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WHE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1958.
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WEEK-END
WOMANSENSE✰✰✰
Now Mr. Amies Creates A Gay New
Shape For Men
'I FORESEE IT'S CASUAL AND YOUTHFUL THE BACKGROUND MOVING FORWARD.
PICTURE BY ROY ROUND.
• Spring edat with all the new lines an easy oval shape, a wider neeküne, and s band and button at the hem. Because it's sher; it's not difficult to walk in. I've tried 1. Designed by Spectator Aporis, it costs 27 ans. Hat by Hugh Beresford. The man's edat belongs to Dr Amies. No, that's not him inside It. He was al Buckingham Palace discussing the Queen's clothes for her recent visit to Holland when the picture was taken.
R HARDY AMIES, the Queen's dressmaker, king Msuccessful couturier business, an equally, suc cessful off-the-peg business, and a plushy little Georgian house in Kensington is now adding to his empire. He is the first of the British Top Ten to design clothes for
men.
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"What's new?" I asked him return of Eastowe (his valet) ho when I called in to see him in demonstrated.
look right Kensington. "The shapo," said. It is a youthful he, but rurely you've notleed enough. In his natish black all the really well-dressed it bowler, his short triangular ore TOTALLY DIFFERENT overcoat and his long narrow SHAPE.
frousers, Mr Amics looked ab-, "That old double breasted surdly like the eternally young buttoned-up-and-down look has lover in Parisian Peynet's draw-
gonc.
"It couldn't be more dated
These 50 called 'best dressers' politicians mostly -with their long, sad over- coats, napping round their calves they're FINISHED,
"You must have noticed!" I explained that, to most women, men, sartorially speak- ing, are merely a backgrolind,
And as far as the shape of the background i concerned anything large, square, dark, and not too sharp at the carners will do splendidly.
The thin, angular type with splashes, of extrovert colour are. nover entirely satisfactory.
Mr
is
They tend to get into the foreground and compete. "Really," continued Amies hitching his faintly. drainpipe trousers at the kned and crossing one hand-made, shae over the other, "one terrified to tulk of anything revolutionary In men's wear.
"Immediately the publie seems to get the impression that It's either something out of the chorus from Traviata or a Spara Sult.
YOUNGER!
"Nothing could be further from the Truth..
"It's simply that every well- turned-cut man is now looking YOUNGER.
"It's the effect of the shorter, 'casual overcoat the roomy
slightly anck-shaped-jacket,... ană, of course, no braces. ›
-* "Einces are the most "nging |
bit of gadgetry ever,
"Just to wear them makes one feel old."
(He Tong the ball. "Enstowe my beaver-lined overcoat, please und the bluck and white check and the evening cont.)
"You must see for yourself what I mean"--and with the
A Colour Scheme Of Blue
And Yellow
IT WAS a blue and yellow colour scheme for the Queen recently. The blue, gold- edged ribbon of the Order of the Lion of the Nether, lands was set off by the magnificent dress by Hart": nell which Robb presents for you here.
Made of palest yellow satin a surprise colour for the Queen
its big
belled skirt was swathed
with ruched lace in pale bluc and yellow,
and sparkled with aquamarine and topaz. And swagged from the side ran a train of aky-blue satin that tucked under the hem in front and made, a stately trail be- hind.
Drawn by Robb
Ings:
But as a background? I'm not so certain,
Frozen out
ATE out in style last week. Lushed up by batteries of well-starched waiters, I owned several costly monis.
Course followed course that non-striking, Inbour-saving, able to move round his little avarything sounding too splenice-cold friend of every hotel shop since he imported a giant did for words in French,, Üreek, keeper - the DEEP FRECZE’ deep-freeze cabinet. or Italian--the walters extolling What worries me is that, if "Tastos liko cotton wool" the virtues of Crayfish we don't watch out, we are going - said I. Sybarite or Ecla á la Del Blugo to get to the fearful stato whete, with drardatio ́gestures.
willy silly, darn nearly every And everything tartod of salt, thing gota frozen-even when fresh-ground pepper. gurile, it's in season. sugar. or Kirsch.
Nothing takted of FOOD." Why?
salmon
My guess is that 'practically everything 1 ate, including the shrimps, the scampt, and the the pons, broccoli, baby sprouts, asparagus rasp berries, strawberrica, pineapple .... and so on (no, of course cently, I didn't mix all that at one alting) came straight
one.
SAUCE!
Then take a nice bottle of tomato ketchup too, dear,” sald he helpfully.
They tell me that's what they do in the States.
No wonder Randolph Chur- ' chill almost wept on TV when he recalled his lost 2016. —
nothing tastes of anyibing over there."
I say we are in danger losing bur palates,
At the moment most of the my home serve hotels round
few frozen abrouts -- and a hundred yards away the market gardens are full of fresh ones.
Iswanted fresh haddock re- We may well be in danger, DE Toxing 20lb. tôg -- and, - sorry "Fresh froze sald my Randolph, some of Us can't out of fishmonger, who is scarcely spare
Why Are Black
I've been longing to talk to To this end I found myself in a coffee bar in Chelsea, sharing a scat-the only vacant seat- with a virtuoso of the wash board. I hoped he might intro- duce me to some girls.
"Call me Frank," said he. "Tell me," arid I-Indicating the many black-stockinged-ones draged over the tables — "why so sad. Why the general air of mourning?"
What's they got to laugh at?" said Frank.
"Do they writer" old I, "More like can they wrlto," sald Frank.
cald
What do
they talk about?”
"What would we be talking about if you'd just put down that notebook and relax," said Frank.
I said I couldn't imagine,
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Chaps who charge around She wears a short black sucke ticking off everybody over 28 and long black stockings. and wriling off anyone ove: 30,
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WHAT A FUSS I CAUSED.......
Items I'm "win". .."emply headed" according to my readers,
"brainless"... "hilarioudy fanny" "outdated"...and "absolutely righi,"
Oh, what a storm blew up and around my ́ ears because I proposed less sport in giete' schools.
"Have you never played a good, fasi garao of hockey?" writes a reader from Eastleigh, Ilants. “And have you never known the happiness and 'satisfaction that comes from the knowledge of having ziven your best to something you love and enjoy doing?"
The answer to the flexi question is NO. -The answer to the second is YES-but i wasn't at hocker.
-VERONICA PAPWORTH.
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