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SUEY'RE
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
VERONICA PAPWORTH'S
Meet a woman as thrilling...
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AS THE KISS OF SPRING
ander starter's line-up orders now-the
"posзlbies" of spring salt begins on the far left. This one is inspired by Givenchy,
wool with a ' and is in ne
white pique "clip" inside the low-buttoned jacket. (Koupy. 13% ko%)
(2) A wickedly smart and shappy little suit for a giri with a boyish look. int navy
a soft-spoken scarlet..crushed ice cool.
for lips and matching fingertips
and while houndstooth check it has a wide (detachable) white collar and a navy bow tie, (Crayson, 141⁄2 gns.)
(3) "Indispensable” to some women- dreas and Jacket of -
Revlon's
Red
aviar
What a feast for the wycs .... “No wonder fashion la serving it witis: a *Red Caviar Not a blua real, noi a', layleh hand-it'à'so becoming. Order true red, but an utterly now red. A. this insenly hors d'oeuvre today."
park if you're dark, a farcifyou'relais. (fis alinout sinfully rich tinting!)
PRED CÁVIAR
· Enomið úti Fenoted Mai Karnat
dark grey flannel. The dress has a lowish curved neckline.
(Busan Small, 22 gua)
faintly curly (4) Soft and surfaerd woollen is used for a suit that couldn't be simpler-
++
-or-smarter.--(Frederick-Starke,
24340)
(5) The "tato”—a back- -buttoning top--first shown by St Laurent at Dlor--looks like becoming a favourite. It is shown with its matching flare. pleated skirt. (Susan Small, 19 )
(6) The oval other spring.
Jack&l=kX- success-in
4.
KAVY
- crammy-bonelo--worn with .......
akirt समान
tle. MAVE (Arthur Bankı, 29 gaL)
(7) Probably the "esalest? off the no-ap-this honey». comb, worsted walt in light bright xavy in double-breasted with golden buttons, (Crayson,
35 gun)
All the hatsthey're ↑ Inex-" pensive-are by Blitzi Lorenz.
SHE'S LEGGY,
TUBULAR
AND SO NEW
Think of Brigitte Bardot at St Trinian's ......and you'll be on the right lines
THIS
is the time of the year when every woman who is truly woman takes a swift look at her- self and cries: “"Oh, to be naked with a cheque book in my hand and an enormous balance in the bank" or words to that effect.
This is the time, when bondres hasn't- will be as dead as blaze in every woman's mind- yesterday's cold mutton before bonfires heaped high with all the season is half over it it has the winter' woollies, to say. waist. nothing of the "nvestments," the "Impulse buys,” and the fearful fashion mistakes of yesteryent.
The rules Wouldn't it be bits to scrap the lot and start afresh!
So much for day-dreaming, Now for a sharp set of rules to gel you over the tricky business
Think very
carefully about your shape befors you pick the shape of suži you intend to look for.
If you are small and in pro- portion you be wide, pleated or a tropeze skirt. It you are merely short in the leg you can'
There's a world of difference between pelite" and, frankly,
of buying clothes at a time stocky,"
when This Year's Woman Is., If you are tall, with u. figuro like Audrey Hepburn (or undeniably, a very differont cup
of coffee
year's.
Indeed from last almost) consider the curved facket and rounded skirt we
Waistless, short-skirted, wide show you today. eyed and sailor-hatted, she is Brigitte Bardot at St Trinlan's personified.
Easiest
She is not, positively NOT, - It couldn't be more avant, period piece from the twenties. garde, Givenchy' inspired -- She is tabular, abgular, and and he designs for Hepburn. Iggy--but exciting. Once You I think the easiest of all lines Is the double-breasted, widow Here's how you go about collared juliet with a slim, Right Dressing. This week, we straight skirt, are concentrating on suits.
It seems to mult any woman. (We've photographed a couple
'per ured to heri
You MUST shirten" your of beauties.) skirta. It doesn't matter
by how much,
You can have second thoughts “
•
Tho`nexrest you, valo rót
to an "all-purpose" suit is
and take up another couple of.. in blæser fickal and pisin inches later. The main thing in aktet in · dark - grey that already longer skirt looks flammet er navy wool, like something out of a history. Both colours look book.
spcally, with 1Batlleh shoes and
worsted
faintly
If you're stuck with lazy thin sweaters, year's Bult shorten the jacket Both look equally good with a top. Bring it right up to hip-slike-serbibuse and high-hools bono level if you can and cut in town.
Hic
sleeves to three-quakter
length.
Want something newer? Then consider "string"" ns. a colour.
„The balzuca.will bà infinitely a ko neutral, it seems to "go" betler 'that way.
[
• Your new mili maak net,
anywhere.
Wonderful with a vivid red hat and pale kid accessories, it repet NOT, have also teams up with all the coller waisted jacket,
browns for the country. Now it's no good fuming, that waisticas jackets have never sufted you and that you don' give a snap of the fingers fur any of the fashion dictators.
If your suit has got to last- and show me the good suit that
Uhoose Asimple/hak Nothing is more futay and less smart than some-
thing smothered with flowers o
veiling. · Especially - after it's bren around a while.
You adore them? Right, ther let yourself go just once if you'vu a, wedding coming up."
But the kind of hat to buy for most days is deep-crowned, round-brimmed chip straw, or a soft, stitched stientuung, "casual" or a Breton" sallor, *- (Béo our plotures()
Any new blouse, you buy › must be "sa"overflosso, Blouses just don't" tuck inside skirts any more...
They can be ihortish-no more then aceiakochams: Jelow the waist as with the "ylalto” 'chez Dlor. Or they can come to within a couple of inches of your facket hem, clinging to your hips "like" the paper on the wall,
Wear dark scontatrics ta -thatók your sult, Touches of white can Joal dread- fully megay
A while silk jumper with a dak suit is. ine-or pair of good white gloves. Birk that la enough."
Occasionally 1 have som absolutely plain whke pumps-lookirig elegant, but in general I would say that a dark handbag and shoor Book" in- finitely smarter.
Above all, experiment. no, not with" žibpulaive "purchases," "but, by trying on all the now shapes and seeing yourself in a full-length looking glass at a 'distarice,
Insist on it:
One thing you must promiso Never, buy anything in a tiny ting room,,and,
me:
Get out into the shop and walle tip" and doyas-Jan-16", Boo, 'youradí na - you' will the postin
against a background of people, moving
You don't spend wéér daora, shut up in a mirror-lined Bor, standing Tutork itill: with your
· tummy tucked in--but that's the way most of you buy your clothon,
...
You don't dare to Wallc out of that fitting-room?
OUDBAGE=hat's the answed
to; mùccessful", drømsing
Course to the
resist the proffy=prettian)
- press on, urill" you find ezaTi
what you say out to fad. above all, to simplify,
Courage counte before money. I think
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