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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER . 29,- - 1958.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Veronica Papworth Enquires Again

WHAT HAS BARDOT GOT

THE LONG DRESS IS SO RIGHT

A

PICTURE to prove that in spite of the comfort and ease of a short skirt there is nothing - but nothing quite so elegant as a long dress. This one in pure silk brocaded satin is designed by Harry Popper. Photographed with the royal fur- white fox.

FURS BY DEANFIELD.

PICTURE BY JOHN ADRIAAN.

—that any other woman can't have?

HAVE all the instincts of a blonde. I have the skin, the freckles, and, But

I according to my nearest and. dearest, a great deal of the dizziness when it came to the coup de grace the angels were looking the other way. My crowning glory is a cross between "ash" and "mouse."

As if that were not enough,

It is soft, fine, and utterly un mansgoable.

....4

Oh, for a mane of blonde hair shock ΟΣ curls... 4 tumbled top-knot in the Bardos manner. All my life I've fined ever my hair.

Then, happening along with current fashion, there came my BIG CHANCE.

Wigs are in the headlines. Wigs are what "everybody" is wearing.

Last week I borrowed a gor- geous great ash blonde win.

"It's not so very different from your own hair, sald Alan Splers-Auflog up my borrowed curls and back-combing them recklessly "but it certainly

helps."

Help? It made ail the differenza to my days. I know

at no better morale booster.

Not, to be honest, that any thing spectacular resulted from wearing. It.

I'D love, to report that all kinds

fear that it would tip over one eye, fall into my soup and so on. It was light, comfortable, and soon forgotten.

I of characters made, feariul YOUD be surprised the cule-

advances but it wouldn'

true.

"Now hair style?"

colleague

he

"It's a wig," sala 1.

"National Health job?”

OR MENT

But I felt wonderful in it,

be

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sald

I

I ran my fingers through it. I shook it. I rumpled it. relaxed, I gloried, I felt on toy of the world.

it wasn't any of the things i have always expected a wig to bc. Not for one moment ad 3

brities who have worn them for years," confided Alan. hna three. One for "Lady

one for evening, and day, windswept one for yachting,"

A

I saw mysalt with a trio too. A business-like one for Fleet Street, a puffed-up

for special occasions, a tousted one för fun and gemss.

One

a

There are only two spegs. You know how it is when you are hiding and suddenly terrible tickle comes into your You long to anceza be- nose. cques you mow you can't.

A LITTLE WOMAN' AT 13

By JEANNE D'ARCY

MAYBE you don't want

M to be a great ballerina,

Teenager, but that's no rea- to think the pas de deux is not for you!

son

According to diminutive Zina Bethune, a veteran professional dancer of 13, ballet may be just the thing to get a teen through the awkward age with a grace- tui jete.

BALLERINA'S SECRET

The secret of a bailet dancer's enviable carriage, her poise and beautiful movement, says the young star, is muscle co-ordina- tion.

-no dangling arms,

"If you can make your body behave the way you want it to stooped shoulders or adgeting feet you'll develop proper posture. and, because you'll look poised, you'll feel that way, too," she Bays.

A LITTLE WOMAN

Zina, who has landed, one of the most coveted roles in show business-the part of Amy In the musical version of "Little Women"--has been dancing since sho was seven. She advises other

BALLERINA Zing Bethune, 13, who'll be Army in TV's “Little Women," anys dancing helps a teen past the awkward age.

would-be ballerinas to postpone tice to do and is excellent for

they're 12 lessons until

muscle so developing

control there'll be no danger of log, throughout the entire body: muscle distortion, which could muin a promising career.

For those who have modest appirations wish only to in areasg their grace and polse here are a few exercises that Zina uses to limber up and tone her muscles.

To unlinch waist muscles: lie fat on door, shoulders and wolst down tight. Swing one leg over the other to touch or on op posite side. Reverse

TAKES PRACTICE

Start by lying flat on your back, arms and hands, loose on the floor beside you and this L the tnkk-keeping them, loose! Lift one log by contracting the stomach muscles until the leg la perpendicular to your body, bend the knee as far in as you straighten the leg end van, slowly lower it to the door. Re- peat with other leg, then both legs together,

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EXERCISE FOR ARMS

To help with, the gawky, gan- Next, comes a toughip.. It gling arm problem, stand grect, |sounds simple, but takes

About the path to mink Children

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A WOMAN'S approach From woman's life is all progrERI,

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that of a man to his car," Bible.

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learn

to enjoy food

said Madame Tamara-nd- "Each year a new style and CITUDENTS at the Ken- "Many of the unfamiliar food Justing her white mink a few more aktins.

"But always, as with motor sington School in Great become so popular that I and atole and settling herself

mothers stopping me on cera, keep it up to date."

Neck, New York, are · street to ask how to maiço, per-. very decoratively on a rose

learning to become fain dishes, that their children red sofa.

gourmets at the age of have requested at trome,"

Madame, who has just opened

tion.

alipe."

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she.

arms at shoulder height. Swing arms together from left to right as far as you can around your toreo,

To relax when you're nervous. for an important date--maybe your first one Zing suggests this routinie:

fum the walat and abake hands and arms' Uke rag doll for a ministe or two. kicking each foot leisurely, and Straighten up and walk slowly, loosely as you do

QUITE A CAREER!

Just 4 foel, 11 inches tall, Zláa I said it seemed that the six and up. The school has sald

{Thon" quite e carver behind her, a salon with a sensational decor favoured a polley of working up introduced "tasting parties" "So, now we give the children, fven though she's very young of stufted leopards and

[:bo's) dona, juvenile ballet leads. put gradually to misk. Did she not for all the grades. It has recipes to take home." plant jungle, is Russian-born regard it as a "young" furt

bira Spieker persuades children New York's City Centre, has with a rich brown accent and a Mink is for the over-thirties" found that the children will to usil fools, they are hellicht preardd in a Broadway, show, positive answer to every quee- sold Madame, "If women feat and enjoy --many to eat at hotney: "by making a been featured on many

starts too BOOK what tell me foods they have refused to game of the new faéte experi«. shows and is a leading child 10hdt can oba offer them at touch at homo.

model, forty?"

She and that · children in The students have much food

Bill, alia's excited about dolia I saith it certainly could be ang shishkobe and smorgasbord, troupe will try new things "Little Women She looks tho problem.

easily they pede part as donorked by author cheese blintzes, and eat unusual more.

obviously "Happily," feults like persimmons, evocados clamansto

enjoys ouisa May Alcott: a corular who said, "there is beaver, Any- and papayas.

something, they'll try it and kay snowsmaidon, with bluto open one can wear mink, but only i Mre Jane Sploker, home they like it even if they aren't and yeild: hair curling on ho lady can wear beaver."

abouídeos, pale and slejdet; @ls. waze carrylog horwol like a young ladh mindful of her man-

I tell you," and she, "most women invest in fura and expect them to last a lifeline,

A

man, buys a ent Next year his is saying: This is out of date....old ́siyle..........no good Investment.'.

"Bolo la changing....sach year changing. Tila fartpitt. "And with furs it is right,

Madame, amited,

economics consultant for

the aure,

Wą abook hands and I walked school, said, the programma Many foods are served with down' Bond Street pondering has been a far greater success story about where the one that parting thought,

than anticipated.”

fcopi, de Low, they origlúkled,"

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