THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1958.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
FOR AND AGAINST THE SACK'
From France
JACQUES Heim
Joined
the anti-sack line of the new Paria fashion scason with a young silhouette that made sophia- ticated mannequins look like the girl next door.
He re-shaped last season's sack into what, he called a "spoor-shaped" silhouette. It was loose and rounded at the back, softly moulded to the feminine form in the front.
Holm, Bice the other three designers who have shown in the first two days of the week-long spring season also gave plenty
of attention to the waist.
Hla youthful line also showed plenty of leg.
Helm's hams were 18 Inches from the ground. That went for both daytime dresses falling straight down from the hip and for bouffant evening skirts,
110 stuck to bloused and rounded shoulders to give A zaff-shaped silhouette.
He himself told visitors at the show, "the waist is the pivot the model takes
from which shape."
Heim's
Was tho youngest-
looking collection so far this
season,
wear that,"
H
"I wish I could sighed an elderly buyer as strapless cocktail dress in pale pink organdy floated pust.
It could have been worn by a
Sophistication and subtlety were not lacking in Helm's collection. But the overall effect was youthful,
Middy-blouse styles got a big play for daytime.
Helm bloused and belted the bucks of his dresses, softly pleated his young skirts to give movement to the line.
Bows placed either high above the waist or low below the hips gave form to dresses that otherwise would have been loose-fitting.
"Rue de Cendrier" a costume from SYMA in a small belge check design with a loose fitting jacket and at the back a martingale anchored with bultons,
ever-blouse that hung loose in the back, giving it a two-pieced effect.
Two-tiered oversitirts often helped to break an otherwise sight line and to give height.
Handsome nubby-wool coats featured low yokes and belts to give them Helm's "spoon shape." One Huc coat had a cleverly concealed self-belt that accen- One handsome black-and-feated the waist without hugging white checked wool had an it.
uy
From Italy Two Unique Houses To Be
THE sack is the thing for| THE
Bummer according to Italy's fashion designers, They did everything with the mack except making it
Seen At Olympia In March
countries auch as planned storage, cupboards and
Canada the United there is a stainless steel sink.
The refrigerator can be run
and the cobiter' can
in burlap in the Florence TN previews of spring and summer fashion recently.
States and others where Sacks, shaped like rockets, houses are constructed of on parafin firecrackers, Japanese lanterns, light material it is not un- operate ou portable gas tanks The bed-sling room is A and laundry usual to see a home being triumph of curialna
organisation over bags will be everywhere under moved from one site to an- lack of space. It contains two the sun it Italy's fashion dicta-
other, even from one part curved sents set against the wall of a big town to another.
shower
But the time has now come when it will be possible to buy a nice little plot of land almost
end during the day à tablo can. be lowered across them for meals or writing.
with a
HOLLYVOGUE TIE and this Valentine's Day!
T
tors have their way. Walsts, like victorian ankles, are rarely men- tioned and never seen. Even i playclothes, the loose chemise line is much more 1950 than
The Uny bathroom has classic shirts and shorts, Knees, for a decade exiled to a fashion anywhere, ring up the builders bath, shower, washbasin Siberis come back with a bang, and ask them to be so kind as other essentials. Germans who ts a week+05%% Italy hoists the hemline 10 and gently, of course,
to drop the buy the house 17-inches off the floor. The house on the chosen spot with retreat pay about 2428 for it favourite short sack may leave the kitchen window pointing to without any furnishing. most of the body to the im- the north. agination, but it really shows off legs.
Italy likes its sacks Bouncy, flowery and femining-colours, hothouse prints and airy fabrics banish the sad-sack look.
Simonetta varles the chemise silhouette with bouffant sacks, ruffled at the hemline, in my printed silks.
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The term "drop" is used be- cause the house would be flown to the site by helicopter and de posited almost as tenderly as a guil might sot its egg on some choson ledge.
The particular house which could be ordered in this manner is "The Round. House" and it
Another creation of this ver- builder which salile German will also be seen at Olymple is This is "The Root House" simply a high sloping roof built onto a foundation on the ground. In the space created by the angle of the root are three bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen-dining room and a bathroom.
for
will be seen for the first time This house is designed in England, at the Jubilee Daily young couples with little capital permli Mall Ideal Home Exhibition who, as soon as funda
and a demand for moro space when it opens at Olympia 00
arises, may build 11 ground Capucci
uses curtain-like March 3.
and floor, hoist the joot up drapes that give a briet glimpse
The house is the invention of place it on this structure. The of a concealed waistline:
Dr Johann Ludovici whose fac roof is easy to holst as it can Fabiani shows straight-from-try is in the German village of be taken apart in six sections. the-shoulder sacks, but with a Jockgrim-Pfalz in the lovely At Olympia it has been arranged wine country near Karlsrubo, to show the roof section being "Marilyn Monroe" at over the
Its creation was inspired by a ralsed, and lowered on to the hipline.
High crowned hats and knee-request from the Belgian Gov- ground floor by means of a hoist.
emment which said: "We want length necklaces accentuate the house suitable for workers in
"The Root House" has many "long leg" silhouette that domin the remote regions of the Bet- Ingenious features in its furnish ates Italy's high fashion collegian Congo. It must be small, ings. For instance, it has a sild- can be moved Sunshine colours and reveal-but it must provide the essential ing table which
right through
trum the hatch ing hemlines are the trend for comforts of a home."
klichen to dining room, so that The house is made in the form the table çan be completely BOL of a globe, and it is sợ light and in the kitchen and rolled into buoyant, that if a helicopter is the dining room to serve as a not available and it a waterway dinner table, and rolled back is, it can be towed up a river on when a meal is finished,
tlons.
