1960-06-25 — Page 7

London

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1960.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

PICTURE BY JOHN COLE

Dateline

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

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SATURDAY, JUNE 25

AQUARIUS (January 21- February 19): Your busi- activities are running smoothly, but personal problem may need than your ustal

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for the next few days.

PISCES (February 20-March

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20): Don't resent structive criticism from member of your family. He understands the situation and genuinely wants to help you,

ARIES (March 21-April 19): A friend whose dependabi- lity you doubted will prove his real worth by answering an appeal from you without hesitation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A subordinate's lapse ought to be overlooked if it has occurred for the first time and was based on mislead- ing information.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21):

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A letter postponed for long time must be written over the week-end if you don't want to risk losing a valuable opportunity. CANCER (June 22-July 21): Don't be unduly upset by a mysterious telephone call. Somebody has a perverted sense of humour. LEO

(July 22-August 21): A person whorn you met on holiday last year will sud- denly turn up again, and the encounter will be a mutually pleasant one. VIRGO (August 22- September 22): Don't be boo complacent about the way things are going. It is essential for you to main- tain your efforts or you may fall behind. LIBRA (September 23 October 22): Wait a few more days before making decision which might affect the whole of your future. SCORPIO (October 23- November 21): One of your Investments--which-has- taxed your patience for a Jong time should soon, pay off very handsomely, gl SAGITTARIUS, (November 22-December 21); Don't be disturbed about not re- ceiving proper recognition

for work done. You are building on a very solid foundation and the reward is certain to come sooner or later.

January 20): You are not doing yourself any good by trying to assume respol- sibilities for others. There

Versatile-that's the shirt!

TN France where

a narrowly, our

Tong narrow salon ber neath the pavemente Bond Street: was crowded with fashion experts calleɖ from the four corners, of: Mayfair to

Icons. Ce the thin piest - ratchet akire, wear the shirt making it in a fine light love the war rahlo nay let wit

marketera and the best dressed women only have one dress a season, nothing is ever wasted. Certainly not in fashion.

Newest salvage operation this reason concerns the shirt. Driven off the beaches by a brigade of strictly feminine ruffles, Brodario anglaise and peasant cations, it is making its re-appearance In the streets and offices.

one English firm la now outside the skleb and you have lineny, fabric, which the gir in look next winter the shirt-suit-plain, cool and the picture is wearing, Ila lang sway for summer wear in town, sleeves pushed right up for painted tose will again be Our

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You also hava, of course, perfectly good shirt to wear with pantalone on holiday, and a per- featly good straight skirt to wear with a sweater weekcanda

The French are, making Shirt Suite'in plain thick shantung, In heavy cotton, in unobtrusively patterned silks.

coolness.

Stiletto hada and sharp

lot with rellak only in flat Primross yellow, its skirt is "casuals." fully lined, and for versatility's. sake, the suit comes with its own

Highlight of the proceedings

tie belt in the same material es came as the commentator talked that the shirt can be worn belted of the "terrible moment when outside the skirt.

your shoon become too much for you"--and a modeli drew from a matching, handbag, a pair of fat-footed, folding gumps to take the plase of her needle- toed court shoes,

Other coloure white, larkepur illao, stone and cream. By E- trava.

It's the biggest thing

IT

since face powder

looks like being the biggest thing in cosmetics since face powder. It has swept the United States-and it is making vast strides in this country. Chemists and stores are reeling at the way it sells. It is the new way to get a tan; just paint yourself with a colourless liquid- you turn a beautiful brown overnight.

Like most of the money- making ideas in the vanity- business, it started in America.

Last year the Americas marketed an invisible tan called Man-Tan. After the girls had. been fliching the stuff from their boy-friends long enough, the manufacturers brought out one specially for them called Miss Man-Tan (there is also, I am informed, a third, double- strength preparation Superman-tan).

The makers

are dizzy

called

Sales climbed faster than a Boeing 707, turning even the makers dizzy. Already this year sales of ton-without-sun pre- parations exceed 20 million dollars.

There are, so far, two pre- parations on the British market: one almed at the men, one aimed at everyone. (The male one beat the other Into the shops by a few days.)

