WEEK-END
Evening Dress With Puffed Sleeves
"Jacqueline", by Madame Fath, is an evening gown in pale blue velvet, I han wide shoulderline and puffed lantern sleeves. Gold embroidery covers the top part of the dress
Agence France-Presse.
Queenly Waistline Kept At 22" By Walk, Will-
Will-power
London. her dogs out for u brisk walk UEEN Elizabeth II, who around the grounds every after
Qboasts the trim figure
noon.
and Prince Phillip
a movie star might envy, Weekends at Windsor Castle, keeps it that way with lots the Queen of walking and will-power.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1955.
WOMANSENSE
What is your choice ? A pretty hat of flowers, or something startling and chic?
If You Choose A Paris Hat... It's So Smart It Makes The Women Jealous
By KAY CAMPBELL
London.
D
Even Genevieve Fath, 'whose
wag kind 10 he
THERE are two ways of collection
citals, stuck to the largo hal
a hat,
You
choosing can buy a confection of flowers 'and frou-frou, perch
like, and showed draped pink velvet tequtu like glan: quiver- ing blanc-manges, with hum-
it on your golden curls - ming-birds meeting in the, folds. and hear from other women. It had to happen. The dre that you're kittenish. Or. spate hot has appeared, なこ you can choose something Pauleito's. It is made in velvet and has a curious appendage startling and chic which like a mushroom rising straight will terrify the men but bo up from the crown. Her prize so madly smart that it piece, however, is high hat makes the women jealous,
which she says is like "an ne- cordiar that cxpircs," This crown and tiny
In London, the confcellon hat t wins hands down, I wing for weddings,
christenings and smart partics though it won't do much to aid your appearance If it is nothing more than a handful of flowers.
consists of brim in marble patterned fell, joined by a wide band of binck jersey crushed down into folds. (Elizabeth has-drawn it here.) The whole effect is very gay and rather rakish and looks just like a top hat that has been sal on accidentally.
Budget versions of Dior's crescent-shaped half hat have appeared everywhere; at Ascot in many colours, and even at Buckingham Palace, where an Australian debulante wore one when presented to the Queen.
In Paris, where alcer chic comes first, and the women versions on sale in Paris made don't mind searing the men in up in wool jersey and designed their life, pretly hats are rare, to pack well, keep
your hair Gilbert Oreel, it is true, shows neat and your ears warm.
Also everyone has turned to travel hats for Inspiration and there are as a result innumerable
oriental hats which sit on your The newest hats are close- head like miniature pagodas fitting helmets, like our old are snapped up urlers the haute couture styles are
friend
the jelly-bag the Americans. But the couturiers have.
launched either draped turbans with stoles us one man.
and
cap.
But
Jizabeth
the brim; Bufy
Jurge top-heavy hals which match or cut like Balaclava feathers, Little turbans of drap banded by knitted insels or but- they combined with stalk slim helmets with material swathed cd brocade with a distinctly toned onto
under the chin like yashmak Persian appearance were seen at boaters in white nylon fur fabric black clothes. (Yes, maybe the that has slipped, as you can see Dior's. At Paulette's there was or brushed angora banded by wearers do. look a bit like
from Elizabeth's sketch. At the most expensive halrnet in black grosgrain, and the return those grotesque figures in
Paulette's the helmet is worn the world-fashioned from gold of savage-looking fur hats in Mardi Gras procession.)
over if beret; at Svend's, over it. tubular beads into lattice tiger, leopard and lynx. But the effect is no! very which expands to fit your head different.
--and a gold' collar to match, Evening hats fashioned So if you want your hat to as ribbon have a Parls air about it, look up like out for styles with high crowns,
►
are used
Who will wear these hals 'from valhers abroad? Nowhere but in Paris and ribbon bunched can you walk around balancing something the size of a suitcase
un your head without a crowd gathering.
In London people would look embarrassect and pretend New York In not to notice. they would laugh out loud, Moscow they might cause a re-. volution.
In
For Paris is producing hats often walk the five miles around shaped like big bass drums and The G:cat Park, and usually go hats in fur, cut like
truppers' riding before breakfast
On a caps, huge stuffed berels which
is
Prince Charles ing with royalty. Princess Anne,
straw
boater
mado
If you want to be smart ni the least expense, buy yourself
a plain milliner's hood and wear
it just as it is-high crown and all
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A Little Hamlet In The Conceals as it heals
Rhineland Is Europe's
Jewellery Centre
A
By A Special Correspondent
once a
The young British holiday in Scotland at Balmoral pull down over your eyes, and monarch faces more tempta- Castle, she go fishing and larger-than-life-size baker boy tions to go overboard on deer-stalking. She also spends a caps in vivid hairy tartans.
