THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1957,
WEEK-END Absurd To Give Women All The Glory!
Says ANNÈ EDWARDS
ADIES, I give you A
Lipast.
To the creature
who always steals the show at Ascot, who dazzlea the crowd at Henley, turns all heads at Wimbledon: to the most elegant man in the world today-the English-
man.
He la the hardest man in the world to choose a tie for. The quickest man on earth at buying a bat. He is so sure of his own fair for clothes that he never gives the matter much thought,
He is more confident, and, let us admit it, more elegant in a 20-year-old suit than his wife in her latest Dior.
argument
And though he may have lost much of his bargaining power In the council chambers abroad, yet he stars every with a foreign diplomat with one maddening advantage-his team is much the best dressed.
For loo much credit for the essential elegance of the Eng- Ishman has gone in the past to his clothes, Far too little to the man Inside,
His reputation is not, let me tell you, all due to the tomous London tailoring, the English hats, the Scottish tweeds. It is
the shoulders Inside the suit, the face beneath the hat, and the certainty of the man that whatever he chooses to wear is right,
DEFINITION
of
the
com-
Not long ago une glossiest of American maro- zinos, Harper's Bazaar, missioned an artist Hving in London to define the elegance at the Englishman.
Thia le what the artist, Feline Topolsk!, said: "Englishmen. lave u special strange talent tor knowing how to dress which no one else can touch. They are born with it, and il gives-- ihrem start over everyone esu.
"I think they have it because basically a costume always als beat the man who invented it. and contemporary men's clothes ого дл English development. Therefore their clothes are natural on Engilshmen and slightly false on everyone else.
Llout Colonel the Hon. Thomas Pomeroy, Welsh Guards, represents the formal British eleganos zio foreigner can copy.
WOMANSENSE
VERONICA PAPWORTH Tells You How To Plunge On A Hat
Veronica Papworth
-without going under
NO wa PLUNGE-with un absolutely eye-catching That-and the mon In our liven hlas and mutter through their teeth: "You'ro quite certain that it Isn't a bit much, aren't you? Everyone seems to be... woll...
sort of staring ?"
Or we invest in some- thing plain and regrettably pob-shaped and dammit nobody stares.
How to strike a happy medium that's the prob- lemn. (I
know.
know... I
dot him on the
head while he is in a trance. 1, too, listen to Arthur Askey.) ·
A big hat is an investment
thing about Lady R's hate? With millinery on my mind, But the says, "This hat is ME,
I went along to talk to Hugh Like Queen Mary and her toque, Beresford the best-looking man you know.".
in the hat business. thought
"So would you advise us all
he might tell me where wo to and what suite us and stick
wrong.
"To begin with," sald be, "there is such a thing as a 'Har FROG,
"Some women can wear anything.
to it," I asked him.
addexi drop by drop, and so forth.
Well, 1 --had n food critic coming to dino-one of those chaps who caßtheir way round England, praising and condemn ing us they go.
WREN desperately anxious that my Bruce should be perfect.
So I beat and I boat and I added the of dươn by drop-- and the whole thing degenerated slowly into a running mess.
In desperation and having run out of egg. I made a white sauce and, when it was cool, I whip pet into my muss, added a good squeeze of lemon and A dollop of French mustaed, and chilled it.
He fairly tapped it up i. v. said he couldn't think why women
taka wouldn't
the trouble to make real mayonaise sald it was the test of a first-class cook.
to tell the truth, too. But ano? He has known me long enough
al lunch-
of.
I hadryt the heart to tell him. eye-sorry darling!
So, if this should catch da
One-upmanship "Heavens, NO," said Mr the o the steps Beresford.. "I've told you-bo West End restaurant. 'BOLD and don't forget your "Well, goodbye, my.
mwoot husband."
eried the lady in the 1C2904 eframed hat, to the gentleman are with the whiskers. "And re-
I promised I wouldn't. Sometimes I think we
"The Marchioness of Lands awful shobs about food. member me to the Princn downe, for instance or Lady You know how the experts go Not that I think he will have Marcroft
OT Mra George on and, on over making a sauce forgotten." Touche."
mayoralco-the egg yolks mustAnd with a gay little laugh be creamed slowly, tho oil the "was gone.
The "un-hat faced”
I steered him back to US-the
um-hat faced majority.
women are not
And For The Women.
mough," he told me. I'm peak Who Won't Wear Hats
Ing particularly of the ove thirty-fivea ... the women whò are old enough to have develop-
ed a fashion sense but young enough to look pretty in a hat that does something for them "NU
I purred. Could this be me?
"And every woman," he con- kod, "hould Lake hor favorite man with her. Ones he has seen some of the wilder affairs he is quite content nattio for something mikily exciting."
"What about pietur hats?" mid I, "I suppose they are an*- extravagance really."
"Certainly nok" sald
Mr
for
"I've had the aut In the an emotional crisis and says Beresford. "A big hit is photograph since 1936" said goodbye to his career he does impestment goes on Colonel Pomeroy, "It's just in a starched collar.
years and years. I've one
vido-brimmed straw hat for
"They are not, as most people imagine, conservative dressers. Each man produces some slight eccentricity, BOMO personal quality that is never wrong.
a genius about due, for renewal. I have When it has been remarked customer who has had the same
without been wearing the same type of what the now, quieter Nye
clothes in London ever since 1. Beyin has to my, it should also just a minute I'll check. Foreignora
Yes, 1930. I'm afraid I am simply Nye Bevan wear. Joined the Welsh Guards in be noted what the now, quieter 23 years,
"Every year she gings met an ex-Guarda officor.””
'Could you renew the "10000~~~~ and we do something slightly different for her,
"The English have for dressing strangely making mistakes.
do the same and make them-
salves look ridiculous."
