THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1955.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
HOLA!
A portrait dress for i ball inspired by Spanish routurier Rodriguez à Velasquez dress with bands of black velvet appliqued Di to white silk. From Jacymar.
A
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES reporting from MADRID
I'll
H
give in-black IS right!
Especially if you add
one vibrant colour
Madrid.
MET beautiful girl wearing a green Spanish jumper suit i found a fine collection of Spanish -sweaters. I heurd news of some Spanish-looking swimsuits, } saw advance sketches of some Spanish- inspired fabrics.
All in London All in one week.
So I now to Madrid to trick out of this was mere chance or
if there ne now bubbling of Spanish fashion
I spent a week in Madrit and Barcelona, with sorties into the mitry round about.
I've visited couturiers, factories, shouN. I've talked to well- dressed Spanish women and Pve watched the Jet-eyed Riris who strail on the sunlit streeta.
1 And masses of tasty and talent here
Quite a lnd to be learned and angud and bought if one could swim through the problems of doing business in a country where and it is always afternoon. affairs move with Orientał słownIENS
Thrilling Hobby
For Housewives
Kansas City, Mo. Patrol here and helped fami- Wright Brother arme CAP cadets in dying.
One of het Arst students was a
young man
Troved long ago
that
who
IVE SEEN the best jumper suits outside Switzerland helter, perhaps, and half the price.
The genes Labs are treated so they never stretch out of shape. The patterns are unique: Jacquard woven mesales, dowers, abstract pat- teins by arlast designers.
The new enlours are ethereal pinks and blues for spring, combined with a spot of dark colour for strength
"P
The suits are individually cut and finished by hund.
THEIR IDEAS Afor suede
One
flying was not just for the proached the plane, Saw her birds, and today 2111 ner und exc.almed,
getic organisation of women
is proving that it's not just
for the men.
ey are the Ninety-Nine, a Cothreadly - Pcognised group Women flic
who
were 1-
Wan driver?**
"What!
Flut be mude the fight and I'VE SEEN the twin set of the year
one
Tater faspel Miss Rea it was
Ruest flights" he เวส
of Lae ever made.
Mr Marie Kuhlman, Ruther
Panikud by Amella Earhart Kansas City Ninety-Nines mem- 1. fore her tragic disappearance ber, helps her husband, O. E.
BR veur agu.
The chapters of he Ninety-
Kubiman, by
Aying on com- for plastics
Nines are senttered throughout y business
the Vulte Stae. Camura anl
Alu kar They thy fo
barthes, famil
1
Miss Neva Rea Ja tent of
the 25 women
WEL
Isticke
The Kansas City chapter, that for the he use wife forsking for a hobby it's different, fer things can compare with #sang for excitement,
"Our chapter is sterticated
Ben he owNS.
Mis Kubloon
vigation, bud
le Tas wa
Best studied look flying
or so it seemed after the second ceremonial sherry. The sweater was blnek, patterned with white The curdigan was of block suede, like a silky pussycat.
This combining of suede and knitting is chic and exciting. like
The suede here is more
velvet than ke heavy leather.
I'VE SEEN a ferally dawn -
of the ready-made Spanish Jersey sults that Brilish customera аге fighting for, well cat and hand finished. From Rimad
I TALKED to two of the most famous women in Spain, And found each, in her way, pre-orcupled with her family.
1 TALKED to the young, proity Duchess of Alba, who is desernded from the Stuarts and has one of the largest fortunes und estales in Spain.
a few of next ed on me I was missing a lot year's beach things-too early.
She has three little boys and get, for the main collections
The towel cloth is outstand- ALDA her homes personally,
T
hy tka wing how to
fly."
Mrs Lauro Grmin, another
woven double, one set of meticulously. Outside her homo beautiful colours on one side one
of her
18 big interests And another on the reverse.....
charitable work for children.
