THE CHINA'' MAIL,
SATURDAY,' OCTOBER 1, 1955.
Page
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
As the diplomat's wife said
T
to me..
THE Siamese Ambassador's wife had just paid her call and left when I visited Madame Arias, the wife of Panama's Ambassador.
Madame Arias in small, elegant and graceful, with
a gentle, intelligent face and a anood of dark brown hair. She married in February, and came new as a chicken to Diplomacy. Precedence and Protocol were as strange to her then as they are to me.
"I not only knew nothing about how to be an ambusandreas" Madame Arins told me, "but I didn't even know how to run a house. I'd always lived in a flat and I'd never had servants. I had no experience of the Diplomatic, and I still know terribly little about Panama.” "Are the rules and conventions terrifying ?" I asked. "I was nervous at first, of course, But people are very nice to you,
"My first job was to cal on the other ambassadors' wives, as I was the new arrival, starting with the Doyenne, Madame Prebensen, of Norway. You make appointments to cull, and your visit must not last more than 20 minutes. There are 20 Latin American embassics alone, so there was quite a lot to do."
"What about en- tertaining?" I ask-
ed.
"I suppose the
bomb would go up if you seated people in the wrong order?"
"Yes, you mustn't do that, but it real- ly isn't difficult. If you nak, there is always someone to tell you the rules.
MME, ARIAS AND HUSBAND
MORE hat now than for many souls. The new slender,
Ithrow-away fashion slihouette puta groat Importance on the hat that tops it. A half-hat just won't do.
The new trend i like best is the furry-looking hat. Real fur, molusina or swansdown give bulk without heaviness to the
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES hears the ‘CD'
problems of a very new Ambassadress
prettiest hato In Paris and London. Thoy throw In!!- nitely flattoring shadows on your face. I've chosen these shapes to show you, all with the Huffy, furry look.
Above: A forge Cossack-shaped pillbox of felt and
molusine, with a Jowal on the brim; and a Breton of moah and satin with a molusine brim, all in a tobacco colour. Both from R.M. Hate, London. Bolow: a black molusine horot from Svond of Parto.
seem possible to get through all there is to do.
**But this is small house, which I run with # Butler-chauffeur und two maids. The dining-room asked for we were sipping lined with olive green shan
the doors long cool drinks in the tung and seats only 12 people, 80 there's no question of giving shady, paved garden, which painted yellow. There are is filled with hydran big windows looking on the banquets,
gens and petunias and garden, and it all looks rather like a pleasant coun- try house.
roses,
+
are
"We have a dinner party "Only the dining-room is
"When you pay your diplo she said, "but perhaps once
a week when finished."
matic calis," I said (for these we are in London, and
our come and sce that.
For
calla fascinate me) "what an first big party will be for the first months, we had to earth do you talk about?" Panama National Day in borrow furniture from November."
"And you must realise that this is a very small embassy. If it had been, say, the French Embassy, couldn't have managed it. Even na it is, with my own work as well, there are "Could I possibly weeks when it just doesn't some of the
house?"
DIOR DRESS INSPIRED BY
TURKISH TAPESTRIES
“Camélang?!,
Awinter, colloetión -ls-
by Turkish
nied by Christina Dior in' his autumn- ten Inspired.
shop and there are still no
pictures up, and half the see upholstery hasn't arrived
so you see what a bad am- bassadress I am."
I
But she certainly isn't for she has enough charm
to twist a von Papen round
her finger; and the house
"On
everything under the and the .sun... England,
weather, and the best schools for children and so on. And they all give me lots of friendly advice."
•
"Such as?" I asked.
Pictures (shove by RELANG; and (top) by ALAN BOYD.
EILEEN ASCROFT examines an admission that most women make before they are 30
I
NEED COMFORT
AT MY AGE
"They all tell me that what-WHEN you are under 21 It regards comfort as "30 minutes
(as far as it's finished) is ever I do I mustn't give up
elegant without the frosty dancing."
Which is
formality of typical Em- bassy decor.
The dining-room walls
pictures!) (still no
advice.
Because
One
says
can be fun living in
a day of total silence for rest room furnished with orange and relaxation." marvellously good boxes. Cooking all your meals "My idea of comfort,"
on a small gas-ring is a chal- actress Joan Greenwood, "Is a Madame Arias, in enge to ingenuity, and possess double bed with everything case you've forgotten, is the one ing no bank balance is no hard- need round it for writing, read- are and only Margot Forteyn", ship at all.
I find it Bliss tò ing or eating I have done it all and
relax with everything to hand.“ joyed it enormously...walking "Perfume or cologne all day to work, cutting my own hair, long, even for doing the wash- dreaming in the dark when the ing up." This comes from Mrs
Matt, we of the dress cl cjoctric meter gave out, and go- ing to church three times
signer, оп
--(London Express Service). Sunday because it Was the warmest, cheapest place to go
Now the models
take a look
at the people
on the beach
London.
OUR model girls toured with us round the holiday towns, three lovely blondes und a stunning brunette. I thought it would be Interesting to have their reactions to the hollday crowds for whom they modelled our specially chosen budget outfits.
Simone, 24-year-old French · model, tall, dark and striking, found "the standard of She had always heard of grooming excellent." English rose complexions and was surprised to seo "tans as deep as on the French Riviera."
