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"SNOWDRIFT"This is the original "New Look" shown by Riche at the ärd Annual Con- grew of the Haute Coiffure Francaise in Paris, where it was acclaimed as the most ontsland- Ing contribution to hairdressing styles for 1951. From- "Snowdrift" Riche has derived many variations of the "New Lock" and whlist tils version can be worn in contrasting or natural- coloured hair) it is demonstrated here in a contrasting.colour to show how it is attached.
Anne
Edwards
KEY
TO THE NEW LOCK".
London. Twice a year representatives from
18 nations assemble in Paris to de- the length of cide a vital point your hair. At the last conference, it was unanimously decided that hair remains, short-but not mascaline, It should not exceed 1" to 11⁄2" at the nape of the neck. The Urchin Cut has finally come to the end of an anexpectedly long run.
N London, Riche presented his Key to the New Lock, with many variations, He is the Vice-President of the British Section of the "Haute Coiffure"--and was the man responsible for creating the much discussed hair styles of the Christian Dior mannequins, who wore six-inch coils of hair on the tops of their heads, like Burmese dancers,
By DJOANERSKINE
There have been great advances in hair colourings. We have seen lately blue and pink curls for evening and hair lacquered inter exotle shades for great occasions, but there is a ten- deny tovando more normal hues. this masori.
Richo showed:
BLACK: TULIP———. rich brunette with
bronze glints.
unl.
PEWTER SILVER—a softer silver grey than HE MORNING HAZE~80ft brown with a silver aheen.
HAVANA--deep glowing red.
SMORE BLONDE slightly deeper than ash-blonde, but with no breasiness,
These colours can be obtained by temporary rinses, which wash off, or by a more permanent method, which successfully disguises grey hairs.
For grand evenings, Riche produces "Trans- formettes designed in velvet, beads, fur, jewel- waved-lery-and-hair, made to transform any of his
three basic day-time styles.
A
In a light oak salon in Mayfair, ringed in monogrammed mirrors, rather like combination of a film star's home and B luxurious bathroom, We were shown adaptations of the Parisian styles for day-
For a
Too many wear.
narrow face, the CHILDREN hair is drawn forward and
waved down to soft curls at
The New Look itself is a sweep of pale allver-blue hals curling round the car and clip- ped with a curl at the side-back. This lock was acclaimed as the most outstanding contribu- tion to hairdressing styles for 1051, and there known as "Snowdrift" but it must bo are many variations on it. Illustrated is the ane
be worn this version can
ไป phasised that natural-coloured hair
and also, adding width grace to the hair, without being too conspicuouzz. "You will find developing before long," said how it grows upon your" This last remark seems unfortunate; the opposite is the object of the Transformettes.
chasing nape of the neck. Irene Riche, a feeling for height. It is extraordinary
too
Dunne had her hair dressed few
in this way for the recent 'mothers' Command Performance.
TERE are two first-hand a child is made by environment, H stories, related by two
If I take him for my own son and find le bas TB-It's up to me to get him right, isn't it?"
There am 60,000,000 children in Europe like these two. millions are orphans without hope of a home.
women who did what the experts say cannot be done. (And for what the experts say, see below).
They listened to the logical arguments against, then went
And yet last week, too, it was right ahead and relied on
reported that in Britain there babies to go instinct.
are not enough (No names the children referred to are at round. For every one that is school in England.)
adopted, 16 homes are offered.
The first says: "PAUL was seven when 1 first saw him. His legs and arms were terribly thin, he had a starved, bulging stomach, A woman's vest was hitched up round his middle.
"The rest of his clothes we couldn't
even use for cloths. Ho War ад hooligan, rough, tough, and cocky, though he didn't know any English,
-But experts say:
What tho experta say. Unesco (in a report published recently on the 80,000,000;; Adoption is best, but it can be a catastrophe....lack of physicai and emotional links...suspicion and incompatibility....difficulty of fitting in with other children
Adoption
societies
There is a tailored look
about the new styles, or, as Riche calls it, a "tendency towards hauteur." Another style showed the hair drawn tightly away from the face, alanting purting with a across the back, rather like a seam. The more sophis ticated woman will prefer her
slightly longer hair swept severely across
the back into mass of flat curis at one side.
