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WEEK-END
FASHION AFLOAT
By HAZEL MEYRICK
London. rooms include bright printet
dresses in Glazed cotton, pat terned with sea-shells; a denim skirt with cotton rope looped round "the hem, and a summer duffle coat made from a fabric that looked like sail canvas.
THE river Thames is one be the most varied waterways in the world. There is the Thames at the Port of London, choc-a-bloc with tugs and coal-barges, and in contrast, the Thames at Oxford, where you don't see house for miles, except an deensional lock-keeper's cottigen
There-id also the Thames suburban, swarming with punts, chocs and house bonis,, with overcrowded steamers nosing their through the lot, and sizing some of them.
Most of the dresses have a
scooped out camisole neckline which either suits you or doesn't. If you've bought one and found it doesn't, you Bil in the neckline with a choker of white china shark's teeth, one of the new. primitive' necklaces which are now in the London shops.
way
can
If you haven't bought one, you choose instead a cotton dress with
a high neckline in front, and
This
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1953.
WOMANSENSE
The
dream behind this woman's
Page
Peek Prean's Biscuits
Coronation Souvenir "THE QUEEN'S DRUM"
O
eyes
AROSTLE AND DISCIPLE
deep cut-away back, an adaptaHERE is nothing like this dame, nothing in the world. The
is the Thames that Lon- tion of the design Givenchy doners glove to visit. They showed at the last Paris collec- plenic Lon its banks at tions. Richmond or Hampton London's eligible bachelors-at Court, then hire a rowing are holding a ball at the Mayfair boat and gyrate for half-a- hotel this month. The event crown an hour,
lias caused a sensation among
the last count there were 04-
lighth
Regalia Fashions
were so
American Fashion Queen is a national top-dog of a kind that we do not bread in Britain.
counter-
Across the ocean the Fashion Quicen drives the chariot of the rag trode, keeping the public and the producers keenly relned into her wishes. She may be a rough rider, but she has made her people into the best dressed in the world.
Fashion Queen's" kingdom has no In Britain the
The bulk of part, her power no parallel, her creed no converts. British womanhood will not listen to what a Fashion Queen has to say. Recently one of the first ladies of fashion looked in on Lon- don. Miss Virgina Pope is a pearl of her kind. You can say I'm fashion president of the Fashion Group, the biggest co-ordinating agency in the States." She also controls the fashion side of the New York Times.
THERE is nothing like a Fashion Queen's face. It is a model for the millions who want to look braced and beautiful in the sixties. It has grown as old as the cosmetic crowd allows a face to grow. Her white hair has been blued and
brushed into a short bob. Her
creamed complexion is
apd cared for. Her lips are encased
She in scarlet lipstick.
has clearly done right by her pores.
The queen, has J.1 unsur- prised face. It has looked on all the bows at the back. The queen's eye is a tape measure, endlessly sizing things up.
And on her brow, the left- over traces of 20 years' thinking on how much, who for, with what and when.
HERE is nothing
FOR EXAMPLE:
THE CLASSIC product of the American fashion creed. A gir tears one of the new spring sults a copy of a Paris mode which she bought 2:00 19ooks after the Paris collections, The material is a new crusiproof cotton. The colour is the new caramel, the favourite shade in Paris. On sale in sizes to fit everyone at a price most people can afford,
"Your leathers are superb," the Fashion Queen remarked. "But costly." cald someonic. "But, my dear, a good leather n like belt is ag investment,
Fashion Queen's patter. She
A Fashion Queen must.peces-
talks seriously about "accemented the queen.
sorising our clothes" much as sarily say there is a nepr Bress
cult every face, new trimmings to fit every occasion.
a Government Minister might to suit every age, a new hat to discuss nationalising our sources. She speaks of tushion as if it were a creed-and how the liturgy Hows on.
