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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1952.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
FOR THE COCHTAIL PARTY-in pastel call.
No backs at all...
Susan Deacon's News for
Women
GREET with wonder- "On an important dress, such ment and joy the new as the Queen's wedding dress, I a 24-hour-a-day fashion arrival from the had to have Continent-the Bare Back- guard on the building, and had
to black
all downstairs ed Sandal.
windows,
out
We heard whispers from "The sketches are seen by only Italy....the new shoes have two people-my dressmaker and
myself." no heels, and rumours from France.....they are quito We bare at the back.... saw pictures of them in the
ns regular as the. Easter American magazines, but Parade, and as big a part of not RO BOON, I thought, the spring as the Flower Show would they come to Britain, and Ascot,
!
British women scem to
If you sunbathe
IT'S
It is thrust at us in almost every woman's magazine from
suffer from their feet. They April onwards the summer like open toes and wedge beauty advice heels. Comfort first.
But this elegant, fashion- rble and Anttering new the shoe style is well on way
to beating the even ankle strap sales.
DON'T imagine for
¤
moment that men will like
them. They won't.
And DON'T imagine that they are comfortable. They aren't.
If you have a low instep you will have trouble keep- ing them on, and if you have a high instep they still feel as if they are falling off.
But I predict that all fashion conscious women will buy a pair.
FIRST
New colours
and
in
of the autumn winter fashions scen London showed no change so far in the allhouette, but there are new colours and fabrics.
Sherry brown and benedictine with black, creme de menthe, pink gin, grenadine, light ale and milk stout are the new inexpensive coat colours.
A lovely late colour, called "einders," is new for outdoor and cocktail dresses.
"Tree bark pleating, which crinkles like chocolate paper is also new for cocktail dresses.
Coronation year wedding fashion will be the all white bridal gown worn with a white fur fabric Jacket and pillbox.
Spies are busy
FASHION aples are busy trying
which every woman must now know oft by
The
three plotures
illustrate...
here
-three varianta now on sale in Britain.
heart (but seems to forget to put into practice).-
If you unbathe without using a sun all you wet burned.
Dark glasses prevent eys
wrinkles.
Balt water is bad for the hair,
You can buy waterppool
mascara.
Which set?
WHAT WILL THEY BE WEARING NEXT? FASHION FORTNIGHT GIVES THE ANSWER
The big change is FUR
by EILEEN ASCROFT.
OUR winter top coat will be fur-
an important
change revealed in the first parade of Fashion Fortnight.
Second big parade was of furs, ranging from £50 beaver lamb coats to £5,000 wild mink.
Opening this combined fur show, Lord Waverley, director of the Hudson's Bay Co., sald that Britain's export business in dressed furs last year reached £13⁄44 million, a 40 percent increase on the previous year.
Fashion notes were the wide, deep cuffs on most coats, the small tailored collars and soft shoulder lines.
New form of stole in Russian sables had a cape-like back and cuff effect.
Unusual fur combinations were a black Per- slan lamb hip jacket trimmed with silver-blue mink.
A natural musquash was treated like a cloth cont tailored with a fitted half-belt in front. Another mink cape stole was made of strands shading from breath of spring mink to silver- blue, pastel and wild and ranch mink,
Now materials
MATERIAL shown at the first of the fabric
exhibitions was a mixture of rayon and flax from Northern Ireland. A cross-dyeing process
used to give a colourful effect
are
FASHION FORTINGHT SPECIALS,~Dauble-hergited black baralhga kiti chat in stod· catrored
setch-bloom Ovation
at low cost. Two dyes are put in one bath: each bre picks up a domestle help and good day
Ichools for the childen. Minis different dye.
themum annual Income on which this can be achieved is £1,550. It costs almost as much to live in London these days an in Washington, one of the most ex- pensive ciles in the world.
Now export fabrice tropical and Panama culling made from 100 percent rayon by of the West of England, worsted firms.
some
How much to live?
To provide a "modest but ado- CON
CONDUCTING a middle- quafe" level of living for an income famliy quiz I find that average family in Washington, the average London couple think the Labour Department's annual a modest but adequote" level of survey gives the necessary family living should cover a smail car, income figure.as £1,591.
It's "Exit Austerity"
By Dorothy Barkley
LONDON'S fifth "Fashion Fortnight"
-the two weeks. each June when British fashions of all kinds are on show to overseas buyers was assured of suc-. coas even before it had been opened by the President of the Board of Trade. Over four hundred buyers-one hundred more than last year-from all parts of the world had acceptedd invitations. They represented stores in. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, the West Indies, East Africa, Malaya, Hong- kong and many other countries..
As soon as buyers had arrived and the "Fortnight" had opened, one thing was clear. The austerity, so characteris- tic of post-war British fashion, had dis appeared. There was no drubness, no dullness. Thero were none of those "classic" British tweeds and mackin- toshes whose styles had conceded very little to fashion in the last ten years and which would probably change as little in the years to come.
