THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 19, · 1951.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Dorothy Barkley presents
FOOTSORE A Panorama Of Fabrics At
GIRLS?
NONSENSE!
EILEEN ASCROFT argues it out
with Mr. Cocker
the man
who says women wear the wrong sort of shoes to work.
LONDON.
The
B. I. F. H.F.
scen
even when washed. Here were pleated some delightful Tmonth with the largest THE B.I.F. has opened this
night dresses in nylon chiffon. The dress shown here le in candy-pink nylon voile, with an display of textiles in its his-
It was a meeting place for spun rayon, printed with all-round pleated skirt which tory. All kinds of materials all nations, too. At the green and tangerine abstract dries into crisp pleating after are there, in every imagin-
stand of & well-known motifs, worn with. green washing, without any ironing at able colour, from the newest
fabrics firm there was a taffeta trousers. Distinctive al
At the BAF, there is emphasis nylon to
these the traditional curious blending of East among
national
crease-resistant on 12search in Scotch tartans. The bright and West. Their aim was dresses Was the sarong fabrics. The materials at the ness and colour of the fair
to show that rayons and which was shown in any were pre-thrunk and treated for stand of the firm first mentioned are there with materials draped, hung and festooned cottons are suitable for trudi- cotton Treasure Island print. crease-resistance, in imaginative displays.
De president
✪ working girls wear the right kind of shoes? Mr A Real Sarong
of the National Federa- tion of Bout Trades Asseviations, does not think an.
funt weten At Bar Rath the other day he criticised whe fatory start bay. "Light fashion shoes with platform seles
I heels were never meant to take that curt of wear."
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I have been watching the girls going hems from London Earteries and stores, and it seems to me that girls in Suth go in for more sensible thee shopping.
the
Out of 30
Is Lom one works only one had red platform sales, two were wearing flimsy sandals, and not more than half a dozen high heels. The rest wore comfortable fatties."
In a West End store I did not find one salesgirl wearing hig huels.
N
The buyer
፡፡ hig London
store tell me that IDOLO
ot
w men buy far etmfort and wear.
ather than high fashion, Out every 10 pairs of shoes rold this ing four were flat, with wedge hs. Je listed the hardest-on- rfect jobs are (1) saleswomen. 42
models (3) waitresses; and (4) nurses.
Comfort First MISS DOROTHY L, THOMP-,
SON, who has worked seven vans in a lusy runt demnatment, Lusthree pals rf shoes a year, eruoses them with law
ruban
calf
for enfort, and in cat eselnest. She keeps a
PA for work, has them repult
ion as they need R. During
hot weather
and changes dung the day, Fir all terment is a salt and warm wate) futbath at night,
M. Vale e Buon is h el. plan of the court shoe for wk. "They do duty for all Casitas and don't date," she
SAYS.
The Queen's Way EXPERT who defends the plate
ASCOT, 1951
MOT attractive Akcot puthte
this year will be in shan- tung and grungeain. There is 2 strung feeling for the, matching roat and dres all
or the white ders with briliantly pattern- en coat and wash.
so' is the Queen's emaker, Edward Ruvne. **Qua:le:
high- platforms in -healed mangels," he says, "have T -ved a great beeet to women who have to be on their lect day." The Rays famby fre- quintly chab: this type of shee for engagi men': which involve a let of stor ding.
Land word, on footwear comes from Me Cacker, with sane adv
na how to make saves .: Wear different pairs on alternate
days.
When wel, stuff with newspapera and leave to dry În a draught, Never buy shoes too small,
Drip
UESTION put to six hours- wives recently on what is the worst, designed article in the home brought an
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unanimous reply.... the tea- pot.
I endorse this verdiet. I have
tried
Ensembles coming into the shops are embroidered with, siik braid, often gold.Hecked.
Cont
is about £25 for the slim-fitting dress and loose, short-sleeved coal.
Colours—include "natural;~scar- fel, sapphire, tabacco, white and soft green. Above. 14 n Joose black pauit rast worn over 2 dress of grey stripes.
tricol underwent, And fori women,
many new kinds of foundation garments made from strong, light iwo.way stretch nylon clastic jel and nylon velvet.
