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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1954.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

The New Swimsuits Do Something

For You!

By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES

Cannes.

VE been watching the first brave

Father, wht Bulbs France, where the water is so blue the locals kid themselves it must also be warm. It isn't.

I decided that the toughest of all fashion problems is how to look chic in next to nothing.

in

Must women look good in (a) plenty of clothes, or (b) none at all. But the scrap of cotton you wear on the beach, the plece of shaped satin you wear the water, have a knack of showing up every bad bit of your body and killing every good one.

The classic, close-fitting swimsuit- what does it do for you? Nothing except ruin your leg-line and give you a bulging buck view. The two-piece suit goes one worse, and creates a bulge where there is none by nature,

new

Luckily, blissfully, there are Horts of suits on the way. There are lots in America. I saw some in Italy. I saw one near Cannes on a wildly pretty French girl of about 18. And the first pioneers are turning up in the English shops.

The new suits... the suits that do things for you come in at least four shapes. All have twice as much design and construction as any we've seen before.

my

THE SWEATER SUIT-

WHY NOT LEAN ON A LEMON?

THE SARONG SUIT is in-them, because it bents Comment; perfect for older stitch. It is very covered-up glamour.

favourite. the drying problem. Water women, personal Goodness, what drapery runs off it like a teacup. does to a body! These are I've seen these in Italy and beautifully cut, boned,

of I've seen them in a couple and this was the type I saw course, and the folds are of London shops. Comment: a few days ago as I sat idly arranged so that your waist the brief pleated skirt is throwing pebbles into

deep-blue sea. Conscientious, is very small and your hips flattering to lega.

I telephoned Demachy, and Comment: very rounded.

he has sketched it for you kind to that vid back view.

the

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hair rinse if you don't

NUCUMBERS and lemons course, cream after a bath are the homely aids to is helpful, but if you find The cucumber the skin is getting red or for a swimsuit, has a wide idea comes from Viscountess discoloured try this.

Cut a lemon in half. school- Tarbat, a glamorous friend webbing belt-the boy look again that I saw of mine who, at 40, has the Squeeze most of the juice ment: it takes quite a lot shoulders. eo much of in Italy. Com most beautiful neck and out of it (you can use it as It was when I was ad- want to make lemonade). of wearing. Could be chic, could be dowdy. It depends miring their lovely texture Snip the ends off each half; that she passed on to me so that they stand up THE TUNIC SUIT. These

the secret of her simple (don't go through to Well, that's them, and beauty treatment.

fruit, though) and put them are cut like play-suits but here. THE KILTED SUIT, in in sea-going fabrics, e.g.. It is knitted (reminds they're news. They're still After her cook has added on two saucers.

to the shlad, and me of the wool "costumes" scarce, and still expensive-cucumber,

Grease your elbows with elastic satin or nylon. Nylon seersucker, nylon

mark my is a good bet for these other materials that won't of my childhood), but in a but,

words, Lady Tarbat collects the olive oil and sit at a

use peel, for Buits-with-a-lot of stuff cling or flop when wet. strong, firm, unstretchable they're on the way in.

when her table with your elbows on it, and in the half lemons! You can claap your head in your hands or, if you don't like wasting time, read a book.

on you.

AND ABOVE ALL,

THE

BEGUM IS A GARDENER

Olot about

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that each bush garden. This woman who loves becomes a solid ball of colour towers arranges cut flowers. In hundreta and us she showed when the flowers are out.

me round the house I saw how she used flowers in the decora- tien, from chintzes printed with roses ellmbing up a treils to the wonderful towers of the

There is a dome-shaped arbour entirely covered with pink climbing roses, already in bud. "I only like roses,' the Aga Khan told me. "All this means nothing much to me" (waving at the banks

Persian carpets.

course 1 had heard a but the sn't the best way the Begum to the house. If you've got Aga Khan. I knew she was any muscles in your legs at beauty-tall and dark, all, you'll take the steep way with a lovely smile. I knew up a stone staircase made sho

of the best to the Begum's own design, dressed women in France. I which is a masterpiece of knew she Was B great landscape gardening. traveller, globe - trotting

The steps are flanked with patiently behind her inde-

The only flowers the Begum I knew clipped cypresses and planted fatigable husband. she had fine taste and a so thickly with flowers that of flowers that stretched doesn't allow herself are legendary villa on the pine- only a clikt could pick a way below us). "But wait till the print dresses. wooded hills above Cannes, up without treading on them, roses are out-every

Besides English

But nobody had told me gardens, tailer plants shoot only flower." the thing that matters most up from pockets of soil: (especially in the spring):

that she is a gardener above all gardeners. She and the Aga Khan live in n white, 'sun-baked house with flowers in it, on it, over it, and all around it.

So as this is April and the sun is shining. I'm going to tell you about the garden and the flowers,

The garden of Yokimour is quite small by English standards. It landscaped in climbing curves, terraces and flights of steps.

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You got to the house by

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FIGURE FORMING

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With one brush in each hand, No Hiding Place (Behind Scotland Yard) small, round mat of love. 1, think largo hats

deep into her skin. She stand bare from the waist down | Common Marine Food-Fishes of Hongkong flowers.

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at tells me the best time to do and give yourself a nursery There is a blue-and-white trying to keep them

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when all the pores are well portion of

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YAKIMOUR: Flowers banked.

against a white house,

a spiral drive which runs hyacinths and primulas, between lawns and trees. cyclamien, and cinerarias in Though the trees are all intense colours. Mediterranean in character ·I, who love English --oranges and lemons, flowers, must sadly admit mandarins and grapefruit, that our own flower shops olives and cypresses-the and stalls look pallid and Begum has planted them feeble to me at the moment. informally in lawns mown I just don't want close in the English manner. wash-out pink tulips and "I love the English style annemie daffodils after the both gardens and gorgeous colours of Italy decoration, she told us, and France.

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and how I agree with them.” Besides this Prima Vera The oranges and lemons staircase, the garden is alive. were ripe when we were with ideas I have never met there, the huge fruit on the before. HAPARROPA tidy trees looking suspicious There are clipped Japonica ly likeʻstage propre humanist

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flowers in bowls, under Another area of the skin

on to a rectangular bed of tabies, in uras, on lawns, in needing attention is at the blue pansies.

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