Coronation year
Now, however, the wholesale. manu- facturers, have begun to interpret the fashion line launched by the couturiers more carefully, and reproduce it more faithfully.
At the Fashion Fortnight' shows, the "off-the-peg" clothes were charming, feminine and Individual. So fashions for Coronation year promise to be memorable.
The London family man on a A⠀ fortnight's holiday, for tho £1,550 Income, with two family usually came to £50.
with must Most husbands reckoned it children, to start part with £200 3s, Income-tax cast them £100 for both child-
He pays an average £4 a week ren's school fees and for his house or flat, 16s. a week 260 for their clothes, for his garage and £1 Bs. for domestic help.
another
about
Average husband has £200 left from his quite sub- Household expenses include stantial salary for his travelling £0 a week for food and laundry; expenses, lunches, clothes, house house £1 10s, a week for gas, electric and car repairs, life and ty and telephone and heating, insurance and entertaining his and 30s, a week to run his car. friends.
Pocket money for the wife, Including cost of her clothes, was about £5 a month.
Starke also introdtoed à naw-to some it may seem ecoentrio-ault line. It Illustrated here, in black and white tweed, Classically casual is this binck and white tweed suli; its most prominent features are its. tow dropped shouldbe, tino, and voluminant. siseres. - There was certainly no ́sumierly. here.
The overseas buyers had to For "winter sports or motor- be hustlers. Fashion shows, ex- ing" one manufacturer suggested
BTOW white fur hibitions and receptions follow- "
coat; it had: narrow waist, buck
fabric
ed one another like clockwork, fullness, and fastened with con- The werk began in style with trasting black butions. - Another a parade of coats and suits in good sporta, or travel coat, in
he. Grosvenor House ballroom alpaca, had a ripped-in lining. Now colours included cororia="
Cocktail raincoat
DEOPLE are wondering which
set Princess Alexandra will to red, blue-grass and gull The Rainwear shaw had an belong to when she leaves school.
Key. The coats were mostly air of Juxury which defled austerity. There was a dramatic evening cloak in black rub. berised satin, Inod with white; on Irridiscent gabardino roat, strat
with grey and gold a
raincont
In black with a gold metaille stripe, complete with matching Sults reflected the "masher" umbrella. Many of these rain-
Her two main Interests, so cut on pyramid lines, with dol far, are horse riding and ballet.man or deep bat-wing aleaves, Will she Join the "hunting their fullness narrowing at the field" set, or will she develop wrist.
to ferret out details of the her interest in ballet, and her love of the theatre and West End life?..
Queen's summer wardrobe.
I hear that оле American
Fur-trimmed
cocicta
fashion house was prepared to Princess Alexandra shows that, kets, straight skirts. They were shows.
Tho new photograph of style, and had un-waisted jac coats had matching hat and
this slow was
un-
Pinyi
colour
spend up to £35,000 for photo at 10, she has a sophistication in two-tone checks or stripes The war of graphs and descriptions of the rather unusual in a British for country wear, barathon for doubtedly Tolemas Queet Mothes. It is the biggest Princesa. offer made for a fashion accret.
The
amed with lot and most con
of
town. Cockually suits were Instead of the single row of card embroidery
Lavistily** .small pearls the Princess wore Queen's dressmaker, double row pearl choker. Norman Hartnoll, told me:
Ono aspect of them styles duced by Frederica Burker. He will bring back memories to suggested a new shade, She had used lipstick, and has our grandmothers. Collins, and bronzen rich brown comfilm. cuffs were coolly trimmed with scent of Vermeer As an excel- can never relax our precautions, recently had har hair permed.
Princess Margaret frat ap-| fur, (Persian : Lamb, Canadian fent-compliment to black.. The Queen's dresses are made up peared in public wonring a red beaver or blue fox). Somewhere colour
in geverál parts by different lipstick and diamonds when the else, in another show, fur was elective for organin cocktail nude poren, ween, trimmingin, bathing, dresson and twood sills, us | Tur Workom, en digid few propio yas 10.0
-(kondon. Bapreis" Service): A- mult
evening wenr
see them, complete..
Babes in church CHILDREN should start their church-going from the age of three, mys the Rev R. Legge, |`of St George's, Brentford. In his own church he provides baby (minder," in "the nearby church hall for young members of the congregation who become rest-
Miss Emily Cunningham, of the American Embassy, says that American Embassy, fre quently have nurseries attached, where mothers can take it in turn to look after young children. The Duke of Cornwall was 34 when his mother first took him 1st April to church at Windsor.
Practical suggestion from a child expert: take the child into the church once or twice before Kis. Orst service so that he is used to the surroundings, (World Copyright Reserved.
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amelia
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