THE CHINA MAIL. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1959.
WOMANSENSE
WOMANS-WORLD
London's Not Behind
Among the dresses shown the On evening or pleated "Shirtwaister" appeared in printed silics. One, in tones of yellow and gold with touches of, green, was particularly goy and Kumtnery-looking, In, stter fabrics fike ribbed silk or follie, bloused bodices top- ped stiff bell-shape clirts with folded bells in contrasting or deeper tones.
late day stresses some of the belts were made of soft kid.
A strapless short evening dtes in if white silk with abelled skirt, for example, had a wide folded belt of ginger- nut brown.
Outstanding among the coats was one In poppy red in the new very soft silk suede which looks like velvet at a distance, This was worn with great effect
white over dress in printed with large red popples.
Original, too, was a black silk evening coat with the back full- negs pleated instead of gathered into a high yoke-Reuter.
By MURIEL PENN
YOUR BIRTHDAY
...BY STELLA
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10
Bronical
BORN today the powers and the loyalties are strong and your group
executive
talent to make snau decleton. But. you are quite nid and retiring by nature and sometines do not pre- ject yourself properly. You sit back and let other take the initative often permitting them to make a
than oppore Wrong Toys, Talher
which them. Dien, later o
They come to you for help
advic you give it. It would have saved a Kreat deal if you had made the de Cimon in the stret place! Show A little more spirit and your progress will be foster
You are a natural homebody and you of the fair sex take spectat leasure In dressing up your heure * well as yourself. You have Lural chain and beauty atul know how to make the most of it. An early marringe would bring
you
happiness. Your
la centre around
and family circle.
You men
AT WE DO be most content it you select work that does not fores you to travel or be away from your family for extended periods. Belect one of the art or protestions which you can have your own studio and work in your own way and en your own time.
Among those born on this date are: Bos Pasternak, Rusrian pout ant
Jimmy Durante.
Adelina Patu
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comedian; singer: Charles Lamb, crite
gaybt; Jeffery Farnel, auditor. To find what the store have in sture for you (morrow, select your birthday star and read the caires- binding paragraph. Let your birth day star be your daily guide.
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By Galbraith
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"Do you want to clean out the basement tonight or shall we invite the Smiths over for bridgo?"
VERONICA PAPWORTH
How FASHION CONSCIOUS
are you?
1---Have you - worn black stockings
recently 7
2-Have you experimented with
scarlet, royal blue or emerald logs ? 3-Have you a sweater that almost
reaches your knoes ?
4-Aro your hemlines a bare Inch
below your Imeo-cap 7
5-Have you a Chanel type cardigan
it ?
The inspiration of champagne...
THE big-headed look is still
with us. Typical examples are these two hats by Edward Harvano-above, a' champagne cork" of black Jaco straw; on the right, a shaded green tulle "cloud" with a green velvet headband.
Harvano (a shortish, power- fully built fellow who looks more like A scrum-half than 1 milliner) says British women nro becoming щого bat- conscious.
"Until recently it's been almost impossible to get them to enthuse over hats," he told me. "But now they actually enjoy choosing hats. They bring their boy friends and their husbands and make an afternoon of it.”
*SOTUMES BY JOHN ABRIAAN
6-Have you at least two day dresses
with a bolt at Empire level? 7-Have you a high-waisted oval.
skirted evening dress? 8-Did you wear a wig hát 7 9--Have you a shock-hoaded fur hat? 10-Do you approve of tailored oven.
ing coats in fabulous fabrics 2 11-Would you rathor wear a mink
lining than a mink coat ?
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12-Havo'you a dross or a coat in
really hairy mohair?
13-Are all your formal shoes sharp-
food or chisel-toed ? 14-Havo you triod bouffant hair style 7
vrido,
How did you faro? Seo the foot of Column Str
Why don't
designers make
up their minds?
NOW
TOW is the time of hysteria in high fashion places; of last minute crises; tears, doubts, and sensations. The dio is east, the designers have their collections ready-or almost,
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In the over-scented hot-houses where fashion Is born there may be eleventh- hour tantrums over the set of a skirt, the angle of a rose, or the studied strut of a model, but in the main there can be no turning back. The line has been decided All that remains is for fashion correspondents everywhere to polish up their superlatives while they wait to rush the news to the breathlessly expectant women of three continents,
upon.
Now 15 the time
A startlingly new to brightest bet of the bunch in
Une ap- offer the peared in. Paris, and before the ask yourself: How breathless my opinion-hun to and expectant are you? How wiek after nexi may well be on true reproduction could. be
couple much, in fact, do you enre?
monu- of sale before April is out-if you shown "Shorter skirts,” shouted the are ready for it.
facturers hud
up 裁 headlines, but did you shorten?
few thousand travesties. They "Right up to the knees," they
dung them into the shops-the erled a few months later.
newspapers reported their arrl- val (a Heaven-sent opportunity to any cartoonist) and the pay- packet girls fuing themselves into sacks, The co-called "sack- look" was stillborn,
I estimate that 80 per cent of the skirts I've seen in town any day are still mid-calf length,
Another inch,
Now the cry is "Another inch on the hem" line."
And I'm letting my shortest ones down againe and the rest of the minority.
And your Are you a slave of fashion or
are you, I suspect most Women
are, a punch-drunk non-starter? The trouble with the Great Dictators in that they are moving too swiftly.
Time was when it took up to a year for ligh fashion to reach the High Street.
Now, within the last two years, the smaller factories have been geared to quick change. What Pierre Cardia
Woll dow, are you fabion-conscious?
I'm wondering if you are.
