WEEK-END
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1957.
Paris Milliners Show Their Spring Styles
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Rose and ribbon-minded loques are the first spring
from the Paris milliners, Madame Claude St Cyr, who designs hate for the Queen, has just released her first style.
Contrasting veiling and ribbons are importuni features, LEFT: Spelog's favourile cutour combination of navy blue and white is used for this toque, with a sideways tilt.
Petals of white slik form the crown, navy satin ribbon is used
for the trimming.
RIGHT: Draped jersey is used for many uf thear shart Bittle springtime toques. This velt-swathed mode) is in turquoise blue and white,
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The Ten Worst-dressed
Women In The
Here are ten lessons without a
World
master....
for the woman with an eye for fashion
By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
TOW that those lists of Women
Nest Dressed
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By PATRICIA DOUGLAS
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London make a dress. The puffin green grey 100 percent wool cloth ATOT, long ago. virianlly unit primrose check three-piece woven like linen. A dress and of bax-jacket mult and chunky toh coat in two weights of only the women who check hip-length cout is mora tweed in a chefen of throw subtle could afford to dress at the muited to
occasions. Hu spring shades in proving another famous
outfits best-seller. couture houses the two car
allow so many permutations in After the heavy fur hats the managed to assemble a the way they can be worn that tall "chechins" and over-the outfit that went perfectly their owner would
relict be well brow cloches-it is with
that one looks at some of tho dressed for any engagement, together. Tie ordinary
A four-pleca which also now spring styles. These are shopper in big stores or allows for several changes, ac warn further back on the head, small fashion shops had con- cording to mond and Decusion, revealing more forehead than tinuon and nggravating combines a blouse and skirt in for several seasons, and
fine Venetian olive green often perched at a becoming difficulties in matching the worstedt, a fitted jacket In a anglo rather than straight on different parts of her outfit. ombre variation of the same the head.
cloth, and finally a "topper" of JENNY FISCHER, the young
French-born milliner, is show the plain colour.
In JACQMAR's Town ana ing mony softly draped berots Country collection, where they in her new early spring collot- have the advantage of many lion. For these she uses a ne couture designs, They show a printed wool jersey which, she
DIGBY two-piece (by
MON- says, is the perfect compromise TON) consisting of an Empire between winter hats and line dress and loose jacket in mer straws,
If she bought a suit be cause the eulour and mate- rial attracted her she could never be sure of fading a cont that could be worn successfully over it; the best she could ever hope to Inchieve was a clever con- trast. Dressee, too, were not cardly matched to conts. And when it came to buikl- ing up a complete trousseau NO that one set of acces- abrics coul
go with suit, cont or dress, it presented so much difliculty that few women had either the time or the patience to undertake the task.
The Answer
But manufacturers have understoyl
11 ympathised with fashion-eimscious wonen In this. Many ut thein 110w produce two, three-, four-, and even five-piceè: otiliis which are interchangeable.
BRENNER, who were one of the Brat to introduce the muli with two skiris, inve this season had tremendous success with a three-piece consisting of a dres In be pink wool with knife- pleated skirt and a sim-sized Buil with thu fashionable shorter jacket made in the same Jacket is Jucumar cloth. The
look at her-and, Nancy, there was taken in 1954, but the rulauany at home over the dress
trousers.) But she is in the flowers, there is altogether to public eye and we all have
going 031, The picture
to much
are limits.
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DR EDITA SUMMERSKILL,
Anumer of their very popular for dressing like an old-style
JANETTE SCOTT, for throws publisist of the Ten Wurst-
Two-piece--a Dres Women in the World. feminist, ignoring her chance to ng away her gifts of prelliness Chubies
matching long and youth and I think this will be
prove that women can bu buth
overdressing, dress much
which is identy unj able, Mannish Mittens, duruthy bag. Blowers, vercout moru ustiul
other feminine 114 thet
back interest,
spring weather: A Rssively
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Inishes were design is used for no1 ly
Bobblish reasts Injustice to herself and us. cha tur
good fashion. Teenagers, pleast this, the uress being in the same rati.er Than true fashion. All
Chci in o kaltavy ligands weight (that the roat, when is cut in a stught loose siyin, This auth come 50 a choice of throu brake spring shades, pale (wszy kale grey, blue and a popular mist blue,
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of ili-dressed Royal
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thing look clussy.
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Women
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untily scarf. no gloves, rinfuls their
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that Their
of things to carry, are no way citor..
to travel. angless to you and me. All they have to dr ja to theserves in the han
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Tre's much learned from athur people's mik-
take-how not to choose & hat, how not to wear arcessories.
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after a prolonged study of many hundreds of published photographs, 14 y Worst- Dresd List. Please note that I haven't picked anyone who is barity dressed because of an un- wory temperament or a lack of miney. I have irled not to hit below the belt.
All these women lead sophis- tehtud lives and
could easily
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LADY DOCKER. mitting the cardinal sin of all- matching accessories. One hank Twu hunks of kopard, good.
of kepard, plenty. Three hunks of kopard, overwhelming. And the coat is inches too long. Any local inflor would shorlen it.
