· THE CHINĄ MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1956.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
THE JENNIFER HOWLAND
New
GLAMOUR STYLE OF
A
GIRL FOR
WITH 1956.
Two Scotswomen started a salon for offs in the world of Haute Couture. they receive orders from near and
ANOTHER
Page
HERE'S THE PROTOTYPE Paquerette
OF GLAMOUR FOR 1956
NECIL
C
London hend, A ridi-
re- culously small waist, plenty of
BEATON marked about that
famous beauty and fashion
curves, feet,
ilny and
leader of the 'twenties studied disdain. Mrs Dudley Ward
Now here the Into the lead
that
had she appeared on
girl who would
London scene 20 years in the fashion earlier she would have been seene, domes u described
under- fook ridiculous nourished messenger boy.
2 an
Twenty years before she
in the kind of
clothes that made
Barbara
with broad
hit the social scene the famous==ā beauties of the day were shoulders, and
llam-
Б
capable flat
large. Curvaceous, boyant, and feminine. And hands,
win Was
more bosom,
of Long. skender
yet she. copied than any woman her Lime. Was a flat, quiet boyish figure.
For looks, be so much
and
Way of wearing
clothes
else,
Each
way I school- blazer.
wuty
is a question of Uming era has its on glansour its uwa girl of
the moment.
of
John
On tir.
today 1 French pleks his girl manent den, afe Howlats, the prototype of glamour for 1938.
SEE WHAT I MEAN 7
And since she is the girl who THE siimmed is a clinic in
looks the way most fashionable women will want to look by the end of 1956, here's a top-tv-los analysis
(by John French of his girl of the moment. ---
She has the kind of fner that
with looks best
medium- bob. Her girt length, Garbo-ish
woman
HE new smart place to go to London where they
claim to fat girl under 25 fake 20lb, off years old, and up to 151. off her if she is over 26-in one Curse
of six treatmen15. A gy figure who has
to get weight off "It's easier been around the fashion scene
young girls," says the unsoliced for two years, the s
head of the clinic.
buy suckienly the lops. And
usually have a "They
In view and will be strict with a dop of hair, an average broad shoulders are perfect for
Ands the new loose straight couts.
Older slimming. She has the kind
the of long, about
women usually won't be so fr elegant lines that suit the new
with themselves. But mind you, slack-waisted clinging skirts.
if they cheat, I offer to stop the And a general air of unfuss- ness which sulls the new easy treatment and give them their
which are on
money back." casuuj tashloas
treatment the way.
wals, and
Garba
K4t
urself boukset France
Here
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wii la girl who the
next 101
is
First, a thermal bath (from the Mayo clinic in America), This is a box you sit in and perspire. Your head sticks out
1 the top and you can have a facial at the same time.
Second, in oxygen bath with under-water massago (this is part of the treatment used for curing polio).
Third body massage. And fourth, a diet.
"Most of my patients," says the head woman, "are women who want to keep their hus- banda, or women who want to
ket a job."
THIS PARTY
BORE IS TAPED
A
NEW Incance Brrives--for the family friend. In addition to the maps, the colour trans- parencies, and the movies, he may now have the tape recorder.
Tape-recording companies in Britain report that half the hundred per cent increase in sales over the past year is duc tu sales for the home, where young people now record their wedding, their parties, even the baby's first words...
A GIRL'S
BEST CLOTHES
NOTED in Picendilly.
NOT
Two
French mod:1
Kiris
laying
men's cashmere overs which had
pull-
been
dured pounds,
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eight
10
four
They
and sloppy season's
Each era has its own glamour, Barbara Goalen pul over fashion with the help of a neat cropped
That's Jennifer Howland,
The new slimming is a four-port affair.
TAILORED SUITS HAVE
-J
wear them loose with long sleever pushed up, over straight tight with a while, high- skirts; collared shirt showing beneath the V neck of the sweater. -London Express Service.
BECOME
A POPULAR CHOICE IN ITALY
THE
THE tailored suit is the
nverige
woman's
or more
By GINA POPESINA
colours
Muf
to-
the
Most of the overcoats shown by this house were loose-fitting and full with a curved shoulder- in soft, stand-by for between season two
mixed quality wool fabric, It can be line, and were made wear in the spring and with bluck, and
One of the heavy worn equally well in the day- piled wool fabrics.
most attractive ume et in the evening, accord- the autumn, but this year weight grey flannel. Often they
by Naide comprised to what accessories
ore ensembles
a coat in lemon-yellow AW DOI having are trimmed with small round Italian women are
However, some collurs of black Persian lamb worn with 11. suits made up 131 warm, or a scarf in the same fabric or of the models are intended only Shelland and a dress in fog- grey wool. The high-waisted for the more 'dressy" occasions, heavier weight wools for in occlol fur.
out gradually of cont flared
wards the hem from just winter wear.
The very latest tailored suits being trimmed in a variety
beneath the bustline and This seems an excellent idea re Influenced by the tune line. ways with rich silk or velvet.
elongated jackels
dress also featured the high- cast- to copy heemse
as always They have
TURIN BIDS FOR
waisted Empire look. flat- FASHION FAME
The long thin spaghetti-look Now looks smurt, the career woman, widening to the hemline and a particularly, always looks right slightly-marked waistline.
ened bustilne and
the sults double-
was emphasised in Florence and, to shown by SOLARO. Here the brenaled fastening over narrow far.in tatlored clothes.
Italian women have quite
Biesser extent, Milan, have al- jackets managed to be both number of different styles from skirts.
wear ready established themselves as straight und yet fitted at the For dav-into-evening which to choose. There are, for
come the ever-useful dress and centres of Italian fashion. Now same time, by means of clever instance, those with full. pleal-
la vertical darting. con- another Italian city, Turin T'hese ed or bell-shaped skirts and jacket ensembles.
