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THE CHINA MAIL;, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1954.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Attractive Heron Feathers

by

The top dress designers are now showing their Autumn collections in Paris, London and Rome. Pictured here is an attractive small cap of pink heron feathers, designed milliner Claude Saint Cyr and shown in conjunction with the Norman Hartnell show of Autumn dresses—Express Photo.

DO YOUR HANDS GIVE YOU AWAY?

By LADY BOYLE

London. character to your hands if your YOUR hands can be a fingers have rounded lips. Don't be afraid to wear the

Y positive expressive part even be a

an

AUTUMN COLLECTIONS IN LONDON

Mutton-Chop Sleeves Or The Romantic Look ?

evening

wings may striking.

London.

with beetle's seem very

By DOROTHY BARKLEY

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Guerlain

smooth-fitting lines, la kind to dimeult figures, Dresses an muita following this line had evening dress in candy pink Evening dresses launched new minute panels shaped into tho tulle almost stopped the show. materials Including multi- walet and out over the hips,

coloured black fishnet with

Sherard's materials aro now green bectie's wing embroidery, and extravagant. There is grey

Jace bluebottle

embroidered rayon

leopard studded with with requins, and multi-coloured spots of black velvet, and black lame sewn with a metal thread ribbed ottoman woyen with that is washable and untarnish- iridescent threads, able,

new

fashion week in which 400 different dresses and suits were shown by the top was matched with o long designers.

pink stole und pink satin shoes. Last word came from Hardy The fact

Amics that Hardy has taken

Amian himself, "Clothes are L fancy to the

easter 10 Wear 103/ season, mutton-chop sleeve

that Norman Hartnell decorates his he said, "but possibly harder to

make"

and He likes detail, Norman Hartnell, doyen of

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accessories included wide belts the fashion world, surprised us by

his traditional Perhaps the forsaking

fact that he of black patent or beaten copper But it will be in the fashion

makes dresses for the guy and which dip at the back to Batter world. For

the styles shown styles. Instead, he presented a during fashion week

pretly Princess Alexandru has the waist, gay, pretty, romantic look. influenco Feminte princess coale were influenced Hartnell'a

His evening dresses sparkled story buyers, wholesale de-

certainly one with colour....pelargonium plak signers, the little dressmaker top choice and outnumbered the collection;

shot loose, unfitted styles, These that will be popular with his velvet....cyclamen satin round the corner-In fact any were in tich velvet embroidered young clients.

with white,...black vetvet one with fushion connections.

with Michael

threads or trimmed

Shorard showed

with cellophane an nown1 If you doubt it, remember the

empire style which, with a so that it glittered like jet, crinolined petticoat, the halter- necked evening dress, the anilor collar. They started in the Balons

of wp designers and were snapped up by buyers or copied overnight by whotestle de- signers.

But fashion is unpredictable. Only some of the new styles are adopted. So it remains To tre Been which will fade away and whatcir will be muss-producedi by the chain stores.

☆

Hardy Amle IN the young designer of elegant, wearublo clothes tinged with A touch t new fashion,

His new colour is amber, and this runs through his collection,

and is seen on everything from

tweed suits to satin evening dresses. Even the Jewellery reflects $1. The modela wore amber bead bracelets massed from wrist to elbow and button- shaped amber carrings.

with bruid tur.

It is

now

LATEST PARIS DRESS SHOW

Jacques

Fath Promotes

Diamonds And

ACQUES FATH has endorsed

JACQUES

the

jumper suit in his Autumn collec tion. In green and black and many metallic jersey materials, they have loose waists with belts resting on the hipa.

Fath keeps the high-busted, corseted look of last season for dreases and adds a stiffened belt,

For each of his four slim mauequins he modifies and adapts the lines to suit her personality.

Mr Amies told US thal (1 seventeen year old textle student at the Royal College of Art--where Amies went to Patricia, with the chest- fashion-suggested nut hair and milky skin, be

lecture

he should use amber, "We are describes ax must grateful to her," he said.

curved,

a womaл

of

the

Evening ac- OCADOrice ato as lavish as Duty clothes. These wtille stain

Stella. is the top beauty

and matching

As for style, there is some distinction. thing reminiscent of the Jane, tall, lithe. and Edwardian mutton-chop sleeveslender, he christens about his suits. Sleeves wre 1956 Vamp. widde-topped. inset high on the shoulder to give looser line at the bust

of the collection, and Rose Cull Jength evening Marie combines the dush dresses are definitely grand and charm of the very manner. They are full skirted

young. styles in lavishly embroidered

Much shorter Detall Notes: of your personality. Gladys When it comes to varnish you satin and one can imagine them

hent a bit. A little edgo

being Wor

Jackets; large diamond buckles Couper acts with her hands,

at the top of left on each side of the nail will

staircase to grand

the and buttons; masses of fur receive the Every mood is represented

gave the illusion of extra length.

even dresses of white ermine. (After all, Khighest in the land. by a grature.

Many

that People belleve

ho is one of the Queen's giving the nails n rest from

BLACK, GOLD dressmakers). One dress, in varnish will strengthen

amber saun

crinolined with a This is an old wives' tale. As

two long sash ends leave the cuticles skirt, had long us you free you will have nothing to the to form a bustle bow. worry about.

