WEEK-END
THE CHINA "MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1956.*
WOMANSENSE Paquerette
Do Children Now Have More Dress Sense?
for
Junior Fashions With A "Fashion Firsts" in
Sophisticated Look
By BETTY WILSON
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In short, every woman needs the right wardrobe, This calls for choosing colours and styles
1 that are becoming. If the bud- Rot's involved and
woman almost always 18- at also calls for some ecutməmirat thinking +0 the subject.
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To look her best, how naty ated what kind of clothes does a silk jersey gir! require? We asked it ex- pert this question, and she says the business girl can get along Wan a basic wardrobe that in- cludes the following:
Dresses: At least three wool
believe
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T'S a algn of the times
that three school girls, chosen from places as für apart as Glasgow, Dewsbury (Yorks) and Bristol, should be able to express very definite and constructivo views about the clothes which British manufae- turers are designing för children. Rightly or wrong- ly, many children long to look somehow in line with their elders.
Designers say that even some two to five-year-olds have quite definite idons about colours.
Undoubtedly the Queen's choice of clothes for her OWN children - practical, serviceable and pretty --- has had a tremendous in- ffuence on mothers and through them, one hopes, on English children general- ly, from toddlers to teem- ngers.
Deeper, more vibrant, coloura nre replacing the old nondescript pastels, Line has come into the picture, too. Mothers who once would have bundled their plump children into a kind of Mother Hubbard garment are now being Hently taught that there ате
cerlalu tricks of cut. These are Just
Bu Rood for disguising puppy fat as they are for streamlining their own some- times over-plump selves.
For the flve-to fourteen- year-olds, who tend to shoot up. sects, almost overnight, the brzy middy-line jacket can look absolutely enchanting (two_cx- cellent examples are sketched on the right).
In both these in- stances the designers have given the extra thought that young sters appreciate today. In one case it is the pale blue white spotted jacket lining
matches 凸
which
Little
to
of
neat collar. (We grown-ups like match jacket rungs and blouses so why shouldn't our children?) In the other, it is the trick putting two pockets on one side of the straight, boxy jacket (o line which covers up a mul- titude of figure faults, incident- ally) and only one on the other.
Although British designers specialising in children's wear are showing great discretion, in case they make children tools 100 grown-up, they are never
eles establishing what one hopes will be a lasting affection for "quality" fabrics.
TOP LEFT: This woolfer) outût for the thirteen- to nine- teen-year-olds by Cive Rodney has the long torso line to alve if the ap÷t8-date look that tevingers want. If Is made of Black Watch fartan. TOP RIGHT: A teenage dress by
Dabut Dresses which also has the approved long-stemmed ine kad là made in blue and off-white flecked tweed, with a neat, turn-down collar of crisp white pique, CENTRE LEFT! The couture trick of lining a jacket with a printed fabric which matches collar or blouse is one of the talking oints in this two-piece for the five- to fourteen-year-olds by df. A. .ftark. The boxy little jacket and pleated skirt are both made of myy blue wool hopsack. CENTRE RIGHT: The easy-to- wear middy line, Interpreted in pastel pink, emerald green or corn yellow Scotch tweed, has grown-up touches in this version by Rogers Browne and Richards_for_ the youngster approaching or in, her early teens, BOTTOW LEFT: For = small boy (the olever Frenchwoman who designed this little kuit did it with the two to five-year-olds in mind), M. A. Hart has tailored delphinium blue wool taffels pants, which are worn with a white wool taffeta skirt, embroidered with charming motifs in matching blue. ON THE RIGHT, is a companion pléco made of deep blue wool taffeta and shocked
in white.
mirable two-piece for a rather whose curves are still obstinate- tubby youngster, Murdoch. Hill-ly in the wrong places. Alexon
this in Gon shows
moat at makes it in oatmeal coloured tractive grey and pink flecked tweed fleeked with cranberry mixture and introduces a caf- rod and picks the warm colour
the Linie for
straight, up with a red velvet collar and
buttons centred with red velvet.
digari cover up jacket,
Another excellent two-piece
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boler, and the turile, So why pick an old line, like the severe tailored English classic?
And at least three
hat ADJUSTABLE lines: the shaggy Cossack, the WAISTLINES deep cloche, and the wide plate. So why play safe with a tirod little pillbox with a veli?
Some designera are giving CHOOSE
skirts fairly close-atting children's
adjustable clothes, If you have Agure waistlines important sinco a faults
(who hasn't?), covering too tight waistband makes even clothes ever did any thing for anybody. The draped them with a lot of bunchy loose the best cut skirt lose its hang.
