Modern Screen (Feb-Dec 1959)

? ? ? ? ? ? ? 9 ? ? ? ? ? ? 9 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 9 999999999????????????????9???????????9 {/' .//OK are UNDER -r 21 USt Shout for Help... r ADVISORY BOARD EDITH HEAD Fashion Designer for Paramount Pictures HELEN HUNT Hair Stylist of Columbia Pictures BEN BARD Director of New Talent at Twentieth Century-Fox GORDON BAU Head of Makeup Department of Warner Brothers FRANKIE VAN Figure Consultant for Universal-International PAULINE KESSINGER Commissary Director at Paramount Pictures PAT McNALLEY Head of Makeup Department at Walt Disney 9999999999???????????????????????????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 9 DEAR EDITOR: I look as dated as the Model T. And it's all my own fault. I simply loved the chemise dresses that were so big last year and bought three perfectly great ones. So this year I'm really dead. The chemise is gone and I simply don't have a thing to wear. The only thing I can think to do is to take them to a dressmaker and have them made over into sheaths. Rut this would cost $7 for each around here and I just plain can't afford it. Can I wear them anyhow or what should I do? ANN— OHIO DEAR ANN: Model T's are always in style if they are real classics and kept polished and smart. Yes, last year's chemise was a whirlwind fashion and it really has swept by. But you don't have to retailor your chemises. They can look classic and smart with just a bit of ingenuity. Use your imagination. . . . Edith Head offers a few suggestions to transform a perfectly plain beige chemise and get you started: 1. Belt it snugly with a beige, amber and green striped tie-silk belt; 2. Tack beige grosgrain ribbons on either side of the dress about an inch in front and back of the side seams and tie them in two neat bows ; 3. Loop a wide brown satin ribbon under the bosom with flying tails, accented by a gold clip at the tie; 4. Make a cream, coral and beige over-skirt of floral silk organza; 5. Slip-stitch a brown velvet ribbon under the bosom and tie the bow in the front. You can give your chemise the high waisted look so in vogue this year, or any other look that you like. Just use a dash of imagination and you can transform them into this season's models with a bit of neat chrome. . . . DEAR EDITOR: Have you ever seen a clown all made up with a pasty white face and two little arched triangles brightly painted where eyebrows should be? Honest, that's what I look like. My problem is simply those eyebrows. Mine are very thin, short, and I don't have too many of them. When I wear eye pencil on them I have to add a lot for the ones I don't have and I look terribly made up. Can you tell me how I can wear my pencil so it doesn't look so oddball? KATHERINE— MASSACHUSETTS DEAR KATHERINE: Laugh, clown, laugh. There's no need to wear a long face or a pasty looking one either. Eyebrows are the single part of a girl's face where she is most likely to goof on makeup. If your eyebrows are sparse, then the first thing you must do is be careful in plucking them. Never remove the hairs growing above your brows. Tweezers should be used to remove fuzz between your brows, over the bridge of your nose, and below the brow line only. Next, inspect a recent photograph of yourself and decide on the brow shaping most flattering to your face. Try various shapes on tissue paper and place them over the photograph to help you decide. Gordon Bau suggests that "fundamental brow makeup requires a good, sharp pencil, short and delicate strokes, and careful shaping. Never apply the pencil in a solid line above your eyes. That's the way to create the clown look you dislike. Use short, feathery strokes, pencilling additional tiny hairs rather than a solid and ugly brow line." Finally, soften the effect with a touch of cotton and then your brows will be both flattering and natural in appearance. . . . {Continued on page 70) 68