Thinking perhaps that amber Varnish even protects the will not suit everyone and it mali. I have found that without | certainly will not suit a pink- For evening there is a pretty, varnish my fingertips not only and-white complexion — Amles look terrible they actually shows o wonderful pink, the hurt.

colour of candy floss. A short

On

Watch the Queen Mother

Whatever she newsreely. doing, her hands complete the picture, whether she is arrang- ing her furs, accepting Howers. making a speech, or simply conversing Notter graceful handa,

flustered.

ber

of movements

Burried or

never

The secret fes in those slow, making measured gestures. In our hands match what our lips are saying, we can take a lesson from continentai people. Avoid waving them about like lyde Park orators at one extreme;

mere fidgeting

other.

COAXING IT

at the

But if we are to draw atten- tion to our hands we must take the trouble to make them look can attractive. Their texture be protected very effectively with barrier creams,

Bathusiastic

cooks,

busy

molliers, amateur gardeners can rely on these creams to form an invisible glove. This prevents the dirt from clogging the lines of the hands and fingers,

and

S-T-R-E-T-C-H OUT IN THE SUN

MISS ZIPP is busy again

on the beach and to day she is keeping FIT the FUN way with Д S-T-R-E-T-C-H routine.

Why don't you join her with the rest of the family?

First, two easy jumping exer- rises. Do three little skip jumpa, and then, on the fourth, jump as high as you can, stretch your regis wide astrido and fling your arms as high as possible (Fig. 1).

avolds the crepe-like look Repeat this three or four which results from prolonged times; rest for a moment, then sorking in water.

Jump high again with your body

Your hands are never quite stretched and try to cross nod beyond repair, I have just met

untcross your feet as many tunes soincone who has achieved

as you can while in the air, wonderful results with, a lotion which is rubbed in while the hands are 1111 wet. After

CURL UP...

sand for

using it a few times, you will Ly a towel on the find the dirt is coaxed out of | this next activity-it is really the crevices.

three exercises in one-which is glycering good for the tummy, hips, back keeps the skin smooth and nourished, leaves no stickiness.

Regular use of

MANICURING

Now for nails.

and arms.

Las on the towel on your back and stretch fully with your armag

your head.

above

yo

Curl up into a small bail:

hold

the position for a tew. conds, then stretch out again;

Few people have a perfect roll over on to your tummy

can work miracles

rock backwards and forwards

FIG. 1t Up as high as vou con

Fig. 31

Grasp you

ankles.

Fig. 31 Bwing down

then stretch.

szta between you and then try

are 613- roidered with

white

Jersey stole ta

pal terned with thread allver and the opera of Klasses are mother-of- pearl and colour allver

(from range of evening stockings with Henry

and Pensee). tops and welts of black gold Chantilly lace caught with diamond suspenders.

FATH launches

his

loose cardigan, in black and shades of brown, This should

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Choose your new hat or scarf, be a winner with the ready-to-in Baming red, Lovely, too, for dress, Blacks and wear trade because it is not Jeracy

wenters dependent on perfect atting. Many Many cardigans are richly

Have Ilttle black dress embroidered in oriental desigus,

Unusual accessory notes come again in your wardrobe pre- from blonde Sophie, once a ferably a combination of wool famous Paris model, now in the and silk, the kind of dress that fashion business on her own can go to the office or a party

with equal care.

account.

With

skirt

•

white flannel picated Q

Don't throw away your old and black and

sweater sho wears an old gold hunter watch fur coat. Use it to line a wool alung round her neck on a gold jacket or a super-luxury touch fur coat or chain. She dresses her blonde to line a new

stole. hair in a pony-tail style, weara large gold hoop earringa to flatter her tan and ballet shoes in gold kid,

FASHIONS TO COPY IVE an old ball-gown a new look by shortening the front

to show the ankles,

A

FASHION NOT TO COPY

RED

DED saidh evening slippers— I unless you have grotty feet and take no more than a size four shoe.

Eileen Ascroft

LAUGH LINES AND

WRINKLES

By Helen Follett

PLEASANT disposition turally come along as a woman has more to do with grows older. You can't get them to vanish completely but, beauty than you might f

ond you take the lime suspect,

trouble, you can erase them to a certain extent.

Don't expect miracles and, above, all, don't think a single creaming and masage will turn the trick. It won't) This is one fabt statant : be: collowwa

Women who have temper oval shape, but caroful fling

tantrums, who are continu- A-heavy cream is your bost and the clover ure of varnish Karp your feet behind you and about 20 feet apart and stand ally cross and cranky, look weapon in the dirt agaLCIO

Never file down the sides of about half a dozen times (Fig. 3). facing a partner midway between it. Their faces are full of wrinkler Massage it into the

ekin nightly. your nails. It will give the Repeat the exercise four or themes Place a towel on the frown lines, their foreheads illusion of longth but it will five times. probably make them flake off Miss Zinb's third exercise. is to grab the towel and get back are furrowed. in layers. Always Ole from the for body and shoulders. It to the line behind you without A happy-go-lucky person, level where nail leaves finger combines both a stretch and a bag tagged by your, partime.

[ality, can cause facial lines, wing (Fig. 5). Your halls must

Still using the same two linos, boo, but they're never be Bland with festi Billy 30W-TUG-07-WAKS THA neglected, because the only safe antride. Swing the trunk down mine mendimdark betw way of fling them le with an and let one arm and amery board, and that won't as far behind the hips as you hack through length and thick- Chev then, without pause,

WIDE up to full stretch and swing him, para preparati *Naifa should follow the shasik nezn as far bockwards and aporu neyte

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