THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1955.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
A classic hairstyle from Alan Spiers.
I cut short and layered into loose curls; swept up into a suggestion of chignon.
Hair at the front
at the back in
FUR STYLES FOR
FORMAL AND CASUAL WEAR
-They Include Cardigans And Jeans...
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Lalon. JHITE ermine Jeans
topped by a loose it ting, alip-over-the-head black
make smart the ins expensive range
ter af models in cheaper fürs 14
alamonstrate his theory. That For reat seed not be expensive
be elegant. One very attentive
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Next spring and summer you'll look fashionable wearing Designers Advise:
Gay Cotton Prints From Stick To
Dawn To Dusk
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By DOROTHY BARKLEY
London.
AY is the word for the
new cottons to be seen around London's showrooms just now. Splintered diamonds, Paisley patterns, Chinese puzzle designs, white splotches, vista prints, coloured squares-these are
few of the eye-catching prints.
Fr 40 SATEL that British women are at last taking to the idea of collons from dawn-to- dusk. The Julest collections show cutions for every occasion. There IN the Diga abirt for beachwear; sheath dresses matching jackets for day wourt fall skirted drosmes in Black er pink cotton taille for evening.
The toga shirl It looks rather uke
wardwin boord Is simple to mke and should prove one of the most
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casily
is pied styles. It consists ed two squurtsh The very " material.
joined on the shoulder to make abont neckline, and belled in at the watst with no need fow side scam. The more com- plicated versions have pushed up sleeves and suck-like fronts gathered on to a fund shoulder yok".
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them.
Sheath dresses have a variely car Jackets to partner Foremost
art which stop at waist-level,
fertig!
Sheath drets and matching Jacket in cotton patterned in grapefruit, lime and black.--By Fredrica
in
Your Type
New York.
THE well-dressed, woman
Tis the one who drenges
her type, no matter the current fad.
of most
what
This is the viewpoint of three the nation's youngest and successful designers--the winners of the 1983 fashion *Winnic" presented by Coty, Inc. Selections
made by tashion reporters.
are
The thre wero asked by United Press to describe what they consider the well-dressed
woman.
Mrs Antas Klein, a New York nitive and n designer for 12 yours, sold: The well-dressed women is the one who sticks to her type. She may be in- genue, the talkred, the athletic, or the very sophisticated women. But no matter what the occa- sjon, or the Lune of day, she dresses to provide the setting for her incvual personality.
COMFORT AND CHIC
"A wuman can venture from type, but then she really isn well dressed, because she isn't comfortable. You can't be un- and chic at the
comfortable
samic
Mrs Jeatine Campbell, a native of Pittsburgh now with a New York
and a a apocialist in sports-wear separates, said the smartly dressed woman the one who "chooses her clothes for
Σε
three-typo of life she leads."
a woman who rarely gets to the city, the wardrobe should feature casual clothes; if she's strictly an urbante, clothes then should have city ways-clogance and
sophistication
bout provided for himself in meas kely to feel a treube
growing you own bun, he says, floared salon newly opened have edge-to-edge fronta and The idea is to have a thignon Berkeley Square, where yellow,
Ught
sleeves;
your red and black Anger-tip of nylon, dyed to match
are the colours. meacts, to hip-level, with long hair, or If you prefer, to com- Yellow for the venetian blinds, desses and on collar; and thave. trust.
lampstrades, wirdriers: red for unarfry length Chinese Tunies.
the "marbled" linoleum, and 1t you have puburn bar. Mr black for the formica tabletops. Outstanding among the rtals
evening is a
"fooled Spiers suggests you match it for new rotten in gold and brown, tif evening with a lian red chig- with a poovess gives the effect Ct ning or if blonde hair.
at worked
Winte. engren that into vellum.
salmas!
addition and brown hair 1 slightly darker one.
after-ski wear for Europe's black seat coney. Straight and † The rich material Books is best Brunette hah gets a raven bluck beauty salon, trichologist, tim- the well-dressed woman as
winter sports resorts
season.
