WEEK-END
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1955.-
WOMANSENSE
*********** Don't be too depressed by the Dior news curves may be out by day... but ....... but
Ah, But At Night Just Watch The Flounces!
Robb
D
JUST BACK FROM HIS TOUR OF EUROPE'S FASHION CENTRES TO SUM UP THE BIG CLASH OF IDEAS
ON'T be too depressed by the Dlor fashion nowa. True there is the elim Y-line
true the docree is "straighter and flatter," but remember that the fight for your fashion fancy is always o struggle between Dior and The Rest
And what have The Rest boon up to? I am just back from ITALY with a portfolio of drawings and my story from there is that by day you may go narrow and flat but by night nothing can be too glamorous.
type.
If you are the femining Short wide skirts of two or
on three tiers of go . you can
folds und being feminine. A small flounces put the accent on waisted beauty can go on youth. being small-waisted -and beautiful.
The young look goes into the choice of materials You can see how things and embroidery. Different are going by a glance at my colours blend-or clash-in drawings straight from the each dress. Black is teamed Italian fashion centres. with orange, blue with
green, pink with red.
For evornings, small stiffened bodices stand away from the natural bust linë.
THE TUNIC
FOR
EVENING
IN VELVET. It is belied and, buckled across the bust to emphasise the long line,
Different materials are team-mates too. Velvet goes with taffeta, Batin with chiffon. The one material, one colour dress is out in Italy, except for the more sophisticated..
These are very much in the grand manner-stiff beli erinolines to the floor or tight figure-gripping "robes de-style" with enormous puffed-out trains.
H-line, cleverly avoided by Dior but taken up by the rest. Jackets and coats are straight, narrow tunics, with the stroke of the II moved up. High buckles and drapes exaggerate the long look from bust to hem.
But the accent is
Skirts are narrower than on youth, and this the coat hem and under the will be the dancing shorter (but still long) jacket they are sometimes tiered. Colours are dull, all
year.
In the daytime the greys to black but no the long line is blues; and no colour con- predominant. This trasts.
is
natural de- It will be a dull outlook velopment of the by day this winter!
BY DAY IT'S TUNICS AND TIERS
DOUBLE-TAKE—-
THE YOUNG. IDEA
AND THE
GRAND MANNER
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IF YOU ARE YOUNG you will look good in the soft silk-and- taffeta creation on the left. The stiffened bodice stands away from the natural bust and emphasises the glory of the skirt. And colours! The three tiers of the skirt are in two blues and pale illac, over a petticoat of pale lemon. The petticoat's fulness goes to each alde, making the drew very wide. IF YOU CAN USE THE GRAND MANNER you will look grander in the rich lame brocade dress on the right. It is designed to har your figure, but the enormous puffed train conceals a slit at the back of the skirt which allows you to
move freely.
Be Lovely
London Collections Spring A Surprise!
By Dorothy Barkley
London. bottle green. For evening he
black highs
highlighted "with_ T first sight it seemed liked
"The world may tease me Top about my sequins," he admitted. Twelve designers had But that only encouraged him to nothing in common. They use them all the more.
bo had pink sequins
ALL THE WAY... shown by London's
THE day coat on the left has a long narrow tunio fasten- -ing with three but. Lons at a collarless neck. The straight sorrow skirt is two
inches longer than the coat,
The
three-tier sult on the right s In black wool. The
fastening of the tunio jacket is con- cealed below TIASTOW 3in. wido panel. The straight akiri is in two tiers with the tunio panel continuing to
tho hem.
Housewife Fills Her Scrapbook
With Notes From Celebrities
New Brighton, Pa.
letterheads, nevertheless. An RS Lottie McComb gets answer from Pope Pius XII was written by his secretariat but
Matters from chiefs of included his blessing.
state and como of the brightest stars in the enter- tainment world because she
Former Fremdent Truman sent.
from Mrs Eisenhower-this one thanking her for "such a lovely card" sent on the occasion the Eisenhower 38th wedding anniversary,
This
offered a variety of lines covering boaters, and cerise and pegged with a variety of covers
magenta quins decorating 1 names, Hero the high motoring wrap for evening
there showed
With this collection, Hartnell waisted empire line,
the new costume
The "caviar" hat is in tortoise-shell fell shaped Into & cloche and strewn with jet beads. By Rudolph.
the chrysalis line, elsewhere jewellery which he has designed hitting one-piece dress. One was
a reminder of the low for sale throughout this country. waisted long torso line.
and for Australia and South in black satin with a fitted top
.M...
