THE CHINA. MAIL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1956.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
From the Jacques Fath silon cuties this practical and Lber with elvet fur, the short elegant outfit of red wool. boxy Jacket has a mandarin collar and low-set sleeves, rood-slim skirt has patch-prekris of elvet fur. Agence
France-Presst,
The
YOUR
DRESS UP
CHILDREN FOR THE HOLIDAY!
BY PATRICIA DOUGLAS
London.
HE wearing of school
THE
uniform, especially by
girls, In
1. the same department, two orvases for Father older Kw decorated bodices Twil kant, whurh for would look "M*;";
swert11 DVIE Uffened
One style
matter of great pla controversy but, holklay attag↑
Ombroidery
12
time brings EL welcome Das wild white, washable relief when daughters can beat
while the again indulge their own other has fewer heads worked vinced pattern in the fashion fancies. It is in 2
mal of the viness, teresting to hear from
buyers and assistants in
Wool fabrics with a decora- thread are bye gold or silver children's wear departments Very
suitable for children's that small girls demand an party dresses, for they combine increasing say in the choice all the necessary wall and of their own clothes. This od wearing qualities with the
seems an excellent way to help them develop a fashion
Benge.
the
dernunded by glamour
Neal show an Daniel canton
of this in pale blue example
The fron: with tinsel stripes. buttoning of the dress is partly a trimming, but also makes it cosy for the young woarer to "do herself up" while Mother is busy at her own dressing
In choosing party dresses, in particular, girls show a strongly divided opinion. Either they are ulira-feminine, already, and want the flimstest and frutest table, dress in the shop-quite improc-
deal for the enjoyment
sent of real party fun-or they are tinboys
at heart and
ORIGINAL STYLES
uf quities
made in various wool
cloth,
A
A
The Maison des Enfants cater cannot see alty for indiskduals, and consequently neccsety for drossing-up to show many original styles, some visit their friends and would of them copies of French models much prefer to wear jeans and which ran by BjTsey,
Sensible mothers can, however, gussainer-die worsted is used for And I an excellent compromise be some thchanting dresses show- tween the two by dressing their 1 fine daughters in
pretty Wool dresses "separutes" that are
giris of all ages.
Onc in
One handwerk, rome of the new Trincess style hos a button- and through from which is scalloped neck to hem. Another made for trom
dress in grey worsted has banda of blue erted in its full skirt. A more conservative cojour schicine is used in a pale pink <iress
With for a little girl the hand-smocked inset buds of fine pleating. it at the is trimmed with ribbon roses In dresses which, starung
pale blue. tinlest size, are made in sizes to
CLASSIC FAVOURITES
The classic
course, are
favouries,
A fine hand-woven wool lends
Interesting many can be made itself
Here at the Maison
it up to about 8 or 7-year-olds, Thepu dresses
any fine woollen material, but designs
tu
It's
An inquiry into three women's attitudes to life, from clothes to men to cooking .
...
proving that
Where You Come From That Matters
THE way you look at it-
dopends on where you come from. That much was made clear to me recently, and I'm not talking about politics either.
For I
want to BCC Jins differences in national outlooks their sharpest, just watch how A/I Englishwoman, Frenchwoman, and an American woman tackle their lives.
Whether 's Men, Clother, their aim is the or Cooking.
Tienst or Bare, but Hevest Zowie--how different nee their methods....
CLOTHES
TAKE clothes for a start....
Listen 1
The philosophy of three well-devssed women, even typtien her country
the Englah
| Barneti; +[
Lady
I'm not obement by them I buy tret al. one in spring And onte H autumn, and I buy to last.
By ANNE EDWARDS
and when the guis to her middle years, no one is more loved and respected by her
"I love cleibos, but I do not The Englishwoman, Florence family and friends than iho, buy many. My plan is to buy Demand, advised getting the
Thero 18 A security and very few clothes, very carefully, best quality meat and roasting
It: the but everything is new,
Frenchwoman, Mme, scrently to her that is seldom "I do not like to wear clothes Mayer, advised getting a cheaper round elsewhere. that have the look of last year cut and cooking it with wind **I wouldn't sacrifice this 50 1
fresh every seudun and mushrooms; the American
+88
woman, Mts Edward Sleft, sugunny sensiblences for the feting "I do not like the new hats gested gutting through the air and graces of # French-
woman-especially wher It' and
wear a last mincer, adding 11 other ingrenly an hour's trip to Paris." will rat season hat, so I prefer to wear dients, and turning it all into a note or a classic
A Frenchman, Robert Dhery— pudding shape like
In France, this Garbo hat a black velvet.
