THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1953.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Big ideas-
STCLES are the rage. They are graceful,-
and fix two but get in the way. narrow diamante straps to the boned top and
hook the stole through the atrapa in front..
LESSON IN THREE PARTS
SHE wears separates at their best.
The top (to be worn only with its matching skirt) Is attached to a tárlatan underskirt to prevent waistline dap danger. It has detachable puff sleeves. The skirt can be worn with a variety of tops.
The stole-cum-boleró costs about £4.
OA HALTER neckline cannot be worn with a stole. So lace it, and make a detachable halter that hooks on to your strapless top when you feel like a change,
-may
T
THE SAME applies to the off-the-shoulder line. So face it, and make or buy two little puff sleevra like this it variety is what you crave for.
lead
you into bigger blunders
by.
SYLVIA
GOUGH
KNOW they are this year's Big Iden. I know they can be so chic. But have you heard the things people say about separates?
For the offer. they say, take THIS skirt and wear it with THIS top. When your work day is ended you just change the top, and you are ready to go dancing.
For
week-end in the country, they say,
lake THIS suit, travel in it, lunch in it, go to the inces in it, fall in a ditch in It-then turn it inside out and you are dressed for dinner.
I simply do not belleve it,
So admit separates are a good idea, that they can give your wardrobe variety, and possibly save you some money. But before you start to buy make cure they are really going to achieve their purpose.
MAKE SURE
you
have
the
basic dress they resting on a
will be built that satisfy both the British belief in the virtues of fresh air and the British desire to be warm in winter?
Period Costumes
Damaged By London Fog
Pollection
London.
ART of a priceless of period costumes, showing women's fashions through the ages, was severely damaged in the four-day fog which blotted out London recently. The awirling pea-bouper has upset arrangements for taking a hundred of the garments
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arrived. on an American tour to raise funds for the Museum of Costumes es- tablished in London re- cently by veteran collector Mra Doris Langley Moore.
The clothes have been on show. When the exhibi-
the
I WONDER -when-ordinary houses tion closed it was found
had fog
all but ruined much of the collec- tion. Some of the exhibits are beyond repair. ↓
Middle-aged Mrs Moore spent all Christmas laun- dering
of many sets frilly; stiff muslin under- wear. They are too valu-. able and too frail to stand the hazards of modern laundry.
I RATE this a place in the Depart- ment of Superfluous Information....Royal milliner Ango Thabrup to would-be milliners: "Learn to sew. I can't, but all the
same, I advise youALL
to acquire the art."
I CONFESSI ad Y 1
mired
JOAKNASPACE
the spirit of the man whose offer of a scal in a crowded bus was Tefused by а woman, and who thereupon said, with icy courtesy: "In that case, madam, perhaps you would not mind removing the end of your umbrella from the pit of my stomach?"
I HEARD her the first time: "The trouble with American women is that they like the company of women. The trouble with English women is that they like the company of men." Who said it? An English woman. Naturally.
THOUSANDS COSTUMES
To preserve the standard of the tour collection, Mrs Moore has had to replace Items with garments from her remarkable collection of thousands of costumes. It of has also meant hours work filling in new entry permits, new insurance forms, customs declara- tions and the Bank of England's innumerable docu. ments.
Fortunately, Queen Vic- toria's millinery collection of feathers, braid, lace and straw, and. Woollk party shoes was not damaged. It was under glass. Only the black of the Queen's silk
became
little
bendwork mache table for £00 to a dealer are often meant stool? Are there papier the other day; and he sold it to to accompany. It mache tables, inlaid with an American (they love the should be dark, mother-of-pearl, dotted
stuff) for much more." plain, classic.
He showed me a polyphon-adress MAKE SURE about the room? Is your cross between a musical-box blacker.
And -the colours are wallpaper of a highly de- and a gramophone.
seems that, even, in these days of in tune with one corative and floral design? long-playing rocords and TV, No? Then I must break it there's a place for the polyphon. gently to you that you are not- far enough out of date to be up to date. For there is no doubt about it: Victorians is back with flourish of plush and mother of-pearl.
another. Rc- member that ' light top and dark skirt ere certain 10 look separate,
MAKE SURE
that four separ- nica make at least two ideal outfits. MAKE SURE they are not separate in the wrong places. A gap at the waistline is danger No. 1.
MAKE SURE-doubly sure that it would not be more satis- fuctory to buy one good dress.
Now you've got to be
OUT-OF-DATE
to catch up with what's
UP-TO-DATE
By PHOEBE YOUNG
--SCRAP -- SCREENS
REMEMBER?
+
ROYAL ROBES New royal robes have recently [been added to the collection by the Royal Family. There aro Parliamentary robes of crimson velvet, gold and crmine worn by the Queen Mother at the last coronation and the tiny purple mantle and white silic
dresa with blue bows worn by Prits- cess Margaret.
Trying to get at the root of this startling swing towards the furnishing fads of our grand mothers, I went to the Victoria and Albert Museum,
"The reason for the swing?" said an official. "I shall quote Mr James Lav
There is also a handsome. Laver.
evening dress worn by the "He has worked out that from Queen Mother for one of the been played with by the interior back to the fashions of 20 years for reign. auctioneers, "Victoriana bas NOW (he meant 1950) one looks openings of Parliament
during decorators.
