1955-03-19 — Page 9

/ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1955,

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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Straight LINE FOR

TWEED COAT

Madame Fath prenetale "Caress", s miraight grey tweed coal with a belt of same material-Agence France-Presso.

RELAX

And

Madam

LAUGH!

By EILEEN ASCROFT

NE of the most neGAS-

sary aids to health and beauty that women need to-

(5) Keep your mouth open. (8) Have a full, beaming smile on your face.

- The

Art of Relaxation, by day is RELAXATION; not Herman & Schwartz, Staples Press just time

off from their 12 d.

busy working lives but the ability Lo relax their nervous systems. Doctors agree that half the feminine

-(London Express Service)

ills today have their origin TIERED

in nervous causes.

remember a fascinating talk

I had with Elinor Giya, the War who first dubbed sex appeal IT. "Complete relaxation like a cat," she said to me, "is more important to sex appeal Wuns the most beautiful features

world."

the

This was 10 years ago, but it impressed mne so much I have been practising relaxation over since. And now I can even pass 10-minute bus journey autoy- ing a cat nap!

THE ABC WAY

bki

An interesting and valuable book on

this subject has just been published. It might caled the ABC to relaxation.

Mr Herman S. Schwartz has be practising the arts of ro laxation for 30 years and he has simple tips on how to employ it in your dally Hie, while sitting, standing or walking,

For the woman who carries the eares of the day to her bed and finds it due to sleep thero 19 table of 12 easy rules for wooing

"Don't ma

a gaol out of your bed," says Mr Schwartz. "You don't have to stay in it." And he suggests instead a short walk, a contemplative spell by

the window, writing letters, Ilalaning to the radio, excrcises, a warm bath or a light anidnight onack.

SIX RULES

I like, too, his rules for ar- tificial laughter. It is the mus cular motions of laughter tibat lift your spirits and do good," says Mr Schwartz, And here are his rules for having a

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good artificial laugh at nothing at

all:

(1) Breathe in and out very quickly in spasmodic: staccato

fashion/

(((2) Move your" nådorevem "up

invatal out

nnd down and

rapidly.

(8) Move your shoulder · up

nd down jerkily,

(4) Rock your head up/

/ down very slightl

Sparkling Beach

Accessories

FITH

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By DOROTHY BARKLEY

rumours

ore

London. Mosmerleed by tho enticing

from travel posters, onthusiasts

buying the three-ploco beach Italy ringing in our outfits. There was one in pink- ears that designers there and-white striped cotton, con- shorts and are giving beachwear a gay, sting of shirt, bright look. we set off to cover-up skirt.

find out if y Mediter- ranean Bunshine had per colated through to London

fashion.

We discovered it first of all in a rooftop workroom of a tall old house, where they make nalty little accessorita, the kind that are bought by novelty shops. Here they find a stendy demand for beachwear, even in a chilly London winter.

Stay-at-homes hove noticed su far London regretfully Uist has not talten up the Italian fashion for woollen beachwear. Pleated skirts, thews with matching jacket and shorts, all of wool, may seem too warm for Italy, but they sourad ideal for a draughty British beach

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AL another shop, where

department was just holiday opening, they had candy-striped cotton boaters, and straw hats shaped like bluebell dished with a stew plail,

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UA

which

Everywhere- they haven't sold out-you see dresses in the new "o-iron" cotton. It has

firaish, creuse-resistant survives a day's wear in the hot weather, soaping in the tub or laundering Jo the washing machine.

wash-

Perching on the table by the window were matching sets of coolie hats and beach bags. They were in deck chair striped towelling. The coolie hats, lined with fine white straw, opened flat for packing: the beach baga, lined with white plastic, Sandals have completely lost their utilitarian look. The were roomy enough to carry newest-illustrated here are in magazines und fitting. blue kid. decorated with

swimsuits and towels,

EVEN IN A HEAT WAVE

rosebuds. They have a new

This Kroup of gay besch accessories In- cludes a red and whito striped towel- Uing bag, bluc cotton sunshade, bino kla sandals and a coolle hat in striped towelling.

even on hot pavements in a heat wave. For town sandals and court shoes, all shades 02 blonde, including baige, honey, catamel, off-white, are in. For wear with summer prints, leathers-pink, blue or primrose. choose one of the new Distel

In the millinery departments, soft cushion sole so that you some of the new hats have a Beachwear departments take feel you are walking on air. hint of the sunny West Indies.

in a guy cosmopolitan air. They have poncho jackets, gondola pants, loose jersey over-blouses, Thero-coloured shoes, and mosine Favourite Italian outfi prints.

the straight shirt, splashed with

gaunty mixture cololurs, and worn with tapered trews.

GAY COLOURS

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Tary

Also trying 10 brighten sur beaches by bring- ung back the sunshade. One we noticed Wus I spotted blue

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Miniature bunches of tropical fruit peppered the crown beret in natural straw. A small head-hugging bonnel, made of sugar-pink straw, was named Caribbean Candy.

