WEEK-END
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1956.
WOMANSENSE
French couturiers solve YOUR problems in pictures
How would a fashion-conscious woman dress this winter - in the daytime, for cocktails, or special occasions in the evening?
fame.
Illustrated above are the answers given by French couturiers of international
"680", the first ensemble pictured from left to right, is a Jean Desses creation for day wear. Of dark grey wool, the sheath dross with a slotted waist-belt is worn with a matching bolero-cape trimmed with mink. Appearing in various styles and fabrics, the cape is favoured by many French designers in their autumn-winter collections, and it is undoubtedly fashion's minion for the coming season.
The
To attend cocktails in winter, Pierre Balmain recommends "Orchidee Noire". It is a striking outfit of black wool velour with an embroidered moire design. jacket has a mink collar.
ALEX JONIO sweeps then hair up to form half curls and the front fxtix in gentle waves over each car.
to wear.
For a special occasion in the evening, milady would look for something romantic Jacques Heim here provides a satisfying nood called "Sophora”. It is a short evening dress with a bouffant skirt. A large bow highlights the bodico which is draped at the top.
One main feature in the recent dress shows in Paris is the use of luxury fabrics for evening wear. Fashion king Christian Dior chooses richly embroidered "material for most of his evening ensembles that gleam and glitter.
In the
From the salon of Lanvin-Castillo comes an elegant theatre cost in gold Jame namod "Vice-roy" {last picture!. And if you are faced with the problem of what to wear at gala premieres, Vice-ray would certainly be the right solution. picturé above, it is worn over a full-skirted dress of white and gold gauxe; a dagger knot at the bodice terminatos into folds falling over the skirt.
---Pictures from Agence France-Presse,
Paris Has Gone Romantic -From Head To Toe
By FAITH SHIPWAY
Paris.
JOAN FONTAINE, en route for New York from Italy, recently stopped in Paris
for conferences in connection with plans for future Franco-American film pro- ductions in Europe. She ordered several dresses from Jacques Griffe's collection, saying it was the prettiest she had seen in quite a long time.
which, She was also enthusiastic over the slightly lower let no
sho felt. wsa very becoming to her slender figure
she also ordered a number of their huts.
models from
It looks as if this
Speaking of personalities in Paris, the Duchess of Devonshire chase three Lanvin-Castillo just recently--all in grey flunnel-light, medium and dark, English classic cunuot be beaten,
BUT THEN VENUS DE MILO
IS SHORT-WAISTED, TOO!
APE
"ok at the statue of
for
Cannes,
and Prinecas Rainker
Palaco of Monaco,
convex
GUILLAUME'S 1950 "Dance" Lino shows
a youthful middle parting from front to back, with side pieces held by a clip aud puffed out to give width.
are
con-
I hear the entire collection The romantic theme is from this house has Just left tinued in interior decoration,
Chic Parislans will and
buying be
flowery framed Prince bouquets of presented privately to
beneath
giusnes and the
these are flanked by dozens of romantic scenes in oval black and gold frames, like the Purt: ไมเส Reve romantic frames that used to hold Vie- from top tor toe. The newest hair-do are slecked down to look
The man who first pul women like th ecltures worth by the
into belge silk stockings instead belles my The Victorian Books of of the black or white hose that Benuy,
And the newest shoes every woman once wore, intends have Matter toes and Bower to revive the T-strap shoe which Poul heels, auch recall those demure he created for the great "It is more than just shorten-Leur les which "beneath hor
New York thing wrong with their figures at the base of her throat to short-waisted her waist in front. Her regular Chry measures usually
misses sized dresses measure are associated with the They didn't like to admit it.”
inches front the 14,
these tawa circumference of a woman's
point, Her Troygures measure figure. but there's another
from 14 to 144 inches. dimension that causes girls Pan-Lady"
oven more concern.
Tha (more
D shaige Jaten
distance From
throat to wastline The
Venus de Milo, She obviously is short-waisted, I went to see "My
the
other
June Andrews and looked l The stark, She is a tall giri, but short-waisted. You car divine gure and
L
shortwanted."
shorter distance betwten Reist Mis. Truy started sra 111
perts figured.
call short-whas red,
the ex-r at ner dresses and sailla It's what
uney slightly shorter-waisted dimen- sotis more than 15 years ago. but she ran into another pr. 12- Fem benges feminine sensitivity. Wis The name Kiven
The
FEMININE SENSITIVITY
A lot of women are, Jot of
clothes Bren't
the bulge in the back of Jacket, the bodice 1111 below the belt line-41 for alterations
Hurle Trvy. EL
Hence Shorter-waisted
clothes.
a suck, called them "Petites."
MILA
bill
HOW TO MEASURE
batte
Then a lot of manufacturers
Ve foot started making Pethe'
8.708
four inch dress designer who is which were designed for shorter
13
mined to do something
Dat short-waisted,
the problem,
"The trouble,"
sighed, “Is that
Miss WEIT:2
doter women, not just shorter-waisted about wamen," she explained.
