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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
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By VERA WINSTON
APRONS that have ventured scives at home in the Bving room, are definitely part of the The
out of the kitchen to find them-
smart
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TOOK TWO YEARS TO DESIGN THIS DRESS
LONDON.
By Dorothy Barkley
straight and narrow all houette of day clothes. Materials are tulle, brocade, jersey and cotton, in solf pastel shades. Dresses in organdic
Banks dresses".
His suits for daywear, immacu- such late and tailored, aro in materials as barathen, hopsack and worsted woollen. He uses a very coarse hopsack-a material that res
resists croazing amazingly well-for neat suit. Tho worsted on another suit had a rainbow effect: blue and pink shot with yellow. A man's pin- stripe suitiriz in navy blue and white was used to make a very
mary tailored mult.
flowers and a tulle stole of nylon to create what Arthur
calls his **glamour ONDON'S Big Ten Illac. With the dress, the dress designers were mannequin-wears- six rows in the
news again of pearls. when, at the Queen's re-... Evening dresses this sca- quest, they showed a re-aon are in general. full, bil- presentative, collection oflowing and glamorous-the their spring fashions. Each antithesis of the simple, designer had selected six of his favourite models, and these were displayed by 40 mannequins at the London home of Viscountess Rother-' mere, president of the In- corporated Society of Lon don Fashion Designers. To the designers and manne- quins this was not just an- other show, for the audience were the Queen and Princess Margaret, who both take considerable interest in cur- rent fashions.
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Featured prominently in the show, which concluded with five magnificent crino- lines by Norman Hartnell, the Queen's own designer, were evening dresses. of the models
One
picture. accessory first sketch is of an apron of pale
for evening green organdy, the highlight of which is a broad band of eyelet was the gown by Michael embroidery dyed to match, and Sherard illustrated here. It concealing capacious pockets.
leis in camellia red lace, with Good coverage is another pleas- ing feature, Frivolity rather than protection is the keynote of the ather apron. It is fashioned of white laffeta overplaided in gray. There are grey taffeta sections appliqued at the hem and for the sash, and in addition bright red, green and purple sequins are scallered on the sash and hem,
It's A Three-In-One
Dress
By NANCY BAUME.
There's one remark that tall, brown-haired Joan Elacott. hears many, many times:
"Ulaw wonderful it must be to design clothes for film stars....
Joan told me this with a smile as we chatted in the wardrobe room at Nettletold Studios, near Walton-on-Thames, England.
Wonderful? "Of course, it very definitely has its glamorous side, said Joan. "But if the folk who
me could only hear envy
of some of the things I get aske
naked to do! pretty good case in point, Imagine, is
the 'Pop-pop' dress. "It would have. shaken most designers quite severely to be
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told they had just a week-end's notice to produce á morning dress that could be transformed In a flush to a cocktail frock, then an evening gown...?
"It shook. me, added.
Loo!"** Joan
THE SECRET
Diminutive Petula Clark demonstrates its chameleon-like qualities in hor Jatest film,
Madame Louise."
The secret? It's all done with "poppers large press-studs ingeniously concealed by means of embroidered scrolls and sequins.
The
and
Stage One is a demure little morning frock in dark blue, with crisp white pipings and A full. skirt.
Slage
Two:-"Pop-pop-pop- pop"; the sleeves pop off; the collar pops off, and, lo! morning frock becomes a dainty cocktail frock, sleeveless with an embroidered collar of gleaming blue-red shot poult which folds back over the shoulders rather like a potal.
After this edition has fully admired we're ready for another series of rapid "pops" rather like subdued machine- gun fire.
been
Stage Three-We discover that the cocktail petal collar has popped away, revealing a glitter- ing strapless gown. A weighted underskirt has popped down to floor length on get basque. An evening gown that's ready to face
the brightest lights stage, but
There is a Joan assures me that it needn't happen; it only does so for the purposes of the film story. Just another pop or two and the entire croation falls "off, round your
GRAND
FINALE The frock was an immense success on the sot. So efficiently; did it work, indeed, that the director thought a grand finale to. the fim would be an entire |faction/e
tries and
fabrics.
