oe ioe | THE FLATTERY OF white on white — 100% pure silk crepe de chine and fine cot- ton lace for a blouse with shoulder pleats for a soft look. Full sleeves end in ruffles trimmed in lace. Lace is also inserted into front and along both sleeves. When it comes fo excuses... By IEAN NIDETCH Wuen it comes to excuses, no one is quite so inventive as the fellow or gal who wants to lose weight, but shrinks from the responsibil- ity of dieting. The human mind is a wondrous and resourceful thing, and, in a pinch, can come up with mental mancuvers so com- plex that we even fool our selves by their intracacy. The only thing we fail to deceive is our fat, which, alas, remains solidly with us, regardless of the deceptions we may practice on ourselves. Here is just a sampling of the games dieters play in order to avoid any really effective term dieting DIET HOPSCOTCH, OR MUSICAL DIETS Like a child leaping from one chatk square or unoccuped chair to another, the net Hop scotcher embarks on onc dhet for a few days, only to pump to another, and = yct another. as has small store of long Patience becomes exhaust- ed. In the last two months, the Hopscotcher has tried the Water Diet, the Chocolate Cake Diet, the All Protein Diet, the No Protem Diet, the Fennel Seed and Celery Diet, and the Yogurt Diet, all without visible results. In fact, about the only thing the Hopscotcher hasn't tried is the Sensible, Varied, Nutri- tionally Sound Weight Loss Diet, which would give him enough variety to avoid the need to hopscotch around in the first place. 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Keith Balder- son introduced the line into Canada just three years ago, and as the “knock-off king” himself, Jack Mulqueen Stated in the New York Sun- day Times, “Canada is in its infancy and I think will be a $25 million operation very quickly.” Whether it be flying to New York to view the latest lines of European fashion shows, skiing the world’s most popular slopes or driv- ing his XJ12 Jaguar - the C3 - Sunday News, February 14, 1982 name Keith Balderson is fast becoming “the leader in silk fashion across Canada.” After graduating with an honours degree in Arts from the University of British Col- umbia, Keith travelled abroad to London where his interest in European fashion began. Upon returning, Keith put his new found interest in fashion into motion by tak- ing a junior sales position at Vancouver's prestigious Margetson-Lee. Within one year he became a partner and opened the first ladies wear branch of Margetson- Lee in Canada. Daring this time Keith met Jack Mulqueen and as a result of the ensuing friend- ship Keith came to represent Mulqueen in Canada. Keith travelled across Canada twenty-eight times in one year introducing and New designs for Spring selling the new designer lines to all of the prestigious fashion boutiques in major cities across Canada. “We sell couture designs at reasonable prices to the career girl who has never had the kind of product we're producing. We get hundreds and hundreds of letters each month,” says Keith Balderson. “Mulqueen Canada is breaking out of the infancy stage and fast becoming the leader in the silk fashion industry.” FEBRUARY 14 Think of your sweetheart’s heart. Be active G together! 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