THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1955.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES says: I'm all for a little bit of gossip, but- BEWARE
the VOICE
of the
VIPER
PIN
PLAY, IT SMART IN.
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London,
THE saddest story of the month is the broken engagement
THE
of an invalid wöman of 43 and her fiance of 21.
"I can't stand friends visiting me," said the lady in the caso, "because of the things they tell me are being said."
My advice to the lady is: CHANGE YOUR FRIENDS. For I thought you ought to know? is the deadliest phrase in the English language. It is not the people who are talking about you who are doing you harm. The vipers are the people who-meaning oh, so well-insist on telling you what other people say.
BUZZ. BUZZ goes the fashion talk at the height of the spring season. One tople is the new jewellery and the things they are doing with beads. Above: two new necklaces designed by Adrien Mann; a fringe of pearis, and a bead necklace with tassels.
Broadly speaking, I am If the local squire buys a py, and decide the issue on its and faster. We no longer count getting really big jobs in the nylon with, wool, cotton, or thoroughly in favour of new Bentley, but won't sub- merits.
gossip.
·
•
as a Backward Nation.
shaps, Evelyn Whiteside at rayon Fortnum and Mason, Hazel These mixtures have dimble 'scribe to the cricket club... If anyone says: "I felt it was. TT BUZZES about the short "Harmond at Jay's and Pep- advantages; good looks plus or if the parson's wife voted my duty to tell you show that age of good model girls. Never, berthy's, Laurie Newton Sharp the strength which nylon adds.
never, The vagaries of human for her own dry buns in the person the'-door, ・・
say the photographers at Hamouda,
And washable pleated cotton have models been so scarce.
is going to be the fabric of the IT BUZZES with talk about summer. Strange that out of a popu- lation of 50,000,000 their are fabrics. It's fantastic what perhaps six girls with truly science is doing good new photogenic faces and the right fabric Inventions twice measurements. See two of them minute, Pat O'Reilly and
Gun- ning, above, (Come to think of it,, both are Irish.)
behaviour provide half fun in life, and it would boring and unnatural keep silent about them.
the cake contest...or if that ox be of a prizefighter is terrified to of his tiny, fragile wife- that's interesting, again.
-MORE GOSSIP -but on fashion
QUZZ, buzz goes the fashion BUZZ,
world in March. As this is The peak season in the fashion business I thought you'd like or 2 to hear some of the gossip.
If the housemaid mext door flirts outrageously with If a film star is getting the milkman (heavily mar- megalomania, or a prince ried)-I call that interest- loves a beggarmaid, ing, and well worthy of com- City magnate is bursting for IT BUZZES about the speed that
M.P.s with which A-line is catch- a peerage, or two
ment.
•
the
If the boss has a liver won't sit in the same room ing can (Other new trends too.)
attack and sacks the nicest together, they are all pro- office boy-well, that's in-viding legitimate topics of teresting, too.
Stop Those
Horrid Lies
Your Skin is Telling About Your Age
gossip.
box pleats om the hip-
There will be perfect A-line. suits in the shops by mid-April. There are cotton dresses with
line in the already. There belted After all, there are only
are lots of spring suits round hips about five things to talk If anything seems to lag. I'd about: abstract ideas, the say it was coats. Still too many arts, daily life, places and loose tent coals.
But, in general, the pace of people. Good conversation British fashion is moving faster consists of a mixture of the elements, with a good whack of it spent on people.
Most of us talk a lot about our friends and they talk a lot about us. But we do not gossip to hurt them and we do not love each other the less.
Talk that kills
But the person who re- ports gossip to the subject of it he is the mischief maker. His is the talk that kills.
You can decently say, "Harry, your work has been terrible lately.” You are giving Harry a chance to hit back.
You can say: "Don't you think Harry's work has been terrible lately? That's fair
Penature row'sfest at the comers comment (unless, meaning
Harry's boss).
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Buzz, buzz, goes
the talk about
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swimsuit
shapes. Demachy sketches chemise suit in blue elasticised Boucle.
NEW HAIR FASHION:
THE "CARESS CUT"
Atm
IT BUZZES with surprise a that the only new accessory this
beads, benda, Epring is
and more beads. There are the old multiple ropes, in brilliant new colours with a sheen on them like lustre china.
Fabrics interwoven with gold wash so well that they are even being used for swimsuits. IT BUZZES with pleasure There are new cotton's you And some new shapes in
at last more women are dorit from New mixtures
bead
necklaces, like those in the picture.
of
The Colleens Beat
Them All!