While everything else i undoubtedly speeded up there is no rushing the British woman.
average
She, alone, stands four-square, unroceptive to sudden change, unswayed though for fun intrigued by Ut nice, varniest- looking boy, St Laurent.
I
was leaying the recent Blenheim Palace dress show crushed between a couple of mink-jacketed types who ob- viously liked clothes and could afford them-when one of them spoke in the firm touts of the Midlands: "I'll take more than a bit of a lad Uke that to push bot boost cop" said the firmly.
I knew just what she meant, She liked to take things slowly.
Ahead of time
In America the fashion ple- ture is very different. A quick turnover is the quick
Fourteen pesex? ... Try to have a mint above fashion.
Afore than seven yėles 7 You're a nicely balanced in-betiacen
No vests? Could be you need some new clothes. Could also be that wu're one of the Great Majority.
and all.
essential and a turnover is had by ofe
"Everyone's wearing pink," shriek the headlines, with ple- tures of sultably seductive types pink-clad "you can't afford to be left out."
What happens?
Sheep-like, they are panicked into pink.
We're not made that way. The nearest thing to a fashion paule was the sack.
And what happened then?
It seems to me that this cort of thing could happen again, unless the designers slow down.
Happy fow
The answer to such fashion excitement as we have seen, in the past 18 months is that wa clothes-conscious ure left with minority happily blowing hither and thither and having Chormous fun with chemists, trapezes, Empire waists, and all thut baby doll nonsense, while the Great Majority go steadily on buying, with very faint differences, the clothes they have bought for the past 10 years.
You don't believe me? Then let me tell you that one of the tho bizzest best-sellers for coming spring and summer is the shirt-waist drem in striped cotton.
I had one in 1940, I had one In 1034, and another in 1957.
Now I've become one of the crazy, tur- wigged, black stock- inged brimde.
Current fashion was made for me and I adore it. But I firmly believe I am in the minority.
JACOBY
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CHILDREN'S CORNER
Willy's Umbrella Shop
-None of His Customers Really Needed One-
By MAX TRELL
Knart crouched under the
IT has been raining all night piece of bark next to Willy.
"Have you sold many umbrel- and was still ruining the Ins this morning. Willy?" he next morning when Knarf, the asked.
Shadow Boy with the Turned-
About Name, put on his raincout
and his rubber overshoes and
Willy shook his head gloomily. "No. I've had very bad luck
walked (or rather splashed) so far this morning." down the garden path until he passed the stono,wall and come to the Pine Tree Grove.
Inside the Grove, the Plac Trees were dripping raindrops from every branch and every twig,
Familiar Voice
All at once, Knarf board a familler votre.
Umbrellas for "Umbrellas!
sale! Hey, there, young fellow,
you need an umbrella?" Knarf looked down.
Standing under a large plece of bark was Willy Tond.
"Wani an umbrella?” asked Willy.
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"I've got a raincoat an," plied Knarf. I don't think I need an umbrella"
"No, I guess you don't" said Willy.
"Anyway,"
Kaiti Kaari, "where are your umbrellna?”
“They're growing all over the place," said Willy."
Knarf exclaimed fu astonish
With Her Family
"You mean, rio ono's como around?" asked Kaurf.
"Oh, there's been plenty of folke walking around,” replied Willy. "But none of them seent to need umbrotias,"
"For
"Well,"
who cald Kart
чуда
"Want an umbrella?” Willy asked Knarf.
said Froggic. What could I do with an umbrella? Go swimming sald Willy, there
with it? You might just as weit Mrs Duck She came sell an umbrella to a Codish S wadding by with her whole to try to sell one to me." family about half an hour ago. "Umbrellas" I sold to her.
Kharr agreed that Willy had
One for yourself. One for each bad bad luck.
of your young and!'"
"And what did she say?" asked Knart
"She said I was silly," replied" Wills.
"But look," he said to Willy, "here comes a Dog. Maybe you can sell him an umbrella,'
Dogs With Sweaters --"Why did she say thal?" ask--
Willy Just groaned. "I've BRED cd Kharf.
Dogs with sweaters on. But I'va "She said didn't I ever hear never seen one carrying an un- about what folks said about breia. No, I guess I might as Duck in the rain."
well clone up shop. Maybe when the sun shines tomorrow I'll ba "Oh, I know,” Sald – Kuart.
able to well all there toadstools he meant like water rolling by calling them parasols," Of a chuck'a back'"
"That's a wonderful idon, “Uh-Ipubl" said Willy, "Thal's what he meant all right, You said Kaart fiuds many strange plants but as was, where la there any femala **Thirty? Why don't
umbrella to Bat Willy what's so duro 10 Willy waved his hand at a can't sell an streams and gradually be realjaca you just drink slow and trust
Duck! that he is being watched by a very
phich of toadstools, growing on juice, ma we do ? " says the blad. welní collection of birds. E mys. The only waine on the fand li
the other ade of one of the "Who was your next, cus" kuppose the only mustomers
tomer?" asksit kasst...
I'll get for paranola will be look who's here 12 exclaims one in there. Gut 12. if you like to take
moles tha of them. ** What do you want hat, the north. And in panta to a
The noxiuratsyste”, ankoj mothe, owland "I'm...thlony," "miya. "Ruperti dath hole in the 'bitalde,
said. “Anybody, who wants one: "Willy, "wat Mr Fryd, Umbivile, kind of people that never ses
I. said to him, 'Me?' the man!” ALL KIGATE ***SYEV
just goes over mod picks ona,”
Climbing about the inland Rupert ****
inent: drowing
Irons.
Patch Of Toddatgola:
**There are my umbrellas? hà
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