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CECILE LAVIGNE writes a page for the

FRANKLY

FAT...

ĮLACK weddingote, funcruing at centre front, over a black erőpe dress,

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is the cuming; outfit sketched first. The frock has a black and white striped panel doven centre front. Nuvy spotted amethyst frote bodter The inpanz Prige Jard makes the strena with the cross-over

length many rout har inn hack frants and cuffs, kurd with the fok-

bend.

THERE may be some

Sometimes you hear a set of ball- hearted envy of the sliminer friends fat women in the when they may, "Oh, you can weat

But you know the envy world who aren't natural ting.

doesn't go very deep down

Well, I am going to try to make it

you, who tre go derp down

darlings, but they have

never came my way.

Worry

To me, fat women are the salt of this, are a fat woman, forget for a The moth I love their air of wick- few minutes that you have the tgm-

1 perament of a fat woman murmuring. abandon when. shouldn't do this," they help them- but, as thin women do selves to more creamed potutors 1 If you happen to be fat and well eny their ill-all-com-ul--the proportioned, it is easy enough for you to look well turned out always. tu life. Wash attitude

adure heli ready laughter, then if you are not so well proportional. instinctive guety and good corn- elever corseting, the right shoes, the panionship, thele generosity of spirtt proper balance of your clothes van

If fut

winien weren't such good. help you to look so. matkred

pets they would have long

always been infuriated.

11011. whenever I see clothes announced us

than what?)

But, of course,

that

Walking Well

being "for the fuller figure." (Puller WHEN you hear anyone say uf a fat woman that she proves my point. Fat women don't waddles Bke a duck, you can be sure get irritated.

Long ago they should have got to- gether and presard for the abolition of that condescending phrase: also for The not-su-all woman." "The pleasingly plump woman."

They should have said, "We're fut, and we don't want ang polite euphe mismis either. Let's be frank about it. Because frontes is another of their nicenesses.

But, being what they are, of courses they have never bothered.

Plenty of Problem

זיי' י?

Worry THEY don't

about their dress problerna --and they certainly have plenty

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are now put up in little alumin- dum tubes, one for each bath, and intended for women suffering from sleeplessness, nervous exhaustion and For the extreme physical fatigue. Miret tune of bath salts, the oils fTOTTA mountain fr, pine and silver pine trees have been used, and with this a lemon soap

most suitable.

Soap made from the flowers of Weat Indian mee accompanies bath salts Bate from the same flowers. These ume flowers have a soothing effect upon the skin.

Witch hazel soap is suggested for 18 ewith wild thyme bath salts, which is the time contained in the third tube.

They're the nicest people in the world- she says-but they certainly have their Dress Problems, so let's

tackle them now.

her shoes or her earringe is wrong, women can be marvellous, light-an- and nothing she wears will make her feather dancers, clothes look right.

I believe fat women ought to take Actrenses show you how to be fat, exercise. Not neessurlly exercises yet have grace and wear clothes that for taking off fat, although, of course, look part of them, which is the these do keep it under; but chiefly

for keeping the body supple essence of good dressing.

Plenty of slim young girls would pliable. hke to be able to walk, stand or sit My mother is sixty, has been fat like Marte Lour or Alison Skipworth, ever since I can remember; but she Vern Pearce reminds me that fat moves like a girl, and can still stand

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

UNLESS neck and shoulders

are amoothly beautiful open the case with big women alwurz Cover thein. The midnight blue evening dress on the belt has a high draped neck, back and ront. The face cape veily arms and shoulders, and makes the hops oppeur amatiri

and

Sketchey by

BENINGTON

DARK brown woollen finger-tip length cool and skirt, destones to

minimise size. The coat fronts turn back for a long front line.

The twists of navy braid at shoulder and hip are the only, trims. Observe the loose sleeves, loose gloves. The waistcoat blouse is beige altoman, with brown buttons.

CUT THIS MENU OUT

Bacon Savoury Put some thin slices of bacon in a fireproof

Cut

dish, allowing two for each person. some tomatoes in slices, arrange on top, and season.

Cover with grated cheese and put in a fairly hot oven (Regulo Mark.7) for 16 to 20 minutes.