"For 10 or 15 years," rald and of the directors of Sotheby's the
ago with disgust." "It was kind of gay to have a Remember 19307
Victorian monstrosity
The chic
the
in the walls
pere of white, corner to giggle at. But recently furniture tous white, fashion-conscious young mar-
great fog has been a
here. It has put me back
days. I'll be lucky if I catch the and boat at all now," said Mrs Moore, was вачите.. In
She was to have left for Now
looks
the York early in January. back to fashions of 30 years ago with
rieds are actting up house with shape, ng the odd ploce of Victorian "One
furniture."
I went to an antique shop in interest anding them a little Chelsea that has specialised in quaint."
the
Victorian knick-knackery for Remember 1920? The wall. many years. The shop
was paper
"acrumbled," stuffed with stuffed birds, wax colours wera black and frult under glass domes, and orange, and knole sofas, WCTE papler mache tables, chairs, and all the rage. bed-heads.
"Then, says Mr Laver, after years, everything seems charming, pretty, and say
-(London Express Service)
RE you sitting on a gossiping chair,
Strap screens are selling like one of those inlaid with brass and hot cakes at £10 or £12 a time. covered with red plush? Are your feet Sald the owner. I sold a palper-
EILEEN ASCROFT, cabling from ́New York, says-
30
It's a myth about those best-dressed women.....
·
to be a nation in uniform.
When wo
meet the
smart
Hot
wear
Women
costume
New Yorker in London, looking close-to can one distinguish the
rich and poor alike. Only buckelor girl Carcilne Ashwood,
*
veteen.
Their genius MERICAN Women have And here are, some American Every house I visited,
genius for home-building. large diet ideas for cheering taste. two lers mcal
or smail; someti sa inspiro new Scaron undressed
Ideas. minced vegetables with herba
Fon
TT isn't true what they say Not because of the iced high- breakaway
who are thadow. Either red, gold or lacquered. To sleep in you aliver can be brushed over lip must have a nylon pleated Dark-haired Kay Brown, im- stick. low me, but the fact that every New Yorkers are
Eightie. To play in tight-leg not the woman in the room Woro a maculate cosmetic executivo, The new version, of the black, trousers in plaid or black vel- best-dressed women in the Flack colf-length cocktail dress, who combines a big job and velvet beauty spot is a ringlo world.
with a cleavage neckline, a fur running a home for husband glittering brilliant placed just If you are going to be a
invisible True elegance. is a combina- wrap, almost
strap and seven children Vors not below the cyo iko a teardrop. brids you will plan & lace hal-
hal if the does not feol
terina wedding gown and wear flon of fashion and individual sendals and small jewelled vel-
your vell flowing from a uny it. like taste. That Is something vet hat.
The Mamie Fringe, edited otted cap. She chboses unfashionable American women do not sceni to understand.
Impossible to tell their age, navy blue because it mults her after America's first-lady-to-be,If you aro a very junior
Maste So slavishly do they follow the latest short hairstyle. Near- favour of individual because young and old
Elsenhower, promisce miss, your party frock will be wear and ignores uniform pearls in to be a Christmas winner, Par- corduroy velvet" - with --puffed their fashion magazines that
ticularly loved by the nol-za- sleeves and a white embroider- tell the to they appear to the
nowcomer ly impossible, too.
the jewellery. background of a woman.
Arh-blonde dress buyer from young because there's nothing ed collar.
like a deep fringe for covrsing news styles are available to
11 largo deportment store,
forehead lines. like a fastilon-plate, wearing
young for the job the holds ni the latest, black and white quality of material or the cut 24, has pretty legs and refuses to follow the dietates of fashion Donegal tweed cult with a fur of an expensive tailor,
Dancing In the St. Regis 1 and let her skirts down stole cut-away patent pumps. and scrap of
hat in Dior red, was entranced with an engage inches..
Brunetto pour jewellery the right size ment, party on the next table.
wooden built-in and the right number of rings The only divergence between terior decorator and textile de orange juice over sweels to re cupboards lifted into the we are impressed.
the
young girl and her mother Ligner lots her bob grow us place cream, and instead of S But walklag
herbs luxury, Vardrobe Firth was the colour of their frocks, long down
as it likes. Saya shu; calad dressings try Avenue or lunching in Both had close-clipped red "Every time I see a roomful of favoured vinegar or a dash of papering them inside with
Chintz wallpapers. hundred brunette hair with blonda tipa women with the
bells, las digau duplicates of the same picture. theeth, beaded dresses, con un reminded of my unclemon fulco config In thico days you are sick to trasting satin pumps with cut form oftet, the sleep have been Grev? Oh, nalaz
gong. SHOPS in New York pander death of the fashionable Ameri- away cides, large poort stud cleared."
FOR
*THE OUTSIDE fashion- only to the peari car-rings and can woman. It is a planeant
three-string
དྷཱ! conscious Smart covers for garden. change to meet a frump from chokers,
TAKE-UP Idea is to have Groy is not stylish this sea furniture made from super England. Perhaps not as polish. There was ono ed or up to date, but. didyrent.
difference. Mother'a wrap was miniature sequins sparkle son so you do, pot, ses gray strong black and white Attrus docktails in the silver-blue
For thoca. If you want an even ticking trimmed. with mink," "daughter's ing on eyelids or lips.
the eyes you dip a brush in ing bag, you have just got to white cotton braid, with the was I suspect, prtincial,
adrian thing." In guld, or sliver "sparkle and buy one of the new cookfall
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The
other
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Sparklers
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