THE CHINA MAIL - SATURDAY, AUGUST | 2, ̃ 1952.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
This Look-and no other-sums up
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PHOTOGRAPHS DY DARLTON
CORONATION YEAR "LOOK"
TOP 11
London. London's Top Eleven designers, due
WIL
to show their collections in a fortnight's time, establish a new look for Coronation Year? What will follow of the "romantic revival" last year, which brought back full skirts billowing out over crinoline petticoats. and the "Middy" look this year, which echoes the low, round-the-hip waistline and straight skirtline of the 1920's?
Ilint of future fashion Rus- from Peter comes Bell, who was one of the first to re-introduce thos Edwardian petticoats. He declares that styles will be "sleek", possibly with return to recd-allm skirts, sheath dresses and crisp tailoring.
it
GET BUSY
By Dorothy Barkley
A black hopsack gult (at left) had the Jacket lined with to match. a blouse black-putled orange silk, and Cocktail dress in silk will a polka dot pattern locked effective. Illustrated (nt right) Is one in sherry silk with a black velvet spot. The swathed belt with its floating
"chou" is detachable,
tan
colour-
THE 1952
SUMMER
BELLE.
O. O
by PHYLLIS DIGBY MORTON
Na hundred years' time, when historians thumb through the fashion books to find out what the girls, looked like in the first summer of the reign of Elizabeth II, how will they react?
Will they regard this 1952 Summer Bello as she appears to us-gay, seductive, glamorous? Or will she strike them as quaint as this glamour girl of 1558, the year the First Elizabeth ascended the throne?
We might imagine our historian trying to pin-point of the 1952 the costume
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Summer Belle for a revival of one of this year's plays for the the new Aerial opening at Theatre.
His research would show a slim,
whose girl curvaceous
often were
produced curves artificially. This was achieved by accentuating the hips with horse-hair stiffening or pads stitched on the hips under the skirt, and petticoats lined with coarse net and trimmed with frills of luce.
Tortoise-shell effect
Her skin was sun-tanned, and often deliberately glossed with oil..
Her hair was cropped as casually as a boy's. but very carefully: streaked with contrasting colours to give a tortoise-shell effect.
She used a paint brush to make her mouth any shape she fancied. She darkened and poncilled her eyelids to give them a feline look and then blanked them out, with dark glasses of fantastic shape and colour.
Exposed-and outlined
She wore in the street, as well as on the dance- floor, a revealing bodice-it exposed as well as outlined.
In previous periods, such as the Napoleonic and Vic- torian eras, where fashion had decreed a daringly low neckline the tendency was to hold th bosom high, tightly compressed. For the first time in history, in 1952 fashion emphasised the divi. sion of a woman's bosom. The brassiere of 1952 was designed to produce this effect
This was the summer
that the craze for dieting reached its climax and was featured in every news- paper and magazine, on television and radio, So her diaphragm was flat, her waist tiny, and its amallness accented by a wldo, wide belt tightly pulled in,
Hostility!
Cropped hairstyle known as the Poodle Cut.
Extra revealing bodice called the Deep Plunge.
Full skirt, over crinoline petticoats, à la Ballerina.
High-heeled, strip-toed shoes; painted toenails.
TOOTHPASTE GOES
GLAMOROUS TOO
By HELEN FOLLETT
SNOW-white, highly polished them a healthy pink look that teeth are a dazzling contribution makes teeth seem whiter by con- to the sum total of beauty. You trast,
The brush is the best weapon will notice that girls who have than do a lot of smiling; those against decay. The next best is with teeth that do not qualify vitamin C. You will find it in cabbage, peas, are conscious of this drawback spinach, lemon and orange juice, and seldom ernile, So, if you are
after
tomatoes, rqW
plexion.
thrive on
is also
I wish I Led
Pago
a Dog's Life!
IF I GOT THE AFFECTION YOU FOUR ON ROVER, ID BE A LUCKY DOO, BLITY! LOW COME I .GET THE GNARLING,
DARLING?
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BAD BREATH!
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SIDTS TOOTH DECAY DES?!.
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COLGATE DENTAL CREAM STOPS TOOTH DECAY BEST
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Be Sure
of
Crystal Clear
Drinking Water free of Impurities
amount in Provides 60 gallons Chlorine cauliflower,
to look like a happy person, take milk and apples. All these foods excellent care of your biters. And are of cosmetic value, having a don't forget that lipstick calls at favourable effect upon the com tention to teeth, especially vivid
Fewer Griefs shades.