Jean romarked: "When you |stari"designing clothes" for the
films, ¡you run up against a lot | of unexpected snaga. 1. had to learn through trial and error · that fabrics and colours can took siamologiya different":"on", the'
This is one of the lovely creations which was scen by the Queen during her recent visit to Warwick House, St. James's to view some of the export modela from the collection of the famous London Fashion Designers. Beautiful Warwick House, home of Lord and Lady Rother- mere makes an appro- priate setting for the models. Top" mannequin' Barbara Goalen models this Michael Sherard gown. It is a camelia-red lace crinoline with a lilac tulle scarf. With the dress the mannequin wears six rows of pearls,
One of the
woven into the
Banke distinctive
and broderie anglaise-dazzling in pure
The dress and Jacket engem- white-are offact by narrow
blo is as popular this spring as black patent leather belts.
Excitement centres at the the suit. Arthur Banks' favourite ensemble is a grosgrain jacket moment on debutante pre- worn over a wool dress-in soft An sentations, cocktail parties, grey, perhaps, or navy blue. and coming-out balls. Every unusual design was seen on a duppion material. designer calls at least one dress ma
Tids was in red), brown, and, dress in his collection a "de- groen, on a white background, butante dance frock." An and was not printed, as is cus example
the IB
one tomary, but
material. illustrated here by Victor
Arthur It is Stiebel at Jacqmar. delightfully young and not ultra-sophisticated. In sha dowy white organdie, it is all over in embroidered
The billowing navy blue. skirt falls in tiers over a hooped petticoat to immense Two fullness at the hem. roses--one yellow, one red- are held at the waist by a narrow, navy blue, patent leather belt, Incidentally, the model photographed in this dress is herself "coming out" this year. She is the beautiful Sally Fairfield.
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Much respected and admired for his dream ball-gowns, do signer Arthur Banks has been showing his mid-season collee- tion. Every one of his designs was greeted enthusiastically, in particular his white organdle dress with large pockets on the skirt, and his more formal dress in pink brocade with halter neck and trumpet skirt. He is, by the way, one of the chief exponents of the trumpet line-and does it beautifully in pink, gold or mauve brocades, with flounces of tulle,
This season he has introduced something even more appealing than his creations. In organdie. He has used a material that is 50 percent nylon and 50 percent rayon, and this has taken two
appearance years to perfect. In
it is like gossamer; to touch is unbelievably soft and silk- like. And it has one undisputed nylon: it advantage over pure does not fray, at the seams. He dresses in this showed several material in his favourite new colour, which he calls "drake's neck bluea delicate mixture Other of blue and green. materials were shown with this colour, notably tartan taffeta. His nylon ball dresses are a success. designers have used too. Few
Spring Coat
Paris Spring Fashions, shown at the faxpaus French, deslandes - TRIK IS amart Boring, coah with undIGNITY grosgrain and, he works over with rod. The 'kák la of the MELO MO two vertiɛnd tosshers.
emphatically in his green scarves feeling for colour expresses itself worn with black tailored suits, mauve gloves with lime green suits, and brilliant barathea flashes of scarlet on the pockets of a navy sult.
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A flounced debutante dance frock in shadowy white organdic, embroidered all over navy blue. The billowy skirt falls in tiers over a hooped petticoat to immense fullnces at the hem. Two roses, one yellow, one red are held at the waist by a narrow blue patent leather belt. By Victor Stiebel at Jacqmar.
wwwwww.EILEEN ASCROFT'S talking pointwwwww Should the law make husbands share their încome?
"YES" says Lady Holen Nuiting, ex- chairman of the Married Women's "Women are not money- Association, grubbers, but a fair monetary arrange- ment would make for greater peace in the home and in the world."
"YES" declares Dr Edith Summer- skill, Minister of National Insurance. "The average wife works unlimited
hours at arduous wark, which outside the home commands a fair price. It is in the real interest of the home that she should be fairly treated."
"NO," votes Mr G. F. Telfor, J.P. "As 90 percent of homes are happy, why do we need legislation for the other 10 percent?"
.. AND THESE 500 GIRLS HAVENMAAAAAA FIRST TO FIND THEIR HUSBANDS
Debutantes
of 1951
Crinolines and long-bob hair styles are the choice... and their parents say, “Oh, the bills!”
00 debutantes made the first postwar curtsies at their presentation. party be fore the King and Queen.
1951 debutantes, For these -most of them at the magical age of 17-21, it will be the start of their coming-out scosom, a few glorious months of fun and parties before they settle down to earning their livings,
Headache for their parents is and the coat of ball gowns coming-out parties. Many are give capital to digging into their daughters a taste of the Kalety they know when they were young.