Now I go all the way with Mr Topolski on this. I'm with bim too on his choice of the to represent English elegance in America.
men
EXAMPLE
John Osborne did admit cons autously giving care to choosing his clothes.
of
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TEETH GRINDING
People who think only of the bargaining power of Russia's bombs, should, remeraber that
Be bold....
NOW, for the women who won't wear hats, I have been talking A to Betty Allen-e dark-haired designer whose, embroideries and “junle” Jewellery, are always such a feature of the Top Ten Collections.
Bilty is one of the prettiest and the costest women I know---with in love of cuddly poodles and fast horses that makes friends for her everywhere. So when we had finished ́picking the Gold Cup winner we went out into the Aladdin's Cave that is her showroom and I sketched a few of the many "apologics" for hats that she has`dasigned this summer, Batty's nephow Richard - Jacqmar's youngest director-recently
married Anna Shepherd-Smith. She le the girl who tinguished herself last season, by developing measles the day before her presentation,
dis-
"Shoe the Alice Band type," said Betty. "I've made her one like thie to match every dress in her trouseofu,” and sho showed ma a three-inch band and bow set on a fine metal spring. I'de sketched it—for left.
when a Russian diplomat meets every woman should do that,
"Of course, I'm not mugposting My an English diplomat he starts
"I've another customer
WINO
"I buy my clothes ready-made because I can't bear to 2 through all the palaver attings. If I ever think about my looks, I think perhaps I by grinding his teeth because he Not one of them merits the have a decadent look-a bit feels he is one down-arterially has had well over one hundred tailors dummy" slur. Not corruptible and 1' dress to at least.
hats from me and all of them one would get a rating in the match ."
And as far as you are con-postillon style, She's had it in
Identical in shape. A aort Taller and Cutler. And all bring But le по one dismiss corned, ladies, you don't even off en impressive elegance with the Englishman's elegance as begin to compote.
every known colour of felt and In spite of straw. out really giving the matter frivolous. Those who su often the fuss made about women's much thought.
try to interpret the English Ascot alothes, etc., the man at character and
achievement your side is always ten times should realise that there a close link between a stir upper
more elegant than you.
Just don't, allow him to feel Up and a silit collar.
that being
this Bo right in respect makes him right about everything else, will you?
you
first
I Rive Lieut-Gelonel the Hon. Thomas Pomeroy, because he 19 tho bowlor-hattext Guards typé which no one abroad, evos at-
tempts to imitate. It goes with height and thinners and is ni- most an off-duty uniform.
when
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It is his uniform strolling along Bond Street his way, to his club or his tailor - dark bluo sult, not too Edwardian, striped or checked shirt and lift white collar.
A quiet to, no fancy walst- cost, and a thin watch chain across tils:walatcoat, the Jacket open to abow it. Vory imm shoes, umbrella, gloves, the whole thing topped by a bowler hat worn alightly forward,
BOHEMIANS
I give you John Osborne,
drevod here, in Nine sweater-
he represents the gayest
and black volvat slacks, because
of the English bohemians,
facet
They have adapted the narrow trousers and short, wide coate of the Parisian bobcenters, and odded to them. English tweeds, awentara meă dusfef costs,
·It is an elegance of a different kind from the after, les formal, "Sandro | volourful, and more self-
conscious but it has style.
Neither of these men, I would, add, ever gives much thought to hit clothes t
When a British Prime Mini- ter or a British King reaches
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John Osborne, playwright,' in tilaa zumdar, and black voływť" slacks, is typical of a new, rekani Biyleʻaming: young netörin.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Raising destined for cakby and an unposled, raw potato. Hol preads, will be glump and kiley your hande under gold, running if they first are soaked in warm water water and then" added to the
2 batter, or dough,
One of the moai imaddening BUDDYTAS DE SAnita Englishtian's thut he brings it bet
Bur
ber
Yoti Camelid of onlong sprinki odojo un hadde ko cubblog with
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sound choles was a broad, draped chiffon band mounted on a kid foundation - and then, there is a gold and white onu. with lurex edging the flowers on one side.
The fourth "apology", La intended for the bun-at-tho-back brigade. They always moon that they can't find a hat to suit them. The problem and well I know it, since growing my hair-is raiber like Santa Clausen whlakun.
Her friends are always ask- Does it go under or over the hat? Betty's suggestion is a Mgi you do nome- heart-shaped buckle which she will cover to match my dress. g me-'Can't
My Dress Of The Week
F you, were the wife of a successful
If yusiness man
If you were the owner of a wholesale couture business.
If you therefore, could have more or less anything you liked to wear what would you choose for an Important occasion?
Mra Anthony Clifton-Brown, who specialises in couture clothes for the over- forties, chose this ensemble to wear to Guildhall-last week to witness, her husband's election as Sheriff of London.
it in dream 'Instsap gream: elik-thick, prunchy silk in a hapanok wegve. The wlis stand- away afiar le embroidered, with strawalli in a deeper shade. Han matchy grosgrain barst is also embroidered with sirawalk in reload strips.
YOUR RULES?
الان
Her shops,beg and gloves are of pale caramel- antoured, mundo..
fwagfnot," wald (and l-mount 16-"now, what are-your rules for suppeanfu) „dressing?"
Best
"NA. Bright colours, no sugary pastole, and, Above all, no fancy flower prints,f), mid; "Men Clifton-Brawheed particularly [afide... Jask, week's Haw rad | "gel of thown-upinehly, förut regommand" my olgan customers to opn Denirata, on, pining really wall outlethe and
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An older women riyet/have had tave pretkliy framed and her feet well povarus.
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