1954-09-25 — Page 9

́THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1954,

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Elizabeth

The stay-at-home girl chooses the feminine look three tiered skirt of checked gingham, plụa a black evening sweater.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

or

Save the water in which you washing nylon curtalos bail rice to make gravy. The plastic furniture helps reduce water is self-thickening.

their dust-catching traits. The vinegar rinse reduces the static charge which causes the dust to collect.

បទថ qulok-cooking Instead of flour for thickening the mlik

base

cheese of a soume to keep the souffle nigh and light in weight.

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STAY-AT-HOME FASHIONS

I times that the

career

By HAZEL MERRICK

London. width to gather to the waist, displays her books on a step it seems to you at plus plenty of body to stand out ladder, and leans it where she

stiffly.

pleases; puts her potted plants woman has all the luck, the furnishing prints,

She makes barrel topa from în a^ wheelbarrow and moves

with polo them about the house at will. glamour and excitement, collars and serves of thick wool stop a minute, weigh up the ribbing, wears casy-to-lounder bath with the latest craziest She wallpapers the side of her pros and cons, and you'll patchwork trousers for. doing

the chores, and walks round prints, or goes all Victorian with find that, on her own ground, pussy-footed in socic shoesscntimental lovers-knot" paper, the stay-at-home girl wins men's Argyles, sewn onto soft varnished over to protect them hands down.

leather soles.

from steam.

Cheerful kitchen

Individuality In Home Decoration

New York.

fatian Diors and the

ET fashion have its

other designers who con- stantly must create some. thing new. There is no furnishings. *** room for fads in home

So mys Melanie „Kahane, ́o young and pretty New York de corator, who decries the way "Ladism ja folsted on the housewife.

to

The stay-at-home with ideas Even the most glittering stars in the film firmament say "I'm a

of her owIL breaks all the home giri at heart", and get rules--and gets away with it.

"Such fads," she said, "as themselves photographed by the She'll wear evening sweaters with ·Her kitchen is a cheerful black wrought iron all over the fre with their spaniels. For velvet ponts, little-girl skirts place, where people tend to place, venetian blinds, glass they know, we know, that made from yards of checked congregate, not a dull dish-brick, mobiles. men may make passes at the gingham, plus real ballet pumps washer's pantry, and one wall good-time girls, but it's the with soft inner soles, the ribbona is papered with unusual recipes

"Leave the vogue-lams home girl that they marry, tled round her ankles. And the (which she

perves with a fashion. They're too expensive In London recently there was girl who is in the know has flourish), and coloured prints for furniture.” on exhibition of work done by brought hor hoop earrings up to from cookery books. stay-at-homes all over the world date by covering them with wool

intricate embroider plus more

Her home is something that dress to match her sweater, or she's people will remember, for she

buying the

It with primitive fill

crazy collector's jewellery, giant necklaces and items, knows they make good

of china, painted talking-points at a party. carrings

In bronzo,

short, no wonder the's a stay- | to decorate your china, then are the furnishing ginumicks,

The true home girl knows all at-home. She never needs to go economy changes, as our way permanently

ordinary oven; a woman at home has invented

with shoes

change over tops to inatch your dresses, Cheese cutiers, food mixers and cotton-reel dispensers, all money-making seas, have been thought out by women in the home.

making and weaving,

hand things

ilke ambitious made jewellery and pottery.

A woman at home has dis-

covered a new paint you can use

Where she scores

But it is when she makes her own clothes that the stay-at- home really scores. For in her own apartment she can dress in any comfortably crazy way she plenses.

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Not for her those uncomfort- able tight skirts, high heels and borderline hats. She relaxes in- ead in leopard skin jeans and

slippers, tapioca

dead-dat

full, romantic cotton skirts, the kind And 131 the you could never Don't toss out those

fresh, shups.

The girl who stays home-and green celery leaves. Use them

It wears mad, mulu- to add

and nutritive colored petticoats that show, in flavour

likes value to soups, or dry them to col use as seasonings,

all Ihades

to from violet emerald, and Bow bells, round their hems to tinkle as she

A few drops of white vinegar added to the ringe water when

COCKTAIL HAT

This elegant and fase-flattering hat, designed by Erik, is for cooktaff wear. In black velvet trimmed with grosgrain, it has an interesting side movement emphasised by ‘a largo black ostrich, pom-pom--London Express Service.

Beauty rules to follow for

A Fresh Complexion

MANY

By HELEN FOLLETT

walks.

felt

She

circular chooses skirts with outsize patch poc- kets and steals a men's shirt.

The girl with high fashion

flat goes one better, and makes her own shirt in white pebble tweed, gives it black buttons and belt, and wears it outside her drainpipe trousers,

The home girl knows that curtain materials make the best cotton skirts, with plenty of

new

she out, the world comes to her.

Austher style of slay-at-home dressing. This girl wears a shirt of white woolly tweed, caught in at the waist by a stud- ded black belt, over her drainpipo trousers.

