THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1954.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
A patterned coal and while princess dress in a coiton
and rayon mixture by Byblt Connolly.
Eileen Ascroft answers the question
that floored the quiz panel
The Kind Of Wife
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For An
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you wear
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PRESENT the tople of
黯 LOVE this, time from
How do now viewpoint: the people around her react to the latest boy friend?
He may mean moonlight and roses to her, but he's a very ke:120 of fish to
over erveral priticosts. It will T one time cotton was and gloves are dyed to tone with
as pretty s a picture.. fashion's
the main colour of the print, Cinderelin:
The Title cotiers dress", with until you have to come to grips now it is the success of the moped cut neckline and match with it over the ironing board,
It everywhere. Once it was used ing jacket, is scen
supposedly year.
If worn all day
you uniforms can allegedly be only for nurses'
miracles. and children's clothes; now and all evening. During the day, square-releed, sleeveless, tube-different
wear it them. bidden shaped style, you can It discreetly it is chosen for everything unser Its "cover-up"
boltro. over a blouse for work, by itsel! "HER MOTHER BAYS: "Oh, from beachwear to wedding Towards evening, you en re- for a parly, over white shirt and all right, I
you Fuppose move the jacket and
berrew my new gloves dresses.
It can be made in dozens of wish you wouldn't be co surly ray for a party. But who has This rags-to-riches story ever reen a cotton dress for colture and styles, mass-produce at breakfast...I hope you're out wearing that of cotton means that every- anything after a day's work in and lured cut by the hundred, rot going
but why is it so hard to find awtul dress. If you insist one from countesses to It can be bought with a skirt in Just the style and colour you on staying out until all hours charladies wants to buy in- as wide as a parachute and worn wani-at the prize you want?
lore every night you'll
yout looka.
I've been waiting to expensive eutton dreases
ups the telephone for hours- what can you find to talk ¿bout?
What, again? 'But you saw him at Innch.
that do not look cheap.
Cotton manufacturers, taking this home-truth heart, have
produced
to
AD
even greater variety of designs this year. From these it is easy to judge what they like and what they hope you will like.
They put variety into ma- terlais. They give gingham new look by embroidering a leaf design in alternate (quares, und white peplin an arresting air by threading the skirt with quoise
tur-
coloured ribbon. They lift blue peptin into the luxury class by embroidering the edge
of the hem and sleeves with a tace pattern.
They choose haireerd cotton
materials like and cotton em- berved with a flower design,
which are stiff enough to hold the shape of a full skirt. Claim-
In
that they can provide
their
cot on for every occasion, suggestion for a tropical wedding is a collen satin printed with a brocade design. Shown for the first time a fortnight age, it is cream coloured and rose paltern- ed and from a distance contrives to look like a woven brocade.
They pin-point the They give necklines valety by: making them square-cut, scoop- rd out, or low cut and mounted with an enormous picture frame collar.
uclatio.
They launch the fitted print! coal, making tuse of the new thicker cottons with the neces- sary "body" required for tailor- ing. Their favourite style but- ions through from neck to hem,
ILLY WALLACE must where the young Earl of Dal-has a small round collar and full of Britain's eith was wine. He ignored the length skeves. Sybil Cornelly,
Year's
dbs and chone 4 Irish designer known for her most eligible bachelors. He who had warned her own living is 27, not bad looking, and in nine-til-six modelling heir to useful fortune.
quiz
Yet when he meterd, -What rdvice can you give in lacking for a wife? be Bocesā a panel.
The panel consisted of GI-
Fair Haring. Douglas boyt banka Lionel Hale, Jean (31- bart and Mark Bonham-Carter, All were dumbstruck. Not one had a useful werd of advice to offer.
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A "freckled" cotton dress with scooped out neckliné by Dorville,
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In a
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HER GIRL FRIEND SAXS: "Oh goodness, here we go again
ll right, you can about him while I'm dressing, bid I don't really wont to hear another word,"
I tip- won't be
pose that means we able to lunch together for the next six weeks....... And how one going to
kong last?
this. 15
HER FATHER SAYS: UWho
go
is that speechiess young man who hang round the house ali Where does all the day? drink
these days? What is his job anyway, on
and how much does he earn?...
HER BO88 SAYS; suppose that means you'll want to get off coriler than ever.... Love certainly doesn't improve your typing.
That's the seventh time I've asked you to
King that number do snap out of
Heaven help him if you run a home the way you try to fun this office....
"
ITER BROTHER BAYS: "What is it worth my not teli-, ing him how dotty you were about the wat?-
Who gave Why you that awful brooch? have you gone beetroot colour- ed? Hi he noticed those spots on your face vet? There are some extremely sissy flowers in the hall for you....
-(London Express Service)
Oh! The Infuriating Things That Husbands Do
BUT PERFECTION IS THE
WORST OF ALL
clothes-with-a-difference, doses an outfit called inseper eble". Made in a heavy cotton and rayon mixture, the coat is a black and white print and ess is in white the princess dress edged to match the cost,
They dress these styles up for they drive their town wear with matching shoes
sometimes and gloves. Shots are made in
TUSBANDS!
