1954-07-24 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,

JULY 24,

1957.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

SHE has the right idea, this ZIPP girl with the beach bali. FIT and she Nho's out W be knows she can do that best the FUN way. Why don't YOU try it too?

FASHION NOTE: It's an after-swim beach-sult, jam the iling for those fitness exercises.

Kids Can Make

These

Cookies

CHOOSE an easy rookie recipe

Cand

let the

children help

bake their own nourishing be-

tween-meal sack. This

une,

fur crunchy oatmeal-dute drops,

[OW attractive a girl can Helden tan

sen.

and newest fashion swim- suit, as she runs down the

into the bench and

But Could she be YOU? look at her later, coming out of the sen! Blue-limbed, goose-pimpled - just a for- Jorn girl with the shivers.

Could that be YOU? Face it it could. newki not be, if you

You're On

The Ball For Beauty

By Joseph Edmundson

Alek the ball up behind you as high as possible. and before I

rups to the ground turn round und catch it (Ar. 2). This is good for legs anti tummy.

Next bend with legs astride and roll the ball as far forwards as you enn, then roll it under- legs us for back. neath your

wards you can reach. Do this seven or eight times.

The circle

your

Now, without changing position, roll the ball on the ground round and round you: in us wide a circle HIS

But it Join Miss body Zup in these exercises designed possible. to restore washed-out glamour. is a bench balt All you need ...and here's how you begin.

Drop down into the crouch position, holding the ball with both hands (Alp. 1). Throw the

1.-Throw, leap, and catch.

is easy for the child to nax, if ball high in the air and imme-

an adult helps measure the indiately leap up with your body

gredients,

fully streched

1. cup buller or margarine, drop straight

1⁄2 cup brown sugar, 1 egg: 1%

flour; 44 tups sifted unriched teaspoon sodu: teaspoon salt; 1⁄4 cup milk; 1 teaspoon vanilia; 1 cup chopped dates; 1 cup roll- ed oals (quick or old-fashioned, uncooked); and pecan lives.

Cream button,

add sugar gradually and cream well. Bent in egg. Sift flour, soda and mult

and adil to creamed

mixture.

Add milk and vanile, Blend in

dates

and rolled oats. Drop by teaspoons on ungreisei! cookie

sheets, and place a pecan

Mult

in the centre of each spoonful

Bake of dough.

moderate

oven (350 degrees) for 12 to 15

Ininutes.

podtion again. dozen times.

to catch 1 and crouch to the

Do this half a

Now stand and hold the ball between your feet. Jump up and

2. Jump and catch the ball.

Then, keeping your feet sill, rol it ng far round to the left

and at the same time lot your trunk flop down and slightly bend your knees so that the ball

3.Sing down and up again.

Clothes designed to achieve comfort and

GLAMOUR FOR HOUSEWIVES

By DOROTHY BARKLEY

OUSEWIVES are

London. But, like them, she was

name in the American market— stores New York, Chicag.

designs...

Hfashion's Cindereline. stod Dallas old her

won't

Not through any fault of before she broke into the British their own....simply because market.

These Irish desigriers arc fashion designers make clothes both stylish vivid sense of style and and practical for house- und Irish tweeds and linens work.

But Mrs Bea O'Keeffe, 12 Richmond Surrey thinks house

than

worth watching. They have a

can

ewives may complain

wives deserve a better dent money on

that. Never able to find the styles she wanted in flie shope, the has turned design and made them herself.

Mr O'Keeffe, petite and five- foot nothing, i good modo, for her own designs, and on busy housewife, knows from experience the kind of clothe that are practical.

With husband Manus — at Just brushes the sant outside

деляе pf then swings artist with a lively the left foot and

help backwards a little past the legs, colour-w

her, she hau gone into businer. They fav. swing upwards a preview recently of their new again until your arms are over-styles, head and the ball is well behind the line of the shoulders,

but this Swing down again,

right-hand side. time to the Gradually build

up an easy rhythm and try to get a little "flck" back as the arms reach the highest point overhead.

