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THE CHINA MAIL, `SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1956.
WEEK-END
WOMANSENSE
LONDON WILL BE THE RENDEZVOUS
OF PARIS COUTURIERS
HEIM
by EILEEN ASCROFT
LONDON will witness a unique fashion
event' on November 5
the first time that six of the great Parla couturiers bavu agreed to a joint showing of their current collections. Balmain, Desses, Path. Helm, Patou and Lanvin Castillo will be showing the highlights of their winter collections at the May Fair Hotel in aid of the National Fund for Pollo Research.
Paper patterns of dx of the models w31 be availible to the publie and each will be presented
lileriais,
FOR EVERY WOMAN
The Parade will stress the Basirfity of present fationes full skirts or slim lines, This ไป essentially a pason in which every And the line that suits her best,
woman can
Our Paris artlet Crosthwait has been given xclusive permission to make advance sketches of the styles Dot will be shown. Here are three of the models being sent.
Each of the six Paris fashion houses in sending of its loveliest mannequine to London to present the new styles.
PATOU
The Sudden Craze For A Wider Band
London. THE conventional plain
ding ring is going out. In Its place- the wide, wide rings Jike grandmother
wore.
In large chain jewellers And little antique
shops women ore buying up the bigger rings.
Some who were given small rings are exchanging them for half-inch rings.
from £40, Chain jewellers aro making them.
The big rings can be plain, ornamented or carved. They can be thin and flat or heavy and curved. They can be of any precious metal-although they are mostly gold.
And, above all, they are wide,
What is the Huson for us wide, wido. sudden craze? I started in WARM PEOPLE, America. Now here, for the past
on and held fast,
two years the idea has caught COLD PEOPLE
Many women feel that their wedding rings should be part of their jewellery. They
do not care any more for that to thin thread round Üheir finger which is never noliced.
DAHLBECK, Arm sins and playwright TVA
Swedish
hrs written a now comedy about **warm and cold people."
Antique shops sell as many wido
rings as they сал lay their hands on from RO. Bond Street shopa make them especially for their customers—
Har definition:--
Warm people: They have tho love in them.
Cold people: They look for the love In other people and nover find it.
FATH
A day dress (above) of charcoal coloured wool for autumn of einler daya The bipered 100 has “crostad“ neckline cought with thran round set buttons and three-quarter Tength sleeves trimmed with motch ing buttons, The tiim skirt joins the bloused bodice of the waist The bell is patent feather With the dress is worn a high nan squashed astrakhan
"chechia."
Thu heavy silk doy dress of grey herring. bane hos a filted bodice bettened to the neck with black button and finished with small Peter Pan collar The wide skirt has enpresed pleate over the hips and the three quarter sleeves are brace
length with turn-back cuffs The Cossack hat of mink by Cloud: St Cyr "mounted on a toupe retret band and topped with black grosgrain
A cocktail outfit of
printed
The strapless dress has a
draped Cummerbund
.
bell shaped shirt with Blooting panels gathered of the back The collarless corace fucker has
wide brocelet-length sleeves
Mothers
London.
THERE is only one person
T
to blame for Libernee, and that ia Libernce's mother. 1 observe with
alarm the growing number of mothers who drown their sons in a aquelch of mother love.
For every mother who neglecta her child, I'm sure
twice there musi be
the number who keep their sons tied so close to their emo-
tional apron strings that
they are liable to grow up shaped like a plano.
I have talked this Whek 10 three specialiste in childreY'N welfare--a headermster,
doctor. sod a psychologist--and to # number of intelligent Dathers sund mothers Pooling opinions. I've worked out some key questions for mother
to make themselves homest.
BORES
13.
Are The Tender
Warned... Beware Trap
By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
Mama Liberaco-would she
pom the 5-point text?
P
Naturally, people aro talking
pletures. about
In week their which started with a play about a phoney artist (Coward's Nude wfin Violiny, and worked up lo an exhibition by perhaps the greatest lying artist (Braque at the Tate Gallery), painthig hos become news.
of
DVK
The questions fall into groups, and the right answers are Yes, No, Yes, Yes, Yes. If you give inore than two wrong answers you are well on the way to being possessive mother.
If your son is aged six Has he got of kast one friend of his own choosing, not a child of your own friends?
Talking around, I discovered how many people there are who would like to buy pictures, but closest kruw how, what, where, how much
PICTURE POINTERS
put these ques-
I decided to tions to a very silliest collector, Jack Bedlington, who, over 26 Do you
pictures his years, has bought 150 a faint hostility to
Are you always criti- by British artists.
If he is foel
school?
eight ****
cising the school statt and
"You can buy a good picture live
methods? Have you ever told if you have a little D$
his master that your boy is ex- guinean ceptionally senslave?
