THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
1952.
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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
A white gros
grala bodice with
velvet trim- aslags
black" virt skirt.
JAMES LAVER tours Mayfair in search of
WOMEN'S clothes
that MEN admire.
THE SKETCHES ARE BY RIX
not Elegance is something preten- tous and anti- social. It is the
WHEN people talk about curves indicated through, cling-
clothes, they usually ing draperies.
women's mean And of course they right; for men's however respectable "correct," are dead-in fact changes. the more correct they are the more complotely dead they have become. They are like fossils. But wo men's clothes arc alive like flowers.
Oddly enough, 25 years ago, the situation was clothes, reversed. It was the legs that
are
revealed; the neck-line wirg
thr high, and
very reverse. It is bosom clothes, was
tho flower on finttened -out of existence, a дл
heath, a There is
for these barren reason
in cong fashions bird - Women's
Gs it was chiefly clothes we were Interested when Rix and I set out on an
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emphasise first one part of the body, then another.
worn
rather
spring. It stirs the
In of
blood and lifts the heart like a trum-
We are pol. grave danger forgetting that we have some of the beautiful musi women and some of the cloverest the couturiers world. bination is sistible.
It is not entirely a matter. of wealth: it is a mater and imagination, grateful thanks, mesdames, to those of
The com- irTe-
of
taste
Block safla trimmed with on
emerald green trailing bow.
One dress that I saw in May fair took my eye for a different reason. It was a flowing gun- with long metal gown
And gloves Petunia women's spectacular diamond ear-rings.
The
drew itself purposely did not compete. The effect was evening's lour of the modish much greater than if the colour hotels and restaurants of the and the glitter had been spread West End. We wanted to per
over the whole dress. how women of the moment are
smart res the
Many women in poing about
business of
taurants today do not wear the making themselves attractive to
nen.
robe de style. They wear little cocktail dresses, dresses which have 21 touch of elegant in- formality, dresses in which you you who had enough of both to WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED.
real necessity charm me in my Mayfair tour. After all, women's clothes can "go on" -
designed 10 make
their in these hurried wearers more attractive
al- an amusing one with
detachable green capo Though a surprising number of little
fringe. 11 women will deny this. Accord with white Victorian ing to them, the clothes they is a touch of controlled fantasy. Fantasy that is not controlled merely results in-fancy dress And nothing is further from true elegance than fancy dress,
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Women deny it
A black taille fined with cen
satin.. matching washe suiên gloves
single diamond clasp at breast.
wear
arc not only the moal beautiful, but the most prac- tical that could be desired. And of eourse they wear des collete rowns in the evening simply in order to be cool. What nonsense! The attraction the essence of " is
clothes as every com- dress designer knows
perfectly well.
Men like women's clothes to make their wearers look slir. for silmness Suggests youth, and youth is always attractive.
So there was a good deal to be said, I thought, for the womon diner whose dress-at the back began with able bow-with
brood
ribbons of a contrasting
colour trailing down the skirt,
ribbons Lave slimness and height and П certain dignity, for that too is attrac-
only tive if it is
certain dignity. 'Too much dignity is merely alarming.
n
Revelation
At the present me a well- dressed woman seeks either to figure by Blow reveal her neck-lino or to suggest it by
Of course, that is only sluc
1
I saw
A
one
of the pie.ure. Some of the dresses I yow were enough to make cuts laugh and ongels weep. They
fanciful, outre
were -not even
or eccentric;
or they were merely dowdy -
smart merely unsuitable for a restaurant at ten o'clock in the evening.
Waste of money
You, madame, in your not-100- bad tweed suit. No doubt you have been very busy and have! not had time to go home change. I sympathise, but you are wasting your money.
and
For
to I
you have brought your work- aday worried self with you. You will not enjoy your evening, and you will not add anything of others. the enjoyment
did the same there: everybody
be no point in visiting a smart restaurant, And that lady. behind-you-in short skirt...and Do square shouldered jacket) you think she traps her own furs?
the
ching
But too often the woman in
this picture worn
sort d
Lundun #spegia Sarośc
Ladies, you
may smoke -if and but
The Princess
... at Ascot.
By SYLVIA GOUGH
AT last, smoking in Duchess smoking in Malaya and
the Princess at
the Royal
public has become Variety Performance. How far Indyllico habit.
havo you worried about con- vention? Do you, for example, smoke in
burs and trains?
08 Convention used to say NO in a bus: YES in a taxi; PERHAPS in a train.
to
street;
It was not so much matter of How Many, of Who, when it came the people who decided.
Do you smoke out of doors? For the final emancipation
In the of the cigarette has been Convention said NO
YES 011 the beach; accomplished by two mem- PERHAPS at a race meeting. bers of the Royal Family.、
enioke Vou
at 'public Convention said The Duchess of Kent assemblies?
NO at a reception; YES at a and Princess Margaret dance; PERHAPS at a public were first pictured smok- meeting. ing in semi-private the Duchess at a London night- spot and the Princess at a Paris night-club..
Then pictures arrived of the Duchess smoking
on.
1/
informal visit to Pinewood Studios and 'at a formet recep= tion in Manchester.
Do
Convention has never been consistent. It yields now to a royal behest,
very
But with the yielding comes a qualification: The cigarette cigaretti must be in a long
GLOVED holder, held in a hand.