These three basic styles, which tie up with the new fashions decreed for the coming months, give a sleek uller "Women don't want foreign look to young heads, and a
floor-
"But WO Icnow ha Was trightened. "For weeks he used to keep a slice of bread in his pocket. They had told him in Foland that he might one day be taken on a long journey without food,
"Paul was three when the Nazis took away his mother and two sisters, his father and brother, They found him after wards in a hidey-hole in the ground, and hid him for two years in a cellar.
"When he came to us he knew everything about European politics, every end game under the sun, and how to spot the best hiding place whenever you entered a strange house. He had never used a knife and fork, never had a bath or cleaned his teeth, or eaten meat.
children of 10 or 11. They want,¡ babies, and they want to kidnent uppearance to about their background."
mature ones.
A Ministry of Education voleo said: "Fraught with difficulties ....lawyer neected....ng ordi- nary person could hope to solve. complex problem."
a
Panic in Soho IT WAS nearly midnight when a young girl in black evening dress burst cheer fully into
Sobo 1 small restaurant' and darted upstairs) to powder her nose. ; For an instant everyone gaped. Ther PANIC!
Shouting, telephoning, hand- wavings, bell-ringings, and cries. of "Tonic! Louis! The waiters suddenly disappeared into the kitchen and re-emerged, brushed and tidy in clean white coats. Diners stared open-mouthed, as. a. boy dashed out for special "The only time I ever saw the foodmono. hurriedly boy cry was when I sent for polished aliver on the trolley the doctor. He kicked, ho
an arinful of clean Unen wis purched, he screamed, he bit rushed in the denk girl run out the doctor clean through his for flowersho
manager him hand. Doctors kill people, he said.
"That was five years ago. Nów he's 12, he doesn't remember a ,word of Polish, ho'a top in French, fairly good at leasons, keen on football, excellent.
manners
"I don't know if he's grateful,
self appeared to serve the dishes. personally-and the waiters turned their backs on the room to form as anxious semi-circle round her table.
Sho was, of course, Princess. Margaret, kg
The bell tolls
Aboczuso a
I don't want him to be. I don't SHOULD think it takes courage to tako, á child like that into your home,
I think it's impossible not to.”.
2
Another says::
WAS in Italy on a job
that took me into some of their orphanaged In one,' I saw a boy just over a year old He had thin, bent legs, and a large distended tummy.
anyone worry top designer
relling at top.prices goes out of business?
Of course they should. To say.. that because Molyneux charged £100 for a cocktail dress h
the average meant nothing to woman is nonsense.
Ho.
standard bent
· not ́a
work, best materials, beat desigti
He set the fashion of a way of dressing which sults English
bengelsc....
"His face was covered with heat rash and his skin was the colour of paper. But it was love women better than anything at flagt sight...!
Ho drevod lots of elegant "Now, he's perfectly happy, healthy normal little boy, de women all over the world, and don't know anything about his the more elegant women who go background or who his parents around wearing beautiful alothe
the better for everyone's senso of beauty,
"His pedigree docsn't concern mo-he's a child, not a dog, and
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Spring Coat
In Paris
The. Dlor coll, or bun, on top was surround- ed by a chain of golden flowers. This little device weighs only 1 oz. and although the same effect can be achieved with a fake plalt or witch, there is a considerable difference in weight. A switch would weigh about 4 ounces,
The "Medlel" transformettes can be worn in many different ways. Illustrated is one com- posed of bubbles of black and white. They are self attaching, and can be adjusted and removed In a few seconds. The line along the forehead, and curling over the ears, is strongly reminiscent of the headdress worn by Mary, Queen or Scots, and the period feeling was enhanced by a trans- formette in Venetian scarlet platted velvet, en- twined with pearls. Crystot and jet, and glass beads, were used for others.
If liked, they can be worn round the other way, so that the ornament forms a line along the back of the hair, and the ends curl up above the cars. It is equally attractive it placed on the hair sideways, so that there is an asymmetric
cffect.
A mother of pearl trident crown was call- ed "Neptune," and "Pearl Spring" was the name given to a corkscrew of small pearls strung on fine wire, which clipped neatly to the sides of the head.
