THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1955,
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Bloomer Girl-1955 Version THE NEW ITALIAN WAYS
It's inspired by grandma's bloomer bathing suit, but is streamlined, flattering and definitely 1955.
American model Brends Parkinson above wears
one of the latest bloemer playsuits in pink and white pencil-striped cotton, patterned with tiny sprigs of flowers. The top is *Tirapless for sunbathing and shaped for figure control. The pretty fared bloomer-line is most flattering to the girl who is not so altin on the hips.
-{London Express Service)
London. TOTHINGTM new. under
Nthe sun? Don't you be
lieve it. For provided there is a spot of sup this summer Italy's top de signers have produced several startlingly new things to wear under it.. They showed some of them at an exhibition recently.
The exhibition was at Kingston-on-Thames near London, once just a pleasant little market town where the kings and queens of England were crowned, now a. busy over-grown suburb which boasts one of the best department stores outside London.
It was like stepping into a corner of Italy: banks of flowers filling stone vases, . pictures of sunlit scenery on the walls, and even gondola-genuine Venetian, brought straight from the city of gondolas, cost price £400,
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If this sort of thing is going to spread then- auburbia here I come. A trip round the exhibition was as good as an hour's window shopping in Rome or Florence.
Artistic Touch
Fashion
news was straw and in shirts.
WITH STRAW
A selection of Italian ways with straw: tapered slacks, in straw embroidered cation; sandals with straw trimmtor; circular straw skirt woven in a shell pattern; and a roomy stegw
handbag with bamboo handles.
in
pockets
variety of intricate designs Another unusual way with as in the States, production of
is seen on the slacks ready-made dresses years made with a variety of straw was
illustrated here. They introduce ahead of the Continent. .coloured straw. There was a new black cotton--shape- But there were other things one, brilliant green,, woven retaining as well as handsome, beside fashion at this exhibition.
which in in a delicate shell pattern ilver coloured straw.
has a woven design in There were Italian goods food, Yellow leatherwork, glass, pottery, WD- one The and
trellis-work patchwork rama
trims the brellas in such variety that yellow and
rafia the Italian
them "ivere new
There were cheese-tastings
wine tastings. Sandals, as you see from the food
tranged
such illustration, can be decorative as enticing way that housewives were on a shopping well as practical when trimmed felt they
They have holiday. There must have been the Italian way. tough leather soles and strape, quite a few, families who bad are topped with white daisies spaghetti and Italian cheese. for or a fringing of natural coloured
supper walle the exhibition was straw A piece of trippery an ideal for a holiday wardrobe- but not for town, please.
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Italians use straw artisti- squares of pink alternating pobbles, the ankle fastening. They fessed some of Ambassador Co cally for everything from with silver. Depending on are cut on the tapered lines of to him. the trimming on a sandal to the weather, Italian girls current fashion. the covering for a chianti wear them with a long bottle and, believe it or not, sleeved sweater in fine black for skirts. These were full, wool, or a short sleeved cot either circular semi- ton blouse-but beware of circular, and woven in a cigarette ends!
or
different countries
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The second of a' series on how girls in
budget on 212 for a smart outfit
IT'S "A VERY MIXED BAG"
FOR
Paris.
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BE
your clothes in Paris,
is
THE GIRL IN PARIS
By MARION BARWICK
what
Gloves
£ 9
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Stew also made capacious handbags with bambon bandles, and colourful, realistic postes for your buttonhole or dressing- table,
Striking Shirts
Not so hacky were those who looked for off-the-peg cotton 1-10 dresses,
The few in the Ex- 18 @hibition were expensive by our standards. For in Italy, as in
Shirts were the next stem to be given the. Stalian look. They were made in cation so fine that It felt almost like a They them, Jacqueline smiled apolo- bad the
authentic stiff
with tailor's Hoedi getically: "I'm sorry. I haven't and cuffs, even got enough left to buy you canvas to bald their shape, and double tramline stitching on the She settled on a skirt, sweater, gloves. "I know it doesn't a coffee the Mecca of the fashion shoes, and, if possible,
Here are the varicus items seams. Patterns were striking gloves exactly go with the skiit," she ber new said, "but it'll look wonderful which Jacqueline bought and most ao, a design, of bridges and conscious girl, may sound and stockings, for
etched in black on a skylines ack, with my suli." It was a pull their respective costs:
blue ground--typically Italian wonderful. But when you separates. Her sult was black, wit
so she decided to choose on cloche type with a wired
and a good find for the souvenir are a working-girl, like and
gay colours to go with it. The brim and a mock leopard-skin' Skirt.