To be in first class condition, food calcium. Milk contains this
Teeth, it appears, teeth should be brushed cadh meal, and very soon after, element, so lap up a quart a day. as food particles left in the It is good for a lot of things that mouth can change in a few may at you. Calcium hours, forming perfect homes for found in a limited bacteria. The beatime grooming cheese, buttermilk,
Senali dandelion greens, gs. oranger-free crystal clear drinking Ja especially important. children should be made to at- Boston brown bread, celery, eggs water per hour.
The girl who has no nicky end to this treatment no matter and carrots,
who nets ideas about groceries, Peppermint Paste whatever is put before her. is Toothpaste, by the way, is go- likely to have fewer good-looks ing glamorous. Many of the new griefs than the fuss-budget who flavoured and likes only a few dishes. The lat- offering There's one, imported for does not get all the elements coloured. from England, for example, that's she needs
how much they fuss or protest.
The
Full skirts She swung her hips to show off her ruffled petti- coats under her full skirts. On her feet she had nothing but a high-heel and sole bound to her foot with a
as red as a ruby. The paste is. It's fun to play with beautifiers few thin thongs.
Her accessories might pretty and quite tasty because but, after all, the temple of you can choose such favours as beauty is built upon health. Cos- seem to our historian anpeppermint or spearmint for metics play a part, but accom- interesting mixture. Out-adults; strawberry or banana in plish little unless one is a follow- Coronation Year
Besides cleaning teeth, this now Breathe deeply, eat wisely, violet strip-round her throat. Short, pasto rose-tints the gums, giving bathe daily, get plenty of sleep, Whatever the style to be considerable interest in con- Tweed mixtures had unusual size pearls in her ears and a special paste just for children. er of the Lady Hygeia.
cd with white,
with white cotton gloves on bare, launched, overseas buyers temporary industrial design, effects-parma
of Sir wife Lady Clark,
rust with bottle green brown arms; three or four "Fashion are regarding
Kenneth Clark-chairman of the Most of the suits had their own Week" this July with more Arts Council-hopea to simulate Individual blouse, cleverly linket clanking chain bracelets. than usual interest. They interest in, fabric design and with the jacket lining.
A steel grey West of Eng- had consider these collections on colou
Waiting for the Top Eleven and flannel
this blouse and What kind of hat? Our important preliminary to Coronation Year. Special collections, overseas buyers have ful Paisley
historian found to his aur- watched the signpost shows of jacket lining.
Black was chosen for all types social events have been the London Model House Group arranged for them. Fore (the second-in-command to the of outfits, and offset cach Ume prise that more often than
with a different colour. A black not she wore none,
This, he wrote in a most among these is the Incorporated Society).
terge dress, with square neck Now Styles and sheath slim skirt was teamed marginal hoto, soems from
yellow duchesse Typical were Dorville whe
bolero; over these went a time the contemporary records Society of London Fashion held a preview of their
A of hostility from the mil- styles recently. Last year's fall quarter length black corduroy to have aroused a good deal
raglan sleeves, coat with Designers, at her house in skirts ware replaced by straight dinner dress in blacks all jersey linery industry, who said Hampstead, the home of skirt, usually with an inverter had matching stole lined with it would ruin their trado. artists.
Wrap-over pleat at the back white silk jersey, and or
Well, there she is, our Jarsoy trasting This is the first garden On the rare occasion when full-
hots party for overseas buyers to rusoppaped it had none of lust cummerbund, And a black-and-Summer Belle of 1952, the
bouffant, petticoated
ated white check velveteen Jacket, first year be given by the incorporated effect. Full skirts were of the with check placed diagonally an Elizabethan era. As you alt
accordion pleated pocket
cult facings was Society, Here they will meat all-round.
vately with the pleats cut to worn over a straight black skirt on the promenade and not only the Top Eleven ancly that they gave a straight New season's detalls noted: watch hor awing past, Judge designers but the heads of nat speelders have, regel on dark grey worstodella oye of the research student
And square, light dey
Thaw! ey warsted tha
collars her with the coldly critical Britain's wool, rayon, cotton, paddled
of 2052 linen and silk Industries, and ably replaced the feminine, dresses with matching cardigan;
rounded line,
scarves, with six-Inch Tringa ni auth modern artistes Suits war in way worsted either on acompanying mallor
WHAT IS YOUR VERDICTI Graham Sutherland and numb), black hopsack, navy and stw shades of old coloure
green go!,
(London Express Arroios); Hodry Moore, who both tako volvitben, andeleno baralica, blueberry and
garden party to be given by Lady Kenneth Clark, Pre-
sident of the Incorporated
with a new re
and
red
a con
:
of the neo-
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