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LEADING

LADY

in silk,

satin

muslin-or wool?

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRÍday, January 14, 1938.

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The lovely traditional wedding dress which Lady Winifred Cecil, Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Gloucester, wore for her marriage to Lord Hotham on December 16. Tinling made it of magnolia white satin, with lines converging to a shirred chou of the same fabric, setting for a huge flower spray of family diamonds.

Joan Beringer's

Fifteen

Minutes

for Beauty

3. MANICURE

HE emotions being involved, fur

Motley made recently a wedding dress of usually flies over the choice of a peach damask, and another of palest butter

There's more in it than meets the eye. WOOL

"The veiled victim" is how unkind cynics: If colour is a stumbling block, one can choose often describe the all-white bride. (b) Sisters, to be unconventional in choice of fabric. Motley, mothers, cousins and aunts tend to forget that, being a firm of young theatrial designers who after all, it's not their wedding, (c) The bride know about clothes in relation to their setting, wants her own way, but is often not clear what use a great deal of wool and cotton for wedding her own way is.

dresses,

Thus, in order to put her euse clearly to hysterical relatives, she may well assemble the following relevant facts for and against a tradi- tional white wedding.

FOR TRADITION

An essential part of the ritual is that the bride should wear white. If she does not, why be married in church at all?

When a girl gets married, she doesn't want

White face-cloth, for example, falls into beautiful

folds, and has the dramatic quality very necessary for a dress which is viewed from a distance.

One of their loveliest dresses was of white face- cloth cut on very flored princesse nes, with pinked edges. A hot idea for the cold weather bride! With white directoire suits the bridesmaids carried bunches of cut felt flowers in autumn colours. COTTON

The bride who can't afford to spend a fright-

Our second sketch shows Motley's romantle young bride's dress of white lisse, with cotton bobbles from a white curtain fringe sewn all over it.

to draw attention to herself by being very un- ful lot on her dress will like the modern feeling conventional in her choice of wedding dress; after for cottons. all, the outward form of marriage ceremony is in itself conventional: why not observe it?

And the relatives will be so upset not to see dear Julie in white: why not for one day Does it agree to be a victim to family pride? matter so much either way? AGAINST

The essentials of the ceremony are not in any way affected by what you wear. You are just as well and truly married in a plain suit as in a cloud of tulle.

That being so, there is no reason at all why white is better than any other colour.

As for the relatives, it's not their wedding, however much they may think so. And the bride who begins by playing juvenile lead instead of leading lady at her own wedding may continue. in that minor role uil her life,

COMPROMISE

What will happen in the end is that there will be a compromise. Julie, having sworn to be married at 8 o'clock in the morning with no fuss and-wearing a suit, will finally consent to have a white frock, though not necessarily one "cut on classic lines."

After all, it is true that an over-romantic wedding dress is perhaps a little "stagey." There could be nothing lovelier than the traditional type of creamy satin bride's frock, like this one, sketched at the left, made by Tinling for Lady Winifred Cecil. It is a dress that accentuales dignity and simplicity: a good lead to follow for any bride.

On the other hand, coloured wedding dresses, or dresses of unusual cut, are being worn. Many of the great houses show misty blue, or dove

THIS is your third-day treatment--first was on Wednesday: grey, or silvered rose wedding dresses. And second yesterday. Cut this out round the dotted line and Tinling (who has always been a champion of the paste it on cardboard. Then hang it up somewhere convenient bride, and fights many battles against adamant

for future reference.

You will need:-

A bowl of soapy water and a towel.-Polish remover-Cuticle softener and nail cleanser-Varnish and enamel polish or powder,-Cuticle cream or oil-Emery board-Orange stick-Cottonwool-Buffer.

Don't Forget

b.

C That unless your hands are long and thin you cannot wear dark polishes.

That by the fingers are not, nails must be tied to almond shape and varnish applied from cuticle to tip, but not quite to sides of nail.

c. If the nails are too large for beauty, merest line uncoloured should be left right round-sides, tips half-moons.

BEGIN your manicure by removing every trace of old polish.

With the rough side of an emery board, file the nalls, not too closely, from sides to centre. Work out the rough edges from beneath the nail with an orange stick, and finish off until perfectly smooth with the other side of the emery board.

relatives, so that she can have exactly what sho wants) is making a gold dress for one beautiful dark girl. And she will carry red roses. But she will be veiled from head to foot in gold net. A lovely idea for an unusual exotic sort of person.