T
is active Kansas City pilot, earn-
24 hr Jrence three years they tell me nobody else
the proposition that
for women
weld
String
17
The la
day
t
hu
men." said Miss Hea, a of 10 years of flying Inny have been
ying was fro
MR
the day IN Leling and Dust,"
Sho
eslimated there
Are
40 000 to 50,000 women pilets in the United States, with more and more women learning to Ay every day.
Miss Reu look up dying after she began wondering what kept the plane in the air while on commercial flight That led to dying lessons, und, unce started, she couldn't stop.
She said her Arst solo Hight "was the thell of a fetime" and feed her to get a ilcenes to haut passengers.
She later became the first wonian pilot with the Civil Air
! dues fying for her hus- ban 1. Mark, who is in the con-
business
do it.
She apologised to me for "all Between It's made into very Spanish- the confusion" In her upart- bausmess flights, she found time lucking beach cupes, beach ment, because she is moving to arteipate in three national tundes and
Laces
an
I have not seen a woman, old
shirts and ole house, back to the Palace of cwn's dressing gowns.
Liria, which was damaged Youngest of the Kansas City I'VE SEEN handbags so soft
the Civil War. Naely-Niness Pat Riezyski, and supple, so well designed, 16, who has Just attaine the thu I'd love to see them" in-
her
father
turo
are
!
gum,
But neither is it so vulgarised. or young, whose eyes were not The air is not tainted with the of American chewing Vonloads of priceless Spanish large and black and dominat odour
Tho beautiful mountain Ing. age needed to get Reence, ported into England (Spanish and English pictures and furni-
६६ She took up fying to find out leather is probably the best in
And they are heavily and roads are not blistered by why
for brother the world).
being moved from expertly made up. Long lashes hideous adverts And
stockings thought is interesting,
apartinent to paluce, and the are inked with mascara, eyes and tyres. And you can wander
with busy Duchess is
outlined supervising thickly
black peacefully through a cathedral unmolested by chattering touts the hanging of each Velasquez. pencil. How right they are,
selling picture postcards. Then, think of them wearing black.
The oldest jo "about 69," but Miss Hea explained that women pilots in their 60's are not un- common.
Learning to Hy 1: dimeult, Miss He said, but once you've learned's easier than driving a rar. In fact, she added, 'si much easier than driving and much less nerve-racking.
And you don't have so many men to razz you as do wonten nuto drivers-United Press.
Don't Scratch That Itch!
— Instead, See A Doctor
By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
DON'T scratch that itch!
Continued rubbing
over
It gives only tem- long period of time frequently relief and it might which the skin becomes thick
porary be harmful.
results in lichenifcation in
and leathery.
never
expect
there are songs I don't know aboul, but tho prices scents 10 low that even if these bags arrived home # treble the price I'd still think them cheap. For instance, I've known what to do about an !! the evening bag-1 hate enes know, especially those nasty lttle beaded objects.
I've bought a beauly here, shaped like a big folding purse, in very soft black sueda for 28%.
I
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Spots?
Spots and pimples in adolescence cause months or years of misery. Neglect may lead to permanent' scarring. Why suffer needlessly? 'Eskame!' gets rid of spots quickly. More than this, 'Eskamel* hides the spots at once. It gives you back your good looks instantly, Ask So I chose a recipe for
your chemist for 'Eskamel'
considered one of
the best- dressed women in Spain. She ITALKED to one of the
told me that four-fths of her best-known writers in Spain, wardrobe is black. Carmen Laforet,
WHEN I write my page from whose third
abroad I like to send The New Woman, has "I wear briliant colours novel,
You the nicest local she said, "but the recipe for Just won the £2,000 Menorca the summer,
dish. Most of the food bere always black in the winter." prize her earlier books sold
would be too exotic to translate above the 50,000 mark.
Even the young girls in the to the English kitchen. The shops and
black best recipes begin: "Take eight Carmen Laforet, striking They look chic and striding as different kinds of shell fish..........” and looking, intellectual, lives in
a individuals, rather sad fut full of water colours and sombre as a crowd puts hand-painted pottery that could just as well be in Hampstead
1 or Chelsea.
