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WEEK-END
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1951.
WOMANSENSE
The tennis girls Something Old, Something New
fight it out
SKIRTS OR SHORTS?
by Eileen Ascroft
ENNIS fashions at Wimbledon this month will be TE
niry, stream-lined and feminine. Apart from America's long-legged, 21-year-old Beverley Baker who has chosen shorts and sleeveless shirt sets in white wame pique trimmed with satin-most of the women players
wil
wear brief
skirts over match- ing panties.
Even Miss Baker preters dresses for her doubles mat- shes. She has pick- ed one mudel rayon jersey, edged with satin van kyke trimming and an other in white pique with scallop- cil neek, and hemline.
sleeves
Prettiest outfit belongs to Argen-. line's top woman play o. petite Lxrunette Maria
Welss.
It is
lace,
white nylon sleeveless, with
full short skirt and high neck, worn over matching lace panties and bra. It caused a senstion at the South American cham- pionships.
MORE COLOUR
BY
Y tradlion women players at Wimbledon wear all-white. But last year's chilly days pro- dused many gay cardigans and "Gorgeous Gussle" Moran of
lace panties fame, wore match- ing hair ribbons,
This season there will be more colour touches. Pretty Betty Wilford one of the promising youngsters, has blue-bordared buttonholes down the front of her abbreviated white pique tuniz.
On
England's Kay Tuckey has gold pin-head monograms her white towelling and cellular shirts and three striking cation monogrammed cardigans, in tur-
Sigrid
Beverity Baker will wear a white waffle pique shirt and shorts (left), with satin "col- lar, buttons and pocket flaps, for Wimbledon this month. Maria Weiss's dress of white plque is edged with small gold beads and has a split akiet Ja front revealing matching thorts (Teddy Tin. ling.)
businnes - girl wool, dnassia,! which win cost about £5 53.. 'ans do double duly for evening
engagements.
Wool jersey materials, par-| ticularly the now five-colour novelty checks are excellent.
Useful slyže, in black or navy, with a high neck, has decorative button-on cape diceves of was Jace with matching miltens to give it a dual Fabe
pink and welow, which OLIVIER'S RUFFLES-
the French championships.
brighten
Permanent meating will be a THE old-fashionet feature of Wimbledon fashions,
velvet
smolding jacket is coming!
In Bo
Pat Ward's flowered nylon skirt back into fashion. One store has
is pleated; Bilite Woodrate will be strowing nocent British - vention-permanent pleating in
strarksklo.
IN THE SHOPS
HAUTE coulera designs for tennis are also influencing eports dicthas in the big stores. This month duplicate outfits will be on sala in London at the same time
on they appear on the courts. THE £6 58. DRESS
THERE are bright spots among the, advance autumn shop- ping news,
In spite of rising wool costs' and the raising of utility cell- ing prices, there will sit be plenty of inexpensive, pure wool modele in the stores.
Good value in the early au- Lurrin shows is a range of smart
Perfume Do's And Dont's
of perfume The "wearing brings out as many differences in women as the choice of it, Many have their pet ideas. Some pour a few drops on the brassiere, others touch the hems of their frocks, especially
and they
are going to dine dance. Then there is the be- hind-the-ear addict. In some places in Europe where gallant gentlemen kiss a lady's hand It
a custom to friction it into the backs of the fingers.
Never put perfume on your hair unless the silky mep has just been shampooed because the glandular exudations of the Gcalp will change is character. "Will the scent last, will it stay with mo?" is the frequent Inquiry heard by the salesgirl at the perfume counter. That is not the point. Better a sweet floretted fragrance that must be renewed than a vlolent one
! that gives you litile pleasuré,
Should it happen that you have to keep a weather eye en the good looks budget, you console yourself with tolles which is less expensive water
you
been selling dozens green, plum, navy and black.
his
Men are at lart becoming mire venturesome about their clothes. Setters of recent male fashions Jon Pertwee: who wears a wine brocade waistcoat for parties: h lemon Noel Coward, seen in yellow dinner jacket on Jamaican holiday; Laurence Olivier, who. has tace-ruffled evening shinta; and Prince Philip, who flew back to Malla in a lounge suit cut like a riding jackal,
John
of New created
THE LAST WORD .
MILLINER M York has General Douglas MacArthur battle-hat, trimmed with well- ing and decorated with a big rhinestone star.
and can be used as Invishly, as You desire. Keep it in an atomlaer. Spray your chest, arms and shoulders after your bath then frictioni the flesh briskly. You will walk in no enticing odour all the day long.. A fragrance that can be used an a bath oil and for a perfuma as well is a practical idea. In your bath, it's refreshing: an a periume it îloggs and linjör, I
(World Coppright Reserved.-- London Erpresa Service.)
Sackcloth
In Fashion Fortnight
LONDON.
FORE than three hundred overseas buyers have gathered in London for Fashion Fortnight, already well established as a fore- in Britain'a most event fashion year. The aim of the Fortnight, organised by the Board of Trade, is to show us representative selection as possible of the clothes this country is pro- flucing for the export market.
first
1
tow
Already, in the days, buyers have been caught up in such a whiri of shows and
only receptions that there is
time at the end of one show to think how to get to the next.
A number of the shows are being. held, in
spacious, well-it, ball trooms, of several of London's exclusive hotels. These are
welcome
change from: the crowded, postage stamp size salons of the couturiers.
elinabid
No
Illustrated is a three-way in reversible Bwagger coat cloth, with a large coltar and the popular balloon sleeves. The black colour of the coat Is contrasted with the red- checked collar and "cufis,
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our.
