THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1953.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
ANNE'S BACK.....
with a
fashion - ideas newsreel that is not all nostalgia
Camelia
Page_܂
for modern youth
SANITÁNY
PROTECTIÓN
NEW twist to the loque ... NEW cowboy krtchik
NEW neckline
Anne Edwards column reflects on what's cute and copyable
THE LAST TIME
I SAW PARIS...
HE last time I saw Paris her streets were chic and gay.
For the girls put a new zip into clothes- ideas that have been around for years, the restau- rants have as much personality as the natives, the shop windows are stocked with the latest ideas on modern furniture, and most of the people I met behaved with what the British called "inconsequent charm" when they arrived, and "typical French inefficiency" when they had a few days of it.
I'LL REMEMBER the way French girls can give a new zip to almost nything
they
wear.
like their cowboy ker- chiefs small quares no bigger than a man's handicerchief knotted
round the neck with ends pulled to one side (ave picture).
They wear them with sweaters, with dresses, and with tople even- int towns.
NEW TOO
A new xlp to the Jellybag, which
they
wear small and pointed in very fluffy wool, or puted through a scarf ring, or gathered with a draw string
A new zip to pearls, for they wear them with a string of beads that match The dress-pale pink coral for a pink dress, Jade with a green tiress,
A new zip even to
mweaters (see picture)
for they wear them now.
à la CORONATION
TIARAS are glittering
in Paris. They are the nEWCEI fashion in headdresses to with wear evening dress. They turned
up at the dress shows. They are in the windows of the expensivo Jewellers. And they are inspired, of course, by the Coronation.
The two pictured here are on sale in Paris today, Both are in diamonds and platinum. Both can be worn as necklaces,
One (right)
ls worn at the traditional Old English Family or No Nonsense angle.
The other (above) is wort
at the Young
English Pecress or Model girl angle.
J
tables, always an immense clatter of plates, and shouts from. Waitresses and the specially dishes which are always "on"-- day and night,
that there are more than 40
THE NEW Jagged-end version of the old short-cut.
is
The tiny restaurant with a view of the river and Notre Dame, with red check fable cloths and napkins, and flowers; where there are always radishe's .. The way that "little place" ...The information (from the tables, dressed in a few and olives, curts of butter and recommended by friends
that the haughty feathers, expecting to be grabbed mannequin} rolls on the table, copper worm- almost always shut when you head saleswomen in the top dress at and never was and had to ing parist on panellest walls, get there because it is the annual bouses gei £7 10s, a week and put Д amble and prance white-coated walters and where six-week holidng; or because it if they are wearing something away.... They make speciality of kid- ( a. maint's
hollday (about 20 smart it la only borrowed from cooked in brandy and a year); or because of winter the dress house....
...The riegant women with (either their clients have gone or they have): or be cars and chauffeurs and poodles cause it is either the Munday or who
drive up
to the English Tuesday closing day (instead of tea-room because it is fashion- Sunday); or because it is nable now to drink China.tea out family occasion; or (recently) of willow-pattern teocupë........ because of flu.
THE NIGHT CLUB
neys cream.
:
✪ The place that would have been a pub in England, right in
middle of the Paris
meat rket, with red plush settles, 453 rails and aspidistras; where Papa is the head waiter
day
The burst of incredulous
and Maman keeps the books, laughter from a walter when İ'LL RÈMEMBER the show where red and white wine are I taid him I had to hurry over girl at the night-club who con on the table for you to help lunch. "That's terrible," he said, fded that the audience was yourself (no extra charge): and "A shocking idea--imported by pretty glassy-eyed; who every where the speciality is mussels the Americans."... cooked in cream,
THE NEW IDEAS
I'LL REMEM- BER Wie
лету
ideas in modern furnishings, e5- pecially those
Tudern
lamps
which do what older lamps 30 often fail to do
then
throw
they the light just how and where Anti want it.
with the newly fashionable quite straight_and_pitched for. Like the three- "neckline "— ̈straight neross the ward,
[table shoulders with a deep cuffed
standard lamps consist- collor edged with friage.
40 DISHES
ing of three separate lights (Probably the smartest ILL REMEMBER three fixed on flexible arms, Ench cose. sweater per devised ther is also meals in three different restau- shaped shade is a different colour. easy to lenit-one row purl one rants because unlike English row plain.)
i restaurants each had a charac-
night pranced alluringly around
...The new good-eating spot where they, show you the door without presenting the bill if you dare to grumble (a device dirreled against certain tourists)
OH YES, no matter how they change her. I'll remember Paris. And so long as I remember it all quite clearis, I'll be able to remember too how blissful it always is too come back brussels sprouts and the British,
-London Express Service)
INFANTS
MEAT-FED
WARD OFF COLDS
having
to
Bewerks meant to Jacobs and George, of the to Infection, was increased in
Chicago. and to show less "emotional up- globulin, the part of the blood to do with resistance QABIES fed meat catch set," he added.
pediatrics lepartment of the the Infants ded meat, he said. research évidence reported Stritch School, of Medicine, The two doctors included in by two Chicago doctors. Loyola University, made their their analysis only those babi
babies "report" In the medical" journal, studlida "minimum" "oftwo Dra Howard M. Jacobs and Pediatrics,
months to a maximum of six George S. George sald that in #ID those Infants first fed months, Of these, Jacobs said, two years of study they found meat under two months of 133 received the standard babies whose diels Included ago
there was improvement in hospital diet and 170 got this meat had 40 percent fewer in physical growth as determined diet plus supplements of com- fectious illnesses. Most of the by weight and height measure mercially prepared strained and linese observed, they said, ments," Jacobs wrote.