"Good doessing gives you confidence and assurance," said Miss Pope. "It steps you up in the minds of other propic Mind you, fashion is an ort,
-Miss Pope was a picture of her own advice. Dressed in clothes that bad clearly bec tailored with her in mind she looked as zippy as an elder lady can. She wore one of the new short jackets from Paris, a new little hat, and tresh trimmings to cult a grey day
Elizabeth gets away with this year's debutantes who hadn't looking decorative, leaning realised there
many eligible bachelors in town. The back on the cushions of a organisers inust have prised some punt, while I always get hitherto unknown specimens out it's something born inside you. roped in for tarring the of their country estates.
It can be taught, but sorno in town. sides of a boat, or scrubbings? An cligible -bachelor; by people just have it, I've the floor-boards. So while London standards, must have workmen looking smart Elizabeth thinks of the river either plenty of money or a title the way they tie that
around their necks... -not necessarily both. He can nothing for practically
the blouses, during
in terms of parasol skirts live and... boat-necked trousers are my mainstay.
possesses and
Duchess as well.
season If he
dinner Jacket
ter use.
seen
here,
scurt
For a Fashion Queen is al- ways a Fashion Queen right down to her cuticles. She. never lets up. Perhaps that's why there is nothing in world quite like" þer.
Le
When a lettuce Jooks limp
a good supply of smallTHERE is nothing like the You see all kinds of trousers and with the debutantes cram- alk. For partners are scarce
way she swallows her own on the river, from the briefest of
line... shorts to wide.
A Fashion Queen must recos- flopping pin- ming their 'coming out' parties
before the Coronation, if he's sorily
expensive E Case of the Limp Lettuce striped slacks. These are worn
say that usually with a series of hand- in with the right set he can be clothes are well worth saving Leaf has opened again. What knitted sweaters, one on top of sure of several free meals a for. She can never admit that to do about the spring longing the
uther
surprisingly week, and possibly tea with the the money might be put to bet for a crisp salad when the salad and;
2011-won't stay crisp. enough, sometimes a felt hat,
The latest type to make their debut are cut like a Spanish bull-fighter's trousera, Alshing below knee level. The beruty of these tapered jeans is that they don't show beneath, your coat, so you cun walk around town in them.
June
The British sailor, for reasons of sunen folds his bell-bottomed Trousers, into
number 1
of
A “TALKING”
CLEANING
LAUNDRY AND
MACHINE
New York. By GAY PAULEY
When you want your
DID-
By
DRUSILLA. BEYFUS
Here are two fresh theories taken from a new cook book,*
Thicory
these in- stead:
vith
1.Try
She looked into the Piccadilly! travel agents, Dean and Dawson's.
"I want to go round-the-world! Scoop out a cucumber to make by cargo boat," she announced. a deep boot, moisten with an oil, Brochures were produced, prices vinegar and garlle dressing. Fill perused, routes examined Should we chopped cold meats, cheese it be via Colombo, Curução, mixed in mayonnaise.
Tahiti, or Singapore? Cut out a deep heart from a _firm_head_of_pred or white. Then all at once the dream
cabbage. Season with
oil, vanished. "Are you an in- vinegar and garlic dressing, attached female?" inquired the Chin. Cut into quarters. Fill clerk. "They don't pecept single hollows with
with ham, pickles, green women on long sea voyages by. peppers mixed in mayonnaise. cargo."
Pare an avocado pear. Cut in
Shio contacted the French line, Messageries Maritimers We don't staka single women
half lengthwise, sprinkle with She tried Thomas Cooks; The lemon juice. will with sections steamship companies don't give’ pf grapefruit, orange, stoned a reason, but they won't take olives and pimentos.
unattached women сп World tours
The Elberman Line sold: "Sorry, we can't take her unless That safety knob for ∙the
she brings another woman friend kitchen stovo... bilminates the Soon you'll be able to get ··
Theory 2-Try a new dress--or there happens to be another.
woman wanting to phare chance that a child, or adult, ing-- horizontal creases, and having the family dry-cleaning and
might turn clean-
the gas or eloc-
cabin," got this far even presses them laundry done by vending ing back, you repeat the :irlcity pocidentally. It spins FROM CIDER...one cup in make sure they stay put,machines that. "talk." cess-except this time you feed freely at a slight, touch-makes a lot ofl, one, third, cup of elder A girl we saw on the river wore a_palintofi sailor Trousers with A new type of automatic the necessary coins into the od plaything for a child as portablespoon only case
one teaspoon sugar. stitched tucks where the creases valet has been introduced mechanical valet. This gadget A matter of fact-yet won't turn paprika,
even makes change for you..
on until pressed firmly.
