1956-09-01 — Page 9

WEEK-END

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1956.

WOMANSENSE

LUXURY FABRIC FOR EVENING THE TRICKIEST YEARS OF

A WOMAN'S LIFE

“Seville". an evening ensemble of heavily embroidered gold and black fabric from Christian Dlor's autumn- winter collection, The shori jacket has a fitting bodler and three-quarter length sleeves, The dress has a full skirt with wide picats fallin from the waist.-Agence France. PrESSE,

London hair stylist Raymond says:

A Husband's Coiffure Advice May Result In Disaster

it,

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atylist

British hair

BETWEEN 1 and 16 are

of

most

By GWEN ROBYN

difficult years of a woman's dressed lumps into elegant little life. And I've got some women,

hard words to say today to Heven out of ten mothers with teenage daughters.

of experts agree with me that you're aclfish, nessiectful and oughtless.

Because an buny

Don' think that i like to see them painted and primped and dressed too old for their years. 1 hate it. But a nest, controlled igure, well-cut hair, clear skin and a dress that really suits them will work wonders,

into Those years can be a terrify- Giris of 13 usually fail |ing time" for Wie girl who has two categorien willowy and to go ALONE AND UNAIDED roly-poly. In both cases they through not only

need some sort of featherweight upset that an emotional one, control and a perfectly fitted

bra.

D

physical

Adulthood CUATION overnight, Some show it by having difeult at home, others Ru "boy mad " and there are those who Hrow so painfuly y that they just ruel up inside themselves

with Dentinint

HELP NEEDED

It is right at this eritwal me [ment that every girl needs un- |derstanding and practænd help

vm her mother.

She needs to be made to look her very best to give hor con-

Bdence to cope. By the time she

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16, when most mothers begin

With all that bouncing round Im- at games it is even more portiot that the bra is correct- ly Alted

Catt uffect thels figures for the rest of their lives. Too many mothers buy a bra over the counter. And 783 enough shops hove specially trained young assistants to cope with shy girls It's not a ques- ton of money, merely of mak- ing lime for a proper fitting.

EMBARRASSING SPOTS

Unless she

And that girdie?

to fusy with pride, is to late, is training as a dancer, and has

And there is no *X{U]St*

The woman who EXCHAN

for more than enough exercise most her girls need a Hitle support

luzines by saying: "She is at soon as their figures begin

a show shape.

that differt

I can't de age. liung with her

I watched a bunch of 13 and [14-year-olds at a holiday party the other night I was frankly shocked how ungainly they look

Yet a tue real care and ex- pert advice was all they needed turn them from stodgy Over-

to

ELS

How many pretty-fuerd girls suffer untold embarrassment because of growing-up Spot? It's no good just blaming school meals for the trouble.

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When she is on holidny that she gets plenty of salads. jushings of fruit and drinks milk or lemon and water.

COMMENTING ON THE ACUTE SHORTAGE OF MANNE- QUINS IN NEW YORK, ONE DESIGNER DECLARES

It's A Model's World!

New York. Ck Id Ahe top fashion mode!

alout $25,000 a year; } 661 JANTED: Model, size averages

photographe model,

"W

"he fag 10, 5-6 to 5-9 inches nearly $60,000.

tall. Good salary, steady "You can't blame the models,” work. Air conditioned show sald Churles Rudolf, Jr., of Rudoll Gowns, "By free-lancing.

of them can earn in SOTRO month what a manufacturer carI puy in a year."

room.

model To

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This advertisement

say

The

Du bolleve even a 18-year- old should have 0 cosmetle "wardrobe" containing a feather I found a dally scrubbing light clearsing cream, n work with a mon's shaving brush and astringent and some hand cream.

water pure soup and

worked my adolescent wonders skin.

with

TIME FOR POWDER?

I may

The later the better Here I am-rising 40 and never use powder.

A foundation with a healthy skin glowing through is much more attractive, I feel.

