THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1957.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
I CAN'T FIND 15 TOP MODELS
IN ENGLAND
-SAYS PHOTOGRAPHER JOHN FRENCH
AND HAS TO MAKE DO WITH SEVEN
THERE'S likely to be a lot of sour looka bandied around THE
Mayfair in the New Year, for January sees the publication of a rather special kind of Who's Who
It is International Model - a directory of top-flight girls in all capitals.
Photographer John French was asked to make an English selection. "They wanted me to pick the top fifteen but, believe me I could only give them seven. Of these a more three have that special quality."
But surely the town is teem- loves the average English glel's ing with talent," said 1.
"My dear,” sighed Mr French. "I despair of Unding say new ant good madels Elther they're ravishingly pretty down to the walt with no logs to speak of, or they're all eyes and legs and positively nothing else.
"In America they sext to come all of a picco with slight variations. But not in Britain, dear-not in Britain,
drces.
"It's the buyers," sake! the manufacturers. They won't try anything different."
I've just met the director of n big children's-wear Itetory who has taken the matter into lus own hands. He's opened a shop to prove he knows what t publie wants.
"I couldn't sell Jow-necked party frocks," he told *THEY sald the kiddies' veots
"And, oh, for girls that are would show.
pitable.
"I sometimes think they are made in three parta, like shop" window dummies tic body ""I alots on to the hips and legs and the arms screw in as needed,"
Who are the seven be has selected?
he.
"It's a deathly secret," saya
I can't help After all this thinking that, for the moment, It had better, be,
GUINEA PIG SHOP THIS is the story I've waited
a long time to write and I never thought it would happen, It's the story of # "guinen pig" shop.
SHOCKING
me.
COULDN'T sell straight, pleated skirts-THEY said pleats wouldn't [O tummy.
over
#
Well, after all, it was Chelses, ills in a big, curlo-filled studio, with a budgerigar tying loove, a rearing old stove and a comfort able, alightly collapsed-looking sofa.
Paintings of model girls and
actresses Burrounded us.
and hair like a shampoo ati.) I say, 'Nip round to X Hơi n friend of mine and a very good photographer.
"He'll get a lovely coloured likeness.
"What I'm after is the less obvious side of a woman.
"Intellectuals can look sensual -earths women can look spiritual. The hidden seif is so often the true onc."
I cannot conceive of any senti- ment more likely to appeal to women-since so many of them scem to spend the greater part. of their lives being misunder- stood.
"What," I asked, "La the secret of successful portrait painting" for Mr Cammell, Judging by the formidable list of his Bitters is indeed successful.
"A portrait," sold he, "must, first of all, be worth £300 na n picture. It must be able to stand on its own merit long after the sitter is forgotten.
EICHT SITTINGS
"I never say 'make yourself
HERE'S a bright idea for the
small try: Sally Pigtails THE design is so important. dress with a different coloured "THE button-on bib for each day of the week. It Is non-Iron and cosia 4bs, including the bibu,
Then there is the kind coat that Granny can't resist and children's an everyone in the dress trade will tell you, Am
Grenny who buys the babies prettiest clothes.
A
It is a little red velvet model with
white fur lining by Minnimode--so cute and yet so practical too.
It's washable the velvet and fur fabric have been dry-all
"I couldn't sell junior bikinis -THEY said they were shock- ing."
treated, So all these things and many more he's tried out in his shop Arst. They've sold like hot cakes,
Now he's left with a different problem on his hands.
He's got to
It'll cost you a fiver, Granny dear-but, bless her litle heart, she will look aweet in it, won't she?
convince these H4++++
buyers anything I can do you
200
do better."
The trouble is it's not always popular-proving one is HIGHT. "He treats beautiful young women the way Graham "Why can't I find snappy, Sutherland treats elderly men," Inexpensive clothes for early sold teenagers"-for years I've had grumbles froin friends and readers. "They're dowdy... bitty...
bunchy"...
my favourite art erille which sounded interesting.
So I made a dato with the artist, Donald Cammella date nobody for breakfast at 12.45,
||
“Models," J querled, "surely the photographers have 'done' them from all angles."
