THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1951.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Susan Deacon
Pockets
filled with real
flowers-
THE smartest women in
The south of France are wearing
An all-white dress, with coffee-coloured accessories;
Backless high heeled shoes like bedroom mules;
#1
Tan coloured shantung for evenings, worn with gold kid belt;
Pockets filled with real flowers;
Coral necklaces and pearl chokers worn together.
1 Old - and new
TAKARANVEREDITED-AB-
DRENCH ideas for serving old
dishes in a new way,
Small melons, one to cach person, are scooped out and
filled with port.
Slices of ham, rolled and filled
with chopped green pepper, and mushrooms.
Fresh pineapple alices swimming in kirsch.
Ice-cream,
sliced
fresh
peaches, and cherry brandy.
The answer?
COMMON problem
with
parents on holiday is how to look after the children, and yet have a good holiday themselves. French parents seem have found the answer, although I cannot see British mothers hand- ing out the same rather harah treatment.
French parents almost ignore thelf children from the moment they arrive on the beach.
If the children make more noise than usual they are called over and slapped.
Twice a day their mothers hand out thick slices of dry French bread and lumps of Sukur,
Apart from these diversions the children can fight. Естейт, or stay in the Aea until they
shiver-the parents do not even look round.
Is this the answer?
Bride's mother
AND talking of mothers for
as long as I can remember
the Bride's Mother has always been the worst-dressed
at the wedding.
woman
She could be picked out easily ....an over-dressed middle-aged woman wearing an over-trimmed unsuitable hat.
But there is a change now.
LEFT: Cocktail frock by Peler Russell in green, violet and black striped traffeta with, a gold thread. The fringed sash-has, added colour:note of cerise.
RIGHT: "Envelope" pockets and lapels are featured in this green auit by Norman Hartnell. 'It is worn with a dark brown satin blouse,
Some Of The Top Ten's
Top Numbers
London.
From a multitude of models shown in the collections
of the Top Ten designers, there are always a few that stand out; a few that earn the spontaneous applause of audiences.
Here are peared in the
some that ap cellar and cuffs. The lapels of the sul were designed in similar chyclops Etyle and buttoned Zown. (illustrated).
tumn collections.
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recent
Coats And Suits
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A. THIRD COAT by this de- signer was a loose off-white model with back asirakhon line Fur trims gave a snug and ing and collar and a huge as- elegant, tok to a number of trakhan muff. A boy's cap in coats and sulis. A green swagger off-white with 1 *fall black cest lined with nutria and with feather provided a saucy scent. a nutria scarf collar, and cuffs in countries where the
winter was one of the smartest, and is not as cold as in England, fur was shown by Matill. It was linings in coals would scarcely topped by an explic turban by needed but für cuffs, collars that of nutris, bonded with and muffs would give the new the green cc, material on the cory look. forehead and covering the hair entirely.
PETER RUSSELL
wals.
gave
By BETTY UPTON
HUGHES Woman Editor of the "Auckland Star" New Zealand, here' gives. us her impres Bions of the London Collections.
lamerous black not truck dolted with gold coin spots. It had long sleeves and a deep flounce on the hem and was worn with a large plate-like binckt hat.
A versatie. three-piece by Hartn:11 consisted of a gold lame blouse with a draped square neckline, worn with a
short flared black velvet skirt and also with a long, slim gold lame rkirt. Particularly lovely was a Anely tucked grey tulls gown with a gathered tiered effect, worn over one of the most rusi- to ling taffeta underskins ever breeze through a room.