If he is twelve.
to spend," Jack Bed- dington told me, "but there are a lot of things you have to know Do you fret.
let him spend an occasional hollday away from you, at a "To begin with, there is only camp or with friends! If he
ono roncon for buying a pleture,
Is fil, are you willing for other and that is that you like it. If people to help look after him? you are clever and lucky it may Can you hear him praising other appreciate, but to buy it as an mothers without a pang?
INQUISITIVE?
investment is madness. The amateur is not likely to pick up a Renoir in a street market
when you must know where
If he is Arteen .. Can ha to buy and you mustn't be write and receive letters with afraid of going into galleries out your being inquisitivo? Has The sphinx who sia behind the he one desk or cupboard you desk can't do you my real harm. never go to? Do you refrain from asking constantly
What lowever, don't go to private
the
there are too many dis- are you reading?" or "How did tractione and you can't see you spend your pocket money?" thing. And search out
smaller galleries as well as the If he is twenty Docs ha famous ones. Obviously, they feel quite free NOT to fall you will have mora picturer' al about all his girl friends? (The moderate prices,
who mother **Johnnio tells mo
over
exyd
"What to buy? Well, it sounds hanth, but, the cheapest well on the way to domina pletures in the art world are tion) Do you genuinely
that when he brings his
hope those by living British artists.
beat and there are many, many good
girl home, she'll turn out to be ones. Whatever you do, buy an
Pretty, clever, and flce?
original** pleturo" delih auto-
ques, lithograph.
All very simple little lone, but quite revealing, "And mportant to the majority of Kamothers who afora ibër, coné, B-bul Beyn the monele not to want
I asked him about prices,
· He pid: "In the five to seven guiness glang you could ea Rihography, by mucha good pri
John Piper or Ardizzone
от
Julian Trevelyan Or Barnett Freedman.
"Or you could
drawing. I have
seri
a good beutiful John Skeaping which I bought for eight guiness. Or you could
the 40 to
exhibitions at art schools ned peo what the students are doing. It is
*** ciling pleking out the folent,"
1 sked Jack Beddington
what shrewdest buy. was his own Ho Hadd: **I got an Epstein drawing three years ago for £8. It was auctioned at Sotheby's among the effects of Rosa Lewis, and I got Wolf Mankowitz
go along and bid for me,"
to
Will Hemlines Go Up Or Down?
Just don't believe
by
the
New York. eluded three cocktail costumes THE hemline confusion con nine inches from the floor. He
tinues in the fashion In termed them "Trial Balloons". dustry.
Charles Evans, the nation's Manufacturer Herbert Sond-largest skirt manufacturer, helm announced that daytime decreed по hemline changes. clothes in his Spring Collection Evora, whose frin of Evun- will be one inch longer, or 14 Picone manufactures 400,000 inches from the floor on most skirta annually, said he would What will a larger surf, sayingures. Sondheim Bald. he ignore any drastic changes 30 to 60 guineas buy?
doubted that daytimg skirts the high-style designers, It will buy a drawing of water will creep down to ankle-length, colour by almost any artisi
even if a couple of influential American womanı is in the except the few in the very big Paris designers mede a splash mood for a change," said Evans,
Or an oil painting by with them In their money.
autumn "Maybe in a year or 18 months, many
rising shows. But interosting and
his collection in- but not now."United Press. painters. "Don't necessarily buy an artist's fashionable mood," Buck Beddington said. if he is
for landscapes. well known for stifl-life may cost
But now we're talking about
"let's money," he said, back to my first point, that collecting im મ hobby for millionaires. There Bro many hundreds of
and drawings ithographs and even paintings to be bought for a few pounds which are well worth hanging- If you like the picture,”
Ko
The Evening Mood
DECENTLY, I wrote about
Rattle of long er short evening dresses. I was for short ones. Now, Princess Margaret comes down 1 my elde.
I've been asking the best- known evening beauties to open their cupboards for me and count up their evening dresses of both kinds.
MRS JOHN WARD says; "If I can choose, it's always a short dres. But on a Llora occasion, it has to be long. In the season in London, WEALT long dress about three times a week."
a
LADY MELCHETT: "A]- ways short when I can. have two long dresses which 1 seldom weer and thron short ones, ending a little above the ankle."
MERLE OBERON: "I've
a mahin for long evening dresses, for when I dress v I like the whole works. I've brought about 20 long ones
with me and I've another 80 it homo,"
BARAH
ROTHSCHILD;
"I have threo short evening dresses and one long one which I'm having cut short, I was never a deb, so I rarely go to balls."
CLAME BARING: "Al- ways short, and really short. I have only one long one and it la rather broken and old. I know a long dress looks lovely at a ball, but they got so trodden on"
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MARGOT FONTEYN: have five long and five short. The long ones give much grace and dignity that I would be sorry to see them
go,"
It looks though the clus to Princess Margaret's choloo lles in her age. The under thirties like 'em short. The over-thirties, even thong with a beautiful figure, 20 mire the aplendour of a swirling skirt.
• Long und gracious? Or short and young? Demachy's sketches crystallise the two evening moods.
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