Front here swing

yent can reach. When you cannot go any further, your body round to the right and carry on rolling from where you left of.

**Preise

Here is an

to help loosen up the shoulders (flg. 31. Stand with feet together and your head hold the ball above at arms length. Drop your arms

HÆKLİR KAPARILIRUA Your Holiday Doctor

These

shirts, dresses, sweaters, and

clothes casuni

pirate pants" — modern tailored version of the old

Iriali fontioned baggy sladka.

colours ko honey tweed in and dover pink is the favourite material, and much use is made of knitted ribbing for

mings. [HAUBRIANTTIAMON←

You'll feel fit after a dip, Mr. FLOP

the Ideal CWIMMING I

holiday

exercise for Mr keeps FLOP, the man who

..

fit the take-ti-easy way. It can be ideal for YOU too.

COMMON- If you obey some sense Do's and Don'ts.

DO get warm-but not tou warm-BEFORE you go into the water. Cold water on a the risk cold body doubles

of chill.

DO come out at the first mix-Tes ot shilling-white knuckles, goose-pimples, the shivers. Half an hour in the water is enough men;

shado

for

women.

for

longer

A

DO get warm immediately after swim with drinks and beach games,

hoi

DON'T CO Into the water hour of a heavy wlibin an

meal. Most drowning fatal-

NOT Ities

through occur cramp, but through fainting, caused by the digestive STB-

blood tem taking

from the head.

DON'T overdo Your suis- bathing afterwards. Dry sall

on the skin Increases risk of burning.

DON'T stay In

ย

swimsuit or trust to the sun to dry you. Rub down vigorously to restore circula- tion.

trim-

The casual trend

The O'Keeffe idea of a com- fortable sweater has a bodice

of thick tweed, and the pol neck and long sleeves in hand knitted ribbing. Colours of tweed and ribbing usually con trast. One style has n red tweed bodice and the over neck and long sleeves in black ribbing.

Dreuda

follow the sunc casual trend. One in clover pink tweed has a high polo

secties

fonx

at the waist.

and

CTOSY-

down

afford to spend clothes just for the house. No one would suggest they should have on cntire two dogs wardrobe, but a stylish item or brighten up the rest of the workaday clothes.

The O'Keeffes aim to provide style and comfort at medium prices. Nice thought that!

Prize-winner FASHION brings its rewards

FASH

→thinks Jean Cordon.

She has just won first prize in a nation-wide textile desigu competition organised by Berng Silta. For her entry, a small criss-cross design in black and brow, she wins £250 und royalties

to routing two. pence on every yard of th. material sold in Britain.

This is pretty good going for student of 21 who was com- eting with 1,500 other entrants not only students, but estab lished designers.. including her own tutori

At a party for the prize winners Jean Gordon gave these hints to would-be textile de- signer-

The patian must lend itself to cutting: it must be a small design suitable for clothes; its colours

must be adaptable to

accessories,

111

Her prize-winning design has now been printed on gile by up into a the firm, and made dress and matching jacket by top designer, John Cavanagh,

Jean thinks there's a definite. tightly-cuffed trend away from the abstract floral ones; not because de- Mrs O'Kecile gives tightly-gners prefer the lomi, pat-

but they sell better, terns.. htting pirate pants a new look wet

Thore t better shape-by for this.

un obvious reasoni

rear If you placing a stocking seam

ubstract print, your best friends the centre back.

She thinks that a man's long-point to its mysterious squiggles tailed shirt is more pricien and ask "What on earth is

When you than a blouse. To give shirts a supposed to mean?"

have said half a dozen times rising line at the throat, she

supposed to mean any- "It Isn't between puts a one-inch band

thing" you begin to feel like a the collar and the neckline.

fugitive from a Picasso exhibi- Mre

the third on. Next time you P O'Keeffe 13

play safe Irish woman to make Lashion Lion zowa. Unlike Sybil Connoliv and buy a floral print.

