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The 17-21 Club's
five rules
SECTION FOR HONGK
YOUNG YOUNG FASHION LEAGUE Teenager who
knows clothes
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Membership in the 17-"A new dress affects your personality, so I choose 21 Club is open to all within that age group.
my clothes very carefully. I must be com- fortable in what I wear, and my clothes must Contributions and all ac- tivities of the Club will
express my individuality." be limited to members only.
on
3
has none
or
So
The speaker was not a which she considered elaborate Contributions may con-
fashion wise woman of the enough by itself. world but a lovely auburn- "I don't understand how sist of anything that is
haired 18-year-old American girls can wear their hair publishable articles, singer Angela Martin, who has messily in these weird letters, stories, photo-behind her nine years of show beatnik getups, Hair is so im- graphs, drawings, verses. business.
portant to your
whole ap- But only the best, will Since her whole life depends pearance!"
her being be printed.
distinctive "I learned most about dressing. personality, Angela All contributions MUST of the average
from going to auditions. Pro- teen-age girl's ducers, like most people, tend be original.
passion for being one of to judge you from your clothes. Written contributions crowd.
If they're casting for an ingenue should not consist of"Of course, at first I imitated
and you turn up dressed like a siren, they say you're not the more than 350 words, everything in sight," she said
type." photographs and draw-in her soft, pretty voice. "My ings will only be accept-family didn't let me wear any ed in black-and-white.
FAREWELL
a
make-up until I was sixteen, So then I went a little nuts about it. False eyelashes and
all"
Formal
Angela learned to wear basic dresses and carry a model's hatbox with a few accessories. Clothes have been a much' She would wait for a later turn greater problem, however, to learn what type was wanted, People in show business do not and alter her appearance like teen-agers who try to look older than their age, but they don't go for the "teen look"
The 17/21 Club says good-either. bye to member Roy Fay.
Roy is leaving the Colony on Thursday for America where he will study art.
A faithful and clever con- tributor to this special sec. tion for Hongkong's young people, his sketches and cartoons will be missed.
Best of luck Roy, and let us know, occasionally, how you are getting on.
Sheath
cordingly.
-
ac-
• Her big problem nowadays is the "appearance gown," the kind of formal dress needed for singing engage- ments or night club appear- ances with her ventriloquist puppets.
Angela Martin
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something wildly sophisticated in black; and Grecian-style things,, which I adore.” -
make a number of her gowns,
She finds soft materials like "So many
clothes are either
organza and chiffon are youth- fads for teens, or else they
ful, and her mother makes them Angela doesn't regret, how- make me lock too old," said
"I need about four at a time, in white or pale colours. Their ever, any restrictions placed un- Angela. "I like the sheath and in three months or so I styling is usually full-skirted, her fashion life. She loves show silhouette, and I've found that have to have four new ones. prettily draped and strapless," business and the opportunity if
if I wear it in light I can strike the happy medium." since most gowns are
colours I'm always hunting for them, "Straps are always having to be gives her for being glamorous. far too hiked back into place, ex- Now promoting her latest re. At our interview Angela was old-looking. for me."
plained Angela
cord, My Locket Lost a dressed in a simple moss green Angela's family, who have Since she has to be so careful. Picture," she is happily “dress- linen sheath and jacket that set carefully backed and trained about clothes, I asked her if ing New York style." off her deep auburn hair. She her since she was a child, in- she had
desires. any secret
wore no jewelry, since her hair cludes a mother clever enough about them.
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was set in a bouffant coiffure with
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the sewing machine to "My dearest wish is to wear FLORENCE de SANTIS
WING
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HYDROLA
Jean Wong has called her drawing - A Summer Place'
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