THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1957.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Now America tries to dress the Queen
By JOY MATTHEWS
FISTFUL of American dress
A designers have been playing the
favourite English game, "How I'd Dress the Queen!”
Eight of the best, including Mollic Parnis and Sally Victor, who dress Mrs Eisenhower, were asked by an American trade paper to design a wardrobe "fit for the Queen." Between them they dreamed up a mink and sable wardrobe-dresses, ecata, hats, and suits.
beeled cream
Italian shoCS,
There was the violet-blue turquoise cashmere twin set drese and
jacket with
Я
& and rows and rows of turquoise black mink collar the bends. dress high-necked with
three rows of pearls and a Hair Switch small off-the-face hat. Just the sort of thing she arrived in Paris wearing last April.
I HEARD a word of consola
tion last week for the fickle butterflies who it from 0310 hairdressing salon to another.
"I cannot see why
said Freddy French, the hair-
There was the ball gown of heavy white silk with a discreet boat-shapped neck, line, heavily embroidered in feel so embarrassed about It"
women
Going rich-but
on the cheap
gold and rhinestones. Oddly dresser, to me this week. "They like that knockout swirl of aren't upset if Hardy Amies sces satin and embroidery them in a Hartuell dress. Yct for the state when I saw one of my clients banquet in Copenhagen last corning out of a rival salon she scamp spiked
she wore
cut me dead.
sticks.
on
NO I WON'T GO INTO A TRANCE TO STOP SMOKING
Says Veronica Papworth,
[OW'S your strength of the party I did. wish I'd spoken wives and mathers who wilte fine-never · stronger. But themselves down in their own that's partly because I'vo, estimation-cavying had it shaken up a bit.
puratively few
the
professional I was talking to one of the women who "do something."
13 蔬 two-faced character nicest woman in the Beauty business, Somehow, the con with a foot in both camps, I'm versation turned around her coming town heavily in favour daughter
potentially pretty of all the stay-at-liamo: wires sixteen-year-old who has, for who are a. thousand times mare the past year or two, been versatile than any carcerist,
mentably overweight.
Dammit-they have to be. I'm not suggesting that what they can do will earn them a
No, let's not mince matters she's been shrouded in fat.
Suddenly, he
has shrugged it
All of emery ing like a glow- ing little moth. from her podry chrysalis.
How?
**Hypnotion," said her mother.
"She wouldn't Usten to a word
said about over + eating.
Then samepho
suggested this
man
she went.
CMT
"He put her
wered-
into
trance
her
and told
just what
I've been telling
her for the past
In-
two years. furiating but
It worked. She won't touch fat tening foods now."
Not 48 hours later at a party, I took my twelfth cigarette that day, and "shook my head my weak-mindedness,
over
Ten's, my self-imposed limit. "Better see a hypnotist," said a square man with a lite black board. "Since L was done I haven't touched a cigarette and
I.. was
A '40ma¬day togo.
Wouldn't smoked one now if you paid me.
"Han of mouse" I wanted to launt him.
At least choose to
Wasid you take order, fram asiangal
four-figure salary but, written down, it should give them superiority complex as high as a house,
an
It should certainly put end to the wrey le remarks that every business woman has complete to bear with: "I'm a
houstrai. cabbage-Just a
How I envy you having a life you are to have talent. If only of your own..." "How lucky
f'd trained for something."
Bad She's sometimes a very soul-the dedicated businces women with a opo-track mind ORC- smoke because I bent on her work and a
Own track heart sat · on hor advancendit.
The result
Then I remembered the final remark of the mother on her stone daughter Nearly two
After all, off in a few weeks, it's the results that count.”
Would you stud
WHAT the good-time girls are going for; qunifty quilting at a quantity price. I saw last week one of the most .cosial ever kn luxurious and insolous-looking theatre shocking-pink velvet, heavily lined with quilting for snowy nights. The short, house-cost in the picture is in quilted cotton, splurged all over with Victorian roses. And for good little girls there are delicious lambswool coats with hoods attached, lined with quilting in pink, blue, or camel.
cocktail She has been selling a cont made of sacking to all the Italian-struck flim ladles. May.
* "Certainly a woman should My hostess (who had not There
that head switch her hairdresser
has one, from herself been frying)-gave me
daughter to be hypnotised Into time that stubborn the secret of maiding them crisp and collared and cuffed: da taicing your advice? to black feathered toque we loyalty
women feel they must stick to batter," she said. The York picked it with a black jersey
Would you take, orders from keep reading about. The the same hairdresser for years shire pudding type just won't lining. And Dawn Addams is a stranger on smoking? strawberry pink stitched and years. And, if they switch, do."
having one made, lined
I've checked up and I find they can never go
red velvet.
that more and maire 'people are velvet beret softly draped to they feel
getting this odd. form of one side was not forgotten. back.
mentai shot in the ar Neither was the wool two-
strengthen their resolutions. piece-its jacket lined with
Would I? mink.
