THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1951.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Summer Accessories
T-t
Gloves, bag and pumps.
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE SHOWN is a trio of new accessories starting off with nent little glove in turquoise blue fabric. It has an elas-
a
ticised top and a Y stripe
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on back. The straw hand- bag gets better styling this year, as shown by this one of Madagascar straw in natural colour with handle and flap or russet calfskin, and leather lining. Navy kid- skin makes a youthful little pump with a low heel. The back lacing is Interchangeable to allow for colour splurges, this one being in pale pink.
COME
CURVES Autumn's colours are black and brown
BY LILEEN ARCOOFT
Shoulders are unpadded and DLACK and brown will be
follow the fashionable shudes
to put revers and collars Yame theme, season's together in the new clothes, Second member of the top Big Ten designers, Worth, to show an autumn export collec- wool tion, put a dark brown mixture coat over 3 black velvet dress and uses tiny black and cinnamon check for suits in soft long-piled wool.
Skirts remain the same length, but. are fuller, with the fullness drawn towards the back com bined with a longer wolstiine in skiris give Wrap-over front. fullness, too, drawn up into im- portant side drapes.
Now silk tweed ·
Curves have replaced draped crisp lines of summer. The new rain-proof velvet is Jackels, basques and hip pockets, used for every hour of the day; are rounded and slightly suffen- it is particularly effective in a ed to emphasise a small waist. cream mushroom suit,
Focus On Hats
By Dorothy Barkley
LONDON.
WHETHER you choose
pursue
worn
Left: The season's version of the booter. This is in while
with- and is Anlabed рапле
with spotted black velling
while.
the same type of hat year after year, or gaily the changing fashion, you are certain to to your find something
new styles. liking in the All hats at a London mil- linery show recently definitely wearable simple phasis, perhaps,
shape, line and small-as small as flowerpot
straight on the head. you like.
With variation on the forward movement is pillbox and turban theme, appparent, but with
small hat the forehead ta there was particular
not shaded.
were
em.
A Wedding Companion
ELGITUSÍKIRZEZ
-Con Thápṁás
By PRUNELLA, WOOD
Asmira SSKARANGMUS
The summer months are full of weddings, and it- you are gubat or bridesmaid-to-be for the events, you will enjoy mooting this glamorous frock..
to
BACK TO FASHION
FLAT SHOVEL BERET
Matches the quilt-by day.
under a plaid wool 'hooded cloak, the hood faced with the same velvet.
For cocktail suits there is a slik weed which new British tallers well
Centre:
A hat in .mative
straw enveloped with a whisp of velling and finished with a topknot.
or
on the ocelot or contrasting colours of placed velvet. Veils, when worn, ure full, eye-length, either
the chin and The cought under still swept to the back of the head, the where they are finished
scort ends.
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Shoulder lines of silk stici- collars noon dressES
are
are low at the back, Interesting, sweeping up-to a high point at qften giving the impression of one side.
extra helght. With soft whandded The "curve" molit in again folds The same fold technique confirmed and the hacking Jacköf is used again to drape the skiris line is introduced for country bf evening gowns which have suits.
crinoline appearance.
:
With feathers
Black'silk braid is used pro- fusely for Arumming and edging tullor nados,
New hat style is the flat shoval borel with a slight upward wave in the brim. For day it matches its suit or cloak closely covered with tiny curled ostrich feathers.
With dresster afternoon coats, it appears in velvet with light contrast colour lining the brim. "Brigand" collars for suits and coala aro‘attractive now features from Lachasse. These stand-up
Right! This typical of thli.segaon: velvet, trimmed with
Cand an eye-veil.
specially
black
white,
This
Overcoats are either fitted to
the walat, with full, flowing skiris, or ipose, cut with a fist back panel from the shoulders, with magyar or raglan sleeves.
Cocktail crinoline
Michael
shows no Sherord strapless bodices this autumn and has included many beautiful crinoline styles.
Something new is the Cocktail- Crinoline, in black velvet over stiffened petticoats, several lavishly embroidered with raised flowers of black silk braid,
-(Lenitoa Express Service.)
N-E-W-S
World Round-up For Women
From-New-York-
NEW YORK milliner has de- signed a turban of white fox glitter- trimmed with a This moonburst of rhinestones. can also be worn as a muff.
A new perfume for each month of the year is on sale in leading stores. It begins with Carnation for January and finishes with Narcissus for Dreember.
From Paris SILVERED sea green mascara
is being sold in Paris.