chopped meats. The infants re- A new twist on the shoricut,
('LL REMEMBER, too, the were respiratory, such as the He said study also showed ceived bec, liver, lamb, veal, for they wear it with jagged ✪ The three-storey restaurant now, cheap, made-to-measure common cold.
blood quality
was better and beef heart and pork,. culs as ragged as chrysandbe, in the students' quarter. w.h dress shop which decorates its Jacobs sald meat-fed babies young babies fed meat avolded Jacobs and George sald they mum petals..and on the lay marble-top tables, paper map- salons with dummy figures wear- also "seemed to have greater the
trend toward anaemia completed 20,944 chocks round bere's and that toques kins, and no flowers, which hus ing cotton "mock-ups" of the vitality, and slept more sound, which normally occurs in the their youngsters before making. (are picture) which they wear always too more people for the dresses they will make up. ly." They seemed to cry less first few weeks after birth. The their report-United Press,
ter and speciality of its own.
Slippers from Hongkong.
STYLE TO FIT
on
IN SEARCH OF SUNSHINE
WITH
London.
rumours from
wigwam.
By HAZEL MEYRICK
The correct thing to wear with
pair
coolle ickets, we were told, is a
dis-
legs
this
younger set wear for relaxing in at home. If you rival the curves of Renoir's beauties, you disguise Paris ringing_in our Idea anyone cars copy, they make of kimonos and coolle coats, the fact by wearing over your ears that Dior and Fath are useful sandals to slip on after, These are being quickly snapped tights a bouffant skinet skirt. giving their clothes an bathing, and help to dry your up as smart lounging clothes, open down the middle to
for And they're ideal the play
Mitty.
Mouse" Eastern look, artist Elizn- feel at the same time.
To Brightly
complete beth and I set out in search Teenagers buy wire lampshade purpose.
coloured, beneath.
cover-all look comes a long- frames from of the Orient-In London.
this shop, cover "light-weight to wear, they are as
high-nocked sweater thern with course woven straw, comfortable as a housecoat, but sleeved, We discovered it first of and push the rough ends throtigh took more interesting.
dangling jet car-rings and a soulful expression, all in a shop in Soho which the top of the shade, where they sells chianti bottles topped stand up like the tutte of a
Straight from 'Swan Lake', but by rafia lampshades, the
harrow Chinese uncomfortable to walk in, are sort that are bought up by The cult of bamboo has re- trailers. Usually made in black, ballet shots, white or black, with enthusiasts
London; to decorate turned to
latest they end somewhere, around wide, coloured ribbons, red or mews flats. In this small examples are shopping baskets mid-calf, have narrow side-splits green, criss-crossed round the
made from spilt cane. Bamboo and are worn with flat-fooled ankles, shop, even in chilly London,, tables, long sinco stuffed into slippers, there's always a demand for attles or relegated as garden
furniture, coolie hats and sandals.
are being brought turned for off-duty wear,
Trousers, generally, have re-
but Other back into the drawing-room.
lounging clothes they're a far cry from the
currently in fashion are house- conventional slacies. Some, coats made in striped nurses tarrow
Victorian men's
uniform fabric, yards and yards are in black store-pipe pants,
of it gathered into a full skirt, Bamboo buttons, too, are com- and white check or an improb- tight-fitting bodico and a high These are able tartan. Others have natly Victorian collar, trimmed with a
Hanging in bunches from the ceiling wore straw hoods, shaped like outsize cloche hals, with rough, untrimmed
edges. For
the last ord in chle you ram ing, into fashion.
of
SU
one of these on your head, then made from segments of the stein, white spots to cover that gap. ple-crust frill. crush it into any shape you cut and polished, with two holes between turn-up and show. fancy, leaving the loose ends of bored in the underside for the New for wear at straw WETing like ostrich colton to go through. There are Harlequin trousers one leg the cover-all stole seen at Digby
hints also that British beaches black; the other white. feathers.
will asxt summer see cut bain- boo Becklaces and bracelets, like
bunches of plant teeth hanging round the wenter's neck.
home aro
Taken up with enthusiasm is
Morton, which is being copied in check gingham for hostess aprotie.
Liberty's designed the loung
ing the hom
We found that by turning a
The solo cakes less than on hat upside down, and giving it in the cathedral like ing suit Elizabeth bas skelehed hour to make. It consists of a alraw bandles you have made atmosphere of Liberty's one of on the right, With its decollete length of material which, draped yourself a bucket-shaped hand- London's ledst cosmopolitan neckline and neat, bulloned round your neck, hangs in two bag that will carry anything aldres we found alpher from front it owes something to the wide strips down the front o
your dress, reaching from sandwiches and knitting to Tonjakodig in the Oriental room, buller-pilt, but neverthelem has swim-suits and towels.
Made with soles of chainols à dress up, atmosphere about it. Altached to the stole at the Eastern sandals are made to deather, uppers (in vivid efne-It is made in Heavy tweed linen shoulderline are loosely cut measure. You draw round your broidered Bike they made a for the beach, or black velvet, sleeves. Made in cotton, slotted foot on a piece of cardboard, splash of contri
with improperi buttons for through a patent belt, wear it eventiigume S Sax for dinning-up in the kitchen. man who makes you a pair of And, nearby,
Mado in silk, tied with a wide' mules in plaited straw, w with their tongues hanging-out, if Borrowed from the ballet are sash, it would put a brave new with bright terry towelling. An crawled up and down the back long black tights: which the front on an old cocktail dress,
LEFT-With a short coolle RIGHT=JÅberty's lounging
cut it out and hand it to a little minister draton drain pipe sult in heavy collon tweed.
Jacket Chinese trousers and slippers, The ring stole round kia
from Hongkong.
ahöülderline can also be used.
as a hood.
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