A real fur cardigan woollen
All three motels are to be seen in the anions of leading London furriers who are deter- mined to give wonien A
change to keep warm this winter and look smart at the same time.
even
Giving
Mal D
LATEST LINES
to the
This is in the interests of fun and glamour, for Mr Spie: os- serts we are too uilitarian An or evening hairdos, But will gentlemen prefer the two-toned blonde?
with
whose
Tho third winner Is Herbert Kasper, whose career in design began with the armed forces in World War 11 when he costumed Army shows. Now with a New Services Introduced include a
York manufacturer, Kasper de- fines ing room, children's corner. He STRE
clothes aro the also provides refreshments, tele- phones, and will devise a hair-ultimate of simplicity,
"She never over-dresses," said style to go with your new hat,
sbe under- But, as in so many other hair-Kasper. "Rather,
how to dressers' just now, the quiet plays. She cosiness of the individual cubicle co-ordinate accessories with her has been abandoned in favour costume. She never has hat, of the more casily-run salon belt, shoes, purse and jewellery where all clients sit in the same ell shouting for attention." big room.
United Press.
buttoned with two rows of biach jon a completely plain style and this bone buttons to give a double fa such will be kind to home breasted effect This cont 13 dressinkers. Mostly these typient of the new winter "long dresses had fitted budlers
And aline". with
full skirts. buttons coltar, brass
Featuring The populer new But there have been several and stit pockets or blue-dyed pastel shades in fur is a beige other styles which bear no re- moleskin jeaus and jumper are Australian opossum, also but.
whatever semblance Ideal for television sennces in toned in double breasted style. numan ügure, Looking more like gold country houses.
A cosy model in ivory braver a suck druped (b) a tailor's has large patch pockets and Idunny, they fit at neither bud, 6172 the sleeves, wartet for hip, and burst into a
But there are other less flam- thoroughly it
"go- | force at knee-lavul. walking-in-the-country" air.
Another new idea this week bayan suggestions for evening.
Mr was to demonstrate
Spiero that these Chignons,
feels, durably pleated exttons do sur-
emphasised should be
flowers vive the washlub. Two dresses Jewels, Jewelled bonds,
and feathers. And since he has paraded side by side, vise A combicoflon of neelot and new, one six-times washed. The a bouque to supply These→→ original pleats on the old were not quite even dyeint them to match your
He affering for country wear.
will naturally o crisps those ret the new, but dress-this hus a Aled coat in neelot with the difference could only be goox for business,
Jeaiher red
Basically, if the chignons, belt back and sported by close comparison.
adornments and whatnots are One of his models in
disregarded the cut is one more suggestion of what to do with the in-between-lengths hair that London hair-***
is neither long no
ΠΟΥ short. Gold Medal at the International YET another
dresser, Alan Splers, hus hair in the front provides Coner Fur Show in London in
to urned September. It is a particularly
classic
soft styles frame for the face with
Il dendri curls. At the back it is ww.un-locking
cuat for much of his inspiration.
The fur jeans come from Mr Albert Hart, the Mayfair furrier who is engaged
In campaign
11 better and brighter window dressing. His own small win- dow,
for
leather is MT
11
Harl's
at his salon in Mayfair front, and gloves to match. featuring the harmony of furs is a delightful example of what
Coney
CA be done with little spaced a neutral colour which he and much restraint.
ther
The cardigan, claimed In the Best "real cardigan" in fur. comes from another of London's
WEDT.
V-NECKED
SHIRTS
describes as greige,
won
Juli-kogh
cont
the
was a
w-
be
The A
knows
Adversity Is Often Good Luck In Disguise
By Anne Heywood
Y grandmother's her vision became blurred, but
was, "God closes one door spells. only to open another."
It used to burn me up, some- limes. Whenever was coping
T
She went to her family doctor, who sent her to an eye specialist. After many tesis, she was told
In other words, the with her
real су, was, was psychogenic from mental or
it
Couture furrlers Mr S. London. with large double cuffed patch shows in the Grecian chignon waved to the shape of the head,
Furs this year are more than k
pleats double breasted button which is balanced by soft wispy or flicked up into a stiff duck's ever fashion garments, whether
is low haif bell
jeurls round the face, the whole tail, ing and Tier Incel for formal or Cuspal
But the model which won the effect reminiscent of those cool. Mr Spiers feels that hair-with adolescent disappointments, there was nothing organically
dressers who plan these schemes she would try to comfort me with wrong. Digest
kgest applause the opening elegant ladies in marble.
But Mr Solera claims we are should work in stimulating sur-that comment. of his winter collection
And it rarely trouble These he has in soft one up on those Greek ladies of roundings.
