THE
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MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER '91," 1955.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
PICTURES BY DAVID OLING
Five ways to stop the shivers
\NE thing's certain
inters you won't pretty if you're cold.
In the look
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STOP THE SHIVERS eating enough, Don't go out without breakfast or make do with a salad lunch.
STOP THE SHIVERS by getting some exercise EARLY In the day.
STOP THE SILVERS by www.filing the most vulnerable
part of you, your throes, with a fur scarf or a mohair stola STOP THE SHIVERS by LOOKING Warm - warmer makeup, warmer colour.
STOP THE SHIVERS by wearing.
night-clothes
and underolothes, AN pretty now as the filmsiest cloth ones you wear in the summer.
ABOVE: Ski pants and vests
are ideal for the coun try or week-ends, ARJ Hme when you wear trousera.
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OF
BELOW: The right- dress to in Wool mixture fabric, with a delicious pattern of stripes and flowers.
FOR HIGH FASHION AT THE BEACH SWIMSUIT DESIGNER SUGGESTS———
An International Set Consisting of 12 Suits
San Francisco.
said women's
TF you
A New Slant On An Old Problem
MONEY and FASHION
"M°
By SYLVIA LAMOND
chosen clothes. Don't worry about looking the same every day, so long as you look right.
London. pleces she has bought and dis- yourself better with a few well- TONEY," said Mra sardod
Anne Lambton, "The toil might buy one wife of Teddy Lambton, the beautiful calf bag and one pair race-horse trainer, "is the of good kid gloves which would
really carn their keep." least important factor in fashion....you can
bo faultlessly turned out on shoestring."
Anne should know. She is a fashion consultant, re- cently chosen one of Bri- tain's eight best dressed women,
As we talked she Wie getting ready for a charity | ball changing out of the stone-coloured jeracy suit she bought for £4, into mink-trimmed bull gown which coat £300 from Manguin of Paris.
a
ele-
Both looked equally | gant in their different ways. In both Mrs Lambton had the same "beat dressed" look.
THE SECRET
Women from all walks of life
go to her flat in Regent's Park, London, for advice, or to take Anne with them as guide ou 11 shopping
Sorry- spree. that's
I shouldn't word have used.
a
"Spree is the good dressing," Lambton.
death knell to shuddered Mrs
"The big secret is to shop is If you're running a business... ruthlessly, without giving in to one single whim or fancy.
When sho ret out to buy that Inexpensive jersey suit Mrs Lambton knew sho wanted something warm in stone-belge,
She knew exactly the colour scheme she wanted to create stone with violet; the knew she
top wanted a dressy
make the skirt do double duty, and that separates in subtly blend
more elegant ing shades are than a sharp contrast.
So she settled for the suit, a
more pricey silk jersey cocktail sweater in a lighter shade of stone, and a violet silk scarf which can tuck at the neck. knot around her pearls or float from the hip pocket.
DEADLY SINS
Since so few women are per- fectly dressed, 11's obvious the fashion pitfalls are legion. Anno Lambton picks out the four fendliest:
TOO MANY CLOTHES: Unless you're in the top-Income group with accessories to go with each outßt, and a maid to keep them splek and span, pare your wardrobe to a minimum.
PITFALL
Mrs Peter Thorneyeroft nourly always wonry black, the Duchess deep bluo-it's one of Windsor nearly always wenus why to build a best-dressed reputation. Chopping and changing clothes constantly takes the edge off from your personality,
YOUR HUSBAND....A major pitfall if you pander to him. Don't be put off if he doesn't like a
thing-jolt him loving it. Show a new hat to when you are completely right,
inks
$3500
ant looking terrific. Falat mis WATCH
take to get carried away with anthurism and try it on with your housecoat. Men don't p preciate fashion out of context. THESE
EVENING GOWNS: Problem because they cost so much, are
worn so little. I get around It SKIRTS in two wNYA By swopping. 1 exchange evening dresses with a friend in Canada for a year.
You could do it with the woman WALK OUT! next door, provided you don't Attend the same Junctions. By storing away a a lovely gown
with I did this
a Coronation year dress, and am now wear- ing it again for the first time in three years. It feels like a new BOWIL
. Anne has only two winter, JEWELLERY; I'd by pêm a outfits for daytime, and a very teeny weeny diamond ring any good top cont, She has two padre day for one beautiful velvet theatre coat. I won't waste of identical well-cut black court shoes with high heels. ("I'd money on precious Jewellery stick to
afford it big and pair, but it eases until I can one the feet to change") and one beautiful so that it does some
black calf bog. ("I never thing for me. more than one handbag. buy a good one, and use it until it's finished").
Anne Lambton's idea of a weman's best long-term invest ment: A piece of good fur, such mink stole, an ermine tippet, a alverfox muft.