Dutch Salad Cut some peeled and cored eating apples into strips and squeeze with lemon juice to keep their colour. Cut some cold cooked potatoes (new ones if pos- sible) into cubes, and cut some beetroot into strips. Mix with small allets of pickled herring and some shrimps or prawną.

Molsten with French dressing and serve with lettuce, A sug- gestion of onion improves the dish. Some sliced spring onions or chives can be included, or the salad dish rubbed with a cut onion.

Serve with brown bread and butter.

Devonshire Rice Mix 2oz. washed, soaked rice with a gill each of stoned raisins, finely chopped

apple and golden sultanas and a pint of milk. Add an ounce of butter, sugar to taste, and a pinch of powdered splee, and pour into a buttered dish. Cook in a very slow oven (Regulo Mark 1) for two hours.

The total Expenditure in 1938 on behalf of alck and destitute children in estiraated at $27,000, against which the Income to date is $16,000 only.

In order to continue its work, the Society anks for the balence of

$12,000

before the close of the financial year on

31st October..

Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A..

c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,

P. & O. Building.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o The Banque de L'Indo Chine,

Hongkong.

DOYAL blue grospratu. toque, made into a bumper shape, with a flat top. The hat conick well doron at the back. So dock the tricarne which, with Ita poluta, flatters a fat face,

on her head, She does easy exercises each morning, and if we taken ve- mile wo it is I who puff flest.

Corseting is an easter business than exercising. 1 ogree, my dears, it in hard to begin exercises when you have never done them before,

There are so many clever founda- tions on sale, and all the big stores have experts in their corset depart- ments who will advise and fit you with the suitable one for your gure.

No High Heels

ST HOES should give proper

support to the bail and arch of your foot, never mind about

Never WAZIR anything else,

high heels or short vamps or high fronts, beenase these shorten the leg.

A medium heeled, fairly long- fronted court, tie, or wide strapped shoe is your best bet. Nothing looks worse than a smart shoe bulgingt over

tat ankle.

Avold anything that gives any part of the body a look of strain or tight- ness, Gloves should always be a le loose and wrinkly around the wrist.

Large hats are a mistake, so are tiny hats. So is a full hair-dressing. Your aim is not to disguise your fal, but to minimise it without appearing to do so. So go for sleek hair- dressing and medium-sized hats that

good part of the head. Line and Colour

cover

colour.

LINE is what you have

to

think most about, then

A lung, long line, of course, la the it anywhere thing. Don't break except, gently, at the waist, and then: with ssh-like, tie-up belt of the same stuff as the dress, or a half tie-up belt in front, or two half-belts at each side, leaving a straight, un- broken line back and front.

Your dress should not be an affair of shapeless, loose tolds, but should quietly touch the figure, then hang away, unrestricted and casual

There was once a fashion school

of thought which would have put all women into cross-over bodices that broke how at the hip line. We know The waist line, how- beiter now. ever, large, should always be in- dicated. You don't hide It by calling attention to larger hips,

Obviously in colour you have to By quiet I be quiet as possible.

I wouldn't want don't mean drab. you to spend your life in vicarage

Kreys.

You should wear all the darks, and

white with

plque lighten them touches, pipings down centre front, an entire pique waistcoat front, slips inside a V neckline.

Wear small, bright lapel orna- ments, good-looking costume jewel- lery. Keep away from flower but- ton-holes.

Popular Prints

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SOME of this year's fashions, though designed, of course. for slim women, are as kind as they can be to fat women. The

for instance. striped fabrics, plain dress with a narrow front and hack striped panel is a great size diminisher. All narrow panels are.

All the email spot fabrics and smail lower prints currently popular are good friends of yours. So are the front and back focused fullness on afternoon and evening dresses, the feeling for low V necklines.

The collarless edge-to-edge coat which rages this season should never į go out of a fat woman's wardrobe. Neither should the loose hip length or finger-tip length coat and dress ensemble. Especially when the coat has long turned-back fronts, as you are in the two coats drawn in this

BEC.

So. I have done the worrying. Now we can both relax again. But don't forget. Good carriage carries you most of the way, and I don't mean your new car.

easily

Hold yourself well, walk and hold your chin up, even if there H|||||‡ are three of thern.

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