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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1954,

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Anne Scott-James helps you to enjoy those long winter evenings

Dress up

and be

happy at home!

D

London,

KAW the curtains, stoke the fire, switch on the lumps.

and make

u piensare of the winter evenings That lie ahead. Nothing is nicer than the sound of rain beating on the window - long as you're inside.

Fill up the store cupboard, stack the bookshelves, get some flowers. Nothing is meer than bad weather in the streets. if there's good food, conversation, comfort in your room.

Thinking of the long indoor hours. that lie ahead, I have been in pursuit of Ideas to bring pleasure. Case or sparkle into win ter evenings. What N new (I've been asking) in evening-at-home clothes in round-the-fire food . in put-your-feet-up furniture?

EVENING AT HOME CLOTHES make a fashion story packed with ::w༥, There's marvellous design- ing going into evening casuals.

Jewel links

newer

than

For even- Logs at home

the crystal- pleated wool

shirt.

plain

or a

print

clastle

in а colour winter Buil!

ta

bell

at the waist, with an un-

pirated panci at the back. Skirta and

tops by Rima.

Drawing by DEMACHI

First story in the evening skirts, which, to my eye, look Nicent I've seen are crystal- warm, gay, new. pleated skirts of fine printed wool.

pants, a sparkle of embroidery is

Zy

In New York I've seen an organdie apron worn fetchingly over an elaborate sotin.

¿

If you are rushing out of the kitchen,

nobody can relax.

Keep In Trim By Ida Jean Kain

Fashion Accent On

The

VRCLE

C'

1

Hipline

wide ribbon long and slim, and on roll-

around your hips and ing and leg swinging to

tie in a generous bow at one tone the fleshy muscle on the

in and side. This gives a fair idea back sides of the hips. Here red-faced.

of the shape of the fashion- we go-

making last-minute sauces and dishing up a dozen vegetables,able silhouette, with hips an This first stretch-bend No. rushing

important focus. The torso makes for a pliant, silken So practise your hand at one long unbelted, slender 'slim mid-section.

Casserole dishes, where soline. EVENING-AT-HOME MEALS

and much goes into one pot,

Most of us do not follow Wonderful alads, which fashion all the way

-for

serve in hoste,

.... Meat

Slippers become im- portant when you put your Next, evening shirts, and feet up. The shops are full I don't mean blouses. They of pretty ones, from flat

are he tailored like a Turkish slippers with up: inan's shirt, but in evening turning toes to high-heeled

with worn with slippers or buckles. links

should

•

materials jewelled

rhinestone buttons.

a

Beads are the most important esting acrosscy, as matry and You know how I ge on light as possible. ahout tweeds? Well, tweel

Musi practical fashion of all

from Americu, is groot stuff

for winter mes nights. A tweed dress with own cooks

where even rich women are their the eventog apron.

to

ง

THIS IS THE

E

FOR

New York.

becoming

simpler.

shurler

4

I don't mean that wives are you can prepare at leisure and one thing we couldn't afford head, inger Ups touching. Pull

arc

served in dishes

without the separate garnishes from soup plates. which involve last-minute cook- ing and extra washing-up.

The whole point of a comfort- alte dinner at home

17. you who cook it should be able to eat it quietly with the others,

PARADISE

[or

£2.5

fun

all:

Standing, arms arched over- wonderful providing as to cut. But lesa

to change our basic ward- up frmly with the middle courses and more dishes which

but keep slccider completo in themselves, broth, such as boiled beef eaten robe. But it is fascinating muscles,

bending Now, to note the fashion trend nicely relaxed.

left knee. and be alert to the general ward the left, pulling slim

away sidewards to- Cold sweets, where Eng-direction the silhouette along the right side of the Ish cook so often fall.

in coming sea. silhouette. Then, shifting your EVENING-AT-HOME COM-W take

weight,

bend the right knee FORTS are on tap by the cart | sons.