She does not own a suit or a fur coat, but she has o Teddy Bear fur fabric coat for the HA piece of fur pulls an out-
Sear country ("easily the smartest fit together in a remarkable way and puts a seal of luxury on the casual coat").
The advantage of Winter.
small whole thing." says Anne. "I've wardrobe is that it's easier to worn my mink stole for three pressed and years, summer and winter, and keep it well
and you omphasise nothing has given better value." brushed
"I shop for clothes twice a year, in Spring and Never in between. Any woman who shops in snatches should add up the cost of the bite and
LATEST COAT STYLES
FROM PARIS
By MARIE FONTAINE
have decided to
Semi-fitted redingotes at
make a new coat, here Pierre Balmain stress this a report on the latest designer'a forward line by styles of Paris models. means of two loose over- They will give you some panels in the front.
for 80
A
4.
are
is
idea of what to look for...if Madeleine de Rauch has two you want to be right up to of these costs in her collec- the minute
as tion, both of which
One fashions, fabric and colour double-breasted. are concerned.
4/5th length in bright red and the other 7/8th length First there Is the very in fawn. Bright red wool youthful and attractive velour is used by Jean redingote line which makes Patou for a double-breasted its welcome re-appearance straight redingote with a with its moulded bodice, wide shoulder line while firmly defined waistline (so Lanvin (Castillo) has de long absent) and full flared signed one in sand coloured wool fabric with a self tie at the neck.
skirt.
Included in the current collection of Christian Dior These fitted or semi-fitted is a redingote in black face coats have their limitations cloth. This is double-breasted howover; they cannot be with a full, stiffened skirt worn comfortably over and it is trimmed at the suit and if you require a neck with a black satin more all-purpose coat, ribbon slotted through the loose-fitting one should be collar and tied in a bow in your choice. front. Another black wool redingote is to be seen at Jean Patou, and Jacques Griffe chooses bright red for a redingote with a, tunle effect achieved by means of "Women are tired of the little Beaming on the gently-flared 1980.
The iden is that people are boy look and their awing back skirt.
to ultra femininity extends into living outdoors more now, and a
our field, too," she said. "We've growing number of families
incorporated a lot of trilis have their own swimming pools."
Louella Ballerino,
our now dealana.
.. like large designer for Butcher bows which
can be detached of bathing costumes.
when the wearer, goes "awin- ming." "Consequently, women need a full swimsuit wardrobe, much as they nood one for other · activities,” she explained,
woman's closet!
Miss Ballerino TWELVE Swimsuits in every swim suits this year are much more feminine than they've ever That's one company's been." husband-frightening Koal for
An
The two main trends in loose- Alting costs in the Paris collec- tional ore entirely opposita to each other. Most costs are either exflaxiess or have bago cape collars which widen the shoulder line.
The
1. Christian Dior This flared double-breasted redingote with a well-defined waist is in black froscloth and it is trimmed by a black salla ribbon slotted through the collar and tied in bow in front. 2. Balenciaga Stenight and double- breasted, this topoost in elephant grey wool has a large ́ cape collar which stands away from the neck but covers shoulders and upper arms. 3. Jean Patou: & raight, semi-alted redingote in red wood ratioon. IS is souble-breasted with a wide shoulder line and a Low-placed belt reading on the hips at the backs, Hubert de Givenchy: This cost in bright blag wool has a double collageman ordinary, see over cape which extends aiment le the elbows Beguine Typical of the Oriented incuence in the carreus Farm colico- tions is the collarless neckline of shim dared Dona in zmákiseli brown foecloth. Note the two plenie forming a triangle shape in front, eufiined by buttons.
coat, again shows the Oriental cosy and novel in the cont in Influence.
herringbone tweed, with a cape Where costs have cupe collare extending almost to the wadet. they really are large. Balenolsas This is reminiscent of a conch- puts one on a perfectly straight men's heavy cont double-breasted coat in alephant
A tremendous special ours exclusively! Imported tweeds, velveteens
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The former are typical of the Oriental influence which has Then there urs the swept through the collection redingotes with semi-fitted this season. walsts and straight skirts The collarices neckline is grey wool, Tho collar mandis 29. Au regtede cont fabrics which Miss Ballerino said the trend which come in a variety of featured by Christian Dior in away from the neck, but covers are popular in Farie this season, To stress that more bathing toward "high fashion" At the longths from three-quarter one of his caftan style costs in the shoulders and upper arme, among the favourites are all-
TICKETS: ($25 each) can be obtained from and alls idea, Miss Ballerino staged beach has dictated the use
green tweed. This is allt from.....
wools with a diagonal weave del Givenday
bookings reserved through a fashion show at International unusual fabrics such as black to full length. If you have under me to the hom at the Huberi
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