And, believe it or not, the bridesmaids' dresses wore made of old-fashioned striped curtain mustin, with skirts in full sall, tiny, tiny bodices and sleeves, and high waistline sashed with lime yellow felt. Wide leghorn hats wreathed in pink and yellow tolt flowers completed the delicious rustic flavour of this wedding cortege.

M. F.

COMBINING

whiteness and brightness: Buffy cotton dots transparent Iss dress by Motley.

on a

Are You A Cruel-to-be-Kind Mother?

a terrible

But the cruelty loy in the fact that you often hear the phrase used myself gladly and uncomplaining

when a child has been punished she has never been given any idea now her daughter had started life for something or other, "Sometimes of the struggle it has been to rear on her own, and what she awakening lay before her you must be cruel to be kind, you and educate her. And now, know!" This is perfectly true, and leaves me like this! What can have have her do it-what can

This was the fault of the devoted as it should be. The great trouble made, with so many modern parents to- turned her from the dear child the mother, not the "selfish child." day is that they alter the process was into the selfish, heartless girl Parents' Most Common Mistake they are cruel by being kindl

she has become?"

Perhaps the most common, and The mother was alncere, but she The other day I had the painful experience

of listening to the woes had no idea that she had actually certainly the most dangerous, of nil

the mistoices Dip fingers In bowl of warm, soapy water, and leave for two minutes. of a

made by the mother whose only child-a answered her own question.

is this business of Dry well. Wrap cottonwool round orange stick, dip in cuticle re-daughter--had just left home.

She, and none other, had made nighted parent mover and press back cuticle. Don't break cutiele or bruise nail, Cleanse

Her mother had, it seemed, taken her daughter "selfish and heartless." "protecting" and "sheltering the beneath the tips with this liquid.

Now for an expert touch which many women omit, but which will exception to the friendships she had She had never realised the truth of child. And this applies more parti-

child: make all the difference to the sparkle of your varnisit. Apply an enamel formed, and the daughter had said, that old adage "An unselfish mother cularly if it happens to be an only

Very well,

mother, you choose makes a selfish child." polish and buff really well before applying your varnish.

And the Had I told her (as I was tempted The business of bringing up a child Varnish must go on swiftly, evenly, in direct strokes from cuticle to to take things like that... tip. Never use enough varnish on the brush to do with nails at once. next morning sig had packed her to do) that what had happened was

things and gonel

her own fault, and that instead of entalls, or should entail, infinitely Best and relax while your finger tips dry. Then a final touch of the

the perfect mother she more inn merely seeing that s being "She went," the mother told me enamel polish, rub them up again with a silk handkerchief over the pain without a though! for me at all! So imigined heract to be, she had health is good and that its physical

abort-

of the other hand. The warmth gives a wonderful lustre.

em actually been a cruel parent, she needs are met. The first and most Now, and not before, just touch the cuticles with cuticle oll to keep far as she is concerned I don't seem would have been amazed and shock- urgent duty lald upon a parent is to them supple and you have beauty nt your finger ups.

prepare the child. for facing life, for to exist now. And this is my re-

તા. ward for a lifetime of care and de- votion. Ever since she was born hard and ugly facts of life" away

She had deliberately kept "the making its own way in the world.

The first lesson any child should have slaved and sacrificed for her.

from the girl. She had made her learn is the lesson

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Tou

Would

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would no to do so. come when she longer have a mother to fetch and

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Sacrifice All Along the Line

lies in falling to way is not being kind to them; it is

The

mistake

"I have always seen that she had carry for her. She had deliberately Most conscientious parents labour realise that the main business of a being cruel.

Some mothers delight in making nice, pretty clothes, I have. given

set herself in the background as a under a sort of superstition that it la child is not just to enjoy itself and up my own amusements, neglected creature of no Importance, and given, their duty to give all for their child have a good time (though that is on sacrifices for their children, but they my own friends for her sake, I have the child the idea that she, and she ren and to exact nothing in return, essential in reasonable moderation), should be sure that they are sacri- always stood between her and alone, was the centre of the domes and for this dangerous folly their but to learn to be old. And to re- cing themselves and not actually trouble; have never let her face the the universe. And now she bad reap- excuse is that a child "is only young tard them in this by pampering and the child.

sheltering them every possible once" ugly things in life. I have sacrificed ed her just reward:

Christine Ferrier.