THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,
TOBER 20, 1956.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
HATS versus HAIR
-and what's your verdict?
TATS
After all you've GOT to wear
Hans Veraue Hire the
since hairdressing became as big a money-sp'nner hat-making, the struggle for a girl's pin money hus been getting keener. Today it in fiercer than ever.
Today the most fashion- ablo HAIRDO a girl can
have
The new style Kndubout hers-to-be I noted in the cws ready give a jolt to old views abouil se stufy
in rwagger conte and wrap-around drassen
The final lups,
ipping around
Molra Shearer, her baby due
monik, turned up
a lented
and con silk dres whi'e Tut a the first sight of
a medium-length the Bolshoi Ballet. bob, brushed wide at the
It on
Outsize
twou
Princess 10, her baby de side, curling and waving any mirute, playa ping-pong in
herknit her face, softly round needs constant setting, over slacks, and goes swimming. Grace of Monaco, shaping, shampooing, perm- ing, brushing, and watch ing.
most girl
today Andl
the HAT 11 fashionable can have is a deep helmet that rests on her eyebrows, and obliterates her hair, would look just as smart if she were bald,
even
With hats and hairdos at such cross-purposes, the few girls with enough for both haven't money salved he problem.
Yu stream in the evening gong all out for Hair, newly ahuped, sit, and shaispeurd
Princens
baby due in four months, weur, gl semi-led jackets n dark, narrow skiris with high feels, prat glove, and email, pily bun,
MORE CARE
John Withers (Mra Google Melum), baby In six weeks. "I try to look more rays thi
legant than usual, I take more tale when I am dicasing up.
1ke hats, preferably small and lo of jewellery... and gold, pearls, rhinestone, alert the evening.
I
"In the day I wear this usual and traight Trow skirts but I wear them rather
waterra noel replie think they lock gayer and I
to me that as the Loor And you see them in the old berly dienaars from sight yourself up a you hould guy all out for a s daytime going wah al wat captave sham- bit"
ellaig, snd pooing.
stapiok canoned cut of sight.
THREE CHOICES
So what is a girl o co whu that kind of Twy? ust
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Sten uke one of three ways going to have a baby,
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SHE CAN elther cut her nale
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new hats
OH
SHE CAN Lake
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Fuch irl's way out, grow her
"I hy one sull, wh a box Jack and straight skirt, copied kur tmesin ravy nen, ravy black Ok, grey olpaca, and
This ou silk, and I've worn
the time
always
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效率
1. longnough to twin celour all through, with white
La important-Icoking buo, and touch:s-4 while collar,
FLY god bye to hots.
CAN take the OR SHE milliner and a delight to the Lar, geta and look a guy to lo by Lythg Ise сусгусто combine her new hairstyle with hir new hat.
Per orally I'd advise pulling your money in o your hairstyle,
whi'e
hot, white camellls, and white gloves,"
So these are the answer of five degant women coping with luom which is a situation legant and very often cornie, dor.'t manage to look They
But they go look radian!, riim. pretty, and well groomed.
DY JOHN FRENCH RUM UN THE TWO EMPHATIC PICTURES #PECIAL QUALITIES OF THE NEWEST HAT AND NEWEST HAIRDO.
LOOK, NO HAT
on three counts. It is THE Widenwake Hairdo is new booly waved seross the top of her head, it is medium- To look its Jength and It is brushed wide at the sides. best it needs u soft perm, constant setting, some back- combing and NO HAT.
LOOK, NO HAIR
THE mink busby is new on three counts. It is tremend- ously tall, I rests nearly on to her eyebrows, and it is made of fur. And to look its best it needs' absolutely NO HAIR.
THE LADY-LIKE LOOK
IS
CATCHING ON
like
opals,
back the not-quite- London OUT-goen the casual, little- brings
shiri and
stor.cs jeans way of precious
zircons THE look that Bernard boy
baker-boy beret, tourmalines, dressing, the Shaw started and the sloppy sult.
amethys,s for heavy
THE
and
Paris copied-is catching on IN-comes the pleated, ruffled jewellery, chandeller earrings. like wildfire in Londen, It's bleust. the top-heavy the lady-like look, Inspired laden hat, softer. by the Edwardian-style length skiris.
costumes for 'My
Lady'.
the New
musical show built
Shaw's
'Pygmalion'.
period
Fair
mcons
look The lady-like York pale hands (use a skin bleach- them and pale around ng cream on
The 13 varnish, Ang rs pearl piece made to look decepively fragilo
by heavy, antique rings,
te.
tea-
costume
Watch for the return of the flower-
chiffon blouse, decorated rear ankle- 3011
fine tucking, with
of rows trimmed with act; the
the peignoir in fine, and the Kown "ppearance of frilled fobrics.
The ludy-like look means the flowers-roses piled return of bigh
wide picture
the collar of rests pinned to your suit. It means the return of foral perfumes too, instead, cloying of the sophis.feated kind, the liberal use of cau e colognes and lavender water.
lady-like look menus The smoky, pastel shades for spring
д
hat,
The look that's going OUT———¤ ̧ summer shirt in woven cotton in red and white stripes, teamed with fears and an urchia cut.
But the
the gamut of grey-blues and children became too much for soft-grey-greens, pale washed her, Mama could always retire cut illue and sugar-almond to her chaise-lounge and leave
rote Them You'll pines.
nancy. the rest to Cepecially in
the new rof.er lady of 1950 will have to be looking evening dresses, made tough enough to cope, and still of draped and sty feminino, I'm all for
from yards
pleated chiffon
It heralds the return of the
trying,, anyway.
