THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1057.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Party Dresses For Teenagers-Designed Along Two Lines
Thin Jane's
Ling
Plump Jane's line
High party
bodice
Princess line is piqué
Petticoats
built in
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Luisa Spagnoli
The World's Foremost
Designers of Ladies Jumpers and Sweaters
Lots of skirt for girl's
the thin
denkin
pinafore
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and white shirt.
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In base and
tartan,
«braiders, inat ent comfortably high
A pleated sash.
green
In every dress its own pelileoat. A high bodice, no streven the Jaliri an apple tilossom priot.
A kind
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One plampies of alk wages, £2 dress in
navy blue,
primees
bright
Sketches
by Demachiy
A 'waif's' wardrobe SPORTSGIRLS
H
AVING
gradou x
BY ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
secret
ittle wal-
like women, I don't wri
for them
should.
As often
write
11
But ILM they make formidate host (5,00€,000 Women
in Britain of 5ft.
Zinn, or ferr), I have buried my ill-fecting to study their' fashion problems.
i have been talking
one
WITH
the of
IL
foot. Lwo
to
best-dressed
London — five- inch Maureon
Swanson, whose looks
churm ་་ལ་ shooting far.
Maureen Swanzon
and
her
soon
confirmed what had long suspected aiut waifs.
like to look romantic." she said, "but i must warn frightfully com- you, Par
Don't let my little- potent.
girl-lost look take you in
for a minute."
I thanked her for the warning.
A Point To Insist On
"Apart from king Ith mantic clothes, 1 think the important thing for smail womon is to insist on well- Go proportioned clothes.
for a good waistline and as long-legged a look as you can get.
"Skirts, for instance. Day akirts must be short to make legs look longer. Aud for evening all my dresses are short or ballet length. Long skirts drown me in a tidal wave,
"Then I fight to get my dresses cut long enough in the bodice. Many ready made dresses are too short waisted."
Nwathed walut, ballet length, barefoot shoes: three evening pointers for small women. Maureen Swanson' (five foos two) goes dancing in g white atipper natin dress by Simonetta.
a wrap, just a stole-uguin, for 1 don't worry good proportion.
thing like eolit about a little arms,"
SHOES. **Naturally, very high heels And barefoot shoes make legs look longer. Even
I Rever in the country fatties. And country shoes
wear
She told me in detail how county can frown as much as it with some part of heel, and the she selects her waif's ward- kes." robe.
ACCESSORIES, "Small.
Thero new dresses (some are ketched above) are designed along two separate flues. There are dresses for the plump, and dresses for the skinny.
For We plump girl, Miss Chanelle has designed princess dresses with long vertical seams to alm down a thick waistline
waist.
no bunchy gathers round the For the skinny girl, there are drosses with fullor skirts, sashed or belted waists, and well-shaped bodices.
Built-in Petticoats
Great care has been given to petticoats and necklines,
All the dresses, are lined or have permanently “ stiffened
DAY CLOTHES. "I go plain, and simple. I can't stand for anything that gives amusing accessories." Plain small waist. Shirts with handbags, gloves, and perhaps short sweaters. Close-fitted just one piece of jewellery." dresses in smooth, fabrics. I found those fashion theories Or vory full dresses very individual and refreshing-not nipped in. I don't
all small women will agree with agree
them. that small women can't wear full skirts. I think they But having seen Miss Swanson petticoats built into them, sq around a lot in the last few that even the untidiest school- months, I promise you they girl won't have top clothes and unterclothes walking in diferent. directions,
Neeklines. These "aro alcoveless, ur" have: shoulder strap ("Müst
shoulders #MASTE
glvd. importance."
DE COATS. "I never wear. work..
thom, I'd much rather freeze. Coats ecem to swamp me and I prefer to suffer in a good suit."
Teenage Fashions
Well, it's happened,
are cut high even en party dresses, DongTVNE
HATS."I never wear I report good news for school- have
them, but this is nothing to girl
One of the cleverest, women look really parted, do with my height. It's in the fashion nusiness the nechtilde tiltaks because I like lots of blonde, firework; Euid Chanelle, cave
Cover the romantic-looking hair. If has
I have to wear a hat, I have of ones on a special range cellars or plumpre
It Black and minuto, so it
doesn't show."T
to may be Bit-about-it, la, that cotton, Enid Chapola; las a red-headed "gulnça k
EVENING BESSER. "Always clan Mhorts
short," and swathed of dartekt to ed she knows all the problems, 1 hope to too costs and
ver #beatatiha, walatiine - For- and most of the answers
equal talent" by
But the
UNT
NEW DEAL
By HAZEL MEYRICK
GET
A
London. selves around the edge of the TNTIL now, the girl who court.
