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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
NO, OF COURSE NOT
Designer. Jacques Fath crowds in every pointer to your new spring suit.
EILEEN ASCROFT inquires·
Do Career
Make The Best Wives?
Girls
Dorothy Bon) ROGER MACDOUGALL: "Career girls make the best career no career xirl could girls, and wives make the best wives, but make what I mean by a wife. To me the most important purpose at marriage is to bring up children. A career girl has to delegate this job. You might as well have someone else's childrens or marry your nannie."
USBAND No. 1 says "No." Playwright (To
EXPERT-view-comes-from-MRS G. W. UTTON, one of the
"When "a"girl" principals of a London college of secretaries:
has earned some money, however lie or far however short & period, she knows that is has to be worked for. When she marries she realises that everything she asks for has to be earned by her husband. She also much more appreciative of a home, and has more understanding of what it means to turn out in all weathers and travel in crowded traina. She is usually a better organiser, tess money to the job of making particularly when she has larther, said she is far more punctual. Apart from this stie la more interested and more interesting, because she never allows her home to become her sole concern in Wife,"
AND NOW: DANDY WAISTCOATS——
Sulle have DANDY WAISTCOATS are a Paris, spring fashion, them of matching material, either built into the Jackels or as "Hoparates." A London utility adaptation of this theme shows a two-colour tria, with a pencil-zim skirt, filted waistcoat and jacket,
cut loose with low revers,
IRRESISTIBLE LONDON:
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By ANNE EDWARDS
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~YOU'RE NOT EXPECTED TO BE BEEN AROUND LOOKING QUITE SO SENSATIONAL... BUT THIS JOHN FRENCH STUDY -PACKS IN-THE-SPRING-POINTS TO WATCH-OUT FOR
TО, you are not expected to go around looking no spectacular as the girl John French has photo- graphed here on the left.
But the suit she wears packs In every fashion pointer that will make this spring's suits.dk- ferent from last year's.
On the secret list until 1st March-It's a picture that gives discerning women eight cluce on the way fashion is going.
The six clues are in tho neckline, brooch, waist, tunic, button, skirt,
THE NECKLINE -high and eosed. Deep plunging neck- Hres are out.
THE BROOCH — enormous and obviously artificial....R doubleheaded halpin stabbed through the collar.
THE WAIST-nipped in tightly with a narrow patent belt.
THE TUNIC — flared and knee length hint that jus- kets are
and getting longer wider round the hem.
THE BUT. TONS - large
and useless, for
ornament only.
THE
•
SKIRT
There's
-BITOWer and plainer than ever. news. too, in the lavish use of plain white, here lining the entire Jacket and facing the flap that but- bone back on to the tunic,
Eileen Ascroft meets some of the people who could not stay away
Mrs Kazandzis says 'Put some
salt with it'
FROM GREECE comes Lilian Kazandzis, petite, blue-eyed, with her like a boy'. Working with her husband for a Greek newspaper, Lilian pedple, and even the weather,
Only dislike is English cooking, "though my husband likes it"
hair cropped short
likos London life,
Lilian suggests three appetisers to brighten our monotonous diet-"More herbs and spices in cooking even the simplest food, wine in special occasion dishes and salt cooked with the food, not added haphazardly before serving."
·FROM AUSTRALIA comes ex-model Sandra Jaques with red hair, an English. husband, and a passion for all things Scottish.
naval
She works now in Kensington, selling hand-woven tweeds Servicemen in the Highlands.
and fartans made by ex-
"If you're the sweedy type,"
BE indignant rarely
says Sandra. "don't wear them, never righteously. Just for country. 1 wear hand- woven tweeds morning, and night." Shades of violet are her usual choice, blended with greens and dark grey.
How to speak
and new range of casual sport shoes has tiny contrast-colour wedge hools.
Like wine
noon LET your voice be your volee-not an imitation of any- one else.
Spring shoes
FROM AMERIUA,
Laurie
FROM ITALY dark - cyòd Carla Funelli has come to teach in an English boarding school. She is spending a wook in Lon don, exploring the shops and
Wools
Inexpensive.
FROM IRELAND came Lyn- Newton Sharp, fashion adviser finds our
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lon Fletcher, to set up a record to one of London's big shoe (we would pay twice as much ing studio where Cabinot visitors stores, has brought back spring in Florence." and public speakers make, test shoe ideas with a heel theme." recirdings or improve their radio technique."
Heel interest le schloved with contrasting materials, leathers Five basic rules for successful and colours and even by jewell reconding, given by this former ed heels for evening. Recorded Programme Director
4
From her childhood, spent on a farm the passes on this tip to English vivos about to embark
spring-cleaning
on
New is the high neck, the wood buttons, large black the nipped waist, New too the material-à cotton vel. chick yellow, vet in baby with a grey shantang blouse spotted in black.
New because it has the closed neckline, the large buttons, the tunio jacket, and because the colours Are yellow for the jacket, grey flannel for the skirt,
New because it has the bullona,
flared the jacket, the slim skirt. Now is the tipped for. ward hat, the raber. dine material and the gunmetal grey colour, London Express Service)
FIRST ESSENTIAL TO A
SMART APPEARANCE
By Dorothy Barkley
LONDON. that you could sit and try on IPRING is the time for hats for hours at a time.