A Champs-Elysees dog shop Is bathing while poodles in milk, At a sale in Dier's salon a well-worn suit was marked down from £180 to £25.
Opposition
catered for abundantly. season, you can wear a hot as as you like. farge and as flat
WITH the Paris collections due crown, For covering of the
to begin this month, news
from
that there may be a layer of leaves,
New York inrge with a
feather diagonally comes Across a flat crown. Brime can American top designers say that be shaped
Paris is "through as the supreme to a point rescm- bling a duck's beak-the last, fashion dictator." They say that
In bright
yellow New York can do just as well.
New future
to be going France for restaurant clothes, England for tailor-mades, and America for play clothes (de- Bned as without
of course, felt.
In
on
"New ideas are creeping in
and evening restaurant
in noticed wings Most important materials wear. We ure velour, velvet and panne; brilliants, and ear-pieces มา colours. may be anything from white-particularly striking
in Gold face a' dark a bright mauve
black hat. brown, and most
interesting fashionable trimming. A gold combinations were:
brown fringe of lace round a red vel- piped with blue; a plain white vet cap, set off with gold car
looked hat with a rose perched on the rings,
exceptionally Spanish Inquence mart. brim. The continues. It is evident in the Baps in side pieces and ear
No
DIOR
The few who can make a success of an unusual hat, are
SHOCK ELEMENT The shock element goes too for, surely, in such offerings os a copy of a baseball player's velvet; cop-in bright, mauve or a feather trimming two feet reaction In length! Audience" to both these efforts was a de- #nite, "No, thanks,"
SHOWS DESIGNS
FOR DOLLARS
HE USES MODIFIED 1947 LOOK
PARIS.
re-
NTO New Look this time from AN M. Dior. Like most of the ather Paris designers he turns to a modified version of the old New Look of 1047.
Individual trends are slightly longer skirts and shorter jac tels. Loose martingalea placed high just below the arm- pits. Wide decollete necklines even on day clothes, but no deep "plunges."
aro
But ho Introduces, no revo- lutionary changes. In fact, 80, much is the American market In the minds of French de- signers that many of the clothes begin to look more American than French.
of
Christian Dior, chooses black for autumn for all mes the doy, Secondary colours are shades of brown and green, and For touches of yellow splee,
dance dresses and evening crinoline ball gowns.there 旧
white, many pink tones, but
many of the wonderful range of blue, sometimes blending three nr more together in a dress,
STRAPLESS TOPS
Wool velour is his favourite material, thiele and rich looking for redingote full. skirted coats, lightweight doe-skin for town dresses with curved shoulders
alooves. For And
alternoon
there is yelvet, gleaming satin and stik fallles.
ling, embroidered inco For evening and lots of ribtion trimmings.
He catches necklines and aleeves with tiny ribbon. bows,
and outlines
stilnos evening bust linen with ribbon or braid, giving a long wainted effect.
Strapless tops are still Dior velvet boleros which end just below the bust, giving theTH › B dunt life..
A DIOR FEATURE Buttons are in autumn 1861 Dior feature,
In clong they are like flat small pilves, others are (ny, ribbon rosettes, Hojike, to Urd dozens of diargents Boot buttons
It is made of embroidered organdle in a pale mauve-tint, like 'sweet peas, and it has the big sleeves which are newest in style circles, a delightful neckline, and full skirt. Endlosely useful in a nummer Wardrobe, dnd rows of "coloured, stones, of course with or without the exeuse of was wedding, SI FA kukathe?
**} court shoe with a low substantial heel and tiny self bow. Dior shows them
with black champagne satin cocktail dresses,
In
Gloves, very long or very short, are usually white.
Hals are small, flat and drap ed, worn sideways on the back of the head. For cocktail wear there are a few. large carl-
In
A hat).
anything you wear a girdle and without
THE HEAD designer for BAKS in Fifth Avenue ways: "I have by-passed Paris since the end of the war. Before that I went twice a year.
"When we were cut off from Parls during the war began designing my own clothes mue- cessfully. I can get Ideas from the same places as they do from museums and text books.""
NORMAN NOVELL, Who
wheels in black velvet, with charges as much as 2141 for a ostrich feather fringes.
Fur trimmings Are
suit, says: "One of my best sel- invish,fers last season was a suit withi with astrakhan and civet cata flared skirt. Paris has nothing used for lining coals and hem-like it." length stoles,
Other designers continue to 'go Jewellery Includes thin dia to Paris-but it la said they go mond chokers and seven or from habit and make less and eight strand pearl necklaces,
-(London Express Service)
less use of French ideas,
-(London Express Service)
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