By EILEEN ASCROFT
TT'S true! The Irish girls Americans Jové the Connolly- IT'S
are the loveliest, in the Gilbert clothes for their novel-
tles washerwoman petticoats,. world. Having spent three handkerchief linens with laset days among them I am able of coavent-crocheted Lace, to report that their skins bainin weaves. But in England are milkier, their lips red, our affections are slower
more Jasting. For Us der, their, eyes more spark- fashions have a different ling and their hair blacker. peal. We like the reasonable prices and the lovely quality of There's only one thing lacking hand-woven materials.
IRISH COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS
in Dublin and that is a blonde head. But the colleens do have small waists, soft, charming voices and dancing feet
The world's most attractive mother of a
is Jarge family Irish. Seven children have not
- Bybl Connolly Irish linen duster
acad
Irish
ap-
white
coats with
spoiled Maureen O'Sullivan's shaped bustlines, giving almost
a coat-dress film-star beauty and Agure,
appearance; cock- - tall sheaths of hand-crocheted
A regular supply of Holly- lace, threaded with ribbon, and wood beauties is exported an- theatre coats of pleated paper mually from Eire and many of linen, which can be rolled in a London's model girls, among ball for packing without them Anne Gunning,Pat creasing. O'Reilly, and newcomers Rachel Severe, Maureen Trendell and Maureen O'Leary are of Irish descent.
misky
Irene Gilbert, tweeds, hand-woven in flower shades like hydrangea, blue; four- plece travel outfits in feather But not all Irish beauty is for weight Irish wools; three.colour export. One lovely colleen lang-body-line dresses, woven who stayed at home is Miss specially for the wearer all t Doon Plunket, beautiful grand- one piece. daughter of the late millionaire Ernest Guinness.
WAR OF THE
SHAMROCKS
TIME-SAVERS
COME of us manage to save money, others don't succeed and a carefree few just don't have the inclination. But there To the horizon for Irish every day.
THERE'S a serious challenger is one thing we all try to save
fashion designer Sybil Connelly.
Her exclusive Kitle world of
red
.TIME.
President Eisenhower has train flannel petticoats, green cd himself to bath, share and cloaks and hand-woven dress in 20 minutes flat, which tweeds is being successfully in word Former President, Harry
be almost a masculine vaded by Irene Gilbert,
S. Truman found himself losing Both have soft, rolling time by constantly changing brogues, Sybil is prettier, but spectacles mé switched to bl Irene has charm, often a more focals, deadly weapon in the fight for success: She also has a lot of Here are some other the
talent:
savers I have collected;
Patricia Holther, writer- America is Sybil's happiest daughter of Court. Vivian hunting ground. She few of Hollender, has a beauty tray recently with her new collec- with mirror across the bath and tion, which is bound to sell well can do her make-up while she to American stores. Irene did was
they
New York man "Its lines rise at the eye TERE Imbler's fairdressers say level then return moving for they loved her clothes, too. The Ronald Paterson, one of Lan
the shaggy hairdo must go, ward toward the cheek with The "Butch Cut is outmoded either symmetrical or asymme fashion world is fickle they dot's Top Twelve dress de The cut for spring and summer trical balance in a piquint like a new name and a freed eigners, disposes of breakfast,
called the "American cores far This cut is well-groomed, and
face.
newspapers, mail and sketches for the day all in bed before Byblf doesn't asially bother Hing while he is sale from not careless, said the National The hairdressers also forest to show in London Bilgers intruptions. Association of Hairdressers and a revival of bangs, but cutouthclintly interested in must Cosmetologists,
It provides what Ratter the dividual, face. They make the Journey to Dublin the association called, "a reveal-- also što promoting topaz zand
Irene brought he taßection to
ing kissable nécicline toe hulle te cmimpegno ames and something London January and pics
Americano caress is édentified, called peach blossom pink for orders wes the result by gleaming plateaus Cop
Higatériel mice brown
We will feature a high line at brunettes and hybemth › purple
the ere line with bf such highlights for black Fair bonment: eded:
entech the descriptions United Press.
IT BUZZES with the fact that we are getting new swim- guit shapes at last. Sibetched here by Demachy is the fashion- able chemise shape.
Miss Lydia Rowe, Yardley resident Beauty Specialist, is nore in attendance for consultation.
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