1947-02-08 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1947.

WOMEN'S INTERESTS

The Fashions for Spring

Sketches by

Viralela

angora. Points that count are ~PRING fashions are up and dolman, deeply cuffed sleeves and Scoming.

Clothes-conscious huge pockets with an unexpected women must plan their vinter-side opening. This Windsmore into-spring outfits now.

coat has been a great favourite Here, right above, is a seven-in London since Christmas. eighths cout of soft minty | Fully lined, it cost £18.

Minah Mckeys. ← GABRIELLE

Do you brush the powder of of your necklines? Do you straighteni your Epstick? Do you tuko a good, Jong, kant Ungering look at the back of your head? Do you brush up the stray Jales with a tiny touch of bandolino? All of these little de tails add up to Good Grooming. And they take bot an Extra Minute!

Caught

POSTWAR

BEAUTY

OSMETIC "makers have in- troduced their new colours with the advice to women to cultivate a glowing personality, At a cocktail party in tho fashionable Bond Street salon, "Red Grape." the new rich ruby red lipstick was shown with faintly opalescent powder Enchieve that desired "glow."

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Every woman is asked to forget that she recently was stalwart and uniformed, marching briskly to duty. Now she is to be n ravishing.cren- ture, luxurious and mysterious, with an enchantment reminiscent of the Gaiety Girls.

The new colours are a perfect complement to the feathers, the vel- vrta, and the regal colour combina- tions of the winter season,

The new makeup has a luminous foundation, calculated to give a de- licate that to the face suggesting moonlight.

Only the lipstick strikes Anite note.

a dr-

It is deep red with blue under lone.

BEAUTY ARTS

By LOIS CEEDS

Posed for Lois Leeds.

Problem skin care isn't dimeuli. It inkes Will Power but it gets

results.

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cleansing and stimulating. The skin MUST NOT be "fed" by the use of olls and rich creams. They are de- finitely harmful in auch conditions.

PROBLEM SKIN! The Oily Skin, usually eruptive and full of blackheads, reacts best to soap and water cleansing. Use tincture of green soap or soap cmui- I receive hundreds of letters on With this use a complexion this subject. And so many of you brush to stimulate clrculation and tell me that you have "tried every- deeply cleanse the skin, purging it thing." Don't you see that that is of impurities. Then the oily secre- balf the trouble? You Irrilote your tions are less likely to harden into skins with a dab of this or that. blackheads.

has Lipstick, too, sparkle in artificial light.

This fascinating glow effect is achieved in whole ranges of colours, They must all be used carefully with the various colour combina-

that. afluorescent

tions.

NEWEST SHADE

Though austerity or cut remains, here is a wide range of colours to choose from in the dress shops, and the postwar woman works out her colour scheme with colours and

To clean up a bad skin you MUST watch your diet. Water, lots of it, frult Juices. Kreen vegetables orc important in the diet. Sweet, rich foods and greasy foods are NOT for you. Rest, relaxation and exercise, as well as lots of fresh air, will aid

clear up your skin. A complexion Here is exactly what you need to brush, tincture of green soap, skin freshener or pure witch hazel, a healing or acne lotion (medicated curative lotion). And now we have taining sulphur, or, as it is spelled sume wonderful preparations con- to-day, sulfur. Be sure to inspect these when planning problem skin care.

in clearing up the Problem Skin.

Lots

of bathing is important. Scrubbing the body vigorously alds in stimulating circulation. And I cannot stress too often

too or

The skin should be washed, then A little freshener or rinsed well. witch hazel is patted on with a bit of clean absorbent cotton, Then the healing or acne lotion should be applled.

ON the right is one of the first makeup as carefully as she worke

utility conts to be seen in out her wardrobe on her black boucle. This beautifully number of

coupons. plain Harella model has just be-

"Red Grape," the newest shade, is worn with come available in London.

" "brick sufrirongly the importance of keeping the hair and scalp clean, CLEAN! The health of the scalp has a very definite effect on the skin.

In almost every case of acne or The Angertips must be wrapped "problem sk" the hair is dank, in cotton wherever blackheads are olly and lusterless, with an un-pressed out. The skin must not be Airhealthy

condition existing in the bruised. In stubborn enses of acne scalp. It is Important to improve or "problem skin," # the health of the scalp. This will cream or ointment is very helpful circulation help to improve the health of the because it further stimulates the skin,

skin, relaxes the pores so that black- The home treatment of the scalp heads and secretions may be more and skin begins and ends with daily easily removed.

Collarless, flaring from a well- (newest London shade), lichen green,

plum. msd defined waist, the cont is

"Peany"

is worn with purplish fastened with a single gilt-and-blues, wine, and grey.

"Red Feather" is for black, navy, wool button, and has a pocket on either side.

Cost in London, putty, and blue.

"Redwood" Is for old rose, £7.

Force lite, belge, and all tweeds.

Hand-painted dresses

are the vogue

By GABRIEL COURTIAL

Ladies, hand-painted dresses jon a nice smooth canvas.

And

are the next items for your she is commercialising it by wardrobe.

Here it is-the

TIRED BUSINESS

starting the vogue for haniÏ- WOMAN'S CRADLE

Painted clothes.

to

GOTELL us about American

beauty shops," writes a "Are they really as We imagine

Madame Andree Gabrion, Paris artist. has developed Gabrim presented several charming At a fashion show recently, Mme method of painting on silka, vel mannequins wearing evening dresses

"T ivets, wools and cottons, just like which ranged in patterns from vine friend.

trellis hung with golden grapes 11sh swimming in

wonderful pearly ponds. Ollier dresses showed green lizards them ""* Snning themselves on rocks, autumn leaves twirling in sun seaweed borne on the crest of waves.