Fashion Flashes
six inadels in three PARIS
months and wet with allpping
'idy tripping spouts anel burnt Sugers.
Say's
Al
So
"We
the manufacturer: are in the hunts of the de- signer,"
Says the designer:
"It's what the shops ask for."
the retailer tells
"It's what the public wants."'
the housewife gets
blome... and continues
burn her fingers,
-Nylon-And-New
NY
the
TYLON news from the BIF: Proofed nylon tartan gaber- dine is used for a hard-wear ing,
Jumber easy-to-wash Jacket and dungarees for 41 child,
Buum:
Early forecast of French millinery! roines front Leonard Craven,
who buys hair_a
a million hats
each
NEW
year for English women, and is the father of Fath's) English model, Jackie Craven, "Smaller thun over," he tells me, "even flatter, with strong oriental Influence, and lois of wavy brimmed berets."
YORK
It will be u print summer. Printed silks are used as stole linings and for slim, halter-necked dresses under waisted juckets. Sophisticated cocktail dresses are made out of humble twill, with gay print designs, off-the-shoulder neck-lines, and side-droped skirts slli almost to the knee.
For men there are nylon tricot (WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED.
pyjamas to inatch sety of
London Express Service.)
Paris Coiffures Play Up Soft,
Ear-covering Features
AIR-dos from hair-stylist Antonio, feature soft sido trent-
Hments which tend to cover so below thus-
trate this trend,
AT LEFT: A version of the asymmetric coiffure is waved over the car' at one side with the movement continued to the nape.
The parting is slanted so that there is an important curl
coming down over
on
the forehead the left with the rest of the Hair
niro brushed for. ward.
TOP
RIGHT:
forms
Gold bends In variou make this shell- like hatr ment which is finished by a còin- strap neckles of topazer and ruby dangle.
Would Never Get By The Censor
As an anthropologist who knows what the South Seas are
Dr really like,
Learn hus squirmed through many « film version of life in the land of sarongs,
William A.
He's tally done some thing about it,
He got a
job as technical adviser In
a South Sea island alm and he's making sure they show it right,
The very first thing he says, is no sarongs,
"Tu start with; 'sarong*
is the name for a garment worn in the East Indies, nt in the Paelle islands,' he said.
second "In the place, it is not the kind of thing Dorothy Lamour
wears.
"
"A real sarang is some- thing like a bath towel wrapped arund the waist. No more, Even it were technically correct, never get by the censors.
the the On Lesso's advice, natives in 20th Century- Fox' "Friendly Island" wear the lava-lava. It cov- ers the subject more ade- quately.
The most prevalent Iolly- wood misconception about ite In the South Pacific. Less said, is that all the girls are beautiful,
Not All Pretty - "Very few native gris look like Dorothy Lamour." Lesa raid "Most of them are fat and ugly. I'm glad to see they've hired some of those for this picture," However, there are
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of prey girls in the Alm-tou They have to be pretty, he explained,
there
wouldn't be any point to the story.
or
most
The "natives" in Hollywood pleturen babbis nonsense syllables at each other. Therefore, 20th nad Lessa invent a whole new Polynesian language to be spoken In "Friendly IS- land."
"I combined Hawaiian and Tahition," he said. "Anybody who knew one or the other of the lan- could under- guages well stand the Inngange after listening for a while."
"Lessa works as technical adviser and teaches an- thropology classes at Uni- Callfornia at versity of Los Angeles,
"It's round sulary," Press.
a nice
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way Gut a professor's he sald.United
now
anch
Research tional national costumes Colton has established itself being carried on by the Liven throughout the world. They as a fabric suitable for even. Research Institute to find presented westernised ing dresses. This firm had means of making linen crease-
resistant, and they have version of the sari, which on show evening dresses in patented process. On show at kconsisted of skirt in spun floral prints,
the Irish Linen Guild stand were damask table cloths in tradi- Latest developments in the rayon trimmed with gold cord and tassels, finished manufacture of nylon were disional degerase designs and dress
linens in violet, cinnaman, with binek cummerbund, and played at the stand of a nylon
Arm. Nylon yarns, they
claim, grey. worn with a tussore bolero, are now used far more than twɔ In addition, the sari has hundred different purposes. Women van dreas from head to provided
for inspiration
fost in nylon. And, in case there Stenderella, designers of Jin- evening dress styles: the wers any disbelievers, they gerie, show a new fabric-cotton most impressive of these was have everything on display to marquisette, which consists of
They
show nylon in green taffetu edged with prove
narrow satin stripes on a drawn nylon accessories and thread grown, and which is an frocks with (gold enbroidery.