Her chief criticism was the general silhouette. "Women don't scern to Worry enough what 'they' wear underneath a pretty dress to get the
effect." right Iranica Black, 22-year-old blonde, with a wonderful suntan and engaging smile, found the Eastbourne, crowd "much the smartest.” At other towns. "I thought women were wearing too many fussy clothes, more suitable for a cocktail party than the beach." She had high praise for the colourfulnem of the bonchoe this. year. "Quite as gay as the Continent."
Austrailan Diane Ferree is golden blondo: and 21. The hairstyles; impressed me most, she says. "They are shorter, Dretiler; and
to manage these days. This Easter
*WOR particularly noticeable on windy days when mony head@
onds still managed to look ay
Daphne Leafats a 21-year-old honey blonde,
with large hazel yes, had only one criticism:
Too many high heels for the beach.";
SIMONE
JESSICA
DIANE
th. Bhy thought the accustories were outstandingly good. were very Italian and French-looking, and I have never, sei many attractive beach bags, sandals and stoles. ', I also noticed the Intreading use of Beads of all varieties, and I found them colo with suntah” **
-{London Express Servies).
tol
AND THEN....
C1-
. But suddenly it happens. You're no longer 21 and it isn't funny any more. To most of us it comes before our *thirtieth birthday, that day when we realise that the comforts of life are important to our happiness.
FURS FEATURE BOLD NEW COLOURS
New York,
I confess frankly, I have now TUR designers have turned to
reached the age when I need bold new colour In their
comfort.
But "comfort" means different search for now ideas.
Mink turns blue, beayer pink things to different people. To me and brondtail purple in the It means having my hair profes-hands of some of the nation's top alonally washed and set once a week, buying a new dress when
furriera.
Designer Esther Dorothy, one I want one, taking a friend to of lunch, being able to buy a new colouring fur so that the animal the ploneers in the field of books or gramophone record or
wouldn't recognise his own pelt, soen show.
It stands for bath salts that features iris blue and topaz match my favourite pertume, mink in her autumn collection, She dyes American broadtail nylon stockings that don't need bright red and uses it in a full to be darned, flowers in my length, straight-lined coat with and changing my acantics every black velvet collar. Also in the
rooms, hand-initialled bed linen
day of the work.
D
dyod broadtall group are coats in
"My idea of comfort," says Irish green and deep purple. Max Factor, president of the This same designer shows sable cosmetics firm, now on a visit tinted blue-grey and beaver dyed
America, is giving my a bright
from
pink called "pink
Clearance Sale... of American SHOES
We find it necessary to dispense with our Shoe Dept. as we have to make room for the many new, attractive Separates and Co-ordinates which are now arriving for the coming Season Cashmeres from Scotland. Exclusive Angolmeres from Italy . Miraculous New Blended Fabrics from the States
Therefore this is NOT an ordinary "SALE" of discontinued styles or sizes-but a genuine Clearance of our ENTIRE stöck of SHOES-all at less than cost www.an opportunity not to be missed.
NEXT WEEK ONLY. Starting Monday 3rd October
ot.
Paquerette Ltd.
16a Des Voeux Road C.
Tol: 21-157-
FOR
Lovely
Lipt
Lipstick at $9.00 each... Refill at $5.00 each.
INDELIBLE
by
LIPSTICK
Guerlain
Maigee's
Paris
FALL ARRIVALS
from NEW YORK
JUST RECEIVED
DARK SHEERS • COCKTAIL FROCKS SHORT FORMÁLS
From the Philippines. Abaca luncheon mat sets, Salad bowl sets, Infants dresses, Christening robes and Crib sets.
ON SALE complete stock of Warners Brassieres. and ALL WASH FROCKS, at cost and less.
Tel. 37537
30 Printing House, Duddoll St.
Headache
Do not wait patiently for -your suffering to end.Toke 1-2 tablets of "CAFASPIN' dissolved in half a glass of: water, and headache will soon vanish
CFASPIN
BE TALLER
PRESS
beard a rest' over the week-end. amethy of New York Increase Height 2 to 6 inches PHOTOGRAPHS.
{It's such a comfort_not1to shave
Ritter
shows A
morning when Beaver, and Chrleilan Dior's New Suitable for both sexes. Results
short jacket of pink with pur brand New Course
till Monday. returni to business. T
A the end of a beetle day Yok fur line includes a wedge- guaranteed or ice refunded in
model
waxing
Copies of in New York," another Amor wood blue benver coat, ba full. Please remit 30 Stillings takon by the
visitor mod Pancha
"Mike Dorothy said there is one British Fostal Order or is Morning Post, Vanderhurst tells me I like major reason for all this break equivalent by Bank Draft, made Sunday Post-
better than.
from the tipu
black, payable, in India, England or China Mall Staff browns bath
America or by Traveller's "Many women, now haya, n' Choquo,
ko the fvawy, and 8: Talmares Lovely two-fur wardrobe
KdWM Foustics, 1wo-cur: Garage They want at in London for the new prodius, least one of the furs to stand out fion of Ly Dame aux Camellias, from the crowd."
Warm bubble 175 comer of us comfort means
graphers are on
Address—Actrition (Da) the Morning Post Kingsway, Delhi-9, India.
ographs.
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