THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1955.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
The Queen's Gowns Go Into The
Fire
Lonion.
TOWNS worth as much
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£400 are BURNED in the furmures at Burking- hur Palace when they are no longer wanted by The Queen, Princess Margaret, Į or the Queen Mother.
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WHEN IT'S A HAIRDO-INSPIRATION STARTS IN LONDON From Couture
Here it again -- proof that although Parts may still be the fashion centre of the world, all the new inspiratlan for Inter- national hairdressing comes froin London. These three attractive hairdressing styles by French were shown in London last September, And Bieɔ have since Inspired new hairdos for 1955 in America.-London Express Service.
Anne Edwards And Drusilla Beyfus Go Sleuthing
THE HUSH-LINE
HITS FASHION
And the Master Minds go cloak-and-dagger
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at Langa, Kent
week before the dress shows open in Laoulan, Reme, nud Paris; the week you never hear about.
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stre, mherited some of The tuls of King George V1.
"Mont +] Com 1 ara presented to Servire institutions.
473 museums
A Buckingham Palace oferal Nast The Sudingson at royal cloth would lend to unwelcome medianetzkalisation. and become 243 ubting of royal dignity. “
London Express. Nerpice.
HECTORY.
werk-end bawbridge up elusel,
every
vi to vefted, every model girl tatomas to servety, and even the tudine Ites searched. As the big
weeks approaches the orders were going out
Everyone who claims to be It dress designer - denly her mes a clonkaml-
Leek up the mudel girls: "I dagger figure behind an in- datab teen tulking to you. credible smoke-screen of a mudel giri Dexter Vaughan So closely hulden the " even supposed are their plans, so mysteri- to talk to callers on the tele- pitone. They are afraid we may us their movemen you give away thing about the
Ew collection."
Keep Stoke-out ኔ Thuse windo
They say that sples aten negat up a telescope i Hes My Hurtheil etri en mauve on widows opposite Christian
Der's workroom. lo See guras Thas tals "
materials he was usinig.
might
Think each one of then was guarding atom formula.
or
fl
Spring Hat From Paris
Emma Pierron presents this broad-brimmed hat in her Spring Collection. It is in black and whille grosgrain; under the brim bangs a pretty rosa.- Agence France-Presse.
SQUABBLING LEADS
"TO
SQUABB
TOOTHACHE
what
Watch the models clothes at the arcensory show At Fath they are the girts in black sik Chehla int when they duploy the belts 414 shore and hats they don't give away any chies about hom lengths or neckines
Sealed lips
Oh, what a hullabaloo Dyer 4 hem, what a shemozzle over a new dress shade, what a Brou- haha about a button!
her 1fc the four things most wonien wunt to be it world-famous beauty; top- light actress; a mother, and a grandmother.
2
electric lights and cold droughts, But it la my job,
"People ask me why I don't retire cash,
of course. Why does anyone work, really? If 1 rould have afforded to, I would have given up the theatre years
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ON BLING
BEAUTY: "Fortunately it had nothing to do with me one's looks are 19 mutter of chance and unalter- ble, so there is nothing to worry about and nothing to bơ done about 11.
Lucky me...
but it
Ada
An
Work To Wholesale Trade
London. Claridges in Brook Street there is
exclusivo dress shop where the
customcra in- chude visiting American i film stars and "pillars of 1 English society", They may order a single dress or
complete wardrobe und pay up to £200 for one out-
fit.
for
Running the shop und designing the clothes the last nine years has been Mrs Jean West, a lively dressmaker with a mop of black curls. But from now on her customers will have ready-made dresses, costing five or ten pounds each. For Mrs West has gone Into the wholesale business.
"People want off-the-peg clothes nowadays," sho ex- p'ained. "So many of my customers have asked good, plain dresses at a low
for
priee that I have decided to go in for wholesale design- ing."
to build
GOOD LINES She also hopes up an export business in her new ready-made clothes, and her first overseas Inquiry camerently from Hong- kong. One of the big stores there asked to see sketches of the designs and samples of the materials.
Mrs West likes simple clothes, with good lines and nut too much trimming. She hopes shell give value for money. Several of her [cation dresses are sold with matching petticoat-unusual for a wholesaler, They normally expect you to supply your own. And this duesn't skimp. One of her dresses measures aight yards round the hem.
A SNAG
"But it did affect my career, I became stamped as the Picture Postcard Girl-which was good publicity at the time—and be- cause of my looks people re- fused to believe I could be a All about Gladys serious actress.
They gave m parts as a pretty girl, by Miss Cooper took
She chooses materials for cok yours to convince them
their character as well as their SRE IS 36 and has been in was anything mare,"
good looks, One she is using at ON CHILDREN: "By far the the moment is un angora wool most
satisfactory part of cloth, strengthened with nylon
life. And wrink
then her
to prevent the hairs from falling arandchildren. My children are out. Another is a "spot resistant" rown up now, but I see them velvet there's no fear of Gladys Cooper conducted the all the time. It is nonsense marking it when you press it interview in her dressing-room: say that an actress can't have a with a damp cloth.