Dlor good food and drink, simply lot of time in the gardens, play
shows outsize Tam-o- and shunters in tweed she because
decorated by tall plumes. G Givenchy, whose She never is without state
Munich. this quaint jewellery centre monster
Incidentally, the old saying banquets, official lunches It all helps to keep her waist-fashion history Jast Erason,
HAMLET tucked in the to see what the Idar that the tall wogs the dog can line a neat 22 inches and her sho and parties
shows the sche-
of strangest hals on her
lovely pink and white complexion all-hats that trail way behind
red clay hills of the Oberstein craftsmen have sometimes, be true. More than dule. With them go elabor- clear and youthful.
falon artist visiting us you walk, like storm signals Rhineland-Palatinate has been up to. ate foods, champagnes und
Idar-Oberstein has been inspired designing (Elizabeth has learned When possible at official func-cketched one in stiffened gros, smarter women's accessory waters tumbling through to match
For centuries the river to make a new blouse or suit other wines.
Mions the Queen drinke
a special piece of grain ribbon.) But the Queen, who once beverage. Sometimes courtesy
jewellery is a quicker way orangende instead of alcoholle Also, definitely threatened had to go on a diet and requires her to take a little wine. business-man's
for next
winter, are monster to get rich than building the the hills surrounding Idar- jewellery.
bowlers in proverbial better mouse- drop a few pounds, has be- But she just takes a few sips white
fur and, worst of all, trap. It is the hamlet of come expert at sitting out and puts the glass down,
which
carries its Idar-Oberstein. private snowstorm. coat in showed a
at his collection здать model passed
only
a few courses and sipping And
sho meals.
a little wine. never euts between
FRESH FRUITS
from a mast.
swansdown CAVE Givenchy The menu for any lunch or swansdownI dinner she is to attend always is
sera in advance to her ladý-in- waiting. The Indy-in-waiting
She gets more exercise promptly eliminates any dishes thun you'd think, despite the Queen considers faitening. her hectic official schedule.
Elizabeth skips rich Soups, Sho The mere performance of her cams or pastry dessert.
to fried foods, public duties calls for a lot of prefers grilled
arki does not walking. When at home in
cat elaborate Buckingham Palace, she takes sauces.
New High Waistline
This Balenciaga creation of black wool features an un- timally, filgh, waisiline from which flows gathered folds, -puffed si the. hips--AgeROS
Fresh fruit dishes, such as her favourite. Pear Cardinal, replace ices and souffles when possible.
Her footman aranges to skip one complete course of every elaborate banquel, when Queen entertains with a state banquet at Buckingham Palace,
the
Her guada maf enjoy the chere creations, but the CHEC sticks to her "one main dish only" rule. She may eat the fish Course and ignora the chicken which follows, doing 16 so quietly her guests don't adways notice,
If the Queen is lunching-with | her husband, the couple usually will have one meat or fish, vegetables and fresh fruit,
AFTERNOON TEA
Like most Englishwomen, sho enjoys ten in the afternoon, usually sipping two cups with a small sandwich and perhaps a slice of cake,
Dimmer is at eight and is an- other one main dish mehl with cheese or fiiit “afterwards, un- less the Queen has guests,
After the birth of Princess
| Anną› Queen - Elizabeth began udding pounde. She work to ong
of the court docters for n'pint- |ned "diet, and started
calories.
counting
In eight weeks, she had re-
jigained her slendercks The
| QUIDEM'S MERELLEÉTIONEN - KEn model
and as the were showered) with feathers.
that
This summer, fashion de- signers from all over the world have been trekking to
Patou Bridal Gown
offenbach and hagin 34, waist 22,5 A bridal
Am go welkisér áve-tooly fou
Oberstein have pushed huge stones before them. These stones have been used polish semi-precious jewels.
to
At least orso a week a new substance is tried out for modern jeyellery, Materials now in use. Include bamboo; plastics, And the sensitive angers of cork, sea shell, and leather the Rhineland craftsmen here, along with traditional metals, traditional designers and makers If a new element is ever found, of costume jewellery for Europe's aristocrats, have made Keller will undoubtedly find a Idar-Oberstein a byword in the way to fashion it into something
beautiful for a woman. realm of fashion.
Keller does not stop at jewel- One of the best-known manu- lery, but also lends his factory facturers of fancy jewellery is and creative work to fashioning Max Keller, More than two
hundred employees work with frames for ladies' handbags in brass and tombac, semi-precious exclusive form. stones and imilation stones,
leather and laces.
LIKE FAIRYLAND
&
looks
The factory in action liko
corner of fairyland, Sparkling jewels on one table are surrounded by metal and leather in gold, silver and red. Across the room you may see a white-haired man weaving silver wires into intricate shapes for milady.
Keller believes that any cos tume can be improved by the right touch of jewellery, and he makes his living by this theory.
"Jewellery means femininity,"
be says, "And more importarit | than its ecet is its appropria- : teness."
From Keller's work-benches! to shops around the world stream trinkets like rings, nek- Jacēs, bracelets, cartins, brooches and a wide range of marculine items like cuff links, tle-clips and watch chains,
But why do fashion - artists from London, Paris, Berlin and New York visit this insignificant little hamlet of Idar-Oberstein -insignificant, that is, in size?
MATERIALS
The resum In thút they want to'utilled. Keller en talists in Anding out just the right thing
sire always, bubbling in the roun
on next your's laclien
Tunic By Balenciaga
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