companion sets of nylon lingerie, acknirable material for night- An evening dress in nylon velvet dresses. Luxurious housecoats and net worn over a nylon poult were shown in evening dress plip, had bag and court shoes in fabrica velvets, tie-yilk
bro- the same velvet, and long gloves cades, duchesse satins. taffetas, Traditional Chinese style in suede-finished nylon jersey, poults, all in rich colours. The dresses were there, too, in Rose nylon chiffon, self-checked, housecoat ustrated here is in an attractive afternoon grey and pink brocade with a floral and landscape prints, dress, and was shown with
a full skirt and high collar. and parasol high standup collar, straight matching
Other detalle noted: in the "hastery court", skirt. and small sleeves. One swathed with nylon valle,
stockings for The main advantages of nylon sportswear in really attractive of these was shown in a
dresses are that they can be lace designs: nylon yarn for rayon print with
gay permanently pleated, are prac- handknitting: showerproofed
crisp and tically ungushable, and need no sports jackets: design of ships, rope. The traditional jac- ironing. Nylon drees and lingerie organdie spezially processed to fabrics can be set into permanent give animitation et Swiss ket was there, too, in cream pleats which remain knife-edged broderie anglaise.
LEFT:
2
Hea
makes
grey
In Blenderella housecont and pink tle silk brocade, with full skirt
and high uprianding collar.
KÆRUGA SUSAN DEACON
TODAY
FOUND-the lost
years
of women
The better vents for a woman in THE in-between years, from 17 to 20, used
Great Britain,
In Americs, for many years, the teenager, han been A Person. Clothes and hair styles were, designed for her, books and articles written and holidays arranged for her.
It is only since the war that the teenager (how they hate that word!) has "arrived" in Bri- tajn.
NOW, the shops have at last wakened up to the enormous demand there in for Junior Miss styles.
There are special departments selling clothes to suit the young round figure; hats designed to sust the young round face.
WOMEN'S magazines have features devoted to the younger set, advising them fashion and beauty
Tochagers have much greater freedom their mothers.
on
than
One beauty firm has started a Teenage Club, to teach them how to use make-up.
THEY ARE able to travel abroad
their parents,
A travel agency which
without
rung - winter sportá holidays for teenagers says that on a long journey theao younghters, are often more, polsed and com-
posed than many adults,
hat
cotton
candy - pink NIGHT: Nylon dress in nylon volle, with an all-round pleated
skirt which dries again lato criap pleata after washing, without any ironing,
The Younger Seb in Paris uto
striped starch flowers and braid
their Spring Suits,
-CHÉRIE-
"Now, dear—remember that you're slimming,"
“HOW DOES' the new British teenager compare with her French arid American sisters?
In America and France (CK- pecially Paris), teenagers are more sophisticated.
They grow up quickly: they study clothes and fashion detail carlier.
Although Britain's teenagers are an improvement on the pre- war, hatless girl, with wrinkled stockings and no-make-up, they still have a lot to learn.
Here are 2' few of the moto usual mistakes, tonnagers make.
THEY
Copy
-mothern: w-Their evoning dresses are. Încănited-to- 10 n too naked.
THEY wear toợ; mãny, hẳnữ y knitted swosters. A cucual hair
tyle Iubics, untidy on,hom
THEY wear, fatsheplod, phoea, with-duerything ankh
THEY CRITY A shoulder-bot Wherion" "hafkibag would” book mmmarter.
FROM THE FLAX PLANT.
Experience being the greatest. teacher compelled us to repeat
a certain summer trouser of last year
Made of Irish linen in the natural shade, it really is an ideal slack for inside or outside the office. Adjusters On the waistband serve to make the trouser self- supporting. Loops are provided for the man who insists `on: There is one wearing a belt. hip pocket.
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