WEEK-END
Princess Gra and Gina Lollobrigida will show the way-that having a baby is no longer an excuse for losing one's figure. And in London, too, this good example is set by...
Model
Mothers
THANK
By EILEEN ASCROFT
days emerge from having babies still with the figure of a schoolgirl,
☞ THE CHINA“ MAIL,” SATURDAY, FEBRUARY^2,” 1957.**
WOMANSENSE
Barbara Muirn, with Anita and James: "After my last baby I soon got my
figure back. In fact, I ended up slimmer than before,”
THANK heavens a baby is no longer an excuse for losing one's figure and retiring to the chimney "It is the care beforehand corner to kuit.
and afterwards," she said. "The old ideas that you Some of London's love should eat anything and liest model girls are walking everything while having a proof that a baby need
baby are quite out of date. make no difference to the Now mothers-to-be go on feminine figure at all. And careful protein diets and, model mulier. We photographed don't tell me that Gina with exercises before the her Lollobrigida or Grace Kelly birth and after, there is no are going to emerge from motherhood with one added excuse at all for adding two
many extra inches."
extra inch,
Princess Grace, when shie added 26lb. not very long ugo, announced frankly she was going on B diet of steak, salad and fruit, and Moon lost many unwanted pounds.
** * ☆
Look at the record of some of London's loveliest model girls.
Sylvia Shelley is the typical English beauty, with fair skin, blonde hair and a 23in. waist. But in private life sho is Mrs
The most interesting Manlove and has a teen-age
woman 1 encountered was
son at prep. school at East
Mrs Robin Cayzer, ex-model Grinstead.
with care she soon got her figure
back. "In fact. I ended up slim. mer than before."
Jennifer Howland
THE ROAD
Fashion
Pare' 9'
TO HEADLINERS
SUCCESS...
By Anne Hoywood FROM THE
PEOPLE who feel that
they ure failures are often urged to rend blographics xx take inspiration from those who have made n
Fuccess of their lives. But I have found this isn't such a 'good Iden.
By the time a person is the subject of a biography, his life is pretty well organised end the steps that led to his success look
logical and well-planned.
Actually, it's only when it has rdded up that a life seems to have been purposeful. The famous perion, before he be- erme famous, was groping in every bit as thick a fog as you are this mute,
DOUBT AND DESPAIR
I know this is true beenuse I'vo wutched enough people struggle, doubt and despair, before they accomplished ther Successra,
For example, when Mrs., K., the well known novelist, is ep- on a television show,
Per whole life seems guided by destiny. She wanted to write, Do the struggled at her typewriter while the children were young. She met the famous editor who she always sleeps on her
is the mother of two children. Just the
sald
right inspiring tummy, without a pillow,
A baby in 1957 is no excuse and she plugged along, for eating everything you fancy gally papering the wall with her Barbara
Is Mulra
another
(34in and wearing out your old rejection slips, but knowing all ona of those clothes. Maternity wear has along that she couldn't lose. with children Anita and lucky girls who never need to never been brighter or better The truth is, she never knew
exercise Cr diet. Her cnly and the model girls have any such thing. She sald her 34in.-22in.→ problem-"How lo KC # bit proved that, with proper care, 34in, mensurvinents increased falter."
a woman can emerge with an Jennifer is married to top even lovelier figure than before male modet Nigel Howland and she had her family.
James.
while she was having her last baby by an average 6", but
28in-35in.) Ja
Women In Wigs
By JILL CAREY
London. plicably, bald or balding.
HICH woman wears a. And many more lose their
hair through shock
W wig?
nc-
girl, married Lo Lord
Lovely auburn haired That's a ticklish question cidents or illness. Rotherwick's eldest sou.
Because London's In 1934, In London alone, She now lives at Bletch- Pat Goddard is married to today.