"Photographically" said Mr Cammell, "But that's not what I'm afier."
"If a woman comes to me and wants - fashionable portrait (you know, in the Annigoul manner-dress done to the last milich, highlights on the jewels
Look What They're Doing
To
The Shirt Dress!
By HAZEL MEYRICK
wool
OMETHING 18
They've lowered the neckline, made it in rose-printed hap Sening to
fine that you can the shirt and widened, the collar inte a chiffon, so
shape, or taken it practically sec through, and dress. It's been a basic in near cape
altogether and softened for evening, Harrockses have Away everyone's clothes-closet for the neckline with a tie bow. really gone to town. They've years, but this season They've changed the skirt out made a floor-length shirt dress Heylyte prettied it up by of all recognition, and added a in gleaming oyster eatin which as blouse and skirt go cummerbund instead of a belt is cut sewing baby-lace down the at the waistline for the shirt that you can Wear thom front to give it a 'cisay' dress is definitely going places. separately. With the neckline look. And now, from the Frederick Starke is making pearls and glistening beade, that alled in with strings of river collections I've seen to date, up shirt-waisters in Swise shirt dress could go anywhere. they're busy giving it an handkerchief cotton, Polly Peck entirely new slant that has made one up in white volle with a hand-tucked bodice and spelis 1958.
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Two ideas, one from London and one from Poris, for livening up a plain black cocktail dress:
comfortable." I
the shipe pattern of a pose and make my subject At into it.
MY DRESS
of
THE WEEK
`SUNA'S CHOICE
els one fashion artist to another, I commend the choice of Miss
Siria Portman-My Dress of the Weck,
Art, and a passion for fashion-that's just about all we have in common, for Suna is heiress to £4,000,000-and Suno is just 17 years old. The dress, in a tangerine-coloured fabric with a surface like fine aljoca, was the hit of Frank Usher's shiv.
After eight sittings Suson Small's daughter had to go into the London Clinic with Д slipped disc. She said it wrer my loalbut the portrait was
+ success,
.
"And one must probe--one must peer. It's a fact that if you stare long coough anyone looks a triđe odd.
"It's the odances that Is important."
I've been staring hard at my friends ever since and, I must soy, I
OLDER never saw an collection.
-(London Express Service).
Usher has given Suna her first job_as_fashion artist—"} think she is exceptionally good.“
Of the dress she told me: "It's so dignified and such a change from all those terrifically bare tops. Our could go on wearing it for years—it's almost dateless." They ore making it in while, too - as a wedding dress. No, not for Suna. "But when and if I do get married I'll still "I've been drawing go on with my work," she told me.
all my life. It seems that nothing can stop me.” The dress, a Dior copy, will be on sale, in several brilliant
colours, price £24 35.
IS YOUR BOSS A BORE?
E
If so, cut out this article and leave it on his desk
VERY year,
by EILEEN ASCROFT
дож not as intimate us ngurte, Ang to be kind and say "good- etiquette books advise Remember it's up for inspection bye," women what to do and not
to do.. And never a word on manners for men, who need the advice far more than we do.
in the ladies' room!.
you
· your girl friend DON'T ring the lovely dri mat last night and "Guess what" It's Now at last an etiquette ray, guide for men has been unfair. If che's that beautiful, other men will probably be published in America, and I doing the same. have sent off an urgent requesting an telegram English edition.
Here are a few titbits from its 456 pages on how to charm and influence the in a man's life his secre- two most important women
tary and the woman who takes over after business hours.
Somo bosses don't need
As a change from the inevitable good advice. But if your rows of pearls, try a giant boss is an office bore, here pussy-cat, bow of pale slik-1 is a guide for him that you saw a model girl wearing ono
can cut out and leave on at a cocktail party in London
other day you probably his desk: already own a silk scarf that would do the trick.
the
From Paris comes a new way to use a white silk stole to jazz
up a perfectly plain black cock fell dress wear the stole tied
And
How to treat your secretary
you find her pretty and want to tell her so, for heaven's sake do it OUT of working hours, for both with your sakes.
like a muffler in front, drapo the two fringed ends down your back, catching them
at the waistline rhinestone-clip.
in
·Fashion goes to the feet this
If you ask, har to come out with you, do make it clear what you plan, so she'll know whether to turn up in a little silk dress or full regalla.