Stuff . on Frenchwomen! The English redpo;
Wornen keep their "My husband is interested in rolled, baned let of veal with our
A 1 of French- what i weur, of course, but bo
be grated lemon peel, thyme, sage, originally,
and onion, all bound with women say ns they were when would never come and help me
entldren, feminino choose. There is no need, for yolk, seasoned with pepper and they were
It can rate a hflow myself exactly what I gall." Rub over with plenty of and feline.
lord, tie in a greaseproof paper man, but he likes it,
They don't want to be the and cook for 10 minutes in a hot
boss-they
They don't care, oven. Then cook for an hour to an hour and a half in a slow don't care about being respected, uven Take paper off for last They want to be loved frst of 16 minutes and brown the meat all. in a hot oven to crisp it. Serve with braacd celery, spinach, and roast potatoes.
should wear,"
Finally, the
American view, from Ms Van Johnson: "Most of my clothes are ready made and American. And I have n good many. I certainly like to try OBL Anything
that
new
comes along.
"American women go all out (ur new fashion, laut I don't tunk you'll and then wearing 2 if it doesn't muli them.
"I never buy French clothes,
# ut t
confortable they Lary
clutter My ideal vulat so quickly.
Will take 1110
something wint
from Lejér det in the 0.30 am. Train to London, right through
Play Lantis
cutch the
9.15 p.
roa!
train home.
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COOKING
fashion
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MONFRONT three hostesses of these Ured different
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"In winter this is usually dark wool suit with a matching We don't Μαγε Wie climate Faugland for manly haste ingredient-and tee what wurful or extravagant clothes, tr therent dish they cach make
I only have a splush on hits,” uf it Next
Frenetwoman's The view, suunnasd up for me in the person 41191 philosophy of
Denise Becker
elegant Mine.
ilcller,
I naked an Englishwoman, a Frenchwoman, and an American how they would cook the cheap and good veul which in ground Just now.
1. Dress in navy wool with a bodice trinuned with washable white beads 2. These Tyrolean jerseys hand-knitted In thick white wool in traditional designs, have colourful embroidery worked into the patterns. They are worn with circular folt skirts in bright colours which will delight all small giris, especially when decorated with amusing motifs in felt applique and beads. 3. Wool striped with finsel thread Is used for this unusual party dress with the fashionable high- lino for the older girl. 4. Fins wool jersey makes this party dress with a fucked bodice and full skirt. 5. Made in hand- woven wool, the skiri of this dress features a front panci in the form of a buttoned-on apron. Her tiny sister's dress," niso in hand-woven wool, has a little cape collar. 6. The pretties) of all little girls' dresses are imported from Spain. These, in fineri white wool, have appliqued patterns worked on them in a contrasting shade of either pals plak or blue,
the prettiest and daintest are des Enfants they use a primrose who, like bright colours is the the charm of these skiria lies in in nun'a velling, which washes hand-woven cloth for a small use of Sicilian braid as trim-
og easily lingerie.
their vivid shades with royal Scenes of blue, snelst, and saxe blue tiresa with 直 sophisticated ming for a dress.
in popularity, in that fringe trimming in bele grey, Sicily, with the famous painted leading In white or pale pastels, with The trimming
is hand-pulled carts and mulca decorated with order. The more sophisticated bunda of coloured, smocking from a piece of similar cloth in nodding plumes, are Anelly em- shades of "shocking giving the fashionable "high
a contrasting colour. For older, brolileted on the narrow braid daffodil and tangerine are only Inc",
they are much sought by girs they
bands the full dirndl occasionally demanded, suggest a pinafore which for their
with the "pinafore" in skirts. i stylo favourito
indulgent & ICTs,
pearlet
check.
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1
6.
pink,"
Tucker, &V,
who Delft blue and the yoke, sleeves The prettiest contribution specialize in theat, skirts,, Vary bright blue with smocking in and broad hem of the skirt in u from the Continent to the 0:0 circumference of the skirt vibrant pleasant tomes, O blue and white hand-woven children's fashion pleture comes according to the size. The vary
with while
from Spairi Some toddler's thy ones are, half or – three- they havo
dresses are made in Anost while quarter circles, but the bigger the little stronger appeal to
PINAFORE THEME wool material with a hand-kizey may taka, the full elreje, giris themacives and also to mothers who hope to avoid The pinafore theme is intro worked applique pattern in blug They trim them in a variety or plank. is well known of ways with -delightful, felt duced In sëme delightful dresses washing a dress after each me gun hand-woven that the Soulards tole the applique work showing animals, of wearing.
