WEEK-END
IT'S PLAIN AND GOOD
DON'T SPOIL IT
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, † 1956.
WOMANSENSE
The New Autumn Outfit Goes With Different Accessories
By Joy Matthews
CIWAYING into autumn Come
the new
Uke the
DUO
aren't mulin al
... sulla. Some
in the picture,
vil, but dresses and jackois What's new about them? What makes them the took for autumn-winter 1956- 19577
First, it's a soft look-without being a dressmaker look. The jacket is too sharply defined The line is too crisp. The whole thing is neking In the gathers and gores that marked the old- time dress and jacket.
Secondly, the talorie is sunth. Gone are the noble, nubbly tweeds that we've had thrust down our threat's for twinsor fa Hit CT Mars. Some dry me in checked and fartaaj 1week. But the skirts are always solt enough to pient without looking bulky.
Thirdly, they do away with }}} + idea that you have to uve mut Fidscle to measure for 1 to luceers.
With their wide, full
ou two
24247741-3
131'
skirts.
tiny waists, tund loose, unfitting juckets ntic! Mandaway collars, There is no need to waste Ume three
Atting in Expensive alterations, Fur ti
years Brat ume we sts be fart konable, we can by pract cal, we can be content – able AND we can please the
Paris has comp tip w
Costabon that fits
me will Tinek
1
MORE MONEY THAN TASTE
She buy the latest and more expensive bal, Adds ahib ut praris-eight rows at iersi, the newest whip. handled umbrella. ALL seen in the closay magazines-and wears them ALL
Hauling in the latest nub- lors I hear that I'm not right if I have aweel or pudding.
Taust Move cheese +1 fruit.
I mustn't show off my roses. only my dahlias. 1 must drink vodka martini instead of gin.
Jerseys the niusta't have handknit
for the baby--or allow my hua- band to show the tiniest bit of
in told handkerch.ef
his brist w, pocket,
We've all haird wearing those
tight skirts that we're
to pull up when we sit to avoid sealing. We've all
WT
the
rasa
tted
kets that never tea ta They
were built by a master And we've all wither bated that backward look at the with Twenties -- psy
#1 worn apologies to cur aren frienels
TROM
SNOB WATCH
TV 1.1
1
H11
aude shoes
Sceni ,、་ been snot-watching for years. and I've found anubbery Isn't confined
the tu
debs
dowagers.
Expert says the wife plays an important role in her husband's success
and
und
It's Disastrous When The Wife
Competes
N York.
With The Employer
"And," said Klein. "if and tests, helps companies
that cide which man should be argues
what job.
ONE to managemen: the husband
consultan
too
many of today's women are innocently, but quite effec- tively, koeping their mus bands from developing into executives,
de-
In
for self-im- Klein not have
And whatever I do I must not send my friends pusleards from I'm Margate or Mujoren when
letters < on holiday. mothing.
Snobservations 1 other spheres of life come from: Frank Launder, Ilm director, wito
American
YOUNG AS YOU AREN'T
She's taking a new look at
herself in a cloth cloche. she's adding T bevy of braccieta, She's given herself the dromed-up look with a upiah of silk vol.tx. Take another look,
gives away the film foibles: The greatest nobbery in the
that dim world now is to say the stage is far, far more im- ptant than Bims. A film sordid commerce. The stage is The rage.
the "An actor with act in theatre today even in the small- ed part. But when it comes to the Alm-t must be Richard III or he won phy."
Q
Kenneth More. who has crack at the critics. "The greatest theatrical snobs are the critics. They send people to see
Women
Are Recontouring
At A Record Rate
W are recontouring our- machines home for sally sustin
WE
Lake the muscle stimulating
use. "We find there is no suen
selves at a record rate. thing as ari average figure,” The loss in our girth, in Ressler said. "It is impossible to A matter of inches, is weil say that a woman of one height
certain above the multi-million should have
ments, It depends on thu mark annually.
wensar."
measure-
It might seem impossible, Dieting causes other women considering how hard one to search for some simple way tighten flabby areas and woman works to get off one
he ought to be catching up "if a man is to get ahead in on some of his office work business, he must have some of inch, but figures (statistical off bulges. They lose an much as 20 pounds and And at home, the wife answers, his leisure time
continued. kind) show it's true, One they still need recontouring. Well, why don't you get a provement."
He
may
trouble firm of medical research job where you don't have to landing that other job now, but consultants estimates that
the time comes when a gel pany has to cut back, his head 1/3 of our adult population logement of the last decade," sald Ressler, whose company the increases in salary, but is the first to fall."
Klein said the wife isn' the some attempt at recontour- has
work so hard!?"
"She wants him to
com-
now indulges each year
in
ing.