Peter Deal, who runs a híre largest wig-maker, Steiner, 7.800 women were capped with wigs under the nation; hesith ington Park, Oxford, and
They live in has created a wig to fool scheme. Moru than 20,000 expects her third child in car business,
more bought wigs privately. April. When she married mews cottage in Putney, even his own hairdressers.
hand- two daughters, The base is of in April, 1962, she boasted
Susan. seven, and Juliet, made lace--so fine it's near- three (pictured below), and ly invisible-and the hairs
Most hair purchased by the in singly, so wig trade comes from convenits sewn still bus 34in. 22inare
a in. figure.
And the beat is there is no give-away "wig Italy.
northern Italy, look" ~ that severe line available from
where climate and breeding
a model whist of 20in.
Now, three months before the birth of her third baby, her waist is only 2lin., and she tells me she is still
She
has
The 1912 Potret inspired shoes in pale grey suede, trimmed with black patent straps. The bar is in black suede suspended by black palent bar.
A dozen times she gave up the whole idea of writing and went off on a tangent in an
other fleld. She was often filed with self-doubt and convinced, that she was just kidding her- self In thinking she could write. But when she tells it on televi- slon, it becomes a brave, gay saga of the stout soul, convinced of her own talgut, plugging along ever letting rejection slips bother her.
ONE MORAL
As far as I can tell, there's only one common denominator of the people who succeed, only one moral to be gained by read- ing their biographies. And that is that they learn how to live with their self-doubt.
scem-
They take it for granted that they're going to have a pretty ecosistent climate of despair and learn to work right along any-
They sail way.
on uncharted sets, with no guarantee
that they'll ever get anywhere, and persist in the voyage for retsons they honestly couldn't explains.
If you're trying to make some- thing of your life and not se ing to get very for, stop longing The reason that Pal keeps where scalp stops and wig produce sieck crops of ir.
for the
the perfect road map, wearing her ordinary her measurements, according starts,
Peasant hair is coarse and they're a twist-and-turn sleeper, that the ungureness is part of Rawless compass. Face the fact clothes.
to the sister at the mater-
Of course this is expen- pockety".
"high The wig of today fits perfectly the game and that all that really
--and stays put. sive work. The cheapest
matlag is the continued effort they're athletic, Many
novices in
tum even though your mind tells you "all-over"
costs 55 wig
north also own fair hair bling and leaping their way ruiness. Better ones rise to always in demand-before it is through life, they can be extra- more than 100 guineas, cropped.
sure of their hair by placing a zmall strip of adhesive tape at Reason? Labour. It takes
nunnerley collect y the nape of the neck and above one girl one month to make thing from 5 shillings to £5 the forehead. But that, wo're a full wig.
per ounce of hair (average assured,
hardly eyes wiga require 1 to 2 ounces), necessary. White hair, which is extremely dimcult to
l'at I asked a woman gynaeco- nity hospital where
these had her last baby, is that Jugist why women
NEW YORK DESIGNERS SHOW THEIR SPRING-SUMMER COLLECTIONS
Spotlight On Bare Backed Models
New York. necklines came back with plenty of exposure today.
PLUNGING
The youthful designer, a form=. er model, has added a protective cover in the form of brief jacket or cape for the woman who has less than a perfect back or more than the average amount of modesty.
But in reverse. Designer Claire McCardell
"I do believe in covering up showed a daring display of
in trafle." sall the designer. epidermis at the back in
McCardell's collection of everything from daytime was the Arst in the series
spring fashion showe, sponsored and evening dresses to by the couture group of The bathing suits. Designer New York Dress Institute. the Oleg Cassini reserved bared spinal columns for evening.
