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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1956,
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
New Styles For Toddlers
By BETTY WILSON
bly double-breasted.
London. designed for the small boy TRITISH babies should and girl are almost invari-
he among the world's best-ressed children th spring.
Influenced be the simple woll-designed einthes which the Queen chines for Ir ner Charles Buat Pro
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Meticulously-embroidered #prat's heads finish tueks and give that extra detail. Scalloped yokes nre meant for the small giri. and are matched by
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TOP LEFT: The efusely-set
stitching over the shoulders give distinction to this guardsman's-red wool coat Jer a feddler. The matching bounet has a stilehed, roll-back brim (Peter Pan). TOP RIGHT: A detachable hig, made of the same soft bine wool as the cont, plus removable white pique collar and a zip-fastened back are the Ingredients for the perfect
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wo- or three-year-old child (Minimmade). CENTRE LEFT: Straight, short Jacket. with uniform catlar ish, which has a low-placed, button-down belt at the hack, and shirt set round with pleals cut away to eliminate bulk. In furquoise wool, this is A fashion-conscious suit for the ile gitt of three years and upwards (Mintmode) RIGHT: An azalea pink wool coat-again for the three-year- old and upwards- trimmed with rows of channel seaming. The detachable cultar is made of white eyeletted pique (Minimode). BOTTOM LEFT: This cost for the tile ir! who is just out of the baby slage is made in two-toned soft wool. Turn-down collar and vertical pockets are trimmed with sittehing: the yok
yake. which is matched by the turn-back bonnet betn is cut into scallops (Peter Pan). CENTRE: French knala trim the crepe-de-chine collar and Illie tucks, centred by a tuck which ends in an embroidered sprat's how gives a special look to this soft wool coat. The Ides for the matching wool honnet came from Paris (Minimode). RIGHT: A dashing little bation-un vest does away with untidy strapa and matches up with tartan wool trews (Minimode), This Chinese-Inspired Spring hat is one of the latest creations of Rose Valois, Of natural-coloured straw. It looks remark- ably original; the black velvet ribben provides a contrast. -Agence France-Presse.
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while suster's coat has a group available throughout Great Bri- of darts that end in embroider- tain in other colours, such
dural's heads at the back to flamingo. mardarin, lemon
width-giving chilton, and strawberry ice. hold a group of pleats.
Both boys and girls can have Wearing D rhapsedy
blue a touch of colour-matching or
bow-tie, Mr Thaarup introduced contrasting introduced by the collection himself. Most of collar faced with stitched velvet and were, # means of pockel flaps and back. the hats concentrated
"A line the Danish hat- designer Fald. "stripped pale grey.
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Choice Fabric
In an interview with Sylvia Lamond, top London model DOLORES says:
I'm
No Clothes Prop
ITER nineteen
fly Hartnell's known model the with the "sorrowful"
DA some ellenta call I'm to South Africa start a new life.
years best
Down Hartnell's stirenso vent like a Duchess,
I
girl what happened next,
To this day I don't know just but my
eyes feet became tangled and I fell me- Bat on my face at the commie-
sionaire's feet!
to
So ended my first day ot Hartnell's.
A model's Be can make her
1 am going to train man- edgy and short-tempered if she
mwquina.
to
more
Xeral of || I want teach women to be exciting. Get them to jel clothes influence their moods and deliberately take the character of J dress.
Most women have thing of the netress them.
doesn't discipline herself.
Some clients can be difficult, long bout on your feet LX- hausling.
Add to these the discomfort of showing furs in the heat of Burnier and chiffon frocks in En
mid-winter! And there's always new the
some inside
What about myself? 1 feel regal in a stately ball gown, almost "horsey" in a country stand Birtations Hartnell gives me a bit of Spanish sense to wear!
me.
very
zip fastener which He's stuck twenty seconds before you are dip to glide un looking as if you've been resting all afternoon.
ADORES CLOTHES, BUT..
