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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

Do you

like

it?

The third

instal-

ment of our new séries: The Third Eye appears today.

It is a strip which we hope will be helpful to those of you who are camera enthusiasts. We also hope it will encourage others; to take up photography as a bobby.

We are convinced that it is one of the most useful pastimes. It is artistić, - and if you are really kee and become a success- .ful

amateur photo- grapher it could-mean a ready made career."

What do you think of The Third Eye? Write in and let

·know,~We would like to hear from · you.

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.

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

PLEASE DRINK

HYDROLA

Jean Wong has called her drawing - A Summer Place'

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