THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1955.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Terylene, The New Wonder Fabric
By DOROTHY BARKLEY
RITAIN'S
BRIT
London.
Terylene is strong. -crлso-
mellprent and resistant to sun- synthetic, terylene, is light, especially behind glass. It set for success. It has made cu be permanently pleated. It the grade from laboratory can be dry-cleaned and, wing.
to its lack of absorbency, mos! (where it was discovered in
stains caft be removed at once. 1941) to shops, from the Like nylon, it is quick-drying But research stage to everyday and needs. Hittle ironing.
ilike nylon I
non-plastic life. By the end of this
and so la mare suitable for suits year annual production will than stockings. be up to eleven million pounds weight, a record.
home-mule resisting and shrinkproof. It is
What does this mean to you and me? In the long run, it means more labour- saving,
fabrics,
nze
These qualities make it versatile fabric. Some of its uses a fer illustrate this.
CAN TAKE IT
Over
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It is seen at its best in men's ad- more economical suits, since it has several
Vantages
wool. neither strelches er stronger Two forms of terylene
in produced, Filament yarn which "bugs" and its creases slay
place. has been found prac like silk 190
Whlch precesses very much and is used for satins, brocades cl for tropical suits,
must be lightweight and when and other dress fabrics: and
fauries tend Staple fibre. which has a wo made in ordinary" like character and Roes info sultings, skiris and hand- knitting yarrus.
TWO VERSIONS Two versions of terylene are shown here, one in one hundred percent terylene ami the other
the
to lose their shape quickly.
A terylene sutil was chosen
in for one of the actors London musical comedy "Won- Barful Town," During each performance a glass of wine is upset an the Jacket which has to be washed and dried before the next performance, Terylene was the only material which
Cocktail dress and jacket in Jacquard sulting, a mixture of wool and Terylene.
I Wore The Only
THE
Swimsuit... On
A Crowded German Beach
By EILEEN ASCROFT
London, burglar dummic, throwing bricks Cambridge, Southend, Brighton] THE day may not be far windows impelled me to crILK
thaough realistically cracked and Norwich, when we shall street to Irok see nudist bathing sections linens.
awny
at household
whleh
Nightlife on Brighton beach. "Free Smart Idea outside a shoe shop SHOULD sorry to see
German nightlife - brass footprints in the rave includes such spectacles as naked bathing," as it is known on hient leading into the shop,
girls the Continent, is spreading Other stores have large electrle come to London.
wresting In Black mud- fast. Originating in Sweden animals in their arcades, which But how nice it was on a after the war, the cult now children can ride after shop- Sunday evening to be able to go
ping hours for the price of id. to a family. includes Norway and Den while their parents fill in time and sit all the evening over a mark.
window-gazing.
1 huve just returned from Sylt, an island at the
northernmost tip of Ger- TEDDY
Pin stripes
BOYS have come to
pin-stripes
many, where miles of goldenGermany, fea. But in Ham
burg they fancy benches are given over to
Edwardian suits. sun and air worshippers.
"free bathing" The largest beach is chrittened "Abyssinia," where pink and white newcomers are matter for commiseration from the golden-brown natives.
Strange
It gives one a mighty strange it can be easily washed aur fecting being the enly bathing
Lestumie among hundreds
swimmers, Although all kinds of synthe-naked
dried.
of
Like a girl
the furnishing fabrics are on the guide In a roomful of party
hos rocks. market just now, terylene izins. It stands up to bright been proved the best for cur-
other synthetics.
for It is a favourite choice
since pleats in pleated skirts.
be removed terviene can only
In a blend of furylene and wool mould face this rough treatment sunlight behind glass better than murious stares
dress.
in
The short evening printed voile, shows terylene at its prettiest. The cocktail dress and Jacket, in jaequard suiting,
dows it at its most elegant.
zon
A Terylene tennis outfit, all-one-piece A-line affair, has proved, a winner, particularly with professional players, since
Short evening dress in printed terylene voile,
New flats WAS impressed with the new
blocks
fals of workers' round. up
Hamburg. going Flats are all slanted to the sun,
10 guily painted give them individually. A step formalion balcony or a private porch for each family.
ensures
For every block" there is a communal garden, with benches for the old folk, and a children's lawn, sandpit, paddling poot and climbing trestle.
Long tresses
Another hour or two of those and I would have dumped my English reserve Na world of shorter hair, the German woman clings to her along with my French swimsuill
All those buns long tresses. Don't think this movement has and draped plaits kok strangely It old-fashioned in the streets and majority were restaurants, But flowing free
of large on
the
beaches It looks It's also nothing to wonderful.
beautiful. Fer pleated dp with the body
by using an in which is hot- anything to do with sex.
The to set the hasn't.
ter than that used pleats. Washing and dry-clean-fathers and mothers int do not affect them.
Sone
the new
r
cane
families.
the first time I regretted
skirts
in plads and Fat business men and plump my eepped hair. heather cheeks. Andther-popu-grannies aro lar version, simply because
not the most
advertisement #ttractive
lounders easily, is the style in nudity. white toryline abd wool Dresses and suits also look well
in this material. A navy tailor-talked
^
for
new
Air taxi NOW, I can well understand Men and women to whom the Royal Family's
all rajd The same interest in the helicopter. After After months of elly four days hopping around and constricting clothes, North Germany by air taxi, revel in the high above traille and crowded
there is trains, I believe nore pleasantly relaxed way to travel.
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ed suit, with atted jacket and thing. pleated skirt. was a half-and-life hall terylene and worsted mix-they wanted
with sun and fresh air. street $110.
dress. out scooped
neckline, short sleeves and pleated skirt, was in candy pink furylene,
NO IRONING
Untrue
no
One trip from Hamburg to i
island Took me six It is criainly untrue that northern
hours by two cars and a train without elethes all men are
The helicopter took off The material will be coming cqual. You can still spot the ferry.