Hy knew
If
how
2-Don't fall for the glamour girls. They may be great al- thetics at a party and get their pletures in the papers at first nights, but glamour Elris on the whole don't make good wives. They're inclined to vrin, weinch and extravagant the same material as the dress, if none so deaf as the man
be
and find it hard to vacate the contre of the stage.
Lord Ogilvy used to
dance
ir I had had a seat on the with the gay glamour girls at
parel I woulid like to have parties. Not wife a
male three
suggentious,
But he chose for his quiet American-born riri who didn't like the lime- only to Mr Wallace, but to any elielo young man looking for Wht and turned out to be one
a wife.
1-Do choose
of the most diligent charity among the young-
ແ girl who workers
marrieds.
has worked for her long.
IR
3. Only marry when you fall Even with plenty of the shock,
love.
A pretty face is pleasant across the breakfast table, but a braln behind it is a help in running money to cushion
an efficient household. That's marriage
Glamour for
Terry Cloth
is no easy business. Wemen can be mighty irritat- Inry and unreasonable, and ito easier to forgive her if-you love tire girl.
COLOUR SECRETS
EACH
one of us has a special en'our. Perhaps it' does something for our appearance, or expresses our personality.
Unfortunately, some waren
discover this
almplo and go wearability, has gone sophist-recret for themselves.
THE
New York.
THE terry robe, always a
favourite because
cated.
New coloura and
pr ila nover
1150 brown-eyed,
through brown-haired,
patterns DTD
as well as silhouettes have been cresion of drab
adopted so that you can choos
wearing
browns that Them perpetually riendficant. Just us blue-eyod
or blondes, whose husbands once
told
blud them that a
Creas
a terry lounger in anything from plain white Lo pin-stripe leppard print,
Among the new terry styles brought out the colour of their are i "shirt fail" robe which is yes, persist in baby bluca long man-tailorbi, slim cut, and but after that delicate chade has
coaned to flatter.
•
myself
toned at the front; a' pln-stripe When I meet a woman: for duster with while collar, cuffs the first time I find and pockets; another duster with rearching for her best colour. I deep, contrasting yoke and push-
the Queen Mother
remember
up riceves; and a leopard print at Ascot one year westing lounging suit,
There's even one terry duster royal blue. She looked superb.
La cimed to
It
werkerstbe
dreas cut on the lines of a sheath, warmth and the strength that with stand-away collar and gold, together comprise her charse tome buttons and bell,
rather indisk poatels she wears
Adaptations of the. Jopatrasó/išer, themate truly then the
kimono piso
are
EXCAVIR with so often. colourful allk or cotton sah: The Ducho Even the popular, terry ""wroses in black rong—which mèves as both towel beltite, and robs - after the bathh12 Ph
been glamourleed. New versions dremas-printed, gendy-ririped, of bound in bright chatids.
Through
the
at:
•
By ANNE SHARPLEY
they who does not want to hear, and anything else he may have
a been using." wild particularly when it is Not hanging sults up la: a wives tirade from his wife on a favourite form of wife-baiting,
Particularly where but there pet "failing."
Morter is concerned,
An Evening Ensemble
HE just goes happily on, not really aware that his wife is scothing at a recurrence of an old, old fault; SHE has either to learn to live with the fault or
Robert
to
"It's got that he forget hang up his clothes, or indeed put them anywhere but on the door," says Mrs Morley.
to wear herself out complaining simply that he plans not tô," about it.
One thing seems certain, She won't wear him but with her complaints
PREOCCUPATION
Victims of this so the hus.
-I asood a number of wives of bands-in-a-trance-o far away men in the limelight what they they cannot, will not, hear what find Infuriating about their their wives are ming
husbanda. Here are the, resulta: › '
- DISAPPEARING_TRICK.
Most wives agree that the to-the-minute disappearance of the man of the house just before a meal is fauit No. 1.
It is a sort of magic that never fails to amaze; bad enough when he's late but infuriating when haying been around all day, he vanishes when the
L ready.
Min 2. A. Boyd Carpenter, wife of the Minister of Trans- Bays of her preoccupied husbana:
"He never pays (the least atention to what I'm say Ing; It's simply infuriating.
"Even prefaced by this is important or yo listen to this at least I can't say more than two or three words before hit attention has pos
Here Cleoly Courtneidge had meal is an old-fashioned trust of indig
hation againer husband Jack
Vio Oliver's personal variant, Halbert. This was obviously the according to Mrs Oliver, is to chance for which she had boun
waiting. appear half an hour late for lunch every day-then when I'm getting used to it arriving on Ume nnd Báying in àŭhust way
I thought lunch was at one..!!
A HOBBY E
"Thor hobbles of this They drive me wild! All our to Mira Peter Maseneid, wife of It's been something, Football o the
British Europear Airways photography or anything I can't chief, also, hea ́n ́
la hep a late-appearing, get interested in myrell. At the hu-band.
Sur, moment it carpentry, and I'm It's not just a question of sick to death of his bits of wood half an hour with my husband all over the place but hours” and “hound??? ihn “unyi, But after all, wives can feel uncomfortably aware of their
sominge their hips:
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