Fruit salad hats are the last word in chic. Red currants and pale green leaves made one style; red cherries and red Jacquered leaves, another,

ANNE SCOTT-JAMES Tests The Spring Shoppers

Are you on the side of FASHION

... or

Safety. When you go out to

cotton and had a featherweight | TWO ingredients that just bamboo handle. With it went TWO ingredients that jud vulgar.

mulching beach bag decorated with fancy arabesques of white cord. All the accessories sparkle with colour, china blue, sulphur yellow, and cyclamen leading the rest,

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On its way here to go with gay colours and a tanned alun B DOW lipstick named "Italian pink", a "light, bright pink."

is

SAFETY?

The Safe Woman thinks 1 "The disposal

unit," said Lady Colston,

The

thing I The Smart Woman has didn't like about housework gigantic earrings and ropes of was the rubbish-dripping tea- do your apring shopping you mammoth beads the cheapes leaves and so on. Now every- can either be a Safe Woman cloverest way of making old thing goes into the unit, 13 (oatmeal tweeds, nice dresses look ferrific.

ground up, and washed away. loose coat)...or

The only things it won't take Smart

are string paper, tin, wire. But Woman (a scarlet dress, an

it thrives A-line suit).

on orange peel, and bones do it good."

Sir Charles and Lady Colston are extremely rich people. They

after Jook

thensclves frem choice.

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а

You can't be both. The Safe Woman argues falsely, I think—that a negative

Το cater for the holidays-line won't date, and that you abroad fans many shops have don't get tired of neutral colours.

Bermuda opened

rooms She says if there's one thing where they sell everything from she can't stand It's being cơn- under-water goggles and sun-

spicuous. tanning lotion to yards-long beach stoles and canvas jackets for sailing.

DINNER GOWN

The Smart Woman argues rightly, I think that if you buy a fashion while it's new you

maximum wear get the

and pleasure from it; it's the out- going fashion that is a silly buy, She says you don't get tired of

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good bright colour And sho likes being looked at.

I'm on her side.

When you buy buy now, I say. Don't spend good money

on last year's styles.

Which sort of woman

you?

are

7. Do you plan to get a long- Line corset?

The Safe Woman feels most comfortable in the old short Kirdle,

The Smart

Woman "thinks new" right down to the foundation.

"I used to have a big staff," she told me, "a buller and all the works, 8. Strong colours or neutrala?

to get no "But it's heaven The

kitchen Safe Woman, In her black looks from the

and oatmeal looks as though she'd just got never want servants again."

cal tweeds, when you're late for mch. I up after six months in hospital.

Well which

would (liking choose? A super kitchen or a happy that Paris is full of pink, to look young and healthy) is super staff? I'm still not sure. yellow, blue, lilac and red.

The Smart Woman

Gadget man

ARE gadgets more trouble Athan they are worth?" is

▷ question. I have thought a lot about. I sometimes wonder if 17. I've drawn up eight key doesn't tako as long to wash questions to clear your mind out the washing machine as to on the subject.

Read them through and decide which side you are on.

1. What is your attitude to the A-line?

says it's

The Safe Woman hideous. But she'll buy it when

wash the clothes by hand.

I talked to Sir Charles Colston who almost convinced me that my doubts are unworthy.

He is the man who put the vacuum cleaner on the map; the man whose new aim is to it's dying, in 1959. (She get every sort of labour-saving screeched at the New Look in applicanor on the British market 1947, and bought it five years at a good price,

later,)

The Smart Woman will like.

it now and buy it soon.

Beltless?

2. Will you buy a dress with

a belt on the waist this spring?

I talked to him and his wife about their plans.

"First let me show you what we've got in our home," sald Lady Colston.

They have refdigerator, cooker, cleaner (three types), The Safe Women will.

floor polisher, washing machine, The Smart Woman thinks the pop-up toaster, deep freeze, diab dress with the dropped waist is washer, disposal unit clothes the incoping style with tho,, drier, food mixer, Juice extroc longer future.

3. Have you got maliz

middy

tor, off burners, hot water teater, hair-drier, and electri cally-operated garage doors,

Of these: Sir Charles main". The Safe Woman hom't, tairs, that only the first six ara though it has bean coming in fully exploited und

for at least five seasons..

markoled

The Smart Woman bought cheaper, on botter, or both. one bravely in 1958, finds it top fashion now.

in in the other could loại

Gently, for I was rather an tirint" question, to put to

41s the over-blattes & new ing after the appliances' dida'

n. "Zackpot 'kină” I asked if look-

Iden to your

The Safe Woman

honra of it:

The Smart Women hias berh

wearing it for monst

The Safe Woman says

don't support. her feets:

The Smart)

Woman bother all that, they make fost „look divina

take a lot of Une.

Lady Colston said

house, wh

blt

these devices, it's

you

that

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