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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1957.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Do Your Legs Capture Those Roving Eyes?
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By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
10 much pressure has are every bit as comfortable an
been put on me by the Cuban churkies if they men in the office to write operly designed
about legs that I am going to write about legs.
This is not only weakness of character. (Partly that too).
a
It really does seem that killing ourselves to get bouf- fant hair, a peau de peche skin odalisque's eyes and tenth that Bagh like a lighthouse in a storm, we are paying too much attention to the wrong thing.
What
men really look for
face
Brst is must + pretty
but the britiske beauty of an ankie and the sweet curve of a vats
"As a general principle. I'm afraid leg art born, noi mndes.
am not going to proten: that legs which
have been from childhood can be rformed
Into
Dietrich pins by any proecus whatever. But some women do make the worst of their legy
There are a luze, leks of shoe-top and grooming which would make most women's legs and feel took twice as easy an the rovlag eye
More Style
TAKE. SHOES ...
The
are and fitted. And they do spectacular things for the ankles and legs, TAKE STOCKINGS....... These grow ever liner, but. I colour is more your think important than ne texture. A ley can look elegant in a 30- denter stocking if the colour is Anttering. while stocking shows up every blemish.
100-fine
New colours are pinkish an.. fragile. (Muddy coloured strekings are sure klilers, like heavy shoes. }
Grooming
Seamless stockingt Jouk ethereal with fine, euluwar shoes. Sandal feet stockings ine czarntial with sandals.
TAKE GROOMING ....... Do you spelf hours on YOU face ntd not a mânute on you teg Bad Jusgment, or legs should be unturke smooth
and
With short party skirts, make your legs
under your stockings. A thirted face fouitia- tion, diluted with water. wel Jook wooth and wou'li zuck
Use a loofah glove in your bath every ringle day.
Amb pedicure your feet a often as you do your hands
TAKE THE SHAPE
hg dg is to curb Puritaient passion for
No need to take nature's wor! shoes. Most English as Bl; things can be done.
your sensible women (not Americans; wear country shoes in town, morning sbor in the afternoon, and day shoes after dark
Why not up-style your shoes so that you always wear low But, high-heeled shoes in town, and richarlown shoes # the evening?
There are exerches 'for ugly
ant for kores
strengthening: ankles. There the electrical
amsuge treatment i
which
*** pic-
(though expensive) scribed for heavy ankles, ofen with good results There are treatments and exercises for all minne fool troubles.
The model girls who live in pin-heeled pumps say that they of
In fact, there's hardly a pair
legs which couldn't
.
exerted oral groomed to keep those men-in-the-office happy, 1 In "upid Follow-un to a sugary Luce's Tak by
Clare Mr etelary comes Working for Her Windsore by their secretary, Dina Wells Houd. (Wingate,
As alt decent secretaries are loyal to their employers, these Koks are usually musculated
and pointless.
What I am looking for is n udhless expose of some famous votuan by an embittered secre- Jary and in anger.
bok down 13 letters that ay, mustly iterate. I prat dom Into Come sort of English
I wen, along
1 was her custom to arrive the office about noon, read her personal jetters, and leave
aler for lunch with you-know-who. The afternoon
l be a write-off." Her greatest ability was for
nus., free,
Tourtimes she brought her Qui a 40 the offee and would fate them in the reception room
It was my task to give stiem lunch lake them to
, the luter send them home Real she forgot them." This would be much moto
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Madable I suggest that secre- unties who are bound by loyal hes should leave biography to the unbihibited puisidor.
NO MINK, NO ORCHIDS, NO TANTRUMS
YOU'D hardly look twice if
you saw her in a bus.
Bul
her name is breathed with Bernhardt and Garbo one of the great actresses of the world!
Edwige Feuillere, who opened in London last weck un
La Dame Aur Camellas, is u
rore case of split personality
On the stage and the screen she is sensuous, passionate, alluring beauty, capable of the finest bravura parts, Marguerile of the Camellias to Racine's Phedre.
from
Off stage, she neither look feels, nor behaves, ilke n
No mink and orchids,
No vulgar tantrums,
star.
None of the tedious I-II. of
the second-rater.
She is not even D
beauty. For pure good looks
she substitutes
Any features,
sweet, rather lovely voice,
and eyes which seem to under- stand everything that ever hap- pherd.
living-a Sort of anti-ste behaviour-is almost fetish with her.
Q
Simple Living
At the moment she is living under enormous strain, as she has three first nights In two weeks,
But none of the strain seeps through into her behaviour with ordinary people,
The
other day we spent an
EDWIGE FEUILLERE
- Comanon star,
don't diet.
but luckily don'! like heavy food,
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»I don't go to many parties," she said, and though I like to watch expert dancing 1 am no danger myself. I detest night club 1 rewi enormously, I work, and work. A grent effort, as by nature I am unbelievably luzy,"
Yes, Feuillere is a woman with two opposing facets. But each
has a sparkle of its own.
MOTURE BY DAVID OLING
Wear elegant pumps, not Battles, in the morning...
for shopping... with tweeds, The pin-heeled pump above is in sage-green leather,
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EXCITING NEW FABRICS
COUTURE MODELS
Even eatins
MARK
taken
Paris. fabrics which are precisely Among the favourites in light adapts the process of photo- weight wool are the linen, gravure printing for fe-like Sor and supple fabrics right.
stress every silhouette The trends which have crepe, Jacquard and init types. fruit and flower effects.
