WEEK-END
✅ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1955.
WOMANSENSE
TOP LEFT: This dress in very fine wool georgette has a low-cui square neckline which gives plenty of scope for wearing different types of Bli-in yokes. A soft fold round the neck- line means that these can be attached invisibly.
TOP BIGHT: An alternative fill-in top for the dress shown on the left. white pique with a slotted scarf neckline,
CENTRE: A toque in slik velvet in the new Medial style with
spotted vell and matching scarf.
This In
A
very fine chenifle-
LOWER LEFT: Another Innes for the årens shown at the top left. This is in cream pleated satin with large, fly-away bow at the neckline. There are also cuffs to match.
Note the two colour fringe LOWER RIGHT: Handbag and umbrella cover in boxcalf.
trimming in antelope leather.
What Kind Of Hat
Should A
Woman Wear?
WHY dar
answer
By Betty Wilson
women come to lobster claws, hold on smaller Was
This week Paris hats which have the same new milliners thought they had the detached look about them.
"Women come to Paria Monsieur Albouy-a red rose to buy a new Paris hat," they in his buttonhole to match
walls-snatched ruby declared, then atided frankly,
one atler from "The
gilt-metal trouble is anolber one sadly:
the
hig
But the new Paris hats aren't bulrushes and ferns which serve
what women want
The milliners say
there
are
as hot-stands in his salons-a little black astrakhan pill-box I spray of black two reasons why womere Have topped by
stopped buying Paris bonnets.
ment women.
поч
feathers
a mushroom made
FULL OF WIT
and
First, the huts which the Parts of white ermine, set back on n it dress designers are showing are black velvet saucer so that designed to complement the new stands out like on ermine halo a little crown of mink, ine but not to compli winter line
sitting high and pretty Big, bulky and important-all softened with a beekeeper'a vell ew millinery adjectives that made of mink-brown tulle. have come into our vocabulary since the new bean-pole sil- houette came in-these hats are inspired by flying saucers or by an American trapper's coon-skin milliners. cap. But wh
who, say the
say wants to look like Daniel Boone or & rocket launching site?
Secondly they add that they blame themselves for the anti- Paris hat feeling.
have
QUITE ABSURD Milliners. it CUTTER, swung to the opposite extremo and have been making too many pretty, close-fitting blis of non- Rense, which are flattering, but look quite absurd when they are topping the long, drawn-out line. Now a new campaign is aimed at combining both qualities. Fluttering from hot to hat in
tiny twin salons which are both
"Not aggressive, as you nee," said Monsieur Albouy, twirling ermine huices and mak corcnete
to
but full of wit--and flattering
that is what women come Parls to buy.”.
WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED London Express Service.
While accessories can add chic to an outfit or transform a simple dress into an elegant model, they can also have
damaging effects,
HOW TO CHOOSE & WEAR ACCESSORIES
By MARIE FONTAINE
FAGGY ROUFF, Paris which gave plenty of scope for instance, it is better to have
Insertion with
an that reason.
A sot fold round the neckline colour than hangbag and gloves. the little accessories which meant that contrasting yokcs Equal care should be given to
Ear- are so fashionable and popu- could be Inserted Invisibly. the choice of Jowellery.
which because of their lar today, has this to say A high-fastening
white yoke rings.
immediately attract about them:
made the dress look cool and Position,
"A love
smart. A red and white striped attention should not be too ob- of accessories s particularly feminine. They can
very youthful revers was trusive for daytime wear if you
at alming and gay.
To ob- are
elegant tavic rc- expres originally,
lain a sophisticated, smart ap- appearance. For Anement and, in fact, person~
pearl studs always look right pearance for late afternoon. # ality. They can add immenso
but after- or completely A
cream silk plisse top was used with any ensemble ahić to an outt
Very
effect dainty
was natively you can choose a colour run its appearance. Everyone
to match the soft shade of nchloved by an insertion of wears shoes and carries bays
dress or bat. starched Swiss embroidery, and scarves, but it is the type. There was, oven a high-fastened the proportions, that indefinable
Ingor touch of originality and just a hint of craziness that trans- form a familiar object into an unusual attractive and amusing ornamoni,"
It is not only an elegant line which makes clothes smart. Tasteful accessories, carefully
EXAMPLE
made from the same material as the dres9. When this was buttoned in position it changes still further with dif- ferent types of collars, bows, lies and scarves,
So if you are planning to have a new dress shorlty, Bird
13
PROBLEM
Necklaces, too, can present quite a problem. not look right with all dresses for they do
and 1 feel it is often better to go without any and concentrate on bracelets. You can be freer, chosen and well-combined, cat particularly if your budget in your choice of these without transform a simple dress inin limited, it would be a good idea fear of spolling the harmony of an exclusive-looking model. to choose a simple style to your out
A brooch, well-chosen and which you could add accessories and change To character ae- well-placed, can become part of and the focal cording to your requirements. your ensemble
but do not different
botter There are so many
You
cannot do
than point of attention. accessories trom which choose a good quality plain wcol wear one just for the sake of choose these days that one can fabric. If you can wear it, black it.