So most of the new silk and cotton prints displayed at the party go back to Victorian rOSG-. buds, postes and daisy-chains which "best friends" cognise at once.

DON'T

child's trust judgment of how cold he is in the water. Children may bo poor Judges of chilling and may want to slay in long after it in wise.

Dr ARTHUR CHESBY

or Elizabeth James, who con- centrato co town models, she specialises in cesual clothes.

will ro

Circle form

WITH

and WITHOUT

FLOATING ACTION

Torm

Exquisite

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SOMETHING WITH A

BIT OF KICK IN IT

By Anne Scott-James

London.

I thought

HE was well-dressed and "Listen,"

it

large rough strew

but any big shape

over. chodce:

sombrero, my

will do. LONG SWEATER

1

in I said thirty-five-ish, and I turn, "you don't have to do But you

met her in a train. She was all those things. looking through a maga- don't have to ignore them SHORT SHORTS

zine.

either.

There are two good ways with "I think the thing is to shorts, You can have them very "Listen," she said, "all take what you've got, what briet indeed, with & wasp of a this depresses me. In three you like, what suits you... horizontally striped) worn out- pullover (long in the boity and weeks I go on holiday with but to throw one cherry in side your shorts. my husband; wo are going the cocktail. To have one

NEW SCHOOLBOY

over to France for the first thing that's utterly pretty SHORTS

time since the war.

or completely new."

Such as (I started to "I want to look really something. I've saved some make a list):

SWIMSUIT

money for a few new PLAYSUIT- clothes. But it seems that unless I buy a fancy-dresa wardrobe: I haven't a hope.

**Must

pants?.

These are nower, a bit of a shock at first, and harder to. wear. But they are on the way In.

Their length is just above the knee, and they're called Eer-

Nobody could grouse at muda shorts, because in Ber the new sort of swimsuit, muda the very brief. sort aren't wear pirate because it is the most flat- permitted. This summer they have spread all over America toring kind for years; they are turning up on the Con- "Shall I be a flah out only trouble is it is hard to tinent, they are trickling into

this conservative island ton of water without

a middy find. suit?

These sults are cut like play. THE COVER-UP. "Shull I be the only par suits, but in a sea-going material, TOP A "MUST"

for example seersucker ΟΙ son) if we get down south, nylon taffeta, without a bullfighter jacket? BEACH SCARF.

WITH POCKETS

"Can I pull off the Long

legged Look when my legs

are only average?

The muffed-up ably an overbloung

wrap-prob

of towel-

Choose 'a gay, siripod bandans. And son it's collaus' so it' won's slip on your head." This holds your hair-do in place, anchors the hai në the same time, keeps" you pretty against 'HUI), ̈UDERY, and wind, not on

stripos. Or a blazer-striped casually knotled, the casual jacket. Or a hefty wrap: hanging tree. in brilliant striped towelling; the

THE BIG BASKET BOOM

قامة

BEAUTIFUL BARED FEET",

ung 502205ks a place in just baskota dressed up a bit. klogle' wide

your

ends

Two lince to know here: (1) of new accessories are High chunky mules with

band for Basket hat boxes, basket for Instep; (2) or the

clafsually simple, mid the make-up, basket beach-bar fad nothing but a sole with

and even baskets, which turn, upside down Into hate. The twist of leather to clamp on cost of most of them laamally well-shaped, pedicured. and they ate twice as dashing

· to the

If you' you need two yards of towel- sedog, counter ing and one hour to make it, (b) if you go mallin, and you have an accessory, that's

3.

độc, the first few days of

Is it more satisfactory pretty enough for any beach. any Loliday. It/You haven't had to dress as if I came from Towelling is a top Cable for charte Mexico or Texas? Or is every sort of beach wear, for handy ro

the me old thing in canvas.

brown butore

ON THE BE

shorts for a wrap-around amabinie

the Roman Look newer? Or tt, for a a playsuit, even for maana a certain b how about Caprifar me a wholo sun-drces,

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