· THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1857.
WOMANSENSE
WEEK-END Oh, what a man's coat does for Sophia.
WE
WELL, here are the IT MAKES HER LOOK MORE
facts, chaps - and
Yon't say I didn't warn you. A monstrous regiment of womon is falling upon the men's wear departments this autumn and buying up
almost anything it can lay its hands on.
Sweaters, car coats, rain- coate and overcoats
they
love 'em.
Now there's not slightest doubt that
the the all wiseneres could rend sorta of fearful implica- tlons into this.
FEMININE THAN EVER'
by VERONICA PAPWORTH
Me? I just think it's no more und than n bit of fun,
It's certainly a FACT.
Sophia Loren awept koto Aquascutum tralling clouds of Elorious young men--and what did the order?"
Four exact copies of four
Suppoxe we consulted vents natty overcoats. you-know-who.
A matriarchy "I'M not at ali aurprised," he'd tell us between pinches of suff. "In fact. I've been predicting it for
m
She fell for the shori, sporting one the ones that Bo with hairy bowler and a horsey sult, She ordered them in black, camel hair and efter brown, grey-and-black check.
Wise to the fact that tho women were treading a path to the men's department in search some time. It presages of a certain short, sporty rain- the upsurge of the domin- coat. Aquascutum had I copied ant female, y'know...could for them, well be the begining of a matriarchy,
"Take tles-one hundred yerfs ago 1 was the puffed-up Cravat -today it's a shoe-string.
Sophia bought one, too. "How did she look in these revere styles?" 1 asked one young man.
•
"Dream," he told me."Sort of protectable. More feminine "What deflation, what a than ever, really," downfall."
I guess that girl would look
Or there's thingamyjlg—“jusi feminine and protectable in a
as I expected," she'd Bay straightening her hardy peren- nial hat. "Merely the swing of the pendulum away from all that in frivolous and unnecessary. Woman are taking their rightful place in the 20th century-and they cannot do it in frilla.”
Sure-that's what they'd tell
you
barrel and a pair of football boots]
Little Tamba
L
TVE been checking up on the
"Ittle lambs in men's clothing" story.
"Nothing surprising about 11," sald Lewis Aronson who designs
SIX TO ONE ON
THE MALES
By Sarah Rothschild
WHAT are the problems
of a girl going up to Oxford University today?
Not so different, it seems, from those of Princcas Frides- who, according wide,
to the legend, Was pursued arross Christchurch Meadows by an ardent admirer in 700 A.D. (He was struck bind. founded Oxford on the fateful spot, and later became a saint.)
Stark statistic
She
For today the slark statistle remains: for every one girl undergraduate there are six
mate undergraduales. And how
Anne has lunch with her brother Potor,
manufactures a
soppy range of masculine sportswear.
"Men's clothes ore tailored with wide shoulders, semi-fitted waist and sleek hip-and that fashionable happens to be the
this, season, shape for women
Take my suede cloth jacket for
instance. First person to дес
the prototype was a model girl -Maryon Simms, She ordered one et ance. Then there's X" naming E singularly Blinky fashion editress"she went off to Italy with a trank-full of my casuals last summer. Sald they were a RIOT.""
She came back looking like a cat that's swallowed a canary, She'd scored a success all right,
The car coat
V-necked "IT'S our man's
pullover that most women are buying," they told me at
"Dur Jaegers.
car coats, too, Frenchwomen are particularly keen on them."
coat
on
Bophia Loren wears her four men's coats -- in black, white rainproof cotton, camat hair and
checked saxony,.
Lanvin model girl and once with Bergman inside it.
They've a new version, just out-black, with a nylon fur coliar and a crimson satin lining. It's smashing-but it's not quite in the spirit of the thing. Too grand by far.
Enemi
the
I can't help feeling that
has set this fashion. Sooner or later so many of to day's heroinen get themselves into
raincont a sad-looking several sizes too big, or swamp their curves in a pair of men's pyjamas.
It's the little-girl-lost-in-a- groot-big-wrapping look--that's what it is. And I don't think that goes with a fur collar and a red satin lining.
Or does it, girls?
I've met the Jaeger car
YOU are the customers-you twice in Paris - once n must be right.
Here are two items from the men's de- partment that look well on women (above) a suede eloth ansual coat, (right) black jacket with nylon fur collar and
red satin fining.
IS A NEW SORT OF
IF
BEAUTY ON THE WAY IN?
By AMANDA MARSHALL
your nose is proudly aquiline instead of Grace Kelly-snub, your mouth narrow instead of Marilyn Monroe-ajar, and your hair uncompromisingly curly instead of straight-with-a-hint-of-wave, do not despair. Your turn may be coming next,
is
For one of the world's great consolations for women that there is absolutely no absolute for beauty. What In the last word in perfect looks for one generation is more often than not the first word. in frumpishness for the next.
Under Elizabeth Tudor, faclel formula has remained the thing was to have red more or less the same. hair for obvious reasons. I have a strong feeling that Under Victoria. desirable the wheel is just about to turn assets were small, plump, again, and that in consequence the darling Ugly Ducklings non-utilitarian hands, hock won't be with 11a for much bottle shoulders and a sort lenger on a yardstick of female of meek wax-doll pretti- beauty.
ness.
It's always nice to have to adopt herself to that extra- she does not come fresh from
p fashionable face, but ordinary situation is a question the isolated hockey plich of
there is always the chance which faces every 18-year-old some English girls school.
the She has travelled Her father that
fushion will leaving the chalky vigilance of
newspaper.