Combine all ingredients in a jar. PASSENHETS (ON „pango śripa”. should be, as a feminine con- in New York.
The mechanical valet was The knob eventually will be
The Holland East Asia Line cession
FROM HONEY-one.cup to Haval tradition. This "talking machine" developed by an American Arm, Available
.for niso Elizabeth as sketched her on
as relevision vinegar and garlic dressing, one repeated: Cargo.iboats? There takes or solled clothes which claims to make most of appliances such the left
and returns them cleaned the dry-cleaning equipment in sets, air conditioning units and tablespoon honey. Combine and isn't proper accommodation for shake until smoothly mixed. The woman.They would hate to Hercket was cut vaguely on and pressed or laundered, the nation. The machine operates heating equipment.
same as before with a cup of take meals the gen's mess." the lines of a yachting blazer,
en regular commercial leasel
The enamel is supposed to be roquefort cheese instead. but looked more interesting without any help except, wires of the telephone company. free of the lead, pigments and
aloping shoulderline financial.
other Ingredients which cause, The service consists of a
paint poisoning.
12 berthe ual square one,
Other Itama
those on a sailor's central control unit and *. Also on the list of new lama
11
-
other
to make life easier, or safer dre The manufacturer caya. the
In this Day and Age!
She could go on her own if abe paid twice the price and went by luxury llaer. She could o on her own if she paid half the price and travelled by tramp boots," But it would never do
rever it fastened at hip series of lockers. You speak such things as portable radios quick-drying enamel can be gHE was tree. She had been for her to travel the way she
level enormous brass buffon
Into a handset at the locker with alarm clocks, safety lenobe used on all surfaces which lake and tell the control centro for gas or electție ranges, and "Year's boating blazers, by the way, are made
what work is to be done, a ΣΤΟΠ pillow-case ticking, which is Remote control then takes portable
useful, for the fabric la nor over, the locker operis and ruined if you fall overboard.
Dorville make one edged with you déposit the clothes.
thick black braid, plus a
Vivid
and add a pair, of
ticking and
"for good measure,
Spectators can look as de- colativo they please,, so the kiļa stakilles)(you 'sed in the brg.of the yacht club, or sut aling the glor bank are pretty colourful
bt, course the geason is only beginning, and Henley Regatta set to come, but we did sec on girl wearing a jacket of red terry towel-
HELP Hoppy
straw
ther
Elizati
Jida
(on the right). spectator's clothes
́th' the ~ "how
KOHL-RABI
THAT'S A QUEER LOCKING VIJETABLES,
JOAN WHAT
O YOU DO WITH,
Пр
WASH IT
WELL, CUT OFF THE ARGEN TOPS AND SLICE THE ROOT PART
THICKLY
BOIL THE ́ ́ELICES IN'
BALTRO -WATER TH
TENDER,
BE ABOUT
toxin-free onamel.
radio-alarm combination is campers, hunters.
clocks
30 m
for tyre,
or
left a small legacy, and sho wanted to spend it on pottering Wanted to. around the world in small boats. -- Heard 'a silller story this
The
Good Saidd Book Week? „Forsfor Brabeck, Dobson, 81,
The wardrobe of The Queen
WHAT an astonishing wardrobe Mit takes to be a Queen of England for one year.
Queen Elizabeth (she became 27 recently) required these things for her
her public appearances
In
12 months: 40 hats, 10 evening dresses, 16 palca of whors, 13
handbags, oine fur coats, seven
"one
receivos special commendation by the Council of Industrial Design and as a result thereof a rare tribute
by "The Times", London in the publication of a
photograph of the Drum in the issue of 24th February 1953.
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