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THE CHINA MAIL,, SATURDAY, AUGUST

PRACTICAL

1968,

HOMECRAFT

THE HOT AND COOL OF CAPRI...

JOY MATTHEWS has now moved on to Capri, which is

probably the 'most calebrity-studded piece of rock in the Mediterranean. Her report is in two parts...........

1 The

Hot

DEMONSTRATED

BY THE GIRL

IN A BIKINI

TOT-WEATHER export Horrelta Paragini is the

Roman

portrait painter whose sitters include Ava Gardner, Shelley Winters, Errol Flynn, and, of course, Linda Christian. Signorina Paragini is also ĮL

well. known bikini wearer.

"I have aboul 300," she told me, showing me her latest effort with its new half-bra. "In every bright colour you man think of. The Italians always wear bright colours or black for the sea. My favourites are bright aqua- murine and a clear shoek pink."

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QUEEN OF THE BIKINI BRIGADE-NOVELLA PARAGIN

As a painter, Novella Inoits for and has ousted the bright, salad. The chef, Vielt Atullo, colours on people,

"You can tell the nationality clear pinks that were all the calls it "Gamberi alla Gigetto." I have tried it here, but you of most women by the colours rage in Capri last year, Two

everyone isced a tin of truffins costing "The lipsticks they wear," she told me.

this dish and cut up the other English seem to add a little grey wearing are "Yes" and "No." s. 6d. to make it. Use half for

skics.

that

Gamberi alla Gigetto; Put a Huile oil into a frying pan. Take beller right large shrimps or,

til, scampi, dip into four and shake on a sieve to remove ex-

to ali their colours. Maybe Both are hot and orangey. holf and use in a cheap"pate. because they have Kuch gray but"

than "No" is hutter "Yes"

Another important The Germans and

the change is in the muke-up of cold Swedes choose

colours the eyebrows. They are up- greens, yellows, or white. The

swept to

the counteract Americans have no ideas about

straightness-of-the, chemise TRY THIS DISH

colour. They wear anything

"The French they do not neci to bother about the colour of the bothing clothes they wer

HOT up from CLAUDETTE COLBERT (above) In Capri for the first time. "Don't bring too many clothes with you. All a girl needs on an island like this is a couple of pairs of trousers and a short, sivovvieza colton dress for dancing,” she told me on the terrace of a Capri, villa, where she drank cook winh'in warm candlelight.

Miss Colbert, however, did not seem to think that two pairs of slacks were enough for herself. She has ordered 17 pairs to be made whila she is thero -they only take 24 hours to make them---in shantang, velvet. fine corduroy, and gabardine,

piece of butler. flame for a few

Toss aver minuten,

福

******

were orange peel shantung Ar with an apricot silk shirt, range in the centro of the gold sandals, and a long, gold

shrimps.

chain.

CAVE DWELLERS' PARTY

and HOT news for party-givers:

Top with a 21410 skinned meat mashed tomato, a. tuo gravy-s doullion will do if no gravy is avaliable a few small shakes of Worcester sauce, some moro butler. Place dish ever fire for a few moments.

ilitle salt and chopped parsley.

Before serving add

HOT Tophs

for the

the cave-dwellers' party

I went to one for Edda Cisno, Mussolini's daughter, where the cellar had been swept clenn.

There was no furniture-only workmen's long treaties like tables and benches,

....

in

raised band was on a The party-guers wearing those

place of stone. Everyone drank fight, trut trousers that wing and danced, and was given eess. Fry for about five minutes everyone-wears midday

to meat balls 10 eat. Stronger and renlove with a pronged midnight

(nobody gets drinks were served upstairs furk Into a small fireproof dish around much before mid- the sitting-room.

Stico Anely to about tho-size:

Most spectacular Contema of a malchslick, about a lable. day). TOT dish for the

of Haw Cleogna, Roman socialite, spoonful of siting and sunning at the Can- muchrooms, and a dessertspoon- zone del Mare, where all the ful of truffles. Put all theso In shirt,

shrimp pan with a and swimmers pace *● HOT -Grange is the new parade: a delicious concoction colour make-up this year, of prawns served with a green

as they don't really wer thing on the beach."

any

smari

the

ham the same

2 The

Cool

DEMONSTRATED

BY THE GIRL

IN A JERSEY

OOL customer is Am Kulzo, on English actress with a..Russian name, working in Capri on an Italian film with a French cast.

