THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1956.
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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Fashion's Cinderella Story
By Dorothy Barkley
London.
FASHION'S Cinderellas,
the taller-than-average girls, have turned out to be the belles of the ball. They can now find clothes in the Want styles and sizes they
and are blossoming forth this spring in extra-long versions of the Intest fashion lines.
Maalty
Now the full girls tabbed with nicknames like lofty or walking hairpin as though 14 their height were some thing
be ashamed of- can hold their bearis up. They clestit standing out in
crowd
any
longer for they can leash Aust
smart as anyone else.
The long and the short of 11 Is that their own association, the Association for Tall Women,
13 bullie ciatives
winning ready-made
long sizes,
for
ANNIVERSARY
15
extra-
They formed their association Ave years ago, now have 3,000 members In Britain and over- pa, have reguler bring and biry zales tasured of success as u
have who epine ure tall), and
and corset make-up talks by EXITIA. Their anniversary has been marked in two ways.
First, with the debut of their magazine named "Tall". Second,
Cre Arsi
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No wonder Mrs Malenkov wasn't terribly mad... but let's put less emphasis on culture and
brains
Seaside resorts
The Dazzlers Have Plenty To Say
wonder the wife of
Nour Rassian guest toxok
with health,
By ANNE EDWARDS
and bull for
il
so calmly the news that he had been kissed by English,bathing dress
the Just look at
And finally (Just to Impress
with CHE favourably Mr them that Women, Englishwomen
British monuments). Dagenham Malenkov met
Vlana Dors.' Girl Pipers and deans' wives,
and
over-five-foot-nines, a epilectioness emphasis wi leh pan-points the variety of rain clothes now made specially for Hum 1Km.
Breathless
fectly marinad profession like it
in Britain.
Try Bing Crosby, he remarked coyly: "I'm very fond of her but I haven't proposed to her." Compare This ollhand npm proach with the kind of pro- posal thali Charlotte Bronte got from her curate (in the TV
"After the third in, I think I'd ask then if they've any ust play recently)- "This is
for a beautiful spy with a long Cigarette holder
of MP's ami mayoressCH. collection
Next tiaw hope we pluce. clothes designed specialty for the
Here are five that might even on culture pad Introduce Dur
kick
rix-hour speech- ul
breathless Solne tur
Krushchev Visors
maker I'd like
And t not only the scene bul our English dazzlers
the conversation that would be some samples them how tare fo
payer
usual....for
10 plenty
Katy they of a British product that thes
lovelye huve in their country cantint avoi
and K "I like to ask B. Petr them to stane of
such a thing lovelies elegant,
if there's Till Ma
Russian cocktail party," Say azidos putas sexy, sophi 1-
Kay Kendall, and what they cated
drink. If they stuck to vodka last fur I don't think they'd long.
d like have that nice English habit
for someone meeting
And I'd adore to talk drink. football to them."
No longer, if their larger than size nine, do have to buy men's shoes. They latexL styles In can buy the sizes up to an Aintrican thirteen No longer de ley have to have most of thear cloibes made. Por there is a big variety in coats al dresses for those of up to And they can six-foot-four.
stockings onre buy nylon unobtainable luxury--for
twelve-inch foot.
LIT
biggest mass-production which only bels on certainty
has them un sale,
The
if
"Mr 1 and Mr K.," I'd say for a short, "may present t Miny Kay Kendall?"
And I bet the cause of peace and good will would take a bit size
step forward as their eyes lit The country's
gorgeous girl, with the story un this
gure of a model, the face of mtar, and ure brains and parkle than either a girl who looks her best in the kid uf shirt and skirt they never - in Moerow. for Anisherl
SPECIAL SERVICES
extra-tali
special collection
girls JUAL
takes the empire lite and adapta
on extra-long couls,
The line
at al the top but has a very
full skirt, which is stiffened to sland out, and
van be wor
An eyeful
of
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to
know if they
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"I would just love to know what its like to have a night Mrs in Moscow," out Boulting, and what the rear- tion would be if I walked into a Moscow restaurant dressed in the most perfect Dior outfit and smelling gorgeous to match.
to know why "I'd like Boutting," Roy **Mort Mra
(Judging from lims) the women And Mr B, and I'd say next
to have such a retiru Mr K could get an eyeful of
Ume-driving lorries, sweeping of life from the Bitish Way
emptying dustbins- streets. compared to the plump, smiling, well-fed men."
comfortably over this season's full skirts. The band murking this typeal British beauty with the empire linie just above the her rose petal skin and corn- waistline is decorated with small Bower blue eyes and her ability buttons, and collars, buttons and
to rok elegant in clothes that pockets are usually on the large
are frilly and feminine. tu 171 angle side and 51 1
And detract from the height. for fabric, water-repellant and long-lasting. is a favourite trim- ming.