THE FROCKS
French houses
are sending models, which will be worn by several of last year's debutantes,
1951 dobutante mannequin will be golden-haired Susan Bar- kit- nard, blue-eyed with tenish charm.
Apart from their ball gowns and presentation dresses, the girls are not spending a lot on clothes. сюд The younger set de- partments of the West End stores are busy, but many girls are patronking their own little dressmakers and economising by washing and setting their own hair,
To greet the dirat March sun- shine the Queen hos chosen a crimson, ensemble, a colour new to her for daytime wear.
What a fallacy it is that, older women should not wear red. During the last few days I have met two women, bolh over Afty, looking lovely in red.
Both are blonde blue-eyed, fair-skinned but soft reds are Just as flattering to grey hair and brown eyes. Dorothy Dick- con has an evening gown of crimson droped silk which she wears with darmond clips; Evelyn Laye's Spring outfit is the colour of rich port, which shc combines with ☐ bright
navy blue,
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Spoiled By Being A "Jungle Princess"
1
Afler two months Jungle
princess," Micheline Prelle is having a difflcult time the adjusting herself anew to hardships of city life.
Only woman In the 20th Century-Foxx
troupe sent
for-off
The long, loose, curling bob is still first favourite hair style, but no longer sweeping the 'shoulders. Fow of the girls have yet become hat-conscious;
prefer bare they
heads or "kanios." Belinda Coryton one of these in new hair wore
green "America velvet to match her dreas at a styles, and lipsticks were
lunch debutante dea recently.
Conepicuously the chief topics at the
obsent this and ten gatherings.
year is any expensive jewellery, Herbert A simple row of pearls, is the ambitious ornament, crinoline most
PARTY frocks,
Dutch
made
couturier
many
Sidon
bail gowns with interchangeable though tops over one tulle foundation,
Joy Ricardo also made crino- For Gina Hoes for the bail Ross a full white tulle skirt, with white and giver brocado worked into a pointed bodice sash at the back.
a fow heirlooms may come out of the banks for the Pied Pipers Ball
cruze
SLIM JIMS
CURRENT elimming
raises an awkward, prob- tem: how to cut out alcohol
The Hon
and still join one's friends in a Jane Montague, drink, dark-haired and brown-eyed, dress presentation chose her
Dejectedly sipping a mineral In blue from Worth.
and water at a party, I decided to
my problem to black star grosgrain, it was take
my favourite trimmed with black faille,
baran, "Never thought of the soki, but after
Jean HID
grand-daughter of the Earl of Cromer, had a frock-
coat of fine gray wool;
several hours of exp¤A.
of peacock and while spot ment Blim Jims and Slim
were born. For the benent of surah, which she wore under a the many waistline rodücers
and the very young who don't want to start the cocktail habit yet-here are Eddie Clarke's impoclat ooohli
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Périna: "Courtauld wore dress of sicely-blue' lace from Victor Stiebel.
CUTTING BILLS
SLIM JANE1⁄2 fresh orange. Juice, lá tomato juice, dasti of, angsturs and shake wail with O Pocked events lela pasty on for me 14 from
*grépon
ONE of the most
discussed
BLIE
Aeril 4 at the Berkeley where? 200, carefully: chosen ginis, (with fruit juloo, tomato sloo, dat their mothers of chaperons, will of nature and shops in lev. have the choice of sccling, the... (P.5. i 11. your conscience frowns uneven a dash of un- best dobutarionc, clothier c
costura, just leave't'outi) Londois and Park can
Lazzon
to for Island Guerilla in the
in which
toamed with Tyrone Power, film actress found in royal
the French
herself being treated style.
"Every woman, even if sho is a career girl, is flattered by attention,"
Gallic Bays the charmer, but few are ever in position where, being the only riember of their sex anywhere around, they are literally, over- whelmed with solicitude."
Most of the excling photę- play was shot on locations deep in the heart of the jungle fastness that constitutes a large part of the interlor
of the of tropical Archipelago, “ Some the lies were so remote that the natives reported she was first white weman ever to pene- trate into the areas.
DS 自门
Mis Prolíu, seen
: underground. worker alding American guerillas, discovered that it was impossible for her to undertake even the simplest chore since wherever she turned- It spemed that there was some- one from the company on hand gallantly offering to do, it for
why, I couldn't even hang but my own wash, she reports, explaining that she is now going *No to be completely spoiled. real jungle-princess, ever had it, any better.