She has managed to buy herself the smartest jersey an Italian girl, or any other girl come to that, can have this year.

It is in fluffy, light mohair wool loosely Imitted and loosely fitted. In Capri you wear these jerseys with Blacks.

Most enchanting one I saw was in a pale aubretia with deep purple velvet slacks. Smartest was in deep chestnut brown with white slacks. Softest was in a pale coladon green worn with a cream pleated

skirt.

in

THIS YEAR'S SMARTEST JERBEY-ON'ANNA KLITZA

six glasses. Just fill 'em up and carry the lot into the garden or on to the balcony.

GO FOR GREEN

wearing a mossy green, tight- atting jersey, white slacks, gold flat sandals (nobody wears those high-pitched Italian

topplers with trousers any, more) und a long gold chain with an enormous gold starlety star round her neck.

I saw green oni

COOL colours are the craze in Capri this year. Instead of the purples, the pinks, tha

Redder than - red - hended scarlets and the sky blugs Brivia Lopes, the French answer The colour that is coming up to Sophia Loren (or so they. a big way is greu Nos the say). avoiding the photo. bright emerakı green that sographers in the same well-

ofter finds its way to

the, sea,

known restaurants and night un-the-but a cool woodland rock clubs.

COOL drinks

I saw groen on:- about 10 The party began

come terrace in silver-blue

belght Red-headed Linda Christian, She has mosey green velvet were

p.m., went on until about 2 a.m. with a matching Only

frosty

a lighter leat-green lame. worn

glasses avoiding the photographers in trousers, decoration consisted of coloured,

nad gold sandals, silver sandals, and enormous silver candlesticks on sitting happily in a poly every well-known restaurant in slik shirt, small silver toe nails. Preillest

thene holder rack that takes Capri: She died and wined worn with silver ioc-ani1s; the rough-looking tables.

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the tapes ceme in a wide rango-painted red and the Moorish- of colours and designs, making type frames are white. Tum feet

and

the it easy to work out any desired high-

triple-panoled, job, besides making it speedier 11's more efficient; therefore, an adage that surely does apply colour scheme for the window. screens are placed on either side Sputter-design tapes are as of a tall window to give it added and more satisfactory.

more economical to do so. to Venetian blinds. But the old

be pretty as is a tiny gold-loat de- elegance. properly, consider the idea of a

It you want to do the thing wood-slatted variety. has

come almost obsolete, with steel sign on white. A green-leat

USED AS A SHIELD

E don't doubt it one clothes rack can make all the difference. These helpers --can bit when textile manu-

contribute real comfort to the facturers prophesy that ironing a shirt will be a lost Jurt in ten years or that wash-und-wear clothes will take over the market within

five years. There are so many splendid wash and wear fabrics in use already that its easy to believe that a completely wash-and-wear world is right around the

corner.

NEW EQUIPMENT However, in the meantime must of us have some things it our wardrobes, or among our household items, that must be bruned, So we might as well make the most of the newest

developments in ironing equip ment, while there's still quite a bit of trouing to be done. 1.-

iron, A properly designed Ironing board, laundry cart or

For instance, have you seen the new three-way fron? It really is a delight,

Use it for dry ironing. for steam ironing or for sprinkling clothes with a fine spray right on the ironing board.

ARC-SHAPED BOARD

The new, well-designed iron Ing board makes a lot of sense, 100. It is arc-shaped and fits the natural, easy swing of the arm as the iron is used. And it provides

a wider surface for

ironing large articles something that we have long wanted.

clothes racic that can be placed and aluminum taking over. design on white is effective on

Apparently, handy to the ironing board.

though, some pale green slats, while a tiny people sull pine for the old rose design adds charm to red Mode with a tubular frame, it variety, so a new paint has been and pink stals. has two

prongs or arms and developed to return the blind to can hold as many garments as its "wood" look.

NEWEST DEVICE Mutte-folshea you can iron. 11 you hang cach that simulate old-fashioned freshly-ironed garment on wood alats appoor on some of hanger and place it on this sort the very nowest varieiles. of clothes rack, your laundry

much will icok

nices. For who wants to run around putting each garment in a closet or drawer as soon as it is Anished?

·SMOOTHER: FINISH

In another selling. Venetian bilnds cover a pair of closets and are also used to shield.... an ̧. entire storage wall,

In ong-room apartment, red "Whe very

device, and white striped" blinda sepp-. newest though, but logical in this, push rate n kitchen and tie in willa button age, is the motor-con- the red and white striped Soor trolled, blind operated by push- pattern.

button. It is not in use yet but A really clever, window, trent- Mention of paints brings to it won't be long before it will be ment, worked out by, one déco- rator uses blinds like mováble mind the news: that, ingredients in general distribution.