•
THE STEP LINE.
But at second sight all these "Africa. lines boiled down to the same thing. Though the waist may have been high, low or in its natural position, the law was slim and sheath-like.
Moving
and box pleated skirt, another.
in bright Aye lace
threaded with plastic gold
Digby
Morton showed A on_from embroidery "chrysalis slihouette for day. design to jewellery is a natural
and
wrapped, *
Lions accessories, 100, there development. His most unusualed at shoulder and knee,
was just ຄະ
the greatest
surprise
variety, and design was a long string. of This, as he explained, became of the thinestones which crested over the butterfly line for evening, collections was the comeback the bodice of a black velvet with voluminous, spreading skirts ot the crazy hat.
dress and wound round the arms. on bail dresses,
Paterson launched the Bying saucer hat, two large flat circles
Victor 8tlebel showed an in- Certain to be a winner with Introducing American women were his thick "bas calls
'reilet"
in course unbleached
ho
of velvet
sandwiched together wing collection nited with chiffon. Rudolp; murals, are 272. Digby Morton's milliner, sho
and
clothes,
These Moc mede doon through sweaters, boldly
dimensional wool. The designs come from the stovepipe hat, a cone of felt straight and But at the book, Ireland and are of the traditional rising to a high point for the moulded in the front. He slyle knitted for the Aran girl who wants to add inches to showed it on dresses and jackets, shermen. Digby Morton spotted her height, and the caviar hat, Ronal Paterson unveiled them on a recent trip. He lined a novelty in tortoise-shell"delt shaped into a cloche and strewn with jet beads,
ANOTHER_COMEBACK
what he called the Step Line, them with paisley patterned jutting-out step above the waist blouse and tweed skit, This was interpreted by a wool, teamed them with a paisley
"in front and below the waistline at the back. But this was only
a trimming to the basie line itself which was trim and figure-fitting.
g
Colours designers
were the chie
Another surprise was the re turn of the seven-eighth length
Nearly all
cont.
showed it, though it varied from novelty here, with "baby blue" the everyday version in tweed the winner, and a dramatic at Hartnell's to the evening combination like almond grem verski
in belge lace at Digby with purple a runner-up. Morton's.
Most original fabric idea was For the wary, who avoid in his use of south-west African Trvations, the classic suit still Persian lomb. He dyed it gravn ran through all collections. and made it into a slim suit, Norman Hartnell built his edged with matching knitted collection round a line featuring braid.
Hnedy Amies took the jumper moulded bustline, naturally
10:10, atte
and skirtširio Lov as the theme to his collec-
then fared to the hemline, which clung round the hips and tion and showed it on evening.
...: as well) as day dreasts,
Skirt For day his favourite colour and bodice were joined at the
and hip-line to make Bago
A mooth-
a personal note, thanking Mrs Mossgow from Bob Hope, was green-mint, MoComb "most sincerely" for Hopalong Cassidy and Ann remembers their birthdays remembering his 70th birthday. Blyth also: are in Mrs Mc~ |
and anniversaries..
In her scrapbook · are from such personages as Sir President Winston Churchill. Eisenhower and Queen Eliza-
select
It was, signed, "Cordially yours, Comb's book, along with a note notes Harry Truman.”
from former Vice President Perhaps
the chummiest Alben Barkley that says ""Thank response
came
from King You-all.” Frederick of Denmark after Mrs McComb sent him a birthday Mrs McComb tries to beth, II, interspersed with card. The note was written in tards to fit the personality of
thank you's from such show business figures are Bing Crosby Danish Translated by a neigh the recipient, Royalty, Loe Is
bour, it read::
stance, receives, plain, veresžogs and Man West. M
cards is inscribed with a simple "Happy Birthday."; Lass awWG- MOTO KREIDDI | Are... sent more your heartful, of juht-hearină greetings.
MralMocomob", says that atm. "wenda, "up to 800 cards a year. “Your Her, hobby gaya.her
For a long time,
me the New
Brighton housewife has sent
cards to shaft-iris to wish thera
a happy birthday, or urge them wai
to get well quick." Then three
or four youngo, the
read. (Bigned {about. Margaret Aruman's birth." celebration in the
day
thought
„That “started / her to wrote carda', to the famous, Bang
Many of the replies those
Churchill and
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