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THE CHINA MAI”,- SATURDAY, MAY 27, · 1961. -

*** WEEK-END WOMANSENSE ***

ANGHI

Why won't these ballroom beaux

learn how to

dance?

Do you ever swoosh into a ballroom, all glim- mery with chandeliers and satin, tap your feet to the twangy music and long to take off? Wait impatiently to be whirled over the parquet till the whole room spins into a snowflake scene of lights and colours and all ten stone five of you feels like a handful of air?

And then what happens? Ten to one a hefty brute with clammy hands mashes you on to the floor, bruises you through a fox-trot, and grinds your toes into the ground.

He's sorry, he says, as the your arm at the fourth-but he musle cries out to him to jog just can't dance. at the third beat not wind up

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Oh, the ruination, because of him, of so many evenings!

Is ho so thick-soled, ham- Icated, insensitive that he can't feel the joys he is denying us? Or, simply, doesn't he egre?

Oddities

Think of the peculiarities of the British mule dance. In some ways he's the best in the world. There's no one to beat the zippy Htle man who slides about with a spotlight on his head and carries off gold medals; the the kicking, reeling Scotsman; Morris DanNDAM Who Jiggle through the streets in their white stockings with bells on the knees, like so many crazy hackneys; the maypole dancers weaving a tottery web of coloured ribbons as they crcak round the may- bole en verlous village

greens.

These last aren't very young the modern generation doesn't go much for skipping around with bits of ribbon. But they are pretty nippy and keep in time with the Bute or whatever it is they dance to,

Even our jazz fans are first- class as they fling each other around and do as much foot- work as is possible in winkle- pickers.

Why then should all husbands, boy friends, and the other types you meet at parties be so bad? Why are they all the galumph- kyg kind?

They can do only two kinds of stop sort of sailor's roll in a baltrom or a sec-how-stü-I- can-stand shufio in a night club. 1 sometimes wonder how they dare to say "Shall we dance?" What can we do about our non-dancing ment

Jazz fans

Ton't there, somowbere, deep down in all of them a bit of a

Fred Astaire that we could develop?

I'm willing to spend hours one, two, three-ing to the gramophone on a Sunday after- noon if it will do any good. How about you?

really jolly dancers in Paris on July (47

The odd thing is that British mon whatever the cynics muy say, are so good at the elceleras -jokes at the bar, pushing through the crowd to get you a plate of kedgeree, even trips out to look at the moon. It's just when they guide you lo- wards that dance floor that you night at woll stop before you begin.

Shake-up

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What can you wear that looks tihe almost anywhere? Something suitable for the one that doesn't need changing for an early party,.. something comfortablo to travel in, cble to entertain in... something ice-cool In summer? Here's one answer-an ultra-simple two- piece dress with a loose top and swing plented skick In chalk white -Izinimed with navy or scariot, it's washable and uneroahobic. DRESS BY POLLY PECK PICTURE BY JOHN COWAN

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By MARY NORWAK DOOR Mrs Becton I been much maligned. The logend of "tako a And now that the party sea-

doron

dies *ggi"

hard, son is coming up we're in for

undeserved renewed disappointment. Before giving her un it's too late, let's shake

up reputation for rockless those men. Get them to be abandoned, twinkle-toed dancers travagance. leaping about with the same sort of enthusiasm they show dor tearing after a football or s fox.

It is not just for the sake of us women I suggest this. But also to see if just one or two of the poor French and italian men can be saved-the omeg who go, all unsuspecting, to a party,

You know what happens to them, don't you?

They are battered, crushed, As for the precious, precious and almost killed hy swarms of few who can dance, couldn't hopeful females who, in despair, we got them to be a bit cayer? ece in the wretched foreigner Let their hair down and fling the cliance of just one, bliss- themselves about Like those fu dance.

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Be pint-sized and proud of it!

London.

MOST English women are inclined to be short

survey says,

The same goes for the

but what the

Continent-Roman matrons By JANE ROGERS

are scarcely five-feet tall,

The same idea could be carried parla pink for instance, in ali out with

acheme, any colour

ond the midinottes who make clothes for the French couturiers are nothing more tones from pale rose to deep! than doll-sized. Go south to near-crimson, or you could use basto Spain and you'll find tho pistachio green as your same story.

colour.

Why then do the designers go The Important idea is to avoid on making clothes for amazon- those blobs of contrasting colour tall women? The answer comes which draw the eye downwards from New York, for the average and make you look like a dwarf. American girl is noticeably The only exception to this rule toller, even in her stockinged feel, is a bright cravat knotted at than her European sister. And your neck, to draw attention to although France thinks up the your face.

fashions, it is the Americana

who put them over, with A

punch.

Big mistake

Flip your way through any of

the top American fashion Mistakes

that thaky

small

magazines, and I'll guarantee girls make include the wearing fow too-high that 80 per cent of the girls of

hoela, the photographed there are well on inches you gain that way aro the way to being feet tall. I lost by the impression you give know, I've met some of them. of walking round on stilts, Suzy Parker, the most glamorous Another fashion/ fallacy\\that girl of the lot, and Dorian

Leigh, her alster, are both big dies hard is that small girls girls for their age, and being should be timid and pick tiny One of tall they can carry a whole lot nondescript brooches. more fashion than their shorter Britain's smallest first ladies', Princess Margaret-she is bare- sisters.

ly five feet tall-nevor goes out without wearing several magni- itcent pieces of jewellery, yet she never looks overloaded.

Nothing right

If you are 5'0 and under, and! none of the things you see in the magazines look right when you put them on, the chandes are that it's your height that is to blame.

A couple of inches on the length of a jacket or skirt,

ན necklace that dangles down to your waistline Instead of fintah- ing higher up, a dropped waist- fins dress where the waist has dropped just too far - they are | all things that can turn you into

a fashion freak.

How, then can the pint-sized girls look chic? By taking their fashion in smaller doses than the big girls, that's the secret. The easiest way to make yourself look knee-high to a grasshopper is to wear those fussy clothes with contrasting bits scattered here and there to break up your height.

One colour

The easiest way to grow tall, painlessly, in to pick an all one colour outfit, from the hat on your head to the squared of toen of your new summer shoes, Sticking to one colour noct not be monotonous, for you are not fled to one 1one. Take brown for instance, Your suit could be biscuit coloured, with a dark coffee chiran blouse underneath.

Your

be

should stockings lighter, almost skin-tona, in fact, with light abges to match i make your legs took longer.

Your hut, on the other hand, could be a cresmy-whijis (plek one of the new big flying- | saucer. Bretóna to give an illu-

son of more height) or you, could go in the other direction and choose your hat in deep coffee to match your blouse,

Add pale gloves to almost match your suit and = pale

cha envelope bag, and you will fook. taller, and right"|in|

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