*and Waistlines moved down depending on the dress. One harem-skirted black crepe evening gown was droped dramatically above the waist. evening.
So were many of the elegont Fringed charleston sacks and empire-line cocktail gowns in sequined tunles replace long ball taffeta, pearl-encrusted tulle and gowns. luce. All had voluminous skirts.
Enriler, Jean Patou, too, struck a heavy blow against the saclc.
For the beach Italy rebels
cent seasons. Capri Bikinis and two-piece swimsuits are staging a comeback for 1958.
against the demure look of
a raft. The kitchen in this There are two bungalows and house has every convenience you five other houses to the Village would find in 's town flat. The at this Golden Jubilee Daily walls ore covered with well- Mail Ideal Home Exhibition,
February 14th.
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THE WOMAN
WE'D LIKE TO BECOME
all - women
panel
Tected Lady Templer unanimously as the Woman We'd Most Like to Become. She is courageous, gay. with polse, strength of character and amazing gentleness.
"Great charm, always, gentle and unassuming.' said Mrs Beryl Moudling, who made the original nomination.
"A woman who stays young
in heart," was Madge Garland's Cornerit.
Amanda Marshall admired her polae and tolerance. "Life will never embitter her."
My admiration tox this alender, Key-haired soldier's wife with frank hazel eyes js for the way she carries out her public duties with poise and humanity.
The courage
When her husband Sir Gerald Templer was appointed High Commissioner to Malaya, after bis predecessor had been mur-
dered before his wife's eyes by bandits, she accepted her new job with enthusinam. And hod the courage to take her children with her.
"A soldier's wife is always ready to go with her husband," she said "I am pretty fearless as far as bandits are concerned."
She toured with her husband' all over the country, even in the most dangerous areas, Sha learned to speak Malay Huently. I remember the story of a car crash on a jungle road and Lady Templer kneeling in the doat to give first aid to a Bri- tlab soldier with 2. broken .collar-bone, * -
was that kind of gesture thất did so much to raise the troops' morale. One soldier who witressed the scene said after- warda; “It was great to see her kneeling on the road helping one of our lads.""
Slipped disc
Another story that illustrates
he ability to kise above the
altuation was when kho stipped
'a disc in każ“neck as a result
of a car gecident and found many public
Lady Templer sølth" "har son "Milos.
engagements London and cheerfully went don't ask me if it's comfortable fietselt encargă în: plaster with scheduled and fulfilled them looking for a dent-coloured at or I'll my it's the arme of coal-
all. She flew to Cassino for a to match her plaster cast,
ness like hell" *
a chin-rest.
Aa wife of the Chief of the memorial dedicàilan and opened. "I's the latest thing. Imperial Cronmenă), Emer the bad a Krition Soldiers enimmon, in- lines," 'sho ́ ́ explained.
JLEEN ASCROFT
NOW IT'S FLORAL FOOTWEAR
By VERONICA
PAPWORTH
CHOE NEWS is of flower-
printed footwear, worn now for late day and even- ing with plain, dark dresses.
I forecast that the smart. thing will be to pick a clear, bright colour for your spring suit with flower- patterned shoes and, maybe, matching gloves OR hand-
bag.
Note the alternative.
Two matching accessories can they put their toys at the top look no but three flowered
pieces will look "bitty,"
of the packet?
Edward Rayne, the Queen's I swear I've doubled my order shoemaker, is showing some of since this scheme started.
the prettiest shoes in vivid
The latest piece of child-
Comal, rose, er seo-green prints appeal comes from, the sticking-
Heels are not loweringly high, plaster merchants.
Apparently. It is not but slender. The long pointed
enough
too is still ""with narrow that every wounded hero de- crossbars and T-straps vying mands a plaster, no matter how
Blight
Today's for popularity
sticking plasters are decorated
στην
with penguins, elephants, and zebras on coloured grounds.
"My elephants have gone all ARRIVED home to find my ragged-may I have some zebras three-year-old gazing Intent now?"
ly into gin battle-filled with water,
Press on the cork and down went the diver.. Relax, and up, he bobbed again. You're right the diver was one of those give
from → corullakes
away toyn
I can see us renewing them twice as often.
And perhaps this is only the beginning, Shall we see trinkets at the bottoms of the muamuslade jax... hidden treasure in our long, detergent packeta long faly stories on our toilet roll? :
Have a heart, chaps, have u
box.
*Now Pyp, no quarrel with the cereals men. But why don'k haari.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Foura Utile vinegar into a sure the weave is close and the pan in which you'va cooked, fish pile loops fairly close together to remove the odour.
and not tiefilly" twisted.
Towels should be sturdy enough so that you can draw To remove olk and grouan” them back and forth across your drom leather, dab the shoulders and thick enough so spots with spirits of ammonia, you have something substantial Allow this to remain on for 4. 12. ORD.
short time, then woah with clean
water. If necessary, Tepeek the Woahs gloves, before, they be-
proce
into
Be careful, however, not to come too sadlech, qursing them injure the colour of the leathers suntly through lukewap soap- theros Blot Krpartners on a mall, kane made. Eine
are before doing the shape and phos ham fat to Trested property, takuria gloves Where buying, torals... hold will kilo them up to the light to ja mako
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