A Dark Challenger Comes Into Your Life
THE colour of the season double it
TH
is the hardest colour in the world to
wear.
It's
the colour, that drains the
(Bye shadow in two colour, none streaks of bright
of those subtle touches, please. And tote of mascara.)
Use an opaque creamy foun-
life out of your face, that dation with a tinge of pink. Atrong Bp-tick with An makes you look tired even A
Iwo layers under-tone of blue, when you feel terrific, that of it, outlined with a pencil.
makes
ր
ma.ch.
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deep nall polish to The light no urai
is dejected and dowdy, that And puta 10 years on your age.
The colour of the season polishes they always tell you is the kindest colour in the are coming into fashion are a
dead loss with black. world. It's the colour that It noed an unorthodox hair-
plain woman do.
swept- Last year's neat elegant and a pretty woman back coiffure won't do at all- This year's wilder, superb. It's the colour that too severe.
will do.... colifutes romantic brings out the best in other marvellously. For evening, you colours, that is the Ideal might need the extra glow of a setting for jewellery and bit of fake colour in your hair; ⚫ chestnut or "prune" rirse ti delicious accessories.
you're dark, a silver rinse for blondes,
NEEDS KNOW HOW
Tens of thousands of fashion- coracious women are going to wear black this winter, by day and by night. Lovely....50 long of they realise that black needs more
know-how than any other fashion in the book.
It needs a new approach to make-up. Take the eye make- and usually up you
wear
A Glass Of Wine?-This Solves The Problem
A
It needs a lively hat. An all- cast deadening black hat can shadows. But a dotied veil will auften them, or a light coloutCu brim, which lining to the
Or throws a light reflee.ion. get away from black altogether -the prettiest hat I've seen in 1950 made entirely of very small aquamarine feathers. FABRIC QUALITY
1
or
A
fabric
with
noods vitality, Black tweed rather than dull, smooth wool, black velvot Jace Father
thac chiffon, which Is always preitfest in the pastel shades.
In general, a black fabric should have surface interest of H looks limp and dull,
It needs brillant accessories. Always earrings. Always light, ine stockings. By night, light gloves
and a jewelled bag, MOST extraordinary scene
roses between in London took place in a perhape creamy
By tunnel under a bridge recently, your dress and your skin.
More than 200 women were day, belgo ot white gloves, Invited to taste the finest perhaps loss of largo, vulgar French wines.-
pearls.
in
the
seoñilese Bmart and
(the
assurance bouquet of the wines must not wearing. A quiet black suit is a tasted ceitain blomide. A difdent be challengody thay
Is a Bure, bordeaux, burgundies, cham little black dress pagne in an astonishing sejse- mure flog,
of vintage.
The party took place at mid- day in Lebegue's huge wind cellar's loss with thousands of bottles of wine;
It was it like an eighteenth- century palace with hundreds of white candles. Thein, wern long buffet tabing tottering with hugo barces of beef, lobsters, game pie, leg of ham, cheese.
This is the Are time that
women have been invited to this notable October occasio
The only men there spark from the host were low chatouts ownerk, the Marquis Bertrand
„Laid-Baluces
Comte Hubert de (Chateaus Latolir), |
among others
I left wondering if perhings here was the clue to a question |that Has been bothering the
bare for some time: What do worten rially like to drink?
More women are drinking in
bus Public
ever before,.
IS WHAT they are drinking | which important.
14'a beka The
för years
"ein and something to order bow.
But I believe a lot of women don't Hke the taste of
they did be too sling, sheepish about ordering whisky: And a thumpáźne, cocktail is too costly.
Is the best answer simply this: a glam of, wine?
------JOY MATTHEWS
Fashionettes
Edwardian
1. Way of. halr
I hear that British cons NEW handbags are as slim as caught dres:ing-soft waves back into a loose chignon, or turler Victor Stiebel-he designs a woman after a long-term colled at the nape of the neck. Princess Margaret's dress diet, which is going to make it Latest recruits to the chignon, in making off-the-peg clothes at dimoult for the girl who London include the Countess of budget prices, which will soon und her purses an előkel Klongated
Margot Fantern.
The lady-like look means label Bebel as
length gioven elbow long, Prushed down to your wriJL
that
Hareword, and ballerina Dama be in the stores, will entry:+8} away from home, a bouches |
Jacqmar Iquares, rectangles of the are the favourite shapes of coples
them water thin. But the monster-sized handbog Grace overity of design, usually face handkerchiels and para:cls, Kelly took on her honeymood softened with tucks, drapes, daric, cobweb-ane stockings th are selling Uke hot cakes in the long nips or shaped handles. make your ankles look slender, London stores. Buy why Contrasting texttires also sad and litte shoes with poimed wonder, did one woman buy softnew Colours include such toes and mid-high heels.
of them all in colour
off-beat abs66 zn curry, baffeding mustard and ochre,
„that film wiar The new, longer lady-like clothes shown at the Parts Williams booked a hair appoint collections are on their way in ment at French, Lordon's mout
(and expensive) fush, ons of the stay Some London dress style-conscious
But Simon hairdresser," house Chapman and Massey among hem, already wonder, did she insist have new style, multa on sale,ing and netiing her Others plan to bays them in the only wanted the use of a hi
dryer, and an assistant to
stores within a week or L/TER
I'm all ki évour, of the
Blice.
But can
-ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
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