Temperament is a menace in dress salon. Shows go badly models. if there is friction between the
it has been my job to sort out Aa head model for farinell, non- squabbles, to pacity
girl the who
never gets the most glamorous dream, to sit on the to hug all the limelight and, worst of all, 10 get rid of the lazy, polled giri.
A
I became a model in very ordinary way. No body "discovered" Imbel To go to # school. hunted for job
and was thrown out of the first after six months.
TURNING POINT Then came the turning point. I went after a job at Hartnell's. I was pretty
Hartnell asked
Kreen. my name.
"Dorothy." I told him. He winced. "Right," he replied, "You can start on Monday and from name is Dolores."
NOW 1771
me
girl who tries.
Unfortunately. men often like the spoiled girl with her pretty, have to deal with her!! coquettish ways (if they don't And they will back her up.
Even
45 ORO <rf the top racdels, 1 never got caught up in the soch whirl. I live in a small suburban house in Sid- up. Kent, where have been housekeeping for
father my since my mother did. I've al- ways done some housework.
Although 1 ndure clothes when I am working with them they are not a great passion with me at other times.
NON?
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I may sound silly but nothing has given me more confidence than that new name, 1 immedi atcly began to feel like Dolores I-vay exotici
1 never wear Hartnell dresses
can't afford them.
The most treasured memories shult take to South Africa? The mes modelled for Queen.
Lite
Dior Opens His New
York Collection
With "The Lily Look"
tho
NEW YORK. have been in the past and some HRISTIAN Dior bowed skirts were cut shorter in
front than in the back. to
of
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women American and their pocketbooks today with the "Lily Look."
In a salon pungent with
Large stand-away collars_Bug- gesting Illy petals topped off one otherwise sleek model.
own
much used D Tarlabie and high-placed breast pockets are get with a narrow velvet white pique collar. offel pin.ng when picks up the deep zipped on so that they can
Iwo-toned and replaced furquose blue tweed. There is ruby, sapphire, soft green or feathers, veils and nonsense." be launderer!
The well-dressed To go the new lowered waist-
boy wit probably prefer to mutch his coal with a peaked can like pe of chidren's clothes will the caps that Prince Charles be available in leading depart-
wens. Is sister can choose a Mr Thaarup's favourite fabric
Dior also displayed his matching boanet with turned- med skjes everywhere as soon
was a supple wool felt. This he the aroma of his own per hats. with onerent on the pearl or are dyad to match
Au used for a deep the sales are over has used back, face-framing brim.
Alted cloche fume, Dior produced a col- French beret, red led and grey Hamel allernative for a small boy is a Wool felt was niso used for an lection of spring clothes sweaters with draped collars and and cashmere the fabrie
faleric itre
d-sister www.y
jockey cap with a band of enchanting bonnet, inspired by Covered. Tire #k
till Horan's Pat is out on siraght velvet at the back to match the a Dutch coff, and worn by that leave every feminine pertant since voals and enits ares, win a lasting back tit, aliished velvet collor
Lyn Peters, of Melbourne, who Jaunty little coat made of modelled
curve right where nature Mr Thaarup's hap porridge-colored or grey mix-
when he was in Australia. put it. ture tweed.
A deep pill box shape, mode Another best-seller from the
of soft blue wool feli,
WIS
Foundation garments, billed as Peter Pan range
D neccy urimmed with д
"perfect grosgrain-
the duffle woul
complements" to coat. Mothers bound Bap and button. Another
sm" and narrow waists. And lily, emphasised the "high round bought these throughout the blue went felt hat with head. winter with a tartan wool line enveloping crown was, said Mr showings, he tries to display to complele his ensembles, Dior ng, and will be buying them Thaarup, a much modified copy signed for the American market
more tenservative apparel de- also prezented gloves and hosiery.
NEW SPRING HATS
Shown above are two hats designed by Rudolf for the Dixby Morton Spring Collection. Top: "Passing Cloud", a heavily draped taffela crown balanced on layers of tuile, Boitem: "Summer Madness”, a large groan straw" clocho
with a black ribbon band tied into a knot.
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this spring unlined for knock of a Besteater's hat. about wear.