WIDA
Elm Novak
:
Hned
hugging royal blue and time 13 ridiculous. But and crunchy, "All is in the green velvet, Ava Gardter
"I'm all for a change now and again and anyway, some times the comparison does ma a bit of good."
salt
+
I have frozen
with
Original Inspiration came proved from Signora Fantana's 19-year- old daughter Glota who made herself a sacking skirt for fun---| which all her young friends flocked in to order, and which gave her mother an idea,
Here is her recipe. tried it myself with scampi,
which scrumptious.
"Mix 40z. flour and a pinch of with 3 tablespoons olive oll. Then gradually add just over a cuplul of tepid water, keeping the batter the texture CCORDING to up-and- of thin cream. Leave to settle coming Paris couturier as long as possible, then add, Pierre Cardin, the most useful at the last moment, the beaten There was none of the thing a girl with not much white of an egg. You just dip American liveliness and money, and not yet much taste, the scampi in and fry in boiling
Practically everything could have been designed Suit Wisdom by an English couturier and, in some instances, far, far better.
dash. There was little of can buy la a sult.
the sumptuous dressing we' see in the glossy American magazines,
"But
1104-10,
never-la "Black black" he told me. looks, too-dressy, A girl should
streets, or before lunch.
hot odi
The scamp! I ate were served with a rich tomato sauce.
sucked the sack-she VOE FONTANA, the woman hasn't one in her collection- seems to be doing well out of the idea. But with a difference.
not wear a block suit in the Inspired Sacking The only two which managed to look American "Blup is much better-not were a white wool spindle royal, nat navy, but lightish line cont with a white mink midnight blue. It can then go collar and matching white to the country, or be dolled up with black accessories for mink toque, and a grey cocktails." chiffen all-American shirt. dress with sable cuffa, high- He scoffed at the idea of the lighted with a pink rose tied safe, classic sult. "A classic suit with grey satin ribbon nest- ling in one of them.
The first is completely im-
quern practical even for a And the second-well, would you like to see anyone in that, let alone the Queen?
Sweater Girl
TERESITA MONTEZ, Elster of
one that is three years old,"
he salt. “If you buy this year's ne you will be in the fashion this year, and you will have a classic in three years' time.
"As for the Englishwoman's ilca of a clansie suit, made by her husband's tailor, with long, narrow sleeves, mannish revers, And a built-in waist--that
three years, but
Aften not years out of date."
the famous him star, Is a Scrumptious Scampi
girl who goes in for
In a big way,
SITUATIONS THAT EVERY
L3
WOMAN FEARS
SO
MUCH
MOST glamorous sight at an
"I live in them," she told me, A. elegant cocktali party. I' have a dozen twin sela, and saw, and one which made all
E dozen sweaters. Including a the men's mouths waver, was couple of the men's V-necked, not that Dlor dress. It was a long-sleeved kina
dish piled with sizzling fried
*I go for the soft but bright. colours-avocado, orchid, pink. And I always have them os plain as possible none of that · ·
y embroidery for evening Wear,
"When I dress up I use plenty ́of unnading Jewellery, usually in matching colourn. 'I try to ght away from the old singto raw of poara, R
Tortalta, who is a free-ison teodel in Paria, was wearing.
• BOOTS, bouls, boats, boots--marching up and down again. But this time the makers are taking the trouble to sako them brighter and better, There pastel-coloured booty
sre
from FIREon--yellow, bine,
· light grey, or Tim-with white soles and 16oxy lining. There are dulje boots In water-proofed suede with: wooden per fasteners, in black, red, and blue, and
the smartest and warmest. ones I have beenƐago the occlot - printed pony - skin. bonds in the picture. And for boot-haters there sen rain- proof overshoes" în' opaque plastic blue, red, Beige, ve black.
A NEW HAIRDO GIVES YOU SUCH A LIFT
THESDAY
YOU
In contrast, what can little. sit-at-home do?
Setting aside the usual house- hold sklila I'd like to see her make a LIST,
Hote's mine--not beeŠO
think it impressive, but because I bot most of you can better 鳃
1
I can: cut had, handle secrets, mix cement, plaster walls, deitver pups, entertain with
tear-outs, paper :
help butcher a pig, cook a Ave- course dater for 10, make fairly creditable suit of SETIAKLET, paper
+
to
The answer 19 a strong, resolute NO.
Pop-eyed
replace a bröken washer..
A giggle
At this stage, feeling pretty pleased with myself, "I tole phoned an acquaintance, who runs a big employment`agency;
It was one of these easy Utile "Can you suggest a job for a tea parties where womed waTTIREA
with these qualifica- really let their hair downtions?" And I man particularly about the ones who
aren't there.
"Darling."
character in
my list
through
said pap-eyed
She thought for moment: pink hat, she'd grata like a handyman in # |leave her busband like a shot. house for the delinquent But how could the existy Stu's children of ex-variety stars," only a wife and man. She can't said she with a little giggle. DO anything.
I made what I hope was B Business woment They'ro sympathetic face, "But, after 'INFURIATING.
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