THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,' MAY 12, 1951.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Pleats Versus Frills
By Dorothy Barkley
LONDON.
TITII the tennis sea- son drawing near in Engind the re- sumption nť last year's battle of the conventional versus the reactionary in tennis wear bus popped up. One style Bim promotes the conventional, and another advocutes the reactionary.
The conventional designs are tailored and crisply cut, with no frills or Frivolous details. In contrast to this are designs with their Ince edges and fancy stitching.
The Conventional
To illustrate just what is meant by the "vonvenit corant" stvio ww show fwa examples. Materinis are chten for their erisa freshness. hu also for their washability.
10.
thad that cotton pique
VOLE-C there are soun rayons,
hor: aut new his venres
BELOW: Shorts with double sunray pleating in rayon, pique or sharkskl. worn served shirt.
With HAJI-
NIGHT: "Romper Tunic" for consisting of shirt-eum-bloomers with detachable tenn ar squash. aver-skbt in rayons, pique, sharkskin.
I call this a good £1000 worth
SEVEN of
EVEN families will move in to some of the cheapest.
ho showed a dress in broderie wear off the courts as anglaise,
well, edges of sleeves and hem. He exited with cotton These outfits consist of dress and did not inform us what the effer! pique, complete with matching, hip-length jacket. One in white of this would shorts.
be on our op- nylon had a conly striped jacket ponents or If indeed. such to match-orange, red stripes on white; another, in
blue green. devices are permitted
to help
The highlight of the collection
was an exquisite dress in nylon white pique had large saucer, win the gathe
Ince it had a round neck, short cap-sleeves, and a very short skirt with scalloped hem. To
Reflects The in jockey
size redespots; a third was white
But this stylist does not only organdie with a gold design tennis wear. in black with the same gold leaf gen pettern-the jacket here was made, too, eluthes for sportswear He has
irsign.
generally, Here particularly noticeable were
vere cuffed shorts in yellow wool, worn with
if yellow cashmere sweater decorated with
is for equal choice, although of complete the effect. there was
lace hat and jace shoes to match. For the teenager he has designed an outl squares of sharkskin Another style hatt guire lare inset trant on pique.
ko led markekin. All of them
J1 ample without
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Durh
We maker abg shows shouts atul stressing, and have infrardueril sevent new designs Shorts me vanyling in styles, either platel ur oladi. There are the classe cufled shorts, simple and well- Buloved, and a new style, uer- fretty plain, with jutting purkets) on the hips whitu accentuate the waist,
"have" "designet, They alv, an uphajal kalted shirt- pleated all round-as short as a akaun skat. other
horts. pnaps St feminine, have dounde sunray pleats that Bare in action. Twsr we stilened 20 that
flat For Casy ironing. (See picture left).
To Go With Shorts
For wem with either shorts or skirts, they have designed a exp-dec vert shot
with a deep bark neat for shoulder room. These, like their neat briefs, me made matching materials.
Another
bitractive
i
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called the "remper_tunic,) consists of a one-piece shirt- cum-bloomters with
telasticised) waist, and a flared overskirt that fostres with one 1 test at the wais.
This ca
and satin. panels of back and
rbinestones,
Sun And then there are various purtit called "Prince Charming ways of reflecting the sun. One in pink brocade with a gold firess was trimmed round the patern, which consisted of hem, anal on the matching eye- jeans, and knee-length roal, But,
with
gilt nail-heads all things considered we found
And he uses ralour, as well as shade lace frills which he introduces (washable). Another had gold it difficult to fit these into tur on complete utils designed for tinsel thread round the scalloped everyday life.
194420240211216SUSAN
CUCONE Raised forehead ware.
DEACON
TODAY!
POODLE SET: Soft casual curls.
FEATHER SET:
A new cap style,
BRUSH OFF: -Sleck straight style.
WOMEN won't work WHEN did
for WOMEN
WHAT is the most popular job for women? High on Y the list of "Situations Wanted" is the Air, Hostess. be removed and the one-piece Ten thousand women have applied to the B.E.A. for this bluenter-suit afone is just right glamour job during the last 12 months. Thirty were en- for the squash court. (See gaged.
picture right.
They design, too, dressng eut un princes or button-through lines; these are also perfectly suitable for gold and sports wear generally,
Different Styles
Aut the
reac-
Margery Hun!, who runs an employment bureau in Londen, says that when women fail to land a job as an air hostess their next choice is--
From 17-20:
To be a secretary, to a film ditestor or a job where I con travel with the boss.
No
From 20-28:
TRIKINGLY different from
all the p tiomry styles of the opponent, Lots of szeial contarts.
A well-paid, interesting job.
Saturdays,
Short hours,
wit advocates frills, lace edges, and splashes of colour. He uses evening dress" fabries: washable
brocades, nylon, wwgandie a variety of styles and trimmed with a variety of colours. An interesting fabric) was 96 percent wool, four per- cent nylon, and was virtually unerushable.
Underwear for tennis, maintains, is meant to show.
THIS WEEK'S GADGET
discovered by IOAN DALE
he
From 28:
A job, with pragacets, work- ing far ese man, and to be his right hand. None of them wants to work for a woman,
N-E-W-S
-For the woman who wants to
look different.....
So Wear a demure eye-vell; but without a hat. Tie it over your hair with narraw black velvet streamers or fasten it back with a
prosy of flowers.
Manicure and shaving kit; are
packed in this nylon bristle hale brush Compact and useful, for men who travel.
"London"Captusa 'Sarpice.
the
CHERIE
"Stop sulaiza Pale Pares Love's not a sushi- mak, my cue-veil's slipped."