One of the best examples of novel twist to the jacket and NORMAN HARTNELL'S couts frack twosome by combining was a reversible brown tweet them to look like a tailored sult, madal with beige luxedo fronts, with the jackets nipped in a On the half-belt and pockzis the
"The frock under neath the accompanying suit gleamed does away with the need gold studs. Ancher smart Hart for a blouse or jumper", said Me But many of Hartnell's famous nell touch Was the envelope
lope Ruscii, glving his own commen- pleure frocks were disappoint- tulle bows on manner. Ing many sult worn lary in characteristic with a dark brown sain bicuse "We have to think of high prices hoop skirtsico many owers and a swagger cont with beaver these days and we want our climbing over the tulle, stole and elethes to last a long time-co erintline skirt of a gown apprð- leng sometimes", he added with priately named "Garden Wall". a wry smile,
pockets on a green
FEATHERS FLY ON PARIS HATS
WHITE SWANSDOWN
And now Dior
looks to
the dollars
BLACK OSPREYS
The Bride's Mother is gelling A SUMMARY of New York fashions is necessary to
smarter.
complete the autumn picture, 1961. At one
time
smart Americans bought their clothes in Paris. But the last war changed this habit. American designers built up big reputations.
the Duchess of
in New York as
BLACK COO FEATHERS.
with a for- black coq feathers; thick woollen the shoulders,
to the waist front seqms. Patent dresses elit
A MAN who makes the dresses for many mothers of famous brides saya: "The early-middle- aged woman now is often dressed Windsor, buy almost as many
Today elegant cosmopolitans; in far better taste than her daughter
they do in Paris. used always io
flowing dress Top. French choose a rather
designers I made
from expensive shiny like Dior are finding it wa lie patterned material. It WDB worth while to design
an leath almost a uniform.
appear right and back, and jacket linings and American collection and through “A loo-old dress, with a too-
Angdier belt. epaulettes of white swan Across the At style is 1 young hat was the obvious send it
crued fabric feathers. Pierre Balmain laces: fashion mistake they all made in lantic.
belt pirigh
all buckle. his dresses up the back like old- Hats are the past."
face.
fashioned Corsets and man- Leading London cou-
wcar Vells rehirendy new weas-nequins
taxi-hailing turiers are also pursuing "blinker" ellthspired by whistles with town suits, the American market and horses' eye shitilä "dress circtes" Photographer · ·Barou thinks that the Marchioness of Bath 1 last season Hardy Amies one of the b-dressed: Mothers produced a special collec
Best-dressed
of the Bride he has photographed tion of beautiful British recently.
She wore a simple time green tweeds and English tailor- dreas with an enormous black ing to show in. New York. cartwheel" hat, and black accés- sorlés.
Many English wholesale manufacturers now pay
'off-the-
EILEEN ASCROFT's COLUMN
DOG DAYS....Poodies are smart dogs in Paris. Blonde French actress, Martine Carroll, takes her black poodle to thỏ dress shows. Dog beauty · par- lours sell jewelled collar-iend' sets at £5 time with a pluck und perfumed shampoo at wo guindas.
DESIGNER AT HOME
I NOMINATE the Duchess of regular annual visits to that fall shoulder deep from Zickituch, who wore a lily of the New York da' well as Paris. Tiny caps, and "Ace-in-the-hold" valley green chiffon dress and They say that English veils of glittering mesh, with BACHELOR “Fashion. King" darker roen velvet hat or the women like the crisp lines hole at the mouth.
Christian Dior, lives in a Couhtest di Moray, in a printed and simplicity of American is a small fringe of jingle bells, stone near the forest of Fontain
Amusing note on dance dresses, converfed, mli house of grey silk dress and black accessories.
styles.
do bleau It is the Moulin Coudret at Milly'
CHÉRIE SAYS
Mimis, 'tr'a, enbugh to Take your hair curl
• when you think of all `sitter · reputations" sunk under the permanent
PARIS. POSTSCRIPT
a brick
Several designers showed the DIGBY MORTON showed two always graceful Grecian style. elegant little black velvet sults. One by Peter Russell was in sical One had a slightly flared skirt grey, pleated from neck to hem. dramatically ac- and lasts of black grosgrain on and it was the jacket. The other had mink vented with lime
roses at the talls at the neckline in the front waist and deep cap
s turned
a worn with fur back to reveal
green wreathed pillbox with a lining. Diamante and horse- diamante clip at the side.
hoir medallion embroidery was designer on ond gown, the horsehair:
and wns
This designer combined velvet used by this and fur in a dark green coat evening gathered into a belt with a black making the embroidery stand out astrakhan collar and muff. from the material.
