5 THE CHINA - MAIL,”
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1959.
Watch your beauty born anew!
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
IT'S A DREAM IN GLASS
CREATING-EVEN
WHEN YOU ARE CRAMPED-THAT SENSE OF SPACE
OPEN-PLAN LIVING... merging one room with another...practical, spacious and, on the right, open living at its sophisticated best. Dining-room and kitchen adjoin and from the sitting- room an overwhelming impression of light. Ceilings are white, walls are white. One entire wall is glass, open- ing out on to a garden patio. illusion of space and more space....
An
PICTURE BY EXPRESS CAMERAMAN VICTON BLACKMAN.
AND NOW, STILL ON THE THEME OF SENSIBLE SOPHISTICATION .
IT'S A DREAM IN NYLON
CREATING-EVEN WITH A FAMILY -THAT SENSE OF ELEGANCE NYLON... it's bringing about a quiet revolution in household fabrics. You can sleep on it, walk on it and, if you're a child, you can prance on it. Nylon sheets are smooth and soft, nylon chair covers supple and tough - you can sponge them, they're drip- dry... and for a growing family it combines wear with elegance.
FOR 59 there's the dual- purpose room... a room made to order to fit your way of life. A room that makes simple living luxury.
OUT: The
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dual-purpose toom as a space saver.
IN: The dual-purpose Toom as a climax to comfort
If you can't afford outside help then turn decorator and convert the roons yourself. There are so many variations on the dual-purpose theme that no matter how you live you can dreamy up a two-room combina- tion to make vuur home pamper FOL
You can mix 'n maten your rooms with all the whimsy of a fashion designer's two-way
costumes
THEY FOLLOW
Bays young decorater-designer David sticks: "Decorating fads follow fush on lads." And I see this mixing and matching of room a direct steal
Mr. Hicks' prize dust-pur- pose rooms is a dining-lying mom in the flat of Mr. and Mrs Vidal Sassoon Ker to its con-
version is a Napoleon marble coffee-cum-dining table just 18in bigh
Mr. and Mrs. Bassoon's dinner guests sit on cushions on the Boor to eat.
The room is done in neutrals -white, cream, sandalwood and brown-with one bright touch: an orange sik cushion.
Monolone decorating another fashion tollow-up.” sald Mr. Hicks. · Remember when
PICTURE BY KENNETH GOLDSWORTHY. women were wearing one-colour I picked up the pieces from the ensembles ?
marble mason's yard and brought them "home in the boot of my car,
P
IN MARBLE
Bally driver Lorna Doon Snow is of the do-it-yourself school She decorated her luxury bath room-dressing room with expen- sive Ideas
M restricted pocketbook.
'I may have Sicilian rose, Aurora marble round my bath and washbowl," she said. bul
myself.
I got the rose carpeting on sale. And that handmade wall- paper, though it comes from Paris, was quille inexpensive.
Reaides bathing and dressing in her dual-purpose room, Mrs. Enow watches TV (rom her bath); reads (front a Victorian
chato button-pushed
and makes her morning tea.
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Oh, What A Night With Prince Igor
Parin.
salon to real Marx Bros. con-
D that men
ON'T tell me ever again fusion.
are good managers. At fashion show it was announced that
were
men,
now
A few vendeuser of the old drogon school could soon have got things under control.
Cause of all the excitement and clicking camerna was the
By EILEEN ASCROFT
of mauve, and waving a mauve and white chiffon parasol,
Her next walking outfit was in black and white checks studded with sequins.
Even Lucky's lovely face lost its cher under her heavy. Japanese style wig.
The clothes themselves it
the vendeuses (sales Indica) rst collection of Robert CT, atsirense, scrambling for cham- Tam a cry went up that
young society 30-year-old blend, blue-eyed pagne and stubbing out their Minister's wito was "deranges,"
Frenchman just including the
back from
and another stool was found for evitable Russian prince.
working in Fulo de Janeiro to cigarettes among the azalens.
Having rung in advance to this lady with curious pink hair would be kinder not to describe: book my seat and bean sasured and dripping, In mink. case Prince
was "bien piteer," eventually I found smail
take over the traditional house
in
Igor
of Bruyere in the Place Ven-
dome.
this In Podolsky,
Poor Igor He fell down badly along with his pals Jean-Pierre, Andre-Georges, Jean-Paul and Plcere.