Come to your own verdict as the fameus parade before you.
First witness-LADY ASTOR, mother of six; first woman to SE in the Commons. Here is the wisdom she has distilled (or the bricks she has dropped) in her 71 years:
AT 45: "A woman generally makes her husband think fresh she wishes...."
as
you
last change your hair style?: Most women-stick to the same style from 17 to 70.
Why don't change their hair styles women
more often?
I put this question to a London hair-stylist, who said: "Women are reluc- tant to have their hair restyled, because a new style means a new cut.”
The hair styles in the pictures are all from the same new cut. Four "hair- do's" for the price of one!
year-old knows more than his mother knew, and certainly is seeing more than his mother has ever seen, and if bus
grand- mother had seen what he has seco, she would have died from shock," AT
68: "American women care about nothing but clothes;
and brasujeres,"
AT 70: To a heckler who ask- edge
a million-
are?" she replied: "I hope so, that is one of the things married him for;"
Left-overs
CLKANIZMOLOKUSERENO
WHAT do you do with your
AT-46: "Men-think we want W foot leftovers, Mr Herbert
-For the Teenager who wants to be their masters. Not at all.
to look sophisticated.... We want to help them."
A beauty bip from America. Apply a make-base, prefer- ably liquid. Instead of powder ing over it polish the face, with the palms of your hands until your skin has a sheen. Use with this a slightly greasy lipstick,
The witness box
Today: Lady Astor
THIS column-for Ave heari
loss weeks-hos trained its searchlight upon The Men. Let us now trold our critical mirror to The Women.
I have been checking up the- things we say as-thu-
E. Gabb, catering supervisor for AT 48: "When a woman mar- a hotel group," believes that | ries a man, it is too frequently meny women don't make the regarded as the best means of best of them. providing for her for life."
"They throw.ED misch away,": he tell me,
AT 40: "There are simon who think that a woman's place
T
Left with a piece of had- is in the home. Those men, dock, Mr Gabb would
flake subconsciously_are_Turks,”
it and serve with potato salad,
nalso or cream
sauce
At 50: "But I have not a word chopped or diced celery, mayon- to say against men...
AT 51: At the theatre, when chopped parsley.
me the strength to tell this foot dull. the heroine cried: "Oh God, give Potato salad can easily be The Gabb way is ta the potatoes' 'in their
the truth!"
Cople Lady Astor: "The ery of every Jackets. woman, my dear.".
When peeled, sleep them in vinegar, oil, salt, ont pepper,
When he adds a
Mule suficient mayonnaise to bind
years go by. Are we fair and AT 55: 41-iary 322 Ilhave been clipped shallot, Darsloy, and
consistent? Do we on the 32 for yehra, and I intend to whole-talk sense or nonsense? remain 82. It is a very good age. Or merely woman-sente?·.
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houses: These three-bedroomed houses at Hatfield (Herts) cost just over £1,000 and will be let for 248. a week, exclusive of rates.
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*The American "951'time is sleek, with important siceve interest. Adrian trims the high neckline of this black, white-dotted foulard drest with emerald green and features enormously full-draped sleeves. FASHION FLASHES
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In this terrace of brick houses each hame is "staggered," that no garden is overtaked and the outdoor loggia is private.
Money-saving deas include a sitting room fire which heats the domestic water and three radiators, built-I wardrobes, and a kiteben so well-equipped with cupboards and cabinets The extra furniture needed, All grouni doors are. dark red eomposition, all those upstairs of polished wood and only need rugs.
Space-saving feature is 11 covered passage рудо Drums
cutside
bicycles and Cerden
tools lighted and the meter <up- board for the house.
with
con bins
One house has been de- and
eprated
furnished throughout with utility by designers
Mra Marjorie Hal- ford and Mrs Joan Pattrick, of the Council of Industrial Design. Thousands of
-women have visited it since it opened re- cemily.
Two-coltur wall schemes have been used with great success. The living-room has
PARIS gloves arg two walls of Delft blue and two
чест
in gay striped of broken white. The staircase washable doeskin, with con- of terracotia to disguise chil- has light blue paint and walls trast fingers or embroidered dren's dicty hands. with cross stitch.
NEW YORK
Furniture is all utility and the six-roomed house was entirely
boost shed for £550 from local
stores..
Curtains are of linen, at for redheads is being given 7s. 11. a yard.
by actress
Gertrude Law- Unusual notes Are white rence with aflaming red towelling curtains in the prim hair style called Ginger room a second bed, which slips rose bathroom, and in the bay's Penny in the new Broadway under the main bed so that a musical, The King and I. friend can be put up for the
night...
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LONDON
mirror sun spectacles, which the wearer can see through. but which merely show the outsider his own reflection.
The working kitchen is com by a pale blue-grey linen separated from the tiny dining- curtain, which can be pulled. back in the daytime to give the housewife an unobstructed view of children playing on the loggia Gr in the garden white works.
Soir de
Paris
she
An evening gown of while tulla is one of the attractive creations by Madeleine, Vramant of Paris, It in docoruțed`all-
over in black embroidery.
Actress boasts possession
of rare Sulu pearls
Michelino Prelle boasts of a necklace made of ons, of, the
existence. best, matched sels of pearls in
The French actress made a special trip to the island of Sulu In the Archipelago to require the frenmire...
some of the world's finest specimens coming from the blue Suit is the pearl fishing centre of the. Philippines with waters of, the famous Sulu Sés, south of Manila, The centro posel in the prisklass: king assembled for Miza Prelio-is w/ rare jet-black specimen
The sleeves are short.
WHITE LINEN
SHIRTS