The ness will accentuate them, not Others are how dreary.
making it a habit to press-stud on all white col- conceal ront bow at the throat what a
Perhaps hore. The graceful fall of grey the waist, that's
an easy at through ars, so that they can be wash
a new line, ed in a matter of minutes, how demade.
anyway. with The careful hat
But even with biggish veil 41
hips, close-fitting skirt looks
for the small girl is by M. A. yes, fine when hats with best.
Hart who uses a very fine wool vells are i fashion. But not
hopsack (the colour is a bright this year, when there's not Ц
royal blue) to make pleated CHOOSE dashing accessories: veil at a single Paris milliner's
skirt and double-breasted, boxy meaninglesa Instead, just choose good and
scarves, new-looking clothes--you'll find cod style" blouses, nor careful
jacket which I finished off with a not too snug band round they'll suit you; avolding_merely
hels.
the hips. But dezzling fashions kittenish
shirts, which It's no great sacrifice to heels, fur if you can run to it
Recent shows of spring Alexon makes an excellent the and
newest in bags and fachions for youngsters indiente Young et swagger coat, whh jewels.
that the new spring tweeds and sàn-hay darting introduced To prove my point-that good classic wersfees, as well as from the collarices neckline to CHOOSE good colours. even clothes are good clothes regard- woole in hopeack weaves, are give cay movement and walk conspicuous colours, if you like less of your age--I've chosen a not being reserved for adult ing width without bulk. This themi. I once unw Daisy wonderful, new London suit, asions. These children's looke excellent In a warm Ing. 18
Over 50, and photographed It. Aul gues out formal Fellowes, then well
with clothes introduce colours and orange coloured wool. An alter Rogers Browne and Ricfiards Complete Record Section from walicing duwn Bond Street in a different Levastating, anẹ can get by wid
accessories, on # wool weaves that we grown native to this style is the Prin have used an interesting new Birth to the twelfth Year. Acarlet one winter, we sumuter lovin Wonderful
her debutante coat,
of 17, on a lovely ups will be wearing ourscives. cess line, ilustrated by another weed in a honeycomb weave tu. it saus consudy off on a beauty turning every cyc madel girl in her twenties, and
Wool jersey
tweed--one of Youngert cont, which is seamed in tones of honey and white for whirl of bails and dances, niore
CHOOSE wĥnt's new. This on a handsome woman in
her the most used fabrics in all the too the figure: This seans to a fitted topcoat. Here, slanting Illustrated by over 200 "how-to" photographs and drawingt, some Kowns
reason, you have at least three forties,
bring the design inlo new sult lines to pick from: the Who looks best in it? It's spring shows makes on ad whittle pounds off a youngster hip bard
line with adult fashions and, at short-jacket sult, the dress-and- hard to say,
the same time, help adjust the pre-teenager's figure problems, Miss Rensor has mo her At- recive coat which mixes lilac, pale blue and turquoise in a new boucle tweed weave. Thila is seamed into the figure and has
dresses for the ulice, with 1 ilk prams or fante aulis or dresses, Ine latter are especially prac lica, since you can dress, laem up of down with ater:sories.
1 smer, about ten cottons ↑ Are required in a cres, fresh
Ito despace the mercury.
As for evening comes, these depend purely
quired.
UN BUCHE stand-
be
Suits. the Incl:bone of working girl's wardrobe, оге а Wise investment, For winter, 4lu ec to nve are needed. They expand the wardrobe consider- atly, since they can be changed off with biouses and sweaters, of which you should have about for
à dozen. Lightweight suits sprung ano musun don't get quite so much wear, You con kel by with one or two,
When it comes to shoes, the rack should hold a pair each of
binci brown and navy blue, They're basic. In addition, ono or two other pairs, such as red or tan, can be added to go with your wardrobe.
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You'll also need a pale evening slippers, preferably in a metallic such as gold or silver which can be worn with almost any colour. Sports shoes needed will, of course, depend on what outdoor activities you prefer sneakora for tennis: Benaible
low-necied shoes 1er golf,
Coats
should include everyday epat, a dressy coat, and two light toppure for spring and autumn.
When It
to bood bage, you'll deed one in each shoe colour, Pian on seven pairs of gloves and éffolk costultie fawallery, belts and scarves to Kobal costura. Don't ago overboard on these, EXCRIBON-
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HOW TO ACQUIRE A
"SMILING" VOICE
By JEANNE D'ARCY
HIS for teenagers who in no time af alt. Hearing your a great shock., Stop and ston up stage, spend all their next time you're airing opinións, spare time experimenting How do you sound? with cosmetics We've no one Ad, Auïerica's loading de- fault to find with that, but partinent stores has a tale: tricks we'd like to point out, that They've passed mirrors over the beauty involves more than a deck of ouch of their teleptione
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