If they also happen to be good actrees, they will undoubtedly survive, but as ladies of talent rather than as cute examples of The Fashionable Face.
"The type was not, after all the schoolroom_for the airy is in the diplomatic service in change and leave you as actually invented by the post- cloisters of Oxford.
Rio de Janeiro. She has worked elegantly marooned us, say, war ger mation. It was more or I watched a new satellite as an errand girl on & Washing Lady Sylvia Ashley, whose leas inaugurated around 1012 by
She studied arrive in the masculine, orbit of ton
a litle Algerian setress with n Oxford University. Not as ex Contemporary Sovist Literature features and floppy blonde vast mouth called Polaire, who, plosive as Zulella Dobson. Not at Columbia University in New bob are indelibly stamped bobbed her frizzy hair short and as blinding as Frideswide. But York.
"1980's."
claimed to be the ugliest women Anne Summerscale, dark and
in the world, thus causing cries dynamic, shone like a friendly
of passionate
Bil round.
At
Oxford. she will
read
little Blip on the platform of Modern Languages: Russina and
Oxford slation,
A dress vonzó
brother.
German. "Russian reems-a use-
ful thing to know these days,"
said the wide-eyed girl from the wide open spaces.
The Face
With the shattering àd- vent of Garbo, women with
*
admiration
Kay
Kendall
or
of Arlene Dahl and manner
Jace Elizabeth Taylor, with a
or that can't be called pretty
any of those interesting.
of give-the-girl-a-break words dispiriting encouragement. Only plain beautiful, without need of trimmings or excuses.
And there are others on the way. When the Diary of Anne Frank was produced in London, Anne was admirably played by the touching little Pelita Nid
may one day be a son, who
never great actress but would lay claims to being a great beauty.
In Paris, the role has been given to a new young, black-
haired, sloe-eyed actress called Pascale Audret, who is eighteen years old and has the pure, per and the calm, ject features serene poise of a great beauty who is taking no trouble to dis- guise the fact.
And if the arrival in films of Suzy Parker, the copper-beaded girl who has been on the cover of about every magazine that has Short Fringe
a cover to put a girl on, docso't do anything to establish the knock-out beauty, nothing will
And Anita Loay had the same
Anne was lucky, There to One of the first problems prominent Incial bones, meet her was a tall and hand- which besets a now girl under strong few-lines and page sort of idea in the 20's, when home young man, Peter, her graduate is the sheaf of clubs
and societies which JA put boy hair came romping into she gave herself a short boot- The face of the black fange and wore the sort Anne has other advantages under the door of her room on their own.
with of clothes commonly stocked in besides a protective brother, the first day of term. Which to time became stark,
the schoolgirl department, заув Аппа, choose? "I think," Bhe has a dress sense. There was no hinh c a gym tunic "that I would like to join a eye-lashes like railings and about her neat black cult. She political club."
has talent; she plays the violin and guitar. But these advani- ages may impede her academic,
No feminist
But unlike so many girl under- gradusies Anne is not Ga
vast hooded "vyes --the I predict a long-overdue re- Katharine Hepburn face, turn to the classic raving-beauty the Joan Crawford face, type of face, with delicate, well- proportioned Teatures--the sort and most of all the Garbo of face that would be perfectly face.
gt home under a flare.
if dynamic, course through Ox- ford.
Anne is full of good resolu- ardent feminist. She does not Since the war The Face tions. Will she stick to them? boll. with indignation that
the
(The
Miss Parker has just finished -lm with Cary Grant, and has two more lined up with Spencer Trudy and Gregory Peck. The atud o overlordă must fool that there is something here to be
reckoned with.
A remark
most you could have popped op It's the long-awaited re-birth top of a Ugly Duckling urchin of the sort of woman described cut, would have been a Dayy in a remark made once by Crockett hat, a sailor straw, or Waller de la Mare that I rend
90
No blue stocking, Anng itas a inen have exclusively musculine has been that of the Pretty carefully planned schedule of clubs. "I think they should have Uglies, the wide-mouthed, one of those peaked caps first in a just-published books of his work. "Actually," she said, "I somewhere to escape from
*Bhe was blob-nosed, urchins that look sparted by Jackle Coogan in The conversations: work best from 19 at night tl from time to time," alie' says.
beautiful that, it was vinbarrnsu- two in the morning" But this She sat in the window play-a bit like ragamuffins and a Kid.)
Ing her guitar. At her feet sat bit like dear little friendly
It'll be the sort of face that ing to look of her." a heap of Koggling under- pug-dega,
will be given an enormous boost It's about time she came our graduates. A picture of that
by the rediscovery of Kay Ken--way again. which makes or tars a girl Miss Kendall is a sort of dall once the musical film Les
called Leslie Curon, Jill Bennet, Girls hits town. undergraduate's career,
Elizabeth Boal Heather Bears,
may not be so practicable if the than to attend ning o'clock acctures in the morning. Nor if she is out every night till the 10.45 curtow.
Anne's strange working hours: may be explained by her back ground Unlike some now giria
But I'm quite sure that Anne, academically or otherwise,
a ́6-1 chance of miccom,
hos
And if anyone would likh to start a grovtval of stunningly
Elm Martinolli, and, of course, Miss Kendall is á 1023 OE PABUsival znam to maki)rd 20.. Audrey Hepburn, but the baste, unabashed knock-out in the the last to complain,
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