Dram my friends' seaside garden onto the market shortly for executive by his cigars and horn-
and did the trip home dressmakers. There will rimmed glasses, and the lady of on our return be wide range of everyday fashion by her jewellery and 14 hours, again landing in fabrics as well as velvets and elegant haircut, satins. Those who make it up
at home should use terylene Pretty girls are appraised not.
bikinis, the needle for their thread and reduce
and bobbin thread tension, on smoothness of their ton. the sewing machine.
but
the garden.
Tact!
the TACTFUL note from the freshly opened Lufthansa civil airling....maps route to England sore reminders like and Portsmouth in controverslal 1111
Why do I think this "free German When it comes to laundering bathing" movement will sproad showing the at, home, terylene should not be to England? Chiefly because it avoid wrung-this puts crenses into has the support of the older Coventry the fabric-but should be left generation as well as the young to drip dry. It will then need people.
no ironing though the heavier
fabrics may recjuire an occasion- And I believe that just as the al freshening up with a cool French tourists imported the bikini to English beaches, so summer visitors from Germany
iron.
At the moment only fifty per- and Scandinavia will gradually cent of the terylene produced force our holiday resorts to put goes to domestic uses. The rest up
"Tree bathing" signs on because it resists heat- and certain sections of their beaches, chemelal actions is used in in- dustry.
Dreary
But for both domestle and industrial uses there is a bright A NEWCOMER, to a city forms future. The fact that Imperial many of his impressions Chemical Industries-terylene is from the shop windows. That's their registered trade mark-why I am always sad to see so have already spent £23 million many dreary and stodgy displays on research shows their con-in London streets. fidence in this new product.
The Disillusioned Model
TUST when it seems to be
JUST
every girl's ambition to
be a model here is one girl,
just establishing
herself
nicely as a model, who says "No thanks,"
From modelling in one of London's couture houses she is going back to 21 £10-a-week oflice job.
. She is 26 - year - okl Patricia Davies. Her elegant features, fair skin and well, bred air suggest cashmere twin sets, setter dogs and an early morning nip in the air. When she modelled for a top-ranking designer he put her in tweeds. THE SECRET
But Il'A
a typewriter, tweeds, in future for Dayles.
Sho let me into the
not
Miss
Patricia Davies thought it
would be fun to model for
ວ couture house, But
she only got fod up.
came
clothes to be bought at a few "the model girls pounds, bu! were treated as complete dogs- bodies."
more
Disillusionment No. 4 was that a model girl needs. than good looks. She needs to be a one-woman ppbilclly sys- tem. Continually in touch with people, reminding photographers about herself, keeping herself In the picture.
And disillusionment No. 5 was
mect that "modela
so many interesting people" was just a myth. "I met nothing but hair- dressers and other women in my three years modelling."
SHE RELAXES
"Now (before
further disillu-
Modelling to her now is "Just slonment sets in) there is the something I had to get out of sense of rellet
as she relaxes my system."
the rigid model girl routine. Disillusionment No. 1 with her drst job. It was £0 Relief No. 1-No more heavy "I hated piling all a week and I left after three make-up, weeks. I was expected to do that sluft on my face,"
hair- Relief No. 2-No mero
to my usual And everybody screamed at one curling, "I wont of another all day."
hairdresser and demanded
odd blis of sewing, roll up secret materials, measure out lengths.
that when she, at least, pul on
the professional
was, Bored,
borod air
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the model that was what 810 Disillusionment No. 2 came have my hair cut off, When he
when she worked for a couture refused to do it, I took the scissors and cut it myself. permanent model. Exhilarating!".
"I just got terribly fed-up" house
0% a
she says. "I thought it would More pleasant, she says, but the
be gay and glamorous, but I got pay was only £8 a week, and Relief No. No more dieting. depressed by the utter useless to buy clothes at the cheap "I've been eating and drinking noes of it,
usually "It was good fun at first at model's
rate
regarded
"park."
as just as I like and haven't put still meant on a scrap of weight. So may- be I didn't have, to, diet after
the big shows when I breezed forking out BD. "Which, out wearing what I know was course, I couldn'L"
'a nice dress, and everybody Disillusionment No. 3 came
clopped. But it was only a fleet ing moment."
with her next job, better paid
at £12 a week, and with new
Anne Sharpley
favour
al
dance hall for is,
craple of beers with a good band and an all-uges cabaret.
WORLD COPYRIGJIT RESERVED
-(London Express Service).
DIOR COAT IN "CAMISOLE LINE"
In the new "camisole line", this coat by Christian Dior is split up to the bust-line in front and buttoned all the way down the back. It is когд over a straight lined dress.
How To Spot Fake Cut Glass
PHONY specimens
Vienna. The genuine article feels solid of and heavy. It is smooth inside And out, while imitations "genuine cut glass" are usually are marked or ridged flooding European markets. from moulds, Artisans hore offer some All decorative work on the pointers which may save real thing is clear and true, even Such lawE Europe-bound tourists. from to the finest details.
as line breaks and dull edges being bilked:
appear only on imitation ware. True cut glass has a clear Top the glass gently, The and sparkling finish. Fake lead content in real cut gloss German window-dressing has cut glass.
looks produces usually
clear, bell-like ring. Imitations give oft a dull sound, influence... a strong American
duil and sometimes is streamlined and eye-catching.
like a counterfelt coln.--United "bubbled."
Press. Wandering round the Hamburg shops Σ was struck by the number of amusing ideas that bore no relation to the goods displayed. For instance, masked
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