At Daniel Neal's, a store well wool. The material is woven calest delight in decking out lock faces, and other amusing
with coloured bands in a Faire their children and these dresses, mottag kdown to generations of mothura Isle pattern, and these banda would certainly be wort
those skirts there are; thed daughter, They STOW pretty wool frocks for little are cleverly used to represent
Many
PALETTEN MEDIN Veress many attractive and cununini the "atraga" of the pinafore on
mother favour wool jerseys, includi girls, and these are reminiscent the bodice of the dress, and also "eepornles" for their young ferɛoys. Hand *** of their motherw aresses in decorate, the full skiri. In nne, doughters--they two fa com Britain, their fabric, styling and timming other style the coloured bands promio betweon: biinit, drenadi; pätietnia aro) For instance, royal blue jersey make a yoke on the full skirt up and wearing a casual cut vlyški
colours makes a dress for, a, b-year-old, and and also sent: for the Polor nigrown-up style that la mountaar dowers, Sin With thy tucked bodice, the Pan collar, and the cuffs, beccining Increasingly, popular, devas has a plain yake cut în grindimore Continental with girán of trollingos, in the crochet front.
circular skirt of felt," Part of embroidery
"Iden
· DEGBI¬DUDE MT916 and short slepins, which will append to children
dowpane
HOSPITALITY
right
MERICAN -- "Came
round," FRENCHI—“LAR UR moet for lunch on Tuesday at 1.10. ENGLISH-E-I øve you a ring someline,"
AWKWARD MOMENTS
Tus problem
ure
to
a
"When French women suffer, they tell everybody. When they are unhappy they make a mess of everything their hats, thair clothes, their make great
"And then
statements. They say they want to work, to be by them. relves don't need husbands.
think they are wonderful. I prefer the way cook. They they dress, I like to make a mon happy with prefer the way
good food.
If they
want some-
thing from him they are very good cooks indeed,
An American
Ан
man, Ramon Novarro-en American women; "An American woman doesn't
like to be a servant or the sub- dued wife, Jur
but you won't fo being so boss any more.
has led
in
WAS put Three women on a recent Woman's Hour
progranime, Shu "Suppose
you
elving lunchcom party to some very elegant friends and coming up- stairs in the middle of you discover that you children bave cut the flowers off all your straightforward and very frank. guests' hats. What would you
do?"
The
It doesn't work. They are not as crazy abou they still want to live the good success as they wed to be, but
Lates O! course.
They
Are
"They pay mamous attention to their uppearance
especially
Englishwoman, atrs Elizabeth Webb, said: "I should as they get older. In America, worship youth and go straight down and apologise, women
so much that they are
and offer w pay for new hats." unhappy because they refuse to
beauty
Tho
Mme French woman,
Tony Diayer, sulu:
sond thom each
Bowers next
day"
The American, Caroline Wedgwood Bean, said, should send the children down with the bats and hope they would melt eveyone's heart.”
MEN
stalghtspoken,
"I should grow old.
**They
7 eat a lettuce and a bunch of
tomato at noon and spend the ren of the day complaining about their figures,
"American women are franke and
They Aro oven wher they want their own way. They are not blunt, but they are In fact, I don't very trunk. think
the women roed psychiatrists nearly as much as the men. They don't have in hibitions, because they don't know any better."
AN Englishman, Peter Glen ΑΝ ville-on. Baglish women:
с
director, I must
Bay
"As that if I am looking for an actress to play someone sensual, capricious, ruthless, and illogleni it doesn't occur to me to look in England.
all.
"Englishwomen arc disci- plined. They know how to make the surface of life attrac- tive They are not pampered The or spoiled.
now on.
AGES
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O, maybe then we aren't all sisters under the skin after Except for one thing......
Englishwoman, Ενείτα Laye, sidesteps the question of "They go about the place in age; "I'm going to be 29 from their cool, classical way, empty
Twenty-nine is such ing ashtrays and plumping up a good age for a woman." cushions with a sensible brisk- The American woman, Lynne mindedness,
Fontanne, sidesteps the question "Englishwomen don't go
age:
was 10 1 much for talking about art or decided that from then culture of any sort. This may age should be my own affair
because Englishmen think it The French woman, Martine slightly untrustworthy for Carol, sidesteps the question of ago: "You can say I am 32. "The Englishwoman doesn't It is not my exact ago, but it is interfere and is not possessive, sultabic, n'est-ce pas?"
bo
women to imów-about art
ia of
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