Dior usually creates en inter- national stir with the clothes he when it comes to his New York introduces in his Paris salon. But
1.wa to carry Look."
out his "Lily
Following up the pull-on, and the US. dollar
He had something, too, for the For the small girl Peter Pan easy-to-wear, wool Jersey crps
men who pay the bills for Dior is making amell Cuais and which women have wern
clothes-ties in El Greco blue, matching bonne's in new fash- throughout the winter, Kangol
Goya red. Van Dyke brown and lon-aware colours. The guards also presented a new range of Sa thy chubby Ulle French Botticelli green. man's-red wool coat twhich spring wool jersey hats design- dressmaker whost "Dat look" Other designets represented in has been sketched on the back ed to bridge the gap between flopped last year in Paris pre- today's fashion week page),
activities Its with
interesting wearing no hat at all and the sented his new "lyaz silhouette" were
Georgo stitched epauleto-Uke detail
Carmel, Oleg found in clover pink, many casual occasions.
hat which is just too formal for during the fourth day can be
of the Corsini end Ben Reig. five-day 20th national press canary yellow, horizon blue or Some of these wool jersey week of the New York Dress Carmel presents a few styles. soft willow green with bonnets mcdels have a turn-back fron Insitute's couture group.
for the plump women. Cassini with turned-back, stitched brim and are draped at the
emphasised bosts and widened brims to match.
back or else pleoled into the Dior's resort and spring collec- the top of the silhouette with The briefest imaginable top head. There seklies" can bellen featured a broader shoulder large collars and kimono sleeves, coat for a small boy-melicu found in twenty-four different line highlighted by unusual de Reig's #ults featured lously tailored
small fourteen-inch-length garment spring tones
incalcurs, including Kangol's newtells, collars and sleeves. Neck- jackets, some of them with snug has a matching cap,
not plunging as they bolero Jackets-United Press. with brim which turns up all round uke the caps Prince Charles used to wear. Minimode make this in navy blue wool with white pique collar, which press- studs on and off for launder- ing, and six pearl bultons ta introduce a crisp white
CVCA
can
trast. Both are also avaliable in a white diagonal-weave wool,
Royal Milliner's Latest Creations
HAT
flame and ice.
lines were
FASHIONS IN FINGERS
varnish.
dipping their fingertips in
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Beige business is bif the use or if nothing
QEAUTY business in big yet there is nothing new in varnishes-bour-es little
semblance to those of the early means all the tricks of the ancient Egypt and Greece al henna of the ancients.
Fashion-conscious woma beauty trade down to null ways completed their toilette by
of 20% as these in turi did to the
Ono innovation Was
the bowl of henna dye. Unstained development of oil-based plasti- cliers, which make the varnish Nail varnish in the Unlied figerpalls were, indeed, cen- less lizble to chip or fiale. An- States
alone IP. a 22-milli sidered improperly bare. The other was the introduction of oll- [AT derigner Aage Thaarup, dellar-a-year industry, a lot of only lack was any variety of based resins, making the varnish
who has derigned for the money to spend on liftie boities Colours to choose from.
more adhesive and also mbro Queen since she was a'small of odloured tincture. ...
strous.
the same time, 0 Even so, the nail varnish trede-
kely to increase as American. Modern liquid ball varnish has
“Introduced,“ other. pródúrla women are demanding different on unlikely background. It was basullying feminine hands. The originals were all pro- shades. sented in tone of bille, Indfuld-
developed shortly after World culele Belded polish remover, War, from nitrocellulose-
remover and 'cutiele oli, ing a soft Chinese blue which Fashionable huer in the P.6.A powerful explosive. To
LAKEWORK. ini, preparation Fes Mr Thisrup christened now include bluo, green, black, chemilla began odding various salvis. End hand trang his, some "rhapsody-blue," but had of gold and silver, as well as the, chemicals to improve ka kannad the same style will shortly be [Usuni range of pinks and reda, product and present.
wirl and also designs for
tha
Queen Mother, has created group of hats for Kangol.
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