And encourage them to post- none lipstick as long as possible for once they begin to use it

outural Jegy

their own Fattes.

colou

"Nuages", a dinner hat of tulle, trimmed with plumes of maraton. From Glibert Oroel -Agence France- Presse,

The plainer the girl the more carefully you need to look. It is is difficult, unmanageable hair, don't for heaven's sake pinder to her first reaction-do get perm.

・

Send her to a first-clness hair-

for dresser

cut styled

specially for her.

It Isn't extravagant vanity be

been cause once the style has found the local hairdresser can keep H up.

Don't scold her

bites If sh them or even worse, Ty And shame hor It doesn't work.

i know here at 13 I was a chronie nail biter. My mother tried everything without Due

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But my 1-year-old brother

did the trick by buying tho 1 manleure set.

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And he not only helped me đó 711Y nolly

every day but couraged me unil they toolced pretty good.

SHOES THAT FIT

Ask a salesgirl to X-ray her feet to see if the Now shoes really At without prossure. You can't expect a 13-yr-old 142 know for herself.

"And

tr sign of a corn, have it properly treated at 1 chiropodist

No home jabbing-corms are a quick way to a linot face later on in life.

Invite her to help you choose clothes. remember the golden rule the simpler the better. And never, never force ther

wear something sho really hates,

Follow these rules

and watch her grow up into the kind of woman who can walk into any room and make every head

tur.

Designer Deprecates Male Interest In Lingerie Secrets

Designers 19 typient

ido. of dozens running these days in fashion model is not necessarily Herbert Sonethelm a beauty. fastu said "carriage is the most in- Kurt must portant factor

And Hair for clothes, have good legs of course."

THE

to

She wants the keenest minds

the fashion industry

of keeping scheme some way

popula-

New York The Tudor line is Raymond's clasified sections of newspapers

London puffy page boy in the nation's largest YOUR husband says you version of a You let your hair The British hair,

For the glamour pin- |centre. called the "bouffant book" here

HE brazen modern male of Fedon of fashion modelling has stylist, win

Kawks unashamed into female figure secrete away from grow long again? Don't de sare his own 24-karat gold developed a labour shortage.

The head of the Plaza Fivethe windows of lingerie the mass of the male welers with him wherever he

manufacturers agency suld lo Designers and goes, cuts the hair fairly short, complain there just aren't enough "clothes home

her the Ideal shops.

tion, before it is too late. leaving Just enough

io

rurtles horses"

is represented in

"There are still a lot of men the the measurements of one of her "Ifusbands are the worst under at the sides of the fuce

said the subject,” in women's magazines, 100, the top models, Hope Bryce. Hope, of advice and at the back in what he calls

her possible sources

ap- Ricardo who served fmxal who wants a job with tall, the brunette measures

today Joy Ricardo. for women a hair styles," a bell shape. The top is flat,

Hollywood one designer, showing clothes to Ave feet, eight inches; has

brilliant young designer. Sug- prenticeship in the

their according to Raymond Bes-

come studios, "but every day buyers—instead of depending (4) 381⁄2-inch bust, 21-inch waist, gested that the time has

When of number is decreasing. last vestiges K hour-by-hour and 331⁄2-inch agency

hips. United to save the Bone, a husband and father terrible

Hegnmants - can Just about Press.

feminine Illusion,

Some

winnen with

would look bell-shaped 13

himself and also owner of hairdo, he frankly admits.

approves of soft waves, casual three London beauty sakrue. curis, false buns for evening-

Raymond, as he is known anything that is flattering. professionally, im now

Hollywood where he plans VETOED

in

FRENCH TWIST

Raymond summarily

to create a new coiffure for

Diana Dors, British movie

star.

vetoes the the French kwkst,

severn hair style popularised by actress

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"IL is not," Raymond Grace Kelly before she became guid reassuringly, "that * Princess of Monaco, That- man deliberately will try quires the hair To be pulle to give his wife wrong ad- track tightly and pinned vice on her hair. Bul FL husband suffers from LWU handicaps.

Bai, vertical role down the back

4 the bead.