Faced by a determined crowd of about 1,000 spectators, they paled and retreated--leaving the
Scrambling
One hour after the collection was due to begin, crowds were salon still milling around the looking for chairs, jamming the
that I
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corner to stand, kick of
shoes and enjoy the fun
+
a
Two nosounding binws on my huge song restored some sort of order, and a dreamy male voice
I was enchanted to БСС a enpojunced: "Lo modo is like usually pampered 'reprezentative love it must lost a long time."
of the very glossy magazines ne-
the
After informing us that Mr
romewhere between a vicarage garden tea party and a nightclub spectacle, with black Tenther kirts and white sharkskin show matching dresses slit to pants beneath.
uny
After only a few models the commodated on n tin stool with car's intention was to "herer fight to get out began.
No longer penned in an unaccountable hole in
les femmes," the microphone corner, I ended up with a choice middle at it.
2018 up' and dissolved splutters.
What The Men Are Wearing
Hwith any of the men.in SAVE you gone shopping
your family lately?
Probably not, from what wo hoor, Seems that men have gooo bock to selecting their own clothes, Whether they'll admit it or not, they have begun to look around for high fashion in men's wear departments and shops and they don't want any kibitzing from the women.
By ELEANOR ROSS
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be simpler to take care of. They are loose, stopalem and meda ef wool or synthetic blends. They wash quickly and easily, and they're very smart.
LOOK AT LABELS
Lalo
of front scats.
If this is Dn example of Dior' once-famous man- French high dushion the sooner Gong get. In on the requin Lucky opened the show the Crazy
in a not-far-off-the-ankle dress joke the better.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
If you can't afford too many
To restore ita gloam, rub toys for the children, of if you with the grain of the wood, can give some away to malce using a plece of clean cheese- with liquta room for others, paint up the cloth dampened
then Use furniture old oned to look like new, wax Sand. wooden toys nooth frat, polish.
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But be sure to look at the And then there are the new sweater labels, for some of the Have you blends contain more wool than sweater fashionst
Wook noticed that our men, young the synthetle variety. and old, are taking back the naturally takes a bit more care,
If you see in the habit of dinary chest of drawers LOOK, WHO'S LAUGHING! by veaters we women have though rarely do you have to carrying heavy objects in the butt by affixing some of the
enjoyed for so many acasoria? worry about blocking a awestake
and clolaoine They've had their good laugh Just to show us how fashion- these days. Urusly there's air to day stuer day, stop new ceramle
or -Lowmed about our sack chemise conscious a are becoming, engum material syntheti inuiderin mult from this drawer pulls, which come in stylch, but Just look 'what these new
masculine sweaters volved to make blocking un- THEY're going in for now! have all sorts at style now. Eccomiary.
and
posetion:
Balad
Zain-polirealf to use both The loose-hanging hip-length out necks, crew necks, regian Don't let the thick texture, gems aktoriabely for ds many casual jacket, that's about as sleeves, thick bulky textures are such as wool dieses Miandad with shoem na possible, ahapeless as anything could get, all represented.
mopair, frighten you, Füst ewith-ind to be worn with eroaselem, cuff- One of the bulky crew-neck up mough aude, waten your modals being seen around sip water temperature, and youre less stovepipe slackst
open to become a cardigan, saf>... How's that for stylef
Well, at lost tey are going In for washable fabrics this year, such as corduroys and other Coltona.
rich and usual designa.
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one,
After 10 days of serious fashion reporting 1, for welcomed the light relles. And much I haven't laughed so since that delicious, dafy French Alm Monsieur Hulo!'s Holiday.
-Lundan Express Serpice).
Country Clothes
By VERA WINSTON
When the sides of a rubber hot water, boilla become sluck, together, pour in some hot water to which a few drobe of amazonia
FIND FÒR Country living la have been added. Leave it to wosk for, two or three mimiles | this useful and attractive middy than work the dose stradually jacket of camel coloured, wool apart with a pencil,
and rablóts: hairy. The cured packlion is made for minico file *In Court Rod the pockets, and For removing any difed-up placed low, that, if one with -paint-spots from shane, moladen | the seamed panet. It'i wani, kun Amniture the sulphur onde of matcher with dark green. Voordüreg
Cand simply rub off the paint, Fileckt.
"The śdity way to zinka alip Mi govara for vienight chair backs In to pin the Ziaterial together Stretch, sweaters out on clean los "the chair, wijn; the right Needles to my, the school crowd will lys in these rugged Turkish towels to dry it the perel vida towani" dia One of the new fashions in sweaters this winter, but dó Will enniksi le farmy on the droni tee, kui und file: shirle for the school crowd is a Father when he relaxes at naiz: Quwwane june pas chery in the mastonasid dryer and, ant wold-striped cotton with wide. Koffie. waistband and slightly bloused Don't mind if he treats him- it for, the température: suOCHII»
self to several, Nothing could-mended by the manufacturer
allhouette.
Highly
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