THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1958.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
DEMACHY TAKES HIS SKETCH-BOOK TO THE RACES (in Paris)
NOT A
TWEED
IN
SIGHT!
MOING to the Racer is a
G vastly different business
In France and Britain.
-. - In
France tho women fake their racing seriously.
There arc horses-but naturally. What matters. r ever. is ensemble.
the tout
-Demnoby -- aƯHIỆN MO ––2 drawing from Longchamp.
On the left in a Pierre Cardin ult. In the centre with white A navy falou
pique ummings and Dior's trapeze iine in silk tweed.
tle-Nina
On the
And
Ricol' pink dress Jacket with its printed silk hat and want.
Sloo what I mean by seriously?
Now what about the woman at the races in Britalu?
1 went in search of her with the bons of = fashion business in Beirut (that most sophisticated of cltics) who was visiting Britain for the first time.
More than anything, he told me, he longed to see the true English Lady "Sporilve" in lier superb Engilsh tailor- made.
80-
Wicked woman that I am, I took him to cur tocal point-to-point races.
I
thought he'd laughing. But the laugh was on tre,
The bigger, squarer, and tweedler the women wero the mere be admired them.
"Look... see... oh, look these wonder- [-0-0-0 women, so large. so much shapes to them)}}= and all the way down." (sealed kirja). Beault-0-0-ol
A
"Ah,
"And the colours.. What subilety...these no-simart shades of ourth and mud. Enchanting.
"Ab, the size of them,” healshed-"the gournful 1ain...the mystery."
fallor.
I asked what he had thought of our madise.
Is la the shoulders thai Isecinate me," he cried. squaring ́hichself up and making imaginary corners Wita tils haude "liko 'boxca.Thor'aro unique.
"Tamil Boirat NOTING Jiko Khin”
Ild I guld well bellova blizu.
talk
rot they
uniforms
What
about
Sa mother who has school in Southern England. It's Fenondon to the left of me, Rucdean to the right of mu Heathfield close behind me and Queen Anne's practically tread- Ing on my tall.
A just sown on 52 nume
What do they wear during the- heildinys?.
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tapen, soaked three large handkerchiefs with teurs and delivered up one 18. year-old daughter to board ing school complete with a ton and a half of school Almost without execption it's of a very different a uniform trousseau - at least a third kind jeans, tee shirt and zip- of which seems totally un- fronted windcheater —noceŃnary Iluve very jacket.
decided views
school on clothing..
1
hundred per cent
uniform - Ki's CHEAP and
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InYour proviset CHEERFUL..
The leveller
children
I don't care if the attend the snooties! of snooty bounding schools of one of our splendid new glass cubist primaries.
11 deran't matter if they are seven or seventeen.
Uniforms the best possible leveller,
Why?
Because GIRLS at any Ege ore little women-vain, fashion- conscious, competitive, End often heedlessly cruel to each other. Particularly in their честя.
To Blaze with "wear what you please" for sixth formers.
Here's
that ediet *hoping coesn't catch of generally,
At a time when they lnd like mad about their looks, the blissful anonymity of a school uniform cuts out competition and, gives the girls a chance to concentrate on work..
As for the younger children the tile lambs love to look Identical.
A friend of mine thought he nd fouled her daughter with
o chal store blazer as near us
dammit to her school unllerm
and half the price.
Oh eclamily the pockels
were at a different angle.
"Do what you like," said the girl with the face of on early Chrislan martyr about
lested to the
to be
lons, "but I'd die rather, than wear it."
See what I mean?
Now for those boarding school clothes lists.
No one can convince me that any girl needs three uniform cotton dresses, due uniform hest dress, three (personal choice) dresses, one dancing dress, a tunic and blazer, in skirt, puli- over, two cardigans, six blouses,
a hooded cage, tailored suit. and a raincoat for a 12 weeks' summer term.
"This" aid the buyer In one of the biggest school supply stores whom I intervewed,
is mild."
"By comparison with sorno others," she added hastly, śze- ing my face,
Reform it
What it needed is a complete
reform of all uniforma.
Living within a three-mile. radius of my home are girls from practically""every... publiq
or duffle
Bddley,
ber of those wretched, pesiliential name inpes And now CITTING in as a judge, at the Coney Fashion Grand Prix Contest
I Isl week
was amused to note that rabbit ke stoles, worked to look mink, bore real mink fulls.
It is only a matter of weeks since I reported on the latest In nylon, fake mink with real Tutte Why not for school every
Are our fakes becoming so school-with the addition of s couple
flower-printed good that minks can look for- Ward to a ripe old age — secure regulation "best" dresses?
in the knowledge that they have mothers It would save nil
lose apart, of goodness knows how much nothing, to money to spend on the kind of course, rom those talls?
Madness leisure clothes teenagers start wanting during their last years al school.
It would also halve the num-
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What
madness COMOS
over
3 man
when
he
gels
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By amor, VERONICA PAPWORTH
WHEEL.
grips with Д STEERING shall we have the fish or the sweetbreads for supper tonight when a scree-e-ech-It's a man in a car rocking to a reluctant
landstill by my side.