Just comforted me: because you lovely full-length
knew how tragic a disappoint --or pastel nunk worked on the very
is at that age.
causes. But this didn't ment Lashiony lines with a deep latest
But now, of course, I and my-hee well
Eleanora at all, since she And Atled "lon
self thinking the same thing and handle her library work. It was enough to the typical square, Inose
into and there-quarter raglan sleeves full skurt :1
kner-kvel.
Lecoming more and more con- und One of the most popular furs
1x shirt this
the Renson
Thus, the
Jumper which matches the blue fur jeuns has cape
coller
out ne daring line body ne
of the smartest of casual sports weit.
a
medium
Mr Hart
The black ermine worn over the white jeans 18 priced, hard wearing South West aleu lonse, But, with a smartly African Persian inmb. rut V-neck, a trim collar which can be worn up or down and shaped to stand
elbow-length sleeves worked in
one
line" across the
back 10
stress the ragion effect, it achieves being chle as well casual.
ns
Th sharp contrast to these
truly
marchels for casual wear are two mingnificent stoles in that
uses
In black for a cape stolk round but ID away from the neck at the back
and folded to the front where STEPCL
can be fastened with three
it
or
four large bone bultons if re- quired. Accompanying this very
nitractive stole is a muff-bag in 招 mixture <f South Afrienn
royal fur, rarely seen in London antelope. these days chinchilla. Mr Lon-
Persian Tamb
West
and
Mr London pairs a muff-bag this fur with one of the
fashionable suggestively season's
don's is an authentie Empress in chinchilla bolero
med Reveillon (the name caps.
given by the French to their
all-night celebrations beginning
on
Eve and Now
GL
MOST
Cossack
POPULAR
Christmas Year's Eve.) Mr Hart's is deen case atole in Rex chin- In the winter collections of chilta.
every one of London's "Big Inshion desimer, the Mink is as popular as ever- Twelve" and as expensive. Mr London members of the exclusive In- features it in all shades from corporated Society of London emba ceruldan natural blue. Fashion designers, South West fl-rough cmba nutumn haze African Persian lamb ras an 'trimming brown to black and Important place for
on hats, conts, Jackets and even dresses.
natural white.
CHEAPER RANGE
One striking Jacket in black mink is faced with white mink cuffs, collar and tuxedo-like front. Another in ranch mink
hon
One couturier, Ronald Pater- son, recalling no doubt the ley which con blow draughts through the ancestral homes of his native Scotland, has entire sult in dark green South Inmb West African Persian
an
a flat round collar and finished with a knitted band. in front edging in omba Brutumn haze natural browh mink, while matching wool at the base of čun the' jucket and cuffs of the
third, Twilight, bi silverblüta mink.
Luxurious Evening Ensemble
A lovely stole worked like
Hardy Amion, one of mest of My London's stoles, this Queen Elizabeth's dressmakers, winter, straight across the back usen i for toy upstanding without a centre seam is in a collare and capo runs, which now smoky brown colour called appear to be part of the mit of 'erevle
coat but which can be slipped La his range of full-length off at will any time. Lad wearet couts, Mr London, although And them too warmer wants known in the trade the to change the look of her outat. 1 worn over a fornísi wyenkig dresse
Laster-Agence France-Frame, Mink Man", in ihqering a num-
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vinced that it is true, When a complete tragedy, involving not one thing folds up, it is often unly her livelihood but her main preludio to something interest in life. Both doors, it
#cemed, were closing on her.
just
Lise.
Take, for example, Eleanora J. Eleanora was a shy, studious, introverted girl who never could
She gave up the job-she had make light conversation and who to.
And when she pulled herself suffered a great deal when she was in her teens.
she together and talked 16 her family When
doctor, the discovered that the finished school Eleanora to be a librarian and was
WEO We offe as a receptionist. Sho Since she was accurate and met Bure it would be impossibic, ticulous she did most of thy be she had no skill with people and bind-the-scenes work, and was thought. But with her eyes as rarely asked to handle the front they were, it was the only solu desks.
a good job In her local?ly
kind of job she could take
was scared to death at the
tion.
That was three years ago. As the years went on, the bo- Elinora fould a job ob a recep came more stukdious and intro- tionist. It was a nightmare ot verted, never seemed to seqüire Brat, but she got better and nny acelal gructs. She Shed better at it. And, white che is the job, did it well and édvanced. no extrovert, she has learned to In fact, to millgate Her loneliness, like people and work well with she put in lots of extra time. them. In fact, she was just Then the tragic dóy, Eleanora's mode desistant to the bico eyes went back on her. At first, mariagerf
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