and sway toward the right side. Tho shops are full of

Make this long and smooth. ingenious Ideas to bring pleasure

Turn on a tunc лnd sway to leisure. Such as:-

What all this means

zmoothly and rhythmically. It's Tablo

ex-far as figures go is just music. decorations,

when

with you exerciso cellent in many shops, with a this: To wear the new prize

star-shaped

And while you're in the mood, wire candelabro, each holding five clothes with ease and that

Swing Into a hip alimming candles;

certain dash, the middle of motion. Sitting on the floor, weight to the figure should be fluid, Jean back to bring

bear on

the ribbon the spot the waistline reasonably encircled. For push and bal- plece of cheese, which hold 48 slimm and hips smooth. ance, have arms out at sides, records

With too much fat padding sligh straw tucts (Pertuguese) the hips, the

la roy back, palma down. Now effect which it is nice to pull up close,

hipline over to one thighline, to the fra for toasting your

bound to be a bulky and giving a push with the legs;

band, roil back across hips. cloche dish In exercise, the empha- Make It a slow, easy ro-1-) covers which ensure that your sin should be on the stretch With fashion focus on the hips,

if get piping hot to the

ever needed hip slim- you New Yorkers are enthusiastic table or to your trolley by the and side-bend to pull the mers, you need them now About

Happy slimming! the short Edwardian fre-London Express Service, middle topcoat with silk velvet collars for autumn. The coat is nick- named **The Chesterfield." after the fourth Earl, who in- troduced it in England in the 18th century.

WOMEN, BUT-

By EILEEN ASCROFT

At the swanky Versailles night-

Fifth

Avenue has its Own VEN more than Paris, spot I was starting to see the brand of Teddy-boy.

first chorus

and

New York is a woman's

line wearing the 1-line. Six lovely girls city. Every second shop is not a buson between them planned for her delight.

Dior-inspired foundations are Ninety percent of national

selling by the thousand with advertising appeals direct to their" Jong-waisteri. moulding her.

lines and obliterated burls.

Her house is, the most labour- Now York women have A saving in the world, her hus- militant

band is

devotion to current

For more

conventionally-

the best trained and fashions. They are propared minded males, most Chester-

the most devoted,

to pound typewriters, do their felds" sell with an extra self- housework or take the children collar to replace the velvet.

encased in the most undergarments all

If she wants a career, there to school is no sex discrimination. If she

restricting prefers to stny at home and raise a family there are a mil- in the cause of fashion.

lon unseen hands to lighten her housthold taska,

In one large bookshop Filth

counted

on

30

Avenue 1 books with the word "woman"

in the title.

It seems to the less pampered

GENTLEMEN PREFER

Brown hair is the American

It was a relief to reach less- womon's favourite this winter. fashion-conscious Chleago and Blondes are old-fashioned, black sen women again looking more hair is out.

ke God made them,

CLASS HOUSE

First impressions of

the

Now "brownette" beauty aids include shampoos that wash colour into the hair: "'sun streaks" that are brushed on to

copper rinses to give a russet

English a trifle unfair that the fabulous glaas palaço that is the five golden glinis and red and

men here work so hard and 8g UNO building, overlooking the autumnal look.

60

early, making money for

their wives to spend adoring Hudson River....

and beautifying themselves.

Young-marrieds, polting

A spruce up the American

up Male campaign is being waged

The result is, of course, that the house, could gain some exciting in New York. women remain youthful, sprite

and good-looking long after idons in colour schemes, Doep the poor husband has lost his mulberry walls, chestny carpets

Designer Coll Chapman told

and started and chairs of clear blue and the Custom Tallers and De

last tuft of hair

collecting ulcers.

champagne, Or two shades of signers Association: "Men secr

record gramaphoue holders, wedge-shaped, like a

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dushes

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Now York has gone 'board for the H-line.

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Miss Chapman blames Ameri-

Women's emancipation has can women. They are so busy triumphed here. It was feared with their own looks, she ayı, that the earphones used for that they neglect the appearance translating might ruffle the of their husbands. And sonLE.

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