Coats in this collection werd short jackets which button from sist of a simple sheath dress, making a bid for fame in the
Informal same field.
either is ideal for
three-quarter have small which neck to bem and
And a semi-
three wear,
Recently,
of Turin's seven-eighths length and were or rounded evening lapels and classic
tho
Solaro and typical of the "bare" line--0 designers Nalde, collar. The favourite fabric for Atted jacket which makes
of trend which is so noticeable in this type of suit is a Shetland ensemble into a suit. A number Panle-held a fashion show
of colour of the jackets B these en winter models at the Carignano Italian fashion this season, being wool in two tones
feature the Thearle. piso
The models displayed devoid of all unnecessary trim- or sembles. such as blue and green
the high mings. Instead, the clothes rely elongated basque.
certainly maintained brown and beige.
Lastly there Then there are the suits with
tractiveness lead-
skirls und straight, and silen
These are to The waisted Juckels.
be found in wool tweeds, with
Their Business-Second-hand Clothes Of Quality
a
be
Glasgow. Seufland people night surprised if
T first glance it's they knew some of their cus
14
t
butser who range from
ng lights of the sochil salon that holds the entertainment worki fashion secrets of many. a wives of professional men. well-dressed woman.
a quiet ton at cul-prices is a lure You nip down lane-not far from Glas- women from far and
towns Scotland, and from beyond her
The attraction of being able to keep up a fashionable repula-
gow's famous Sauchiehall from the cities and
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near-
Street and climb a steep borders to cities like Birming- stairway to enter it,
GWI
ham in England. On reflection you realise
*kidly enough fashi store that its location off (but buyers, who like to dress well
out of nut
their not too far off) the beaten but
stock), are among the regular track has been carefully patrons of Mrs Morrison red chosen, because the oh-so- Mrs Redford, Some of them discreet manner in which make the trip to Glasgow from the business is conducted the cities
is behind its success.
The two women running this concern are. in fact. in the second-hand clothing Trade. But this is an uld-clothes shop u the de lære level.
It deals ins
of the UK, ut Tre- quent intervals, showing up at the pleasant premises which thoroughly meril the tie 'salon.
ORDERS BY MAIL
The agency
k
the cast-offs of the "very best" orders nowadays. gels overseas
A former
people-and only slightly-worn cilent air-mailed a request from clothes at that.
the Far East for several cock-
Six years ago Mrs Elizabeth Anil dresses. Another recent
a second-hand order was from Canada.
Morrison and
saw scope for
woman friend
iri Glasgow
dress agency
specialising 11
model clothes,
HOW IT BEGAN
"We keep our standard high, That's why we've been 80
couture and successful," said Mrs Morrison. "We buy nothing costing under eighteen guineas
in some lines twenty-five guiness. And we purchase only from
new.
It is a place where socialites people introduced to us, so that who can't afford to bo scen more than two or three times we know where
come from."
our clothes
in one outfit can dispose of On the salon rails I saw their clothes, and where other
and duywear Avonden with dress taster above evening-gowns
bearing the labels of Hartnell,
their income can buy the
clusive "hand-me-downs."
-KO
Worth, Hardy Amies and others.
Response to t circular nd- priced at third do a filth of
original cost.. freshly
dressed to women noted for their and
their expensively elegant dress- cleaned
brand-new.
ing was such that the enter-
prising Mrs Morrison and her
be no difficulty
R
stock.
The wall-gowned ladites
"Somo
Often
looking
of our stock has
A
For
is the
POME,
of
or
un tailored sult. This is enjoying standard of originality and at- for detail interest in the fabrics
black
line.
a great revival
Made in a plain, good-
at the present expect favoureri”
we have come to of Italian fashion.
Consta
Guidi
Maricelli
Capucci
friend were assured there would actually never been worn," ex- in building up plained Mrs Morrison. "That
this wall with a silim skirt and vieni silver lame evening-gown, for instance," "Apparently the lady
·butions tram pook" to "Bam small fortune jumped at the chance of mak- have it made did not like her-
who paid a solf in it when she got it home
And often this agency's cus-
CAROSA: Heavy wool fabris in a striped design is used for
ing their 'cast-offs' pay offl
Then
bojan. customers
to
to
· they
the straight" isek
flecked with
come along, in a furtive trickle tomers romp a bargain because at first. Now the total rung into a husband has disapproved of thousandalen
Who buys the couture cast his
wilo's expensive drena
offs? Mrs Morrison and her choice, and
partner,
stellas lost, her
Dundee born Mr arte dor it in bocquencom
Hiod jačkes which
shed verlion)
of which they are made, either in the pattern of the weave or the low- variations in surface level waisted semi-filed look for the pile. Ideal for this purpose sults. These, Incidentally, were are such fabrics as tweeds
in different all types, boucles, chines, fabrics
of
01
executed mainly
types of Shetland
and
herring bene twoeds.
way,
Elegant simplicity
was
or wool tartans.
Wool tartans, by the
the were used with great effect by
her and
theme of the dresses by this PANTE for some very youthful- designer. Made in light, velvety looking suits with full, pleated
Also included in jerseys skirts. or wool draps
with printed
richly collection were straight
they simply-styled topcoats in
in wool fabrics and set of smart alernoon dresses in wool jersey.
wool (some coloured Chinese motifs), spindle-like all were appearance.
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Maide
soft
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the
see thom Monday
exclusive!
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Perfect
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NOW
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the matching cardigans are either trimed
or lined with
the same material as
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