SKIRT LENGTH
*
Her summer cocktail and dinner dresses hit 10 Inches Miss McCardell's Spring
from the floor. And daytime: Collection, shown to 200 dressco had 10-inch heng --- visiting fashion reporters, just in case a woman one day featured "shoulder blade" wants to lengthen. bucks, in which she scissored
The Arm of Monte Bano und Pruzan showed both the mid-
out enough material to bare calf and near-ankle length in only milady's upper torso, late day and afternoon costumes. Monte Sano's suit skirts must- and complete bare-back, in
ly
silm, and jackets were
which the neckline plunges generally in two lengths. One all the way to the belted ended at the waistling, the other waistline.
was wrist-length,
Tunic and bolted__sults high-
PROTECTIVE COVER lighted the Harry Frechiel col- fection. This firm showed the The fronts are high, in belts
of the halter mult fabric, of leather or of the Capes, rovived in both New
uli
the munner neck this designer featured York and Paris last autumn, In the early years of World will swoop right into spring.
Frechtel showed them In Wer II.
Who can best wear the others banded to stand out were collared; dengths. Some
baro-back modela?
around the neckline,
Designer Roxane of Samuel
"Just like the front, It dopends on the back,” Bald Winston usdd little capes instead of jackew or baloras to, com- Miss McCardoll.
plete a costume-United Press.
suitable for
Tie
olince.
nun
London's
tho
oblain, cali For old ladies, who put their hair out to air at night, hair-
But, you think, wigs are command £10 to £10 for each the problems of the un- happy minority.
dressers havo devised night- caps, with a small inexpenálve fringe of hair peeking out trom us under.
The wig-makers are making
clients as happy possible.
their
As for
men, an
Regrettably, this is not
Increasing true. As many women as They no longer have to take number are going to wig- men are naturally, and inex of their wig at night, even if makers, particularly since the advent of England'a national health scheme which provides wigs at less than cost,
Two costa in one, in spring-weighs Donegal, tweed. The, cape is detachable; the cost boomkir le a castal olássio with push-up
These men are not vain. They know that a bald look, which often comes to the man in his early twenties, ogen him and makes him less offractive. For purely practical reasons, they buy toupees (from 35 guintos) ur, if necessary, full wigs.
that nothing could possibly come of lil But something will!
Need A Mother Look Like A "Mother"?
neer
TAD lunch with the most at-
tractivo "young** woman recently. slim, with smartly styled dark hair, spark- ling brown eyes and a charn- ingly vivacious personality, she amazet us by mentioning a 24- year-old con It didn't seem possible she could have one.
"Had dinner with
him the other night," she said. "He's to much fun to be with.”.
We couldn't help thinking that his opinion of Mother must definitely be ditto. Sho's de lightful company, more like a date than a Mom-which is not to my that her maternal feelinga
Because of cleaning problems, cach person must have a mini-aren't strong. They are! mum of two wigs. The wealthy often own four or five one each for mowing, afternoon and evening, and one or two extra in blue or pink as fashion dictates,
im-
Ít made us think how portant appearance really is. A girl who keeps slim, and trim, who follows fashion fads, whó, So there's variety, as well as
uses
cosmetics properly stays security, in the wigs of today, young. Why, after all, need
mother look like a mother? No. Speaking of hair, a model at reason that we can thinks of. coukirler Arthur Dunka' provław
in London
Also
B
of spring fashioma
of importance is person recently had the latest colure.alityl Bo atten motherhood keepe Her long auburn hair came girl so busy that she bogs off the face, and was down gets into a rut of recipes
sharp in a thick oblong bun and horisodeaning Ble doCan't at the back. She was modelling bother to make time to keep up the extreme flapper dresses, and with outside activities. in complete, flapper, stance- abig mistake. There are protruding nock, Munizes chart the thirga Khat keep her later and hips ahing forward. It's caling and your in her think Ing Who, after all, Anda a con hàrd lb got used to,
vertation devoted to food, home The famous house of Jacqmar) making and bright sayings; of has introduced al magnificent the this fascinating :-
now volvot. It's washable, iron-] the steady--and only--toples of able, and is “water-repellent. In every conversation? 27 colour, it is Justly named
-JEANNE D'ARCY
"WEST
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