You can obtain a great deal ring numerous changes on one is a good colour because it al- Bod base cutfit, dressing it up ways looks right but any of the of pleasure in choosing access- down, according to the occa- other basic colours would do ories and deciding on different sim for which yuti will wear it. equally well. Then you are tree colour combinations but do re- that while they con saw an example of this re- to add bright splaches of colour member cently in n Paris model-and with different sels of necessories. improve an outfit and add chic, the Parisienne, of course, in a However, sever have more they can equally well ruin the the whole effect of beautiful Bccessories in In the use of than two recognised artist
H BeLessories The dress was in some colour, and do not wear material and balanced line,
or badly fine. lightweight wool georgello the two accessories in the same they are exaggerated
For combined. with a low-cut, square neckline colour close to each other.
to
BELGIAN DRESS SHOW IN LONDON
FASHION IS BECOMING INTERNATIONAL
Tailored Tweed Ensemble
La
"Bon Voyage", a tailored tweed ensemble from Jeanne Lanvin, The coat is Itned with red fox. The Frosh- walsted jacket han white collar and low flap pockets. -Agence France-Presse,
Six Ways To Take Baths
By JEANNE D'ARCY
By DOROTHY BARKLEY
and
woven and pr
London. associate with rainwear But them are the plastic materials, woven and printed to look like OOKING at the clothes lacy we proofed popla, otto-
The advantage is that they can be kept clean cution, in wysterla blue.
by a wipe over with soap and gian fashion group at the flamenco pink.
water, are scratchproof and club Anglo-Belgian
last
This Belgian show, together resistant to ollstains. Some of week was like seeing our with sever other Centinental the other new plastics look o
London, In own reflection. For the Bel- shows
illustrates much like leather that it is forci Others glans appear to share our that fashion is becoming inter- to tell the difference.
national. Dlor aclls his latest are not new, but are new 10 fashion taste.
creations in Tokyo as well as care, One of these in woollen the woven with lurex, London, and London designers, cloth after the recent Russian trade non-rust metallic faterial. visit, now find their clothes in demand in Moscow. The Dutch are building up a new market in Britain, the Belgians now hope to do likewise, the Swedes hold how in London this month.
They дре the makers
of
wearable clothes rather than the originators of new lines.
They pick out the details of current fashion that are accept able to the average woman who is moderate in fashion but is exacting in taste. Some of their
It means we have the pick of suits have the new semi-fitted international fashions. Bul. I Jackets, Coats are lined with a wonder... there's a samencSS
the dress about them ali. alik print to match
with which they aro WOTT. Short evening dresees are princess in style, fitting closely
at the waist, and sweeping out
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Noted al an exhibition Scandinavian furniture:
Cushion covers with concealed at one sido for quick zips changing.
The new stainless steel cutlery given a still newer look. Handles are long, stem allm, as narrow as a pencil,
Now way with coffee 1p
clips. etrps and Among saucers stripod in green or. red.
Into a full skirt. Afternoon holstery in the how cars shown Fine white pottery dresses, similar in style, have at the Motor Show.
band encircling the skirt at hip level Evening dresses contrive to be gay without being jazzy, zume in stiff duchess antin, others in pastel lace,
To
The Belgian designers also experiment with novelty materi- als-jacquard printed cotton, glazed
Jersey, satin-striped wool, and printed satin. most of us the idea of washing our top coat at home is still novelty. But at this show there wero, several.
nylon fur fabri
or orlon, that could be washed at home.
in
The hata have much the samo of absurdity tempered
They inclule the shady
ABATH is a bath, or is would take all shade
It? We always thought don't know. It involves soalding with usefulness as British num-
Д
Fung with ruby-red velvet It was, until we got talking a towel la soapy water squez-bers.
it out and rubbing it hat with the big brim, tho wherever ruby-red velvet will to a doctor who pointed out
stick, Monsieur Albouy, one ofthat there's more than onerously over the body. The cloche hat which almost' ob-
the best-known men milliners in Paris, told me how it is done. He kind. explained that it was all a matter of proportion.
OPPOSED
First, there's the regular old bath in a tub full of scented warm water, Everyone knowa
"If the proportions are right, about this type and all its then a hat doesn't have to be beauty advantages-it's relaxing, big and bulky to balance the restful and so forth. line," he said, adding that ho,
and most other milliners wero
to get your not The Albouy hats all reveal the Incidentally,
ihen rinsed in clear acures vialor the baggy berat water and rubbed over the body which looks like a bath cap again. A dry towel follows and and the high-crowned turbant which has stopped to the West 12's rubbed over the body, foo.
Sounds like a lot of work, from the East. There are two kinds of batha that require no soaping.
Their casual clothes are stylish light fitting jeans, in an One's a cold water bath, Tako oriental cotton print, a finger Up
in the Then, there's the shower bath. It
khower, tub or jacket in white cotton to wear That's the kind you dive into the handlest bay, river or stresin, with bathing costumes, and a striped completely opposed 10 head in the morning, striving in vain The icy water. is good for you sundress in deckchair enyaloping, brow-touching hats.
hair wet, Errrr? It stimulates circulation. cotton... the best bath of When it's all over, and your brow and are act on to bracelet all, becauvs clean water is con-
slop bands so that they stand away tinually from the head in a curiously washing soap and soll away.
Sponge baths aro. in elegant neck-lengthening line, Tliese larger hats are shaped picture, too, but generally like Chinese fans,
are Ing, you only takro squared-out borote made in you. con'L navigate the tub bath, with the body brightly-checked twoods. All because you have a cold or are exposed, and ita v py Ipak important, but-feat shot in sick, All they require le a amall nudist osonlar da ONG the milliners' campaign not one bowl, soap, a sponge or cloth and out at home by removing nu down of Lamps, shaped t There's" niso a thing called a but only if tha moarést neigh-?
byebrows, and a tower, for drying on.
clothes and opening: the windows Velvet-covered like: kum - curls or hattened savol bath-but why anyone hour is x miles away.
on teath
glow and
They have a habit of produc you're Trig surprise numbers...räther. warm Haydn's Surprise Byin Woll
strikking your body, ausposed to SAUBER
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