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LEADING

LADY

in silk, satin

muslin-or

wool?

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, 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 Hatham on December 16. Tialing 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

T

Motley made recently a wedding dress of HE emotions being involved, fur usually flies over the choice of a peach damask, and another of palest butter wedding dress. This is because: (a) yellow moire: so colour has really come to stay.

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

"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, cousing 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

dresses. her own way is.

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

FOR TRADITION

White face-cloth, for example, falls into beautiful folds, and has the dramatic quality very necessary for u dress which is viewed from a distance.

One of their loveliest dresses was of white face- cloth cut on very flared princesse Hnes, with pinked edges. A hot idea for the cold weather bridel With white directoire suits the bridesmaids carried bunches

An essential part of the ritual is that the of cut felt flowers in autumn colours. bride should wear white. If she does not, why COTTON.

be married in church at all?

When a girl gets married, she doesn't want

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

Our second sketch shows Motley's romantic young bride's dress of while lisse, with cotton bobbies 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 sce dear Julie in white: why not for one day agree to be a victim to family pride? Does it matter so much either way?

AGAINST

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

in a cloud of tuile.

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 all her life. COMPROMISE

What will happen in the end is that there will be a compromise. Julie,-having-aworn-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 accentuates 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.-Cullele softener and nail cleanser-Varnish and enamel pollah or powder.-Cuticle cream or all-Emery board-Orange stick-Cotionwool-Buffer. Don't Forget

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

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

c. If the malls are too large for beauty, marest line uncoloured should de left right round-aldes, tips half-moons.

EGIN your manicure by removing every trace of old polish.

With the rough side of an emery board, file the nails, 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 she wants) is making a gold dress for one benutiful But sho dark girl. And she will carry red roses.

A will be veiled from head to foot in gold net. lovely idea for an unusual exotic sort of person.

And, believe it or not, the bridesmaids' dresses were

skirts in full sail, tiny, tiny bodices and sleeves, and make of old-fashioned striped curtain musiin, with high waistline sashed with lime yellow felt, Wide leghorn hats wreathed in pink and yellow feit flowers completed the delicious rustle flavour of this wedding

M. F.

cortege.

whiteness and brightness; fluffy

COMBINING

cotton dots on a transparent Iss. dress by Motley.

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

You

But the cruelty lay in the fact that you often hear the phrase used myself gladly and uncomplainingly

a terrible when a chlid 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 herl 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

This was the fault of the devoted her do it what can have as it should be. The great trouble made with so many modern parents to turned her from the dear child she mother, not the "selish child.” day is that they after the process was into the selfish, heartless girl Parents' Most Common Mistake

she has become?" they are cruel by being kind!"

Perhaps the must common, and The mother was aincere, 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 all

the mistakes

short- made by the Dip Angers in bowl of warm, soapy water, and leave for two minutes. of a mother whose only child answered her own question.

is this business of She, and none other, had made sighted parent Dry well. Wrap cottonwool round orange stick, dip in cuticle re- daughter-had just left home. mover and press back cuticle. Don't break cuticle or bruise mall. Cleanse

Her mother had, it seemed, taken her daughter "selfish and heartless." "protecting" and "heltering" 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- make all the difference to the sparkle of your varnish. Apply an enamel formed, and the daughter had said, that old nange "An unselfish mother cularly if it happens to be an only

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

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

them supple

and you have beauty at your finger tips.

child.

Had I told her (as I was tempted And the to take things like that...

The business of bringing up a child her own fault, and that instead of entails, or should entail, infinitely next morning sig: had packed her to do) that what had happened was things and gone!

ahe more than merely seeing that ita: the being

perfect mother "She went," the mother told me

hnd health is good and that its physical

ed.

to be, ale

Varnish must go on swiftly, evenly, in direct atrakes from cuticle to tlp. Never use enough varnish on the brush to do with nails at once Rest and reinx while your finger tips dry. Then a final touch of the enamel poliɛh, rub them up again with a silk handkerchief over the palmthout a thought for me at alli So magined herself

Now, and not before, just touch the cutleles with cuticle oil to keep far na she is concerned I don't seem actually been a cruel parent, she needs are met. The first and most prepare the child for facing He, for to exist now. And this is my re- would have been amazed and shock- urgent duty laid upon a parent is to ward for a lifetime of care and de She had deliberately kept the making its own way in the world, volion. Ever since she was born I

The Arst lesson any child should have slaved and sacrificed for her, hard and ugly facts of life" away

from the girl. She had made her learn is the lesson of "give-and- She Has never had to want for any life casy in every respect and never inke." You will make sacrifices for thing essential in her whole life.

let her dream that one day a time it, that is quite right, it is your duty would come when she would not do so, longer have a mother to fetch and

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