Some
fabrics new, tougher actually plays games, for sportswear are on the way. instead of standing around There for instance, un arlon and watching them, has had and wool mixture, which makes white pleated skirt possible a raw deal from the fashforw
which for golf
cdn be designers.
laundered in a fify and dries that without getting Having found that the rg quickly in tenis dress which looler yellowish tinge about it. There's a now Bedford cord fabrle with so sweet doesn't leave room to
a water-repellent, spol-resistant breathe, The guy
shirt-blouse
doesn't mind K ides up and wrinkles every finish which
In Anish your
gitme time she swings a golf club, the you
and
failoring rainstorm, sportsgirl has had in the past,
cotton which looks refuses to
to remri to dull but worthy weighe garments which give her room bandbox fresti and to move around but which do crease. nothing appearance,
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all for tior
MORE COVERED-UP
A designer who has changed- Playclothes, generally, 12 all this is Toddy Tingling, who being given new stain-resistant makes clothes for Wimbledon Anishes, atuf a good thing, too, cants sturs. He Hos Bow for whats the use of the snow Inunched
playelethes whiter sundress that looks like his own collection
British a dream the first time you slop through manufacturer, and they out in ciress
bu!
-obstinately" wash-
it.
are on sale all over the s srid, refuses to shed, in the
There are good, workmanlike tub, the inevitable spolls of the beach--tor marks, sea-weed sports outfits, designed wi an stning and drips from tee-ercam
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on current fashion, and gay playclothes as well, fo the not too serious sports. like un- bathing and being seen on the beach.
IT'S SECRET
...
cones.
The benchwent look for 1957, incidentally, tends to be more covered-up. Better than the strapless sun-top, which has an
unpleasant haikit of Dorning is the cache-coaur-a
jow-cut
For the girl who is kee: on bright, abbreviated bolero which her game, Teddy Tiniing Hus is
now
perfected a sports
1 sleeveless, has irt neckline to catch the maximum
that, miraculously, looks well sunshine, and is darted to fit The enche-cocur atting and sleek, and styr pus, you closely,
of
I
even when its wearer is the can be worn on its own as a midst of battle on the enie sun top; with allor's or skirt, court. The secret
Ite or can be Buttoned over
gay success lies in the 19 ounningly platit dress to give it a placed darts
which At am look fatter you in action, without
becoming sponing the slape of the shirt, more, difTeuly
more-
and
to tell the
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Black and wilfer poptie is
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Rad
this call-length morlar-board playsuit with hot derigned by Olymplo Sportswear.
diminutive pants topped by a draped" bench dress, complete with stole, banded under the bosom, Grecian-style, It's for the girl with the perfect Agure, who likes other people notice it
Does A Pretty
Face Greet Your
Husband?
It comes in many designo aud difference between pyjamas, for colours, is an equally good buy the Beach and for the bedroom for the girl wito just pres to between the frilly baby-doll FN most families, dinner watch
haf In
revert to the
nightwear
Lingerie
Home
For the girl who He to looks yult and the frilly baby-time's the bright spot doll! Nightdres As beach that marks an end to the decorative on the tennis court, clothes
silli play and
a good game, look, and
becomes day's occupations, the be there is an abbreviated dress holder, it will soon be possible ginning of a pleasant do-as- with an Empire the foalk about to plows our heath clothes from you-please evening."
and it, made in quick-drying spun the lingerie department,
Mr Husband heads retine Own Terylene.. It
night in last for the short.
transparent
without anyone knowing the him? Terytone Organza, banded with years now-length beach suit, from the office and what greats palo bilo eatin ribbon, to difference: enable you to compete, at to For the girl who likes to be That's a question only you Is it a pretty, Interval time, with the noticed, there's a beach outat cor.. spectators who have merely in a typient lingerie fabricative wife or one whe fook# utterly exhaceted by dressed up and draped them white nylon jersey, or bra and
housework and the children? If the latter's the ease;.
Lady
"better", mend your word
All right, maybe you've had hardey day than her hac. But, let's admit this one thing; rid mintter wiat; a woman wants her husband'a atra- keep
tion and love⠀ The sure way. to...' haya" both IS to struction and cheerful,
Call & tries to troubles when the dinnan ⠀ hours att handl.
Forget
the day's occurestion 1. Concentrate my one thing that. {anum in your, Hfess
Make › mkrukum: to spruct up for His retur, from worki Put on fresh make-up, a pretty
trocit. & The Bright Im-. lon your make insure fo utshine the five o'clook inado w
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