Surprise sell-out along

the Oxford Street dress-shops: thin jacket which bears la disconcerting a resemblance to the ON School Blazer

Principal difference. Its teenage wegrees willingly paying out their own good money for it- and they're wearing it

with skin-tight white sklats that would, never

boys got past the gotes at most girls'

schoolt.

My own bet is that later Before summer is over, I am versions will come in fine sprays, told, there will be four or five The cheat-tans are likely to rivals in the shops.

give rise

at least one splendid new beach game: trying to spot the bottled taps,

Neither preparation is cheaps one sells for 17s, ed., the other for 25 But those who resent

the hot aching hours of bore dom that a natural tan involves will perhaps find them a bar gain at the price.

There's just

one snag.

Only snag-but it strikes me as a fairly considerable one-is the near-impossibility of spread-

One give-away if that Riviera-brown he-man is still frantically plastering himself with sunproof creams and fan- ning lotions-neither of the cheat-tans, so far, give protec- Lion from sunburni

Autumn

is almost here

and

be available. But the trends emerge with startling clarity.

The most astonishing feature of the show, I thought, was the

some of

the high luze on prettiest of the printed cottons.

Cotton gets

too glossy

some

We've been using furnishing Ihrics for dresses for time; next year, interior decoram lors, at a loss, will be using dreas fabrics for curtains, rich and flashing is their chintzy glaze,

and

Two pairs to maton, is new the gry-one for looks and one in the bag for comfort!

Milling round the show tables after the parade, I fell into con- versation with smartly dressed matron all in black.

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"Shocking," said she, "these stiletto, hooli F'don't kn ave why they make them. 014 fashionad

may bebut: thoroughly disapprove."

FASHION

NEWS FOCUS

by Barbara Griggs

some

stately,

1- told her & too, disilked them respondent of chiefly because I cannot bear glossy magazine. "woman wobble."

"I'm always saying so," said

"But why don't you say so she, "but I'm only the managing

| added, taking her for the cor-

director's mother-in-law."

~~(London Express Service).

JACOBY BRIDGE

THE

THE first lesson to learn in playing the dummy is to make sure of your contract Afterwards you try for over- tricks when you can do so in complete safety. Furthermore,

in the game of rubber bridge, if

Al thinks fast and he quickly dropped the four spot on dum-

sat my's seven and

back to awalt developments.

They weren't long in coming.

you are playing against good South could run out his contract competition don't let yourself in top cards, but South wanted get lulled into a false feeling of that 30-point overtrick and security because a doubtful line

of play seems to be working for spades looked absolutely safe.

you.

He won the trick with his

All of which brings to mind a eight and led the suit back, West hand recently defended by Al showed out and another game Sobel, the chief tournament had been chucked out the win- director of the American Con-

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TTIGH SUMMER. But already Who likes their cations to look CAPRICORN (December 22-ing a colourless liquid perfectly wholesalers are urging me so glossy? Not any woman 1 evenly all over your skin: if you to drop in and see their audumu know. It seems all the more slosh it on with liberal incaution, collections... Already 1960 a pity when the new prints are you may wake str.ped like

Christmas card printing orders the prettiest yet: huge flower tiger.

gunlian Nue through designs in Instructions with the prepara-

being rushed are

sage green, emerald green and Al was agreeably surprised tion for men emphasised the frightful thought) need for evenness of application.

And the other wook I went to dark blue or violet, and other when his partner opened the The other emerged with elabor- see a show put on by the Man- combinations of brillant green three of spade against South's three no-trump contract, but leaflet and instructions chester Cotton Board, to inspect and blue. ENCOUNTER: If ate

Yet these fabrics, so lovely to when the dummy hit the table today is your birthday; ally except that one: they're now shall

making every point emphatte the British made cottons

be wearing in summer look at, gave off the harsh rustle Al realised that his partner had singleton of 3 drawing-room curtain made a desperation meeting with a man named hastly rushing through a re- 101. THOMAS may have some | vised leaflet urging attention to. The exhibition shows only 3 instead of the sweet whisper of lead and not the conventional

fourth best. special significance..

fraction of the designs that will a dress fabric.

is a limit to your readiness to carry other people's bur- dens. LUCKY

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