If she's very special and you
ask her the colour of her dress want to send a spray of flowers, or give the girl a get-out: "For your driss or dressing-table."
She would like to meet you before you've had the first drink of the evening and she likes to be called for and re-
turned hoTDC.
Make the first advances, by all means, and kiss her good- night. If she wants to reponit, she will. But she won't ap preciate struggle on her doorstop.
If she's "busy" three times when you phone, give the girl a break and realise she's try
and your wife
Do not let her down by turo..
in
ing up to a cocktail party aweater and crumpled collar when she's changed into a pretty frock. Wear a dork suit and take a clean shirt to the office.
Why wait to be enggod Into a baircut?
When in company you never reprimand her or quarrel, how- ever parvoking she may be. What you do in privato in your own affair. And when meeting in public, for Pete's sake take off your hat when you kiss her.
Telephons first
you don't make appointments
for both of you without con sulting her and you don't bring homo unexpected guests for dinner, unless you telephono first.
She won't appreciate being referred to as The Missus, The Little Woran, ur My Ball and Chain. Don't shout for her all over the house, go and find her if you want to, say something; and dout af: her to fetch and carry for you "while you're up."
AND NOW THE PARTY BORE
has recently band who wants to talk about
nothing but pigs.
She has a name, so why TE Queen
solved a problem that
weck-with an idea worn by a not use it? Being referred bothers every hostess-how to
model girl at a dress How
she'd
or dinner
1
.or
Is it not time we scrapped clipped two small glit to as "My girl" or "My dont with the dull end of thes
the old-fashioned seating ur- bells onto the back of her shoes,young woman" is bad for table at a luncheon
at dinner rangcodents and they tinkled as she walked. hor morale. And she party. Other Ideas for dressing up doesn't want to be lent to
funcheon and put people next I was most interarted to sea to one another who really want shoes Include minute poales
several husbands anki to mool? So that if they want flowers miniature someone for the afternoon that
wives have been invlied singly to talk poultry, fashion ar orchida, roses and lies of the without being formally to her recent "moet the people polities, they can get on with valley, or whatever is in season, asked. It makes her feel informal lunches,
it and not have to dieeditreo on wired on to an ordinary paper
sling or washing machined? ellp and slid onto the throat of like office furniture,
of fresh
your shoe
*
*
She's hired as a secretary and if you secretly plan to people
than over tise her as a social secro- prefer to spend their money on tary, shopper, nursemaid
"More
me.
breaking
right away from the tradition of making married couples to- gother....
If wa ocult culy do this at our dinner partie, how much of them would right one
a good pair of plate court and personal book-keeper, be. shoes," one shoe designer told
you should warn her while "They usually stick black suede, than drees them she still has the chance to
soIDD way for evening say "NO, S
up in wear
If you lack the courage to be na drastic on the Queen, hero are a few simple solutions to mis oliver end of the fabio" problem.
4
Ecrep the old dining table You know the old problem. and substitute a round table, so Your himband and shine the conversation is gonardil. Ang man to dinnw, but does ha
"what many" :munart have a chance to talk to him? Oh no. He has to sat on the hosts are doing: sorve bootc/o right and, if his wife wave-yourself supper party so furne, put to be à-bore, the
that guests can went staterarna vred
It can happen Host in in for a dill eviding me they like at maali: Sables
I've seen earrings clipped on If working for your wife to the front of our shot with as well on the alde is in great success. The best kind to upo are dangling pendants of cluded, she'd like to know pearls or gilt bocas they about that, too, in advance. and awtention to your A Chiristean present to your quity in oljer way, mami poffedince
draw
-perties. I feet. Let's hope yours are mouratury, is a Múky. It should within (gwelland minttilating am onering a dve quinoa, prise ba personal," not "bustrumi," but "Radi who-prodibes a 'duh zuis-
goodfa
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