THE CHINA
MAIL,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1953.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Anne Edwards counts the new boons and old bygones that make up the woman's pattern for starting the New Year
-pleture by JOHN FRENCH
Spice Colours
79-23
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE
THE beautiful spice shades of
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LOST ... FOUND
EVE PERRICK chocks the history of a gown
A ROYAL COPY -SO DISCREET
Nothing about
one ever says any cult during the Canadian tour it but last year. Canadiana copied the
coat, but not the dress. once agsin one of the
In contrast to the Hartnell Queen's dresses is copied black-and-white evening Lown and put on sale in a West that was out and away into the
End store.
cash-customer field the day after the. Queen first wore it,
Matossi gang. O'Rourke and Blecker we know were hard up-Gregory told us that-and Maud Marston hall been work- inz on Dominie to get him to rlouble-cross Vaney....But...; it was the dog that really gave the whole thing away.
"Well, I'll be darned.".
"No, I wouldn't say that exactly, but you'll buy mo* 0 drink,
Thero's hono of this sort of unravelling in the new *stage thriller "The Mousetrap." I'm happy to report that they tie up the explanations in a couplo of linea...
CHECKING back on my And the quality Dolla C year's Proft and Losa recommends for success in ・・・ FROM Henckley or Elực,
Account, I report a personal Ilat of "Losts" and “Founds"—what has gone for good in the past 12 months and what has come to stay.
✯ A FAMILY material in
modelling. (apart from Dobson, 7. 8d.] looks, of, course); "Good temper — especially when you sro asked to work overtime or have to stand; around in the cold in sum-" mer fracks.
"People can't put up with temperament when every- one is busy working hard."
AN. ORIGINAL Christmas arceling. It said:--- "Mr and Mrs Philip Har ben, instead of wishing you 4 wholesome, hugtente, well-balanced, vitaminired, calorie intake, hope on the contrary that you will have A GLORIOUS CHRIST- MAS DINNER."
a new context. The sturdy striped cotton that la used to cover mattresses now makes some of the gayest new dresses
TWO women with the promised for summer,
kind of career you Strong, washable, amusing,
THE SMARTNESS of the und cheap, they will be in never hear talked about;
Doc Eye make-up. Model Paris now wear the shops in 1 Mrs Jean Hoskins keeps girls in
at tabs on all the celebrities (Up-Late-Last Night - Look),
the. Sleepy January
Eye make-up who arrive in London and informs her clients (nows- papers, shipping lines, om- John French bassies, industrial firms, narrow alr lines) where tho and elegant celebrities are staying.
1. 31/ to 4
guineas.
is
Pictured by
dress in black and white striped
mat tress cotton, trimmed with black patent leather and black buttons,"
above She got into it through a The shadow is applied
the eyelid and below the
eyo chance remark by Beba towards the centre, instead of Daniels: "Honey, why don't drawn out towards the uuier you start up an English edges.
American branch of the Celebrity Service?"
CCUNDI
...
LOS
now
the
She likes it, she Anys,
DELIGHTFUL "I'm a because:
nosy A parker at heart. I get a kick Mimosa Herring to my year's
name. I gladly add ONE of the few good, out of knowing just where collection of Olive Tullin, Sir inexpensive dishes to exactly people are, wonder. Lionel Carteret, Eugene Tolle- be found in a cheap English ing why they are there, mache, Johnny Fellyfoot,
six children of Don Amache restaurant-whitebait with and who they are with."
(Donnie, Ronnie, Lonnie, Tom- brown bread and butter."
Bonnic, mia,
and Consite) Mrs Elizabeth O'Shea
and the eight children of Lady Now you can only buy it
organises -xhibitions Beaumont (Marigold, Miriam, with chips for 28 and hires those girls who Miranda, Mirabel, Miles, and who wants whitebait sit. in the information Michael, Martin, and Mark). with chips?
kiosks,
★TO FASHION model
ling the gorgeous,
2
"I don't ask them any set. questions-we just sit and chat," she says. "But I don't like girls who sit and green-eyed, golden-haired fiddle with their hands or people whose gaze wandera Della Onke, who at 16 was while I'm talking to them, an ugly duckling ("I wan all neck and plaits"); at 22. and I never oven conolder girls who help themselves was the only girl to have her picture on the covers of to a cigarette. THE fashion magazine in Paris, New York, and Lon- don at the same time; and at 24 fulfilled a model girl's dream and, married a lionaire's son.
"I have two stand-bys for character judging. One is tho old straight-stocking- seams test, and the other is mli- how
they react to my Pokingose.