"I'd love to know if they
really have a sense of humour,
Helen Connor. "And whal Fays a man-about-town in Moscow is
like
"This is Helen Connor." I'd with pride, certain announce that here at least is a British institution they will fall for--an Engilsh model girl, tull, remote, golden, and elegant, who can One store in particular gone to town as the champlon wear a Hartnell cloud of tulle theatre,
has
and pangles
**Does he tale his girl out in a car or at least a taxi-
drinks. treat her to and
་།
und st make club? look at her and not the
Patti
Morgan," establishing
YOU
tiress
*ller's -uy,
*
would
ak then
bent
fashion,' says Palli Morgan, "I can't believe that everyone In Russia dresses badly, as we There are always told they do. must be tome people in Russia who dress well."
Only Miss Dors admitted, "I can't think of a thing to say to them." But then the has other She can prove that in gifts. her case, anyway, tanguage is no burrler.
Truth, please
I counted 95 different cook- book- books on tule in one
And yet almost every one stius. I opened gave the same bad old advice: THAT.
A roule easy to make f only you know how
An omelette is difficult unless you know how
Half a clove of garte is quite
h
Life in the kitchen is impos- vible without at least 12 gadgets. Margarine can be used instend of buller.
Wine improves every dish. Top milk will do ás cream, I'd so much rather read the truth. THAT
Soulies are terribly tricky until the cool really knows her
oven.
Omeletes are easy If the pant is hot enough.
Three cloves of garlic are often none too many.
The only indispensable kitchen
dinner, and a night gadgets are a sieve and a sharp
always
Imagine them f the tall girls and has a die-
trotting off to 14 partiment for the girls they call
earnestly Diona". They Fell amongst
I'd lantern lecture about higher other things extra-long versions
friendly education. with Russia on the "I'd like to know it Russian of suits by top designer Nardy Amies. These
considered rather LITY mostly relations
In qual, as they shake hands with models are and styles
creatures the girl from Australia who decadent barathea and tweeds.
shoulder-line always loks bronzed, bursting modelling is regarded as a per- They have soft Jackets, and either gored or all- roundi pleated
skirts. Collon dresses have also been designed for the taller girls.
classical
worsted,
Art
The association-tallest mem- der 6 ft 5 in-supply membera with a list of manufacturers and shops who cater specially for do them. Many of the stores special services for the tall girls. They make their own styles in longer lengths for a small extra charge. And the tall girls can of course now buy dress patterns and knitting patterns in their own sizes.
TEENAGERS
Teenagers still at school have been catered for. Mrs
who
also
from
the
who 19
Denla Maund, secretary of the Association, and herself six-foot, has an eleven- daughter year-old
five-foot-five.
Apart school uniforms, she can nothing suitable for her Junior Misa sizes since tho
old for which fl her, are too
REKS Mrs "And where," her. Maund, "can you find a child'e slipper size alx and a half?" The association now has a big
membership and in tecnager
manufacturers
tenila to chivvy
Recordingly,
The battle has not stopped at clothes. Everyone has sudden- ly realised the inconveniences
and the world is being made a
place more comfortable
for
nrw
them. Hairdressers have instal- Ied higher chairs and higher -hakins. Kitchen units and ad-
boards Justable ironing, some of the equipment on market.
longer
no
Tall girlsáro fashion's forgotten few.
tho
or
An elegant evening dress of 'prinieð kallets from Jean
· Denson” · spring-summer pollvotion. The Sorso is highlighted with unique, asymmetrical draping which Tonyon," falls of Lasterial flowing into a long Srain) --- Agence France-Presse.
katie.
Margarine is no substitute for butter in cooking,
Wine-cooked dishes necessarily
are not
nicer than beauti- fully cooked plain food.
And that double cream is not
an extravagance.
The question
I note with alarm a stagger- in ing decline tumong men the charming social skill of proposing marriage. Just look at what has been happening lately.
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The new young couple around town, Jocelyn Sievens and Jane Sheffield, denied that either of them put the question: didn't proporc," said he. didn't propose," said she.
Checking up on some other newly announced engagements, this is what I found: American starlet Mary Murphy, who has Just announced her engagement lo Dale Robertson, told me: Oh, he wrote first, then he rang up, and I sold Fine."
The polletwoman Mary Hol- man, who is going to marry the policeman she met on the beat, told me: "He downed a couple of stiff drinks and then managed to get the words out, Will you marry me?"
But the whole situation getting out of hand..........
is
Lita Roza (the singing stor) proposed herself to trumpeter Hughes and bought her own ring for him to sip on her Anger.
At least
a couple of lovely girls have announced their own engagements lately, only to have the gind tidings cautiously. denied by not....
too: cestatic
swains.
When Joan Tyler annonstà that she expected to become engaged to George Jessol, his comment was: 'I am very much
Interested in bar,"
When Kathy Grunt
went:
| around saying she was going to
Then and now
"I have loved you for seven years," he says. "What else has been in my mind since the first You don't know, day I saw you
cannot know what it has been like, Miss Bronte.
You
not
take
"I'm not clever, I'm learned...but I could care of you, I could comfort you, I'd i could carry your burden. be so faithful and careful, Po serve you next to God.
"I think my heart will break If you deny me."
I'd much
Bronte'&
rather have Miss
Thun that proposal
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