THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1956.
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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
FASHION FORTNIGHT
EILEEN ASCROFT reports from DUBLIN
in the first of her stops at the world's fashion centres. In the next two weeks she will cover the autumn shows in Paris and London
Connolly's Collection Gets
Connemara
world
receives that
In the full goes
Sybil Connolly's collection TIERE is a hint of Irish
laughter about the two must be the only one Dublin couture collections. Church blessing before it
Asherwomen's on parade. All the models (the not the girls) Wiene shawls, band-spun tweeds, clothes, red flannel jacket lining and sprinkled beforehand with holy hund-crochetted cottage lace mingle with French silks,
water.
Sybil Connolly feature the
Jook. Cossack
It Curves out
English wools and wonder- over the bosom, clings tightly
In Italian colouring.
to the waist, then bells out over the hips, above Q slem-like The International Fashion skirt. After several seasons of it is pleasurv fortnight opened in Dublin easy fitting suits
again to me emphasis on the with the two Irish designers, feminine figure. Sybil Connolly and Irene Gilbert.
Per nutty. I love the lothes. They may not be style mut their simple lines. hand-woven materials and ele
detall Inake them the kid + dress that lusts year in year out.
Irish air
Trish Leng, waisted tunic jackets of by accompanied sus are
turbans end Eastern-looking fezes, Coeldtail clothes follow the Cossack-line, often with sharp- coloured waist ly contrasting bands.
Irene Gilbert show A culler- on withnu, bells for autumn, in deberte hand-woven tweeds.
Casual wear
Or
Coats are mostly of the clutch and wrop variety with soft back fuliness, Iked particularly the two hooded models for theatre wear.
As always. Irish air about
there is a real Sybit's evening
Many of her dresses and suits feature diamond-shaped panels models-gossamer pleated linen. Tweed, velve! taffela. hand-smocking and crochetted lace. One thousand pink, Cordian sults-perfect
roses are casual country weur-make an important
fcord-crocheted lace
tx-
return. Connemern used to make one shortening with gown with a tiny matching muff. fanged shawls are used
Black and white is the theme Toti formal and Informal outfits.
with pink For evening there were
of this collection, Bainin wools, and red as secondary shades. eding Hossainer
draped handwoven
and en liked best the floppy berets in broidered like chiffon, Perfect white sulin, blue velvet, plented for rally social occasions in the ith linen and hand-crochetted
lace
A Church Blessing
My Autumn Forecast
IT'S a black outlook
for the London Top Twelve designers thin autumn. About 70 percent of the fabrics they have selected aro in binck,
I
have
had 门
preview Interesting of fabrics from Engiend's most BUO cessful slik mišta. Those will be used by all the London bouturiers, and by many of the Parle houses too.
Silk and wool mixtures Are the now fabric story. Light in weight, crease - resisting for daily wear and packing, they have an intriguing ahven
electric light that makes them wearable right through the day.
Checks and stripes
under
Most materiats have A smooth finish. with many minute basket weaves, tiny self checks and stripes and hopsack appearancos.
are going to make The lighter weights them much more
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Becondary colours for autumn and winter will be winter navy, dark chamois. red and elephant grey.
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AMERICA
Y New York fashion
MY
winter.
Frish hand-
crocheted lace
In an important tentura of Sybi
Connally eve- ning gowns. This triking model in black and white is remmed with DA enormous lace skir panol.
TRIES THE MELON SKIRT
highlights from the
scout cables the American couture
collections:
HATTIE CARNEGIE: Smell sleeves
from the day grace dresses right through morn till midnight Many suits have demi-
and
blouse Tres ostend of jackets.
new "snitur akiri," which evening there is Follows the outline of a tramdy glass.
A striking colour is chimney grey. aft exeding neur-black. and there is a tine si fabric culled timber tweed blend of silk.
and possiam fu
th
Podded hips
OLEG CASSINI:
which
S
Introduces The mejesti
1 is
Curves outwards, then inwards to a slim
Jerzi.
For evening he takes stark black and white sabo sheaths and contrasts them with white and black satin bellboy jackets.
Brass bullons and buckles trim his clothes for every hour of the day.
Piped with tweed
MOLIJE PARNIS stresses the return of the completely natural belted waistline and presents the "stipcover blouse," in silk, wor aver a dress with a drawstring waistband.
But best of 1 Hike the sound of the matching tweed skiria and orion sweater
phævd blouses
with the tweed from HARRY FRECHTFL collection.
