THE CHINA MAIL, ~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1958.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
I FELL IN LOVE WITH A BUTCHER
AND WHERE ELSE IN THE
WORLD COULD THAT HAPPEN
BUT IN PARIS?
By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
from
a circular glass table
with urowited
Klass objects which reflect and re-reffect.
There is no glare at all—Just a golden glow.
I WENT TO PARIS because they told me it was sparkling with news. The world's prettiest women are back from the world's most expensive beaches. Choosing their autumn clothes, and so breathing life- into the fashion world. Turning up the lights of their elegant homes.
I WENT TO PARIS and talked to
Ten one of the Best-Dresser Women in the World. (She got into the list this year, ousting Prin- cess Margaret and Princess Grace). "What are choosing?" I asked her.
The
is a jet-haleed, fatale:
beauty.
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you
Vicomtesse
de
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sharp,
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She
alpo
the
whom
Lady
Lewisham
sils:
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"She Is the woman in much
woron
mont beautiful
Europe. We
alike."
The Vicomtesse was wearing
a simple midnight blue and chiffon
blouse
skirt enlivened
DE The VICOMTESSE RIBES... "The most benu- tiful woman in Europe"
I WENT TO PAIRS and saw the most beautiful' home
with a mapphire, pearl, and dia- mond brooch the Alze of a dinhills. An object-lesson on what to wear with what-all have ever you need is the broach,
"The fashion story." #hc said, "is colour, colour, colour,
for
Five ycars 020 Raymond Loewy sorted the vogue Japanese decor which is hitting England now. He has greatly modifed it in his new flat,
"I think the pastel walls, and the screens, and the feeling of space and light and extrome cleanliness are what's left of the Japanese," said Mrs Loewy, u charming young American with a coup de soleil streak in ber hate. Otherwise, as you see, the furnituro is enormously mixed. French Provincial, Chinese, modern American,"
* But always the colours ure white pale yellow flowers,
I
vases and curtains, pale green panels, black and white pic- tures, soft grey
salin chairs, set сусп от The much. glasa, much gold stery is miraculous use of flooded with light. light.
all
I came home determined treble the light in every room in the house, and a ke press the ides on you, inv.
Extravagant?
to
Raymond Loewy, the great designer-he even in tweeds and clothes for French-American
4d the first streamlined cat; the street,
In
coffee brown.
Lo
I can only tell you that I felt the amo exuberance in that room that 1 always feel in the Southern sunshine.
Suits
"I am getting a deep violet Lord and Taylor's shop in New cual, and an organza evening York, and the Lever Brothers' dress brilliant cyclamen all-glass building-has just fin- pink.
stockings Even
should ished his new Paris apartment have colour-I Am wearing within whistling distance of the
Arc de Triomphe. "Then, I shall wear enormous When you go into the living- Jou find the place Is hals. Not with brims, of course, room
Because but big and bourant. I have bathed in sunshine. ordere red
made of there are 17 seperate sources of WENT TO PAIRS and found that the most famous warnen light. flowers.
Light laws from modern fl- are dressing-guess where?-at tags In the
from Chanel. celling,
This season Chanel has made antique brackets on the walle,
fameus from Chinese vuses, from a her
simple cardigan floor, from suits In rich, bright colours, giant shell on the behind pictures, from a mobile, from violet to emerald, with
"And I want three wigs.
azizing silly "Now stop questions and tell me about Kay Kendall, I rhe as divine she looks in the photographs?"
Praid so," I said.
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I envy HER because
It's 'such fun to be d woman in Poris. After two days you dress twico as 'að-.
twico venturously, uso -much make-up, spray your- self with twice .C# much scont.
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And because the colours
of the clothos pre so luscious. Bright but not crude.
1 ENVY HER
BECAUSE.....
there's always a much bigger choice. At homo every drose in every fashion house is puro Empiro.
But in Paris they've found dozens of ways of raising
the waist. This pretty lady
is wearing a dish of a dross
from Lonvin-Castillo,
I ENVY HER
BECAUSE.....
In Paris everyone tells you how pratty you look, whether or no.
Because no escort would dream of saying, “Meet mo at such-and-such a restaur- ant."
He picks you up. On time.