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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1948.
Woman Today
ONE WOMAN'S WEEK
For sheer originality in the
way of entertainment with meals
With such elaborate footwear no wonder the newest trend for
give me the promoters of parties Vivien Batchelor evening dreases is to be lifted to
I have attended during the past week.
Not for them the banalilles of muted fiddles, or the distractions of dancing girls as we prepared for the soup and pondered over the poultry.
No, Wo were regalet with something to warm the cockles of out womanly hearta-n shoes dis-
Writes Of Parties In London
play, a blouse display a hair-with a microphone who described dressing display, and some cock-nacha shoo as it appeared, tails tirown in, should any of these luxuries have brought on a
fainting display.
My own reaction to many
mid-calf in the front so that wo can all get a look at the feet.
It was at the May Falt that I saw the blouses, very attractive and original models, but mostly displayed on such dead-looking dummies that it seemed inctless to have them near a lunch table.
However, a few of the numbers were worn by rent girls who mig a hearty lunch with us and proved reassuring.
Home Perms
And now to the piece-derealst- of entertain- ance in the way ment, which was watching "girls" from seven to uncertainty giving themselves a permanent wave,
of them was that the' averago foor
"ohunky" enough 'Chunky' Footwear without making it look twice Surely not often can the digni- As large. fled walls of the ballroom at And if ever I was convinced Grosevenor House resound with that flat heels and long skirts do
"Giving themselves a perman- the cacophony of hammers and not "go," I was then. Even the chisels as they did the other day, trained grace of the mannequan ent wave" in the operative phrase there. For this new type of Workmon
were busy putting could not surmount it, the last stages to stands which
Several of the heel-less models "perm" is one which you are lo exhibit British footwear have yards of lacing, reaching give yourself at home in three to home and overseas buyers, half-way up the calt. It looks hours, and the results
professional. Every Jew yards one, fell over very striking and Grecian, but is| painters, carpenters, artists, win-searenly practlen if you're dow dressers and numerous ún-hurry, ela siled persons.
If a frame really does make any difference to a picture, those shoes ought to sell,
Above the din two plonists struggled valiantly on two grand planes and some glamorous man, nequins wandered backwards and forwards displaying shoes.
pre
This winter, it seems, we going to wear alther high slit like heels or such flat ones that they might as well not be there at all.
One thing I was pleased to see was an excellent tailored emt- enuntry model in tan, with a me:lium all-leather heel,
can
seemed
At any rate, we watched a young woman brush her hair with a special preparation and proceed to curl it up in blus curlers as if it was bad-time. We anw another model (whose hair had been "started,” we were the assured, two hours before) un- can wind her curlers and, they presto! eyes-waves and curls,
In the evening this winter, even if you can't have world
at your feet, you certainly have the world's directed there.
You can wear satin bootees with lace tops that tle in a frill around your
Or Ankle.
you might prefer a plain black court shoe with a black and gold ankle "Chunky ቤና the word we bracelet, while Jewels around hoard a doren times from the your neck will be repeated in lip of the engaging young mani your shoe heels.
The Man Who Was Fashion
It is claimed that this hair-do lusts from four to six months.
Firat prize for originality goes to a girl I saw on the Tube Jast week who was wearing a peculiar necklace.
It was made from the metal tops of milk-bottles, threaded on a scarlet cord.
Horse-broasca,
and
pay gleaming, are the, lateat in
handbag decorations.
horto's head In Inverted horseshoe le mounted on the flap of the sling bag sported
by this young lady.
Am Temple. A Blind Spot
I've no eye for spotting cale- brities. I reckon Im prtty good at remembering faces of people I meet and talk to even if only once at a party, but I can't re- cognise theatre and film stars if they come along unless my atten- tion is drawn to them.
He is inean and scifish and full of self-pity. Do all hypochon drtaca have these characteristica? How does one help?-LU.
of
DON'T forget the ore hiding from their fears and dissatisfac- tions and frustrations. Their ill- Most of my friends can spot nesses are their explanations to them instantly. What's the an- themselves and their means awer please?—BLIND, SPOT.
getting attention from others. TALKING to people
Helpful to find out where the gives you
started. An un- time to collect visual detail, then dissatisfaction the impression made on your suitable job, unused talents are mind is deep enough to start your fruitful ground for this for of when you neurosis. Forcer suddenly into memory ticking over
п life that evokes initiative, aptitudes, and con- activities, hypo-
|While George V sat on the Throne of Britain, a short, dapper, exquisitely dressed man with fair hair and a clean-shavën face ruled—but not as a Constitutional Monarch—the world of Fashion. |William Wallace Terry was his name, but to all those who, by birth or wealth, had the entree to his salon (it were blasphemy to call it a shop) he was not "Mr. Terry." He was Reville. He came into prominence Ideal figure of royalty; his that when Lady Duff-Gordon's trade dressed Queen End of Spain. (He name of Lucille held a magic first set up his own establishment see them again. of its own; when skirts were
in partnership with Mrs. Rossiter Watching stage and flim stars natural
the year Queen Enn's wedding you probably observe far more fidence-giving and ample,
was graciousness
dress was splashed with the blood generally, taking impressions of chondriaca forget their fancied the keynote of woman's wear.
when Ils. of her entourage when an anar-ettings, costume, so that He lived through World War I. chist's bomb only just missed these are absent the facial Im
in
and in the twenties was ranked Alfonso and his Baltenberg bride pression alone isn't
You find
the dressmaker in London: he was the one man of whom Paris -with its Patous and Lanvins, its Poirets and Its Lelongs, stood in
a certain awe.
*Know It All
Reville had a profound know ledge of fabrics, and knew CA actly whence, how, and from whom to get the particular stuff he required-no, matter how un- u ual for the creation he had in mind.
Trained in both Paris and Lon- don, he knew every trick of the haut couturiers trade-or should one call it and art?
not as
in 1006.)
Troublod Years
strong en- ough.
that your! quick-spotting friends. rot talk About the planes and curves of "star" faces, the shape of nose. chin, mouth.
But Reville, with his passion for perfection, was a difficult man. His marriage disintegrated; he This might interest you to get quarrelled with his direstore a clue to your observing: Ask a men of business where- Reville friend to call out the names of was an artist,
stars, giving you just sufficient time between each to write out the first word the name suggests He grew worried: there were to you. Only just time to write
and associa-the word, not to think first. rivalries, mergers, tions between the Reville firm
door. There and Worth, next were financial dificulties.
and friction was
The world of fashion found new gods to follow.
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"Slowness" is in-Waiting.
[able part of London, He would sculptor Rodin's Even his mannequins carried meet those who had known him No, don't hurry him. Let him the hull-mark of Reville. To be in the old days, and for them he think and work and move to his a Reville model was something was always fulį of plans for the natural tempo. He has qualities like being a Galety Girl in the future.
to develop that will be worth Cays of George Edwardes in the But the future, for him, was the more to him than speed. reign of Edward the Peacemaker. past. And this month. Many of them married Into the Luke's Hospital Chelsea, Reville ranks of the Peerage.
dled penniless-to become, for He imagines he has all sorts of His was the band that set the the first time for nearly half a tinesses. The doctor says it is (almost unchanged) fashion century, William Wallace Terry hopeless to try to persuade, him
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