Immediately he spots me he crashes into gear sco-sawing to and, fro in hla determination to be first away.
Wine, women, and
song (ough personally I've always doubted the effect of song) are as nothing compared with the effects of speed.
The nicest chaps I know are transformed into absolute dare- devila,
The not-so-nice turn Into FIENDS honking, cursing, grinding their teelh at every forging nhead ut back... By faint, and often doubthul Opportunity to. STEP ON IT.
And, just let them sec u woman ahead,
To them there is no more fearful sight than a WOMAN IN A CAIL IN FRONT OF A MAN.
gymatter of pride —er
something.
“Let us call it a perfectly simple and rather obvious sex manifestation," sald a psychla, trist chum when I pondered all this to him.
Ask -any woman driver-- here's the way it goes.
The traffe gids are against there I sit thinking
to me, and
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Be ready with the Covered
Look...
Now is the time for holiday planning and the swimsuli story this BUTTER is the covered-up look. This stock In black belanca stretch nylon fils like a peosad
skin.
Wear it with its smart cloep- filing" jacket for playtime an the bench and post off the top for sunbathing, leaving a STUD Loss top with an Empire-kne baned bra,
The Fun Hat La P af straw utting on leg af, a milcloth scarf, may mal quick So make youutf" from laat
Good
Boliday
*m" and "frames hayo Bovec bosa mere Kmasing- Dolow Kix has unicked “a paisip royal blue
trimmed all whit di
grigrical Toather
high over que brow, and a pale
......
He can't quite make it? Then by golly I'm in for an unecmfortable fow minutes as daris back, e darls out and boots, darts out again and so on.
Me and the MENT
I wave them by at the earliest
fully. opportunity, languidly, grace.
"These elementary sex urges are as clear as crystal to me" is what I'm signalling. (And between ourselves It's a tricky signal to make. fully, with the fofearm and five Inger.)
Vocational Discontent Or Just Spring Fever?
THIS is the time of year spring fever, re- inance and playing hookey and, as I can tell by my mail, for contemplating a change of job,
I don't know why, but we all get restless and dissatisfied with he status quo during May Many times it looks like a good idea to scrap the old job and get something new and lateresting
Obviously, sometimes 1 is the eight thing to do. But more of ten it is just n symplam at spring fever and should be treated on such.
HOW CAN YOU TELL?
How can you tell if your vu- extional discontent really does mean that W's time to chunge Jobs?
4-1
Spring is the
Time for Romanor.
lurt vacation. It pays to wait
Here is a quick check Hat: vn'l you've had one and rested
1. It's a new idea that came up before you decide that you
with May, and that hasn't been hale your job.
in your
mind for very long. HAVE A CHECK-UP
Echances are it will go as quietly
es it cume.
Get to your doctor, have a
2. If you've been behind in physical check-up and see it
Your
work, handling it lacks that drained, exhausted feeling dsidically or downright shift-physical instead of voca- lessly, chances are you shouldn't change.
UNFINISHED WORK
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However, if none of these things is the ease, and a change in jobs is really indicated, do make Isto slowly. To para
-ANNE HEYWOOD
We all have periods when our plane the old expression, virtue is not sufficient to keep "Change career in haste, repent us in top working form; umos at leisure." (when wo slide and let things pile up in the back of the desk. This piled-up, unfinished work Elves us a kind of subconscious gulity feeling and we become convinced that what we need is a change of scene. But this is the wrong reason fa: changing jobs.
The only solution is simply in knuckle down and clean things up. If, after that, you still feel like changing, it might be that the desire is vallet.
8.
Household Hints
con
An auto belt is one of the wistst investments you make for your baby's Bolcly- und sour own. Some Bow varieties permit the child to sland, alt or lie down. Mutiy are washable,
If you have just had the If your woollens-have-a-hard- break-up of a big romance, feeling, you might try closing chances are that your desire for them in lukewarm water with a pinch of borax. Proportion career change la invalid.
should be about one teaspoonful WON'T SOLVE ANYTHING to a gallon of water.
heart-
It's humiliating and breaking to have to stay in the some office with the people who txpected you to be married soon. But to run away from it isn't going to solve anything. More over, at a time like this you're up to make hasly and unrea- sonable decisions.
Deware of the refrigerator that "just fits!" If you have to
too measure closely to at-it into nieke, the refrigerator or freezer may not function properly.
The grace
Still, that to what I always do We-e-ell, almost always,
Now and then, however, I rip through my gears like a racing" driver and give them à run for their money.
I don't dare to think what my psychiatrist chum would have to say about that!
At any rale, try not to make too fast a move in the wake of
broken heart.
reason: there must be some room for air to circulate around the appliance to remove heat from the condensar,
In spite of the chemise lines in today's clothes, there ore 4. If you are tired and run plenty of full skirts about, down physically, don't let your They are at their prettiest feel inake a change in cares. with stiff petticoats, and the After all, at this time of year best way to dry the latter is It's been a long time since your still over an open umbrella.
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