Cocktail Frocks
Hata
"Darling" of Peter Russell's A enchanting Hille evening realicetion was # Jewel-bright hat shown by Rudolph in Digby full-skirted taffeta freek, striped Morton's collection was of gold in green, violet and black with beaded gauze made in a crescent a gold thread. Spetligh; was on chape with gold tassels at one
"pouffed" at side. he fringed sash,
the side-front with an extra olour, note of ecrise, (Illustra~ s.ca)...
2
2
.
Also by Rudolph-a hugé | black velvet hat with a forward- tilled fluted brim and a puff of DIGBY MORTON showed a white swansdown at one side.... this grey and black brocade A white "Cleopatra" hat ent- frock with a straight skirt and broidered with gold thread and lease black chiffon panels pleated culled over the cars....a mall frem shoulder to hem en either black hat with a black chiffon side and caught into a wide vell fluted at one side and an jewelled bell. With it was worn iridescent clip. "Cherchez la a timy brocade hai.
femme" seemed the right title as the manrioguln, Barbara Goalen, gazed out mysteriously from behind the veil.
Evening Gowns
Posed between the parted cur- lains of the salon, ready for her A magnificent Hartnell hat Entrance, Delarts,-who-has been-was-of-blue-grey-beaver-with-a- with Norman Hartnell for 15 black under-brlin and a two- years as a mannequin, made a Inch grey satin binding all round siriking appearance
the wide brim,
Tall Story
By ALICE ALDIN
Here from my New
The old house is built ira ́a York fashion. scouts is COLOURS TO PUT TO-
squaro round, a summary of New York GETHER....raspberry lace over threa-sidad autumn fashion:
shull pink lace In a Jeanne courtyard and has no corridors. Lafaurio dance dress. Slate grey Flagged paths lead to the rooms
Wo know of more than one wool combined with söflest grean ` The American lino, is "full":
In summer the living-room sitirted, with: small, Belted Wafat, the colour of an unripe
garden-room looking tall girl who used to dread hot high necklines and Important peach. Thick canary wool dress over bellliant flower gardens,
weather clothes" because they elceye interést. Skirt length res with dove srey belt and commek
fave ́a` bein-polis effect, unless thats whe same. 2. Strapless.
The lofty beamed dining they were in the upper brusket cap.
now, thanks to with dresses are not so popular, but JEWELLERY, VASHIONS room has two walls which our range. Bu
.. there are bols of halter straps, France, fall, stoly blonde Dior
*bo opened..!
"there are :exquisite fashions the and off-shoulder affects. Many mannequin, revives the fashion Dior's Martiquan cook work Pag Newton, pioneer in the Year TOUNG. daned, dresses are still short with for gold ankle chains and wence in huge kitchen full of copper bald, does this sleeveless dress
wirling atiffened or pleated one as thin as a thread beneath puts and gang.
her mylons, Noveliz, include
diamond beauty pota on ere Mi Dior's favourite
of rayon linen and offers dt for
gomis inflisende 3.13-revealed wrils and white"fox furs with Canasta-add swimming is the versatilel ·
kirfriends, fæwife and idirlɑšto", braid emfordidéry, « -Colours are | slabną) and jewel-like-mid (hero
glittering jewel clans...
QUITE CRAZYERIE JOE Deare's Harpo Marx wigo wa
old milkrage,, Day
ming" apt-trim and D
Sind seitcaine-kkirt 1o make brunk the line. A wide, cuffed packling le Engther detai
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