I'VE SEEN colours used in a wonderful way.
don't clash
The Spaniards coluura, like the Itellans. They pick ene vibrant use it with black.
colour
The couturier Pertogaz a short black crinoline under a fuchsia evening
lines a black cont peacock blue.
dress cont with
cafes
wear
and
#
delicious drink served in restaurants: Sangria, Think of them in the country, Spanish wearing Tather astonishing which a light, economical, the Aweeds. Much more sport goes perfect drink for a young party. But she is far more domesti- on over here then
you would cated than the
literary ladica imagine, and many women, as
well as mon, go shooting.
at home,
I saw a woman in a restau- rent with a crimson satin scarf against black hair, black øyes,
"I am terrified of literary The Spanish tweed black dress, coat, hat and shoes. gatherings," sho told me. "Iere surprisingly good.
Everywhere black, black, never go to parties and I'don't right black SEEN little that inter-
often travel,”
What can you do about that
Itching, or pruritus as it is
itch?
called in medicat terminology,
is not a disease; it is a symp- Better see your doctor
tom. It is a disorder which away so he can find out what
cousing iL Remove the ested source and you remove the itch.
may be localised or generalised is and it may be from Internal or external causes.
There are numerous external
Among them may
deodorants,
CRUSCS.
insecticides, soaps,
dyes
be
and
me in, afternoon evening clothes. Even tho em- broidery is a pala shadow of Paris,
It's the sports things and
And she was too shy to ro to the presentation to collect her prize.
She has four young children,
so badly something always tyre at home.
He might suggest you change accessories that provide what "go, naturally,” she said, "I am pollens and physical your diet, avoiding fish, shell-wo need. changes such as dryness of the fish, pork, strong cheeses und a bit different."
chaling and tickling chocolate.
skin,
caused by furs.
Dandruff, excessive
dryness
or Irritating hair tonies general
ly are the cause of an
schip.
Before he can cure you per manantly, however, you've got Itching to break the scratching habit,
its cooling
Promod to halt. Itchin
THEIR
HOMES come first
home
"How do I at in, my writing?
* Well Zour children, you know, are much easier than one-by
tho
fabrics
Eskamel
Take a bottle of ordinary cod Trade Mark wine, a bottle of fizzy lemonade, the juice of two large lemnonis, three tablespoons of sugar, and mix wall in a jug. Add lemon
and pool, a alloe of lemon
But
Spanish woman's lot of ice. shooting outfit-tweed jeans or light tweed toreador pants with pompons, a short Jackot, and a cape or tunic`over the top- would cause a bit of eyebrow- raising on a Scottish moor,
the fourth you've had plenty of i One sad thing I haven't seen prpotica,"
nearly, so maný lovely girls-on in Italy, although I you see Brave words, I thought, being, belleve they are more beautiful shakes as a baby and fiery, in the southi
Menthol, with
HE women here are great home women. Thole life is effect is ono of the dus the mmily. And for Boralsh Woollen underwear, dyes ot.. too, is used a lot, by woman your socks, soap and cold water great care must be taken even in being role ne loneliness minder myself.
They have large familiey`s 204 THEIR DRESS phenol preparations. If applied to extensive spens, adore their children.
housekeep
vid —in dramatic beautifal(73) And Continued and vigorous absorption of phenol can induce scratching can causo even gangrene. So, don't use it men come-home "at midd
unch and a slags pur back to work at our aud
STAY CAŁKO your shins to itch with weak ciring winter months.
worse symptoms than the Itch without your doctor's advice. Ing. You are likely to cause Benzocaine, and liquor ples scratch marks
類
wheals or blood crusts,
Assuros, carbonis are pleo good itching
remedies.
ling le mist and esni in them. smail cflies
OW do they dress qnt look
Ting think of them all
aro
*** Here,' in. Costiles."- they
handsome, dignißed, withdrown, like the wax-fnged. eyed melancholies of the por traits in the Prado. Spain wochs alto
pretty
the ol
bent.
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