This gave tall women the idea Troy that a Petite" size was not for have them. Actually, Miss Troy points bed the idea there was some out, height has nothing to
* winter, hat
- "Batcau", with an uplarned brim. Of greyish bine woollen fabric,. is is made by Brend. ----
with it.
do
"Aaize 20," she anys, "can be short-waisted,"
This year she re-named her shorter-waisted styles "Troy- Ngured to eliminate the con- fusion and turned. 50 per cent (of her prociuction over to dresses
and suits in these dimensions.
with A woman
size 12 figure could test her own dimen- sion, the designer explained, by the identation measuring from
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of EL
torian daguerreotypes,
Poiret,
Perugia is one of the greatest craftsmen in Paris, His glitter- ing shop in the chic Rue de la Christian Dior's rew ankic- Paix became, for a few houts Place of Touching skirts, which created the "salon"
the
in the waist," she added. "The petticoat, ilke Mittle micc stolo diaphram measurements short-waisted woman are slight and out," by different. Her Innards have to guntwhere!"--United Press.
"Boule de neige", from Marie-Christiane, is a white. melusine bai with a green velvet brim, trimmed, with tiny fluffy balls of white melusine-Agence' France-.
Proso.
such a stir when shown in the Vendome. All Paris was there middle of a short-skirt collee to admire, not only the shoes, original tlon (but which have, never but the amusing and theless, been bought by one of decor by Paula Dedeban.
London's
lending wholesale
dress manufacturers) BUKKESL that this peep-mouse look may be the solitary sign-post point ing the way to an absolutely new look taxt year.
CENTRE PARTING
T-STRAP AGAIN
Perugia's new models for 1957 and the year 2000-nestled in Moses-in-bulrushes besides
the models he had created for Paul Potret in 1919. Each
one of these fourteen original
models displayed has served 0.9 an Guillaume's new hair-dos are play
for the shoe absolutely 'sleek with
centre inspiration
The "strap Centre which partings
make Paris tomorrow, mannequins look like Elizabeth T-strap, the first of its kind, is of yesterday, an old-fashioned
Barrett Browning or
one of
u long-
own version of cared spaniel.
Tondo now a skinned down Alex
the stone last. Whittled down the great French takes romanticists as inspiration. His to steleton slihouette, it has coiffures a George Sand show a slender, flat-pointed toe and a thin low Louis heel-a mere bair brought forward over either car in a 1950 version, of the shadow of its former self. limpid waves that framed passionate romantie's face.
this
The prototypes which came from Perugin's fabulous colice- Reknow. The general look is of side' tion, were not only
for tho width an effect which Alex lodged as inspiration Tonto develops by adding two new winter look, but
rose meant to be a tribute to Poiret, pinke tiger lillés or huge
ot coloured carnations either the great designer to whom ho
over his fame and fortune. wide.
ATOMIC RADIATION INCREASES FOOD VALUE
Went
** Perugia lived and workork) in Nice unill, as far back as 1018, Foiret discovered him⠀⠀ through the chic shoes worn by his clients. He went to the Riviera and brought back this artist, pictures in 'n gallery, in Poirot's De Krybill and the defence coule lots, department sinez' 1954 hos bein angus-ardiating the over-all BOOKS Z. This “Ring of Bhor Design!! | research, in • Fradiations: then migɔed a contra
tion, to Me" heiled the hollery, firth to studies an important advan
with a
N. army doctor forecast food exposed to certain type of given conventional heat process, whose shobe wale pesented like AN. army doctor forecast 100m podal to cortelo pa of given convent
and preserved for long periods will soon be able to stock of time. freak ment and othor
Ho told the “arth. perishables at room, tem- pennsylvania health conterence perature on open shelves at Pemaylvands Stole Valver thanks to atomic energy. sily the atomic rays do not
Dr Herman F. Kenybill, direc.. harm the food. tor of the Medioni Nutrition
He solch tooda - have Laboratory of Fitzsimmons Army, nutzitive value" equal. Hospital, Denver, Colo,,", sold sometimes - Bettor Abú
the peacetime use, of statusão: "and"will" "Fintroduce)
technol
and
a volutonery or changes in food
developmen
band
that the
stockings, Those beige silk dyed specially to match
the beige shoes Perugia launched at the time, were the forerunners of the nude-looking Jeg of today,
тых arid probably colour in fashion has enjoyed Buch continued popularity.
FOOT NOTE
WORLD
one
The button beat of grandmother's day (below) which needed hook, Inspires latest in Parla footwear fashion
the
• stream - lined book
(above) made of ́alosti- čised satin. The rhinestona but-
toos are just a
skam to add a feminine touch. The boot is com to pull an
require 20
hook.
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Fashion Changes Caused By Mental Epidemics?
CHANGES In
Sixfeld.
women's
fashions are Bluted by "mental epidemics,"
* pay- chiatrist told the British Association for the Ad- vancement of Science.
Dr F. K. Taylor said these aro caused by pent- up collective emotions and ho urged research into the mechanism which ed off
older off these Dr Taylor charts
how showing women's skirt lengths, cleavage, waistlines had all changed over the
ycare. These changes, he sald, helped support his theory that they were due to a collective drive,
mastal opidèmics" "ware responsiblo *for the hysteria · caused. 'in the United States. bafore the war by, Orson Welles' radio brosdérat
G Wella" "War of the. Worlds," and the success of corlain advertising campaigns such
for
and faxatives chlorophyll-United Fried,
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