"It's the sort of thing you
It is just there in the window, this one has token a year to read about," she said bliss among the cocktail gowns, a reach the shops, discreet little number in slote blue rayon taffeta (the original
More to come?
of course was pure silk), priced But the fact that this little- Just under £22,
noticed royal dress door get to
And because It is unspecta- the department stores seems to cular and because there have show that from now on all the been only two photographs of Queen's clothes (apart from the the Queen wearing the dress, lavish ball gowns) may go into people have been buying the the shops.
copy unaware of its royal And the most surprising thing connection.
about this surprising state of affairs is the surprise of the designer when ho heard the
Under cover The reason for the dress's rare appearance in the public prints
news.
For Hardy Amies did not even
is that the Queen usually wears make a sketch of the original
cont.
It under a full-length matching and how anyone was able to The two-piece ensemble was copy it he just doesn't know. her favourite
and most-worn
-(London Express Service)
to.
fully, "and never bellove happens - especially you”.
From platalis to elegance,
HOW YOU CAN MAKE YOUR
"I love organising ex- hibitions it's like the theatre. Terrific excitement before the opening day, anti-climax when it closes, and then the whole circle starts up again."
TO ME the charm of that Christmas pan- tomime about the beggar boy who became Lord Mayor. For the facts about Dick Whittington: are: He was the son of Bir William Whittington, ' of Gloucestershirp: he was an excellent match for Fitz warren's daughter; he wna a wealthy citizen by the time he was 26; he wAS four (not three) times Lord
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By ELEANOR ROSS Alled with lukewarm suds, or no reason to go to High- are helping to season just a dainty, flattering
tuck them gently inside a nylon gate on his way to Glouces the 'dolightful clothes for
mesh draw-string bag. Bwish| ter. autumn.
Alm. Nowadays, it's likely by U.S. Government clothing around in container, or squeeze Cinnamon colour velveteen makes
I FROM London Mystery to bo jewelled, with rhine- and textile experts, pre-sudaing horn in nylon bag gently in ព charming
William afternoon dress designed, for the stones, bending, embroidery removes the Anish applied in lukewarm suds in the sink. Rinse and Mythology, by
tends to thoroughly.
Kent, Staples Press]," alim and youthful figure. The and other devices worked manufacture and so scooped neckline is filled in into conventional or ab make hostery more flexible for with "dötschāble", black stract motifs and patterns, better fit-ond-longer-wear.-
Dry stockings by spreading velveteen gilet that comes com Such hose need more good Stockings should be laundered them out flat on a clean turkish plete with its own furtio-hack care than is given to un after each wearing, to get rid towel. Or drape
A THRILLER play that collar. The scooped edge, like trimmed stockings.
conforms to the Anuo' Ed of fungus-carrying perspiration towel-protected rail or bar, The Aho sleeve, is bound in black velveteen. The skirt, is eight No matter the type, hose which may cause-athlete's 1001, idea is to protect them from any wards-Robers Benchley view of should be fresh and Dugh, snogging surfaces, Nylons thrillers...that they should be should always be dried at room packet with corpses. STORMS, gored and a self belt nips the should first of all be chosen for And feet
'faces "--"and waist.
proper at. Hose should be clean when you are changing temperature, away from any and guilty
Easa hose gently blazes with the explanations at and nails and Angers should be least use a suday cloth on the into
and
phy that into shape free from breaks and rough soles and between the toes, and wise women invest in epocial the end of every detective story.
Benchley used to say apply a dusting of fool powder, stocking containers rather than read like this to him Household Hint Pro-Wear Washing This allowà hoan to slip on caster: just dropping: hose ́ parolessly
"Well, tell me in pack Into bureen or dresser drawer, what made you, first.grdsper Hose should be washed before and to wear better.
Where OVE
marest ·wood | that it was fleedy - Arki Braps will need low polishing | being wom for, the, fast time, Trimmed and be- jewelled splinter likely to use Poromi why way) At 230ling") and loose brighter if it is even if they come in unbroken hose under nicely, but of mangging Burely Vamalt price place that night is in a rubbed with olive oil after each cellophane coverings gewens course, they do require a bit no pay to loop down onda two had established the fact was fairly simple, onco shine-up. Appistoli with washing of-hose helps overcome more care. Shake ali hoalery, or expendituro tend to have, nies, we soft. Hniless rug and rub well the hazard of wrinkled hose, anyway, decorative ploces, in a well-cared for good decking lose that Glga could not pombly
Why?--Blocaust, as is pointed out covered glass or plastic jar half- always in uso and is évtervez ́have' been, in Chiengo with the
· over breas,
donned and dofted --with care, hose. If it isn't bath time, at excusalvo.300 roll egrefully, the end.
skin.
10
(TOUND)
sible-to-answer questions ONE more of those impos- with which small children un- settle their parents, "Mummy." esked my small daughter, where does God live?" "In Heaven," replied Mummy, fccl- ing on firm ground, "Oh, does He?" she remarked sodably. "What, number***
-(London Express -Service)
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