They're doing H by in. sisting that n man's leisure
she doesn't want him to only culprit. America's increased time be devoted to odd jobs
time, especially vince around the house or hauling spend the time and do the leisure
VARIOUS MEANS work involved. The wife is World War II, also is to blame. beach or
"We have so many new out- the family to
competing with the em-
either This means lets
so many for our leisure,
dieting, Jack picnic grounds, says
templations." he pointed out. exercising. massage or one of player." Klein. head of the Klein
14-year-old
He said that most of the the mechanical devices avail- Aptitude Testing Institute. thraigh
NETİCK of Interviews women gulity of holding their able. Recontouring, incidentally, husbands back are doing so is the newest and most ladylike without malice-"they just don't way of saying you're trying to think,"
get back your old shape,
A deno
rock, in black Inow from -4218k 2no
· atraplona): hèdloe, and Rotribed
Art.
Women "do not visualise the future as a man does," he con- Unued. "They look to today and tomorrow. Not to what a man's devotion to a job may mean to the whole family 10 years
hence."
CASE HISTORIES Klein said some men have rebelled against the the lawn- mower and the gardening tools after office hours, "but only a few have the strength to do it. Most of them just give up after
Д
While"
said a wife's role in her
they
Just to check one area of re- contouring progress, we visited a Fifth Avenue
"The devices to assist in re- contouring are largely 1 deve-
becomo
a
multi-million
dollar corporation in that time. "Figuro maintenance is becom- a major national Industry." -United Press,
Fashionettes
colours, print salon WhereIKE pastel
dresses are becoming 12- women, plus a few men, stream month fashions. Many designers in and out daily to try and go showed printed silk and satin stim the easy way Most of dresses along with their winter them walk out carrying trim eweed suits this year. aluminium cases, which contain the rubber pads, electric wires and dials that produce the re- shaping effect,
The latest print promoter is the designer for Hattle Carnegie, The custom clothes created un- der the name of the late fashion "Are you a user?" we asked leader were shown recently, in- OF Reber Ressler, vice-presiden cluding an entire, group) of Relaxacizor, Inc., and the evening prints. man in charge of the plak- pointed salon,
Short and long evening dresses I husband's success in so imporlani"
Ican bloom with everything from "Before I wear my tuxedo," zinnias to lilacs, something that that most large companies now
off he admitted, I take
used to bo considered proper Interview her, too, when
couple inches when I know jonly in the spring. The printed are hiring a now executive, or
wearing 1. materials most often are heavy moving an employee to a top I'm going to be
Ollerwied the jacks' too toota or antin. post
fight,"
of
the
"The Institute's Ales are full of case histories in which n, wife's
MEN ARE MORE AVID.
number The increasing reluctance to move to a new. city has kept her husband from
Most of the women who come caused
back-plunging necklines has
reshaping in Yet, there are in, Resaler said, getting aliand.
want to do brassiore industry. Women are others in which the wife
We something about their hips or buying more bare - bicked fully aware of the part she must their waistlines. The majority brassieres than ever before, the play. One wife started studying are between 35 and 48 youre Corest and Brassiere Association Spanish the minute cho heard old.
Only approximately eight reports. And it's a strictly 20th her husband might be in line percent of the clients here and century engineering feat to de- for a bigger Job In South other cities witere the mutip sign a brassiere that stays up America will his oll company imulating machines are solt in front and down in back.
ore men...
employer,
Klein's advice to the woman ama
Jetla
"When are does got inters
“If your husband wants to estadi?»Rescit, said, “wa and · Green is the "most, popular better hirwolf, see that you and he is usually none; avid about new colour is sports clothes the kids let him use some of his lesingdinches tiên 6 woman is, Bhoes, shorta, slacka," coats and epure time to do" (1,"an
KATE PRAAK. Daparates come in a mosey, green mucca whether his wife, Tonin. walk into tie salon for inform son only
saked Klein about his ovyn | 10 Mahy refilliợc" people who called Joders: kreon for this sea“,
magassport Kloni look: surprisingly limpant, hap
Wo
"You buy ano i mala Kiehn, flirty menee, willy want toro One/dosgram ven food
"partner-in, the bust duces their Inch/measurement ball gown In Toded green
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Elizabeth David, cookery ex- port, frowns at the latest food fashion: "The barbecue snob bery seems absolutely ludicrous to me. Barbecue cooking is essentially out-of-door cooking. But in order to get in on the barbecue binge the English pre- pare everything indoors and then take it out of doors and cat it under an umbrella."
John Cavanagh, dress design- er, tells us the inside dress snob- bery. "One works in a shop. Not not A a salon, not a maloon, showroom. Whenever I say I'm off to the shop, people stare, But that's what it must be called. And, of course, we make dresses. Never frocks, gowns, creations, or mantles."
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