Nonsense, or Imperious, private life. tellextual theatrical and aristocratie, admission of defeat,"
ON slightly formidable → and every
BEING A SUCCESS bit aware of Just what she is, "Natu
*Naturally
being I enjoy
a Mrs West has already found has been, and wil be.
Fleets--and I think myself vary the first snag in turning from ON ACTING. on children, lucky to be one silli (she open-couture work to There was not a weak link to on being a beauty, on being a
the wholesale ed in a new play last week).trade ... in climbing down the be spotted in the defence. And
success her voice rang out, fuli The drawbacks are the same in business ladder, instead of up. there was nut a new idea
of conviction:-
any profession: If you become a Some of the prospective buyers sight: not co much (1ኛ buckle or a halepin,
"I wanted to be a vet when 1 success, In a sense you become have been frightened away by The salona
was young, hot an actress. If I public property. And if you the shop's opulent surroundings, shrieked with emptinosa. had been a vet I would probably annoy the public, you ecase to thinking the dresses would be
True, at Balenciaga's you may have done very well at it, be
"pricey." model girl shipping onl
CHUST I have a strong will. of the design room. What's that power and wanted to succeed. amazing while pirment she s "Acting itself isn't all that's Pin? Maybe it's a hint of Interesting to me. I hate all Air 11's next collection? Alas,
rehearsing, waiting about, It's a shroud which she must È punt on every Ume she leaves the en room to hide what Mr B. Indretning up underneath.
Not even sickness is allowed fo break the scaled lips pign. Pierre Balmain, the man who makea dresses for the Duchess cf Kent, is laid low beenuse of a ski-ing accident. every-
K
Pierre, don't RD,
"
İR NEW
Cint-
("Dear une picoded "you'll break a ling and then what of the dresses,**
Bul Pierre went.
Now his
out of his
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aick-bed is movel comfortable private house into his offices so that nobody will be able to catch a glimpse of his designs in transil A Dior's you can almost hear the hum of taut nerves ant fraying tempers--but there's over an outward algn of what it is all about.
The iris who work there have to wear their Old Look- 1st reason's hair style, dress, and make-up. For the New Look is a deep, dark,secret, and! will only appear on the day of the dress show. (Wait for I, giris.)
Clamp-down
What of Dior himself?
"He works ceaselessly night and day in his studio with only n Bttle chicken
on a tray t Eustain him," said one of the Dior alles.
Perhaps. M. Dlor had left ecmo Word about the future? "Ah yes" enld the side,
He adds that most chronte] QUABBLING parents are
Aha; at-lust. Perhaps this was dental discaso mainly responsible for sufferers from
are children and young people collapse of the survey semion.
the rapid decay of their whose parents are estranged or But no The moyangu is a children's teeth,
Bays
a divorced."
letter in the Britlak, Dental Journal.
masterpiece of bunkum in 31 words. It says that
We must In other cases, he noted, watch out for the escapo
of R where parents and teachers quick, fashiont for gay
for
aumiere
have "inordinato ambitions””
the
be a success.
"I can never understand why prople apologise for asking for an autogaph-1 think how depressing It would be if no one wanted one's autograph."
TONKINESE STYLE
The writer anya that where there is disharmony in the their children; and, aro Con Cominmled a ploy official", "I home, dental disease is rampant stanily urging thera, to mantal hever, could make sense of it, Espolla ba *axdctly in proportion to the efforts beyond their capacity, in either French" of English --*| degree of apprehension."
dental disease, lá, also provalenk, but it is all ho: will, aty
school of dressmaking where She was brought up in the old
every silich was sewn by hand and everyone had a time- honoured dislike
for the machine. But she has been won over by the machine. She finds modern machines so good that they produce batter work than is possible by hand. And they spare the seamstresses' eyes,
Helping her is Pam Fitzgerald, in 23-year-old society girl who has forsaken her diamonds and champagne background to sell clothes. Pam arrived at the shop as a customer and stayed to work, Sho has
her Own techniquo. Instead of taking swotches and samples with her when she visits store buyers, she puts on ong of the dresses, models it in front of the buyers, and asks if they would like to buy it.
WHERE TO?
Though Me West's styles are up-to-date, her workroom anything but modern. She sur- rounder "hermalf with Victorian knick-knacks, picked up at odd moments when browsing through junk shops.
There is a lattice-work wall- paper, sprigged with roses, and black and white curtains, edged with broderio anglaise. Опо corner is lit by a gas mantle, be- cause she profore this to electric light. In another corner, sho Ang has parked a wout cart and Chaos hurt model on li rescued - the aurt from an antique shop after discovering that it once belonged in Queen Alexandra. She dusted it,
It a coat of paint, then installed it in
her shop.
Mrs West came to this shop from Cambridge, where there's a family falloring and dressmaking business, started by her father and carried on now by her brothers,
Whato, ho goes from Brook Street depends on her personal- export drive..
Dorothy Barkley
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