"If you can go to the beatly salon three times a day and

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to meet demand. And

vale her own ticket.

I have one steady gul and I wg onto her for dear life," and Kuignor Adele Simpson. "I need three.

"It tased to be a designer's Seventh Avenue. Now it's a model's."

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Mrs Sampson said the shortage la so acute many

manufac turer is willing to take a novice and train her--if the girl has the potenting in figure and per- sonality

display Bootssary to inch style clothes.

Bemity is not necessary," zd designer Mollie Partis.

with

"If a woman asks her have it done, perhaps it will be husband whether she should come you," Raymond said. "But Talks eut her hair or dys it blonde to pull the hadr boek so light manufacturma or make any major change, is too hard on 10 per cent of model

the faces.

he will say 'no' just to be mone Battenbep it soft. That's scarcity is mostly in the show-

on the safe side. He is afrald trouble if it turns out

wrong.

of

getting into

CONSTRUCTIVE

POINTERS

1

"When he tells his wife he wants her to change to

long hair of platinum blonde, he invariably

does

It because he has a audden wish for her to look like somebody else Anita Ekberg, for instance.

"it is the rare man who admits this. But he wants to change her appearance. The result may not be an improvement. If may even be a disaster."

Having dispensed of men andi their rolo ng coliture courscilors, Raymond then gave Bome general advice to women on choosing their own hair styles,

"Forget about lotting your hair grow long." he said. "It is aging to have long hair. Girls under 20 years old can afford to look older, eo for them it in all right.

Unless you have very regular features, don't try a centre part.

•If you can gợi nwny with it, use it by all moons. The poodle cut 'oad the' Iballon boy eut are out. Experiment with some of the now styles like the Tudor line.”

["-United Press

{"§¡Met”, a tailored outfit in' black", and "greens, speckled woollen - Kabria, Note, the "dovel" out" of the joket, By Jaoques Hetma-AgOKON

France-Presse.

many

several other and heads of agencies indicated the

model not ut the agencies, where a mannequin is Euuked by the hour and cppear in as many as shows a day Curing the bisy spring bad autumn season,

However, Natalie Paine, head of the Plaza Five agency, said there is a shortage of all types

top models

for fusion

of

fashion,

shows, Low photography, for television commaralaia.

"I'm talking about the really

good ones," she said.

"We don't notics a shortage,”

tver

cald Candy Jones Conover, a former mode who helps husband, run, on agency. "But what we do notice the same cld fooon around. Apparently there's got much of a now crop | coming up."

*The fashion ・ industry gives several reasons for the shortage. Maxy à módel who a few years ago was happy with steady showroom job now re- giate with an agenter,

whee the work may not be, as regular but the hourly rate makes it worth the

gamble Or, she may head for television, where a fow minates of timing a bommercial vin pay whak aksesuafacturer might offer for one week. A ebowroom model will drom

870 to $150; a week; de

experience ponding der |ability, bet at.

facturot part of, her wardrvise.

and'

With em ngonoy, she will hers from $25 stri Leni^up, Kim Pios

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advertisements He reads the

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DRAMATIC BLACK AND WHITE

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it comes to fashion, ignorance Is bliss-for the male and want to keep the men happy."

Miss Ficardo cites the caso of the topfees evening gowns

"As long as men did not know how they were held up and, I suppose, subconsciously assessed the chances of an accident,

Now these were very popular.

knows they Bre wired securely-if he can'l actually ace the wiring cut into the flesh.

every man

"I think the style was doomed tho moment men began to speculate the engineering involved in keeping the top firmly in place."

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Miss Ricardo says It oppals

her to discover how many men she meets who know all about devices for making hips look small or buste look big.

AND THEN

THE BEAU THINKS

**Pr girl spends

and

*x-

said. Ho

time money dressing herself pensively and well," the "Then she meets her beau. says she looks lovely. But he is thinking, 'all that draping around the hips is designed to hidde the fact she is too broad where it shouldn't be too broad.. This man and his horde of

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