In the preview the Fortnight "autumn" provides fashions-Ave months ahead-wo have an excellent opportunity of studying current trends
Motto of most designers appears old, some- to be, "something thing now" influences of last season have been carried over, but there are interesting innova
tions.
Perhaps the most important surviving Influence Is the Chinese one: taolle hats, and full conts with mandarin collars.
....no ashes
Even burlap sacking, under the magic hand of Jacques Fath, Paris designer, becomes a plamour material in his reccut collection. Embroidered in gold sequins, he showed this evening gown with a gold rope necklace clipped with giant diamond studded an010- flake.
By Dorothy Barkley
This style, still evident on top coats, has lately been introducea into wet-weather clothes.
As in any other year, materials are thick and wärmt
tweeds,
Sult in clerical grey worst.
ed with asymmetrical button-
ing and clim skirt.
There is no major change in sult styles from last season, althougn the shoulders are, perhaps, a little more squared. The skirt is as clim as ever.
Formal rulla in
and Most noticeable change from worsteds, and baratheas,
in tweeds werd Jast season is the style of coats country suits they are pyramidst of them formal
shape, as shown. Tlustrated here is a full as you like.
la,' by way of a change, is frequendy cut on the cross.
gabardines,
grey Lho
suit in clerical this new, bulky look, worsted. The style of have erested not only by the cut of jacket, with its long lapels, and the material but by large neat waist, la varied by unusual Quaker collars, teg o'mutton double breasted assymetrical slcoves, outsize. pockets and buttoning, and the cut-away cuffs, and giant buttons.
Two coats, with this new, more generous cut, are illustrated hero.
Tailored
clother suits the which this country designs best- are most sought after by buyers from abroad. In those sufis, they find good cut and elegant styles with first quality materials
camel hair and pure wool. The colours, claim the designers, are brighter ihan ever, Their clalm is justified by use of bright harlequin checks, and check
on collars, trimmings pockets and culta of dark Coloured coats. They are still. using a good deal of tweed, but are of a lighter shade.
Pyramid top coat in two tones ol, smoke blye wool. The larre collars and
front
Clothes which Britain ought to know best how to design--wet- weather clothes have also been on parado. However conservative as to styles of dress, Britain's whole-heartedly women welcome one notable change. The sturdy, indeterminate-coloured mackin- toshes, so long the uniform of a wet day, are being replaced,
hope permanently, by rain- costs with bright colours-and pleasing styles. A raincoat, ofter all has just as much right to these qualities as any other coat,
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Some much-needed Paris chic has been imported by a French ah who works for designer English firm. He suggests a cont In black reversed with Jemon yellow, the scams so concealed that it can be worn both ways. Or perhous a tuxedo fronted coat, lined with gold, which
double
since is duty, suitable for evening wear. most practical styles for these raincoals
the arq swagger and the
cope. Another suggestion, this time
he
three-way
from an English Arm is the use of rubberised cottons for rain coat chic. Particularly practical for warmer climates, it appears in gay prints: lime checked with black, white printed with navy or snuff brown spota, water-repellent fabrics, is newcomer, which, miraculously, stands up to dry-cleaning.
over-
checked with while. Among the
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The hats of the old brighde of wet-weather wear have been modernised, too. Bowlers, and Welcome even picture hats, are made in waterproof materials. sight on a rainy day!
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MADAM-you
are envied by
the FRENCH
ORITISH women who envy French women their high BR
fashioned Paris models, and Americans their "cute little dresscs," will be surprised to know that British Utility clothes, especially coats and suits, are very much envied by French visitors,
Paris has nothing to compare with these reasonably priced
clothes,
FEW FRENCH WOMEN can afford the high pilces charged by the model houses in Paris. The clothes in the shops are also expensive, so most of them have their clothes 'made by "a little woman round the corner."
CHERIE SAYS-
are
AMERICAN CLOTHES cheaper, but they are thrown to- gether and don't wear.
So Americans in London, are buying
British Utility tailored suits and clasele coats,
FRENCH WOMEN, from the fashion centre of the world,
with are delighted
the more "dressy" sults. The only criticism I have heard is the dreary name given to them. (Whoever was responsible for the name "UaRty'??)
A NEW YORK beauty expert govo this advice to women In London recently:—
"Of course, my dear, they say that her bark is no much better than her bite since she had those voice-
training lessons." -
"Once your weight is down, by Varga, Poruvian designer of start exercising. Help the fat of the flimsiest supports."
your seat by giving it a good He believes American women and hard bang every time you are approaching. Agure perfec pass a brick wall."
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WORLD ROUND-UP
FOR WOMEN
From Paris.
Gloria Swanson's daughter. Michele Farmer, bought from
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will soon be corsets. An
prediction Varga lives in Hollywood,
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Fashion points:—
HEAD DRESS: Cluster of roses and lilies of the valley to hold her long tulle veil,
GOWN: Elizabethan style, of Ivory grosgrain taffeta, full-
tkirted, with rounded neckline, and full-length sleeves.
EARRINGS! Tiny pendant pearls, matching her single- strand necklace,
Men women like
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Frenchmen who kiss their hands-Englishmen who don't.
Men who don't say "Women are all alike!!
Men who don't profess to “Understand women,"
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