THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1958.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Dior's New Paris Look
Right: A danco' dress,' in
pale pink ross under black
spotted not, bonded with
matching black laco. A
short shoulder copo sets off the dress. Suitable also"for. cocktails or the garden party;
SHE PUT IDEALISM TO WORK
By Anne Heywood
"Iletic 'do-gooder","
66Ț'M afraid I am just an
S. M. told me, "and it's too. ind, because I have to earn my living. Yet I can't seemn to care about any business or any product enough devote my life to it.”
S. M. was
to
a very con- sclentious young woman in her late twentjes. She had an excellent secretarial job which her friends envied, and her boss was one of America's industrial lead-t
She liked working for him, and she liked her secretarial duties, especially the contact work and the
ers.
organisational aspects.
"But," she mourned, "i
do wish I could have a jou|
that gave me a feeling of helping humanity."
She had toyed around with the idea of studying sucial case work at
night
school, but this would be a long-term project and out
of
ly,
the question financial.
The Answer
The answer for S. M., and for many girls of this type, is to get into the business and organisa- tional end of a non-commercial uperation. At my suggestion, she wrote letters to the directors of the major hospitals city.
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From Christian "Dior" new,
Autumn collec *tion, Left:WA cout in black, failla, gathered: from · · cuff to
shoulder, with
Alyxqwop, stand-up Glas collar.
“A dress in fine black cloth, with a black velvet bow on, the skirt. It is cut in one the unbroken line from small stand-up collar, viaʻa to thờ moulded, midriff,
edge of the new short hom.
Sensitive Skin Needs Care
in her when
By HELEN FOLLETT
THE PIRATES
OF FASHION
By Gay Pauley
NEW YORK. tako, a chance
HE FBI, Secret Service copied,"
on its
being
the
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And Central Intel- Mainbocher · seca that ligence all could take models in his workrooms wear
a lesson in security from muslin sacks over gowns-in-the-
Russian-born Vaten Home of the nation's top making. fashion designers..
tina drapes designs on herself, not truaiing anyone else around except for the fitter, speaks only Hussian.
who
The designers guard their Fidena so carefully you'd
think they all operated with Miss Lambert said most of cloak and dagger Instead of the big designers worry less scissors and pins. And for about each other than they do about the manufacturers who good reason. A designer has eventually will copy their ideas money to lose if another into Jower - priced clothes. pirates her ideas.
Trend-setting designers would like to keep their ideas ox- Some designers cloister clusive for at least one season. their ideas in secret work-
But fashion ideas leak, rooms. Cell
designer Hattle Camegle will Chapman, tell you. famous for her dress-up clothes, docs her sketching in a room far from the fac- tory. And she is the only - person who knows its loca- tion.
Eleanor
Good Copy
"I was flabbergasted,” she re- called, "when a Fifth Avenue store window displayed a copy Lambert, of one of my suits, a week after
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spokesman for the New had sketched it. It was a very York Dress Institute's good copy too," couture group, embracing some of the nation's biggest names in fashion, said that Mainbocher and Valentina are almost as secretive.
The methods of piracy are Enjoyable Cookery any, but the most familiar
"No wonder," she added. "It a customer is paying a $1,000 or ro for a gown, a designer can't
Paris Raises The Curtain
By DOROTHY BARKLEY »
✓
LONDON. more suitable for a bride than for everyday wear. ROM now on a woman
will not be fashionable. Dlor's new short full skirt, as The merely because of the It stands, is intended for
On anyone clev clothes
The Petite woman. she wears.
It would look like a toffee apple figure must be fashionable
on a stick. too. That's the conclusion from the sketches of the new Paris styles.
But this line will be modified, es are all new fashions, before It passes into general circulo
on. The skirts will not be so full and they will be longer.
asked
one, Miss Lambert sold, is the The Hongkong Countryside (Herklots) bribery of workroom help. And Hongkong Birds (Herklots) on occasion, women posing as
to Coronation Glory reporters have been
↑ fashion show, when King George VI leave someone noticed they were
designs than Baby Book busier sketching they were taking notes.
European, designers have more protection against fashion'
It's Fun Finding Out --
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thlevery than American, the Rupert Advertures (Annual) Dress Institute spokesman ndded. Poris designers will admit American manufacturers to their showrooms only if the manufacturer contracts for at least. $1,000 in clothes. Italy's couturiers charge a $100 fee, plus a deposit on purchases,
No Copyright
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(second enlarged edition) Weights & Measurements
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Some designers are pretty philosophical about the piracy. Pauline Trigere laughed about a few days after she had dis boarding a steamer for Europe played her latest line of dressea nnd suits. She no soONCT Had come on deck than a manu- of budget priced
For whether you look at the new short length from
For evening, the slim sheath facturer Dior or the billowing
dress with a billowing over-clothes walked up to her and
mekes nows. evening skirts from Fath, skirt
Jacques remarked:
"Miss Trigere, i didn't think Fath, who designed the dress the story is the same.