In recent years; decorators shutters. Once you've completed the are being used in patata, to give.

borrowed

Enclosed the Venetian

in red Lacquer slatted frames, the slats are suspinded runing, it's enalet to put every-a smoother finish and thereby have thing away at one time.

help to lick that old dust pro bitnik, and used the

The finish helps the dust shades in many interesting ways on a brass pole, and on brass The cost of good equipment blem,

for both modern and period casters, so that the franel ing board with seat attached speed up work is certainly mod-

Also available now is an iron designed to lighten labour and to slide of tea is to give the room scitings. The effect is both Blinds move castly, across a wall.

Another idea

attractive and functional.

Another good idea is to shield which is just about as comfort. erste enough. And. It does. pay

sluts a allicone dnish.

One decorator bas inserted fluorescent, lighting tubes by, u ablo as you can get and still off so well in the long run,

Plastic tapes, which were in-

0 pair of folding panel of blinds. This device is accomplish something So treat

troduced a few yeary-ngo, have them in "The more things- change, tho

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CHILDREN! THEY BOUNCE LIKE

BOUNCE LIKE INDIARUBBER

LOOKING at recent ric

tures of nine-year-old

l'ortland Mason beating it

Then they will do what every other parent in similar circum stances does.

They will ship their little loud

By VERONICA PAPWORTH

Bite may

petually now that she's got "Oh, she's that lumpy girl who's got the prize for the essay two fathers."

Til introduce you if I am reminded also of another on Keats. girl who came to the same you like: But don't say a word of a very about films. She doesn't care to school-daughter

thik.about: all that.” famous film star.

Confiscated

Children world over.

are the arse the

They bounce, they bend, and and father are getting a devorce up at Hollywood's Mogambo of trouble off to a boarding they shake of their complexes, and is so garsily for her she club.

help school and let some wise, kind I couldn't

They may rise to great heights cries all night and thinking that it won't be collection of school mistresses or plumb, great depths but they comit seisude. So could you

straighten her out.

My guess is that nt. 14 liftior long beore Mr and MTB The odd thing is that school at heart, just ordinary' please send some talc (senter)

chlidren.

as it might cheer her up."

"She's terribly sofisticated," Miss Mason, may well have wrote the same I sent it.

god-daughter. finished with minit and make- Recently, on visiting: day I "She brought a blacie, brgestir up.

She'll probably be preming rememered the pour, sad girl, with her but Matron confiscated

wild flowers, kultting for "There's a girl in my dornil- "Oh,her." sula: my god- it,”

I inquired after this glamorous orphanie,, dnd doing her best to ry" my god-daughter wrote. daughter, she's quite nice but

live-down her Awit Paal rather cocky one too on visiting day. gelung Eome the ago, "whose mother she's

James Mason get wise to usually achieves the seemingly. what their friends. have impossible.

probably been hinting for.

years.

That they have a perfect Tittie horror on their hands.

I know there are heartbreak- ing excepilong but the great majority or children are India- rubber.

I sent it

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Michele Dearing

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after a Turkish batif), but talloe knocked over a table lamp:rowns, and mantles of the line' bocantse some of the cloth's and the turpentine spread over to him for 'dry-cleaning.

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Previously these had been "dressing" has been lost. Tola a inen cloth. is why, it pura to have good into a ball and threw. It away. washed with soap and water clothes rolextured as well as Later he discovered that the usually with diabeteur results.

turpentine-soakedi, sectiom

In 1000 elean that it showed up the improved on the French process TRY-CLEANING is good for Some of the most important metal top of a table on which c

LUCKY FALL employed. "your clothes'— and six people.

by dy- the garment is spread,

general grubbiacer of the rask bruising petrol benzine and foor much. appropriate point in our climate cleaners are called "potters" Clothes often

benzol.

Todas brozone bé đánh rất thin is doubly truse for rain. Stubborn stains (ocially lip lighter when they come back DXZING comes into the pic of the cloth,

ture, too. Don't insist on want. A cleaned and re-proofed stick, blood, paint and trult, from the clones. This is not dyeing unites the fabric is in

The fallor grew rich on the dry-clconers · arms the many

pout'. La ötten more

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