For really untidy growing ends, Riche pro- vided a gleaming glass head lattice cage which
WHAT WILL WOKER WEAR NEXT?
caught up the back hair and sparkling ornament for evening.
provided
д
"And this," he said proudly, "Illustrates how a day colffure can become very attractive, very practical, and very, very expensive!"
The object of his pride, not to be taken too seriously, was a pale grey mink with Jewelled eyes, and long white stiffened whiskers, which made a startling hair ornament NOT, as he em phasised, a hat. If liked, the mink's head could nestro in the curts at the back, while its tall curled round one car. To match, the 'model word a grey mutation mink cape jacket, with sequin shoulders and scalloped edges, also designed by Richo.
Monkey Nut was merely a monkey's black straight hair in a toll. worn flat on the head. Nipine Sport was a pixie hood of the Game
worn with a slick black straight black hair, ski-ing. outfit.
Prettiest ornament-and most impractical of all-was a tiny crystal Christmas tree entitled Miss Noel, completo even to tiny candles.
At a cocktail party held afterwards the cocktail bar was somewhat incongruously placed in front of the elaborate pale green hair-washing basing-wo privately asked the model with the Dlor colt how she liked wearing it. She admit ted that it took a lot of getting used to, but at any rate, she added, you hardly know it's there.
"MEDICT*~Bubbles of black and white form this "Transformette" by Riche made in various colours and styles. "Mediol" can be worn in different ways. Belf-attaching' It is adjusted and removed in a few seconds.". 'It is worn over the new colffure which Hicho decrees to be the leftgth of 1′′ to -171⁄2” fruin' the nape of the neck.
*NEW colours, NEW materials but it this year's wardrobe has to fast another season there's no harm done, for the styles are—–—–—–
'AS YOU WERE
FOR 1951
INCRUSHABLE
UNCRU
by EILEEN: ASCROFT -
fabrics will wear is London Lilac, a marriage
Gre
make spring fashion news. of mauve and grey, Fashion hounds are now in the Most interesting point for midst of their spring and shoppers is that there summer shows and It is possible no. drastic changes of style to to tell what we shall find in the make last spring's clothes out of shops when, spring-wardrobe Lashion.' -planning starta
"Ottoman Slab, a new heavy alik will be ascd-for suits and coats, simple enough to go to an office, smart enough for a cock tail party.
Andaluze, a mixture of nylon and pure silk, gives a light weight lacy effect and requires no ironing. This will be used
and efternoon for evening frocks;
Forsults there is creasel.cm Worsted......-: Shantung, a . hard- wearing material, which tallors well,
"Sheera, will be more popular than ever particularly the semi- shours, which are really two theers blended together to solve the problem of an underskirt,
Diher spring materials include Wide-ribbed Gaberdine Worsted Ottoman ..., and Wool *Molio, a soft silk-like wool.;
To counteract rising, wool prices for the utility range there
aro
Length and necklines much the same; skirts are still allm, with oblique lines and side natural waists and drapes, shoulders have not varied, and the sleeveless dress còntiduen to be popular.
Dargain Fars 17OMEN bought some of the world's loveliest furs last week for just a few hundred pounds.
Rusalan sablo wraps, almost unobtainable today with a re- puisement value of about £5,000, were knocked down under the auctioneer's hammer for £800 Canadian wild mink coats also unobtainable now and worth anything from £1,500 upwards sold for £500,
These fur nuctions, which take place four times a year attract buyers who refuse to pay the 100 percent purchase tax on
new non-utility furs.
In charge of the 320 items
In Wycombe, now thrie which for the sale was Mina Winifred. combines a fine rayon staple Brompton who collects all the with a worried wool. Although goods to be sold for three months in a cold storage it is inexpensive, tailors say that beforehand it works like pure vorsted, strong room.
She has seen many bargains Another newcomer to utility is Venetian, se smooth woollen, in the auction rooms a Russian which has a bloom; finish. sable cloak-knocked down fai £120; silver fox furs for only De Leading colours for spring, £3 apiece, and ical, chinchilla wwww pawnlad to be navy and caper once the most expensive -white, but there will be several fur in the world-for 20-20,
clour, vivid ontours to brighten
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