FOR THE BRIDE
The Princess smoked in the ci MARRYING en Eng-
Royal Box at Ascot,
Bishman has ils penaltios. The
Now, during the last weeks, pictures have shown
two
the
-LEIT:-"BLACK. ROD": an "est-to-west" hat of white leaves mounted on black straw and finished with a wimple:
RIGHT: "ROYAL LINE": a style based on the peeress's coranci in red velvet trimmed with pearls and a "1953 wimple".
London Milliner Takes "Coronation
Collection" To America
By Dorothy Barkley
London. hats recently before leav- Garbo long ago film ing. His audience included ceeded.
Garbo. And he suc-
Nactress Zen-Zsa Gabor several of London's most a These hats are linked with
women -
wife of Ambassador
I
did not know how to wear Lord Mayor, and Mme. entirely of flowers-sweet peas, hats. Now, taking up this Massigli, challenge, London milliner French Otto Lucas. is off to the London.
wins the States, accompanied by So far, Mr Lucas English modela and a cargo, palm for Coronation fashions. He is the first designer who does
-
Lady gloves are dyed to match. And,
Tiew fo remarked during a visit to elegant London that Englishwomen Lowson, wife of last year's by way of something
evening, there are stoles made
pink roses the scarlet poppies, or
base, and .on a net to mounted
worn with matching hat.
Because of their price these model hats can only be admired. and not worn-by the majority these are the of the Elizabethen Age- he has styles that will influence the not tried to put us into fancy manufacturers who produce the He is taking his newly dress for next year. His collee- hals for your local ore next
tion, nonetheless, is topical designed Coronation collec has taken for tion" intended for sale in the shape of a peeress's coronet,
of hats, just to prove that not strive to recall the "romance of women. But they can.
POINTERS FOR HOME PEDICURES
his theme
year.
Royal Shoes
New York, Chicago, San as seen in the illustration above. Mr Edward Rayne, the Queen's
baso 19 of red velvet, Francisco, and also in Aus. Its
ahoemaker, has designed specini and It is tricenied with pearl shoes for the dress collection to tralia and Canada. He gave embroidery and a "1953 wimple be seen by the Queen a big a preview show of his new Materials are velvet, white London hotel shortly. He sota a salin and straw, richly em- broidered with jewels. The new fashion by making nity of colour, in se shoes in the same materials: straws are in new cluding anthracite and irrides as the dress with which they cent shades of gold, silver and are wom. copper. Other colours, rich and For evening he has styled n royal, include robe red, blue, ime pair of pale blue satin evening,
violet Flowers, when sandals, with three-inch heels fingers in the lubricating cream,perial give your trotters and ankles a used, are an integral part of the They are embroidered with pale thorough creaming and vigorous hat rather than a trimming blue sequins to bear the
Almost every hat is designed mout as on the evening drea gently. This liquid is also good massage. This is a definite con- Like Angernails,
on calloused spots and tribution to foot health and to be worn with a short, up Anqther variation is the pair of become brittle and breakable, to use and a bit of veneer will prevent that rough area just above your beauty. Work firmly on insteps swept hair cut And almost lime yellow sandals in tulle over
every hat is worn straight on satin base. The vamps heel where the top of your shoe, and arches. mny rub.
PINK toes for prettiness! It to see them is a satisfaction dressed up with nail polish.
this.
toenails
You can give yourself a pedl-.-
By HELEN FOLLETT.
cure that is fairly satisfactory. Now bathe your feet in soapy
for.
Good-looks Duty
cream
the head.
Coronation Touch
eame
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embroidered with star-shaped sequins, again emphasising the sequin molif on the dress,
For coletails, Rayne, has de- But, for those who prefer d signed A pair of halter large hat, several east-to-west back sandals in black crepe. in styles are included. A typient nounted: with black lace.
design is illustrated here... In heel, three inches high, is in white leaves, it is suitable for a
a
The
Not as thorough, of course, as warler and the harsh skin' will
Wipe off the surplus the professional treatment, but comme away. If calloused spots good enough to keep the feet in persist, friction them with the We assume that this will be
emery board. Don't do any night-time good-looks duty, batinoom surgery with your which event you should let Pedicure Procedure manicure scissors. There is al- little of the cream remain on
chance of causing ook in during your hours
treatment pretty corner Older pointers freen this
Filo, feenalls straight across, wounds and cubsequent infoc sleep, This fecalendar will
tions.
to black straw, surmounted by black patent,
OL
care tooless
use garden party. Coration year collection of shees 題 lotion-dipped cotton touch comes in a wimple vell. court shoes, in pearl-embroidered of One of these larger hats had an ivory satin, and for late atter-
never down, at the sides.
and 'u heavy hop and water
the polish, square to tite rubbed arca brush to soften the surrounding Then on with Beh. Wrap the orangewood, which should be the same tint cach heel, secure with trans-individual air... It has a "lamp noon, clored court shoes in suedo,
tape an
and Icave on shade brim concealing the eyes low-cut into the stathionable stick in cotton, dip it in cuticle as you use on your angernails, parent
But that-immt all. Dip your overnight, t
The designer was trying to out "shell" shape, a remover, pushing the flesh back
Canadian or American bride arriving here to marry sacrifices the traditional Shower Porty given by friends to the bride-to-be.
Everyone brings à present lo help the bride set up her new home: If the bride is lucky. she will have more than one party-one for linen, one for the kitchen, and perhaps one for general household things.
together
The guests teforchand. and deelde what each shall bring. So there is a minimum of repetition, and the bride
herself does not and saying a polite "Thank you”. for 20 dustpans and no brooms. Enterprising stores in America get from a bride u list of the presents she hopes for -- and the bride
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