The milliner who has equipped
Spring cleaning--but it
is also the time for buying a new hat. So make sure that last year's hat is the first thing you throw out in the spring cleaning: there is nothing more out of date, nothing that is more in need of replacing.
★
th new department is Otto
Lucas. He designs these hats ex- clusively for Jacamar. Prices
GDE. 10 15 range from 11
We show here a selection from his first spring collection Jacqmar. In every case, whether his inspiration has come from flower-pot or from a coolie- style hat, the material used is
strow.
We could not help noticing. 100, his hat-in the brightest scarlet ever seen-trimmed with A group of straw oysters; his boaters in navy and white straw, Bower chignons of and the violets and dalstes.
for BOUTIQUES
The styles are not too extreme, Although they follow the general feeling for a forward movement, straw lined with grey, pelersham they are still off-the-face.
The dower-pot hat in white noticeable lack of
the straw to
Boutiques are another off- shoot of the couture houses
which have grown up during the
past year. Worth, who showed his spring collection along with the other Big Ten designers in January, has recently shown the clothes designed for sale in his boutique.
And the more we see of this thom. They are just the styles spring's hats, the more we like that will encourage confirmed
The aim of these boutiques is non-hat wearers to go out and shows a buy half a dozen; and those who trimming and veiling-the de- "maximum elegance, minimum
to the signer has left
cost." The prices are roughly have clung faithfully
half these in the salons. The same old felt will discard it at speak for itself..
designer might use as much as * last,
thirty yards for an evening Then there is a "Mandarin" dress shown in his salon but in Nows here is the the boutique a modest third of
of black velvet that is considered ample.
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Londan and velling with straw. An
And the theory that you can be smart without wearing a hat style hat has been thoroughly routed by combination milliners of Paris and Lor
In the This year cotton has taken a alike. Marcel Bochas, interviewed amusing detail is scen
top trimming. A close-fitting hat more prominent position in the In a
magazine women's* week, names a hat as the first in black fancy straw, has vell- collections. Its appearance be-
gleaming comes more and more impres essential to
appearance. Ing, trimmed with smart Hats, then, are the keynote of spots of black straw and long sive, and it can no longer be this spring. Jaoumar, the well- scarf ends which cross under the considered a humble fabric. We liked, particularly, his cotton- known fashions and accessories chin.
The theory that hats are the evening dresses which are per- of this. have just aware house, opened a model hat salon. They order of the day is being ex- fect for wear in the hot weather, have set aside a corner of their tended into artificial light when and so easy to launder. He has Mayfair showrooms, decorated cocktail hats are important for several lovely designs, for little with
well turned-out appearance. curtains
evening white muslin
Organza with capes in draped over the pale blue walls, Mr Lucas's design for a cocktail wing backs. A particularly de- and with sufficient long mirrors hat is a small and neat model lightful model, pale lemon In Was worn over дп to see a hat from all sides and trimmed with flowers and vell- colour,
elegant black gown, angles. The atmosphere is such ing.
HOLLYWOOD STREAMLINER
Linda Darnell, who has just returned from Canada where she made the mY - stery drama The Scarlet Pen" for 20th Century-Fox. ways she thoroughly enjoyed Canadian hospitality but to glad to get home to her salad for lunch' routine. Here is her favourite recipe:
1 package lemon-flavoured gola
tin
I en bolling water
cup tinned pineapple Juice
1 cup tinned crushed pineapple Fresh Apricots, peeled and cur fa halves Chopped celery
Pour the
boiling water over the lemon gelalin and dissolve, Add the ping- ,apple juice and enough water to make a full cup and 4. Sei aside to cool. Add
crushed pineapple. ring-mould with apricots and then a layer of chopped oclery. Four some
Lide
of the gelatin on top: allow to onges and then add another
layer of spricots, celery and gelatin, Chill он unid firm. Unmould Lettuce leaves and centre with cottage cheese. Serve with mayommale,
EVENING GLITTER
VENING accessories in Paris
are most luxurious,"
to Jewellery le still tending become more flamboyant and "When it comes to blankets, accent is on collar necklaces of choose a day of bright sun, fillimitation stones, with matching the bath with soapsuds then earrings
Christian
at the BBC, are a useful guide Blonde and atin, Laurie car- for improving the normal speek-abs her work date her own home
and usos deliculo chine shoes as froad the blankets in the bath ENAMEL DEOFB in flax- Ing voice. They are,
Bower vesce throughout; her with bare foot as we tread the blue are made by IF you have a logliimate Mayfair flet.
grapes in the wine prosacs of or into an elaborate collar dialect don't try to disguise it. Other spring shoes are sandals July. After strong novatal and dress-clip..
SHOULDER - STEAP gloveš DON'T give artificial Intona - Sex Momcture pique moke glossinn, 4imos, shake, them in the sun.
another successful tions to your voice,-kul --and court shoes with a matching and bang them up to day.” kat
with design, ornamented AVOID sounding bad-tem- bag in grey worsted, trimmed
diamond bracelet. pered or tired.
with black patent feather. A
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New Use For Red Wine
Andrea ́ ́ puls" the finishing Italian 'hair-skyllak, nililola touches on his latest colture in Frankfurt, Germany. Byla
• frons. Switzerland; France, Holland, Italy and Spain showed their labosi wares at the first post-war " International Hairy Greaters conventions held in, that city... Andrea's specialty was dyeing the hair of his customers bjonde by wsabing i ta red
wine.
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