecome a menace when they sit down to a meal. Ob- viously they can be classi fled into four separate Peategories.
And If you describo A delicious dinner you had, all they say is: Not Chateau Latour with pigeon plo!"
Distrust
ofi
● THE BOILED CABBAGE BOYS, who are suspicious foreign flavours, and anything Mother never gave them.
If you really want to bring a smile to their faces give them what they know...like boiled rice with gravy or rice pudding.
If you want to see their faces fall, bring anything cooked with herbs, aubergines, or garlic or anything cooked in wine or covered with a sauce you made yourself. They are suspicious of bayleaves, or even, la severe cn.50% vf mushrooms because they think you are trying to of some-
distrust any meat or
disguise the flavour Four-way adjustable shoulder straps
Left: A motel by Martin White of London, in gay Horrockses printed cotton. enable this winsult to be worn strapless; with boili straps over the shoulders; straps Just off the shoulders; or with a single strap.
Colours on white ground are navy/light blue, wine/apple green, green/cyclamen.
Right: Another model by Martin White, In screen printed natin patterned with an attractive bold design in six alter- alive colour on a white background. It has a smooth front panel and well-shaped, brasalers top. The frilled strap may be used as a halter strap for swimming or worn as photographed to give a flattering neckline. Colours are midnight blue, emerald,
mulberry, royal purple, turquoise or black on white ground. — Express Photo.
WHAT YOU OWE TO MR PUCCI
-DISCOVERER OF "SKI LOOK”
Florence.
NE sparkling January
ON
day SOUN after the Marchese Emilio
war, the
By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
Shops and makers-up have adapted his copied and Pucci of Florence stopped designs--and
those of half way down a stiff ski slope above St Moritz to Italians of the same school so that you can buy them rescue a lady in distresNA.
now at any price,
super
#hirt" dresses, voluminous, look wrap-round dresses that Lice officers cloaks until you can belt Bermuda, with two more to be in how neatly you
them in. The materials: brll- opened this summer.
liant poplina. Sweaters are made to his de- In factories around Milan.
All his designs are Straw hals and leather belts Intively simple. Just tremend-
irt Florence pusly good shapes very are made for him in He design a whole sports col- strong colours. lection for one American manu- Having dusted the snow
you facturer and occasional Those tapered trousers off her face und straightened wear at home are incal descen- ments for many others. her tangled skis, he observed daits of his first ski pants. The
He sells to the best that the girl
And ho very top shouinered, comfortable
desigs pretty and her ski clothes sweater you bought and which shops,
makes you hate your old skimpy Supervises every single were terrible,
un Italian idea
WILH
Like most of the wonn that season she wore rather baggy pants and a shapeless belted jackel.
twi seto-us behind it.
THE CAPRI SHIRT
And you can see Emillo's sort of shorts on any sunny day on Later that day he any beach lo Europe and designed a new pair of pants America, from Florida to Black for her and she had them pool, or Protofino to my beloved
Brighton.
in
he uses.
gar-
• THE DOGS. These are the men who want a lot of the same food day after day. They Hike It put into the same place at the same time, thing which has "gone off.""
They The more uned to it they fish they cannot Immediately are, the better they like it. recognise and when you have delf- The worst thing you can spent hours concocting a do is to give them something cate sauce they take one mouth- ful and ski *Where's the different for a change and ketchup?"
if you tell them you're going Their Idea of a good meal is to experiment they look a lamb chop or egg and chips. crestfallen and mutter.
THE PECKERS. These are the men who somehow manage to find a bone in the creamed fish, a hair in the soup, a green- By on the lettuce leaf, and gristle in the best pork sausages. They eat very little, pick over the food carefully, scraping off the sauce, and as often as not leave it all on one side...
Not Your Method
● THE SNOBs who subly
to
that
manage Indicato anything you cooked have
could cook
bettor. They
they
fussy
make like: "I never
remarka
And don't dicker around doing unything fancy with the cabbage they like it boiled.
2
All In Vain
If only those were all the hazards of cooking for men! Serve up a souffle...and they say: "Not as light as the last one, darling" "Spend hours on casserole...and they sBy: "Not a bad effort." Try out a nów tin of something...
and they say: "We shan't have any more of that, shall we?" Slave over a hot stove... and they ostentatiously throw open the that windows and remark you're very red in the fact.
But most maddening of all,
ready they're never
for the meal la meal fust when the Tvady.
You con't design clothes if you live in BoreNICE,
mut salt on the he says, as he shows you round
starving For they're either English the city where his family have steak, it ruina
when they arrive and say: “Just all the juices and lived as long as the Mexicis, fabric and whene
"Why Or: and the squarca
so they're don't you baka
get me a sandwich,' with brown sugar too full to eat the dinner when dures and arches have a purity your ham
juice?" pineapple city in Europe
Or: it comes. Or else when you tell can and His newest la a shaded cot- that no
rival.
"Surely you separate the eggs them dinner is ready, they say: ton
tiny printed In
drink ayster
before you beat them?
"Let's travo one more sholls with a pearl sewn into a
theories first," They have endless lucky shell hero and there.
Don't listen to the Commis, about the rightness of soup to start with or chocso to end sioner, my dears. Open a tin
(London Expręta Kervice) with, and whother wino should
Well, what's new at Emilio's this season? What shapes, colours, patterne ought you to look for when you do a splash on your own holiday clothes?
WARM COLOURS
made up-as you can on the Continent-in
Emilio's first designs were for 24 hours.
trousers. He made them Ught-
His now colour is PEACH— They were tighter than skirting and tapered, and he made
every colour a pench can pro- pants had ever been before them bright, wonderful
duce, from the brown of the and he told her to wear them colours.
slone and the green of the leaf under the with a thick, loose, man's
Look (when you buy your to the flesh colour pullover.
own for his Capri pinkan skin. Emilio thinks the even more brilliant pink than peach colours will look wonder- Shocking, with rather less blue ful in the sunshine, in it; for his Cupri green-bright
HOW IT STARTED
warm
"To me shapo and colour are everything, whether it is archi- tecture or just clothes."
as a peacock's bail, heavenly in quick drying silk Lastex, high- P
That was the start of the velvet or corduroy,
new Ski Look (and the His
Trousered Look and Casunl Look)--and Emillo as a designer.
his
newest pants are
full
women liko
come
"
wear sults the box-
-(London Express Service)
GIRL PILOT FLIES A
as
А
TOUGH
tory
in
COURSE
There were no breaks to diva through, and all she could do was fly on, hoping that when fuel ran out, her plane would be somewhere near a landing
they grinned at me," she said, "than I was earlier when the plane came to a stop without falling apart,"
THE END
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