Details and trimmings that contribute to high fashion in Paris

Ingenious Tricks With

INDER

Ribbons And Furs

Paris. again swathed in a kind of fulle current owl which draws up over the

Balenciaga's removable shirred sleeves add a harlequin touch to an otherwise simple dinner dressé. Feather pads are blown all over the full skirt of another gown.

The type of earpade worn by ballerinas,

cay be puz-

Parisian snowstorment head in draped hood. high fashion and silhouette newa, there appears a wealth of small details and idens,

When the silhouette has been

shop, are tinted pale zainbow duly analysed, it may be only wider evening stoles in heavy chicos, and effectively replace the cut of a collar, the shape of satin or fabric to match the conventional stone or applique a handbag, a new embroidery or dress, are threaded through like embroideries. trimming, which turns a basic ribbon in and out of aięks, with costume into something really narrow strips of mink. Dow.

Givenchy does many wonder ful and youthful things with bits

irat of precious fur, adapted in ways which do not involve expenditure. Newborted chased in any millinery supply

Feathers appear in another *unumund

guise on one of Christian Dior's models. HIS

evening Many far-sighted women can The combination of two furs,

destined to emphasise adapt simple trick from a featured in every house, is a short though formal hemlines,

shows, famous couturier to meet their story in itself. It also entails own specifications.

possibilities for makinig over odd are entirely made of feathers un

50 other pleces. Givenchy shows short powed one on the

technique, capelat in broadtall with a flattened millinery fluted standup collar of black One pair, in brilliant turquoise, seal; or a brief bell-hop jacket has the ends tipped in black, inottled in leopard, banded with ermine. giving

elect Batman is literally the far

Whether or not you decide have a bosom this season, neck Lines are still in the news,

NECKLINES

-AFAANIGAN

NEW STOLES

Stoles

continue to

appear -new-widths and shapes. The six-foot long tabric bon, le replaced by shorter and wider styles, shaped capelets and shrugs, or triangular scarves; ás the Spanish, mood.

They may be high and puri- king. The most enterprising tanical, or disguided under large way of utilizing an old ermine cape collars which offer poss- evening wrap, is seen in ha bilities

transformation. man-tailored fur shirt complete popular an ever in Paris, but Jacques Fath does delightful with buttons and cuff-links. a woman consta along use cream but don't let it stay things with ribbon.“

It is shown in the collection Lon 'a beautiful complexion on (overnight" After you

He strips inch-wide, black under #suitably simple black only to discover one day that move it, pat on astringent to satin ribbon scrURE 蘸 white broadcloth, box Jacket will, but, skin im't what it used to be close. POTCS.

ermine collar, tied with a fiat could effectively go on a dark It's a mid state of affairs but

tapt Fresh air will help your com- bow at the outside edge.

'full length akiri. to be expected if you don't give plexion, too. It can't be beat for the front of a round suit collar, He loops folds of ribbon info your complexion care.

giving checks a natural, rosy secured with a jewelled buricle, Before it's too late, learn a Law glow of health, t

Afecting the fashion met by 18th simple rules of beauty, The Lack of sleep shows up on century dandies. V insurance against complexion your face. It causes skin to take

This treatment may “be Cleanliness is most important dit look, makes dark posted in turned back cuts of use furthe

circles appear under your erenighlighted with lovers

for pretty skin, Don't just past: The only remedy for this, letto Loring lowalled cuffe

fake servirias could,

n soapy cloth byer your face, make sure you get those eight in the MAIDA, KURIER,

That's not goought wypu

Soap your mom to rumors

surface makeup and Thon, make a mask of a quality toilet soap. Work akin with your finger

boues every night.

deep, datiha

toink, did

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́ ́FURS- EVERYWHERE

Balchain's double", com demonstrate another.

Lanvin covered; a deep, "yii back decollete with a triangular stole, vloties through : the front oft the necădire, at lor, DREJON. Another stoje drom this use hopise will pepve an inspiration to any women with embroidery. Ai pale

Not that home decorating should get in a rut.

But the changes, Miss Kahane said, should come about logical, techno- ly, as industry makes loglent advances, 18

of living alters.

NOT WHIMSICAL

our

"Such changes are healthy," she said, in an Interview, "They arc not

whimsical as fashion

can be."

of

The designer, o vice president of the American Institute Decorators, applauded such trends as those which have done away with the front par

[lour for show and have made every room in the house one for living: the elimination of the dining room, which she saidi cost too much to furnish for what use the family made of it; and the elimination of inside barriers.

"I don't mean lack of walls," she said, "I refer to the open- ness and airiness of today's homes. People havo

| discovered bare floors and !big

windows" did find t

Miss Kahane who once used grey-flannel for the wall- covering of a man's study, said today's housewife has greater chance for individuality in the home than ever before."

COLOUR HELPS.

..

"First off," she said, "her taste is better than ever. And there are so many new materials to work with the plastics, new wood finishes and metals, the washability and serviceability of fabrics and paints.

"And above all, there's colour colours to work with as never

Use of colour. is the

beforest way to redecorate."

Miss Kahane has started some unusual colour trends. Bho has combined pink and orange for pleasing and dramatic results, and set a bunch of women to copying when she came out with a black, white and orange colour schemò`for, a living room.

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