What promises-to-be one of the most popular designs, however, is that

of Alpine landscapes, in which nre sentiered green pines and entire Alpine villages, picturesquely group. ed at the skirts of 'he mountains.

draught....

It's a good thing Ps wearing WOOL

It's so

comfortable

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rays

and

In the same vein was the dazz!- Ing while of glaciers and snow in other mountalu landscapes.

As Tapestries

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I don't know how wonderful that would be, but here is a pic- ture of one of Fifth-avenue's best.

There are eight floors and 200 1 operators. They work in shift: be- cause more than half the clientele

are tired business women who have only the evenings in which to beat- uity,

Each our features a different Pastel colour scheme, designed to overcome the thing which etches age unes most....temmeness,

In a different style, Mme Gabrion also paints dresses which-if bung ag tap-piries-would greatly enliven the living room. These show the warm exolle colours of flowering ROCK-A-BYE landse pes, and old biscuit-coloured

nestling in greci foliage. Not he lens of attractions thest new types

of dresses is the 44 with which they, wash. Mme Gabelon claims, they survive the ordeal of waters will fortitude.

bundets

in

painted

Madame also says they will cost less to buy than medels from the grands couturiers," though admit- tedly, hai is high enough. Editing that thew yle will be a full-swing vogue in dresses, bathing costunes, lingerie and tailor-mades, Mima, abrion add- ed that one not-to-be dyspised ad- vantaris * to wp

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man would be able to tell his girl's fas e in art from the pattern on her dress,-United Press.

CAINSBOROUGH STUDIO

For Portraits of Mon

You start to notice the extraordin- nry-looking equipment only when you find yourself about to be strup- ped full-length on to something that looks like a table with rockers for

the new "Rock-a-bye Lady face

treatment."

Quoting the advertisements, "Yau rock to the beat, beat, beat of your heart while loveliness flows to your face, You are relaxed. And yet stimulated. This is motionless exercise

When you

Ten gold thimbles presented in New York have settled the question of America's best designers.

to de-

The deu were awarded signers selected In a nation-wide poll of 50,000 retallers, called by Governor Dewey, who presented the thimbles. the toughest group judges in the world."

of

never

they

Some of the creations of the thimble winners are priced na hith as £175. Clothes have never cost so much. "And there have been so many buyers.

Thanks to the thimbles, women wil! be coveting hats it 21 label which have

naya Lily Dache, coats and suits if they have labels by Philip Mangone, or Adrian, fors If labelled by Sol Vogel, shoes by Dan Palter, sportswear by Claire McCardell, lingerie by Thea Tewi, accessories by Richard Koret and dresses by Nettle Rosenstein or

rise from the Beauty Emily Wilkins. Cradle, you feel glowing, revived,

thimble

rosewed Price for an hour's treat AT THE CASBAH ment: £2 10s.

Emily Wilkins won her The "Beauty Scope Analysis" takes for teen-age clothes. three hours and costs £6. Clients Teen-ugers have an Importance begin and end by getting their pic-In America, which is a little start- ture inken. In between, there are ling. One entire page of a new- interviews with specialists in clothes, | paper in devoted to a 17-year-old figure, skin and make-up and hair. high school girl, Kathleen Slattery, A diet sheet is worked out and the modelling between classes "fall eustomer given advice on right clothes at. a Washington store. colours and clothes,

Kathleen, says this advertisement, is "peppy as 'SUCCESS'-£75.

a pepper pot and '108 ib. of whistle bail After school

|ness really seriously, have the "Suc-}

In taking men we aim at a much stronger and more forceful type of picture, than that of other sitters-Not for them the Those who take the beauty bust-finds her having cakes at the local

Casbah with her steady and Satur softness and delicacy that dis-res course This costs £76, take day nights they're off to the movies

or bowling and dancing." tinguishes our portraits of women six weeks at a minimum of three

She hours a day.

was amused at my query and children. By the use of

about the Casbah, "Why surely special lighting we try to stress under the supervision of the Ameri-store.

All rentments are worked out you know its just slang for drug the character and strength of the can Medical Association. Diet and She likes black trimmed with pas male.

So, ladies, when you have succeeded in persuading your husband or boy friend to be photographed, insist that he comes to the

GAINSBOROUGH, STUDIO 3rd Floor, Morning Post Building, Wyndham Street, Tel. 21224.

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tel colours for her dates, and is exercises form, the; basis.

dancing this winter in ballerinas” Lest you think that this typifies-ballet-shaped shoes with "Dat Anierican beauty shops, however, heels, about a third of an inch thick.

own parlour is very like the one WOLVERINES let me assurg. you. that the small along your own street....

Women's colleges have been high- There is one Uttle trick that I lighted lately by the fact that men hope hairdressers will copy and students have for the first time been that's the way they take pins out admitted to them. Hunter, largest after setting. Instead of turging and women's college in the world, now at the head, with a thing that looks mightily perturbed, according to re finger-fumbling, operators "peck"

has 500 ex-Servicemen students, all like an egg that's blunt at one end, parts, because the girls won't leave It's a magnet, and pins leap up to them alone long enough to meet it.

Wolverines replacing the wolves!

study.

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Midwinter

MADNESS

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