Elizabeth has sketched, favours so much of your clothes this Clothes are moulded to the it. He deserts all the new season. I only saw two things I
ari
und that figure fancy figure
printed shantungs and intend to copy." must be
nylon lace, so much in evidence flat round the
in London, and chooses diaphragm and slim round older-than-fashion material -
slik. the waist.
This is fine if your measurements or o Д model's, but the outlook is not too good for those with shapely dimensions and a hankering after fashion.
Dior's new style, the cupola lines, is achieved by layers of stiffened petti- coats. It is to be seen on hia many of
coats and dresses all with the now length 17 Inches from the ground.
Nipped Waist
~
NOME complexions are enhance your eyes. Don't forget sensitive. They flare up eyes are the most expressive soap is used. They and interesting features you
have. rebel against certain cos-
A typical coat has natural This kind of a complexion is
and nipped-in due to a diet de shoulders
She is now employed as assist- |metics. In fact, they have sometimes
tor of one of the large hospitals, Her dulles are vorled. The
get flaky.
ant to the public relations direc tantrums. They sometimes ficiency. Don't fall to start the waist. Under this coat
day with orange juice, as it contains vitamin C. Once a day goes a hip-length stiffened hospital is raising money now Blondes, more than brunettes, have a green salad. Fruits and canvas petticoat; under that for a new maternity wing, and are inclined to have whimsical vegetables are beauty groceries, a hem-length petticoat, also she handles the many details in-complexions. This is because too. volved In writing to elvie the cutaneous fabric is thinner lenders, endisting their help in and more delicate. Such skin ralsing the money. She also requires a lot of petting if it is works on press releases, giving to retain youthful loveliness.
about the activities news
volunteers, otc.
of
Soup should be carefully
selected, One may prove more congenial
than another. Hot
S. M. gets a tremendous outlet water is no help to such problem
stiffened. Pockets and cross scaming at hip lovel further emphasise the waist.
The
coat with the layer- od petticoats,
NSTEAD of lamenting about season, may be its debut hits
the high cost of perfumes, a în any one of woman would do well to look the fashionable
materinis
SACHETS IN MANY FORMS which makes
for interest in people by inter-skin. Have it just warm enough viewing the volunteers, assign-
them to the department to Rap will lather. Rinse with
for them, and water, dry gently and into the subject of sachets,
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which is right
to their
com
apply a soothing cream,
even listening
They come in many forms. breadcloth The more cream used the You can buy the bulk product, flannel, tweed plain's. Sho
ery legs better will be the super schedules for personnel, and in
effect. Put sprinkle it on closet shelves and or one of the print her free time, gone through the on a light film, tap it in, work in dresser drawers. Or you can new. wards, chatting
bags and all woollen fabrics. you could, lam if you see a
with patients and, in general, raising murale.
from the Beck upward, maka tile ing Make a second application and them with
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of
do more slapping and spanking. If you sie If you have tried the commer- It sometimes happens that 0 thread girl you can purchase Dior enthusiast. cial world and found it lacked | crearn rouge will be more fancy little sachet pillows to go the whole something for you, don't give up neceptable than the dry type place in glove and, hat boxes, way and wear and consider yourself a failure. Put it on in tiny dols over the and in your lingeris drawer. bustie 'under Instead, turn towards the checks, then bload them to
There
are also Prudly Hitee the double service fields, such as hospitals, other. Do not form a round fragrant sachiet baily for coat layer reacarch foundations and fund-pattern. Nature doesn't do that, hangers. They will Impart a Boats.
as a rule. raising organisations. You will
sweet fragrance to the clothes shoved such a be using the same skills; you Sweep rouge under the eye closet and all its contents. one in while will be throwing away none of and outward, then come down One of the specially nice grosgrain. T your experience; and you will on the check and go back to things about machista ia thai they whole effect feel that your efforts are being starting point,, forming anover stain fabrics, as the best was startling generally the perfumes; and tellet wataw do sha devoted to a cause for which triangle. The higher up
Fapplication, the more it will sometimes,
consi
you can care,
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Best Effect
To give this dress its best effect it should be worn by someone with a slim waist and fat diaphragm.
season
French designers have carried over from the summer their preference for printa. New woollen prints are now making their name in the place of the traditional Bilk and cotton prints.
Plain fabrics and long-haired materials have printed designs in contrasting colours. Black n comac is a popular choice.
Some materials achieve printed effect with two tones of the same colaur. Others have moire designs, perhaps black on black, which give a watered effect like that on more taffets. Many havo ribbed or woven "red-bark" designs.
If the revival of the cloche la
gone
slow to catch on it must be won't have it. And partly the fault of Englishmen. They
taken for once, women, have note of masculine criticism. Ie- marks about Inverted paper bage and upturned flower- pota have home.
Bo naturally we were begin- ning to think that the cloche had been reid- rated to Imbo of for gotton fastilons. But not For it has re- ceived a boost from
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