Foolish but fun" was Sweater
unter. 4 Jacqueline, who earns an skirt,
she thought, should be a crown. average of £85 to £40 a plaid with black and green in it. our verdict on this thirty Shoes
she shilling piece of frivolity. month as a secretary, it Wednally found or wallss De
This left us with 18s 0d, just Hat wanted in the almost as much of an im-
big store. partment of
enough for a pair of 15-denier Stockings (With possibility as for someone small waist, the same skirt nylons.
her
Tired but happy with all her living across the Channel in the "adult" departments was
"bits and pieces as she called Prices all round are high in far too big for her.) It was Paris, and Jacqueline, living very fine woel, pleated all round In beautifully lack and at the flat pleats that alone in a tiny flat, is often gave it a hard-pressed to make ends same time plenty of room meet. Not that her rent. is movement. The price: £2 10s Od. Jacqueline was delighted. terribly high, but every as the had expected to spend thing else, especially food, far more on this, her main item. is incredibly expensive. Her Next we went in search of a bright lunch costs her anything sweater. She chose, a
green high-nocked style, which from ten shillings for
picked up one of the colours in salad snack to a pound or the skirt. This was more ex- over for something more pensive: £3 4 0d. -substantial.
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for
SHERRY AND BLACK Then came, the question of And so Jacqueline has to limit herself very severely when shoes and gloves. They had
of said
a
it comes to buying new clothes. be the same colour, but what? Prices are extremely high, even Jacquelize decided on the de- for the simplest things, things lightful new sherry shade. "It which may well be copied goes well with anything," she
firmly, and makes abread and sold at a
Little dressmakers change from blacks. I Think I'll the price, wattle Found the corner are chennern get away from court shoes just this once, too. I'll have sante Jacqueline told always very busy, and I haven't flatter ones. They'll look equally yet found one to take mng, she with my new
on well with my black suit and So when she goes shopping,
In branch of has to concentrate on separates tore, we found a a charming pair that will blend in well with her store, existing wardrobe. Here again, life is rather difficult for her.
me,
17 for her, limited
"but
"'re an
which
multiple
call
of what the
Parisians moccasins With 2. dny, flattle ial. hsel, in sherry suede, they had.
of white
was emphasised saddle-stitching. Just Ado walking you
Jacqueline," smiling happily at the astonish- ingly low price of £3. (Court shoes would have cost her. least £4 10s 0d for a pair
None of the stores budget and an unusual cus tossed with she has to spend a great deal time shopping around before she discovers what she wants at right for all the wall
the price she can afford. In fact, it is impossible to get an outfit for £12 in Paris.
VALUABLE ASSET.
in Paris,
sald
Sverige left with £8
Before we set put on our Out of this, we bought a pair shopping expedition, Jacqueline of washable leather cuffed can't really buy a new gloves 10s Od. They were top-to-toe outfit. That would the same colour as her shoes, be far too expensive. Even aand really looked so much like simple woollen dress would cost pure suede that it was almost me at least £9 or £10. So
believe they were
12'11
have to be things to go
to:
with myoDERZON-Wat-handba
phire, it'll probably t turn out to be a very good quality deau
mixed bag" Her suit, & well although cheap at around the tailored, datelent style had been 23 10% od mark, wer
of out made the year before, and had tunately out of the read cost her around £23, It would budget Go Jacqueline decided be a valuable asset for years to on a new het, ermin inkop come
Game
colour as her, shoes, and
£12
00 France, the s
round the co
Supreme
me and there is itttle des mand for ready-made dresses the shops
It is still the local dreasmaker, not the big fashion concern, who popularies Dior. So Italian off-the-peg cottonR could not hope to compete with
own-bor would they' seriously attempt it. In Britain,
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