Surface interest is important, in From Staron come the very The only beauty treatments trend in the new Paris col- been tried and proven right small, discreet designs like petit popular. new "Street prints” Which is the real Feuillère? I got for are cold sprays elections.
basket and this season are the
used on diagonal
taffeta, sheer point,
shantung, I think each half needs the the face. This refreshes thei
weaves, or small checks, crow's Aleution gauze and chiffon, other. She needs a reposeful stein, and suits me batter than
weaves Bad
soft feather
foot and The first step in turning qualities reflected in every
herringbone patterns. Thesa designs,
from life to store up her massage personal
Silk of every description is men's worsted suitings, include emotions for the stage.
She does not bother le keep cloth into beautiful clothes An extreme simplicity of up with the social life of Paris, begins with the choice of type of fabric. New wool- the high fashion yarn in the block checks and smail crow's
extra foot patterns, an len and blended fabrics as Parts collections. For
has more real style
in sizes from small Spots, in supple na chiffon, silk and coat, silk
impact than wool It may be peas through the various coins shantungs which can. liter any of the pure fibre slubbed up to billiard balls, continue ally be drawn by the yard shantungs, or even appear as a their classic popularity. They through wedding ring Christian Dior is showing a re- irregularly scattered or grouped sheer veil of chiffon or organza. are handled in evenly spaced, and the numberless gos versible evening coat, switching efftels. Petulauit features samer sheers, have been from thin black silk velvet to entire range of contrasting sizod woven more finely than ever white silk organdle,
polka dots on his saling, shan- before.
tungs, taffetas and chiffor, Dull mat finishes replace the paired with matching solid toned This supple evolution in former trend towards shiny, fabrics for mated ensembles. weaving and texture, combined glistening silks. with the "Tovely new hothouse seem more subdued. Shantungs, colours and deliberately delicate crepes, twill, tussah, surah, and both in plain prints, glyce Paris the most supple taffetas,
the and printed versions, are? exciting fabric story in years.
Leonard contribules boslo favourites in the heavier able vegetable garden type silks, while chiffon georgette steal the scene dark. One of the season's pretti- Cont fabrics include the open- cat novelties is Hurel's basket weave and lacey tweets with wovens ribbon material, require irregular hami-loomed effecla in ing one thousand yards of the place of all the course rustic narrow silk ribbon to make a
bankety There are types.
canvas single yürü of finished fabric. and porous hopeking weaves and Dumas-Meury woollen
FLORAL PRINTS enric made
on a gmize base with tweed yarn filing. An umsal blend at Lemur features
ures New prints war all-over, con- son, used in a different manner elder down feathers woven into centrated efferta, both in floral by nearly every leading coutur
has been Staron's warp a heavy wool material to softer he abstract designs. Some comfor
with Jife-size, long it. Nubby Shetland wools come bine several colours of the same taffeta
companion weights,
the range, others unite në many as glemmed roses, complete with
tones on
thors. heavier for the coat, the lighter ano or ten muted
light ground. Dark compositions feature free-form flowers and Light colours shape the palette
hour shopping together.
She arrived on the dot, pre- walk to a fux), was ferred courteous to every assistant in was passionately every shop, interested in everything she saw In the streets (especially a horse with a straw hat), and got in more questions to me than I
got in to her.
"My happiest times are
the country," she told me.
મ
live, of course, in Paris, but i
have a house in the quiet
countryside of Touraine. There
are Tailored
I cook und wear old clothes, I garden for hours and look after any cats and dogs, and I rarely invite any friends.
"My clothes, always, extremely simple. conta and suits, evening dresses which are not overdone. I never go to drcas shows, I find them hot and dring." (She was wear- ing a tailored tweed coat, no hat on wind-blown auburn hair.)
I asked her if she had any beauty theories or followed any sort of regime, for she looks very young. She is, I imagine, fifty- ish, but her age is quite un- important
NO, only body massage, Which I and very romanog," i}
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Tidig aldri Ovenlæg dress in black Ideo in front Fond Watou, theonly, French couturier who he khortened, the `akert ; length for 1957. Named “Taibitor"). If listin - fration KRIFs "the shape of a billonitandanige Teknon-IT
NEW BLENDS
for tha muit or dreis.
Blend
progrésis
ROSES TAKE THE LEAD
a veril- in fresh featuring rad- ishes, tomatoes, mushrooms, lemons and chestnuts. In the overall plature, however, floral prints are unanimously ahead, and the roon leads them all.
a young designs,
"Giant cabbage roses are used in a vertical warp print which covers more than half the width of the fabric at Blanchini. The most popular print of the ser-
are making strong scattered petals handled as for spring and summer. At the
Triantafeburere, iri mintires very, withi other oral prints are leader at resorts as well as day
ficult to defino. Lénur
treated to oil palming and city stroete. The off-white and developing new-looking for brush stroke techniques, in beige, neutrals are complement- combinations, with wool stylised bouquets. Turn of the ed by a strong creative range of elle married with challer tury doctisants and Sevres blues, clear pinks and light percentage of synthetic gari, chim plate designs show retro, reds, some gelen arks an occa Mad murde abres do not appeur spéciive actress of Mapiration slonal stroke of orange. Pastels
delectable destined to repired pure wool or Hurel does a series at waler- follow in
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