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| CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1954.
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THE KELLY LOOK
By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES ·
New York, AROM the day I landed in New York I wanted to meet Grace Kelly. Be
I went I cause wherever heard her talked of as the now American beauty. The same aura of success that Burrounded Andrey Hep burn two years ago hangs round Grace Kelly now.
It's not only the success of a magic career-six juctures in 12 monks, including Mogambo and Rear Window, and all the most men from leading Rorgeous Gable to Granger
More than that, she has be come the pace-sitler for all the
I. lunched with Grace Kelly, can define this trend for so I you pretty accurately:
Grace Kelly has soft blond hair which waves back from her faceso look for 'waves in the hair for the first time since the 'thirties
And if under the
They admire her here not only for there qualities, which Hked, but for others which I personally care for less.
"She's got class," they all told me before I met her.
" "She's a lady. "She's got refinement." "Sho's got polse
SHE WEARS very little
I admit I began to dread our moeting because class, indies, make-up--so look for soft, light lipsticks, natural nail polish, refinement and poise are not unplucked eyebrows.
my meat and never will be. you have blue eyes
But I think her admirers are unfair to her. brows, you're in luck.
She is a bit Indylike for an English taste, but this is offset by a young and founching eagerness.
Feminine clothes
SHE LIKES simpló, but rather feminine, clothes, day dresses with velvet bows, long evening gowns rather than short
OneS
So look for the return of soft dresses and of full length even- scen which I have ittg dressea
went on
"If I were asked what is the most wonderful thing to do in all the world." she told me with real emotion, "I would say: "To For the girlhood or Ameren
watch Margot Fonteyn dance.
in Africa, "I loved" filming in girlhood of America likes to live ideal by the Image of KOMO
she said, "because beauty.
several safaris. The men had Two years ago American girls
everywhere In New York. to go into the bush to hunt for -young or not-so-young, blg especially where the company food and I would string along."
And when or small-feed cropped was mostly young.
a trolley For
A soft voice, their hair into the pixle wispa
SHE HAS
fabulous, mountainous cakes that sulted the enchanting sweet smile, and good manners, came round with the coffee our Audrey Hepburn so well.
so jook hopefully for these.
eyes met across the table.
freed
They squeezed their bodies, tall or
short, fat or thin, into pants and shorts and boyish ittle Butts, Now, for better or worse, it's the Kelly Look that's
on the way in.
gentle dominate Wo
A soft, fembrine,
going quality is
American fashion
IS YOUR HUSBAND'S PAY PACKET KEPT A SECRET?
THAT
money trouble again.
Y, mother of
By ELIZABETH parkenham
housekeeping
Then comes the crux:
how much he
"I
is causing don't know
I don't know how Writes Mra carne.
I just feel an entirely much he saves. male family: "My husband I can't carry on any longer, and sons are earning good I've even thought of work money and yet I can't pay ing my passage to Austra- up
every week there's lia, to leave them to find out always something to pay the cost of living." out of next week's money.
Those masculine sealed
"If my sons treat me as their father docs what's going to happen to their wivest"
Here's a problem for us all. It is not enough to turn out boys who are good sons. Wo hove to turn out a good husband too for someone else's doughter.
The
START YOUNG
"I've asked my husband lips ... They are a "perk" young. Give him a to give me more. but he long treasured by the lorda
says I shall gut less before of creation. A time-honour- I get more."
ed perk, but honoured.
The Big Twelve's Spring, Summer Collections Are To Open Soon
not
sense
start
of
suro way is to
him into zome of the family family responsibility early. Let secrets concerning "cans" and
"We wife "can'ts."
can't
afford that." "We can rise to this."
Tako presents. In out-sized For what happens under family Lady Pakenham has this regime of the "secret eight children, we have had to come"? Mrs Y is faced nx a "celling for all presents. with a Chancellor of the The children know that limit.
And before they choose Exchequer even more tight particular present they make lipped than the hero of sure it doesn't exceed it.
Cocktail Party Budget Day.