Harvane Hits The
It
there's
Headlines
By HAZEL MEYRICK
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the
Stamp Albums
Ton Points About Pearls
The Egyptian Look Gives You A Dramatic TouchPoints on judging jado
LO! The Egyptian look is
with us! Maybe you'll Hike it, maybe you won't, but, anyway, it's new.
Remembering Cleopatra, who was quite a belle in her day, you might give it 4 bit of thought. Happily, it'at been modified and given a 20th Century touch.
The severe haircut isn't part of the picture, though to look Egyptian, your hair will be worn on the straight wide.
out. Fancy curls are But BU are the severe Egyptian-style bangs.
be
Eyebrows should
1 bit slimmer than we're currently used to. They should be twąɛzed out a bit und cjungated at the ends.
Liner pencil figures important- ly in the look. Draw a black line across the lid, close to the
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London. Coumley hats to please hubbuck
Lonulan nd-butter
milliner who can be
mille cualianess
never atter of course, and their
wer: the usual shapeless fen
relied upon to give us a chaing sluck straight un 10p
or, worm stil
fight over one eye, threaded
series of shocks, it is Ed- of the head, ward larvane, This won. der boy of the fashion world has an inexhaustible fund
of ideas for crazy headgear, And thin season, he doesn't Jet us down.
EASTERN-INSPIRED
throw pro.grain
with
Weather
or
Other curluus hats included draped pink jersey turban with
a
Two hats from Edward Harvane's new collection. Left: Pastry-cook's hat in velvet has deep stiffened headband trimmed with a bow. Bight: Gay cocktail hat of pale pink velling is banded by deeper pink satin ribbon.
bow-tied peephole In the crown, for ventilation perhaps. Another hai in illae velour was shaped Exnelly like a church པ་་ bell.
There was a beachcom-
the compere was June Mallett, Vilene lined to give Harvane's inspiration for ber hat in melusine, and a coal-
heaver's hat in bitter lemon a Sydney model who has been good shape, 11s new collection was the velvet, the
for some months brim cut away in in London Eastern hemisphere. He tront and dipping down to the 'showed Russian-inspired nape of the neck.
Cossack hats and dipped into
The craziest hals, ond
Wis
now.
Glunt pancake which cimply a length or fullo
folded and
bands
them
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News flash from two eltics: A London preview of fabrics to The swimsuits were, in the be worn at the coming couturo the main, alick, tailored one-picco shows, features roecs all the Egypt's' ancient history for castest ones to copy, were his costumes in acetate or woven way...Miniature roses scatter
Jastex, with such nicoties as ed on brocade, heavy-headed felt edifices that Queen extravaganzas in coarse veiling. ruched panelling in the front cabbage rares on blacks. New Nefertiti might have worn.
of contrasting for
for evening: A silk that is and pleated onto the material,
patterned with raised velvet There were pot cloches, double
crown, and a tered cloche of There was a guy one-piece in roses while look as though they too, in vivid furry melusine overal Inyers of velling that checked woven lastex and a bre hold against the fabrie and mouflon, rammed well mercifully obscured the wearer's slim-fitting it in royal blue instead of being part of it.
wonderful with a tanned skin. Colours are sober dull brown. over the eyes, and, most face.
Another
was in a www shade, and tan, sharpened by black, curious of all, a series of
watermelon pink.
ted vineyard shades, including inflated velvet baga - Hko
A notable feature about
misty Do-bloom- A factory that once made Scamp swimwear, sen
through blue, pastry-cooks! caps-trim-
parachutes took Loddon by English
vory:
Lime mel with the inevitable bow storm last week, when a chow claatle shirring at the back
Parla
couture will feature in front.
Australia-designed swim which ensures a good At with music tweeds.
with woven sults was glyon; 17
cout edding unwanted inches to striped oneet in two Just to keep up to date, Three pretty Melbourne girls, your appearance. I kod their for dresses and conte
again orbem, Harvano had his own version Dorothon Stafford, Beverley gay th prints and Howallant are
ELEGANT SWIMSUITS
7.
black,
of the Davy Crockett hat Prower and tonnio Goodlet, motifs, and bipomer multa in bronze, plum and kubergi surely the most expensive out took it in tučne "to model horloquin check and coin-dotted, with clo, new bright. -made in #ables and valvet. elegant 'Scamp wwlinsults, and poplin, All the bra, tops were' light, tomato,
deed, especially with alim sheath styice that have at Eastern look about them.
By JEANNE D'ARCY lashes. It's quite dramatic but for evening only.
That's the Egyptian look and, Add to the Egyptian appear offhand, we'd say it's for you
0 slim Jewels that If you're ance with chunky
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In dramaile. find them look handsome,
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