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AKITA EKBERG, for wearing a dress which is a bad t (too tight all over) and -chosen) for the occasion (lo meet al Queen).
With earrings, necklåer, stole. heavy drapery. and several competing cluster
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Mestu milu la dio their own matenma yet the price of Uge two-pice, than if simular BUATIS. were bought separately,
HARDY AMIs, one of the Queen B dressmukeTS, conscious of the
fashion good sence of the complimentary out-- #11, He adopts many of his ex- Flusive Savile Row ideas at his ready-to-wear collection. Thom is a suit
tweed in anluranije and while diagonal weave to
tweed of a heavier weight, H cupats thu sume
theme. In Do the meter of the might with a phd find penell, I began
10 you ever wake up in the living room and sat down enteks using a mole and Devon
cream checked tweed in MRS GERALD LEGGE, for with that awful feeling south face to face, Instead of cout.
I meet these dreams of my two weights for suit and long having muncy, good looks, and that life isn't adding up, fetting them pile up in a misly for distali or feeling for news that all the things you mountain of regret: Her tang-line dress is three dreamed of doing will never years out of date. in a sepson materialise7 of roft fabrics, she connser sti, shiny one, And jewellery competes with heavy trimminga.
de better.
I select:
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Dreams Come True ped by 肆 coat in the sun;
In this collection, alan,, the is much navy blue worsted 101 "What, I asked myself, were the spring: for instance, drepsom the dreams of my youth? I be with their matching Jackets up Sun to jot them down. Strange-russes topped by a long coat
they weren't big, balec wouve worsted clain. enough, impossible things at all. They were items like: Bo a really away, tinues and makes us pretty bracelet, Have a beautiful gar- good piano player, Have a topaz miserable for long periods at a
den, Write poetry forume.
BRS EISENHOWER. dressing like a lille girl. The bangs and the bonnet, and the full skirt, are more at xor the college girl on campus than the President's wife. And a leopard print ja u bad choice for any woman
without Ogure.
I think most of us feel that way at one time or another. Sometimes the feeling just goes But sometimes it cou-
There are severni ways of coping with this state of mind, "After I had made out tho but the best way I know was list, I simply resolved to take suggested to me by a lady it one item at a time and work on her seventies. She is one of it, those serene, healthy, happy
a model-girl, oldsters. Whenover I encounter them, I cannot rest until I Have learned their secret.
straps, and buttons Inte with loglo fussiest out of the 'Afties, She wore it to the rehearsal of the Coronation.
"After that,"
she continued, "I went back to bed and slept like a baby and for the first time in months.
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Permutations
AT MATITA thoy have carried this idea of an. Iniury thongeable outfit to the utmost Hmitä Unfortunately, they pag store buyers rarely willing to risk taking a stock of all the pieces to completo a really com prehensive spring wardrobe ond purchase.
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They have specialised this in wool mults with blouses of the same materiai "When I was in my thirties," "That was forty-seven year which, when worn with tha THE MARCHIONESS OV
she told me, I began haying an. I've long since gotten most skirt, simulate a one-ploco dress. DUFFERIN AND AVA, for
life-ls of the things on my lat. But Theap three-pleco outils pre combining grapes, shamrock those blue spells, that
the point is, if you feel anicle Passing-me-by-feeling. Jeaven, a cut-out collar,
often matched by a coût in first, tried to fight it about the many things you wish slightly heavier weight, but the
1 reminded myself you had done, don't just cone coat may be in any length from that I had a fire husband, two lempipto them in a thump. The boxy hip-length style to nico children, a pretty home pind stund, int each one down and of full length.
really start doing – something A smart woman who diytam. "But logic never really work Next time you have that 14 of country would find Malta' her limo equally between lown od for me. I wept over the dreams of my youth which the round 1-place outfit m shadowcas friend suggests. Also, I primrose and puffin green the NANCY SPAIN, for making would never be tuffinea,
morning-it was might help you to do a little pnswer. 10 Then pho
all plotben every appearance mi, attack u faction, independent and like 4:bum, I remember Uetinetly roding in philosophy, to ale worries. The primross herrings able, she says she will wear|—I did zomothing about 11.3. your mind and give it a new (born (wood mit în slawie fitina what they well plea "Instow of Just lying in bed, wiant.
lylo le completed by an over- Into *hiên!*** shifts and" ""bollsfmän'à' weeping," "I got up," "Want"
----ANNE HEYWOOD blouse of the same material
a lot to be thankful for.
about them."
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BRENNER: This dress with matching long coal. In a heavyweight of the same basket watve ploth has proved to be one of the most pupular outfits for spring. The loose. straight cont has a binding of self-material. JACOMARI Here is a two-piece consisting of a dress with sim threes quarter sleeves and a draped cross-over front. Ils
jacket. very square and short, is made in pine green flecked twood. JACQMAN: A wool cloth with a. linen weave makes line Empire line dress with matching box jacket designed by Dishy Morton. The facings of the jacket are. In a darning Weave tweed. HARDY ABIES: Diagonal tweed in anthracite unit while by Ofterburn is used for, this ready-to-wear county suit. The matching topcoat is gene
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