At Lord
MUM IS THE WORD
That Chancellor won't speak beforehand. But, the
ull.
Mayor's House domestic one won't speak at
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any
Sounds cold-blooded? Any- way, I hope that when the boys marry their wives won't have to go to Australla in order to teach them the cost of living! Not that family responsibility always works out as one ex- Today my young pects,
shan't announced: "We
troney have to worry about
Mummy. I've just sent Come to think of it, a now, London.
statesman who adopted Mr for a machine that turns out £1 So- Incorporated
Y's methods would get short notes by the thousand. And It
only costs la 3d!" of London
shrift. Fancy presenting But £ s.d a.only one side of Designers, Lon- Fashion
the Budget without know family responsibility, Chlidren
"fair shares" must learn don's "Big Twelve," are to
olher directions too. give a cocktail party for ing the Estimates? foreign buyers at the Man-
Telety
Yet that is something sion House, home of the like Mrs Y's predicament. Lord Mayor of London, on She knows the cost of liv-
ing, but not the family in-f January 28.
come.
The party is being ar ranged in connection with como →
He knows the in
but not what it's the three-day openings of got to cover. It's a case of the Big Twelve's spring and the ignorant leading the summer fashion collections blinkered,
29.
January 27, 28 and
It is belleved to be the first time that the Man- sion House, stroilghold, of the city of London, has
Any suggestions? Hera pro two. First, for couples. Uke the Ys, whose silver wedding is in sight.
PARTNERSHIP
We can't expect all secreilve husband to reverse the huvits of a married lifetime. If they
heen opened to a non-elty Insist on remaining despots, int
organisation.
Lord Mayor,
least let us have benevolent despots. But why not have a Mr shot at partnership after all! For the newly-wed, I urge from the
Sextiour Howard, in fullr
grali will receive, the
with theiLady Mayoress,
Peter Thorneyetoft, y shared knowledge
the Board of Trade,
and
Lady
start. But with the proviso that the wife remembere 'the.
strings" atluched.
Tony and They are throt (1) Not to
porated Society of London
lash out when her claim to be a "good manager is queried:
Ton! Doelgers 15,26 be decreet, treating her
plats; Holonging to
on
knowledge as a "family, Bal
of London may, he not bomparing notes all round; will belude forel (*) Never lo argument to her knowledgen seminat ilim.
not tha?
attending, tho' foallon FOLATLA
Bety of the hottie
-(London Express Service).
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FAVOURITES OF LOFTY GIRLS
WHO
London,
11in) tells me the loudest
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rules for tail giris:
are the favourite London abono, to the tail ghris kas & managing director with a women of the Taller ixe to grind, Mr. G. G. Girls? Mostly near-six- Herring is himsel Ort, Ain, and footers, it seems,
has two, six-foot daughters.
dry Waste fashion The 2000 st ciation for Tall havb, achl the list suading K cater for held d members
Elk unbroken lines that Inhet tra tín contrast: Belt of the or Jumper-sulp line to the long look, rý
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INTS
Grace Kelly
"I will, if you will," we spid In one breath.
Well, that's my forecast of the way the American girl whit look and behave in 1955.
And as American Zashions have a way of moving East, I suspect that the English girl too is going to wear soft hair, soft clothes, natural make-up.
But will she go all out for coolness and class and poise? I wouldn't care to guess. 1 hope not-it sounds so dull. it's tough at the top How would you like to carn 1 from £40 to £60 a week as a top-light American private secretary? You'd give your cars for the job?
I wonder. I've just been talk- ing to one.
"SHE has been secretary to the same man for 22 years.
SIE never took a day off for lness for the first 17 of them.
SHE worked far into the night and most week-ends during the early. years.
Site nover plans a holiday. Just takes time off when the boss goes away.
SHE spends most of her day answering three phones and the boss's buzzer.. She decider who shall see him or talk to him.
names
SHE docs all his typing. No- body else can read his writing.
SHE knows the Christian
of all his friends and their wives, remembers the birthdays of his family, and does all his Christmas shopping.
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